 | Chore Whore: Adventures of a Celebrity Personal Assistant
Release Date: February 21, 2006I have been used, abused, lied to, and cheated on, blamed, shamed, screamed at, and ridiculed. I've been scammed and damned, had my ass kissed, my reputation dissed, and my face spat on. All in the name of working as a celebrity personal assistant . . . a CHORE WHORE! After twenty years of working thanklessly for a dozen high-powered Hollywood hotshots, Corki Brown has had enough. She's sick to death of handling elaborate extortion deals, washing groupies' dirty underwear, and having to whip up intimate dinners on no notice for spoiled stars, each with his or h...
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|  | Bad Karma
Publication Date: January 6, 2011| ISBN-10: 1906780226 | ISBN-13: 978-1906780227| Edition: 1 This debut novel follows the trials and tribulations of Kim Karlsen, a television personality whose career obsession brings her some serious cosmic repercussions. In her quest to dominate the airwaves, Kim cheats on her husband, neglects her daughter, and mistreats her staff. It all seems worth it when she wins the biggest German Television Award, but sadly on the very same night she is crushed to death by debris falling from a Russian space station....At the gates of Heaven, Kim is informed that...
|  | The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah: Song of Susannah Bk. 6
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|  | First Among Equals
Release Date: May 4, 2004Charles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother's strength-and the will to realize his destiny...Simon Kerslake's father sacrificed everything to make sure his son's dreams come true. Now it is Simon's chance to rise as high as those dreams allow...Ray Gould was born to the back streets but raised with pride-a quality matched by a sharp intellect and the desire to attain the impossible...Andrew Fraser was raised by a soccer hero turned politician. Now it's his turn for heroics, whatever the cost.From strangers t...
|  | Plan of Attack: A Novel (Brown, Dale)
Release Date: May 11, 2004| Series: Brown, Dale The unthinkable is about to happen in this tour de force of high-flying adventure Dale Brown is the author of fourteen NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers, and now in PLAN OF ATTACK he provocatively turns our attention back to the threat of a nuclear attack that is beyond our imaginings. U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan has been demoted and moved back to a desk job. But while keeping a keen eye on what's going on with old enemies, he notices that Russia's heavy bomber and tactical bomber bases are busier than ever. Mc...
|  | Romeo Fails
Publication Date: February 14, 2012Dorsey Larue nicknamed her the “Naked Silver Lake Goddess.” It was a one-night only encounter, no names, just the music from the women’s festival and the stars as witnesses.Reluctantly returned home to Romeo Falls, where life in the family hardware store exceeds her every expectation for tedium, Dorsey faces another summer of loneliness until her best friend’s cousin, Sarah, arrives in town. Dorsey recognizes her immediately and the passion they shared immediately flares again. But small minds in small towns aren’t ready f...
|  | Snowstorms in a Hot Climate: A Novel
Release Date: September 13, 2005Marla’s best friend, Elly, left England two years ago on a soul-searching trip through South America. Except for receiving a few postcards, Marla has not heard from her since. Then, Marla receives a strange letter from Elly begging her to fly to New York. But the person Marla meets at the airport is a very different woman from the strong, carefree friend she remembers. Elly, now well-dressed and thin, has acquired a park-view apartment, a house in the Hamptons, and a charismatic, manipulative, cocaine-smuggling boyfriend named Lenny.As Marla tries to fre...
|  | The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including The Brother
Release Date: January 13, 2005"Along with Joyce and Beckett, [Flann O'Brien] constitutes our trinity of great Irish writers. And who is funnier?"- Edna O'BrienThe cream of Flann O'Brien's comic tour-de-force, the Keats and Chapman stories began in O'Brien's column in the Irish Times. He called them "studies in literary pathology" -- monstrously tall tales that explore the very limits of the shaggy dog story. As one critic wrote, they will accumulate the fantasy to the point of sadism, and then cash home with the flat, desolating pun."The Brother" is another of O'Brien's funniest creations. H...
|  | Paradise Regained
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| ISBN-10: 1604442328 | ISBN-13: 978-1604442328Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton,which deals with the subject of the Temptation of Christ. One of the major concepts emphasized throughout Paradise Regained is the play on reversals. As implied by its title, Milton sets out to reverse the "loss" of Paradise. Thus, antonyms are often found next to each other throughout the poem, reinforcing the idea that everything that was lost in the first epic is going to be regained by the end of the mini-epic. Additionally, this w...
|  | Drama Team Sketchbook: 12 Scripts that Bring the Gospels to Life
Publication Date: December 15, 2003We need drama.Drama helps us see ourselves. It makes space for the parts of life that are ambiguous, thrilling, painful, uncertain. It says things to us that we desperately need to hear, and it says them intuitively, by pointing rather than by explaining.Drama helps us see God. The woman at the well comes to know God because she admits who she really is--and in the very next turn, she hears Jesus speak who he really is.Drama speaks prophetically. Theater can ask hard questions by pointing to them on the stage, and we can say things in the context of theatri...
|  | The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Publication Date: April 10, 2012| Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry that emerges directly from the sublime and often startling world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem’s call to plumb the “tremendous poetic potential” concealed in the Kabbalistic tradition, Peter Cole provides dazzling renderings of work composed on three continents over a period of some fifteen hundred years.In addition to the translations and the texts in their original languages, C...
|  | What Laila Said to Almajnoun: A Collection of Poems (Arabic Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2000The love story of Laila and her infatuated lover (Almajnoun) is the most common one in Arabic literature. We know what the Arab poet Almajnoun said to his beloved Laila but we know very little about what she said to him. This is a collection of poems that Laila might say to Almajnoun. ...
|  | Tang Song shi ci qu hua san bai pian =: Tangsongshiciquhuasanbaipian (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Difference In View: Women And Modernism (Gender & Society : Feminist Perspectives)
Publication Date: March 3, 1994| ISBN-10: 0748401350 | ISBN-13: 978-0748401352| Edition: 1 This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism, its preoccupation with style at the expense of issues such as race, class and gender, and its exclusive focus both on predominately male writers, poetry and prose fiction by highlighting the diversity of cultural production in the modernist period. This book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines. The book investigates h...
|  | Breath of Fire
Publication Date: July 1, 2009A cynical Mattaen monk meets the ultimate temptation: a passionate female dragonrider who claims him as her mate. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The True Father
Publication Date: March 22, 2011ON THE DAY TREVOR HODGE graduates from college his life is about to take a sudden turn, and it's not toward the big accounting job that he'd lined up. Surprised by a visitor at his college commencement, Trevor learns that his father, who he never knew, has died in an accident. Trevor is drawn by a subconscious and relentless yearning to go to Oklahoma to the funeral. He ultimately decides to stay the summer with his father's family and travel the rodeo circuit, where his father was a local hero. He falls in love with his lost family, with the rural atmosphere ...
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|  | "I" is for Innocent (The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries)
Release Date: December 2, 2008| Series: The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries Five years ago David Barney was acquitted of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now, Isabelle’s ex-husband, Ken Voigt—who is suing Barney for her estate—is claiming the jury made a fatal mistake... Enter P.I. Kinsey Millhone, who takes the Barney case over from a former colleague…and comes up with more questions than answers. Why are Mr. Barney’s witnesses denying ever having spoken to him? Why did Isabelle have so many enemies—including but not limited to her best friend, V...
|  | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Vol. 2
Release Date: December 2, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up After completing his training Link begins his journey to find the Remaining Sages. Meanwhile, Ganondorf continues looking for Princess Zelda and plotting to capture Link with the aid of the witches known as Twinrova.At the urging of the mysterious Sheik, Link enters the Haunted Wasteland to find Zelda. The journey will be dangerous, but Link is determined to overcome Twinrova's traps and survive to face Ganondorf in an epic final battle!Ages 9-12 ...
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