 | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Release Date: October 16, 2007“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie WarThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living,...
 |  | On the Trail of Elder Brother: Glous'gap Stories of the Micmac Indians
Publication Date: March 30, 2003Native American tales about Glous'gap, an Algonquin hero, presented for the first time in a comprehensive cycle, retold and illustrated by Native authors.Stories of Glous'gap, the embodiment of the Great Spirit, are told by the many Algonquin tribes of North America--from the Dakotas through New England, and south to Delaware. Among them is the Micmac of Maine, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces. Since the seventeenth century, anthropologists have listened to Micmac storytellers and recorded their tales. Finally, here is a book devoted entirely to Glous'gap's ...
|  | The Translation of Babel: Poems (Contemporary Poetry Series)
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|  | The Legacy
Publication Date: October 13, 2009The good news is that you’ve just been given a guest house in a great gay and lesbian resort area. The bad news is that your mother, who gave you away at birth, left it to you in her will. Noel wants to sell her gift as soon as possible. But when she makes a few trips down to Rehoboth Beach before putting it on the market she’s convinced that she’d get a much better price if she made some repairs. Enter Toni, handywoman extraordinaire and noted ladykiller. As Noel gets more involved in repairing the house she finds she’s more inte...
|  | A Time To Rejoice
Publication Date: August 16, 2012Peter Jones is more than your average teenager who loves to play football and work with his father on his farm. He is also a very inquisitive young man whose curiosity brings him to a point where he is faced with the choice of his lifetime dream, versus obedience to Jesus Christ and His Commandments. Through this process he encounters conflicts in his school and home life. Read and walk through this journey with him....
|  | Vegetal Sex (Engaged Writers)
Publication Date: February 16, 2011| Series: Engaged Writers In this translated collection of avant-garde poems, Medeiros engages in graphic acts of Vegetal Sex. Plant life and inanimate objects assume erotic qualities, are given the attentiveness of a lover or, perhaps more accurately, a voyeur lurking in shadow. Medeiros is simultaneously tender and lewd, ecological and absurd, merging the minuscule and cosmological properties of the universe with the poetics of a sylph. Sergio Medeiros creates a cutting-edge and unsettling pastiche. ...
|  | Shadows
Publication Date: February 25, 2011Shadows, as the title insinuates, splits open and lays bare the frightening vision of humanity, the heart of man depressed, a veritable inferno in which there is little to be enjoyed and everything to be endured, as all is vanity, a gnawing emptiness.Nothing is but what it seems. Simple but without being simplistic, there is in the damp climate of Doh's poetry broken promises, displaced emotional centres, a pervading sense of doom, of impending disaster, and a total helplessness reminiscent of Plato's proverbial mythical cave in which all reality is but sha...
|  | Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field
Publication Date: January 24, 2005| ISBN-10: 0745633870 | ISBN-13: 978-0745633879Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturated culture. Presenting for the first time in English the work of influential scholars who worked with or were influenced by Bourdieu, this volume is the one and only book for Anglophone scholars seeking a more detailed elaboration of field theory in relation to the mass media.In his short book 'On Television', Bourdieu provided a powerful critique of the 'journali...
|  | The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education
Publication Date: April 27, 2011This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the late first century BCE to the third century CE--the epoch of rhetorical education. He examines the adaptation of Greek institutions, methods, and texts by the Romans, and traces the Romans' own history of education. Bloomer argues that while Rome's enduring education...
|  | The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud: Essays on Cultural Roots and the Problem of Religious Identity
Publication Date: January 22, 2010| ISBN-10: 078644424X | ISBN-13: 978-0786444243Though Freud is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, too little attention has been paid to the influence of his Jewish identity upon his life and work, particularly the impact of growing up a Jew in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The 16 essays in this volume explore the particular imbeddedness of Freud and his followers in the cultural matrix of Jewish Central and Eastern Europe. Topics covered include general, sociological, historical, and cultural issues and then turn to the pers...
|  | Tempted by the Highland Warrior (MacKinloch Clan, Book 3)
Publication Date: June 19, 2012After years of brutal torture, Callum MacKinloch is finally free of his captors—but his voice is still held prisoner. He'd never let anyone hear him scream.Although Lady Marguerite de Montpierre's chains may be invisible, they threaten to tie her to a loveless and cruel marriage.When Marguerite discovers Callum waiting to die, her heart aches for the warrior beneath the suffering—but they can have no future. Yet she is the one woman with the power to tame the rage locked inside him. Maybe he can find another reason to live…for her. ...
|  | The Paid Companion
Release Date: March 29, 2005"Once again, the incomparable Quick has whipped up a delectable Regency Romance"(Booklist)—about an ice-cold business agreement that turns into something far more heated....
|  | Last to Die
Publication Date: September 1, 2010A ruthless killer hides in plain sight, someone no one believes is capable of murder.Within a week, six women will be murdered, all punished for their dark pasts. Detective Dani Cole is determined to track down this serial killer whose victims include a young woman she pulled out of a life of crime.Her investigation leads her to a photography foundation and the renowned photographer Mitch Sheridan, a man she she fell in love with years ago but has tried to forget.Dani and Mitch are instantly attracted to each other again, though their troubled pasts keep th...
|  | The Bellman Wave: A Tale of Love, Madness and Time Travel
Publication Date: July 17, 2012Professor Jenny Spencer is working for Knolls University. After the mysterious death of her mentor and boss, Big Ed. She asked to take his place at a poker group that meets once a month. This group has a secret agenda, keeping watch over what's left of a ...
|  | The Comfort of Strangers
Publication Date: November 10, 2009Step into a world ruled by Time, where Time’s travelers; Reweavers, are selected to do Time’s bidding. Meet Kendall Spaulding – daughter, sister, dancer and her counterpart Gordon August – attorney-at-law, lost soul. Each has spent their lives in search of the other, neither knowing their destiny is literally to collide in Time. Encountering each other as familiar strangers; unbeknownst to anyone, their lives were intertwined by a network of events inscribed in The Book of Life at the beginning of Time; each and all unstoppable, ...
|  | Abuse of Power
Release Date: September 13, 2011From the New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host comes a high-intensity debut thriller, the story of a smeared network journalist who uncovers a chilling terrorist plot Jack Hatfield is a hardened former war correspondent who rose to national prominence for his insightful, provocative commentary. But after being smeared as a bigot and extremist by a radical leftist media-watchdog group, he ultimately loses his job and finds himself working in obscurity as a freelance news producer in San Francisco.One afternoon Hatfield...
|  | The Damascened Blade: The Third Novel Featuring Detective Joe Sandilands (Joe Sandilands Mysteries)
Publication Date: July 6, 2004| Series: Joe Sandilands Mysteries In the northwest frontier 1910, the screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat to base the Highlander sets out alone, with dagger in hand, to rescue his fellow officer from the Pathan tribesman who is slowly torturing him to death. But the bloody outcome of this rescue attempt is not what anybody could have predicted. Over a dozen years later the backwash of this tragedy threatens to engulf Joe Sandilands. On a welcome br...
|  | The Amusement Park Mystery (Boxcar Children Graphic Novels)
Release Date: March 1, 2010| Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets (Andersen Press Picture Books)
Release Date: January 24, 2002| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Guinevere: On the Eve of Legend
Publication Date: March 30, 2009Finalist Pre-Teen Literature: Dan Poynter's 2011 Global Ebook Awards.At the dawn of Camelot, one young girl is about to take her place beside the greatest king in England's history. She is a mere child of twelve. But in these medieval days, this is the age when childish things must be put away and greater responsibilities accepted--all in preparation for a betrothal of marriage. For young Lady Guinevere, on the advent of her thirteenth Birth Day, the whole idea is quite unbearable. After all, what could be betterthan spending her youth playing with her best ...
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