 | This Is a Book
Publication Date: April 10, 2012From the renowned comedian, creator and star of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes the paperback debut of his bold, original, New York Times best-selling humor book.THIS IS A BOOK was an instant and long-lasting New York Times best seller, and is the renowned comedian's hilarious foray into prose comedy. In these pages, Martin expands on the sensibility he's developed on stage as an award-winning stand-up comedian and on television as a writer-performer on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and his own Come...
 |  | The Punany Experience: The War Between Tops and Bottoms (Zane Presents)
Release Date: July 6, 2010| Series: Zane Presents The War Between Tops and Bottoms, Not Your Average Down Low Story Take an unhappy husband with a spoiled and suspicious wife, an androgynous businesswoman with a knack for inflicting pain, an executive assistant with no shame, then add a passive-aggressive lesbian pillow princess to the scene and you have just started The War Between Tops and Bottoms. The Punany Experience: The War Between Tops and Bottoms is not the average down low story. Jessica Holter’s first erotic novel eloquently blurs the lines of sexual identity, l...
|  | The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium
Publication Date: December 20, 2001Poets have always been the medium through which a culture talks of, and to, its gods. Now, in this learned but lively commentary, Peggy Rosenthal shows us the astonishing range of poetic encounters with Jesus. With a special emphasis on twentieth-century poetry, Rosenthal draws from an unprecedented range of world poetry--from Africa, the Arab world, and the Far East to Latin America and the West--to give readers an understanding of how different times and different cultures have affected the way poets refigure Jesus and of how poets' fascination with the m...
|  | Mandie and the Seaside Rendezvous (Mandie, Book 32) (Vol 32)
Release Date: October 1, 1999| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Mandie and Celia visit Senator Morton in his hometown of St. Augustine, Florida. The mysterious ways of a sinister servant give the girls plenty of reasons to be concerned. Ages 8-13. Mandie book 32. ...
|  | In Cahootz (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Publication Date: October 1, 2006| Series: Triple Crown Publications Presents The Sequel to Hoodwinked! Three years after orchestrating the demise of her baby's daddy and his crew, Tukey Tosh resurfaces with the opening of No Draws - a club that sells everything from sex to Ex. In an attempt to conquer Kansas City's Ex industry, Tukey uses money, sex and blackmail to get in cahootz with Police Sergeant Cody Brown. Together they form a murderous, robbing Drug Task Force - The D-Unit - whose objective is to attack rival dealers on her command. With the cops and hustlers on the same side, who c...
|  | Impact
Release Date: January 5, 2010Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world.A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater.A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing.High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars... and i...
|  | The Stone of Laughter (Interlink World Fiction)
Publication Date: March 1998This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English. ...
|  | Home Is an Island: A Novel (Portuguese in the Americas Series)
Publication Date: April 10, 2012| Series: Portuguese in the Americas Series (Book 17) Originally published by Random House in 1951, Home Is an Island is an autobiographical novel about boyhood on the Azores during the early twentieth century. Set in the mid-Atlantic, halfway between Portugal and the United States, Home Is an Island captures the simple, pastoral life in a village of the Old World where the popular imagination is permeated by the wonders of America and its promise of wealth and opportunity. This book will appeal to readers interested in America in the literary imagination, isl...
|  | The Rapture
Release Date: August 11, 2009An electrifying story of science, faith, love, and self-destruction in a world on the brink.It is a June unlike any other before, with temperatures soaring to asphyxiating heights. All across the world, freak weather patterns—and the life-shattering catastrophes they entail—have become the norm. The twenty-first century has entered a new phase. But Gabrielle Fox’s main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her life after a devastating car accident that has left her disconnected from the world, a prisoner of her own guilt and grief. Determined to...
|  | Yates Paul, His Grand Flights, His Tootings
Release Date: September 27, 2002" James Baker Hall's blackly comic coming-of-age novel has been denied, by unfortunate circumstances surrounding its original 1964 publication, its rightful place alongside classics such as Catcher in the Rye and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the canon of essential late-twentieth-century American fiction. Set in Lexington, Kentucky, the story unfolds through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Yates Paul. He becomes consumed with revelations about his inattentive father's loneliness, his grandmother's stormy relationship with his boisterous alcoholic uncle, and...
|  | The First Clerihews
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|  | Blue Roots: African-American Folk Magic of the Gullah People
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 0878441689 | ISBN-13: 978-0878441686| Edition: 2nd Raised in the heart of Gullah country, author Roger Pinckney provides an inside look at the history, practices and people of Gullah country, off the coast of South Carolina. On the plantations of the American South, slaves passed their African roots to their descendants in a rich and lasting oral tradition, a tradition that survives today. Prominent among Gullah culture was the belief in herbalism, spiritualism, and black magic. Meet Dr. Bug, Dr. Fly, Dr. Crow and the infamous Dr. Buzzard, pr...
|  | Greek Lyric, Volume III, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others (Loeb Classical Library No. 476)
Publication Date: January 1, 1991| ISBN-10: 0674995252 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995253The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and southern Italy. Stesichorus was called by ancient writers "most Homeric"—a recognition of his epic themes and noble style. He composed verses about the Trojan War and its aftermath, the Argonauts, the adventures of Heracles. He may have been a solo singer, performing these poems to his own cithara accompaniment. Ibycus probably belonged to the colony of Rhegium in southwestern Italy. Like Stesichorus he wrote lyrical ...
|  | Proverbios morales / Moral Proverbs (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Historia de La Familia En El Rio de La Plata (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Literature, Race, and Ethnicity: Contesting American Identities
Publication Date: July 5, 2001| ISBN-10: 0321011627 | ISBN-13: 978-0321011626| Edition: 1Literature, Race and Ethnicity is a text-anthology of American literature organized around issues of race and ethnicity. Divided into nine units, the anthology gives focus to issues of race and ethnicity faced by members of different communities.Located at every section opening, introductions help readers to see issues within the general ideas of race and ethnicity. Throughout the book, attention to historical context allows readers to see ethnicity and race as a perennial American issue.Awaren...
|  | The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics
Publication Date: June 27, 2012Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics—ancient, medieval, or modern—the most important is indisputably Aristotle’s Poetics, the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. In the Poetics,Aristotle writes that he will speak of comedy—but there is no furthermention of comedy. Aristotle writes also that he will address catharsisand an analysis of what is funny. But he does not actually address anyof those ideas. The surviving Poetics is incomplete.Until today. Here, Walter Watson offers a new interpretation of the...
|  | The Third Twin/Small Town Girl/To the Hilt/The Burning Man (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 2: 1997)
Publication Date: March 3, 1997Novels include: The Third Twin by Ken Follett, To the Hilt by Dick Francis, Small Town Girl by LaVyrle Spencer, The Burning Man by Phillip Margolin ...
|  | Famous Blue Raincoat: Mystery Stores
Publication Date: October 7, 1999"Gorman is great;possibly one of THE greats," writes theBritish mystery journal Shots about Ed Gorman's short stories."IfGeorge Orwell had written thrillers," Shots continues, "he might havewritten them this way; never a word too many, never a word too few,never a word that doesn't come from the heart."Ed Gorman's mystery short stories have a flavor found nowhere elseamong contemporary writers.His tales have an amazing breadth ofstyle and plot—classical detection, private eye stories, biter-bittales in which criminous schemes turn back on the perpetrator...
|  | Owly, Vol. 2: Just A Little Blue (v. 2)
Publication Date: March 30, 2005| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up The second graphic novel in the breakout, all-ages series, Owly. Owly is a kind, yet lonely, little owl who's always on the search for new friends and adventure. Relying on a mixture of symbols, icons, and expressions to tell his silent stories, Runton's clean, animated, and heartwarming style makes it a perfect read. Owly learns that sometimes you have to make sacrifices and work at things that are important, especially friendship. ...
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