 | Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir
Release Date: November 29, 2005Like many reclusive celebrities, Big Foot is misunderstood. In his touching memoir Me Write Book he wants to set the record straight, proving that although he’s larger, hairier, and more foul-smelling than most of us, he’s really not so different underneath. Only the most coldhearted among us could look on without compassion as this hirsute Everyman struggles bravely with casual cannibalism, Pringles potato crisps, embarrassing moments with peach Schnapps, the desperate loneliness of personal ads, and philosophical quandaries. Readers will...
 |  | Shiver Me Timbers!: Pirate Poems & Paintings
Release Date: August 28, 2012Arrrgh you ready for this jaunty collection of pirate poems and paintings?Ahoy mateys—it’s time to hoist up the anchors and set sail with a pack of pesky pirates! In this hilarious collection of nineteen poems, readers will meet scoundrels, scalawags, and scurvy dogs (human and canine). They’ll partake in battles, treasure hunts, and some pirate-style grub (flounder, anyone?). And all the while, picture book greats Douglas Florian and Robert Neubecker will keep pirate fans laughing from bow to stern with their signature sense of humor. ...
|  | Undone (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Publication Date: April 18, 2011| Series: New Issues Poetry & Prose Poetry. "By brave and honest recognition, coupled with a deft ability to glide between realms of perception tripped open by memory and emotion, Maxine Scates reconstructs a life undone by the brokenness of family, friends, and self. Nuanced, mysterious, intimate. Beautiful poems"—Dorianne Laux. ...
|  | The Lovely Bones
Publication Date: October 1, 2009Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. THE LOVELY BONES is such a book -- a #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its artistry, for its luminous clarity of emotion, and for its astonishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions of readers around the world."My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at al...
|  | On a Day Like Today
Publication Date: September 1, 2008In this novel from Thorne, one woman's whole world is about to change. After Eleanor is involved in a near-fatal car crash, her daughter returns home to care for her. Under these most difficult of circumstances, the two women are forced to reassess what they mean to each other. ...
|  | Waxed: A Novel
Release Date: August 3, 2010Waxed is the story of three relationship-challenged sisters working together at New York’s hottest waxing salon, catering to socialites, actresses, and regular folk alike. Yank. On the surface, glamorous Carolina Impresario---big sister and owner of Impresarios---unapologetically wants it all, but secretly she is caught between her successful boyfriend and the only man she has ever truly loved.Pluck. After a painful divorce, middle sister Anna reluctantly reenters the workforce and puts on a brave face while attempting to raise her children, one of whom is d...
|  | Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering
Release Date: July 12, 2005You are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of NazarethThe mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky’s desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can’t pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched.The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be more than comfortable discussing everything from world re...
|  | Haunted Natchez (MS)
Publication Date: August 27, 2010Though a charming, small Mississippi town full of all the southern appeal that Dixie has to offer, there is more to Natchez than its pristine exterior suggests. Much more. Just beneath the unassuming placid gentility of classic southern mansions and estates, ghosts and spirits pervade Natchez. From the old Adams County Jail to the Natchez City Cemetery, spirits from generations past remain in Natchez. Join Alan Brown, experienced Mississippi author and expert on all things haunted, as he surveys the historic haunts of Natchez--a town as rich in history as it ...
|  | A Plea of Insanity
Publication Date: January 15, 2006On a late summer Monday, Doctor Claire Roget takes up her new post of clinical psychiatrist at Greatbach Secure Psychiatrist Unit in the Midlands city of Stoke on Trent. Six months earlier, her predecessor Heidi Faro was brutally murdered in her office by one of the inmates, Stefan Giulio. As Claire is adjusting to her new job, she becomes increasingly suspicious that someone else might be involved in the murder. She finds out that Heidi Faro had put a close supervision order on Jerome Barclay, a patient with a severe psychopathic personality disorder. Clair...
|  | The Downmountain Drum
Publication Date: July 24, 2002In the late 1950's, Pen Tillman returns to Wyoming University after fulfilling his military obligation. Because of his impressive junior downhill racing record, he is offered a much needed skiing scholarship.He gratefully accepts, but remains stubbornly focused on getting an engineering degree. Skiing would simply be a means to that end. Much to his surprise, that focus is shattered at the first practice session with the embryonic Wyoming ski team and its ambitious coach, Rodaman. Old racing instincts return with a vengeance.A close friend persuades him to take...
|  | With Christ in the School of Prayer
Publication Date: January 28, 2012Similar to his work in Abide in Christ, Pastor Andrew Murray uses 31 chapters in With Christ in the School of Prayer to help readers learn how to change their lives and their relationships with Jesus Christ through the power of prayer. Ideal for readers whose patience or faith has been tried, this guidebook teaches Christians not only how to connect with their Lord, but the true reasons it s important to do so. Because of its assertion that prayer is a way of communing with God, rather than a chore or a trick to win favor, With Christ in the School of Prayer...
|  | Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission
Publication Date: March 15, 2011Rachel Kramer Bussel's bestselling books of submissive women and dominant men showcase our fantasies, desires, and deepest wishes. For those (and there are MANY) who love to be tired up, spanked, blindfolded, bound, or "used," for another's pleasure, these are books of inspiration. And, of course, these smart subs are getting exactly what THEY really want in very many ways.Good BDSM erotica makes us understand all the emotions that can come into play when, well, playing: there can be uncertainty, nervousness, fear, excitement. Each of the 22 stories in Surrend...
|  | Of Reynaert the Fox: Text and Facing Translation of the Middle Dutch Beast Epic
Publication Date: February 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 908964024X | ISBN-13: 978-9089640246 An entertaining reworking of the most popular branch of the Old French tale of Reynard the Fox, the mid-thirteenth century Dutch epic Van den vos Reynaerde is one of the earliest long literary works in the Dutch vernacular. Sly Reynaert and a cast of other comical woodland characters find themselves again and again caught up in escapades that often provide a satirical commentary on human society. This charmingly volume is the first bili...
|  | A Poet's Reich: Politics and Culture in the George Circle (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Publication Date: December 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 157113462X | ISBN-13: 978-1571134622The poet Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important cultural figures in modern Germany. His poetry, in its originality and impact, has been ranked with that of Goethe, Hölderlin, or Rilke. Yet George's reach extended far beyond the sphere of literature. During his last three decades, he attracted a circle of disciples who subscribed to his homoerotic and aestheticist vision of life and sought to transform it into reality. The works and thought of the circle profoundly affected the intellect...
|  | Beowulf: Eine Textauswahl Mit Einleitung, Urbersetzung, Kommentar und Glossar (de Gruyter Texte) (German Edition)
Publication Date: July 18, 2005| Series: de Gruyter Texte The Old English heroic epic Beowulf, which is comprised of 3182 alliterated lines, was written in the 8th century. Beowulf is the oldest and only completely preserved Old Germanic epic. The new selected edition is a complete revision of the relevant edition by Martin Lehnert. It offers an extensive introduction to the work, its subject matter and language, the original text (in extracts) with a new translation, a Beowulf dictionary, as well as an appendix with detailed information about the orthography and pronunciation, metrics and g...
|  | You you qiu shui: Qiu shui 20 zhou nian shi xuan (Shi wen zhi mei) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Trust in Love
Publication Date: July 2002School marm, Eliza Scoggins, is transported to a modern-day Texas hospital, by a sympathetic guardian angel after being wounded by Indians. There she pretends to have amnesia, and finds herself attracted to a handsome police detective who's determined to discover who stabbed her and left her at the emergency room.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
| ![Tanners' Angel [The Jenny Penn Collection] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tABV7G7tL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg&width=150) | Tanners' Angel [The Jenny Penn Collection] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)
Publication Date: July 12, 2010| Series: The Jenny Penn Collection [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Western Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M] Driven by raiders, Mary Anne Winters arrives at the Tanner ranch having had enough of men and them telling her what to do. Malcolm Tanner knows a good thing when he sees it. The wicked, arrogant wrangler knows exactly where Mary Anne's place is--in his bed. That's exactly where his brother, Mike Tanner, would also like to keep Mary Anne--but honor wouldn't let Mike corrupt the angel in their midst. Mary Anne won't be denied. Awakened to a world of sensua...
|  | Riding the Snake
Release Date: August 1, 1999A Beverly Hills golden boy whose glow is fading, Wheeler Cassidy, an aimless, hard-drinking womanizer, is partying toward dissipation. But after his brother's mysterious death, Wheeler embarks on a perilous journey to find himself and the Chinese gangsters who murdered the only member of his family he ever really loved. Along the way, he teams up with Tanisha Williams, a beautiful African-American detective raised in Watts and now assigned to the L.A.P.D. Asian Crimes Task Force. The two make an unlikely pair, but together they face the violence and corruption tha...
|  | Masquerade, Crime and Fiction: Criminal Deceptions (Crime Files)
Release Date: December 12, 2006| Series: Crime Files This ground-breaking study argues that literature and criminology share a common concern to understand modernity and that this project is often focused upon gender-specific criminality. Central to this concern is duplicity masquerade and performance. These subjects are explored for the first time in relation to criminality with reference to a range of literary and popular texts, from Dickens and Poe through to Toni Morrison and Easton Ellis, in which the traditional boundaries between different genders and sexualities are made more fluid a...
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