 | Milton Berle's Private Joke File
Release Date: October 14, 1989One of the legends of show biz delves into his personal treasury of jokes ("The most comprehensive storehouse of 20th-century humor in the world"--Los Angeles Magazine) to present the most astounding array of one-liners, anecdotes, quips, and gags ever published. Line drawings.From the Trade Paperback edition. ...
 |  | The English American: A Novel
Publication Date: March 4, 2008Adopted at birth into a loving, tidy family, charming, chronically untidy Pippa Dunn hopes that finding her birth parents will help her understand why she's so different from everyone she knows - and somehow cure her of her inability to trust even the most devoted of men.She meets her untidy, creative birth mother in Georgia, her charismatic birth father in Washington DC - and moves to New York to be near them, while pursuing an exciting new career. At the same time, she re-connects with a man she hardly knows, who also seems to understand her and sends her sed...
|  | Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 31, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics Graham Greene?s classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greene?s ?entertainments,? it tells of MI6?s man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lamb?s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from...
|  | The Lost Book of Enki: Memoirs and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial God
Release Date: August 16, 2004The companion volume to The Earth Chronicles series that reveals the identity of mankind’s ancient gods• Explains why these “gods” from Nibiru, the Anunnaki, genetically engineered Homo sapiens, gave Earthlings civilization, and promised to return• 30,000 sold in hardcoverZecharia Sitchin’s bestselling series The Earth Chronicles provided humanity’s side of the story concerning our origins at the hands of the Anunnaki, “those who from heaven to earth came.” In The Lost Book of Enki we n...
|  | Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles)
Release Date: August 31, 2004Fiery, fierce, and erotic, Blood Canticle marks the triumphant culmination of Anne Rice’s bestselling Vampire Chronicles, as Lestat tells his astounding tale of the pleasures and tortures that lie between death’s shadow and immortality. . . .Surrounded by its brooding swampscape, Blackwood Farm is alive with the comings and goings of the bewitched and the bewitching. Among them is the ageless vampire Lestat, vainglorious enough to believe that he can become a saint, weak enough to fall impossibly in love.Gripped by his unspeakable desire for the morta...
|  | Noor
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Sorayya Khan's debut novel is a powerful and poignant story of memory, family, tragedy, and forgiveness.Set in modern-day Islambad, Pakistan, the book depicts an extraordinary child who enables her mother, Sajida, and her grandfather, Ali, to confront the pasts they have chosen to suppress.Through Noor's artwork, her family members are transported through their haunted memories of the 1970 cyclone that claimed the lives of a million people and the violent atrocities of the 1971 conflict between East and West Pakistan that eventually created the independent co...
|  | Thug Passion - Thug Love (Volume 2)
Publication Date: July 12, 2012As the " Thug Passion - Thug Love " trilogy and saga continues in these next 2 volumes two and three, we find Tyree and Timmy getting more intimate.Tyree later buys a house and he, Timmy, Ardee and Aji move in. He procures the services of a capable and very talented Carpenter/Interior-Exterior Decorator to transform the basement of the house into his “Man Cave”.Upon it's completion, he decides to christen his new place of dwelling with a Very Private but " Hot, Intense and Passionate Sex Party " in his new Basement consisting of some of his most t...
|  | Price of Glory (Nathan Peake Trilogy 3)
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Nathan Peake Trilogy 3 The third novel in this epic, thrilling series of war and villainy on the high seas, featuring Captain Nathan Peake. Nathan Peake charts a perilous course through the treacherous seas off Brittany and into the even more dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There he encounters two of the most beautiful and scandalous courtesans in history - and their little toy soldier, laughingly dubbed Captain Cannon, who is about to win enduring fame as Napoleon Bonaparte. Returned to the command of the frigate Unicorn, Nathan is s...
|  | Cross Stitch Myth & Magic (Needlecraft)
Publication Date: February 15, 2005| Series: Needlecraft Inspirational ideas from all over the world have been combined in this book by nine respected artists and designers. Stitchers who love oriental fantasy will not be disappointed with the amazingly detailed Chinese dragon and good fortune emblems. From the West there are cherubs and angels, and from the world of myths comes Merlin, as well as an enchanting unicorn. The final chapter features all the signs of the zodiac to be made up individually as cards or gift bags - or as one large sampler. Projects all have clear making up instructi...
|  | Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, authorship, and sexualities in Renaissance drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: February 28, 1997| ISBN-10: 0521589207 | ISBN-13: 978-0521589208| Edition: First Edition Textual Intercourse brings together literary criticism, theater history, the study of printed books, and gender studies, to show how the writing of Renaissance drama was conceptualized in the languages of sex, gender, and eroticism. Jeffrey Masten argues that the plays of Shakespeare and others, and the way in which those plays were first printed, illustrates a shift from a model of collaboration to one of singular authorship. Using methods attuned to sexuality and gender, Masten il...
|  | Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen
Publication Date: January 8, 1998| ISBN-10: 0198149662 | ISBN-13: 978-0198149668This new translation brings to life the most profound tragedies of Euripides, described by Aristotle as "the most tragic of the poets."In these plays, Euripides places his characters under the pressure of intolerable circumstances, revealing them, to use his own words, "as they are." Responsive to the fate of women, these plays give voice to a howl of protest against the world in which we live.Full explanatory notes accompany this translation.Edith Hall provides a substantial general introduction and select b...
|  | Odyssey (Wonders of the World)
Publication Date: February 8, 2002| Series: Wonders of the World Homer's epic tells of the adventures of Odysseus, the mythological King of Ithaca and leader of the Trojan war, recounting the hero's wanderings and his eventual regaining of his kingdom. ...
|  | Contemporary Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach to an Emerging Literature
Publication Date: August 27, 1986In this first book-length study of the works of Chicano women writers, Marta Ester Sanchez introduces the reader to a group of Chicanas who in the 1970s began to reexamine and reevaluate their gender and cultural identity through poetic language. The term 'Chicana' refers here to women of Mexican heritage who live and write in the United States. The works of four contemporary Chicana poets---Alma Villanueva, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucha Corpi, and Bernice Zamora---are the focus of this volume. ...
|  | Ladylike
Publication Date: July 2, 2012| ISBN-10: 174258439X | ISBN-13: 978-1742584393Kate Lilley has an impressive literary heritage (her mother is Dorothy Hewett) and is regarded as an outstanding poet in her own right. Ladylike is Lilley's second volume of poetry, much awaited after her 2002 debut Versary (Salt Publishing). She mines the areas of her scholarly specialization - the early modern period, as well as contemporary popular culture - and matches these with some of the 20th century's enduring interests, such as psychoanalysis and the figure of Sigmund Freud. At all times, Lilley applie...
|  | 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide
Release Date: December 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 0140175903 | ISBN-13: 978-0140175905A wealth of great women writers, from the likes of Charlotte Bronte+a5 to Toni Morrison, is clearly expressed with excerpts from their books to provide readers with a satisfying background on their views of art, growing old, growing up, and power....
|  | The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception (Empirical Linguistics)
Release Date: December 24, 1997| ISBN-10: 0761913467 | ISBN-13: 978-0761913467| Edition: 1 From a linguistic perspective, this book is a practical explanation of how confessions work. Roger Shuy, author of the 1993 benchmark work, Language Crimes, examines criminal confessions, the interrogations that elicit confessions, and the deceptive language that plays a role in the actual confession. He presents transcripts from numerous interrogations and analyzes how language is used, how constitutional rights are not protected, and discusses consistency, truthfulness, suggestibility, and writte...
|  | Literatura Hispanoamericana: Una Antologia - An Anthology (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Publication Date: January 3, 1994| ISBN-10: 0815312849 | ISBN-13: 978-0815312840| Edition: annotated edition This Spanish-language anthology contains selections by 45 Latin-American authors. It is intended as a text for upper division Latin American literature survey courses. The anthology presumes a high level of linguistic command of Spanish, and it contains footnotes to allusions and cultural references, as well as words and phrases not found in standard bilingual dictionaries used in the US. Emphasis is on major 20th-century writers, while important works from colonial and 19th-centu...
|  | Journal of a Georgian Gentleman
Publication Date: January 27, 2011The historical value and interest of diaries is not so much in their accounts of great historical events but in their ability to convey the quality - the sights, smells and textures - of everyday life that would otherwise be lost to us. It is everyday life that abounds in the diaries of Richard Hall, a sometimes pious Baptist haberdasher who kept shop at Number OneLondon Bridge through much of the late eighteenth century. He recorded what he ate, what he purchased, how he slept and above all what the weather was like in near obsessive detail. He charts the h...
|  | Act of Mercy (Sister Fidelma Mysteries)
Release Date: June 3, 2003In the year 666 C.E., Sister Fidelma embarks on a pilgrimage to reflect upon her commitment to the church and her relationship with the Saxon monk Eadulf. Seabound to the Shrine of St. James, she encounters her first love Cian, who abandoned her ten years earlier. But before she can sort out her feelings-she must discern if a murderer has also set sail with her... ...
|  | Spice and Wolf, Vol. 6
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