 | Rude Hand Gestures of the World: A Guide to Offending without Words
Publication Date: September 7, 2011A hand gesture is arguably the most effective form of expression, whether you re defaming a friend's mother or telling a perfect stranger to get lost. Learn how to go beyond just flipping the bird with this illustrated guide to rude hand gestures all around the world, from asking for sex in the Middle East to calling someone crazy in Italy. Detailed photographs of hand models and subtle tips for proper usage make Rude Hand Gestures of the World the perfect companion for globe-trotters looking to offend. ...
 |  | Julie and Romeo Get Lucky
Release Date: May 2, 2006Jeanne Ray's New York Times bestselling debut, Julie and Romeo, introduced two unforgettable star-crossed lovers whose feuding families threatened to foil their romance. Now Julie and Romeo are back -- and this time Lady Luck is throwing a few curveballs their way. . . . Julie Roseman and Romeo Cacciamani know a thing or two about good fortune. For generations, their families were rival florists and bitter enemies. Then Julie and Romeo met by chance, just as each became single again, and they fell in love. Three years later, Julie and Romeo are still blissfully hap...
|  | Mean Free Path
Publication Date: March 1, 2010“Lerner [is] among the most promising young poets now writing.”—Publishers Weekly“Sharp, ambitious, and impressive.” —Boston ReviewNational Book Award finalist Ben Lerner turns to science once again for his guiding metaphor. “Mean free path” is the average distance a particle travels before colliding with another particle. The poems in Lerner’s third collection are full of layered collisions—repetitions, fragmentations, stutters, re-combinations—that track how language threatens to bre...
|  | The Baby's Bodyguard (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: August 2, 2011| Series: Love Inspired Suspense A SHOCKING DISCOVERY When an anonymous text message arrives with photos of tiny hands and feet—and GPS coordinates—Florida cop Ethan Clark believes it’s a prank. Then he follows the coordinates to an abandoned toddler. Handing Janie Doe over to caring child services worker Kelsey Rogers, Ethan thinks his job is done…until the little girl turns out to be a kidnap victim. To protect the child, Ethan and Kelsey stumble into an investigation that digs up a tragedy from Ethan’s past. Will they unco...
|  | True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel
Release Date: December 4, 2001“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.”In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To...
|  | A Faithful Proposal
Publication Date: October 1, 2010A Faithful Proposal is an over-the-top satirical novel inthe tradition of Carl Hiaasen, Christopher Moore,Terry Southern, and Jonathan Swift. It is at once amanic ride through the irritable bowels of our health caresystem, a darkly funny descent into the scleroticheart of contemporary religion (both mainstreamand fringe), and a Prozac-induced mock homage tocorporate and individual greed. ...
|  | Poetry and Prayers to Jesus
Publication Date: May 16, 2006God’s love is great, powerful, and ever-present, but in today’s world, it’s so easy to get distracted and lose sight of the one who provides us with all life’s pleasures and rewards.In Poetry and Prayers to Jesus, Eraina Patrice Ross delivers the word of God on many levels: as lyrical engaging verse, as inspirational words of wisdom, through Scripture passages and prose, and as her own heartfelt prayers of thanks for all He has provided her. By exploring through verse topics such as life’s challenges, the power of prayer, the importance ...
|  | Dialect Monologues vol. II
Publication Date: November 1993| Series: Dialect Monologues (Book 1) Book and Tape. Listen to the tape while following the text and learn the dialects and speeches. A must package for every actor and actress seriously pursuing their craft. ...
|  | Description of word of the "Pir" in Hafiz's Ghazals (Volume 1)
Publication Date: October 8, 2007If we except "Pir", in its meaning as aged, the person who is more than sixty years old, Pir in Iran's literature means a sage and wise man, who is well aware of social norms, behaviors and science; that has vast knowledge about different humanistic matters, and is respectful in the society at the given time.In Iran's literature, we have also a very peculiar meaning for the word of Pir; the Pir-i Tarighat, a man who in Mystic way of thinking transcends to the leader of Mystics, who is called also Ghotb/ Guide/ Murshid; the person who has reached to the top of...
|  | Letters to a Young Poet
Publication Date: May 8, 2002In 1903, Rilke replied in a series of 10 letters to a student who had submitted some verses to the well-known Austrian poet for an assessment. Written during an important stage in Rilke's artistic development, these letters contain many of the themes that later appeared in his best works. Essential reading for scholars, poetry lovers. ...
|  | For Your Love (Arabesque)
Publication Date: July 1, 2002| Series: Arabesque For Your Love, by Sims, Janice. 1st ptg. 4 1/4 x 7. ...
|  | Some Deaths Before Dying
Publication Date: July 1, 2000Harrowing Suspense in the Most Unexpected PlacesParalyzed by a debilitating illness, 90-year-old Rachel Matson finds herself confronted by a disturbing mystery -- one that begins when a 19th-century pistol that belonged to her husband pops up on Antiques Roadshow. Determined to solved it, she begins the arduous task of teasing the past from the shadows, uncovering a tale bearing a sordid secret -- and an even more devastating truth. ...
|  | Winter of Discontent (Dorothy Martin Mysteries, No. 9)
Release Date: November 18, 2004Dorothy Martin's neighbor and closest friend, Jane Langland, has been having a fling with Bill Fanshawe--or, as much of a fling as two 80-year olds in a small town are allowed.Now there are rumors that Jane and Bill may move in together, and Dorothy needs to know exactly what's happening.What neither woman expects is that Bill is missing, and that within a day his body is going to be discovered in the tunnel under the Sherebury town museum.Why would anyone want to harm a harmless old man, a historian who loves the town and the people who live there? Given his a...
|  | The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant
Publication Date: July 2003"The Most ImaginativeDetective Stories of Our Times"So wrote Ellery Queen about The Curious Mr. Tarrant, an extraordinary collection of detective stories by Charles Daly King (1895-1963).The cases solved by Trevis Tarrant, during the early 1930's, assisted by his manservant (who is in actuality a Japanese spy) include locked rooms, headless corpses, a vanishing harp, and newly built but haunted house, and other bizarre events.With the encouragement of Ellery Queen, King wrote four additional stories about Mr. Tarrant, some of them becoming "curiouser and curiouser....
|  | Race to Witch Mountain: The Junior Novel (Junior Novelization)
Release Date: January 27, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Assassins Of Rome, The
Publication Date: July 3, 2003| Age Level: 11 and up...
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|  | Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles
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|  | Good Night Cowboy
Publication Date: October 1, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up As sleep comes, the little cowboy's happy heart bids good night to all in his world that has made his day safe and glad. Couplets in lullaby rhythm gently invite little ones to enter sleep, while original artwork guides them from the sweet-smelling cow pony nodding in the shed to the prairie grasses whispering. ...
|  | Elephant (Zoo Animals in the Wild)
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