| The Best of FoxTrot Release Date: November 23, 2010Reuben Award-winning cartoonist Bill Amend culled through 20 years of FoxTrot strips to select his personal favorites for this lavish retrospective.Since the 1988 launch of Bill Amend's FoxTrot, Amend has humorously depicted suburban living through the adventures and misadventures of the Fox family. Via kids Peter, Paige, and Jason, along with parents Roger and Andy, Amend comments on the latest Hollywood fads, gaming fixations, and familial fascination with wry irreverence.Inside this special two paperback slipcased edition of FoxTrot, fans will find almost 1,...
| | The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound Publication Date: March 20, 1974Each facsimile page of the original manuscript is accompanied here by a typeset transcript on the facing page. This book shows how the original, which was much longer than the first published version, was edited through handwritten notes by Ezra Pound, by Eliot’s first wife, and by Eliot himself. Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Eliot; Preface by Ezra Pound. ...
| | C Publication Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Religion El Cántico espiritual presenta el tópico del amor entre Dios y sus devotos. El matrimonio con la divinidad como metáfora de la comunión cristiana. Esta es una obra de referencia en la llamada contrarreforma de España. ...
| | Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Janson Command Release Date: February 14, 2012| Series: Janson Paul Janson, a character first featured in Robert Ludlum's bestselling novel The Janson Directive, has a new goal: save the world, one operative, one mission, one redemption at a time.Reformed from his days of covert-operations, Paul Janson has set a new mission for himself. Working in partnership with champion sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he rehabilitates disenchanted agents and helps them create new lives outside of the violent intelligence sector. These former operatives then form a network of support for Janson when it comes to his other j...
| | Jolie Blon's Bounce Release Date: September 30, 2003New Iberia, Louisiana, is reeling from a one-two punch of brutal rape-homicides, and drug-addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin has been tagged as the prime suspect. No stranger to bucking popular opinion, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses it's not Hulin behind the atrocities. But while placating a town on fire for swift revenge, Robicheaux must face his own demons -- an ultimate reckoning with Legion Guidry, a diabolical figure whose hardcore brand of violence left Robicheaux humiliated and addicted to painkillers. With his longtime friend, the boozing ...
| | Getting It Right: A Novel Publication Date: January 1, 2003| Series: William F. Buckley Giving birth is arguably the most difficult physical event of a woman's life, yet most women - even those in great shape - enter the delivery room wholly unprepared for the rigours of labour and demands of early motherhood. But you can train for childbirth as you would for any other athletic event to minimise your discomfort, prevent injury, and ease your delivery. Bridson, an exercise coach and four-time marathoner, decided to prepare her body for the impending trials of childbirth and recovery by training her muscles, much as sh...
| | Cash Out: A Novel (P.S.) Release Date: October 9, 2012| Series: P.S.It's 2008. In three days, family man and Silicon Valley speechwriter Dan Jordan will see his start-up stock vest. He'll cash out with $1.1 million, turn in his frenetic Valley life in for a slower one on the beach with his wife and two children, and finally live the life he's supposed to live. Or so he thinks. Before he can collect his cash and get outta Dodge, all hell breaks loose. Dan is kidnapped by a gang of tiny IT nerds who threaten to get him fired before the options can vest, stalked by a potentially murderous corporate security muscle ma...
| | English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) Publication Date: November 8, 1996| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Rich selection of 123 poems by 6 great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
| | The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology Publication Date: December 1982This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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| | The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose Verse) Publication Date: May 13, 2010| ISBN-10: 0199583145 | ISBN-13: 978-0199583140| Edition: Reissue Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre. Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seanchai, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of story-telling is by no means lost. This varied anthology traces the development of the Irish short story from the early folk-tales of the oral tradition through Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, James Joyce, and Liam O'Flaherty, and on to the rising stars...
| | 17 Love Poems with No Despair Release Date: April 10, 199717 Love Poems with No Despair resounds with the voice of a clear, powerful speaker. Ward does not naively deny despair but rather refuses it, making a case to the beloved and to the reader that proffers love as an antidote. This book is an offering of passion wrought with charm and poignancy. Always one is aware of the strength that is required to love long and well. ...
| | The Traffic In Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange Publication Date: January 24, 2008The transatlantic crossing of people and goods shapednineteenth-century poetry in surprising ways that cannot be fullyunderstood through the study of separate national literary traditions.American and British poetic cultures were bound by fascination, envy,influence, rivalry, recognition, and piracy, as well as by mutual fantasiesabout and competition over the Caribbean.Drawing on examples such as Felicia Hemans's elaboration of thefoundational American myth of Plymouth Rock, Emma Lazarus's ambivalentwelcome of Europe's cast-off populations, black abolitioni...
| | Writings On the Wall Publication Date: September 14, 2012Somewhere deep within, cradled in flesh and blood, our demons dwell. They feed on our darkest secrets and desires in an ill-fated world, craving only freedom. They tear through and reign upon us. Writings On the Wall features twenty gruesome, transgressive tales of loneliness, heartbreak, and self-destruction. Where the real horrors surrounding us are each other. ...
| | Carnival of Chaos: On the Road With the Nomadic Festival Publication Date: February 24, 1996Congeries of heretical, drunken pirates from the Lower East Side roamed the country in 1995, stirring up guerilla parties and workshops, trying to build a new world from the waste of a soulless society, and wondering how to pay for the next gallon of gas. This collection of stories and illustrations paints the triumphs and misadventures of the Nomadic Festival at breakneck speed, and offers ideas and inspiration for the next outlaw orgy. ...
| | Moon Spell: a Tale of Lunarmorte novel Publication Date: October 19, 2011Enter a world of fierce wolves, stunning magic and romance... It’s bad enough feeling different among the human crowd, but feeling different among wolves?No one said returning to her pack would be easy, especially after ten years without them, but seventeen year old Caia Ribeiro is unprepared for the realities of the transition. Raised in a world where kids aren’t scared by bedtime tales of the bogeyman but by the real life threat of enemy supernaturals who might come creeping into their community to kill them in their sleep, Caia is used to th...
| | Stink: Solar System Superhero (Book #5) Release Date: February 8, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
| | Fly, Eagle, Fly: An African Tale Release Date: April 23, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up After a stormy night, a farmer, searching for his lost calf, finds a baby eagle that has been blown out of its nest. He takes it home and raises it with his chickens. When a friend comes to visit one day, he tells the farmer that an eagle should be flying high in the sky, not staying on the ground. "But this eagle walks like a chicken, eats like a chicken, even thinks like a chicken," the farmer replies.Twice, the farmer's friend tries to get the eagle to fly, but it sees the chickens on the ground and drops down each time. At last the frie...
| | We Are Girls Who Love to Run / Somos Chicas Y a Nosotras Nos Encanta Correr (We Are Girls) (We Are Girls) (English and Spanish Edition) Publication Date: April 2, 2008 ...
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