 | Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown
Publication Date: August 2, 2011Recovery? What Recovery?Did you lose money in the stock market in the last financial crisis of late 2008? Has your home lost value? Are you "underwater" in your mortgage or concerned about selling?Do your dollars buy less than they used to at the grocery store and the gas pump?Have you lost your job or know someone who did?Are you worried about the safety of your money and investments? Don't Get Fooled Again!While the "experts" want us to believe that all is well (or will be soon), nothing could be further from the truth. The worldwide financial crisis of 2008...
 |  | The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It's Behind Me
Release Date: May 17, 2011 Follow one woman's bumpy, cellulite-riddled ride through size-0 Hollywood and learn how she went from body-dysmorphic to sassy-asstastic in only twenty-five short years of dieting, thousands of dollars in "procedures,". . . and one pair of industrial-strength Spanx. From the best girlfriend you didn't know you had comes this "I Can't Believe She Said That" guide to life in the real world. Actress and comic Lisa Ann Walter dishes about parenthood and the dangers of girl-on-girl snarking, explains why skinny actresses act crazy, and gives riotous advice on everythi...
|  | The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition
Publication Date: July 1996The Darker Face of the Earth, the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, is an Oedipal tragedy of interracial love set on a plantation in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The play has enjoyed staged readings on Broadway and full stage productions at the Kennedy Center and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This completely revised second edition coincided with the 1996 world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Dramatic readings of The Darker Face of the Earth were initially staged on Broadway."Poet Laureate Dove has done an amazing thing...he...
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|  | A Cure for Dreams
Publication Date: January 3, 1991A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another. ...
|  | To Fetch a Thief: A Chet and Bernie Mystery (Chet and Bernie Mysteries)
Release Date: July 5, 2011| Series: Chet and Bernie Mysteries In the third book in the brilliant New York Times bestselling series featuring a lovable and wise dog narrator, Chet and Bernie go under the big top to solve the most unlikely missing persons (and animals!) case ever.We were outnumbered, some big number against two. When it comes to numbers, two is as far as I go, but it’s enough, in my opinion. . . .“Sit,” Bernie said. I sat. Bernie would think of something—he always did. That was one of the things that made the Little Detective Agency such a suc...
|  | A Cry Like a Bell (Wheaton Literary)
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|  | The Devil You Know (Felix Castor)
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Series: Felix Castor Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stamping ground.It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle--but there's a risk: Sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him.While trying to back out of this ill-conceived career, Castor accepts a seemingly simple ghost-hunting case at a museum in the shadowy heart of London--just to pay the bills, you understand.But what should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who C...
|  | Vital Signs: Essential AIDS Fiction
Publication Date: December 17, 2007Since first reports of a "gay cancer" in 1981, it has been hard to ignore the politics, polemic, and prejudice that gathered around AIDS. Yet a literary genre also emerged, and Vital Signs contains the very best of the extraordinary work created in America in response to our greatest contemporary health crisis. This collection documents the critical years of struggle, bravery, loss, and redemption in eighteen unique examples. Inventive, moving, humane, and uplifting, these stories show us how to live in times of uncertainty and adversity. They offer, indeed...
|  | Coffee with Groucho (Coffee with...Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Coffee with...Series With a foreword by the actor, director, and playwright described as “the greatest living exponent of Groucho Marx’s material” by The New York Times, and text by the author of Monkey Business, a biography of the Marx Brothers, this bio brings the wisecracking, cigar-chomping, eyebrow-raising comedian to life on the page. Groucho discusses such issues as the film Duck Soup, the rules of comedy, the directors he worked with, and his talented brothers Harpo and Chico (“You know, of course, those two aren...
|  | Long Ride Home
Release Date: March 2, 1998RIDE ALONG INTO DANGER Traveling under an alias, the last thing gunman Clip Haynes wanted was attention. But Basin City needed a town-taming marshal, and a cold-blooded murderer was hiding behind Haynes’s real name. Now Haynes was coming out of hiding to protect his honor, save a town, and catch a killer—even if it cost him his life. Lou Morgan was as tough as they came. But it wasn’t just the money or the challenge that motivated him to take on a suicide job involving a buried Spanish treasure and two greedy killers. It was love for...
|  | The Hippopotamus Marsh (Lords of the Two lands, Vol. 1)
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|  | Aristophanes : The Birds
Publication Date: July 1, 1999This is an English translation of Aristophanes’ greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture. ...
| | Medea: Van Aantekeningen Voorzien Door J.C. Kamerbeek (Griekse En Latijnse Schrijvers)
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|  | From the Lightning: Selected Poems (Green Integer) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Series: Green Integer (Book 155) Gonzalo Rojas was born in Chile in 1917, and his life began with a stroke of lightning as a boy. He was later connected with a surrealist group and became one of the most noted poets of his country. This collection is brilliantly translated by John Simon. ...
|  | Little Annie Fanny, Volume 2: 1970-1988
Publication Date: November 7, 2001| Series: Little Annie Fanny Dark Horse concludes its complete reprinting of Playboy's legendary Little Annie Fanny strip, with an even bigger second volume, at the same price as the first. Picking up where the first volume left off, this collection follows the strip through to its end in 1988. Ralph Nader, the women's movement, Star Wars, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all fall victim to the merciless and masterful satire of Kurtzman and Elder. The first volume was a smash hit, and the second includes all the same goodies, with never-before-seen production art a...
|  | Maya's Choice (Kimani Tru)
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Kimani Tru Maya's summer is shaping up to be unforgettable—in both good and bad ways. First she's sent to stay with her grandmother for a month. Living in the city, Maya is too far from her friend Keysha and her boyfriend, Misalo—and too near her rebellious cousin Viviana. When Maya finally comes home, her parents drop a bombshell—Viviana is moving in with them.Her cousin has barely unpacked before she's creating chaos. Truth is, Maya kind of likes the way life is a whole lot less predictable with Viviana around. But her ...
|  | The Reinvented Miss Bluebeard
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|  | My Treasury of Fairy Tales
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|  | If Kids Ruled the School
Release Date: March 1, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up If you’ve ever tried to convince Mom and Dad that the F on your report card stands for “fabulous,” this hilarious collection of school poems is for you! In the tradition of the popular anthology No More Homework! No More Tests!, this book covers wild and wacky school topics, like bringing skunks to show-and-tell, falling asleep at your desk, and ripping your pants on the playground. The big-timers of children’s poetry have converged on the pages of this book to deliver the very best in school poetry. Just ask the hundre...
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