 | I Hate Your Guts
Release Date: August 11, 2009What do Steve Martin, The Reverend Al Sharpton, and Dr. Phil have in common? Jim Norton hates their guts. In his deviant pseudo-memoir Happy Endings, Norton delivered his uncensored and controversial brand of humor on everything from his affinity for hookers to his romantic woes. Now, he unflinchingly spews his thoughts on everyone from the bully he despises from high school, to Hillary Clinton and Al Sharpton. Offensive, brutally honest, and most important, sidesplittingly hilarious, I Hate Your Guts features 35 essays showcasing the candid, outrageous brand of ...
 |  | Richie Rich: The Poor Little Rich Boy (Harvey Comics Classics, Vol. 2 )
Publication Date: October 16, 2007Move over Uncle Scrooge! The richest character in comic book history is about to get his due. Harvey Comics' original creation Richie Rich, the Poor Little Rich Boy, represented the fantasies of every comic book-loving kid growing up in the 1960s and 70s. Now, Dark Horse is delighted to present the ultimate tribute to the boy who has everything - and we mean everything! This mega compilation of the essential Richie collects his earliest and most substantial stories for the first time ever. Created by Sid Jacbson and Warren Kremer as a back-up feature in Litt...
|  | Natchez Flame
Release Date: January 1, 1994A woman of courage and honor. She sold everything she owned to go west and marry a powerful land baron she’d never seen. But Priscilla Wills hadn’t counted on the gunfight—or the gun—fighter—who would change her life: the tall, broad-shouldered man who killed her guardian in self-defense. Reluctantly he agreed to take her through the dangerous Texas back country to her fiancé's ranch. She hadn’t planned on a journey that would take her into a stranger’s soul as he delivered her into an...
|  | Disorderly Attachments: A Kristin Ashe Mystery
Publication Date: December 30, 2006"I have thirty days to decide whether to have an affair...
|  | H.M.S. Ulysses
Publication Date: June 7, 2011The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century's greatest writers of action and suspense - an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes its place alongside The Caine Mutiny and The Cruel Sea as one of the classic novels of the navy at war. It is the compelling story of Convoy FR77 to Murmansk - a voyage that pushes men to the limits of human endurance, crippled by enemy attack and the bitter cold of the Arctic. --This text refers to t...
|  | The Iliad (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: September 7, 2012| Series: Oxford World's Classics War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years, the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. It is a tale of many truths, speaking of powerful emotions, the failures of leadership, the destructive power of beauty, the quest for fame, the plight of women, and the cold callous laughter of the gods. Above all, it confronts us with war in all its brutality--and with fleeting images of peace, lovingly drawn, images which punctuate the poem as distant memories, startling co...
|  | In the Frame: Women's Ekphrastic Poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler
Publication Date: August 1, 2009The subject of In the Frame is poetic ekphrasis: poems whose starting point or source of inspiration is a work of visual art. The authors of these sixteen essays, several of whom are poets as well as critics, have a twofold purpose: calling attention to the contribution women poets have made to this important genre of poetic writing and re-thinking ekphrastic poetry's motives and purposes. From Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop to Mary Jo Salter, C. D. Wright, and Susan Wheeler, many of our best women poets have done important work in this genre, and when th...
|  | Selected Poems Of C.N. Bialik (Jewish Classics)
Release Date: November 18, 2004| Series: Jewish Classics More than 60 years after his death, Chaim Nachman Bialik is inevitably called the finest and most influential modern Hebrew poet. Hailed as the poet laureate of Jewish nationalism, he was seen as the poet of hope and revival in an age that witnessed the Russian Pale of Settlement, pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of Zionism. Bialik's legacy is poetry that inspires, astonishes, and delights, and David Aberbach, the distinguished Hebrew scholar, has produced translations of a high order to stand beside the author's original ...
|  | Poems to Live by
Publication Date: August 4, 2008These poems and pictures were given to me by the Spirit of God for people to visualize or to envision what God is relating to us in this book. I bless the Lord Jesus Christ for the opportunity to be a blessing to Gods people for such a time as this.Poems are an expression of what has been created by God in the earth. This expression is in poetic terms to bring to us peace, joy, happiness and fulfillment. To enable us to love ourselves and to love others. As we look through the poetic words, we will know that God has always been here. Now we can live as we read...
|  | "A Man who does not exist": The Irish Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge
Publication Date: January 15, 1996"A man who does not exist" is about just that- the Irish peasant as an imaginative construct. Yeats and Synge were two of the writers who established the terms of an argument that has affected all subsequent Irish politics as well as literature. The Revivalists' task was to counter English stereotypes- the cavorting, drunken "Paddy" who, while entertaining and colorful, was not to be trusted to govern himself- and to provide a cultural context for the foundation of a new country. To write about "peasants" was to give life to old stories and thus to create a ...
|  | Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel)
Publication Date: July 18, 2007New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton brings Anita Blake to the world of graphic novels. Anita Blake lives in a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves have been declared legal citizens of the United States. Anita Blake is an "animator" - a profession that involves raising the dead for mourning relatives. But Anita is also known as a fearsome hunter of criminal vampires, and she's often employed to investigate cases that are far too much for conventional police. But as Anita gains the attention of the vampire masters of her hometown of St. ...
|  | Mistress of the Waters (Love Spell)
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Series: Love Spell Born into a family of wealth and power, Shannon has to reinvent herself when her father's business collapses. Planning to relocate to the home of her forbearers in Ireland after college, Shannon immerses herself in her studies. When an old book reveals a mysterious scrap of vellum with musical notes and her name, she finds herself whistling a different tune in a different time--a time of mists and warriors, Druids and legends, and a handsome Irish outcast named Lasairian. ...
| | Dark Tides
Publication Date: October 1992Arriving at the Phillips estate in Hawaii, Rachel Montgomery is surprised to learn that her host, the handsome Drew Phillips, has a twin brother, only the first in a series of surprises she soon encounters there. Original. ...
|  | Red Dragon
Release Date: January 6, 2009A second family has been massacred by the terrifying serial killer the press has christened ?The Tooth Fairy.? Special Agent Jack Crawford turns to the one man who can help restart a failed investigation?Will Graham. Graham is the greatest profiler the FBI ever had, but the physical and mental scars of capturing Hannibal Lecter have caused Graham to go into early retirement. Now, Graham must turn to Lecter for help. ...
|  | House of Reckoning: A Novel
Release Date: November 23, 2010After the untimely death of her mother and the arrest of her father for killing a man in barroom brawl, fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is forced to grow up fast. Left in the cold care of a foster family and alienated at school, Sarah befriends classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions, and the eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips, a mentor eager to nurture Sarah’s talent for painting. But within the walls of Bettina’s ancestral mansion, Sarah finds that monstrous images from the house’s dark histo...
|  | The Neon Rain: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
Release Date: October 1, 2002| Series: Dave Robicheaux Mysteries NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAMES LEE BURKETHE NEON RAINDetective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smu...
|  | "Klutzy Kantor"
Publication Date: April 14, 2010Everyday Kantor Pegasus practices solving riddles. A tricky leprechaun attempts to outsmart him by giving him a next to impossible riddle to solve. To end his clumsy ways he must solve it. Children learn the benefit of practice and to focus on their strengths. Suggested age for readers: 4-8 ...
|  | Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Inside the NFL)
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| | If I Were a Cincinnati Bengal (NFL Series)
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|  | Hidden Pictures: Across America (Ultimate Hidden Pictures)
Release Date: May 12, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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