 | Family Guy: Stewie's Guide to World Domination
Publication Date: April 26, 2005For the first time ever a cancelled show has been resurrected on the basis of its cult following in syndication, on the internet and on DVD (Over 2.2 million DVDs sold to date!) and we've got the tie–in book authored by one of the show's hilarious lead writers and animators! At first sight, the Griffens may seem like a normal blue collar family from Quonochontaug Rhode Island, but Peter (the family's loutish dad), Brian (the erudite, martini–swilling pet dog) and Stewie (the evil toddler son) set them apart from all others. Now Stewie–...
 |  | Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing from America's Favorite Humorist
Publication Date: October 1996When Erma Bombeck died on April 22, 1996, she left behind something that few writers could hope to bequeath--a written legacy of more than 4,500 columns and twelve bestselling books and a personal legacy that deeply touched millions of readers and fans throughout her 25-year career. Including more than 120 full-length columns, Forever, Erma is a very special collection that allows Erma's fans to revisit some of their favorite moments with this gentle presence who always reminded us not to take ourselves too seriously. ...
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|  | The Waiting Game
Publication Date: July 1, 1998Appearing as a major motion picture on The Movie Channel( in August 1998, this unbeatable story delivers a passionately romantic adventure amidst an intriguing, fast-paced search for a cache of gold and the man who knows its location. ...
|  | Sharps
Publication Date: July 17, 2012K.J. Parker's new novel is a perfectly executed tale of intrigue and deception.For the first time in nearly forty years, an uneasy truce has been called between two neighbouring kingdoms. The war has been long and brutal, fought over the usual things: resources, land, money...Now, there is a chance for peace. Diplomatic talks have begun and with them, the games. Two teams of fencers represent their nations at this pivotal moment.When the future of the world lies balanced on the point of a rapier, one misstep could mean ruin for all. Human nature being what it i...
|  | Into the Storm (Destroyermen)
Release Date: June 3, 2008| Series: Destroyermen (Book 1) Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the US Walker—a Great War-era destroyer—finds itself retreating from pursuing Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, desperately leads the Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover—only to emerge into an alternate world. A world where two species have evolved: the cat-like Lemurians and the reptilian Griks—and they are at war.With its power and weaponry, the Walker’s very existence cou...
|  | Gulliver's Travels
Publication Date: April 26, 2012| ISBN-10: 1434103404 | ISBN-13: 978-1434103406This classic novel of political and social satire features Lemuel Gulliver, "first a surgeon, then a captain of several ships," who is washed ashore after a shipwreck and finds himself a prisoner of a race of people less than six inches tall. After his escape, the situation is reversed when he's surrounded by giants twelve times his size. Next he finds himself in the clouds, in a society of earnest but ultimately hapless mathematicians. Finally, his journey brings him to an island where noble and intelligent h...
|  | Ourika: The Original French Text (Texts and Translations : Texts, No 3)
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|  | The Lost Wine: Seven Centuries of French into English Lyrical Poetry
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|  | Lotus Blossoms; a Collection of Beautiful Haiku Poems, Reflecting With Delicacy and Charm the Wisdom of Japan's Great Classical Poets
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|  | The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction
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|  | The Aesthetics of Disturbance: Anti-Art in Avant-Garde Drama (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
Publication Date: October 1, 1995| Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance The wild innovations of the early twentieth-century avant-garde have been widely celebrated for their influence on the course of experimental drama but rarely examined closely and systematically. Through an exploration of the plays from Germany, France, and England, The Aesthetics of Disturbance discusses modernism and the avant-garde, the relationship of drama to art movements such as expressionism, dada, and surrealism, and the interactions of visual, literary, and performance art.Beginning with a survey of the his...
|  | Winter: Five Windows on the Season (CBC Massey Lecture)
Publication Date: September 27, 2011| Series: CBC Massey Lecture A taste for winter, a love of winter — “a mind for winter” — is for many a part of the modern human condition. International bestselling author Adam Gopnik does for this storied season what he did for the City of Light in the New York Times bestseller Paris to the Moon. Here he tells the story of winter in five parts: Romantic Winter, Radical Winter, Recuperative Winter, Recreational Winter, and Remembering Winter. In this stunningly beautiful meditation, Gopnik touches on a kaleidoscope of subjects, from t...
|  | "Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948
Release Date: February 2, 2010In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describesthe arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, anintense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctorsuffering fromtuberculosis.Four years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Viennato London, where they lead an impoverished and extremely complicated marital lifein exile. Spanning the major part of Elias’s struggle for literary recognition,from 1933, before the publication of his novel, Auto-da-Fé,...
|  | Voces de Espana: Antologia literaria (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 2, 2004| ISBN-10: 0759396663 | ISBN-13: 978-0759396661| Edition: 1 Truly the first book of its kind for the college classroom! VOCES DE ESPAÑA, is a literary anthology, perfect for Spanish students at the fifth-semester level or higher. This fascinating new book introduces students to the major writers and literary movements in Spain, covering the Middle Ages through the twenty-first century. The literary works included in the text reflect the creation and subsequent evolution of ideas and attitudes toward Spanish identity. Thus, the role of literature in ...
|  | Shadows of Treachery (Horus Heresy)
Release Date: September 25, 2012| Series: Horus Heresy (Book 22) From the battlefields of Phall and Isstvan, to the haunted shadows of Terra itself – the Horus Heresy rages on across the galaxy in this collection of short stories and novellas. ...
|  | Tales from the Hood (Sisters Grimm, Book 6)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back
Release Date: August 25, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up s on Turtle's shell stand for the 13 cycles of the moon, each with its own name and a story that relates to the changing seasons. Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London collaborate to reveal the beauty of the natural world around us, while Thomas Locker's illustrations honor both Native American legends and the varied American landscape. Full color. ...
|  | The WINNERS! Handbook: A Closer Look at Judy Freeman's Top-Rated Children's Books of 2004 (Winners Handbook: A Closer Look at Judy Freeman's 100+ Top)
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|  | Tom's Tweet
Release Date: November 8, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Tom is on the hunt for a tasty morning treat when he spies a flip-flapping, fluttery bird just there for the taking. Hello, breakfast! But little Tweet with his big black button eyes is too skinny to eat. Tom is determined to not get involved, but he can't just leave Tweet there . . . frightened, unhappy, alone. Consarn it! It's just Tom's luck to get stuck with a Tweet! ...
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