 | The Practical Joker's Handbook
Release Date: April 1, 2004The Duct Tape Guy is hysterical! We laughed so hard, phlegm came up!" --WSNY, Columbus, Ohio, on author Tim NybergAny guy who can get not just one, but six books-selling well over a million copies-out of a topic like duct tape has to know how to make people laugh. Tim Nyberg, creator of the Duct Tape books, truly is such a funny person. He brings his bizarre sense of humor to everything he does.Fun is certainly the operative word for Nyberg's The Practical Joker's Handbook, the only practical joke collection in print. Using his Web site, the author spent six years ...
 |  | Mafia Princess
Publication Date: November 1, 2011The story of a Goon and his DaughterSemaj Richardson was raised by the streets, and her ambition was to own them. Changing foreign whips as she hustles one major drug dealer after another is just a day in the life with her treacherous father as her #1 partner in crime. The devious duo s schemes lead to murder plots and countless setups.Unbeknownst to Semaj the same street life she relentlessly chased can be what may become her downfall. When she meets drug kingpin Quasim, who virtually changes her sheisty mindset overnight, her dreams become a reality. B...
|  | The Poems of Herman Melville
Publication Date: December 2000| ISBN-10: 0873386604 | ISBN-13: 978-0873386609| Edition: Rev Sub Unlike his fiction, which has been popular and often reprinted, Melville's poetry remains obscure. The last "collected poems" appeared in 1947 and "selected poems" in the 1970s, and only two books dealing exclusively with Melville's poetry have appeared, both published in the 1970s. In this revised edition of his Poems of Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard updates the scholarship on the poetry through his introduction and notes and makes a case for revised estimate of the importance of Melvil...
|  | Spare Scenes: 60 Skeletal Scenes for Acting and Directing
Publication Date: October 22, 2004| ISBN-10: 0325007071 | ISBN-13: 978-0325007076 In theatre, context is everything. So what do you do when there is no context? Spare Scenes contains 60 open, circumstance-free scenes that promote growth in craft by forcing you to create context by determining character, relationship and action. Each brief scene places you into a two-person scenario where something is at stake, but where the dialogue offers no specific clues about the clash, forcing you to make choices that demonstrate the who, what, why, where, when, and how. But these skeletal scenes ...
|  | Island
Publication Date: November 14, 2001From one of Britain’s best-kept secrets, the novelist whom the Independent said “writes better than almost anyone of her generation,” comes this brooding tale of the murderous ties that bind a mother and daughter. Abandoned at birth and shuttled among foster homes, Nikki Black decides at twenty-eight to seek out her birth mother, intent on killing her. Nikki’s vengeance takes her to a remote island off the coast of Scotland, where both the beaches and the inhabitants are full of artifacts from the past that haunt the present. Here she...
|  | Megiddo
Publication Date: September 2001Prophecies spoke of mankind...
|  | Cardinal's Sin: Psychic Defenders Uncover Evil in the Vatican (The Committee)
Publication Date: January 8, 1990| Series: The Committee In this novel about magical secrets which ha ve been found in a Vatican library, an insanely vengeful Car dinal evokes fierce magical storms that take America hostage . The Committe joins forces with a Wiccan Priestess to count er the attack. ' ...
|  | The Ghost Pirates
Publication Date: July 30, 2003This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library....
|  | Prince of Darkness
Release Date: March 31, 2005From the New York Times-bestselling author of Time and Chance, the much anticipated fourth novel in her acclaimed medieval mystery series.Bowing to an urgent summons from his former lover, Justin de Quincy hastens to Paris only to find that the Lady Claudine was, in fact, acting on behalf of his nemesis Prince John. As the Queen's man, de Quincy has already encountered John's murderous side. But now John tells him of a document implicating him in a plot to kill his brother, King Richard. The document is a forgery, and, despite his hunger for the crown, John is i...
|  | The Twelve
Publication Date: September 8, 2009The Twelve is an extraordinary and unforgettable novel about a most unusual man. As a child, Max lives in a world of colors and numbers, not speaking until the age of six. As an adult, Max ventures on a journey of destiny to discover the secret behind the ancient Mayan prophecy about the “end of time,” foretold to occur on December 21, 2012.When he is fifteen years old, Max has a near death experience during which he has a vision that reveals to him the names of twelve unique individuals. While Max cannot discern the significance of these twelve ...
|  | Unancestral Voice
Publication Date: August 1, 2010Unancestral Voice is the story of a modern-day spiritual quest. Step by step, Barfield explores the power of the creative imagination to meet the great challenges of our time."This book has a remarkable unity; it is a well-sustained defence of a very consistent theme - that of the 'evolution of consciousness' " - Frontier"The voice of each one's mind speaking from the depths within himself" - Owen Barfield"A clear, powerful thinker, and a subtle one."Saul Bellow Owen Barfield is one of the twentieth century's most significant writers and philosophers. Widely r...
|  | The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
Publication Date: January 9, 2002In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country priest who grows to understand his provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself. Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise, The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by Robert Bresson. "A book of the utmost sensitiveness and compassion...it is a work of deep, subtle and singularly encompassing art." — New York Times Book Review (front page) ...
|  | Tales from the Bazaars of Arabia: Folk Stories from the Middle East
Release Date: January 20, 2009A goldsmith’s daughter who eludes the Prince of Darkness, three wandering brothers born from a walnut tree, the Princess of Fantasistan, the case of the Shah’s lost ruby ring, the leopard and the Sultan’s emissary, the Cook and the Unforgettable Sneeze… These are just some of the enchanting stories described in Tales from the Bazaars of Arabia, a collection of classic folktales gathered from Arabia, Afghanistan, Persia and Turkey. Each story is alive with vivid characters - beggars and kings, merchants, witches and djinns - and thread...
|  | Persistence of Tragedy: Episodes in the History of Drama
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|  | The Boy in the Treehouse / The Girl Who Loved Her Horses
Publication Date: September 15, 2000In this collection of two plays about the process of children becoming adults, Drew Hayden Taylor works his delightfully comic and bitter-sweet magic on the denials, misunderstandings and preconceptions which persist between Native and Colonial culture in North America.In The Boy in the Treehouse, Simon, the son of an Ojibway mother and a British father, climbs into his half-finished tree house on the vision-quest his books say is necessary for him to reclaim his mother’s culture. “It’s a Native thing,” he informs his incredulous fat...
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|  | The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 0141441437 | ISBN-13: 978-0141441436| Edition: Revised Immediately popular when it first appeared around 1356, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville became the standard account of the East for several centuries—a work that went on to influence luminaries as diverse as Leonardo da Vinci, Swift, and Coleridge. Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India, and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan’s army and to have journeyed to “the lands beyon...
|  | Touch of Surrender (Hqn)
Release Date: April 27, 2010| Series: Hqn With his auburn hair and lean build, Kierland Scott looks more man than lycan. But his wolf instincts are aroused by the gray-eyed Morgan Cantrell. Not because of her beauty, but because of her long-ago betrayal, a fateful choice that made their love impossible.Now, however, the two Watchmen must team up, leaving the placid Lake Country for the forests of Scandinavia. To rescue Kierland's brother, they must track a vampire—and use their combined shape-shifting sensitivities in a battle that will take them beyond death. As the two learn to seek...
|  | Thunder Bay (Mariners S.)
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| Series: Mariners S. English couple Richard and Robin Mariner are soon to launch the revolutionary SuperCats, their fast ferry service from Thunder Bay across the Great Lakes of Canada. But when the naked body of a young woman is discovered on the lake, the ensuing murder investigation takes precedence over their test-runs.The dead woman's identity is a mystery -- neither the Royal Canadian Mounted Police nor the FBI can shed light on who she was. But French-Canadian Jeanne La Motte -- who, with her Mohawk blood, is no ordinary Mountie - is assigned to the case...
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