 | Please God Let it Be Herpes: A Heartfelt Quest For Love and Companionship
Release Date: March 6, 2012Humorist-writer-mammal Carlos Kotkin is lucky in love-if lucky in lovemeans he's had enough horrible, pathetic, and downright bizarre datingexperiences to write a book. His trouble with females usually begins uponopening his mouth.Here, Carlos shares his ups and mostly downs of bachelorhood, includingromantic conquests with a slew of childhood crushes, insane yogis, a Playboyvixen, a STD host, the flaky, the deaf, and the just plain dumb. His uniquemating style is not to be duplicated, but it will definitely make readerslaugh-and want to get tested ASAP. ...
 |  | The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (Library of America)
Release Date: March 29, 2012| Series: Library of America An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard(1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographicalwork I Remember ("a completely original book" -Edmund White) hashad a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this major newretrospective with many other pieces that for the first time presentthe full range of Brainard's writing in all its deadpan wit, madcapinventiveness, self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit.The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard gathers intimatejournals...
|  | Totemic Haven - A Gay Children's Book
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|  | At Home in Mitford (The Mitford Years, Book 1)
Release Date: February 1, 1996The first novel in Jan Karon’s bestselling and beloved Mitford series It's easy to feel at home in Mitford, North Carolina. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are friendly. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly, Father Tim gets more than he ...
|  | La Casa de los Esp
Release Date: March 17, 1995Bestseller internacional y muy admirado clásico de la literatura latinoamericana, la trascendental novela de Isabel Allende cuenta la historia épica de la numerosa y turbulenta familia Trueba de Chile, con su patriarca angustiado y sus mujeres clarividentes, trazando sus vidas desde los fines del siglo pasado, hasta los días violentos del golpe que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973. En La casa de los espíritus, Allende combina lo supernatural con lo real en una versión sumamente personal de realismo mágico. Es raro,...
|  | The Monster of Frankenstein
Release Date: July 25, 2006The early 1950s were the Golden Age of horror comics.One of the most legendary titles of the era was Dick Briefer’s MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN, the first continuing series to feature a creature of darkness in a starring role.Veteran comics pro Briefer pulled out all the stops to create a truly great version of the Frankenstein Monster.Now, over a half-century later, these timeless, hard-hitting tales are collected for the first time in a big bonanza volume to delight monster lovers and comics fans alike.Combining bold visual flair and inventiveness with impress...
|  | Damaged in Service
Publication Date: July 26, 2011At what point does PTSD slowly begin to erode judgment, behavior, or confidence? For special agent Zeke Cabot those questions are still lurking beneath her consciousness. A head injury from a car accident, working months undercover, and the death of a close friend has pushed her to the limits of her resilient best. Zeke escapes to the southwest mountains of New Mexico with the hope of mending the tattered pieces. Haunted by death and failure, she holds tight to the belief that fresh air, sunshine, and plenty of rest will bring her back. What she doesn‘t ...
|  | The Tom Barber Trilogy: Volume I: Uncle Stephen, The Retreat, and Young Tom
Publication Date: August 13, 2011| Series: The Tom Barber Trilogy Forrest Reid (1875-1947), the Ulster novelist, spent his life in Belfast, in the north of Ireland, save for a period as an undergraduate at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in 1908. He numbered among his many friends and acquaintances George William Russell (A. E.), E. M. Forster, Edmund Gosse, C. S. Lewis, and Walter de le Mare, as well as various Uranians such as Theo Bartholomew, Osbert Burdett, and Mark André Raffalovich.Despite his sixteen novels, his two autobiographies, and a range of other wor...
|  | Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
Publication Date: February 22, 2010This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works wo...
|  | Caravan to Vaccares
Publication Date: May 1, 2012From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the shrine of their patron saint in Provence. But at this year’s gathering, people are mysteriously dying. Intrepid sleuths Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman join the caravan in order to uncover the truth behind the deaths, in the process revealing an international plot that the sinister Gaiuse Strome will stop at nothing to keep secret. ...
|  | The Expendables
Release Date: March 1, 1995"Military fiction buffs looking for immersion in authentic renderings of infantry combat will appreciate Scott's latest Vietnam war story."PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFour men who had nothing in common -- except the raw courage that was their greatest weapon during the fierce thirty-five-day conflict of the Ia Drang. This is the story of the men who fought with them -- and the 304 who didn't return. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Ecclesiazusae
Publication Date: June 1, 2004Come, withdraw and remain seated in the future. I am going to take this chaplet myself and speak in your name. May the gods grant success to my plans! My country is as dear to me as it is to you, and I groan, I am grieved at all that is happening in it. Scarcely one in ten of those who rule it is honest, and all the others are bad. If you appoint fresh chiefs, they will do still worse. ...
|  | Mirages on the Sea of Time: TheTaoist Poetry of Ts'ao T'ang
Publication Date: November 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 1891640453 | ISBN-13: 978-1891640452| Edition: 1 Since the early seventeenth century, Taoism-the native religion of China-has been generally regarded by authorities there as base superstition and potentially subversive. The Taoist poetry of medieval China was consequently ignored by Chinese arbiters of taste and, until recently, most Western scholars and translators have accepted this judgment uncritically; a body of beautiful verse, with analogues in the poetry of Christian mysticism, has remained virtually unknown in our time. This book aug...
|  | The Jungle of Dreams
Publication Date: June 17, 2012The Jungle of Dreams is a collection of three poems. The poet's mind is being revealed. He is moaning and almost despairing due to the state of the African world. He seems to beckon on his listeners to observe this state of decay. It is a world built inside a jungle, having a continuum of bad leadership. He appears absolutely melancholic to see any form of brightness in a dark continent. Indeed it is an act of arrant futility to dream in a jungle. ...
|  | Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (Routledge Classics)
Publication Date: February 26, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415771609 | ISBN-13: 978-0415771603| Edition: New Ed Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the process, blew apart the academic boundaries insulating literature from the world around it.Learning to Curse charts the evolution of that approach and provides a vivid and compelling explorat...
|  | Amelia
Publication Date: January 30, 1998| ISBN-10: 1556855230 | ISBN-13: 978-1556855238| Edition: Unabridged A tale of love and lust in the lives of the beautiful, long-suffering and idealized Amelia and her adoring husband.Laws, prisons and the lack of justice are bitterly examined.Eleven 90-minute cassettes and three 60's. ...
|  | Mistaken Identity
Release Date: May 29, 2012 Bennie Rosato thought she had seen it all—until she meets her new client, Alice Connolly, who looks exactly like Bennie and tells her, "Hello, I'm your twin." A shocked Bennie can't deny the uncanny resemblance, but she grew up an only child and assumed she didn't have a sister, much less an identical twin. But Alice seems to know too much for it to be a scam, and Bennie can't walk away. She agrees to defend Alice on a murder charge and plunges into the mystery of the crime—unraveling a twisted skein of lies, greed, and danger that jeopardizes her livelih...
|  | The New Adventures Sherlock Holmes Gift Set
Publication Date: October 1, 2001This Special Editionincludes 26 original episodeson 13 cassettes.WELCOME...to the Golden Ageof Radio and the Bestin Classic MysteryFrom 1939 to 1946 Americans gathered around their radio to listen toThe New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes --featuring Basil Rathbone as the high strung crime solver and Nigel Bruce as his phlegmatic assistant, Dr. Watson.Witty, fast-paced and always surprising, these great radio plays, written by the prolific writing team of Anthony Bouchere and Denis Green, are as fresh today as they were then.The latest audio technology was empl...
|  | What's Up, Duck?: A Book of Opposites (Duck & Goose)
Release Date: January 8, 2008| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business (Reading Rainbow Books (Pb))
Publication Date: October 1, 1987| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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