 | F My Life
Release Date: June 9, 2009Today, my boss fired me via text message. I don’t have a text messaging plan. I paid 25 cents to get fired.Your girlfriend dumped you, your car broke down, your boss passed you up for the big promotion. Life’s not fair, but there is one sure-fire way to ease your pain–laughing at someone else who had an even worse day than you did. Enter the devastatingly funny world of F My Life, where calamity is comedy. Covering every disastrous pratfall in love, work, family-life, and more, F My Life proffers other people’s ruinous, real-life happenin...
 |  | The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd (Black Arts Movement Series)
Publication Date: February 1, 2002| Series: Black Arts Movement Series Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the excitement of her social-climbing mother, and her prodigal boyfriend's militancy, Yoruba persuades her sister debutantes to challenge the aging doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature.Nominated for a Pulitzer in 1972, Killens's uproarious satire captures the conflicts within black society in the 1960s. The Cotillio...
|  | Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 (Softcover)
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Series: Best American Short Plays (Best American Short Plays). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction toThe Best American Short Plays of 1989 , the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: "to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short play, 2) emerging playwrights whose record of p...
|  | Cerulean Sins (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 11)
Release Date: April 1, 2003With her New York Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels, Laurell K. Hamilton wraps readers up in stories of suspense and sensuality. Cerulean Sins is no exception. Now, Anita learns what it's like to be at the new end of a centuries-old bloodline-and just how far she'll let herself get pushed around by one of the oldest vampires alive...or should we say dead? ...
|  | The Jerusalem Vampire
Publication Date: September 7, 2006"The Jerusalem Vampire", an oral folklore history of a modern vampire invasion of Israel, centers on Jerusalem, and ultimately ends in the defeat of count Culandra (Dracula) and his vampire cohorts. ...
|  | A Time Of Hope (Strangers and Brothers)
Publication Date: December 8, 2000| Series: Strangers and Brothers Time of Hope is the third in the Strangers and Brothers series and tells the story of Lewis Eliot's early life. As a child he is faced with his father's bankruptcy. As a young man, he finds his career at the Bar hindered by a neurotic wife. Separation from her is impossible, however. ...
|  | Rohan Nation: Reinventing America after the 2020 Collapse
Publication Date: April 30, 2010Rohan Nation tells how survivors of biological warfare and electro-magnetic pulse fight to defend and reinvent America.The disasters that lead to the collapse of the U.S. in 2020 and billions of deaths worldwide are based on sound research and analysis, the predictable results of on-going mistakes.ACE, the teenage daughter of a family that prepared for the worst, and Justin, the young refugee she captures who becomes her cavalry scout apprentice, struggle to survive in a post-collapse economy where horses are key to survival. Despite the dismal future forecast...
|  | The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
Publication Date: February 13, 2012Bruno Littlemore is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia Littlemore. Learning of Bruno's ability to speak, Lydia takes Bruno into her home to oversee his education and nurture his passion for painting. But for all of his gifts, the chimpanzee has a rough time caging his more primal urges. His untimely outbursts ultimately cost Lydia her job, and send the unlikely pair on the ro...
|  | The Rising East
Publication Date: June 19, 2012When Chris discovers the personal notebook of his deserting father, Emmett, Grace is forced to confront the inevitable curiosity of her young son, revealing a tortured past she has long repressed.As they read together, Grace faces her own demons while helping Chris to understand the thoughts of a man he has never met, who speaks of a world that Chris has never seen.The words in the notebook recall the morning San Francisco fell, and the long journey east to an unexpected new beginning in the New Mexican desert. ...
|  | Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Penguin Classics A completely new selection of D. H. Lawrence's poetry Published as part of a series of new editions of D. H. Lawrence's works, this major collection presents the fullest range of the author's poetry available today. Selected by prize-winning poet and scholar James Fenton, these lush, evocative poems offer a direct link to the genius of one of the twentieth century's most provocative writers. ...
|  | The Allegorical Epic: Essays in Its Rise and Decline
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|  | Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion
Publication Date: January 1, 1975This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a genre, Chrétien is revealed in this work as a witty, versatile writer who mastered both the soaring flight of emotion and the devastating aside and was as skillful a debater of the finer points of love as he was a describer of battles. ...
|  | Tales of a Traveller
Publication Date: March 9, 2005| ISBN-10: 1414248237 | ISBN-13: 978-1414248233It is very singular, that although I expressly stated that story to have been told to me, and described the very person who told it, still it has been received as an adventure that happened to myself. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Justicia Salvaje (La Trama)
Publication Date: December 30, 2006| Series: La Trama When a killing field is unearthed in the Oregon woods, it is linked to a Portland surgeon, Dr. Vincent Cardoni. Neophyte attorney Amanda Jaffe is retained by Cardoni when he is charged with multiple counts of murder. The victims have one thing in common: they are missing vital organs, which were clearly harvested by an expert surgeon. In this explosive and fast-paced suspense thriller, the forensic evidence against Cardoni is so convincing that even after his acquittal on a technicality, Amanda is sure of his guilt. Years later when a sim...
|  | Classics Illustrated Deluxe #4: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Release Date: December 22, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Adventures of Sir Balin the Ill-Fated (The Knights' Tales Series)
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | La Cancion del Sol (Cuentos y Mitos de America Latina) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | David Wright (Blue Banner Biographies)
Publication Date: July 8, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Ballpark
Release Date: March 23, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Come join the players, coaches, vendors, gro undskeepers, umpires and fans for an unforgettable day at th e ballpark. Elisha Cooper''s first book for children features his trademark watercolour paintings. ' ...
|  | To Kill a Mockingbird (Hodder Graphics)
Publication Date: November 30, 2007 ...
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