 | 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 ...
 |  | Diary of a Stalker (Urban Renaissance)
Release Date: January 1, 2012| Series: Urban Renaissance Electa Rome Parks paints a powerful portrait of a crazed fan who can’t seem to close the book on the affair after a one-night-stand with a famous author—and who will stop at nothing to make him hers. Even if that means killing him...Bestselling author Xavier Preston is used to women throwing themselves at him. On top of being a successful writer, he’s also tall, dark and sexy as sin. He’s always relished the attention, in fact, and is ever-willing to entertain the erotic urges of women wanting to get between...
|  | Trainspotting
Publication Date: June 17, 1996Trainspotting is the novel thatfirst launched Irvine Welsh's spectacularcareer—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangelyexhilarating episodic group portrait of blastedlives.It accomplished for its own time andplace what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit toBrooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy,Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker areas unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring EwanMacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (ShallowGrave). ...
|  | Wonderland Creek
Publication Date: October 1, 2011Lynn Austin Will Delight Readers with Her Winsome HeroineAlice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book.But happily-ever-after life she's planned on suddenly falls apart when her boyfriend, Gordon, breaks up with her, accusing her of living in a world of fiction instead of the real world.Then to top it off, Alice loses her beloved job at the library because of cutbacks due to the Great Depression.Fleeing small-town gossip, Alice heads to the mountains of eastern Kentucky to deliver five boxes of donated books to the library in the tiny co...
|  | Beyond Our Mothers Footsteps
Publication Date: January 1, 1999Linda is striving to emulate her mother's achievements; Melanie battles with an abusive spouse; Gina tries to hold her family together at all costs; and Lisa's marriage is tested as she is determined to seek her parentage. Can these daughters go beyond their mothers' footsteps to correct mistakes of the past? If not, they risk destroying their own families and futures. ...
|  | The Haunted House
Publication Date: June 26, 2008The popularity of A Christmas Carol excited demand for more tales of ghostly visitation, and the great Victorian storyteller happily obliged. A Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat provides the backdrop for Dickens and his friends -- including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins -- who take turns spinning supernatural yarns. ...
|  | The Essential Tales of Chekhov
Release Date: June 20, 2000 Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces--"The Kiss," "The Darling," and "The Lady with the Dog"--as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales such as "A Blunder," "Hush!," and "Champagne." These stories, ordered from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Chekhov's most fruitful years as a short-story writer. A truly balanced selection, they exhibit the qualities that make...
|  | THE LYRICIST FIRM "One Family... One Love!!!": The Firm Divas (Volume 2)
Publication Date: September 1, 2012We are The Ladies of The Lyricist Firm. We are Mothers, lovers, survivors, writers, poets and storytellers. We are creators of art, with our love for poetry we share our voice. Through our writing we bring our hearts, our lows and our triumphs. We bring a unique bond, women from all over the country different ages, different walks of life, we all come with a great love and respect for one another we come together as sisters, we come together as The Firm Divas!!! ...
|  | The Homeric Hymns (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: October 19, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times.The Homeric Hymns are now known to be the work of various poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC.They honor the Greek gods, and recount some of the most attractive of the Greek myths. Four of them (Hymns 2-5) stand out by reason of their length and quality.The Hymn to Demeter tells what ...
|  | A Reader on Reading
Publication Date: June 28, 2011In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called “the Casanova of reading,” argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. “We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything,” writes Manguel, “landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create.” Reading our own lives and those of others, reading the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders, reading the worlds that lie between the cover...
|  | An Introduction to Poetry (13th Edition)
Publication Date: September 21, 2009| ISBN-10: 0205686125 | ISBN-13: 978-0205686124| Edition: 13 Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Poetry, 13th edition continues to inspire students with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry. The authors of this bestselling book are the recipients of many prestigious poetry awards. Features new to this edition include: Exclusive conversation between Dana Gioia and U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, offer students an insider’s look into the importance of liter...
|  | Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
Release Date: December 22, 1997In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit. ...
|  | The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0312254016 | ISBN-13: 978-0312254018| Edition: 1st Picador In Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us. ...
|  | The Midnight Work
Release Date: November 29, 2005Christmas is a time of forgiveness -- so when Sophie Aubrey's date, a sexy and mysterious artist named Olivier, turns her into a vampire, she decides to forgive him. Especially since being a vampire is just as cool as she always thought it would be.But there are a few drawbacks she never expected, like zombies, sleazy French alchemists, inexplicable and contradictory fairies -- and her roommates: one has abandoned Chicago and her cat for the Fairy Lands, and the other reacted to vampirism by embracing it with both hands (and fangs) and gorging herself on human ...
|  | Niagara
Publication Date: April 1, 2000In this turn-of-the-century novel, Watson introduces Jean Francois Gravelet and Anna Edson Taylor, two adventurers who challenge Niagara Falls. 2 cassettes. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition....
|  | Snipped in the Bud (Flower Shop Mysteries, No. 4)
Release Date: May 2, 2006When I swapped the thorny problems of law school for the budding business of my flower store, Bloomers, I vowed that I, Abby Knight, wouldn’t be caught dead visiting that hateful campus ever again. But sometimes a girl’s got to face down her dragons.... PLANT OF ATTACK Someone orders a black rose for Abby’s old law school nemesis, Professor “Snapdragon” Puffer. But her plans for a speedy delivery are foiled when he catches her putting the bloom on his desk and sends it straight into the trash. Abby flees in terror, only to run smack into...
|  | They Do It with Mirrors: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries)
Release Date: April 12, 2011| Series: Miss Marple MysteriesMiss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Although he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate—shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building.Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and must use all her cunning to solve the riddle of the stranger’s visit … and his murder. ...
|  | The Magic Horse of Han Gan
Publication Date: October 1, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A Junior Library Guild selectionIncluded in New York Public Library's list "Children's Books: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing"Named a "Best Children's Book of the Year" by Bank Street College of Education"Altogether this is a masterfully told picture book and one whose timeless message will resonate with many readers."—School Library Journal ...
|  | Bunny Fairy Tales (Max and Ruby)
Release Date: January 22, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Billy Sunday, Home Run to Heaven (Sowers)
Release Date: November 1, 1985| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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