 | There's a Hair in My Dirt! A Worm's Story
Release Date: October 6, 1999Once upon a time in a place far away, lived a man named Gary Larson who used to draw cartoons. It was a cartoon that appeared for many years in daily newspapers and was loved by millions. (And was confusing to millions more.) But one day he stopped.Gary went into hiding. He made a couple short films. He played his guitar. He threw sticks for his dogs. They threw some back.Yet Gary was restless. He couldn't sleep nights. Something haunted him. (Besides Gramps.) Something that would return him to his roots in biology, drawing and dementia--a tale called There's a H...
 |  | Sweet Spot: A Novel About Mazatlan Carnival, Dirty Politics, and Baseball
Publication Date: March 15, 2009If anybody wondered why star journalist Mundo Carrasco would stop investigating Mazatlan's drug lords and politicos in order to run the shady new puppet mayor's press relations, then they had never been to bed with the scorching, amoral, monumental Mijares.Mazatlan's huge, blaring Carnival became the greatest time Mundo had lived since his days as a local baseball hero: access to the real power and closeted skeletons, a political future of his own, and...mostly...the perfect flesh of Mijares.Then the mayor beats up his wife, the city government starts to unrav...
|  | The Kid from Mars
Release Date: May 14, 2007I was born in Hilo, Hawaii, and have lived here all my life. I am a retired social worker, and worked for Hawaii’s welfare system and its prisons. While my five siblings chose to leave Hilo for other parts, I chose to remain. I needed to know Hawaii’s people more intimately, their strengths and their weaknesses, in order to write about them. I have struggled for forty-eight years to become a published writer. I am finally going to see that dream realized through PublishAmerica. ...
|  | Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 6, 2003| ISBN-10: 0141439475 | ISBN-13: 978-0141439471| Edition: Reissue The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship …and horror. @NotoriousDOC Just did a bit-torrent-style grave robbery. My...
|  | The Waste Land and Other Poems
Publication Date: August 4, 1955This volume includes the title poem as well as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “Ash Wednesday,” “Sweeney Among the Nightingales,” and other poems from Eliot’s early and middle work. “Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English” (Edmund Wilson). ...
|  | The Book of Dialogue (Wesleyan Poetry in Translation)
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| | Whispers in the Wings: Poems (African Writers Series)
Publication Date: October 1991| ISBN-10: 0435911929 | ISBN-13: 978-0435911928Arranged in four movements and a finale, these poems confront tyranny in Malawi and then travel outwards through the rest of Africa, dealing with oppression, exile and the nature of good and evil. ...
|  | Vathek and Other Stories: A William Beckford Reader (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 1, 1995| Series: Penguin Classics An enthralling work of Gothic fiction, modelled on the Arabian Nights, William Beckford's "Vathek and Other Stories" is edited with an introduction by Malcolm Jack in "Penguin Classics". William Beckford was a novelist, travel writer, art critic and politician best known for his novel "Vathek" - a story with elaborate imagery, sardonic humour and an unforgettable gallery of grotesques - which describes a journey to the halls of Eblis, or Hell, in the pursuit of knowledge. This volume is arranged in three sections: "Oriental Tales", comp...
|  | Discourse Structure and Anaphora: Written and Conversational English (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Publication Date: February 26, 1993| ISBN-10: 0521439906 | ISBN-13: 978-0521439909This thoughtful study, presenting a novel analytical framework, examines the use of anaphora in both written and conversational discourse.In particular, it examines the distribution of pronouns and full noun phrases in three different genres of English, and demonstrates the relationships between the hierarchical structure of discourses and the use of anaphoric phrases within those discourses. ...
|  | The Turning Word: American Literary Modernism and Continental Theory (Critical Authors and Issues)
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|  | Collected Ancient Greek Novels
Publication Date: December 5, 1989| ISBN-10: 0520043065 | ISBN-13: 978-0520043060Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure to which they are related. Popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s excellent volume.Nine complete stories are included here as well...
|  | Puss 'n Cahoots: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)
Release Date: February 27, 2007| Series: Mrs. Murphy Mysteries Instead of a proper second honeymoon, the newly remarried Harry and Fair Haristeenleave cozy Crozet, Virginia, for Shelbyville, Kentucky, site of the famous saddlebredhorse show. There they’ll visit dear friends Joan Hamilton and Larry Hodge and enjoya week among some of the finest horses, trainers, and riders in the country.Butsoon after they arrive, events veer mysteriously–and murderously–off course. First,Joan’s ruby and sapphire horsehead heirloom pin is stolen from her private box atthe fairgrounds...
|  | Draw DC Universe: Learn to Draw the Heroes and the Villains (Klutz)
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|  | Sing Down the Moon
Publication Date: September 13, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up The Navajo tribe's forced march from their homeland to Fort Sumner by white soldiers and settlers is dramatically and courageously told by young Bright Morning.The Spanish Slavers were an ever-present threat to the Navaho way of life. One lovely spring day, fourteen-year-old Bright Morning and her friend Running Bird took their sheep to pasture. The sky was clear blue against the red buttes of the Canyon de Chelly, and the fields and orchards of the Navahos promised a rich harvest. Bright Morning was happy as s...
|  | Corydon and the Siege of Troy (Corydon Trilogy)
Release Date: March 10, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | Illinois Football SportsMysteries, Vol. I (Carole Marsh Illinois Books)
Publication Date: September 1990Great for any sports player or fan; especially popular withreluctant boy readers!Features choose-your-own-ending stories usingIllinois football teams and locations.Free teacher's guide gives specificsuggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value fromthis book....
|  | Dancing Carl
Release Date: June 26, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-ups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, the year Marsh and his best friend, Willy, are twelve, Carl appears at the rink, wearing a battered, old leather flight jacket and doing a strange dance that is both beautiful and disturbing to watch. It is Marsh and Willy who discover the terrible secret behind Carl's dance, a secret that threatens to destroy him. But a small miracle occurs, and Carl's dance becomes a fragile and tentative ex...
|  | A Coyote Columbus Story
Publication Date: September 2002| Age Level: 6 and up Coyote, the trickster, creates the world and all the creatures within it. She is able to control all events to her advantage until a funny-looking red-haired man named Columbus changes her plans. He is unimpressed by the wealth of moose, turtles, and beavers in Coyote’s land. Instead, he is interested in the human beings he can take to sell in Spain. Native American author Thomas King reinterprets the entire Columbus conquest mythology as a trickster tale, making the point that history is influenced by the culture of the reporter. Th...
| | Blue Bamboo (Haiku Senrgu Tanka)
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|  | Super Duck
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up...
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