 | Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
Publication Date: October 6, 2010| ISBN-10: 1568989695 | ISBN-13: 978-1568989693| Edition: 2 Rev Exp Our all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as informatio...
 |  | Go F*** Yourself: The Kid From Brooklyn's Book Of Rants And Other Stuff
Release Date: January 1, 2008Unedited, unapologetic, and politically incorrect, The Kid from Brooklyn's take-no-prisoner video rants on his widly popular website. TheKidFromBrooklyn.com, inspired a devoted fan base to speak their mind openly, and shot the Kid into the stratosphere of pop culture stardom. Now, the Kid is back, and badder than ever, in Go F- Yourself, featuring 100% new material, none of which is available on TheKidFromBrooklyn.comWith a huge built-in audience that keeps growing with every unabashed rant on hot-button topics from Starbucks to gas prices to Hugo Chavez, Go F- Y...
|  | The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Portable Library)
Release Date: June 1, 1995| Series: Portable Library Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume—organized chronologically—includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others. ...
|  | Best Lesbian Erotica 2012
Publication Date: December 6, 2011| Series: Best Lesbian Erotica Your every fantasy will be laid bare as you devour these sure, sensual stories. In Best Lesbian Erotica 2012, women are looking for a little bit of everything: love, lust, someone they can trust. In the bath, at the “toy” store, or in the kitchen, they’re ready to take a chance that could lead to the experience of a lifetime. This year’s guest judge is the Sugarbutch herself: Sinclair Sexsmith, poet, performer, impresario. Mr. Sexsmith has selected work from an international field of authors, from top nam...
|  | Remembering Judith
Publication Date: March 15, 2006Memoir of mother/child relationship ...
|  | No Name (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Condemned by Victorian critics as immoral, but regarded today as a novel of outstanding social insight, No Name shows William Wilkie Collins at the height of his literary powers. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover after the deaths of their dearly beloved parents that their parents were not married at the time of their births. Disinherited and ousted from their estate, they must fend for themselves and either resign themselves to their fate or determine to recover their wealth by whatever means.Ab...
|  | An Amish Gathering (Inspirational Amish Romance Collection)
Publication Date: December 22, 2009Three heartwarming tales of old friends and new beginnings that span one year in an Amish community. A Change of Heart by Beth Wiseman Leah is no good at cooking, cleaning, sewing, gardening—the skills that young women need to make a proper Amish wife. All she wants to do is write stories, but she's sincerely tired of being a disappointment. Will she ever find someone who accepts her just as she is? And can an almost-Amish angel in red polka dots help her find her way? A Place of His Own by Kathleen Fuller When Josiah left Paradise the first time, he...
|  | Wild Girls: A Novel
Release Date: October 16, 2012Daringly imagined, atmospheric, and original, Wild Girls is an exhilarating debut—part coming-of-age story and part supernatural tale about girls learning their own strength. Kate Riordan fears two things as she grows up in the small Appalachian town of Swan River: that she’ll be a frustrated townie forever or that she’ll turn into one of the mysterious and terrifying wild girls, killers who start fires and menace the community. Struggling to better her chances of escaping, Kate attends the posh Swan River Academy and finds herself divided betw...
|  | The Free Farm: A Novel (Working Lives)
Release Date: October 12, 2011| Series: Working Lives Forbidden love. Counter-culture. The shadow of Vietnam. Sexual revolution. Social unrest. Marijuana and LSD. In Larry Smith's intriguing coming-of-age novel, The Free Farm, we journey back to America's turbulent late 60s and early 70s. Lee McCall leaves his Ohio Valley steel mill town to attend Ohio University, but the going isn't easy as he takes classes, works to support himself, and tries to form a utopia--a free living commune or "an adventure in group living" in an Appalachian farmhouse. Smith provides a unique window into Lee's life...
|  | Gain: A Novel
Release Date: September 29, 2009Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown. Clare's stunning growth reflects the kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body's life is ch...
|  | The Unknown Mile
Publication Date: September 1, 2004On the surface, Kelly's world seems pretty normal.But the truth is, it's getting more and more complicated by the moment.Shannon has Kelly in a tightly wound sexual relationship.Then there's Gina, a rookie cop who just happens to be Shannon's best friend... and meanwhile, Kelly is lured by a private investigator into a world of mystery and intrigue from which she can't possibly escape... But does she even want to?The Unknown Mile plays romance and passion against the backdrop of espionage in the form of a mysterious death and a gay political action group. ...
|  | Sharpe's Siege: Richard Sharpe & the Winter Campaign, 1814 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #18)
Publication Date: April 29, 1987A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814.The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture a fortress and secure a landing on the French coast. It is to be one of the most dangerous missions of his career.Through the incompetence of a recklessly ambitious naval commander and the machinations of his old enemy, French spymaster Pierre Ducos, Sharpe finds himself abandoned in the heart of enemy territory, facing overwhelmin...
|  | Heracles
Publication Date: November 1, 1999A special pocket-book version of the Greek mythologywhich has achieved worldwide recognition.Designed exclusively foradults and young readers.The reader will re-live all the magic of Greek mythology on a journeyof the imagination which will take him deep into an era separated fromour own by more than three millenia.This series of books received the 1989 Pier Paolo Vergerio prizes ofthe University of Padua for its outstanding text and illustrations. ...
|  | Man of the Moment a Play (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 1991| Series: Acting Edition A convicted thief endears himself to the British public. He becomes a media pundit, living in luxury, tended by managers and courted by TV directors. Then a meeting is arranged after 14 years between this ex-thug and the bank clerk who "had a go". Ayckbourn's previous plays include "Way Upstream". --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Teen Genreflecting 3: A Guide to Reading Interests (Genreflecting Advisory Series)
Publication Date: November 11, 2010| ISBN-10: 1591587298 | ISBN-13: 978-1591587293| Edition: 3 Motivate teens to read and boost your circulation with some 1,300 popular titles, organized by subgenre and theme to help you identify read-alikes and pinpoint books for readers who range from reluctant to rabid. This highly anticipated third edition of the best-selling Teen Genreflecting covers over 1,300 popular titles in a wide variety of genres. Most of the titles (approximately 1,100) are new to this edition and have been published in the last five years. Brimming with practical tips and i...
|  | Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment
Publication Date: December 1, 2008<DIV>This book offers creative strategies, tips, and activities to help young people discover - or rediscover - the joy and empowerment of reading.</DIV> ...
|  | Surrealism and Architecture
Publication Date: December 19, 2004| ISBN-10: 041532520X | ISBN-13: 978-0415325202| Edition: New edition This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design. This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. In these essays, the role of the subconscious, the techniques of defamiliarization, aesthetic and social forces affecting the objects, interiors,...
|  | Wisdom and the Grail: The Image of the Vessel in the Queste Del Saint Graal and Malory's Tale of the Sankgreal
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|  | Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America
Publication Date: October 22, 2003In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who "used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in." The young writer Bich Minh Nguyen remembers arriving in Michigan from Vietnam in 1975 and a classmate who said, "Your house smells funny," and Michael Parker recalls a sister's vivid -- and hilarious -- act of defiance on a particular North Carolina evening in 1971. These and many more intensely intimate memories make Dream Me Home Safely a coll...
|  | Classical Mythology
Publication Date: February 26, 2010| ISBN-10: 0195397703 | ISBN-13: 978-0195397703| Edition: 9 Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, Ninth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of classical mythology available--and the first full-color textbook of its kind. Featuring the authors' clear and extensive translations of original sources, it brings to life the myths and legends of Greece and Rome in a lucid and engaging style. The text contains a wide variety of faithfully translated passages from Greek and Latin sources, including Homer, Hesiod,...
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