 | Someone has to set a bad example: An Anne Taintor Collection
Publication Date: March 14, 2012We can't be good all the time, and no one knows it better than Anne Taintor. This generous collection of her most popular artwork includes more than 150 images in categories such as friendship (a real friend will help you hide the body), motherhood (WOW! I get to give birth AND change diapers!), money (screw the budget!), attitude (let a smirk be your umbrella), and more. Also featuring an introduction by Taintor, this hilarious volume perfectly captures the deliciously sarcastic, snarky, and honest things that most women have found themselves thinking at one ...
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|  | Hot & Bothered
Publication Date: June 1, 2009When Victoria Hamilton's vacation fling resulted in a baby, she began a new life far from her overbearing family. Now Tori's father has been murdered—and her half brother, Jared, needs her help to prove his innocence. But confronting her past when she comes face-to-face with private investigator John "Rocket" Miglionni sure isn't what she had in mind.Thrilled to find the woman who once rocked his world, John takes one look at her little girl and gets the shock of his life. Now the rugged former Marine has two females holding a big piece of his heart, a trou...
|  | Maggie Ray's Poetry
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|  | Secret of the Golden Cowrie
Publication Date: May 1, 1989| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Connie Lawrence loves secrets, and when Aunt Laura sharesone with her, it leads them both to a puzzle connected with abeautiful golden cowrie shell.Connie plunges eagerly into themystery.Figuring it out will be fun, and besides, it will give her achance to prove herself to her big brother, Dan.But who is the prowler that knows so much about Aunt Laura's house?What secrets does the strange little set of diaries hold?And whatshould she do about the letter that she found in the desk?When time begins to run out for Aunt L...
|  | The Camelot Conspiracy: A Novel of the Kennedys, Castro and the CIA
Release Date: April 28, 2011It¹s 1960, the height of the Cold War, but for Dante Amato of the Chicago Mob, life is anything but cold. Charismatic and movie-star handsome, Dante has settled comfortably into his role as The Outfit¹s man in Hollywood and Vegas. Dante¹s older brother, Aldo, a CIA agent, couldn¹t be more disapproving of his brother¹s life. Yet when Dante is ordered to meet with a beautiful Cuban go-between named Marissa del Valle, and then mob boss Sam Giancana summons him to Miami to discuss a U.S. Government commission to hit the Cuban dictator, Dante...
|  | A Woman Like That: Lesbian And Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories
Release Date: October 24, 2000The act of "coming out" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world. These accounts -- sometimes heart-wrenching, often exhilarating -- encompass a wide breadth of backgrounds and experiences. From a teenager institutionalized for her passion for women to the mother who must come out to her young sons at the risk of losing them -- from the cautious academic t...
|  | The Bone Sharps
Publication Date: April 30, 2007Tim Bowling’s new novel is a fictionalized account of the life and work of Charles Sternberg (1850–1943), student of the renowned American proto-paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope. Contrasting the astonishing discoveries made in the bonefields of the Alberta badlands and the American plains with the chaos and destruction in the trenches of the First World War, The Bone Sharps evokes the pivotal transition from the nineteenth-century world of order and faith to the uncertainties of the modern era.As the novel opens, Sternberg leads a new generation ...
|  | Man and Boy
Publication Date: April 1, 2001Harry Silver has it all: a beautiful wife, a wonderful son, a great job in the media--but in one night he throws it all away. Just yesterday Harry gave himself a shiny red sports car for his thirtieth birthday. Today he faces the baffling questions of a suddenly single dad: --How do you wash a four-year-old's hair? --Should he eat green spaghetti for breakfast? --What do you tell his Mommy from the emergency room phone? In this poignant and witty novel, Harry has to bring up his child alone, look after his parents, work out his relationships and hold down a job...
|  | The Second City Almanac of Improvisation
Publication Date: May 28, 2004It all began in a converted Chinese laundry on Chicago's north side on a cold December night in 1959. No one could have known that by the next century, The Second City would have established itself as the premier comedy institution in the world. Taking its act north, The Second City would build a second permanent home in Toronto where it would create the Emmy-Award winning television series "SCTV." Pioneering the use of improvisation in developing talent and creating satiric revue comedy, The Second City has become - in the words of the New York Times - "A Comed...
|  | Aristophanes' Old-And-New Comedy: Volume I: Six Essays in Perspective
Publication Date: June 1987| ISBN-10: 0807817201 | ISBN-13: 978-0807817209| Edition: First Edition This startling and original study emerged from Kenneth Rockford's wish to vindicate Aristophanes' Clouds against detractors.As a result of years of rereading and teaching Aristophanes, he realized that the Clouds could not be defended in an analysis of that play in isolation.A better approach, he decided, would be to define a comic perspective within which Aristophanes' comedies in general as well as the Clouds in particular could be appreciated.This first volume of Reckford's defense exami...
|  | Two Plays for Voices
Publication Date: September 1, 2002"The joy for me is knowing that somebody can have this strange audio experience. They're getting something as good as you get from radio." - Neil GaimenProduced by the Sci-Fi Channel and Seeing Ear Theatre - these two plays are adapted for voice by Neil Gaiman from two of his short stories (both stories can be found in Smoke & Mirrors).SNOW GLASS APPLES: Once upon a time there lived a young princess with skin as white as snow, with hair as black as coal, with lips redder than blood. Most people think they know what happens to this young unfortunate girl. Mo...
|  | Mallarme: Or the Poet of Nothingness
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|  | Licht und Dunkel in der Dichtung der T'ang-Zeit: Eine Untersuchung zur Bildlichkeit in der chinesischen Lyrik (Heidelberger Schriften zur Ostasienkunde) (German Edition)
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|  | The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
Publication Date: April 16, 2012| Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles. By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, librari...
|  | Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction
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|  | Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Release Date: October 30, 2012The New York Times–bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane circumstances. Ronson investigates the strange things we’re willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with our loved ones’ personalities to indigo children to hypersuccessful spiritual healers to the Insane Clown Posse’s juggalo fans. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspective...
|  | Accidental Felon (Volume 1)
Publication Date: August 15, 2012Carly Daniels, a single mother with a special needs child, worked for Archer Life Settlements. She did not have a clue the company was part of an industry known for fraud. Then the FBI raided their offices. Although innocent, Carly is indicted as a co-conspirator. Without a heroic lawyer riding to her rescue, Carly knows she faces years in prison. And she worries what this will do to her young son. ...
|  | When They Were Brothers (Star Wars: Clone Wars, Vol. 7)
Publication Date: December 13, 2005Many on both sides of the Clone Wars have been wounded or killed. But the war has taken its toll on the survivors, too.Consumed by the belief that the Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress still lives, Obi-Wan Kenobi has temporarily forsaken his duties and recruited Anakin Skywalker in his desperate hunt for Ventress.But Anakin believes that Obi-Wan is chasing a ghost - because he himself killed Ventress. And Anakin's doubts about his former Master's quest are not assuaged when, following the trail of the rumors of Ventress' existence, they walk into a trap set by their...
|  | A Short Story
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