 | Zombie High Yearbook '64
Publication Date: May 3, 2011Printed in blood-spattered black and white, this tribute to high school yearbooks of old is hilarious in its attention to period detail even as it celebrates the 1960s “afterlifestyle.” The civil rights upheavals of the early '60s saw the dawn of a new, all-inclusive attitude for the nation's youth, whether living or life-challenged. Jeff Busch captures this dynamic moment in an all-American zombie high school, when a generation of young revenants looked forward to a brighter tomorrow, filled with college, career, and family. And brains-lots and lots ...
 |  | Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First ... (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Release Date: October 10, 2006| Series: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsFirst published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece—an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process—as well as a treasure trove of anecdotes, an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques, and a veritable social history of the 1950s....
|  | The Ahriman Gate: Some Gates Should Not Be Opened
Release Date: August 1, 2005This supernatural thriller tells the incredible story of a young Marine and his sister who discover information connecting the U.S. Government with UFO's. ...
|  | Plain Pursuit (Daughters of the Promise, Book 2)
Publication Date: April 24, 2009Carley has given up chasing her dreams. Now her dreams are chasing her. Carley Marek experiences culture shock when she visits her friend Lillian’s family on their farm deep in Amish country. She’ll get an article out of the visit—and maybe some of Lillian’s newfound peace will somehow rub off on her. Just when Carley is getting used to the quiet nature of the Plain community, Lillian and Samuel’s son falls ill. But the local doctor who can offer the most help has been shunned by the community and forbidden to intervene. As David...
|  | Vampire Hunter D, Vol. 4: Tale of the Dead Town
Publication Date: December 29, 2009When a floating city becomes the target of a rash of vampire attacks, only one man can restore the oasis. "The City," a tiny metropolis of a few hundred sheltered citizens floating serenely on a seemingly random course a few feet above the ground, has long been thought safe from the predation of marauding monsters. It seemed like a paradise. A paradise shattered when an invasion of apparent vampires threatens the small haven. While the Vampire Hunter known only as "D" struggles to exterminate the scourge, a former denizen of the city, the attractive Raleigh...
|  | Valentine's Resolve (Vampire Earth, Book 6)
Release Date: July 3, 2007After three years of exile from humanity's war against the Kurians, David Valentine returns to battle. The Lifeweavers, Earth's allies in the conflict, have all but vanished, and without them mankind cannot possibly stand against their alien enemies.Many of the Lightweavers are held captive by a Kurian overlord. To free them, Valentine must convince the Marshal, a legendary resistance fighter with a grudge against the Kurians, to join his cause. But the Marshal is something of a dictator himself, ruling over his men with an iron fist-and giving Valentine a new enemy...
|  | Lestat Le Vampire/the Vampire Lestat
Publication Date: September 1992Lestat Le Vampire/the Vampire Lestat [Mass Market Paperback] Anne Rice (Author) Anne Rice was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. ...
|  | Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte
Publication Date: December 23, 2011This collection of stories includes tales about illness, despair, exile, and human brutality. The author himself compiled the selection. Held to be among the greatest writers of short-fiction, Horacio Quiroga has been compared to Kipling and Poe. ...
| | Hypnos waking: Poems and prose
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|  | Manimekhalai: The Dancer With the Magic Bowl
Publication Date: June 17, 1989| Series: The Dancer With the Magic Bowl Never before translated into English, theManimekhalai is one of the greatclassics of Indian culture.It is the story of a beautiful young dancer who decides to forego herlooming career as a courtesan in order todedicate her life (with the aid of gods,demigods, and a magic bowl called the Cow ofAbundance) to charity and to attaining the'bright light of knowledge.' ...
|  | Children and Reading Tests:
Publication Date: February 16, 2000| ISBN-10: 1567504450 | ISBN-13: 978-1567504453The increasing reliance of our educational system on standardized tests has precipitated a national debate. This debate, however, has proceeded with little attention to the tests themselves. This book makes a scholarly contribution to the debate by using the methods of discourse analysis to examine not only representative material from reading tests but also children's responses to it. ...
|  | The Children's Book of Virtues
Release Date: October 1, 1995| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up The perfect companion to William J. Bennett's number-one bestseller; The Book of Virtues, The Children's Book of Virtues is the ideal storybook for parents and children to enjoy together:With selections from The Book of Virtues, from Aesop and Robert Frost to George Washington's life as well as Native American and African folklore, The Children's Book of Virtues brings together timeless stories and poems from around the world.The stories have been chosen especially for a young audience to help parents introduce to...
|  | Hot for Boys: The Sexy Adventurs of Rogue
Publication Date: April 30, 2011With his wonderful horny comic stories the artist Zack struck a chord- impressively proven by his bestsellerBike BoyA", which we released in 2010. Of course a good follow up had to come as soon as possible - and lucky for us, Zack's smutty fantasy is inexhaustible. WITH HOT FOR BOYS we present Zack's second book, in which the sex is even a little dirtier than in the first one. Anything goes, Zack doesn't care about taboos. A real must have for any fan of gay comic art. ...
|  | Good Night, Mr. Holmes: An Irene Adler Novel (Irene Adler Mysteries)
Release Date: November 10, 2009| Series: Irene Adler Mysteries Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best Novel of Romantic Suspense, and the Romantic Times Award for Best Historical Mystery Miss Irene Adler, the beautiful American opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes, is also a superb detective, as Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker can attest. Even Holmes himself must admit--albeit grudgingly--that she acquits herself competently. But in matters of the heart she encounters difficulty. The Crown Prince of Bohemia--tall, blonde, and handsome--proves to be a cad. Will dashing barr...
|  | Los cuadernos secretos de Agatha Christie y dos novelas ineditas de Poirot / Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 15, 2010Following the death of Agatha Christie's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable legacy was unearthed among her affairs at the family home. Agatha's private notebooks, seventy-three handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. Spanish Description:Una fascinante exploracion del contenido de los 73 cuadernos de notas de Agatha Christie ...
|  | Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (The Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series)
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|  | Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater, Volume IV: The Case Of The Shooting Star, The Golden Idol, The Magwitch, The Donkey's Tail
Release Date: December 1, 1994The spine-tingling public radio series continues with two more full-length thrillers from award-winning writer/producer/director Steven Thomas Oney.Volume IV features two new mysteries for Captain Underhill: "The Case of the Shooting Star," a diabolical insurance fraud scheme; and "The Golden Idol, the Magwitch, and the Donkey's Tail," in which Mrs. Kemp's granddaughter is about to marry a French playboy who may also be a poisoner.Captain Underhill must break up the marriage before it occurs, employing a clever ruse and a thousand-year-old lie detector test. ...
|  | Destiny Kills
Publication Date: April 15, 2012One week before her wedding a young woman strips, takes the time to fold her clothes, then calmly walks into Lake Michigan. When Sam Casey is asked to look into the death of a young mother who left her infant in a high chair, walked down the street and jumped off the overpass, Sam finds a strange similarity-they each received a phone call just prior to committing suicide. Both calls were from disposable phones and both calls lasted four seconds. Were these really suicides or something more sinister? To complicate matters, Sam's husband, Jake Mitchell, is worki...
|  | Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Release Date: August 10, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | PAUL GOBLE GALLERY: Three Native American Stories
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up A girl who understands the spirits of all things sets out to find seven brothers she's seen in her mind. Together with them -- in a remarkable way -- she shows us we are not alone.A boy goes into the hills to pray to the Great Spirit to help his hungry people. He returns with a herd of magnificent animals, Sacred Dogs with "thunder in their nostrils and lightning in their legs" -- later known as horses. And another girl loves these animals so much, she leaves her village to live with wild horses. She becomes an important link between her...
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