 | Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood
Release Date: April 4, 2006Jenny McCarthy’s hilarious, no-holds-barred personality has made her an instantly recognizable TV personality and a bestselling author. In Baby Laughs she examines the full range of challenges that new mothers face, including: • The humiliations of postnatal “numbing spray,” Tucks medicated pads, and adult diapers; jelly belly, balding, and gum disease; and becoming a “five-foot puke rag” for the baby • Heart-stopping terrors, such as baby manicures, breathing checks, and burp failures • Inadequacies, such as lullaby illitera...
 |  | American Theatre Book of Monologues for Women
Publication Date: 2003The best monologues from 15 years of American Theatre magazine plays.These monologue books present the best audition pieces for actors selected from over 80 plays first published in American Theatre magazine since 1985. The magazine has published many of the most important contemporary American plays over the last 15 years, including Angels in America, Three Tall Women, M. Butterfly, Talk Radio, The Baltimore Waltz, Buried Child, to name a few.Chosen by Stephanie Coen, the former managing editor of American Theatre, these books provide a remarkable array of styles and c...
|  | Nightmare Academy (The Veritas Project)
Publication Date: February 5, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Whispers Through the Trees (Mysteries of Sparrow Island Series #1)
Publication Date: February 15, 2007Abby Stanton, a noted East Coast bird specialist, rushes home to the magnificent San Jan Islands in Pacific Northwest after a terrible car accident leaves her sister Mary paralysed from the waist down. While there, Abby spots a rare and endangered marbled murrelet and its mate. Determined to save them, she finds herself caught up in fascinating intrigue and one of the long-time families on Sparrow Island. Will Abby's quest for the birds draw her back home? What adventures await her in this marvellous place of serene beauty? Join Abby as she begins her new c...
|  | A Bit on the Side
Publication Date: October 15, 1996* Mr. Coren is not just a funny writer, but a comic genius. - The Observer* Mr. Coren has a wildness and a stringency all his own. - The New Yorker* Coren is, quite simply, a brilliantly funny writer whose talents place him so far in front of the pack it just isn't true. - The Irish Times*Marvelously deft and funny. The natural heir to Thurber and Perelman. - The New York Times*The funniest writer in Britain today. - The Sunday TimesIn his most important book to date, the Sage of Cricklewood lifts his eyes from the navel of the universe to contemplate matter...
|  | Codex Turnebi (Latin Edition)
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|  | FO PLAYS 1 (Contemporary Dramatists)
Publication Date: November 3, 1997| ISBN-10: 0413154203 | ISBN-13: 978-0413154200Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, is based on research into mediaeval mystery plays; The Accidental Death of an Anarchist concerns the "accidental" (or not) death of an anarchist railwork who "fell" (or was pushed) to his death from a police headquarters window in 1969; Trumpets and Raspberries is "A deeply subversive farce" (The Guardian) in which the boss of Italy's biggest car manufacturer FIAT, is mistaken for a left wing terrorist. ...
|  | Consistency of Phenotype (American University Studies)
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|  | A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: May 5, 2009| ISBN-10: 1405129247 | ISBN-13: 978-1405129244| Edition: 1 This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-centuryIntroduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew MotionTakes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and pulling together competing tendencies an...
|  | The Great Monster Magazines: A Critical Study of the Black and White Publications of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
Publication Date: June 13, 2008| ISBN-10: 0786433892 | ISBN-13: 978-0786433896This work provides a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s to the 1970s. The term "monster magazine" is a blanket term, which, for the purposes of this study is used to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters which are illustrated in comic book style but printed in black and white. ...
| | La femme cent sexes ou les genres communicants (French Edition)
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|  | Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
Publication Date: May 5, 1996They were an unlikely couple. Kurt Weill was a German cantor's son, cerebral, well-educated. Lotte Lenya was two years older, an Austrian Catholic coachman's daughter, waif-like, less than beautiful but always appealing to men. She survived the abuse of an alcoholic father, escaping to Zurich and finally Berlin, working as a would-be dancer turned actress. When they met, she was a domestic worker in the home of the playwright he had come to recruit as a librettist. Much to his family's dismay, they married in 1926.Fiercely independent and yet codependent, Weill a...
|  | The Persian Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1920| ISBN-10: 0674991303 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991309| Edition: Revised Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BCE, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He travelled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Assuan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived, it seems, for some time in Athens, and in 443 went with other colonists to the new city Thurii (in South Italy), where he died about 430. He was 'the prose correl...
|  | Little Maureen's Family Pleasures
Publication Date: June 7, 2011A Father-Daughter Team Takes an epistolary turn in this modern classic, cementing their role as The Most-Banned Authors in Ebook History! ...
|  | The Marriage Bargain (Marriage to a Billionaire)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Marriage to a Billionaire A marriage in name only...To save her family home, impulsive bookstore owner, Alexa Maria McKenzie, casts a love spell. But she never planned on conjuring up her best friend's older brother—the powerful man who once shattered her heart.Billionaire Nicholas Ryan doesn’t believe in marriage, but in order to inherit his father’s corporation, he needs a wife and needs one fast. When he discovers his sister’s childhood friend is in dire financial straits, he offers Alexa a bold proposition.A marriage in ...
|  | Black Lace
Release Date: October 25, 2005The last thing Lacy Green needs is trouble—and handsome Mayor Drake Randolph has "danger" written all over him . . . especially when "His Fineness" accidentally runs her off the road. Despite Drake's sensuous charm, irresistible magnetism, and unwavering determination to make amends, she's thinking it might be smart to play it safe and keep her distance . . . if only his lips weren't so inviting. But trouble comes from a different source when Lacy, as the head of Detroit's Environmental Protection Department, launches an investigation into the activities o...
|  | Sheer Folly: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries)
Release Date: March 1, 2011| Series: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy (a.k.a. Lady Gerald) head off for several days at stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of follies (architectural), they plan to research and photograph it. Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive weekend at Appsworth Hall, with the only potential difficulty being keeping Lucy from offending the current owner, a manufacturer of plumbing products. Alas, it’s not to be qu...
|  | The Coming of Hoole (Guardians of Ga'hoole, Book 10)
Publication Date: July 1, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up The latest soaring installment of Kathryn Lasky's NYT bestselling Ga'Hoole seriesGrank raises the hatchling deep in a forest far from owls that would kill the royal chick named Hoole to end the kingly line. His mother comes to visit, in disguise, and departs again. Not even the chick must know his mother's identity. It would give him away as Hrath's heir. Sent by an evil warlord, a hagsfiend attempts to lure young Hoole away when he first learns to fly. Grank realizes that the same evil forces that killed Hrath are after Hoole, and know whe...
|  | Playing With the Boys: A PrettyTOUGH Novel
Release Date: April 10, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Boy Who Conquered Everest: The Jordan Romero Story
Publication Date: July 30, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Jordan Romero was a regular 9 year old boy. He loved BMX biking, listening to music, hanging out with his friends and family, participating in school activities, and studying nature and reptiles. So why would he want to climb the world's tallest mountains? What made him decide to try something so dangerous and difficult? It all started when Jordan spotted a map of the famous "Seven Summits", the tallest mountains on Earth's seven continents, including massive Mt. Everest–the tallest of all. Jordan could ...
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