 | What You Don't Know About Turning 60: A Funny Birthday Quiz
Release Date: February 1, 2006What You Don't Know About Turning 60 is a hilarious pop quiz to ease the pain of a 60th birthday. This charming humor book provides entertainment for over-the-hill birthday parties and is fun to read when the party's over and reality sets in.Sample jokes include:- Q: What's a senior screwdriver? A: Orange Juice and Metamucil.- Q: What do the following words bring to mind: "free refills?" A: If you said coffee, you're probably under 60. If you said a good prescription drug plan, you're probably 60 or older. ...
 |  | Good Poems
Release Date: August 26, 2003Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio andhear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary great...
|  | Water by the Spoonful
Publication Date: September 25, 2012The 2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. ...
|  | The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East
Publication Date: January 7, 1993| ISBN-10: 0198149263 | ISBN-13: 978-0198149262| Edition: Rev Sub For more than seven centuries most of the Near East was part of the Roman empire. Yet no work exists which explores the means by which an ancient power originating in the western Mediterranean could control such a vast and distant region. What was the impact of the army presence on the population of the provinces? How did Rome respond to the challenge posed by the desert and its nomadic population? Isaac here offers answers to these questions in the first comprehensive treatment of the Roma...
|  | Canada
Release Date: May 22, 2012 "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed. His parents' arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and uncertain future for Dell and his twin sister, Berner. Willful and burning with resentment, Berner flees their home in Montana, abandoning her brother and her life. But Dell is not c...
|  | The Double Comfort Safari Club: A No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel (11)
Release Date: March 8, 2011| Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Readers will agree that this touching and dramatic new installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s beloved and best-selling series is the finest yet. In this story, Precious Ramotswe deals with issues of mistaken identity and great fortune against the beautiful backdrop of Botswana’s remote and striking Okavango Delta. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi head to a safari camp to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest who has left one of the guides a large sum of money. But once they find their man, Pr...
|  | A Garden in Paris
Release Date: April 1, 2005Mary Kathleen Davis finds the framed motto in the back of a dusty antique shop, and it haunts her. After 26 years as the trophy wife of a powerful man, Mary is a widow with no sense of identity. She finds herself wondering ''what might have been,'' and torments herself with guilt over her treatment of an old flame. She has the notion that if she can return to Paris with her increasingly distant daughter, perhaps she'll be able to reconcile with the past and find a new future. The trip to Paris will change everything for these two women, in ways neither could imagin...
|  | Outlander
Release Date: August 10, 1998| Series: Outlander Unrivaled storytelling ... unforgettable characters ... rich historical detail ... these are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon's work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured millions of readers. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages....The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from t...
|  | Yikes!!! (TJ and the Time Stumblers)
Publication Date: January 20, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Melody (Logan)
Release Date: September 1, 1996| Series: Logan Series (Book 1) Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town....But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe -- until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family's moorings.She was still devastated by her father's death when she left West Virginia with Haille to follow her mother's dream of becoming a model or actress. But first they stopped in Cape Cod to visit her father's family at last.Melody knew only that her grandparents had disowned their son when ...
|  | Alive and Cutting: A teenager's journey in therapy to understanding her self-harm
Publication Date: October 17, 2008Alive and Cutting takes you into the world of self-harming behaviour. Katie had a difficult childhood. Neglected and alone she spent much of her time consoling herself as best she could with her doll and teddy bear. Taken into care and fostered, she was then bullied at school. Later in childhood she learned to fight back. Now, aged nineteen, Katie is depressed, binge-drinks and regularly cuts herself, in part to find release from emotional build up, but also to cut her way out of depression and despair.Katie has referred herself for couselling where she sees...
|  | An Ill Wind (John Pearce) (John Pearce 6)
Publication Date: January 15, 2010| Series: John Pearce 6 Toulon, 1793. With the Republican Army at the gates, the citizens of Toulon are panicking, trying to flee the retribution of the guillotine. Amongst this confusion John Pearce and the rest of the Allied forces must put the needs of war before their lives: the Arsenal and dockyard must be destroyed, the ships they cannot get away must be set alight to deny them to the enemy. And Pearce is entrusted with dangerous tasks by Admiral Hotham.His orders take on a particularly a challenging form when Pearce is tasted with evacuating the hos...
|  | The Way of the World (New Mermaids)
Publication Date: December 20, 2002| Series: New Mermaids If seventeenth- and eighteenth-century comedy differ in that the formeris about sex (and adultery actually happens) while the latter is aboutlove (and adultery is merely threatened), then Congreve - writing atthe turn of the century - occupies a phase of transition. Mirabell isno saint, but he deserves the title of 'hero' for masterminding theaction with the same wit and humanity with which the dramatist designedthe play. Mirabell is both financially and amorously interested in theskittish Millamant, who declares that she might, with ...
|  | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Radio Dramatization (Oz Series)
Publication Date: January 11, 2011 ...
|  | Without Rhyme Or Reason: Gaspard De LA Nuit and the Dialectic of the Prose Poem
Publication Date: April 1, 1998This study examines the rise of the prose poem in France, particularly the work most often cited as the first collection of prose poems: Louis (Aloysius) Bertrand's Gaspard de la Nuit. Specialists in French poetry and general readers will be interested in this book because the author moves from specific analyses of Bertrand's work to broader questions of genre theory and literary history. ...
|  | Shining Brow
Publication Date: February 1993Commissioned by Madison Opera as a libretto for American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Shining Brow can be read as a dramatic poem in its own right. Displaying all the structural ingenuity and subtle resonance that have marked Paul Muldoon as the most influential poet of his generation, it tells, with suitable bravura, the story of architectural genius Frank Lloyd Wright and his catastrophic affair with the wife of a wealthy client. ...
|  | La Place de la Concorde Suisse
Publication Date: April 1, 1994La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Isrealis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model. ...
|  | Le myst
Publication Date: April 27, 2012This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format.From Shakespeare’s finesse to Oscar Wilde’s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim’s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have add...
|  | A Fortune's Children Christmas (Silhouette Special Products)
Publication Date: December 1, 2004| Series: Silhouette Special Products - Both Fortune's Children and its sequel continuity, Fortunes of Texas, were USA Today bestselling continuities.- When originally published six years ago, this anthology had a 56% NSR.Lisa Jackson: - She is a multi-New York Times bestselling author of over 70 novels.- Whispers (Zebra, 8/03), spent seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, reaching #6!- The Night Before (Zebra, 3/03) and Cold Blooded (Zebra, 6/02) both hit the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists.- Her past two Silhoue...
|  | Beauty and the Beast
Publication Date: September 1992Taking the place of her father as the prisoner of the Beast, young Beauty finds enchantment, friendship, romance, and love with the frightening Beast, in a magical version of the famous folktale, complemented by magnificent wood engravings. All ages. ...
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