 | Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
Release Date: September 1, 2006Did you know that James Joyce liked to smell his wife'¬?s farts? That some fish communicate by expelling gas? Or that the Pentagon is developing weapons of mass olfactory destruction (WMOD)? That'¬?s just a whiff of what's in store in this breathtaking follow-up to the best-selling fart history, WHO CUT THE CHEESE?In BLAME IT ON THE DOG, eminent fartologist Jim Dawson sniffs out the latest and greatest new items of the past century, from flatulent robot dogs and fart fetishists to poot-proof underwear and anti-stink pills. In fifty breezy chapters, he...
 |  | The Ordeal of Running Standing: A Novel
Publication Date: October 15, 1993In this popular novel admired by both Indian and white readers, Running Standing is a Kiowa born too late to feel himself truly Indian. Driven by his own bitter ambitions, he becomes Joe Standing and cynically joins the conniving whites—hoping to beat them at their own game.Meanwhile, Standing’s Cheyenne wife follows a different dream. While Joe heads further east after his six years at the Carlisle Indian School, Sara returns home to teach her people the skills necessary to compete in the white world. She is making slow progress when Joe returns...
|  | Obabakoak: Stories from a Village
Release Date: March 2, 2010"A brilliantly inventive writer ... he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny."—A.S. ByattObabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial collection about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic Basque village. A schoolboy’s miningengineer father tricks him into growing up, an unfortunate environmentalist rescues deceptively harmless lizards, and a rescue mission on a Swiss mountain-climbing expedition in Nepal turns into murder. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, while everyone...
|  | Undiscovered Country: A Novel
Publication Date: July 3, 2008Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer. When the muffled crack of a gunshot rings out, Jesse unaccountably knows something is wrong-and he races through the trees to find his dad dead of a rifle wound, apparently self-inflicted. But would easygoing Harold Matson really kill himself? If so, why?Haunted by th...
|  | Thoughts While Having Sex
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|  | 6 Chambers, 1 Bullet: A Novel
Release Date: May 9, 2006In this second adventure from bestselling author Sonny Barger, hard–living antihero Patch Kinkade must find a way to bust in to prison if he's going to figure out who is responsible for killing three of his brothers.Patch Kinkade, the notorious leader of the infamous and feared Infidelz motorcycle club, has faced down a wide array of bad guys in his day. But when three of his fellow club members show up dead in a meat locker––frozen stiff on their bikes, with counterfeit $100 bills stuffed in their mouths – and the funny money leads back...
|  | Nan: The Trifecta
Publication Date: January 24, 2011For some sins, even repentance and heartfelt prayer won't guarantee forgiveness. And for some coldhearted sinners, there is no desire to be forgiven for their misdeeds at all. Jada Dupri had survived many trifling times in her life, which would have easily consumed weaker individuals with a lot less resolve. However, for some reason she was still living at least for the moment. From murder to mayhem, her young eyes had been exposed to many things. But, little does she know, death is looming ever so closely, with no plans of sparing her life ever again. Natha...
|  | kite
Publication Date: May 10, 2012An illustrated story that captures the tension of holding close and letting go. This collaboration by two brothers celebrates the accomplishments of youth while memorializing the passage of time. For parents, mentors, and teachers who have helped navigate the skies and for the children and students who soar them freely. A perfect graduation gift. ...
|  | Eroc Rocks
Publication Date: March 6, 2011Eroc (pronounced E-Rock) chases his dream of becoming a rock star while his life becomes a nightmare of love, friendship, loss and depression. Co-author Eric Munden shares his teenage art, journal entries and true life experiences to take the reader into the heart and soul of "Eroc" beyond the sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. ...
|  | Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words
Publication Date: October 4, 2002Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words provides an ingenious guide to each significant word, line-by-line, scene-by-scene, in eighteen of Shakespeare's most popular plays. More than a simple pronouncing dictionary, it looks at scansion, displays alternative pronunciations in different centuries and geographical areas, and provides a simple pronunciation guide requiring no knowledge of lexicographic symbols. ...
|  | The Iliad of Homer
Publication Date: November 15, 2011"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fide...
|  | Emancipation, the Media, and Modernity: Arguments about the Media and Social Theory
Publication Date: June 15, 2000| ISBN-10: 019874224X | ISBN-13: 978-0198742241This book adopts a polemical stance. It approaches the problems raised by the media by way of a set of arguments with the two dominant paradigms now current for thinking about the media: post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media are important because they raise a set of questions that have been central to social and political theory since the Enlightenment. ...
|  | Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature (Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion)
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|  | Love Letters: Leonard Woolf & Trekkie Ritchie Parsons 1941-1968
Release Date: April 23, 2002“To know you and love you has been the best thing in life.” —Leonard Woolf wrote to Trekkie Parsons in 1942.Trekkie, a painter and book illustrator, was married to the publisher Ian Parsons who was away at war. Leonard was 61, Trekkie 39. They first got to know each other a few months after Virginia Woolf’s suicide. When Ian came back from the war, they became even closer. Trekkie, a feisty feminist, had never wanted a husband and now, it seemed, she had two, spending her weekends with Ian and weekdays with Leonard, and telling no one o...
|  | If She Only Knew
Release Date: October 1, 2000SHE WOKE UP WITH A NEW FACE . . . Not only has Marla Cahill survived a deadly car accident, but her beautiful features have been restored through plastic surgery.She should be grateful.Instead, she's consumed by confusion . . . and panic.For the people gathered at her bedside — her family — are strangers.And so is the woman whose haunted eyes stare back from the mirror . . . SHE WOKE UP WITH NO MEMORIES . . . Secluded at the magnificent Cahill mansion, Marla waits for something to trigger recognition.Yet the only thing she's left with is the unshakable ...
|  | The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Scroll of the Dead
Release Date: November 17, 2009| Series: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Holmes attends a seance to unmask an impostor posing as a medium, Sebastian Melmoth,a man hell-bent on obtaining immortality after the discovery of an ancient Egyptianpapyrus. It is up to Holmes and Watson to stop him and avert disaster...In thisfast-paced adventure, the action moves from London to the picturesque Lake Districtas Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson once more battle with the forces of evil.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomelydesigned detective storie...
|  | Heroes! (DC Super Friends) (Hologramatic Sticker Book)
Release Date: January 11, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Northeast Division (Hockey)
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|  | The Lickety-Split Princess
Release Date: May 1, 2001| Grade Level: 2 and up Designated an Our Choice title by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Dagny Comfort and Megan Canary, those two funloving, storytelling friends from the best-selling book The Cherry-Pit Princess, are back in another tale of imagination, childhood adventure and exploration. When Cherryland's resident storyteller, Rosie Fryback, runs a contest to see who can come up with the best ending to one of her fairytales, Dagny is determined to win. After all, isn't she the one who's always making up wild stories of her own? Lynn Manuel has created anoth...
|  | Little Bo in France
Release Date: April 2, 2002| Grade Level: 2 and up Little Bo and her dear master, Billy, embark on a thrilling journey as they travel from England to the south of France in search of work and adventure. Little do they know what lies in store for them! Sparkling with warmth, adventure, and the romantic charm of France, this new story from beloved children's author Julie Andrews Edwards, enchantingly illustrated by artist Henry Cole, is sure to bring Little Bo and her triusted friend, Billy, even closer to the heart of every reader. ...
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