 | Syrup
Release Date: July 1, 2000When Scat comes up with the idea for the hottest new soda ever, he's sure he'll retire the next rich, savvy marketing success story. But in the treacherous waters of corporate America there are no sure things--and suddenly Scat has to save not only his idea but his yet-to-be-realized career. With the help of the scarily beautiful and brainy 6, he sets out on a mission to reclaim the fame and fortune that, time and again, eludes him. This brilliantly scathing debut is a hilarious send-up of celebrity, sexual politics, corporate America, and the fleeting status that c...
 |  | Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks
Release Date: September 14, 2010 An inside look at the life of Comedy's Lovable Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli, as she dishes on everything from relationships to food, fat, and rehab. In her jaw-droppingly hilarious, gloriously, and unabashedly politically incorrect memoir, Lisa reveals all—including her dysfunctional childhood and her struggles with addictions to food and hot guys. By telling her story in a very real, very candid way, Lisa shows her audience that it's okay to be yourself, even if it's just one rehab stint at a time....
|  | Winter Turns to Spring (The Four Seasons of a Marriage Series #4)
Publication Date: June 18, 2008This book will focus on Brad and Ashley Hanes, young newlyweds who are facing their first season of winter. Opposite work schedules, differing views on finances and when to start a family, and Brad's selfish and immature habits are forcing the young couple apart, causing them to question why they ever got married in the first place. It will take a whole lot of help—mostly from their nosy but well-meaning neighbors—for Ashley and Brad to pull their marriage out of the winter blues and into a hopeful spring. As usual, the residents of Deepwater Cove...
|  | Larry Bond's First Team: Angels of Wrath
Release Date: January 10, 2006| Series: Larry Bond's First Team New York Times bestselling authors Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice deliver fresh thrills and unexpected twists in this latest installment of their electrifying series, Larry Bond’s First Team: Angels of Wrath.Led by CIA agent par excellence Bob Ferguson, the Team pitches in to help the FBI investigate a radical group of zealots who want to create a “post-Christian” era by instigating a catastrophic showdown in Jerusalem. But Ferg and company soon discover the cult has strange connections to the Iraqi resistance and...
|  | The Lone Star Plague
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|  | Peckinpah: THE WESTERN FILMS--A RECONSIDERATION (Illini books)
Publication Date: June 29, 1999| Series: Illini books This is the book that re-established Peckinpah's reputation - now thoroughly revised and updated! When critics hailed the 1995 re-release of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, "The Wild Bunch", it was a recognition of Paul Seydor's earlier claim that this was a milestone in American film, perhaps the most important since "Citizen Kane". "Peckinpah: The Western Films" first appeared in 1980, when the director's reputation was at low ebb. The book helped lead a generation of readers and filmgoers to a full and enduring appreciation of Peckinpah's...
|  | da bushes
Publication Date: April 28, 2003Mr. M. Randle Trundle, the CEO of a major New York conglomerate, is beyond outraged. Somebody messed with his minor league baseball team—The Bayport Schooners—and he is taking it personally. He hires Harry Mickey Shorts, an unconventional, street-wise private investigator, to find out what caused the suspicious collapse of his team during its initial season. Added to the team as a player-coach, Harry gets a second chance to go back and do what has always been his first love, play baseball, while he helps Trundle solve his problem. Complicating the is...
|  | Mr. Popper's Penguins
Publication Date: April 1, 1956Play script dramatized by Albert O. Mitchell. Delightfully amusing modern comedy. One set. Modern costumes. Cast of 2F, 8M, 4 Children, unlimited penguins!This play is about a modern family who fall heir to two arctic penguins in their midwestern home, and end up with a troupe of penguins, which threaten to eat them out of house and home. The problem of adapting an ordinary home to the penguin's needs provides some engaging comedy, and leads the whole family through some rather tense situations, but it is the penguins, finally, who make their fortune. ...
|  | The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible (HBI Series on Jewish Women)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Series: HBI Series on Jewish Women Striking in its appeal to the senses, the Song of Songs--the Bible's only book of love poems--is remarkable for its lack of sexual stereotyping and its expression of mutuality in relationships between men and women. Marcia Falk's rich and lyrical translation, praised by poets and scholars alike, is paired here with the original Hebrew text. ...
|  | The Poetic Edda: Volume III Mythological Poems II
Publication Date: July 21, 2011| ISBN-10: 0198111827 | ISBN-13: 978-0198111825This volume presents four of the most intricate and fascinating mythological poems of the Poetic Edda, with parallel translations and individual introductions and commentaries. 'Havamal', notable for its unforgettable flashes of beauty and despair, explores the nature of human knowledge. 'Hymiskvita' is the boisterous tale of the giant Hymir. 'Grimnismal', the lay of Grimnir, the Visored God, is a dramatic monologue spoken by Otin. The final poem, 'Grottasongr', is the song of two girls kept as slaves by King F...
|  | The Dream of Things: Selected Poems of Hyonjong Chong (Modern Poetry from Korea)
Publication Date: January 5, 2008| ISBN-10: 193190748X | ISBN-13: 978-1931907484The Dream of Things brings together about 80 poems by Hyonjong Chong that best illustrate his unusual poetic imagination and polished skill. In these poems, Chong demonstrates his persistent pursuit of the relationship between poet and object. It is through thoughtful meditation about language and meticulous precision in word choice that he relates this relationship. Chong often extends his metaphors through unique word play and the use of puns, which serves to dislocate readers from common perceptions and pr...
|  | Even Birds Leave the World: Selected Poems of Ji-woo Hwang (Korean Voices)
Publication Date: April 1, 2006| Series: Korean Voices (Book 10) Ji-Woo Hwang’s poems describe a life governed by the inescapable reality that all hell may break loose at any time, a reality that now permeates our own culture. His poems mix lyrical intensity with an acute political sensibility, creating an uneasy tension that makes them by turns moving, humorous, and unnerving.Ji-Woo Hwang has since written seven books of poetry. ...
|  | The New French Poetry
Publication Date: November 22, 1996French-English bilingual edition. One of the most challenging developments in contemporary French writing, the new metaphysical poetry is a rigorously ontological poetry, concerned with the very being of things, and with the nature of poetic language itself. This is an extremely significant development, not just in poetry but in all French writing. Writers of different generations are represented, from Mansour, Dupin and Noel, to Frank Andree Jamme and Andre Velter. Major figures, as well as those relatively unknown abroad, are included. Much of the poetry ...
|  | Forcing the Narcissus: Poems
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|  | Building Confidence in Communication
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|  | Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)
Publication Date: August 19, 2009| ISBN-10: 0415805864 | ISBN-13: 978-0415805865| Edition: 1 Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which has not. Gray visits the importance of the literature of Christian devotion to women's creative lives through an examination of the varied ways in which Victorian women reproduced and recreated traditional Christian texts in their own poetic texts. ...
|  | Feeling middle class: Sensory perception in Victorian literature and culture.
Publication Date: September 3, 2011This dissertation proposes that perception in the Victorian era was not just a source of information but a way of training the self. Representations of the senses defined bourgeois identity through a process that this project labels guided sensing: instilling particular sensations in the body that register as middle-class experience. This work extends both broad considerations of bodily class formation and specific Victorianist interest in the senses by delineating a form of self-fashioning that was considered sustainable at mid-century but receding by the ...
| | Antecedents Du Surrealisme (French Edition)
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|  | Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Season 9 Number 11 (Season 9 Number 11 2012)
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|  | The Disciples of the Night: Le Couer Éloigné
Publication Date: April 9, 2012Like a craftsman weaving the finest of Persian carpets, Etienne de Mendes propels the reader on an unparalleled adventure of Gothic horror and romance. Isidore de Chagny, world-renowned Noble prizewinning geneticist, has sent humankind on a disastrous evolutionary leap. The financially taxed governments of the world injected their common populace with his timed-death serum. People start dying unpredictably at younger and younger ages. Onto this intense stage walk Isidore's creations: Christine, Erik, and Torossian. Three kindred spirits brought through time by ...
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