 | Zombies for Zombies: Advice and Etiquette for the Living Dead
Publication Date: October 1, 2009So, you've been bitten by a zombie?Bummer. But there's no need to panic! Yes, your life will be undergoing a major transformation, but this doesn't have to be the end-all it once was when the Disaster first hit. There have been significant breakthroughs in the last decade in helping you keep significant parts of your wit and dignity. Together we can limit the damage. Zombies for Zombies is a motivational guide designed specifically to make a profound difference in your accidental, strange new life. You say you don't want to become another one of those ghast...
 |  | The Frontier in American History
Publication Date: July 18, 2011This 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 addition to any library ...
|  | The Sisterhood of the Rose
Publication Date: November 30, 2010Late in World War II, Adolf Hitler is about to achieve his greatest victory: the capture of Solomon's Treasure, the world's most sacred treasure trove, representing both gold and precious gems as well as ancient knowledge. He believes it will guarantee his dream of a thousand-year Reich.Jim Marrs presents an edgy combination of fact and fiction in this wide-reaching story of ancient secrets uncovered in the midst of war. The first novel from Marrs, this book follows his bestseller The Rise of the Fourth Reich. He uses his factual research into the Nazis' fa...
|  | Black Sea Monster
Publication Date: September 2005Set during the height of the Cold War, Black Sea Monster is a classic espionage thriller.A Soviet plot to steal Harrier jets is intercepted by East German merchant seaman Karl Bauer.Foiling the Soviet plan may buy Bauer a ticket to the West, but his plans are complicated when he rescues and falls in love with the beautiful and headstrong daughter of a powerful captain in the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet.Author Bruce M. Smith, a former commercial airline pilot and recreational sailor, has used his broad experience to create a novel that is as technically soun...
|  | Captive: Based on a True Story
Publication Date: January 4, 2011He smelled again the musty stench. He gagged. He reckoned it to be the odor of blood, the rotting scalps that were tied to the Indian's belt recent victims. In his dread, he made no sound.Captive is the true story of a family torn apart by the hate, racism, and greed that consumed brutal colonial New England. Twelve-year-old John's parents and siblings are massacred by the Abenaki Indians, and he is abducted. Irrevocably separated from his loved ones, John must find a way to survive among his violent captors, using skill and wit to adapt.A full year after the...
|  | Pao: A Novel
Release Date: July 5, 2011 As a young boy, Pao comes to Jamaica in the wake of the Chinese Civil War and rises to become the Godfather of Kingston's bustling Chinatown. Pao needs to take care of some dirty business, but he is no Don Corleone. The rackets he runs are small-time, and the protection he provides necessary, given the minority status of the Chinese in Jamaica. Pao, in fact, is a sensitive guy in a wise guy role that doesn't quite fit. Often mystified by all that he must take care of, Pao invariably turns to Sun Tzu's Art of War. The juxtaposition of the weighty, aphoristic words o...
|  | T. S. Eliot: The Modernist in History (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: March 19, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521105285 | ISBN-13: 978-0521105286| Edition: 1 The centenary of Eliot's birth in 1988 provided the salutary occasion to go back to his life and work, to reassess him in the light of issues raised by various critical movements--the new historicism, feminism, reader-reception theory--that have come to the fore since the New Criticism poststructuralist. This sort of reassessment is the lively and pertinent idea behind Ronald Bush's collection of new essays on Eliot. The essays assembled vary in approach, but share a commitment to the discipline o...
|  | The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning Of Fairy Tales
Publication Date: July 7, 2000In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has the underlying significance of fantasy and fairy tales been so insightfully and entertainingly mined. ...
|  | Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
Publication Date: September 6, 2006Astounding stories of absurd size and impossible dimension! Mammoth mega-fauna!Apocalyptic adventure! Surreal suspense! Catastrophic comedy! Monstrous metaphysics!Featuring original fiction from around the world and a special film history by Cinescape's Brian Thomas. Winner of the Australian Speculative Fiction Ditmar Award for Best Collection 2005. ...
|  | Graceland and Asleep on the Wind
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|  | The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost Leaven of Malice a Mixture of Frailties
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|  | The Radio Room
Publication Date: November 2010| ISBN-10: 1877578037 | ISBN-13: 978-1877578038Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen travels space and time, throwing 'thought-lines' from her present-day corner of the world to the ancient Celtic islands of her ancestors ('On a cliff-top above screeching gulls I stand still thinking backwards, antipodean poet grafted from ancient taproot in this bedrock' ...'if they spoke, what would they say? Could I understand that language at the root of my tongue?' Her point of view is at once small, interior and intimate (I sit on an upturned apple box in the shade of my hat lo...
|  | The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: Pop Goth (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
Publication Date: May 9, 2012| ISBN-10: 0415806763 | ISBN-13: 978-0415806763This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals, Gothic popular fiction from Twilight to Shadow of the Wind, Goth/ic popular music, Goth/ic on TV and film, new trends like Steampunk, well-known icons Batman and Lady Gaga, and theorizations of popular Gothic monster...
|  | Desire the Night
Release Date: September 4, 2012Held captive in a basement prison, wrapped in silver chains, the vampire Gideon is too weak to fight the monster who enslaves him. For years, she's tapped his precious blood like a fountain of youth - sustaining him with human females she captures for his pleasure. But with the latest victim she brings him, he senses something intriguingly different. Something dangerous, yet oh so tempting. ...
|  | 3 2 1 ... Married
Publication Date: December 1, 1999The countdown has begun. Three marriage-minded women have set their sights on becoming brides. And they're following Prominence magazine's surefire list of ways to meet the grooms of their dreams. How to hook a husband when time is of the essence? Prominence says... "Catch a Cowboy!"Bestselling author SHARON SALA takes her heroine way out West, where the men are plentiful...and more than willing to make some lucky lady "Miracle Bride.""Collide with a Single Daddy!" Award-winning author MARIE FERRARELLA tells the story of a single gal searching for any excuse...
|  | The Delaney Christmas Carol
Release Date: October 25, 2005This Christmas, celebrate the joys of the season with a trio of exquisitely crafted, richly romantic tales by three of the brightest stars in contemporary fiction—bestselling authors Kay Hooper, Iris Johansen, and Fayrene Preston. Filled with passion, drama, and a touch of magic, this festive gathering of classic stories—available for the first time in ten years—tells about the lives and loves of one unforgettable family and the enchanted heirloom that links one generation to the next.Christmas Past by Iris Johansen Killara, Arizona, 1893. Kevi...
|  | Stories From England: Oxford Children's Myths and Legends
Publication Date: December 13, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The I Am Reading: Ugly Egg
Release Date: November 10, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | DONNY THE DINOSAUR'S FUN DAY AT SCHOOL (A Rhyming Children's Picture Book) BACK TO SCHOOL FUN
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|  | Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move
Release Date: August 1, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up Alexander is not going to leave his best friend Paul. Or Rachel, the best babysitter in the world. Or the Baldwins, who have a terrific dog named Swoozie. Or Mr. and Mrs. Oberdorfer, who always give great treats on Halloween. Who cares if his father has a new job a thousand miles away? Alexander is not -- Do you hear him? He Means it! -- going to move. Alexander's back, facing another of childhood's trials and tribulations with Judith Viorst's trademark humor and keen sense of what's important to kids. ...
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