 | Damn You, Autocorrect!: Awesomely Embarrassing Text Messages You Didn't Mean to Send
Release Date: March 22, 2011Sh#@ Your Phone Says"Damn You, Autocorrect!"If you own an iPhone, BlackBerry, Droid, or any smartphone, there's a good chance you've screamed that phrase out at least once. In Damn You, Autocorrect!, Pop-culture blogger Jillian Madison shows you are not alone.Filled with submissions from readers of her popular website, this laugh-out-loud funny book features cringe-worthy exchanges with parents, friends, significant others, and co-workers that contain some of the most unintentionally hilarious--and mortifying--mistakes ever caused by Autocorrect. Inside,...
 |  | Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York
Publication Date: January 27, 2004 Three decades after its original bestselling publication, Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York is still completely on target as the most achingly funny book-length suicide note ever written by an agonizingly single 30-year-old trying unsuccessfully to straddle two worlds: the one she's been programmed for from birth—marriage first, life later—and the illusive swinging singles scene of liberated New York City.Meet Sheila Levine, she’s smart and funny, and hermother tells her she’s beautiful. . . . But her skirt’s always a b...
|  | War Games (Complete Christopher Anvil)
Release Date: March 30, 2010| Series: Complete Christopher Anvil War is a serious business-or is it? Christopher Anvil turns his sardonic sense of humor loose on the subject and considers what might happen if: Someone devised a computer war game so realistic and addictive that the people in charge of battle on both sides didn't have time or inclination to start a real war. Another device gave every homeowner the power to block off his property from any inxursion, even by nuclear weapons. A secret organization pulls the plug on an impendin...
|  | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Dover Thrift Study Edition)
Publication Date: August 3, 2009Includes the unabridged text of Twain's classic novel plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive guide includes chapter-by-chapter summaries, explanations and discussions of the plot, question-and-answer sections, author biography, analytical paper topics, list of characters, bibliography, and more. ...
|  | Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works (Library of Medieval Women)
Publication Date: February 18, 2000| Series: Library of Medieval Women Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 - c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage, was a canoness of the Saxon imperial abbey of Gandersheim, living and working there during its time of greatest material prosperity and cultural and intellectual pre-eminence. Her importance cannot be overestimated: she is the first poet of Saxony; the first known dramatist of Christianity (indeed the first known woman dramatist of any time); and a woman displaying erudition and wit in an essentially patriarchal age, a female author in a l...
|  | River of Heaven: A Novel
Release Date: April 7, 2009“You have to know the rest of my story, the part I can’t yet bring myself to say. A story of a boy I knew a long time ago and a brother I loved and then lost.” Past and present collide in Lee Martin’s highly anticipated novel of a man, his brother, and the dark secret that both connects and divides them. Haunting and beautifully wrought, River of Heaven weaves a story of love and loss, confession and redemption, and the mystery buried with a boy named Dewey Finn.On an April evening in 1955, Dewey died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilea...
|  | The Sea Hawk
Publication Date: May 23, 20041923. After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter of century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international bestseller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. A prolific writer, he produced about a book a year. The Sea-Hawk begins: Sir Oliver Tressilian sat at his ease in the lofty dining room of the handsom...
|  | Dead Before Sundown (The Last Gunfighter, Book 22)
Release Date: March 1, 2011Frank Morgan survived his first trip to Alaska. Barely. Now, in Western Canada, Morgan and a band of survivors encounter an arch enemy with a fortune in ill-gotten gains - money he will use to supply murderous Metis rebels with stolen US Army Gatling guns to use for a bloodbath - and the Last Gunfighter is now in their way. But before the rebels can kill him, a daring US secret agent joins his side. In a harsh and untamed land, Frank Morgan will soon face the ultimate battle for survival - before an all-out civil war explodes. ...
|  | Deutscher Minnesang (Universal-Bibliothek ; Nr. 7857/58) (German Edition)
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|  | A Day No Pigs Would Die Study Guide
Publication Date: September 1, 1994Easy-to-use, reproducible lessons on literary terms, comprehension and analysis, critical thinking, related scriptural principles, vocabulary, activities, plus a complete answer key. ...
|  | An Independent Stance (Critical Directions)
Release Date: May 1, 1991| Series: Critical Directions Part One of this strongly worded, informed, and wide-ranging collection examines key issues for the future of Canadian criticism. Part Two offers new readings of important works by Grove, Wilson, MacLennan, Davies, Laurence, Hood, Wiebe, Hodgins, and Atwood. As W.J. Keith argues, `We still have a mission: to have our literature recognized as an essential reflection of our national life. This is what I mean by retrenchment and consolidation.Literature can survive without literary criticism but it cannot survive if it is unknown and unread...
|  | Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor
Release Date: February 10, 2005| ISBN-10: 1403946892 | ISBN-13: 978-1403946898| Edition: First Edition Each chapter of this book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major American and British politicians to show how metaphor is used to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroic leaders. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to communicate subliminal meanings by drawing on the unconscious emotional association of words. An innovative study for students and researchers in discourse analysis, political communication, journalism and media studies. ...
|  | Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law - The Legacy of Modernism
Publication Date: June 7, 2012| ISBN-10: 0415598273 | ISBN-13: 978-0415598279 Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf, which cannot continue. Starting from the position that contemporary critiques of linguistic meaning and legal certainty are too important to be dismissed, Desmond Manderson takes up the political and intellectual chal...
|  | Journals of Woodrow Wyatt (Vol 3)
Publication Date: October 12, 2001The third and final volume of Wyatt's scandalous journals In this final volume of Woodrow Wyatt's journals, running from the April 1992 election until three months before he died in December 1997, Wyatt is in his late seventies, but his access to those in power is undiminished. John Major, Norman Lamont and Rupert Murdoch play leading roles as Wyatt writes his columns in The Times and the News of the World, amuses the Queen Mother on the race course, lobbies for his causes and his friends, and, of course, continues to drink the finest wines and smoke the lar...
|  | How To Salsa In A Sari (Kimani Tru)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Series: Kimani Tru The Culture ClubFirst, Issa Mazumder's nerdy boyfriend dumps her for popular Latina princess Cat Morena—as if Cat even likes him. She just hates Issa. And for good reason: Issa finds out that her mother not only has been dating Cat's dad, but is going to marry him. That means they're moving into Cat's huge house. And not only is Issa's stepsister-to-be a total beyotch, she has no respect for Issa's Indian and African-American heritage. But Issa gets some tough advice: if she wants Cat Morena to welcome her traditions, Issa had better...
|  | A Death in Texas
Publication Date: September 2, 2008Murder and mystery with a Texas Twist!Welcome to the second annual mystery anthology by The Final Twist, a Houston, Texas based writers group.Sample an assortment of unique stories set in cities and towns throughout the Lone Star State. Some characters reappear from the first anthology, Dead and Breakfast, also set in Texas. Other short stories are adapted from the authors' novels, such as Men in Jeans, where Pauline Baird Jones brings in elements from her award-winning novel The Key. Enjoy your taste of Texas terror -Pushing up Bluebonnets by Linda HouleTh...
|  | The Lacquer Screen: A Chinese Detective Story (Judge Dee Mystery)
Publication Date: December 15, 1992| Series: Judge Dee Mystery Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honora...
|  | Theseus and the Minotaur (Ancient Myths (Picture Window Books))
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Knights of King Arthur (Usborne Fantasy Adventure)
Publication Date: December 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Kayak Racer (Olympic Dreams)
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