 | Simpsons Treehouse of Horror from Beyond the Grave (Simpsons Comic Compilations)
Release Date: August 23, 2011| Series: Simpsons Comic CompilationsBecome the afterlife of the party with this soul-stirring monster mash of wildly wicked and devilishly delightful Halloween howlers from Matt Groening, your spirit guide to sidesplitting comedy. Join the sÉance circle and peer into the paranormal as the Simpsons are called upon by the heavenly hosts to save humanity (from cockroaches), earn the spite of some fairy tale sprites, fight off a crazed groundskeeper bent on avenging his prized emu, and much more! From ravenous fishy mutations to pygmy youth-making libations, ...
 |  | Dogfight, A Love Story
Release Date: September 6, 2011What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend. Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now everyone thinks Alfredo snitched on his brother, which may have something to do with the fact that Alfredo is now dating Tariq’s ex-girlfriend, Isabel, who is ei...
|  | Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes
Publication Date: October 17, 2002| ISBN-10: 0321095782 | ISBN-13: 978-0321095787| Edition: 1stContemporary American Poetry is an anthology featuring generous poetry selections from highly-respected and up-and-coming writers, chosen and commented upon by the writers themselves. In straightforward, conversational language, each poet provides original commentary that reveals the aesthetic and artistic choices they made in their creation. Along with advice and exercises on the craft of poetry-writing, these master poets provide the "inside scoop" on serious poetic issues such as voice...
|  | Adventures In Odyssey Passages Series: Arin's Judgment
Publication Date: September 27, 1999| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | Spirit Knife (White Indian Series, Book XV)
Release Date: January 1, 1988| Series: White Indian Paperback. ...
|  | The Castle (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 26, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics Kafka's last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats. The novel breaks new ground in exploring the relation between the individual and power, asking why the villagers so readily submit to an authority which may exist only in their collective imagination. Published only after Kafka's death, The Castle appeared in the same decade as modernist masterpieces by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Mann and Proust, and is am...
|  | Lucia's Progress (Lucia Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 1999| Series: Lucia Series Lucia and Mapp's adventures in Tilling continue in LUCIA'S PROGRESS, previously published in the U.S. as THE WORSHIPFUL LUCIA. In this volume both Lucia and Mapp stand for election to the Town Council, and Lucia speculates in gold shares. While re-decorating Miss Mapp's house, Lucia "discovers" and hide the remains of a Roman Villa. Excitements ensue! ...
|  | The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes (Latin America Otherwise)
Publication Date: May 15, 1998| Series: Latin America Otherwise How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answers this question by tracing the past three centuries of the intellectual history of the Nasa—a community in the Colombian Andes. Focusing on the Nasa historians of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, Rappaport highlights the differences between "native" history and Eurocentric history and demonstrates how these histories must be examined in relation to the particular...
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|  | Booklover's Book of Jokes, Quips and Quotes (Humour)
Publication Date: November 15, 2011| Series: Humour Do your jokes begin something like “So, a guy walks into a bar . ..” or “A priest, a minister, and a rabbi . . ?” Tired of the same-oldformulaic humor and worn-out riddles? Well, you’re in luck. The Booklover’s Book of Jokes, Quips and Quotes spanscenturies to provide a collection chock-full of bookish humor, pithysayings, one-liners, and just plain silly thoughts. With sections fromsome of the masters of witty writing, including the best barbs fromOscar Wilde; insults from Shakespeare; and wise words fro...
|  | Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing
Publication Date: February 28, 2007This volume explores a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, sermons, and some less easily categorized writings, in terms of their use of language and imagery suggestive of the Apocalypse. The focus is less upon the conscious or deliberate use of the Apocalypse as a source of sublime metaphors or as a guide to cultural decline than on the ways in which certain tropes recur in the writings of the period. These can be characterized in terms of oppositions that both structure apocalyptic literature and characterize much Victorian writing: hum...
|  | Texaco (Folio) (French Edition)
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|  | Renegade
Release Date: January 25, 2011Newly appointed police chief Cash Grier makes it his personal mission to keep law and order in the streets of Jacobsville. As a true renegade, Cash has learned never to take anything at face value—especially not his gorgeous sworn enemy, "Georgia Firefly" Tippy Moore. But Tippy is no longer a spoiled Hollywood starlet, just an unassuming beauty who has almost as many skeletons in her closet as Cash.The hard-edged Texan finds himself powerless to resist their explosive chemistry. Just as Cash is about to believe that Tippy might be the one for him, a...
|  | Arca : The Clear Bear
Publication Date: August 1, 1998Long ago, high up in the frozen Arctic, lived a family ofbears like no other bears we know today.They were clear bears, andwith the exception of their eyes, you could see directly through them.In Marcelina Marcus's new book, 'Arca: The Clear Bear,' one youngmember of this family is about to celebrate his birthday.Butsomething is about to happen to this young bear which will change theappearance of the clear bears forever.What could this fantasticchange be?You will have to read 'Arca: The Clear Bear,' an enchanting andamusing children's tale, to find out.Brimmi...
|  | Love Is in the Air (Penguin Young Readers, L2)
Release Date: December 27, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Whose Egg Is This? (A+ Books: Nature Starts)
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|  | Nelson Mandela (Remarkable People)
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|  | Draw 50 Famous Faces: The Step-By-Step Way to Draw Shakespeare, Bill Cosby, George Washington, and Many More...
Release Date: May 5, 1987| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | Using structured interviewing techniques (SuDoc GA 1.13:PEMD-10.1.5)
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|  | The Main Street Moment: Fighting Back to Save the American Dream
Publication Date: June 12, 2012In the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United decision, politicians are targeting working Americans as never before. As American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald W. McEntee and Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders show, efforts to crush what’s left of the working middle class and the American Dream are supported by those willing to stop at nothing to enshrine profits for the few at the expense of the many. But these forces vastly underesti...
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