 | How to Swear Around the World
Publication Date: September 19, 2012This essential phrasebook collects the most colorful, explicit, and outrageous ways to tell people off in every part of the world. Featuring dozens of different languages, the sayings range from everyday swears to family curses to expressions for X-rated relations with animals. Phonetic pronunciation is provided so that readers can curse like a native, and handy illustrations provide visual guides to these foreign exclamations. Perfect for the international traveler who may need to wish an enemy a painful death, insult a person's grandmother, or accuse som...
 |  | Summer Rental
Release Date: May 8, 2012Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction....Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she’s made over the past decade of her life. Julia—whose caustic wit covers up her wounds—has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can’t hide from how dee...
|  | The Kingdom of Bones: A Novel
Release Date: September 25, 2007In the twilight of the Gilded Age, a man accused of gruesome murders struggles to clear his name—and save his soul.The Kingdom of Bones is the haunting story of Tom Sayers, a former boxing champion who is wrongly accused of a series of grisly murders. As Sayers struggles for justice, he also must battle for the heart and soul of a theater troupe’s leading lady, and to uncover the truth behind a legend as old as evil itself. Thrown into a maelstrom of obsession, betrayal, and sacrifice—where even the pure may not escape damnation—Say...
|  | Darkness Falls
Publication Date: February 24, 2009Erin Neal has been living a secluded life in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend when an oil company executive makes a surprise visit. A number of important Saudi oil wells have stopped producing and Erin is the world’s foremost expert in analyzing and preventing oil field disasters. As far as he’s concerned, though, he has left that world behind—not his problem.Homeland Security, however, sees things differently. Erin quickly finds himself stuck in the Saudi desert, studying a new bacteria with a voracious appetite for oil...
|  | Lone Man Out: More Tales by Louis L'Amour
Publication Date: June 1, 2012[Read by: Tom Weiner, Stefan Rudnicki, and William Dufris] No one describes the adventures of the lone cowboy better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of the Old West before the days of law and order. Here are eight stories by America's favorite Western author, with texts restored to the state of their initial publication in magazines. In ''The Lion Hunter and the Lady,'' Cat Morgan is about to bag a live mountain lion with the help of old Long John Williams when they are interrupted by a lynch posse. They accuse Cat and Long John of stealing horse...
|  | Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Release Date: June 22, 2004| Series: Folger Shakespeare Library Each edition includes:• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play• Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play• Scene-by-scene plot summaries• A key to famous lines and phrases• An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language• An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play• Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare booksEssay by Catherine BelseyThe...
|  | Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam: Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire (Library of Middle East History)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| ISBN-10: 184885451X | ISBN-13: 978-1848854512The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran, has been either dismissed as superstition or treated as historical fact. By exploring the intellectual and literary history surrounding the production and early reception of this adventure, Travis Zadeh traces the conceptualization of frontiers within early 'Abbasid society and re-evaluates the modern treatment of marvels and monsters inhabiting medi...
|  | AN Experiment In Treason
Release Date: October 7, 2003Sir John Fielding has trailed a packet of controversial letters from London to the colony of Massachusetts. But when the suspect in the theft is found dead, Sir John turns his eye on the possible involvement of Benjamin Franklin. ...
|  | The Horrible Huckleberry Hex
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|  | Guido's Gondola
Release Date: May 17, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Just How Much Is Enough?Guido spends his days shuttling tourists along the waterways of Venice in a small gondola. The kindhearted young rat enjoys the simple pleasures of his world–until his eyes are opened to the possibilities of all that could be accomplished with a larger, faster vessel. As Guido is persuaded to acquire bigger and better boats, life becomes increasingly complicated. Just how far will he go in his search for true satisfaction?You and your child will giggle your way through this enchanting story...
|  | Nature Close-Up - Pill Bugs & Sow Bugs and Other Custaceans
Publication Date: March 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Liplap's Wish
Publication Date: October 1, 1997| Grade Level: P and up When Liplap wakes to find the ground covered with the first snow of the year, he can hardly wait to build a snowbunny. He pulls on his winter clothes and hops outside—lip lap, lip lap—as quickly as he can. But something's not right. As Liplap builds his snowbunny, he realizes that for the first time, his grandmother isn't there to help him. Grandmother hadn't lived to see the snow this year, and Liplap can't believe that he'll never see her again. It isn't until Liplap's mother tells him the ancient bunny legend about the s...
|  | The Saltwater Crocodile (Pilot Books: Nature's Deadliest)
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|  | Moonlight Miracle
Publication Date: March 12, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up How do you show very young children that we are allconnected by the love of God? This complex idea is explained ineasy-to-understand terms in this quiet, graceful picture book. Thebook begins simply by describing the moon as nature's friend, helpingto push tides; guide turtles, salmon, and moths; and bathe the worldin light. Then the book reveals a secret about the moon: that it canhelp create a miracle. If every child cupped his or her hands on amoonlit night and held a moonbeam, the world would be linked together...
|  | Crocodile Beat
Publication Date: September 1, 1994There's a party going on down by the river! All the animals are there--ducks and elephants, monkeys and birds, even bears and a snake. They're all dancing, singing, and stomping their feet, with King Lion himself leading the song! ...
|  | I Live in the City/Vivo en la Ciudad (Where I Live (English & Spanish))
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|  | World's Best Funny Songs
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|  | Growing Missionaries Biblically: A Fresh Look at Missions in an African Context
Publication Date: September 5, 2012For missionaries in the twenty-first century, change is necessary in order for them to continue to be strong and viable. Growing Missionaries Biblically takes a fresh look at Christian missions and proposes a comprehensive, biblical missionary training program for short- and longterm missions. Its objective is to produce an effective, cross cultural ministry for Africa and, with some modifications, globally. The goal is to provide a postimperial, post-colonial model for training missionaries by looking to biblical guidance on the subject. Author Dr. R. Zarw...
|  | PMP Exam Prep, Sixth Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam
Publication Date: April 10, 2009| ISBN-10: 1932735186 | ISBN-13: 978-1932735185| Edition: Sixth Hundreds of thousands of project managers understand why PMP Exam Prep by Rita Mulcahy, PMP, is a worldwide best-seller. Is it Rita's years of PMP exam preparation experience? The endless hours of ongoing research? The interviews with project managers who failed the exam, to identify gaps in their knowledge? Or is it the razor-sharp focus on making sure project managers don't waste a single minute of their time studying any more than they absolutely have to? Actually, it's all of the above. PM...
|  | Elementary Mathematical Macroeconomics (Prentice-Hall series in mathematical economics)
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