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Collateral Damage (Annie Ogden, #3) | A love story.
When Annie Ogden's ex-boyfriend Michael Garcia reappears, she has to confront a lie dating back to her time in Iraq. Will she go back to hot, passionate Michael, who has developed a disturbing interest in meth, or will she stick with her pudgy PI partner and fiance, Salvatore?
A murder.
The calculus changes when Michael is arrested for murder. When Salvatore refuses to help investigate, Annie is forced to try to find the killer herself. Meanwhile her sister's creepy husband, Todd, is making more of an ass of himself than usual.
An obsession.
Annie's problems with three obsessive men suddenly pale in significance when she realizes the killer has set his sights on her. |
Name in Stone (In Stone, #3) | Name in Stone is Lily Bud's last stand.
Lily's not like you and me. Lily understands nature's distinctive voice and has honed her instincts razor sharpin order to slice through the very fabric of the universe. Her past lives are intricately intertwined and form a deadly tapestry that is on the brink of unraveling.
The Cruin, Gloam, an ancient nature being, and one of the guardians of Earth, blames all of humankind for the planets pain.Gloam wants us gone.Lily vowed to stop the Cruin in more than one lifetime and the culmination is now. But Gloam's minions are many and Lily needs help.
Lily's love for the boy with the golden aura spans eternity. Her bond with him is like no other. If she is to survive her final confrontation with the Cruin, Lily, must find John. In a world full of limitations Lily has absolutely no boundaries, though she is still altogether too human. When Earth offers her something it has never gifted another, will Lily accept? Or are some powers better left alone?In Lily's final confrontation with Gloam who will be victorious?And whose memory will be etched forever, a 'Name in Stone'? |
Leap of Faith (Moonlight Breed #1) | [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters]
After kicking his two-timing ex-lover to the curb, all Braxton is interested in is getting started on his next graphic novel. That is, until he meets sexy firefighter and cursed shifter, Xander Brighton.
Xander has never given much thought to having a mate. Now that he's found Braxton, though, he will do whatever it takes to keep his new partner safe and happy.
But Braxton's ex-lover, Mason, isn't about to let them move on to their happy-ever-after without a fight. In fact, he will stop at nothing to reclaim his ex, and Braxton begins to suspect that Mason may be hiding an ulterior motive. With Xander's help, Braxton races to unravel the mysteries surrounding his ex before someone ends up hurt...or worse. |
Dumbness is a Dish Best Served Cold | Jamie Kelly is back and dumber than ever in this super-deluxe four-color Dear Dumb Diary special edition!
Life at Mackerel Middle School is as dumb as ever -- but Jamie Kelly may have finally found the key to fame, fortune, and fabulousness. Together with Isabella and Angeline, she's come up with a moneymaking idea, and it has to do with food. Everyone likes food! They're going to be rich!
The only problem? They have to come up with something that people actually want to eat.
Jamie has some sophisticated thoughts on food, like, "She was manipulating us like dough. Like the sweet, delicious dough that we are. And she was baking us into the type of delicious cookies you can only get from dough like us. And she was putting sprinkles of us on top of us, and -- forget it. I'm hungry. I want some cookies."
This is sure to go well. |
Restoration (The World House #2) | NONE WHO ENTER THE WORLD HOUSE LEAVE IT UNCHANGED. In some rooms, forests grow; animals roam and objects come to life. Great secrets and treasures await the brave or foolhardy. And at the very top of the house, the prisoner it was all built to contain sat behind a locked door waiting for the key to turn.
The day that happened, the world ended.
A sequel to the stunning "The World House".
File Under: Modern Fantasy[Worlds within Worlds | End of Days | A Prisoner Escapes | Dark Powers] |
Shotgun Bride (McKettricks, #2) | One special lady will help this cowboy lawman win his father's ranch -- and steal his heart in the bargain....
Kade McKettrick's got five mail-order brides-to-be camped out at the local hotel, all more than eager to provide him with the heir that will win him the Triple M ranch. But Kade, the newly appointed marshal, has his hands full with a troublesome outlaw gang. Why, then, is he so easily distracted by pretty "Sister Mandy" -- who most assuredly is not the nun she claims to be?
On the run from her outlaw stepfather, Mandy Sperrin hides beneath her solemn disguise, and vows to keep her wild, passionate nature from the respectable citizens of Indian Rock. Yet when the handsome marshal makes it clear that he wants her, Mandy gives in to her heated desires....
Despite the secrets that may lure them both perilously close to danger, Kade knows that proposing marriage may be the only way to keep this spirited woman by his side. But are her ties to a shadowed past more threatening -- and closer -- than Kade knows? His strong, sensual embrace may charm Mandy's wild heart -- but will she surrender to a lifetime of his deep and powerful love? |
Who Is Evelyn Dae? Volume 1 | Evelyn Dae has a secret she wishes she could run away from, and a past she cannot remember. While fishing for clues, she creates diary entries of dream fragments, bits of truth, and wishes that can never come true. In order to protect the secret she's drowning in, she also devises a set of rules to live by. But rules are made to be broken, and when it comes to Oliver Knight, Evelyn is in way over her head. Standing on the precipice between land and sea, she's caught in a net of memories. Time is winding down, and she has a single morning to decide her fate. Who Is Evelyn Dae? Find out in this illustrated tale that mixes diary sketchbook entries with traditional storytelling. |
For the Birds (Rose Gardner Investigations #2) | Book two in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Investigations series.
Rose Gardner is trying to build a new normal. One that leaves the Fenton County crime world--including James "Skeeter" Malcom, the current king--behind. Her best friend and roommate is a big part of that effort, but Neely Kate is busy building her own life anew. She disappeared for a few days, scaring the spit out of Rose--which is why Rose finds it impossible to deny her when she suggests they look for a missing parrot. Neely Kate pretends she's only interested in the reward money, but Rose doesn't believe it for a minute, especially after she discovers they'll be working with a cranky private investigator known as Kermit the Hermit. Rose sees it for what it is: another bid for them to become private investigators.
If nothing else, it's a good distraction...until one of James's nemeses, Buck Reynolds comes calling for help. James's brother has gone missing, and Reynolds is number one on the crime king's suspect list. Only, according to him, he's innocent.
Rose had promised herself she was through with the crime world, but however angry she is with James, she wants to see his brother safe. Besides, can she really say no when she might be the only one who can keep order in the county?
Reading order:
Family Jewels
Trailer Trash (Neely Kate Mystery)--optional
For the Birds |
The Hand of Fu-Manchu | Dr Fu-Manchu is back once again! His very existence seemingly proves him immune from natural laws, a deathless incarnation of evil! Brand new editions of the world-famous novels featuring one of the most iconic characters of the 20th Century, standing alongside Sherlock Holmes and James Bond.
And this time the Devil Doctor is not alone. Sir Denis Nayland Smith and his associates learn of a deadly organization that stalks the shadows. Their goal is to undermine the balance of global power, and they allow no one to stand in their way. They are the terrorist assassins known as the Si-Fan.
"The hand that held my arm was bony and clawish; I could detect the presence of incredibly long finger nails--nails long as those of some buried vampire of the black ages! Choking down a cry of horror, I opened my eyes... and looked into the face of my guide. It was Dr. Fu-Manchu!" |
The Forgetful Bride | She was NOT married to Joseph Rockwell!
Caitlin hadn't even seen him in almost twenty years. He was now a successful Seattle contractor, who happened to be renovating the office where Cait worked as a stockbroker. But one thing hadn't changed--Joe Rockwell was still a terrible tease, telling everyone he an Cait were husband and wife.
On, sure, they'd been "married" in a pretend ceremony when she was eight. She wished Joe would stop bringing that up. Couldn't he see he was embarrassing her--especially in front of her boss, Paul? She was in love with Paul.
No, Joe insisted, she was in love with him. And on Christmas Day, he proved it.... |
Led Into Temptation | Erin's day is exciting. She's coming into her own, and was offered a rare opportunity to act as a journalist for a special, off-campus course.
Yet darker things lurk at the secluded getaway, and when it visits her in at night, she simply can't resist that which lives between existence and the void.
This novella is a horror erotica containing tentacles, a good Catholic girl, and a bunch of men that all have their own secrets. Inspired by the C'thulhu mythos and H.P. Lovecraft style horror, with a sexual twist. Over 30k words.
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The cold chill that ran up her leg then was too real, far too real, to be merely in her mind, and the reality of it kept her conscious. Conscious but too frightened to look. It wasn't until the chilly touch coiled up to her knee that she dared look down and the sight she saw beneath her was of some apparition out of nightmares.
It was as formless and nothing as a shadow, but she could swear it shimmered like the night sky. It was cold and not, it was formless and clenching, it was contradiction as it snaked up her thigh.
She wasn't sure if she screamed. She knew her mouth dropped open, but she felt like she was going to faint, and she reached for the door again. Even though she knew it wasn't there, she couldn't help it. She wanted out, away, back into the comfort of people and laughter and cheesecake.
That world no longer seemed to exist anymore, for as quickly as she thought it everything went dark. Her room seemed to vanish, and there was nothing, no sensation, no noise. Even the feel of that cold black appendage was gone, and her attempts to scream or cry out accomplished... nothing.
She had no idea how long she stayed like that, or if she passed out, but the first thing to edge into her awareness again was that cold tentacle like limb. Its tip was past her stocking and when she felt it against her bare flesh it was slick as well as cold, wriggling and probing. |
The Catiline Conspiracy | It was a summer of glorious triumph for the mighty Roman Republic. Her invincible legions had brought all foreign enemies to their knees. But in Rome there was no peace. The streets were flooded with the blood of murdered citizens, and there were rumors of more atrocities to come. Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger was convinced a conspiracy existed to overthrow the government, a sinister cabal that could only be destroyed from within. But admission into the traitorous society of evil carried a grim price: the life of Decius' closest friend--and maybe his own. The author's masterful writing and impeccable faithfulness to historical fact join together to create a grippingly suspenseful tale of murder and conspiracy in Ancient Rome. |
Glorious Nosebleed | The Glorious Nosebleed, an alphabet created with Edward Gorey's inimitable sense of the weird and the macabre, trips from A to Z with illustrations that are both strikingly funny and a bit weird, all the way from "She wandered among the trees Aimlessly" to "He wrote it all down Zealously." A classic of Gorey's imaginative and darkly humorous mind. |
Just for the Weekend | It's time to play with the grown-ups.
Kindergarten teacher Cleo James needs a change. Three years at her widowed dad's beck and call are enough. A weekend in Vegas at a sci-fi convention with her best friend will do for now, and the hot guy who wants to spend time with her only adds to her excitement. After all--it's just for the weekend. What can possibly go wrong?
Multimillionaire Sam Mason is sick of gold diggers. He's looking for someone who'll fall for him, not his wallet. When he meets a shy, green-skinned slave girl, she pushes all his buttons--the best part is she has no idea who he is and mistakenly believes he's a Chippendale. Between the sexual attraction and too much alcohol, he wakes up married to his green-skinned beauty, but the bride has vanished. Finding her will be a lot harder than he thinks. |
Turtle and Snake at Work | What do two best friends, Turtle and Snake, do when they're at work? Turtle tells the cars when to stop and when to go. Snake throws the pizza crust in the air and spins it high and low. At the end of the day they share a pizza pie with their friends. These two endearing characters help beginning readers gain confidence. |
The New Frontier: multidimensionality | The invisible worlds are being revealed. Now, anyone with a digital camera and an interest in spirit beings can learn to photograph the vast variety of life-forms that inhabit our space with us. The New Frontier demonstrates how to journey through the remarkable dimensional worlds to photograph and interact with spirit orbs, nature spirits, light beings, UFOs and extraterrestrials.
Author Cedar Rivers' extraordinary photographs of nature spirits - including gnomes, elves and fairies - prove beyond doubt that they are real. Her authentic photographs show other fascinating phenomena of the finer vibrational realms and a variety of visitors from these vastly different cultures. Descriptions of her personal journeys accompany the photographs and can open doors to your own discoveries.
The New Frontier includes a guided meditation to deepen your understanding of the subtle realms of nature, and step-by-step techniques on how to photograph spirit beings. To see the photographs in colour please visit www .thenewfrontiermultidimensionality.com |
Chicago ABC: A Larry Gets Lost Book | Discover Chicago from A (The Art Institute of Chicago) to Z (Lincoln Park Zoo), and everything in between! D is for Deep-Dish Pizza, G is for Grant Park, and R is for the Chicago River. Kids will have fun learning about the city as they learn their ABCs. In this companion to the best-selling Larry Gets Lost in Chicago, the dog, Larry, and his owner, Pete, take an alphabetical journey through the Windy City. Attractions that Larry visits in the book include:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Shedd Aquarium
Wrigley Field
The Field Museum of Natural History
Grant Park
John Hancock Center
O'Hare International Airport
Willis Tower
With Larry, the lovable (if easily distracted) pup, as the tour guide and vibrant retro illustrations by creator John Skewes, the Larry Gets Lost series offers fun and family-friendly travelogues to famous cities including New York City; San Francisco; Washington, DC; and Seattle--complete with information on each city's landmarks and cultural attractions. |
The Wizard’s Promise (The Hanna Duology, #1) | All Hanna Euli wants is to become a proper witch.
Unfortunately, she's stuck as an apprentice to a grumpy fisherman. When their boat gets caught up in a mysterious storm and blown wildly off course, Hanna finds herself further away from home than she's ever been before.
As she tries to get back, she learns there may be more to her apprentice master than she realized, especially when a mysterious, beautiful, and very non-human boy begins following her through the ocean, claiming that he needs Hanna's help. |
Awakenings (The Wrath Saga, #1) | One vampire's obsession may spell the undoing of them all.
New Orleans is a place full of culture, history, and a literary atmosphere, which draws people from around the world. Cynthia O'Connor is one of these people. A student by day and a vampire movie buff by night, she never suspected that in the dark of the theater among the dusty curtains was the very thing she salivated over, that as she dreamed of vampires, a vampire dreamed of her.
Ripped from the protective covers of her bed, Cynthia is awakened in another world, a world where the monsters are real, and a threat waits around every corner. For a blood feud long thought ended is about to begin again, and the clan Wrath is all that stands between the secrets of the night and a war that could rip the fabric of human reality asunder. |
Under the Tuscan Sun | Frances Mayer- widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer- opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In sensuous and evocation language, she brings the reader along as she discovers the beauty and simplicity of life in Italy. An accomplished cook and food writer, Mayes also creates dozens of delicious seasonal recipes from her traditional kitchen and simple garden, all of which she includes in her book. Doing for Tuscany what M.F.K Fisher and Peter Mayle did for Provence, Mayes writes about the tastes and pleasures of a foreign country with gusto and passion. A celebration of the extraordinary quality of life in Tuscany, Under the Tuscan Sun is a feast for all the senses. |
The Key/Tone Clusters | The Key and Tone Clusters are two one-act plays by 2009 Man Booker Nominee Joyce Carol Oates. |
Becoming Them (Him Her Them #3) | Josephine Powell has a Grade A man in Pierce. She has a great career as Assistant Professor of Psychology with a chance for a full professorship. Even her friend Luna has found love in Pierce's friend Corbin. So why is her world starting to turn upside down. Her co-worker treats her as if there is a serious joke she isn't getting and Pierce keeps pulling away. Is everything good in her straight A life or is something very dark lurking in the shadows waiting to destroy everything?
Pierce Carver has the most beautiful girlfriend in the world. He would do anything for her, except tell her the truth. He knows that will destroy them and possibly her too. Can he hang on to Josephine or will his past be the cancer that kills all that he loves?
This is the final book in the Him Her Them Series. As with the other books there is hot sex with hot characters...so fair warning! |
Night Whispers Volume II | "Sleight of Hand" by Lauren Dane
Vampire king, Xander Stryker has found his match in human, Lissette Norris. Between the two there's enough chemistry to melt plastic. But Xander's mother, Graciella, has just discovered her husband's unfaithfulness and as the Queen of the Vampires, she's out for blood. And she'll get it by any means. All hell breaks loose as Graciella's murderous intentions threaten to drive a wedge between Lissie and Xander, forcing Lissie to decide it's time to put the vengeful queen in her place.
"Hot Gossip" by Tawny Stokes
Makayla Bradley, a small-time journalist, risks everything, including a chance at love, to get the goods on rich playboy executive Ethan Devane. But once he discovers her deception, will he forgive her, or is she setting herself up for retribution?
"Public Domain" by Bridget Midway
A sexy African-American woman only wants one thing-a lot of sex with no strings attached. Sex in public places is even better! Soon she meets an attractive white man who's willing to play along. But when he wants more, can she stop the charade and take a chance with her heart?
"One Naughty Night" by Devyn Quinn
A one night stand. That's all Cecile wants to relieve a little erotic pressure. Finding her man, she gives into one perfect night of passion. But she quickly discovers Ross Kincade wants more than one night.and he's her new boss. And who says bad girls have all the fun? |
Whispering to Witches | When Joe is traveling to stay with his mother and stepfather for Christmas, little does he imagine the excitement and magical intrigue that awaits him when he falls headfirst into an evil plot to rid England of witches. With great bravery and more than a little help from his half sister, Esme, and a new friend, Twiggy, he has to muster all his courage and ingenuity to solve the riddles surrounding him and save his newfound friends.
A fabulously detailed and richly exciting adventure story that grips the listener in its magical clutches from the very beginning. |
Thirteen Ways of Looking | From the author of the award-winning novel Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic comes an eponymous novella and three stories that range fluidly across time, tenderly exploring the act of writing and the moment of creation when characters come alive on the page; the lifetime consequences that can come from a simple act; and the way our lives play across the world, marking language, image and each other.
Thirteen Ways of Lookingis framed by two author's notes, each dealing with the brutal attack the author suffered last year and strikes at the heart of contemporary issues at home and in Ireland, the author's birth place.
Brilliant in its clarity and deftness, this collection reminds us, again, why Colum McCann is considered among the very best contemporary writers. |
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right | A revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not moderate or transitional, but conservative--and it shaped today's constitutional landscape. It is an "important book...a powerful corrective to the standard narrative of the Burger Court" (The New York Times Book Review).
When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968 he promised to change the Supreme Court. With four appointments to the court, including Warren E. Burger as the chief justice, he did just that. In 1969, the Burger Court succeeded the famously liberal Warren Court, which had significantly expanded civil liberties and was despised by conservatives across the country.
The Burger Court is often described as a "transitional" court between the Warren Court and the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts, a court where little of importance happened. But as this "landmark new book" (The Christian Science Monitor) shows, the Burger Court veered well to the right in such areas as criminal law, race, and corporate power. Authors Graetz and Greenhouse excavate the roots of the most significant Burger Court decisions and in "elegant, illuminating arguments" (The Washington Post) show how their legacy affects us today.
"Timely and engaging" (Richmond Times-Dispatch), The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right draws on the personal papers of the justices as well as other archives to provide "the best kind of legal history: cogent, relevant, and timely" (Publishers Weekly). |
The Trouble with Jesus | Our pluralistic society accepts all... all except Jesus. Joseph Stowell brings to light our need to be undaunted advocates for Jesus in a world that has no tolerance for Him or His followers. How do you reach those who do not have a churched background, or are openly hostile to the good news of Jesus Christ? Would you miss church to go fishing with your colleague at work? What should or would you do when golfing with three non-believing friends, and they want to play for 'prize money'? Joseph Stowell's style is biblical and insightful, but always within reach of today's reader. |
Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1) | A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder....
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, 300 years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end 50 years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone - one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship - tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming. |
Lucky Stiff (Lucky O'Toole #2) | Lucky O'Toole--Head of Customer Relations at The Babylon, premier mega-resort on the Vegas Strip--thinks it's just another night in Las Vegas. A tractor-trailer has spilled its load of a million honeybees, blocking not only the Strip but the entrance to her hotel...the District Attorney for Clark County--apparently the odd man out of a threesome on the twelfth floor--is hiding in the buff in one of the hotel's laundry rooms...and Numbers Neidermeyer--one of Vegas' less-than-savory oddsmakers--is arguing with Las Vegas' ace private investigator, the Beautiful Jeremy Whitlock.
The next day, Lucky discovers Ms. Neidermeyer was tossed into the shark tank at the Mandalay Bay Resort as a snack for the Tiger Shark. When the police show up at the Babylon with a hastily prepared search warrant, applied for by the District Attorney himself, and Jeremy lands in the hot seat, Lucky realizes her previous night was far from routine.
Amid the chaos of fight weekend, the hiring of an eccentric new French chef, and her madam mother's intentions to auction off a young woman's virginity, Lucky is drawn into a deadly game where no one is what they seem, a game that will end only when she discovers who made fish-food out of Numbers Neidermeyer.
Lucky O'Toole and Fabulous Las Vegas--life doesn't get any better. |
The Psychology of Self-Esteem | From the day it was published, The Psychology of Self-Esteem was recognized as a groundbreaking book that shook the foundations of psychoanalysis. Dr. Branden's philosophy broke radically with the mainstream thinking of the time and set a new course for our understanding of ourselves and our deepest natures.The brilliance of this benchmark work shines through today as brightly as when it was published, and its message continues to be of vital importance as we enter the twenty-first century. The Psychology of Self-Esteem redefines the relationship of reason to emotion, the nature of free will, and the powerful impact of self-esteem on motivation, work, friendship, sex, and romantic love. |
The Valiant (City of Legends #2) | After the most vicious villain attack in centuries, Maci Knight is struggling to put the shattered pieces of her life back together. She survived, but barely, and her family will never be the same. The only good thing to come out of the attack is that the Elders have granted her probationary Hero status. Now she's desperate to prove that she has what it takes to shine in the field.
Maci gets her first chance when she's called in to stop an illegal fighting ring where humans are battling to the death. But when she goes toe-to-toe with the fighters, she's shocked to discover that even she can't contain them. The humans are strong--supernaturally so. Maci knows that this is the work of the villain underground and is determined to put an end to it. But how do you fight an enemy who won't show their face?
In the second installment of the City of Legends trilogy, Maci Knight will find out what she's truly made of.
This is a new edition of the previously self-published novel Overpowered. |
A Murder Is Announced | The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m."
A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it. |
Reclaim My Life (Mustang Sally #2) | Sofia Desalvo enters the witness protection program and transforms herself into English professor Elizabeth Stevens. When two women close to Elizabeth are brutally murdered, small-town sheriff Wilson Drake steps in to solve the mystery and instead falls head over heels for the professor. |
Cyberchiefs Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes | People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralized production thrives on weblogs, wikis and free software projects. InCyberchiefs, Mathieu O'Neil focuses on the regulation of these working relationships. He examines the transformation of leadership and expertise in online networks, and the emergence of innovative forms of participatory politics. What are the costs and benefits of alternatives to hierarchical organization? Using case studies of online projects or "tribes" such as the radical Primitivism archive, the Daily Kos political blog, the Debian free software project and Wikipedia, O'Neil shows that leaders must support maximum autonomy for participants and analyses the tensions generated by this distribution of authority. |
Courage and Honour | Courage and Honour is the fifth novel in the bestselling Ultramarines series. |
Training a Tiger: A Father's Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life | An educator, top-ranked college ball player and Green Beret who served in Vietnam, Earl Woods reveals the instruction and training secrets that went into raising a child who might be the greatest golfer ever. His teaching method starts with the simplest swings: Putting, chipping and pitching, and doesn't introduce the full swing until the basics have been mastered. The book includes dozens of games and competitions to make golf fun and interesting, teaches mental toughness and emphasizes skills, posture, balance, set-up and grip. There are also some subtler points for parents to consider: when and how to introduce golf (or any sport) to their child; how to lay the groundwork for open communication; and how to cultivate the right attitude toward competition. Through an intelligent mix of instruction, humor and common sense, Training a Tigerhelps parents everywhere lead their kids to love the game, and to play it with confidence, patience, proficiency and passion. |
Mary and the Marauding Indians: A Mail Order Bride Novel | Mail Order Bride Wanted: 49 year old retiring soldier desires young bride who wants children. Must be very neat and cook a good roast beef and apple pie. Slovenly women need not apply.
Lt. Col. William Lewis has been in the army since he was 15 and entered West Point. Army life is all he's ever known, but a wife is what he wants now. He thinks what would suit him best would be a young wife so he can start a family quickly.
Mary Thompson has cared for children all of her life, as she is the fourth daughter of ten, growing up in rural Arkansas. She loves children, cooking and sewing. Her three older sisters were mail order brides and she thinks it's her time now. William and Mary agree to marry and raise a family, but Lt. Col. Lewis has one more mission to complete.
The Northern Cheyenne have left Ft. Reno in Indian Territory and fled to Kansas to return to their homelands. They don't like the limitations of reservation life and are longing for Montana. The Cheyenne, led by Little Wolf and Dull Knife, sneak out of the reservation and cross over into Kansas. When the Army hears of the escape, they send Lt. Col. Lewis in pursuit.
Mary arrives in Dodge City while Colonel Lewis is on patrol. She refuses to accept that his life may be in danger. Then the unthinkable happens and Mary is alone. Whatever will she do now? |
Veiled Deception (Trust Me, #2) | She had become his prey. His plaything. The one he desired the most, but someone wanted her more.
Her resilience fading, Rebecca fights to remain strong against the man trying to destroy her mind and her life. Without the solace of Eric's arms, Rebecca's will to recover from the relentless blows wanes as she begins to break.
Eric, forced to face his own choices, races to end the nightmare before the woman he loves is completely torn apart.
Just when they think the worst is over, the game, and the stakes change. |
Aggressor Six (The Waisters, #1) | The alien Waister armada came from the center of Orion, light years away. They scoured whole star systems free of human life and moved on to the next target. Millions died as humanity fought back, hundreds of thousands in the Flyswatter operation alone. But now survivor Marine Corporal Kenneth Jonson has a new insight into alien strategy. Would he dare act on it? He might - if he lives... |
The Magnetic Leader: How Irresistible Leaders Attract Employees, Customers, and Profits | Employees don't work for companies; they work for people. The more irresistible you are as a leader, the more pull you have for employees to want to stay and for your customers to remain loyal. In The Magnetic Leader, Roberta Matuson asks us to consider that the quality of a company's leadership is the most important factor in attracting and retaining high-quality employees. Matuson has spent 20 years helping organizations achieve both market leadership and dynamic growth by maximizing the talent they already have, in addition to creating a magnetic environmentthat attracts high-caliber new hires.
Many are searching for a magical formula, but the fact is that the answer lies inside businesses' organizations. Instead of offering crazy perks, companies need to focus on the one perk they can't get anywhere else, which is the opportunity to work with a truly magnetic leader.
The Magnetic Leaderaids readers in transforming their leadership style from push to pull, repel to attract, dismal to good, and then good to great. They'll become magnetic leaders who attract the cream of the crop and ultimately create legions of loyal, talented superstars eager to beat the competition. |
Four Nights With the Duke (Desperate Duchesses by the Numbers, #2) | As a young girl, Emilia Gwendolyn Carrington told the annoying future Duke of Pindar that she would marry any man in the world before him--so years later she is horrified to realize that she has nowhere else to turn.
Evander Septimus Brody has his own reasons for agreeing to Mia's audacious proposal, but there's one thing he won't give his inconvenient wife: himself.
Instead, he offers Mia a devil's bargain...he will spend four nights a year with her. Four nights, and nothing more. And those only when she begs for them.
Which Mia will never do.
Now Vander faces the most crucial challenge of his life: he must seduce his own wife in order to win her heart--and no matter what it takes, this is the one battle he can't afford to lose. |
The Fry Chronicles | Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director and presenter. In January 2010, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards.
Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you and, above all, surprise you.
Unabridged. Read by Stephen Fry. |
Dreaming of Electric Love | A human machine that follows her every order...
Jessais an officer on Lyra, tasked with guarding the space station. She's professional with her Bio-mech partner, following procedure and keeping her lustful thoughts to herself. It's easy enough to do, knowing that the Bio-mech units, or cyborgs, aren't endowed with human reproductive organs.
MCK-397, or "Mack," as Jessa calls him, notices Jessa's arousal after they encounter a couple having a sexual liaison in the E Deck. When he goes to question his Bio-mech technician, Godfrey, he comes away from the meeting with certain upgrades and enhancements. Now his feelings for Jessa are anything but professional.
Soon it becomes clear that their feelings for each other will interfere with their working relationship.
But can a human and a cyborg actually fall in love? |
Liberation's Desire (Robotics Faction, #2) | Second in the Robotics Faction Series, this sexy stand-alone novel sizzles!
Running for her life...
Mercury Sarit Antiata will do anything to protect her family from Robotics Faction assassins, even undergo illegal surgery that leaves her damaged and alone. Now Faction agents know where she hides. And they're coming.
Ultra-logical android assassin Yves|Santiago [y$14n2] uses his flawless features and stunning blue-gold eyes to blend in with the humans he's assigned to destroy. But when a rogue agent severs him from the Faction, stranding him with feelings he can't comprehend, he needs Mercury alive to stop this new threat. Discovering that he needs the soft, supple young woman for other reasons too makes him question everything.
With the entire universe out to end her, it will take every byte of Yves' skill to protect Mercury.
Protect her from the Faction...
Protect her from the rogue...
Protect her from the greatest danger of all...
Himself.
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This book contains language, sex, and violence appropriate for adults. It is a science fiction romance with equal parts science fiction and romance. It will appeal to fans of Linnea Sinclair and Ruby Lionsdrake.
Robotics Faction Series:
1. Liberation's Kiss
2. Liberation's Desire
3. Liberation's Vow (2016) |
Witchblade: Blood Oath | The immortal killer Gilles de Rais has come to New York. But how can Sara Pezzini stop the killing, when the Witchblade itself has sworn an ancient blood oath not to harm him? Eisner-nominated writers Jean-Marc & Randy L'officier tell you in a tale originally created under Top Cow's supervision for French publisher Semic! |
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains | Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographic Society, visited the Rocky Mountains alone during the autumn of 1873. [i]A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains[/i], gives a fascinating description of life in the untamed Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities, having been brutally seized from the Indians.Her intrepid journeys through remote areas are relayed in the form of fluent, achingly beautiful, highly spirited letters written to her sister. They tell of magnificent unspoiled landscapes, of small remote townships, of her encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears and her reactions to the volatile pioneer settlers as they came to terms with their isolation, poverty and difficulties as immigrants in the wake of the Civil War. These letters, first published in 1879, were enormously popular in Bird's own lifetime and remain as wonderfully vivid and powerful as ever.Stanfords Travel Classics feature some of the finest historical travel writing in the English language, with authors hailing from both sides of the Atlantic. |
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | Go to university and get a degree they tell you - it is the key to a successful, happier, wealthier future but before you know it university is behind you and the only job you can get is mind-numbing office admin that you could have mastered at 14...
Welcome to Weblands. There's Kim, who loves being pregnant for the attention, Ruth, who works all hours and clings to old Secret Santa presents and the boss who dresses like someone in a health and safety film and has a personality as blank as a piece of 80gsm A4.
When a young woman finds herself stuck in a mind-numbing job and living with a traffic warden obsessed with the neighbours, she starts to believe there's an apocalypse on the horizon and that she must hatch a dramatic escape plan - before it's too late.
If Girls and Shoplifting from American Apparel are phrenetic dispatches from post-education twenty-something America, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere is a post-feminist report from the kafkaesque state of austerity Britain. A dark, comic and heart-breaking, novel about the road to discovering that life rarely happens as we expect. |
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Stories and Reflections by Not-So-Rugged Rangers | An collection of encounters in the wilds by a group of true-blue game rangers. Anecdotes of perilous meetings with dangerous animals are interspersed with self-deprecatory asides, ruminations on nature - and the foibles of the 'nature tourist'. |
The Endless Fall and Other Weird Fictions | "I love getting lost in the world (Jeffrey Thomas) creates, and can empathize with the difficulties his characters face, because they are just so real. I envy those of you making your first acquaintance with this author." - From the introduction by Matthew Carpenter
Respected as one of today's leading figures of weird fiction for his striking imagination, versatility, and deeply emotional stories, Jeffrey Thomas here offers up fourteen searing tales. Included are the haunting and surreal "Ghosts in Amber," in which a man is compelled to visit a mysterious derelict factory that harbors chilling secrets; "Jar of Mist," which focuses on a father who, in seeking to understand his daughter's suicide, encounters a dream-like other realm; "Those Above," which imagines an alternate Victorian society controlled by vast monstrous entities from beyond; and the title novelette "The Endless Fall," which concerns an astronaut who crash-lands on an unknown forested world where time seems to work in an alien way, and where he finds he is unfortunately not alone.
"With brutal elegance and chilling subtlety, Thomas pulls his readers into his dark visions immediately from every opening line." - Paul Di Filippo, in ASIMOV'S
"Jeffrey Thomas' imagination is as twisted as it is relentless." - F. Paul Wilson
"In time he will, in this reviewer's opinion, be listed alongside King, Barker, Koontz, and McCammon." - Brian Keene |
Smoke and Fire: Part 4 | The breathtaking conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant's Dark Kings e-series!
She knew what it felt like to be kissed by Ryder. How with just a touch he could make the world fade
away, how he could fill her mind with just one thought--him...
Sworn to protect. Driven to desire...Ryder wants Kinsey more than she could possibly know. And all Kinsey knows is that to stay--and feel--alive, she must be with Ryder. But is Kinsey's passion worth the risk of danger that comes with being part of Ryder's dark and fierce world? And what does fate have in store for Ryder if he chooses the love of a mortal woman above all else?
Read all four parts of this sensational e-serial and look for the full volume of Smoke and Fire in April 2016. |
Yellow: Omnibus Edition, Volume 01 | Taki and Goh share just about everything -- their apartment in the city, their job as elite drug snatchers, and even dinner duty. But hot Goh wants to go much deeper undercover with his gorgeous partner. Too bad Taki doesn't swing that way... or does he? If yellow is the warning color, will this team finally end up in-the-red (and in bed)? |
Ice Creams at Carrington's | The third book in the delightful series set in Carrington's Department Store.
Georgie Hart and Carrington's Department Store have got the world at their feet. Since a reality TV series put them both on the map, life has been amazing! Carrington's profits are in the pink, Georgie has carved herself a place in the nation's heart and her romance with Tom, the store's boss, has finally blossomed.
Now summertime has come to Mulberry-on -Sea and Georgie is in great demand. The town is holding a big summer festival and she and her mates from Carrington's are planning on making sure that Mulberry puts on the show of its life!
But Georgie is about to get the offer of a lifetime - one that is just too good to turn down and something that will test her loyalties to their limits... Will Georgie be able to pull off it off once again, or has her luck finally run out? |
Rocks, Paper, Flowers | The clothes may not make the woman, but they certainly help! This is the story of one woman's life-changing journey to overcome grief and loss. It is a testament to a daughter's love for her mother and the unique bond between siblings. Megan O'Malley Moller lost her mother to cancer at age sixteen. One of six siblings, she grew up in a strict Irish Catholic family in Ohio. In adulthood, she and her siblings all settled in different parts of the country. Each year, Megan and her sisters, Helen and Fiona, go on a girls' trip with their dear friend Suson Fuson. Known for her impeccable taste, Megan provides The Collection, an assortment of items from her wardrobe, which all of the women share for the weekend. In the twenty-fifth year after their mother's death, the women visit her grave in Dubuque, Iowa. The purpose of the trip is to find emotional healing and closure after their many years of grief. Megan, especially, carries misplaced guilt and anger, and her sisters insist that this trip is her chance to face her loss and embrace what is left of her own life. The endearing and comical relationship between these four women, and the love they share, proves to be the greatest gift their mother gave them, and they come to find that if you have salt in your life, you can make it through anything. |
Tropical Sin (Bandicoot Cove, #1; Heart of Fame, #0.5) | "It takes more than a rock star to rock your world. Sometimes you need a friend. "
"Bandicoot Cove"
McKenzie Wood is Australia s star gossip mag journalist, and she s just spied the story of a lifetime: rumor-shrouded rock star, Nick Blackthorne who thinks he s incognito at Bandicoot Cove resort. The word is Nick s a sex addict about to come out of the closet, and who better to lure Nick out than her BFF, Aiden Rogers a pulse-poundingly gorgeous firefighter who is always there when she needs him, no matter the challenge.
Aiden admits it s pretty damned pathetic that he can rush into burning buildings, but not have the guts to tell McKenzie he s in love with her. No way can he tell his best friend he d like to do some seriously sinful things to her, especially since she s never shown one iota of sexual interest.
Nick looks forward to some unfamous downtime in his home country. He s surprised to find his creative muse stirred more like brought to rigid attention by a couple so sexy that all he can think about is the three of them. Together.
Three bodies move together as one, and the music becomes a smoldering beat that rivals the island s heat. When the truth inevitably comes out, the heat might be enough to save three souls or end up just another sinner s lament.
Warning: One plus one plus one equals OMG sex, are-you-freaking-kidding-me orgasms and some serious mind-blowing climaxes. " |
Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends | The mouse in the Coke bottle, the promiscuous cheerleader, the exploding Pop Rocks candy, the Kentucky Fried Rat. If the ballad and the fairy tale were the archetypal folklore forms of an earlier age, such contemporary legends constitute the preferred narrative genre of the late twentieth century. In Manufacturing Tales, award-winning folklorist Gary Alan Fine presents a major new theory of the creation and diffusion of contemporary legends in modern society. While ballad and fairy tale arose in folk communities and spread through trade and migration, contemporary legends thrive in societies crosscut by varied communication channels and relatively open networks. By looking at the social-structural background, the performance context, the personality of the teller, and the content of the text, we gain insight into the formation, dissemination, and disappearance of these modern legends. Fine identifies sex and money as key themes in contemporary legends, reflecting the public's disguised attempts to deal with major contemporary preoccupations. From the AIDS crisis to fears of food contamination in restaurants, popular anxieties are reflected in folklore. As dramatic, moving, comic, and involving texts, contemporary legends build relationships among acquaintances and strangers; as depictions of the world that we face every day, they provide perspective on potential challenges; and as shared information, they elaborate a consensual understanding of reality. |
Insight Guide Venezuela | A travel series unlike any other, Insight Guides go beyond the sights and into reality. Their incomparable photojournalistic approach captures the uniqueness of each culture they cover: their traditions, their arts, their history, their lives. The stunning photography is married to compelling text, written by local writers; the people most qualified to convey their culture's "secrets".Yes, Insight Guides will tell you which attractions to visit, but they'll also tell you a whole lot more. From the most popular resort cities to the world's most remote and exotic villages, Insight Guides will give you the insider's perspective you need to truly experience any destination you visit.
Insight Guides serve many purposes. They are ideal for planning a trip. And, they're wonderful souvenirs to treasure for years after. Even the armchair traveler can be swept away by their magnificent content and experience the world from the comfort of home.
Many international and domestic and domestic destinations also offer companion FlexiMaps, an innovative laminated folding map specially designed for the discriminating traveler. |
The Invisible Man | The Invisible Manof the title is "Griffin", a scientist who theorizes that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will not be visible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but begins to become mentally unstable as a result... |
Amongst My Enemies | Inside an old German U-Boat rusting on the bottom of the Baltic are millions in gold bars, stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart. The only one who knows the truth is Mike Randall, a battle-scarred American who survived four months in the frozen Hell of northern Germany at the end of the war. When he does speak up, he puts a target on his own forehead, one which the Russians, the West Germans, the U-boat's former owners, the Israeli Mossad, and even his own government quickly take aim at. Some want the gold, some want him dead, and some want proof about a high-ranking spy inside NATO itself. Randall's wants are much simpler. Caught between the Kremlin and a new, deadly, 4th Reich, he wants revenge and to satisfy some old debts with a steel-jacketed bullet. |
Social Media Monsters: Internet Killers | Craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Chat Rooms....Is every user a potential target?
Stalkers, rapists, murderers... all found new opened doors, and a criminal playground for them through the internet, and the victims are piling up. They use social media to locate, stalk, lure, or exploit their victims.
Murder. Kidnapping. Cannibalism. Suicide. All these themes, among others, can be found in these true stories about various killers who have used the internet to lure out their victims. As you go through the pages of this book, you will find the most shocking lives led by men and women from around the world. Modern ways are used to lure out victims online, through websites such as Craigslist, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, various chat rooms, and others. Yes, every person is a potential target and victim.
The authors also draws on the importance of online privacy, and how people would often share personal information online which could prove to be a dangerous and deadly act.
The stories are written in a way to help you understand the killer better by exposing his or her background and the reason(s) which led him or her to commit their murders. These types of killers are identified as people who are motivated by a psychological factor: some murders are triggered by anger or jealousy, others are just a way to seek attention, and some are merely committed for the thrill of the kill.
Available in eBook | Audiobook | Paperback | Paperback Large Print |
How to Defeat Religion in 10 Easy Steps: A Toolkit for Secular Activists | Do you want the greatest challenges of the day to be addressed with thoughtful, reality-based solutions rather than with cherry-picked quotations from scripture? Do you want to shrink religion--especially fundamentalist religion--to the point that it plays no noticeable role in American public life? Do you want right-wing religious leaders to be so unpopular that politicians avoid them rather than pander to them for endorsements? Drawing on the latest social-scientific research on religion to help interested nonbelievers--and even progressive believers--weaken the influence of fundamentalist religion in society at large, How to Defeat Religion in 10 Easy Stepsillustrates specific, actionable steps we all can take to facilitate fundamentalist religion's decline. It covers topics as far ranging as education, welfare, sex, science, capitalism, and Christmas, and each of the 10 chapters focuses on a specific action that research has shown can weaken religion, detailing why and how, and concluding with specific recommendations for individuals, local groups, and national organizations. |
The Language of Fashion | Roland Barthes, widely regarded as one of the most subtle and perceptive critics of the 20th Century, was particularly fascinated by fashion and clothing. The Language of Fashion brings together all Barthes' untranslated writings on fashion.The Language of Fashion presents a set of remarkable essays, revealing the breadth and insight of Barthes' long engagement with the history of clothes. The essays range from closely argued essays laying down the foundations for a structural and semiological analysis of clothing to a critical analysis of the significance of gemstones and jewellery, from an exploration of how the contrasting styles of Courrges and Chanel replayed the clash between ancient and modern to a discussion of the meaning of hippy style in Morocco, and from the nature of desire to the role of the dandy and colour in fashion.Constantly questioning, always changing, Barthes' ideas about clothes and fashion remain to provoke another generation of readers seeking to understand not only the culture of fashion but the fashion of culture. |
James Joyces Techno Poetics | James Joyce's Techno-Poeticsis on the cutting edge of an original and exciting new trend in Joycean studies, as it combines the study of literature, technology, and communication to reveal James Joyce as 'a key figure in the history of cyberculture.'
Donald Theall examines for the first time how Joyce conceived of the artist as an engineer and the artist's works as constructions, and reveals the importance of Joyce's understanding of the direction of a developing technoculture. Theall explores the interrelationships between the machinic and the processes of encoding, decoding, reading, writing, and interpreting in Joyce's self-reflexive treatment of the book in Finnegans Wake. By situating this project in relation to memory and cultural production, Theall argues that Joyce's radical paramodern poetic practice has important implications for a wide variety of subsequent cultural and theoretical movements: dramatism, poststructuralism, semiology, and hypertextuality. Theall places Joyce in the context of other modern thinkers, such as Benjamin and Bataille, and draws a direct line of influence from Joyce to Marshall McLuhan and Neuromancer author William Gibson.
This is a remarkable and innovative work that makes an important contribution not only to Joycean studies, but to literary theory, modernism, cultural analysis, the history of ideas, and the relationship between literature, science, and technology. |
The Word Exchange | Books, libraries, and newspapers have at last become things of the past. Now handheld Memes allow for constant communication and entertainment. They can even anticipate our needs, dialing the doctor before we know we're sick, or prompting us with words we can't recall. Yet a few dedicated wordsmiths are still laboring on the final print edition of the North American Dictionary of the English Language. But one evening, right before it's released, Anana Johnson finds that the chief editor--her father--has vanished.
In alternating points of view, Anana and her bookish colleague Bart follow their only clue, the word ALICE, down the proverbial rabbit hole, into subterranean passages, the stacks of the Mercantile Library, and secret meetings of an anti-Meme underground resistance, racing closer to the truth about Anana's father's disappearance, and discovering a frightening connection to the growing "word flu" pandemic. |
Red Dragon - White Dragon | Commissioned Investigators Atticus and Lucie Fox are summoned by the bombastic Sir Hugh Lowther to his estate in remote Northumberland to investigate a series of bizarre, grisly deaths. These appear to centre on the delusions of a madman who lives alone at the edge of the moors. Close-by is the long-vanished castle of Sewingshields where local legends say King Arthur still lies in an enchanted sleep, waiting to be awoken at a time of great need.
The killings have all been committed using the Hallows of Arthur, artefacts thought to have been lost in history, and the locals swear that they have seen a ghostly knight in armour roaming the moors for months. But how can that be? This is 1890 and King Arthur died over thirteen-hundred years before.
There are seven artefacts in total, and Atticus and Lucie must find the killer before each is used in turn. To do so, they must journey through the very darkest places of the mind of a madman. |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass | 'Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'
So many readers were to take the advice of the King of Hearts that by the end of the nineteenth century Alice had acquired a pre-eminent and unassailable position in children's literature. Lewis Carroll's use of logic, by which the ordinary is translated into the extraordinary in an entirely plausible way, is delightfully combined with an exceptional knowledge and understanding of the mind of the child. Satire, allusion, and symbolism weave deeper and mysterious meanings, lending a measure of immortality to Carroll's remarkable fantasy.
This edition includes: Introduction, Textual note, Bibliography, Chronology, Explanatory notes.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Roger Lancelyn Green.
With original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. |
Book of the Nine Ides | After spending four years in a juvenile psychiatric facility, Ashley Minden, a sixteen-year-old gender dysphoric, has been released into her family's custody. While the transition to home life and high school would be difficult for any teenager, Ashley has the added burden of being a conduit of Qualkhoikhom, a mad god, who gives her the eyes to see a terrifying, hidden world. Now, Ashley must either find a way to escape Qualkhoikhom and live a normal life, or succumb to her delirium, becoming the mad god's final sacrifice. -- A ninety page novella. |
Franklin's Bad Day | Today Franklin wakes up grumpy. His father discovers the reason for Franklin's crankiness--Otter has moved away and nothing seems right without her. Comforted by a hug from Dad, Franklin cheers up and makes a special present to mail to Otter, who is only a letter or phone call away. Full color. |
Candide and Other Stories | Candideis the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that -- contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss -- all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candidehas become Voltaire's most celebrated work.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) |
Ranger Rick: National Parks! | From the crown jewels such as Yellowstone, Sequoia, and the Grand Canyon, to the many lesser-known but still stunning areas dotting the country, the National Parks have provided generations with enjoyment and wonder. Now, Ranger Rick: National Parks! takes readers on a tour of America s most beautiful protected landscapes. Join Ranger Rick as he leads this cross-country adventure and provides his favorite facts, animals, and plants along the way. Page after page of beautiful photography and fascinating information bring the most unique features of the National Parks to life. Inside you ll also find Ranger Rick s favorite things to do in each park, like sledding down the mighty sand dunes in Great Sand Dunes National Park or exploring the bat-filled caves of Carlsbad Caverns. With Ranger Rick as your trusted guide, there is no better way to experience the National Parks other than being there! Expertly researched, chock full of fun facts, and filled with gorgeous, full-color photography, Ranger Rick: National Parks! is sure to delight and inspire any young explorer!" |
They Got It Wrong: History: All the Facts that Turned Out to be Myths | They Got It Wrong: Historyexposes historical fallacies around the globe from the Roman Empire to World War II. There are countless twisted, sanitized tales that have become entrenched in popular belief but are really now more than warped reflections of the truth—or flat out lies. Author Emma Marriot shines a light on these murky corners of history to separate out the facts from shadowy fictions and illuminate how and why these falsehoods got passed around as truths. |
Blood Money (Joe Dillard #6) | In the sixth volume of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard does something he has never done before -- he hires a young associate. Her name is Charleston Story, she is bright and beautiful, and in her very first case, she winds up inheriting an item so valuable that it threatens to destroy her and everything she cares about. As Dillard tries to help and advise his young protege, he finds himself dragged into a web of danger and intrigue, a web so thick that he may never be able to extract himself. |
The Imagined Field | Poetry. Some poems are cast, some are scattered, some are written, some are crafted, some are teased out and some emerge as if by magic. The poems in Sean Patrick Hill's collection THE IMAGINED FIELD can best be described as wrought, with all the blisters, callouses, sweat, smoke, and force the word carries with it. If you're looking to feel that thunk in the solar plexus you get when you see a hawk dive, tumble, tussle, and take flight with a field mouse in its claws, this is the book for you. |
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015-) #11 | This special one-off issue promises two amazing things: SUPER HEROICS and COMPUTER SCIENCE. Yes! By the end of this issue, you will know both how Squirrel Girl can take down COUNT NEFARIA and also a few really fundamental concepts in computer science! Have we found a way to express CS concepts through the medium of super hero fights? YOU'LL HAVE TO ORDER THE ISSUE TO FIND OUT! But yeah, we totally did. Featuring all the greatest Squirrel Girl tropes you love! Including fights, jokes and COLD, HARD LOGIC |
Tentacles Longer Than Night: Horror of Philosophy Vol. 3 | Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for being in the vast cosmos. This is the terrain of the horror genre. Eugene Thacker explores this situation in Tentacles Longer Than Night. Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Thacker considers the relationship between philosophy and the horror genre. But instead of taking fiction as the mere illustration of ideas, Thacker reads horror stories as if they themselves were works of philosophy, driven by a speculative urge to question human knowledge and the human-centric view of the world, ultimately leading to the limit of the human - thought undermining itself, in thought. Tentacles Longer Than Night is the third volume of the "horror of philosophy" trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the second volume, Starry Speculative Corpse. The cover of the first volume In the Dust of this Planet can be seen in a New York gallery, on a banner at the 2014 Climate Change march in New York and on Jay-Z s back promoting Run. This book influenced the writers of the US TV series True Detective and has been lambasted by ex-Fox News broadcaster, Glenn Beck in this podcast https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IW8OK4_1gQ" |
Yor's Revenge: Sequel to Captains Outrageous | Teaming up with companions Trebor and Dword, the intrepid Captain Yor goes undercover to gain revenge against the beautiful witch Lady Katherine Lee, in a rollicking adventure that leads them to the salons of Castle Fairfax. Original. 35,000 first printing. |
Joining His Alpha's Pack (Rogue Wolfhounds, #9) | Emery Jones, a former hunter, wants to be part of the pack and to be with his mate, Griffin, an alpha wolfhound and the love of his life. To do that, he needs to live as a normal member of the pack and prove that he can be trusted.
Griffin loves his mate. He will do whatever it takes to keep him safe within the lodge and see to it that he gets a second chance. However, when traps are discovered on the territory after a trip outside the lodge, Emery is blamed and taken into another hearing. Griffin won't have his mate abused, but thankfully the truth comes out when another hunter is captured and Emery is needed to talk to him and calm him down.
Unfortunately, another attack is on its way and when Emery gets pulled into it, he and Griffin won't come out of the wreckage the same as when they went in. |
Slave Songs of the United States | First published in 1867, this landmark book represented the first systematic effort to collect and preserve the songs sung by the plantation slaves of the Old South. To ensure authenticity, the editors notated most of the melodies and words directly from the singers themselves. The result was a rare musical treasury containing complete music and lyrics for over 130 songs, arranged by geographical region.
Among them are: Roll, Jordan, Roll; Jehovah, Hallelujah; I hear from Heaven to-day; Michael, row the boat ashore; Turn sinner, turn O; Nobody knows the trouble I've had; No Man can hinder me; Heave away; Charleston Gals; I'm gwine to Alabamy; I want to die like-a Lazarus die; Belle Layotte; On to Glory Jacob's Ladder; My Father, how long?; Musieu Bainjo; Lean on the Lord's side; God got plenty o' room.
The book presents the melody lone and all the known verses to each song. The editors also include directions for singing, along with a commentary on each song's history, its possible variations, what some of its key references mean and other pertinent details. A new preface to the Dover edition by Harold Courlander appraises the book's importance in American musical and cultural history. |
The Pillars of the World (Tir Alainn, #1) | Myth and magic combine in a superb dark fantasy of a world in danger of being destroyed by those who deny themselves and their heritage, and let evil loose in the world.
In Sylvalan, a witch hunt is in full force. As witches and innocents are brutally murdered, magic is disappearing from the land, and the roads between the world of humans and that of faeries are vanishing one by one. Ari's family has tended one of the Old Places, places which hold the key to travel between human and faery lands, for generations, keeping the magic alive and the land lush and fertile. Ari unknowingly takes a Fae lover, the Lord of the Sun, and immediately becomes the target of the unwanted interest of the faery nobility.
To save their world the Fae must trust humankind, but with a few exceptions they do not believe Ari and her friends can help them. Against the Inquisitor and the arrogant Fae, Ari and those who believe in the world of magic and human unravel the secrets of the Old Places and discover that they all need each other if any are to survive.
This is a story which uses all the myriad stories of humankind, good and evil, to weave a breathtaking tale of action, romance and thought-provoking themes to enthrall readers. |
Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime (Junie B. Jones, #14) | The world's funniest kindergartner is back in her 14th book just in time for Valentine's Day! When the children in Room Nine exchange valentine cards, Junie B. gets something she never expected -- a mushy, gushy "valentime" from an unknown admirer! But who can the secret suitor be? |
Snow Falling on Bluegrass (Bluegrass, #3) | Parks and Recreation meets The Blue Collar Comedy Tour in this third \book in Molly Harper's Bluegrass series of contemporary romances: A love triangle of colleagues heats up the winter lodge where they get snowed in for a week. Kentucky Tourism Commission employee and executive assistant extraordinaire Kelsey is known around the office for having everything under control. So it's not surprising that she and her boss, Sadie, have everything planned to the second for the office winter retreat. But there are things even Kelsey can't micromanage. An unprecedented snowstorm smothers half of Kentucky and knocks out the power, closes the roads, and generally shuts down the state. Luckily, the lodge has working fireplaces and enough food to keep the staff from turning on each other like something out of The Shining.
Kelsey wouldn't mind being stuck inside if it wasn't for the tension with her not-so-secret crush, Charlie, the office's statistician. But handsome Ranger Luke, the lodge's only employee on hand, is there to take Kelsey's mind off her discomfort. Even though this weekend is supposed to be a planning session for KTC, Kelsey can't help her mind from wandering and finds herself conflicted over Luke and Charlie. Someone's love will keep her warm, but whose will it be?
(c)2014 Molly Harper White (P)2014 Audible Inc. |
The Magehound (Forgotten Realms: Counselors & Kings, #1) | Some are born with magic.
Some without.
Matteo, un-magical counselor to the mighty of Halruaa, has devoted his life to the truth -- until he finds that he may have a hidden spark of magic after all. Now, with only a street waif for a companion, he's on the run from the mysterious Cabal. In the dismal Swamp of Akhlaur, Matteo will seek his own truth while battling a creature out of his nightmares.
But something even worse is on his trail: a relentless persecutor of magic. The Magehound. |
The Chessboard of Mars | Three stories from Pulp Fiction Master Eando Binder:
The Ring Bonanza (1947) - Honest prospectors like Timken may some day comb relics from Saturn's rings, but will there be rats like Larsoe?
Teacher From Mars (1941) - The Old Professor From the Crimson Planet Feared Earth's Savagery-- Until Humanity Taught Him a Profound Secret!
The Chessboard of Mars (1937) - Professor Thode Combs the Entire Ether Spectrum in Search of the Elusive Psycho-wave--and Discovers a World Saturated with Vibrations of Hate!
Chapter I - The Great Change
Chapter II - Mass Psychology
Chapter III - The Sphere in Space
Chapter IV - The Voice from the Ether
Chapter V - The Chessboard of Mars
Binder considered Teacher From Mars to be his best short story.
Complete with all of the original illustrations. |
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures | From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media.
Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventorinterweaves Muybridge's quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity. |
تمهیدات: مقدمه ای برای هر مابعدالطبیعه آینده که به عنوان یک علم عرضه شود | Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a shorter work by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, published two years after the Critique of Pure Reason's 1st edition.
Prolegomena contains an overview & defense of the Critique's main conclusions, sometimes by arguments Kant hadn't used in the Critique. He characterizes his more accessible approach here as analytic, as opposed to the Critique's synthetic examination of successive faculties of the mind & their principles.
The book is also a polemic. Kant was disappointed by the Critique of Pure Reason's poor reception. Here he emphasizes the importance of its critical project for the very existence of metaphysics as a science. The appendix contains a rebuttal to an unfavorable review of the Critique.
In the standard Akademie edition of Kant's works, Prolegomena takes up part of Volume V. |
Quick Fixes with Mixes: Fast Cooking with Bagged, Bottled & Frozen Ingredients | Over 150 recipes call for stirring a few simple ingredients into pre-packaged fresh, bagged, or bottled ingredients - or quick mixes and other convenience products - to make homestyle recipes without starting from scratch. The speed scratch philosophy delivers each recipe with a combination of flavour, quality and convenience. |
The Pirate and The Three Cutters (Two Best-Seller Novels) | From the Father of Modern Nautical Fiction The Pirate and The Three Cutters were produced in 1836, and are almost always published together. Both delightful, light-hearted, books, it's as though Marryat wanted to serve us a few appetizers before he got to his literary masterpiece, Snarleyyow, which was published the following year. The Pirate is about two brothers-twins-who are separated in childhood. One becomes a pirate, the other a naval officer. Eventually the one renounces the pirate life, and meets up with his twin. The good news is that, together, they go off in search of the pirates. The bad news is that they find them. The Three Cutters is one of the first, if not the first, nautical fiction story based on yachting. A nobleman attempts to assist a revenue boat in the apprehension of a smuggler. Instead, the smuggler commandeers the yacht, and assumes the yachtsman's identity. With that as a cover, can he now continue his smuggling mission? If so, what's he supposed to do about the woman he finds aboard the yacht? These are two short but very entertaining stories. |
Sweet Tooth, Vol. 3: Animal Armies | A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, SWEET TOOTH tells the story of Gus, a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid children, has been raised in isolation following an inexplicable pandemic that struck a decade earlier. Now, with the death of his father he's left to fend for himself . . . until he meets a hulking drifter named Jepperd who promises to help him. Jepperd and Gus set out on a post-apocalyptic journey into the devastated American landscape to find 'The Preserve', a refuge for hybrids.In this third volume, Jeppard begins to form an army to topple the militia camp so he can rescue Gus and the other hybrid kids. But will he arrive too late to save anyone? |
Sorrows Multiplied | Laura Shaw is a single, pregnant, nineteen-year-old college student in the South in 1969. Under the influence of her image-obsessed mother she makes a decision that will shape the course of not only her own, but many other lives. Thea Tait is the young daughter of a physician willing to risk everything, including his family, for what he believes. When faced with a devastating loss, Thea begins her struggle with her fatheras profession, her motheras choices, and the path her own life takes. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, Roe vs. Wade, and civil unrest, the lives of these two women spiral dangerously close to one another. And when they finally converge, the relationships each has formed are put to the ultimate test. Sorrows Multiplied is a story of love, friendship, and family that tackles one of the most socially relevant and controversial topics of our time: abortion. |
Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16) | As a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard. Days later, a body washes ashore.Identified as a high value terrorism suspect (who had disappeared three years prior), his name sends panic through the Central Intelligence Agency.
Where was he headed? What was he planning? And could he be connected to the "spectacular attack" they have been fearing all summer?
In a race against time, the CIA taps an unorthodox source to get answers: Navy SEAL turned covert counterterrorism operative, Scot Harvath.
Hired on a black contract, Harvath will provide the deniability the United States needs, while he breaks every rule along the way.
Packed with pulse-pounding action, fascinating characters, and electrifying intrigue, Brad Thor does it again and proves why he is known around-the-world as the "Master of Thrillers." |
Settling the Score (CalPac Crew, #4) | Stuart Cochrane and Philip Sundstrom make an unlikely pair. Philip's brother, Brad, can't imagine his brother with another man, let alone with the coxswain he razzed throughout his college rowing career. But somehow they settle into a relationship that works as Philip helps Stuart navigate the pressures of deciding between medical school and competing for a spot on the national rowing team. In turn, Stuart helps Philip with his problems at work, where he's faced with a rebellious board of directors.
Yet soon enough, the pressures take their toll. Stuart comes to resent the easy way Philip spends money, while Philip worries about Stuart's time commitments. He'll do anything to come to the rescue, including spending his money to grease the rails for Stuart, but Stuart resents the rich so much it drives a wedge between them.
Then Stuart finds himself facing the greatest crisis of his life. There's only one person he can turn to--but Philip has his own demons to battle in the form of his board trying to frame him for their own unethical actions. Will Philip be able to aid Stuart while he extricates himself from his board's trap, or will his divided attention cost them both everything that matters? |
Mr. Midnight (Midnight, #1) | Given up for adoption just hours after her birth, thirty-year-old Caitlyn Connelly has longed her entire life to uncover her family history. Subject to bizarre and inexplicable visions, Cait is desperate to learn whether her biological mother can provide any insight as to the origin of her unusual ability. When a local investigator learns Cait was born in a Boston suburb, the Tampa lawyer wastes no time booking a flight to the East Coast. In Boston, with the city under siege by a killer known as "Mr. Midnight," Cait's visions intensify, morphing from merely annoying to graphic and terrifying. Worse, Cait begins to realize she shares a strange psychic connection with the depraved sociopath. A connection that may just get her killed. As Cait and the murderer are drawn inexorably toward a violent confrontation, unraveling a decades-old mystery might be the only thing that prevents her from becoming the next victim...of Mr. Midnight. |
Buddy Carruthers, Wide Receiver (First and Ten #2) | Known for his record-breaking stats and womanizing ways, wide receiver, Buddy Carruthers, would give it all up for one chance to win the only woman he ever wanted, Emmy Meacham. Hard-won games, and traveling half the season kept Buddy from pursuing his secret passion. Even if he managed to corner her for a moment, would she still care?
Now a rock star known as Emerald, Emmy lived her life on the road with no time for love. In her dreams, she longed to turn back the clock and spend another night with Buddy. But lies and deceit had kept them apart for five years. Would a chance meeting wash away those years or cause old wounds to resurface? Could two lives traveling in opposite directions make room for love or would they continue to spin, out of sync, and always alone? |
The Billionaire Dating Game: A Romance Novel | What would you do to win?
Okay, so look: I'm not into reality TV. I don't know who Piers Letocci is, or why every girl in America is head over heels for him. I only know that I have to interview Piers about his new show, The Billionaire Dating Game. Fifteen minutes of journalistic duty, and I'm out of there.
Or so I thought.
Piers isn't just some random celebrity. He's the guy I kissed at the coffeeshop last night. Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome, who wouldn't tell me his real name when he set my whole body on fire with just one kiss. I never thought I'd see him again, but... there he is, sitting across from me, with that same charming glint in his eye.
I've never believed in soulmates. Piers might just prove me wrong.
Now, I'm not just interviewing him about his show... somehow, I'm on it. And it's up to me to prove that I have what it takes to date a billionaire. If I lose, I may never see Piers again. And if I win...
Oh, God. What if I win? |
Atlantis: Ancient Legacy, Hidden Prophecy | "Plato's account contains precise references to the catastrophic global flooding that followed the end of the last ice age and peaked at the exact date he gives for the drowning of Atlantis. The occult traditions of Atlantis tell a radically different story, a story of technology run wild amid a desperate struggle for the soul of a dying civilization . . . "
The Ultimate Question
The legend of Atlantis--a lost civilization drowned beneath the waters of the Atlantic Ocean--has inspired controversy for more than two thousand years, and remains a hot topic even today.
Join occult historian John Michael Greer on a journey through time in search of one of the great mysteries of the past. Starting with the original versions of the Atlantis story in the dialogues of Plato, Greer tracks the Atlantis myth from the hidden lodges of occult secret societies, through the freewheeling debates of the alternative history scene, to the latest scientific discoveries about the prehistoric past.
In light of newspaper headlines about global warming and the future of industrial society, Greer poses the ultimate question--is the legend of Atlantis a legacy of the distant past, or a prophecy of our own future?
Atlantisincludes practical lessons in scrying (remote viewing) as well as a call to action for "seedbearers" -- individuals who will help preserve the cultural, scientific, and practical legacies of the past and present through the coming planetary changes. |
The Lonely Wolves Club | Zoe is left to fend for herself after her parents are brutally murdered by another wolf. She struggles to navigate the world around her as a young alpha wolf with no pack, and with no interest in the human world. Events lead to a chance encounter with a mysterious human that she saves and everything changes. |
A Beauty So Rare (Belmont Mansion, #2) | From the USA Today bestselling author of To Whisper Her Name and A Lasting Impression comes a moving historical novel about a bold young woman drawn to a group of people forgotten by Nashville society--and to the one man with whom she has no business falling in love.
Eleanor Braddock, a spinster--plain, practical, no stunning Southern beauty--has long since dismissed any hope of marriage. But when a dying soldier whispers his final words, she believes her life can still have meaning and determines to find his widow. But this compassionate deed takes a harsh turn, and Eleanor finds herself dependent upon the richest woman in America and the most despised woman in Nashville--her aunt, Adelicia Acklen, mistress of Belmont Mansion. A clandestine act of kindness leads Eleanor to an unlikely path for her life--building a home for destitute widows and children from the Civil War. And while Eleanor knows her own heart, she also knows her aunt will never approve.
Gerhard Marcus Gottfried, Archduke of the House of Habsburg and fourth in line to the Austrian throne, arrives in Nashville in search of a life he determines, instead of one determined for him. Collaborating with botanist Luther Burbank, Marcus seeks to combine his own passion for nature with his expertise in architecture. But his plans to incorporate natural beauty into the design of the widow's and children's home run contrary to the wishes of practical, frugal Eleanor, who sees his ideas as costly nonsense.
Yet as the construction project continues, Marcus and Eleanor find common ground--and a love neither of them expected. But Marcus is not the man Adelicia has chosen for Eleanor to marry, and even if he were, someone who knows Marcus's secrets is about to reveal them all. |
Clue: The musical | Musical comedy
Book by Peter DePietro. Music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci. Lyrics by Tom Chiodo. Based on the Parker Brothers' Board Game.
Characters: 5male, 3female
Unit set.
The internationally popular game is now a fun filled musical which brings the world's best know suspects to life and invites the audience to help solve the mystery: who killed Mr. Boddy, in what room and with what weapon. The audience receives forms to help them deduce the solution from clues given throughout the fun filled evening. Three audience members choose from cards representing the potential murderers, weapons and rooms; there are 216 possible solutions Only one hard nosed female detective is qualified to unravel the merry mayhem. Comic antics, witty lyrics and a beguiling score carry the investigation from room to room. Even after the culprit confesses, a surprise twist delights the audience. |
Troll Cries (Troll, #2) | Abby thought that after magically escaping the world of bewitching trolls and killer knights her life could go back to normal. Too bad Michael, her stepbrother, has returned from his time underground with more than just terrifying memories; something is happening to him, he's changing...
Could the person who holds the key to helping him be Abby's wicked cousin turned troll queen, Sofia? Making a bargain with her could bring on a hefty price. Or is the answer with Wilhelm, Abagail's first kiss who she betrayed to a death sentence in order to save her school?
For Wilhelm, all seems lost as he waits, plotting and hoping to escape the knights. But are they unknowingly revealing a mystery to him? One that would lead him back to a new weapon, and the girl whose kiss changed everything...
The secret kingdom of the trolls, and those that hunt them, is about to get a lot more deadly. |
The Thing About the Truth | In this humorous love story from the author of Two-Way Street, an unlikely romance is the best sort of surprise--but the wrong secret can ruin everything. Kelsey's not going to let one mistake ruin her life. Sure, she got kicked out of prep school and all her old friends are shutting her out. But Kelsey's focused on her future, and she's determined to get back on track at Concordia High.
Isaac's been kicked out of more schools than he can count. Since his father's a state senator, Isaac's life is under constant scrutiny--but Concordia High's his last stop before boarding school, so Isaac's hoping to fly under the radar and try to stay put for a change.
When Kelsey and Isaac meet, it's anything but love at first sight. She thinks he's an entitled brat, and he thinks she's a stuck-up snob. So it surprises them both when they start to fall for each other. Kelsey's happy for the first time in months, and Isaac's never felt this way about anyone before... But nothing's ever completely perfect. Everyone has secrets, and Isaac and Kelsey are no exceptions. These two may have fallen hard, but there's one thing that can ruin it all: the truth. |
Jewish as a Second Language | Now bigger, better, and with more guilt: a completely revised, updated, and expanded second edition (would it hurt to have a little more?) of Jewish as a Second Language, the hilarious field guide to Jewish language and culture.
Written to help her Gentile husband and others like him who fall for believing a Jewish mother-in-law when she says, "Don't bother driving me, I'll take a cab," Jewish as a Second Languageshows how to be one of the family--how to worry, how to interrupt, how to change your hotel room. It's not Yiddish. Though non-Jews can endear themselves by learning how to mis-use words like schmendrickand schmatta--providing both laughs and confirmation of Jewish superiority--this Jewish language is about the complex twists and somersaults of everyday speech, of unexpected nuances, hidden meanings, and swampy thickets of behavior, of wins, losses, and draws in competitions you never knew you entered. It's about the most common OAQs (obsessive anal questions): "This mole looks okay, doesn't it?" "Can Saltines go bad?" "They'll de-ice the wings before takeoff, right?" The Four Basic Shrugs. Acronyms never to use again: NASCAR, STD, and MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, the potentially deadly skin virus that's spread by contact, and also by talking about it casually). The things non-Jews do for fun and what Jews do: Contra dance/Contradict, Read the comics/Read the obituaries, Get your boobs done/Get your taxes done. Stuff never found in a Jewish home (trout flies, a lineoleum knife, a Lay-Z-Boy, a rottweiler) or mouth (Miracle Whip, marshmallow fluff, Bud).
So you'll sit, you'll read, you'll laugh until you're nauseous. It's a nice book. |