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Fifty Key Television Programmes

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Creeber, Glen, PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, This unique study offers a comprehensive and invaluable account of television from the perspective of the programs themselves. From I Love Lucy to The Simpsons, from The Twilight Zone to The X Files, from the moon landing to the events of September 11, the book chronicles some of the most fascinating and influential shows and global events ever to hit the small screen. Each entry will offer a basic guide to the history of the show, its textual and thematic context, and its critical and popular reception, while also explaining and frequently reconsidering ways in which it may have been analyzed in the past.

Lost in Cat Brain Land

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pierce, Cameron, PUBLISHER: Eraserhead Press, Sad stories from a surreal world. A fascist mustache. A desert inside a dead cat. The ghost of Franz Kafka. Primordial entities mourn the death of their child. The desperate serve tea to mysterious creatures. A hopeless romantic falls in love with a pterodactyl. From a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles where robotic gargoyles are law, to a blighted suburbia where the elephant god Ganesh seeks revenge on a man and his android wife, Cat Brain Land is a place of domestic despair and nightmare foreboding. Where sirloin steaks enroll in daycare and ex-lovers return as tiny dolls. This is a land of camel people and the Lord of Meat. The farther into Cat Brain Land you get, the more difficult it will be to get out.

The Rawhiders

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Walker, Jim / Walker, James, PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers, Book 4 in The Wells Fargo Trail. Four sisters are forced to take possession of their father's herd of longhorns and drive them from Texas to Kansas in order to save their ranch.

Canyonlands and Arches

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schneider, Bill, PUBLISHER: Falcon Press Publishing, This handy guide to two of Utah's most geologically unique destinations is designed for visitors who want to explore the backcountry but don't have the time or physical stamina for a lengthy and difficult hike. After hiking every trail in Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, the author selected 21 day hikes, ranked in the book from easiest to hardest. Each hike is on a well-marked, easy-to-follow trail and takes visitors into some of the most scenic sections of the parks.

Chocolate for a Teen's Heart: Unforgettable Stories for

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Allenbaugh, Kay, PUBLISHER: Touchstone Books, AS DELICIOUS AS CHOCOLATE Life offers no experience sweeter -- or more difficult -- than learning to love. And in this exceptionally delicious volume in the bestselling series, Kay Allenbaugh brings us 55 rich, satisfying stories of teen relationships written by teens of every age and by women who remember what it was like. From the unexpected happiness of a first boyfriend to sorting and sifting with Mom and Dad, from the wonderful secrets shared by best friends to the wonderful silliness of playing with a favorite pet, these true stories show what lies at the heart of being a teen. Poignant, funny, sometimes sad but always inspiring, this collection will bring you tears, laughter, and joy.

The Enigma of Arrival

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Naipaul, V. S., PUBLISHER: Pan Macmillan, The story of a writer's singular journey—from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another—this is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.

On Air

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Naqvi, Maniza, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This novel from the author of Mass Transit unfolds over a six-hour period in which the main character, Naz, tells stories to listeners and callers over the radio on a late night talk show slot that she has been offered to fill for just one night. The characters in Naz's stories reflect her own pathologies as she tries to come to terms with her experiences. Each story is built around the theme of a personal crisis but, in the telling of her tales, the underlying state of crisis in society is beautifully captured and imaginatively expressed.

Diary of a Trance Medium

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kruger, Angie / Richard, III Golden, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, Diary of a Trance Medium follows the story of Angie's first meeting with her new and somewhat unorthodox spirit guide Richard and continues with many amusing and spooky adventures as they travel throughout the UK demonstrating trance, running workshops and attending houses that are plagued by disquieted spirits. Stories range from the amusing tale of the ghost hamster, the lusty cavalier and the hanged man of Glastonbury to more spine chilling encounters such as night time visits from negative entities. The book also carries the essential message that no matter how you work spiritually and with which spirit guide that all these interactions are completely natural and that are well within the reach of anyone who wants to follow a spiritual path and to shine their light in this world.

Jakarta: A History

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Abeyasekere, Susan, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This first general history of the magnificent city of Jakarta covers four centuries to show that Jakarta's existence has been a constant clash between dream and reality. It traces the rise of this city from its early origins as a company town, through the Japanese occupation to Sukarno's rule and the era of the New Order goverment, showing how political efforts to create the "jewel of the Indonesian archipelago" have recently torn apart the rich and complex web of ethnic immigrant groups.

Worlds Mystery & Crime 4

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gorman, Edward / Greenberg, Martin Harry / Gorman, Ed, PUBLISHER: Forge, More than words of the best mystery and suspense fiction from around the world The world's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Each year, editors Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg cast their net far and wide, across the seas, throughout the world to catch the best-the most suspenseful, most original, intriguing, confounding, downright entertaining stories of crime and mystery. Edgar winners from the U.S., Silver Dagger winners from the U.K., and stories from elsewhere as well come together here in a bountiful crop of great stories by the best in the business, including Lawrence Block - Jon L. Breen - Stanley Cohen - Bill Crider - Jeffery Deaver - Jeremiah Healy - Clark Howard - Susan Isaacs - John Lutz - Sharyn McCrumb - Ralph McInerny - Anne Perry - Bill Pronzini - Donald E. Westlake and many others. This book's a killer

Tom Trueheart

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Beck, Ian, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Will Tom ever have a story of his own? Tom Trueheart's six older brothers are famous. They go on exciting quests in the Land of Stories to complete tales the Story Bureau assigns them. Tom stays at home with his mother. But when his brothers fail to return from their latest adventures in time for Tom's twelfth birthday, a letter from the Story Bureau arrives... addressed to Tom. Only "he" can venture into the Land of Stories to find out why his brothers haven't completed their missions. Tom packs his bags and kisses his mother good-bye. He's about to discover a tale of his own.... How will it end?

A Study in Scarlet

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Doyle, Arthur Conan / Edwards, Owen / Edwards, Dudley, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, The first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, this was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. In this fascinating and exciting tale, the two towering creations of detective fiction--Holmes, the master of the science of detection, and Watson, his faithful companion--make their auspicious debut. The two detectives are immediately in fine form as Holmes plucks the solution to the mystery from the heart of Victorian London.

Selected Tales

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl / Grimm, Wilhelm / Crick, Joyce, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and princesses, witches and robbers, millers and golden birds, stepmothers and talking frogs. Regarded from their inception either as simple nursery stories or as raw material for the folklorist, the tales were in fact compositions, collected from literate tellers and shaped into a distinctive kind of literature. This new translation mirrors the apparent artlessness of the Grimms, and fully represents the range of less well-known fables, morality tales, and comic stories as well as the classic tales. It takes the stories back to their roots in German Romanticism and includes variant stories and tales that were deemed unsuitable for children. In her fascinating Introduction, Joyce Crick explores their origins, and their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms.

Death Waits at Sundown

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hubbard, L. Ron, PUBLISHER: Galaxy Press, When Lynn Taylor's kid brother, Lee, gets framed for stage robbery, cattle rustling and murder, the boy swears his innocence and instead accuses McCloud, head of the vigilante committee responsible for removing the town's former sheriff. To save Lee from hanging the following night, Lynn hatches a wild plan to rob the next stagecoach with the help of the ex-sheriff--hoping it will raise doubts about Lee's guilt if the crimes continue. But Lynn gets more than he bargained for when he's snared by McCloud's men, and the time to the hanging gallops rapidly his way. ALSO INCLUDES THE WESTERN STORIES "RIDE 'EM COWBOY" AND "THE BOSS OF THE LAZY B"

Luxury Home Designs

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Garlinghouse Company, PUBLISHER: Garlinghouse Company, 300 distinguished designs from the most successful architects and designers in the industry fill the pages of this extensively revised and expanded new edition. From opulent to large and cozy, these homes consider all the options when it comes to luxury. 32 full-color pages at the front of the book highlight 10 magnificent homes with in-depth stories and gorgeous photography. Every plan in this book can be modified to fit the precise requirements of the buyer. Published by The Garlinghouse Co., the nation's first and oldest home plans company.

The Lagoon

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Conrad, Joseph, PUBLISHER: Creative Education, Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer. We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them the individual attention they deserve. Each book in the series has been designed with today's young reader in mind. As the words come to life, students will develop a lasting appreciation for great literature. The humor of Mark Twain...the suspense of Edgar Allan Poe...the danger of Jack London...the sensitivity of Katherine Mansfield. Creative Short Stories has it all and will prove to be a welcome addition to any library.

The Search for the Ancient Novel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tatum, James, PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press, In The Search for the Ancient Novel Tatum brings together a distinguished group of scholars to examine every aspect of ancient Greek and Roman novelists--the recovery of their texts, their reception, ancient and modern, and their place in literary theory and history. The contributors explore subjects ranging from antiquity to the present, from the anonymous authors of Apollonius King of Tyre and The Apochryphal Acts of Peter to Tasso, Cervantes, and Rabelais, from Lucian, Heliodorus, and Petronius to Chrtien de Troye and Samuel Richardson.

The Red Umbrella

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gonzalez, Christina Diaz, PUBLISHER: Yearling Books, "The Red Umbrella" is the moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan--an organized exodus of more than unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution. In , two years after the Communist revolution, Lucia alvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. Her friends feel like strangers. And her family is being watched. As the revolution's impact becomes more oppressive, Lucia's parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States--on their own. Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucia struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life? Will she "ever" see her home or her parents again? And if she does, will she still be the same girl? "The Red Umbrella" is a moving story of country, culture, family, and the true meaning of home. "From the Hardcover edition."

Secret of the Red Arrow

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dixon, Franklin W., PUBLISHER: Aladdin Paperbacks, The Hardy brothers must dismantle a dangerous crime gang in this first book of a fresh approach to a classic series. Teenagers Frank and Joe Hardy are supposedly "retired" from their detective work. But there is a new mystery in Bayport that needs their investigative expertise--and fast Starting with a bank heist, a series of alarming pranks have popped up around Bayport. Ultimately harmless, the pranks turn out to be the work of Seth Diller, an amateur filmmaker who plans to make "zillions" from his reality-horror flick, which he'll use to help out his brother, a wounded Marine. But after the Hardy brothers put a stop to the Panic Project, there is a new outbreak of Seth-like pranks--only these have definite victims. All signs point to evidence of a crime gang in Bayport, and Frank and Joe undertake the most dangerous investigation they've ever encountered. It's up to them to save their town--and themselves--before the Red Arrow gets to them first.

Perrine's Story and Structure

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Arp, Thomas R. / Johnson, Greg, PUBLISHER: Heinle & Heinle Publishers, The fiction section from Laurence Perrineas all-time bestselling introduction to literature, this concise, authoritative text provides a complete overview of the essential elements of fiction, along with a diverse selection of stories to illustrate them. This reliable, well-written classic has introduced thousands of students to the serious study of fiction, yet it remains vital and compelling for todayas readers, presenting the most important and engaging stories available in a single collection. The section on three featured writers, James Joyce, Flannery OaConnor, and Joyce Carol Oates, includes three stories by each author, as well as essays by noted critics on their works.

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Sándor Márai During the summer of , as the senior class at a boy's academy in provincial Hungary prepares for graduation, they live in a ghost town from which all able-bodied men have gone as they confront the reality of war and their own forthcoming

'FATEFUL CHOICES: TEN DECISIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: IAN KERSHAW, PUBLISHER: ALLEN LANE, The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, "Fateful Choices" puts Ian Kershawas analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May to December , the leaders of the worldas six major powers made a series of related decisions that determined the final outcome of World War II and shaped the course of human destiny. As the author examines the connected stories of these profound choices, he restores a sense of drama and contingency to this pivotal moment, producing one of the freshest, most important books on World War II in yearsaone with powerful contemporary relevance.

In the Deep Heart's Core

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Johnston, Michael / Coles, Robert, PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, In , Michael Johnston went to the Mississippi Delta as a member of the Teach For America program in one of the nation's poorest districts. At Greenville High, he confronted a racially divided world in which his students had to struggle against crippling poverty, drug addiction, and gang violence. Johnston reached out to inspire his students with all the means at his disposal -- from the language of the great poets, to the strategies of chess, to the vigor of athletics. Their stories -- heartbreaking and hopeful, harrowing and uplifting -- from the emotional center of this powerful book. Vibrantly alive with the rich atmosphere of the Mississippi Delta, In the Deep Heart's Core is an inspiring and unforgettable story of one young man's experience, and the story of how a new generation of teachers is reaching out to the students whom society has forgotten.

Callsign: Spectre

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Noecker, Jeff, PUBLISHER: iUniverse.com, "Callsign: Spectre" is the true story of a young man from a small town in Pennsylvania who grows up and enlists in the United States Air Force at nineteen. Nearly forty years after the fact, Jeff Noecker recounts his combat flight experiences from the Vietnam War flying in an AC-130 Spectre gunship. The story follows him from his initial air force training to being accepted into an unusual Special Operations unit. What sets this story apart from the others that have been written about Vietnam is the Spectre gunship that Noecker flew in on his missions. While the US Air Force was flying hundreds of F-4s, F-105s, B-52s, OV-10s, O-2s, A-7s in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, there were only fourteen AC-130A Spectre gunships in theater and only one squadron that flew them-Noecker's squadron. There were even fewer than fourteen when the program began in ; the first few flew out of a base in Vietnam. The stories contained here resemble a diary, presenting both personal anecdotes of Noecker's and of stories he heard over the course of his time in service. Some of these may seem a bit farfetched, but Noecker sticks to the facts as much as possible. Unbelievable as some of the stories sound, his tales of his time in the air are unmistakably true.

Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tedlock, Dennis, PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, "" This second edition features three new Zuni stories, updated transcriptions of stories from the original edition, a bibliography, and a new preface and introduction.

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