 | The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It's Behind Me
Release Date: May 17, 2011 Follow one woman's bumpy, cellulite-riddled ride through size-0 Hollywood and learn how she went from body-dysmorphic to sassy-asstastic in only twenty-five short years of dieting, thousands of dollars in "procedures,". . . and one pair of industrial-strength Spanx. From the best girlfriend you didn't know you had comes this "I Can't Believe She Said That" guide to life in the real world. Actress and comic Lisa Ann Walter dishes about parenthood and the dangers of girl-on-girl snarking, explains why skinny actresses act crazy, and gives riotous advice on everythi...
 |  | Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (Sun Tracks)
Publication Date: March 1, 1995| Series: Sun Tracks (Book 32) The annual seasons and rhythms of the desert are a dance of clouds, wind, rain, and flood—water in it roles from bringer of food to destroyer of life. The critical importance of weather and climate to native desert peoples is reflected with grace and power in this personal collection of poems, the first written creative work by an individual in O'odham and a landmark in Native American literature. Poet Ofelia Zepeda centers these poems on her own experiences growing up in a Tohono O'odham family, where desert climate profound...
|  | Mothers and Daughters: Celebrating the Gift of Love with 12 New Stories
Release Date: March 1, 1998Mothers and daughters share a kinship so close that looking at each other is often like gazing into a mirror. Now famous mothers and their daughters merge their imaginations and talents and share the richness of the heart in this extraordinary short-story collection that celebrates the joys of motherhood and family.Collaborating for the first time with their daughters on works of fiction, twelve of today's most acclaimed female authors have crafted original short stories, punctuated by wit and wisdom, poignancy and humor, exclusively for this volume. Each story i...
|  | Christmas Program Builder No. 56: Creative Resources for Program Directors
Release Date: December 1, 2003| Series: Christmas Program Builder (Book 56) (Lillenas Publications). Volume 56 is great for use in worship services, programs and Sunday School during the Advent season. This volume contains graded recitations, a puppet play, short sketches for youth, a monologue on Mary, and sketches and short plays for all ages, including several multigenerational plays. ...
|  | Firmin (Seix Barral Biblioteca Formentor) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 10, 2009| Series: Seix Barral Biblioteca Formentor Un relato de humor negro sobre el exilio de una rata, un amor no correspondido y el poder de la literatura. Nacido en una pequena libreria en un decadente barrio de Boston, Firmin aprende a leer digiriendo su nido hecho de un libro cortado a tiras. Pero rapidamente comprende que una rata culta es una rata solitaria. Marginada de su familia, busca la amistad de su heroe, el librero, y de un escritor de ciencia ficcion fracasado. A traves de una serie de desventuras, Firmin es presa de su propiaalma creativa, un lug...
|  | The Book of Dahlia: A Novel
Publication Date: March 11, 2008From the author of the critically acclaimed story collection How This Night Is Different comes a dark, arresting, fearlessly funny story of one young woman's terminal illness. In The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert walks a dazzling line between gravitas and irreverence, mining an exhilarating blend of skepticism and curiosity, compassion and candor, high and low culture. Meet Dahlia Finger: twenty-nine, depressed, whip-smart, occasionally affable, bracingly honest, resolutely single, and perennially unemployed. She spends her days stoned in front of the TV, watch...
|  | Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance
Publication Date: December 5, 2007Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleSweeping across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern ecological and epistemological anxieties were conjoined twins. Urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, revived Skepticism, empirical science, and optical technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself in the seventeenth century. Literary and visual arts explored the resulting cultural wounds, expressing the pain and proposing some ingenious cur...
|  | Terminal Neglect (Volume 1)
Publication Date: August 14, 2012In TERMINAL NEGLECT, it's never a question of whether the HEALTH CLUB will kill. It's only a matter of whether ANYONE is willing to risk sacrificing THEIR own life to dare to stop them! A pharmaceutical "whistleblower" is murdered. Within hours, Health Commissioner, Dr. Jonathan Rogers is shot after interviewing with the President of the United States for the position of Surgeon General. Rogers awakens from surgery with a shocking medical finding and soon discovers that he's been targeted by a sinister cult known, inexplicably, as The Health Club. Who will be...
|  | Over Tumbled Graves: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: August 18, 2009| Series: P.S.During a routine drug bust, on a narrow bridge over white-water falls in the center of town, Spokane detective Caroline Mabry finds herself face-to-face with a brutal murderer. Within hours, the body of a young prostitute is found on the riverbank nearby. What follows confronts our fascination with pathology and murder and stares it down, as Caroline and her cynical partner, Alan Dupree—thrown headlong into the search for a serial murderer who communicates by killing women—uncover some hard truths about their profession . . . and each ot...
|  | Tracker
Release Date: June 26, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up For John Borne's family, hunting has nothing to do with sport or manliness. It's a matter of survival. Every fall John and his grandfather go off into the woods to shoot the deer that puts meat on the table over the long Minnesota winter. But this year John's grandfather is dying, and John must hunt alone. John tracks a doe for two days, but as he closes in on his prey, he realizes he cannot shoot her. For John, the hunt is no longer about killing, but about life. ...
|  | Tinker Bell y el Tesoro Perdido (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Transformers: Sam's New Car
Release Date: May 22, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Crazy Cats
Release Date: April 21, 2009| Age Level: 2 and up Crazy Cats is catnip for kids and feline fun in board book form. It has amazing fun and silly cat photography, and supercool touch-and-feel features, including textures, flip-a-flaps, and more.Kids can pet soft, fuzzy fur and make cats do feats of fancy and silly tricks. Unique breeds of cats are featured throughout the book, which incorporates five unique novelty play components--one on each spread.* It's playtime. The inviting and playful graphic design draws kids in with its bright colors and encourages them to play with the cats and kitti...
|  | Freaky Facts about Natural Disasters
Publication Date: April 1, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Earthquake Emergency (Expedition Earth)
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|  | Mesopotamia: Iraq in Ancient Times (Picturing the Past)
Publication Date: July 3, 2004| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Wjec Gcse Hospitality & Catering: A Revision Guide
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|  | Operations Management: Providing Value in Goods and Services
Publication Date: July 22, 1999| ISBN-10: 0030262070 | ISBN-13: 978-0030262074| Edition: 3 Operations Management, Third Edition, is a student-friendly text that consistently covers the most important key concepts and recent trends in production and operations management. This new third edition covers such universal and vital issues as facility, layout, quality control, supply chain management, and scheduling control - providing an excellent tool in preparing students to move from classroom concepts to workplace implementation. ...
|  | The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work
Release Date: July 5, 2011 We've weathered tough times before. History teaches us that periods of "creative destruction," like the Great Depression of the 1930s, also present opportunities to remake our economy and society and to generate whole new eras of economic growth and prosperity. In The Great Reset, bestselling author and economic development expert Richard Florida provides an engaging and sweeping examination of these previous economic epochs, or "resets," while looking toward the future to identify the patterns that will drive the next Great Reset and transform virtually every aspe...
| | Drug testing at work: A guide for employers & employees
Publication Date: 1990The new edition provides reliable, current information on the legal issues and the technology of drug testing in the workplace, and shows step-by-step how to set up a testing program. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
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