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Immaturity Encyclopedia

Item No: 66227 Price: $19.95 Over 300 pranks, jokes and gags guarantee delirious giggles and completely immature fun!...

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(07/06/09) Item No: 66227 Price: $19.95 Over 300 pranks, jokes and gags guarantee delirious giggles and completely immature fun! Spiral-bound collection features such adolescent favorites as How To Hang A Spoon From Your Nose, How To Stick A Finger Through Your Head, How To Make A Paper Fortune Teller (remember those?) and Do-It-Yourself Dog Barf! Perfect for kids (and adults who should know better)! Hardcover; 412 pages. Please refer to our Video/DVD/Book and Audio Policy on the Customer Service page.See less

Paper Towns

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(11/08/08) You've qualified: Two-Day shipping on this item is FREE with a free trial of Amazon Prime. Paper Towns and over 190,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle – Amazon’s new wireless reading device. Learn moreSee less

Paper Towns

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(11/08/08) You've qualified: Two-Day shipping on this item is FREE with a free trial of Amazon Prime. Paper Towns and over 190,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle – Amazon’s new wireless reading device. Learn moreSee less

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From School Library Journal Grade 4-7-The "Lucky Seven" make up the sixth-grade in-crowd at Fielding Academy for Girls....

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(11/08/08) From School Library Journal Grade 4-7-The "Lucky Seven" make up the sixth-grade in-crowd at Fielding Academy for Girls. Gray Rosenfeld feels her loss of status within the group since vindictive leader Martha has made her the victim of considerable venom. In chapters told from four characters' perspectives, each narrator reveals her own reasons for staying in the group. Gray wants things to remain the same, competitive Zo' can't help but be swayed by the magnetic Martha, Leticia envies Martha's power but realizes that she can probably stage a successful coup, and Martha thrives on controlling people. The events play out at a slumber party one evening, during which Gray goes off with a mysterious young woman who appears at the back door, and vanishes. After a prolonged search, the police are called in and Martha withholds a crucial piece of information because it adds to her sense of power, a tactic that backfires in the end. The story moves quickly through its tension-filled pages,...See less

The Associated Press Stylebook and...

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The Mojo Collection: The Greatest...

Product Description From the Beatles to the Verve, from Duke Ellington to Bob Marley, from Peggy Lee to Sly Stone, this...

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(11/08/08) Product Description From the Beatles to the Verve, from Duke Ellington to Bob Marley, from Peggy Lee to Sly Stone, this astonishing book presents an authoritative and engaging guide to the history of the pop album via hundreds of long-playing masterpieces, both the much-loved and the little-known.See less

Forever Spoken (Hardcover)

* Hardcover * Publisher: The International Library of Poetry (2007) * Language: English * ASIN: B000TK80P8 * Average...

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(06/10/08) * Hardcover * Publisher: The International Library of Poetry (2007) * Language: English * ASIN: B000TK80P8 * Average Customer Review: (4 customer reviews)See less

Little Women (Signet Classics)

by Louisa May Alcott (Author), Susan Straight (Afterword) "CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled...

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(06/10/08) by Louisa May Alcott (Author), Susan Straight (Afterword) "CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug..." (more)See less

Indigo's Star

Indigo, having just recovered from a bout of mononucleosis, must return to school after missing an entire semester. Only...

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(06/10/08) Indigo, having just recovered from a bout of mononucleosis, must return to school after missing an entire semester. Only his younger sister and loyal sidekick, Rose, knows why he's dreading it so much. As it turns out, the school bullies are eagerly awaiting Indigo's return so that they can pick up where they left off -- flushing his head in the toilet. But Indigo hasn't counted on meeting Tom, an American student who is staying with his grandmother in England for the year. With his couldn't-care-less attitude and rock-and-roll lifestyle, Tom becomes Indigo's ally, and together they work to take back the school. Meanwhile, eight-year-old Rose is desperately trying to avoid wearing horrible glasses, nineteen-year-old Caddy is agonizing over her many suitors, Saffy is working overtime with her best friend, Sarah, to protect Indigo from the gang, and with their father, Bill, in London at his art studio, their mother, Eve, is just trying to stay on top of it all! In this hilarious,...See less

Saffy's Angel

A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark...

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(06/10/08) A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy--jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel. Gemma, 16, has had an unconventional upbringing in India, until the day she foresees her mother's death in a black, swirling vision that turns out to be true. Sent back to England, she is enrolled at Spence, a girls' academy with a mysterious burned-out East Wing. There Gemma is snubbed by powerful Felicity, beautiful Pippa, and even her own dumpy roommate Ann, until she blackmails herself and Ann into the treacherous clique. Gemma is distressed to find that she has been followed from India by Kartik, a beautiful young man who warns her to fight off the visions. Nevertheless, they continue, and one night she is led by a child-spirit to find a diary that reveals the secrets of a mystical Order. The clique soon finds a way to accompany Gemma to the other-world realms...See less

The Book Thief (Readers Circle)

It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a...

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(06/10/08) It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.From the Hardcover edition.See less

Multicultural Manners: Essential...

Both highly informative and entertaining, Multicultural Manners gives readers the understanding they need, the perfect...

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(06/10/08) Both highly informative and entertaining, Multicultural Manners gives readers the understanding they need, the perfect words to say, and the correct behavior to use in a wide range of cross-cultural situations. This incisive and award-winning guide to etiquette features completely updated etiquette guidelines with special emphasis on post–September 11 culture clashes as well as a brand-new section that demystifies unfamiliar cultures in the news. Norine Dresser identifies key cross-cultural hot spots and suggests methods that foster respect for diversity. Readers will discover the dos and don’ts of successful business and social interaction, detailed tips on avoiding embarrassment in a variety of social settings, amusing firsthand accounts of cultural gaffes, a breakdown of customs, religions, languages, and ethnicities for seventy different countries, and appropriate etiquette for innumerable settings.See less

Gossamer

Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our most deeply hidden hopes and our...

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(06/10/08) Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our most deeply hidden hopes and our half-forgotten fears? Drawing on her rich imagination, two-time Newbery winner Lois Lowry confronts these questions and explores the conflicts between the gentle bits and pieces of the past that come to life in dream, and the darker horrors that find their form in nightmare. In a haunting story that tiptoes between reality and imagination, two people—a lonely, sensitive woman and a damaged, angry boy—face their own histories and discover what they can be to one another, renewed by the strength that comes from a tiny, caring creature they will never see.Gossamer is perfect for readers not quite ready for Lois Lowry's Newbery-Award winner The Giver and also for readers interested in dreams, nightmares, spirits and the dream world.See less

Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its...

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(06/10/08) Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed." The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature,...See less

The Essential Writings of Ralph...

The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson...

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(06/10/08) The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar."As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson's essays "the most important work done in prose."See less

The 100 Best Poems of All Time

Verses to move you, lines you'll love, from old favorites to modern classics, here are...THE WORDS WE LIVE BY This...

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(06/10/08) Verses to move you, lines you'll love, from old favorites to modern classics, here are...THE WORDS WE LIVE BY This perfect poetry companion puts your favorite poetry and poets from around the world at your fingertips. By including only the best-loved or best-known work of each poet, this portable treasury offers the opportunity for every reader to revisit the classics.See less

100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift...

Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be...

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(06/10/08) Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.See less

The Raven and Other Favorite Poems...

Features 41 of Poe's most memorable poems — among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror...

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(06/10/08) Features 41 of Poe's most memorable poems — among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado" and "Annabel Lee" — reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe's personality and his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms and figures of speech. Alphabetic lists of titles and first lines.See less

Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift...

Choice collection reflects the poet's mastery of a rich variety of poetic forms and meters. Included is one of his best...

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(06/10/08) Choice collection reflects the poet's mastery of a rich variety of poetic forms and meters. Included is one of his best narrative poems, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," along with such famous works as "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," and "Paul Revere's Ride." Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.See less

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems...

Originally published in 1916 under the title Mountain Interval, this volume contains many of Frost's finest and most...

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(06/10/08) Originally published in 1916 under the title Mountain Interval, this volume contains many of Frost's finest and most moving poems. In addition to the title poem: "An Old Man's Winter Night," "In the Home Stretch," "Meeting and Passing," "Putting in the Seed," "A Time to Talk," many more. All complete and unabridged.See less

Self-Reliance and Other Essays...

The 6 essays and one address in this volume outline the great transcendentalist's moral idealism as well as hinting at...

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(06/10/08) The 6 essays and one address in this volume outline the great transcendentalist's moral idealism as well as hinting at the later scepticism that colored his thought. In addition to the celebrated title essay, the others included here are "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet" and "Experience," plus the well-known and frequently read Harvard Divinity School Address.See less

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I...

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(06/10/08) "I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature. The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it--the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience--was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its...See less

Notes From Underground

This collection showcases Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate. The compelling works presented here were written...

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(06/10/08) This collection showcases Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. Includes: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead.See less

Crime and Punishment (Enriched...

The talented Alex Jennings creates an atmosphere of gripping psychological tension and brings a variety of characters to...

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(06/10/08) The talented Alex Jennings creates an atmosphere of gripping psychological tension and brings a variety of characters to life in this new audio edition of a crime classic. When the student Raskolnikov puts his philosophical theory to the ultimate test of murder, a tragic tale of suffering and redemption unfolds in the dismal setting of the slums of czarist, prerevolutionary St. Petersburg. While Jennings's adept repertoire of British accents works to demonstrate the varying classes of characters, it occasionally distracts the listener from the Russian setting. However, Dostoyevsky's rendering of 18th-century Russia emerges unscathed, bringing the dark pathos (such as wretched poverty and rampant suffering) to life. (Running time: 315 minutes; 4 cassettes) See less

Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin...

Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war...

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(06/10/08) Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. Introduction by Andrew Delbanco Explanatory Commentary by Tom QuirkSee less

Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical...

This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text—the edition textual scholars now consider the most...

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(06/10/08) This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text—the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels, and relevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel. "Criticism" includes fourteen assessments of Gulliver's Travels by the Earl of Orrery, Sir Walter Scott, Pat Rogers, Michael McKen, J.A. Downie, J. Paul Hunter, Laura Brown, Douglas Lane Patey, Dennis Todd, Richard H. Rodino. Irvin Ehrenpreis, Janine Barchas, Claude Rawson, and Howard D. Weinbrot. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included. About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive...See less

Robinson Crusoe (Bantam Classic)

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English...

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(06/10/08) This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who painstakingly teaches himself how to fashion a pot, bake bread, build a canoe; and who, after twenty-four agonizing years of solitude, discovers a human footprint in the sand... Consistently popular since its first publication in 1719, Daniel Defoe's story of human endurance in an exotic, faraway land exerts a timeless appeal. The first important English novel, Robinson Crusoe has taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western civilization.See less

The Swiss Family Robinson (Signet...

With a new introduction by J. Hillis Miller Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four...

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(06/10/08) With a new introduction by J. Hillis Miller Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four young sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island. Thus begins the classic story of survival and adventure that has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812.See less