Fiction Bad
Is it bad to read fiction books?
They say sometimes it’s bad because it keeps you away from reality. If it’s true what do I do?
Some say it’s bad because it keeps you away from reality. I’m scared I might be like Beautiful Mind or something or Don Quijote? Don’t get me wrong I have friends. I read fanfiction.net too. Is it bad?
Too much of anything is not good.
Reading is generally considered a good thing. But if you read so excessively that you neglect homework or other things than you might want to think about how much time you spend doing it.
If you read a lot of fun stuff you might challenge yourself to read 1 literary book for every 5 fun novels you read.
I love to read, so I think you get something from every book you read no matter what it is.
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Stranger Than Fiction $4.79 Bad Religion, one of the last bands you’d expect to join the ranks of major-label rockers, makes the leap from its own Epitaph Records to Atlantic for its eighth album, Stranger Than Fiction. The quintet doesn’t compromise its integrity or its aesthetics, delivering its familiar Ramones-style pop songs at crash-and-burn tempos and continuing to rail against business as usual in corporate Amer… |
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Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack For An Oliver Stone Film $5.33 Another Oliver Stone film hailed by many as some sort of genius. Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor was brought in to helm the soundtrack. He shows a gift for choosing diverse, if somewhat disparate musicians, running the gamut from Patsy Cline to Lard. It’s a nice collection, if a little wanting for a thematic center. Cowboy Junkies’ version of the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane” is simply awesome, … |
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes [Blu-ray] $16.99 Genre: Sci-Fi/FantasyRating: GRelease Date: 4-NOV-2008Media Type: Blu-Ray… |
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The Bodyguard [VHS] $7.87 This 1992 crowd pleaser made almost as much money for Whitney Houston as its chart-busting soundtrack. A high-wattage star vehicle as only Hollywood can make, The Bodyguard stars Houston as a pop-music diva (now there’s a stretch) and Kevin Costner as the stern bodyguard who is assigned to protect her after the singer receives some nasty death threats. Pop star and bodyguard don’t hit it off at fi… |
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Stargate (15th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] $5.99 No description available for this title.Item Type: BLU-RAY DVD MovieItem Rating: PG13Street Date: 10/27/09Wide Screen: yesDirector Cut: noSpecial Edition: noLanguage: ENGLISHForeign Film: noSubtitles: noDubbed: noFull Frame: noRe-Release: noPackaging: Sleeve… |
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The Fifth Element (Remastered) [Blu-ray] $7.99 Ancient curses, all-powerful monsters, shape-changing assassins, scantily-clad stewardesses, laser battles, huge explosions, a perfect woman, a malcontent hero–what more can you ask of a big-budget science fiction movie? Luc Besson’s high-octane film incorporates presidents, rock stars, and cab drivers into its peculiar plot, traversing worlds and encountering some pretty wild aliens. Bruce Willi… |
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The Terminator [Blu-ray] $7.58 James Cameron’s exciting sci-fi actioner stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as an unstoppable cybernetic killer who’s travelled back in time to terminate Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), the woman whose child would someday lead a revolt against the robotic rulers of future Earth. Michael Biehn co-stars as a soldier from the Terminator’s time sent to protect Sarah and save mankind. With Paul Winfield, Lance… |
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Pulp Fiction Bad Mother T-Shirt $19.88 Pulp Fiction Bad Mother T Shirt This is an officially licensed Pulp Fiction t-shirt in which these Pulp Fiction shirts have been screen printed with an official Pulp Fiction image on the front. These Pulp Fiction tshirts are usually made from heavyweight preshrunk 6oz. cotton tee shirt blanks. Check back often for some of our new Pulp Fiction clothing and other Pulp Fiction merchandise at great prices only at – www.StylinOnline.com . |
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STRANGER THAN FICTION BY BAD RELIGION (CD) $15.77 Artist: BAD RELIGION Genre: Popular Music Release Date: 6SEP1994 |
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Bad Land Pastoralism in Great Plains Fiction $29.95 At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that chronicle the dialogue between human culture and nonhuman nature on the Great Plains, Matthew Cella explores literary treatments of a succession of abrupt cultural transitions from the Euroamerican conquest of the Indian wilderness in the nineteenth century to the Buffalo Commons phenomenon in the twentieth. By charting the shifting meaning of land use and biocultural change in the region, he posits this bad landthe arid Westas a crucible for the development of the human imagination. |
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The Fire in Fiction $17.99 Discover the Difference Between a So-So Manuscript and a Novel Readers Can’t Forget We’ve all read them: novels by our favorite authors that disappoint. Uninspired and lifeless, we wonder what happened. Was the author in a hurry? Did she have a bad year? Has he lost interest altogether? Something similar is true of a great many unpublished manuscripts. They are okay stories that never take flight. They don’t grip the imagination, let alone the heart. They merit only a shrug and a polite dismissal by agents and editors. It doesn’t have to be that way. In The Fire in Fiction , successful literary agent and author Donald Maass shows you not only how to infuse your story with deep conviction and fiery passion, but how to do it over and over again. The book features: Techniques for capturing a special time and place, creating characters whose lives matter, nailing multiple-impact plot turns, making the supernatural real, infusing issues into fiction, and more. Story-enriching exercises at the end of every chapter to show you how to apply the practical tools just covered to your own work. Rich examples drawn from contemporary novels as diverse as The Lake House , Water for Elephants , and Jennifer Government to illustrate how various techniques work in actual stories. Plus, Maass introduces an original technique that any novelist can use any time, in any scene, in any novel, even on the most uninspired day…to take the most powerful experiences from your personal life and turn those experiences directly into powerful fiction. Tap into The Fire in Fiction , and supercharge your story with originality and spark! |
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Real Fiction $19.95 Before he began his foray into the world of art-house cinema with the serene and deeply meditative SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER…AND SPRING, South Korean director Ki-duk Kim made a series of harrowing horror-dramas that delved into life’s gritty underbelly (BAD GUY, THE ISLE). As one of Kim’s earlier works, REAL FICTION displays the former enfant terrible’s weakness for macabre subject matter with the story of a frustrated artist (Jin-mo Ju) who wreaks vengeance on his enemies while a female companion videotapes the murderous rampage with a camcorder. Kim undergirds this relatively straightforward narrative with an experimental style, shooting in real time without any retakes for a near-exploitative, TAXI DRIVER-like study of modern alienation and urban malaise. |
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Bad Boy $19.49 Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents a brandnew hardcover production of Bad Boy by Frank Miller and Simon Bisley Bad Boy features Jason, a little boy who comes to realize his parents arent his parents, and that hes part of a sterile experimental community. Originally produced as a strip for the British Edition of GQ, Bad Boy is now a powerful piece of graphic fiction as only Miller and Bisley can produce Author: Miller, Frank/ Bisley, Simon/ McKie, Angus Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 52 Publication Date: 2008/09/16 Language: English Dimensions: 11.30 x 8.50 x 0.40 inches |
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Best Fiction $59.99 Still rumbling despite the usual turnover in idol singers, Namie Amuro returned to the J-pop scene in 2007 after some time spent in relative obscurity (her first turns at success had been over ten years prior, and her output had very slowly tapered off over the years). Rather than taking on the basic manufactured pop sound common to the J-pop world, Amuro spends more of her energy in a dance format, using pounding beats and sexualized lyrics to create a different sound from the light and innocent pop saturating the market, acting as something of a Japanese Madonna in a sense. With Best Fiction, her third greatest-hits compilation, her output from 2002 to 2008 is covered in full detail. The album opens with one of two originals, “Do Me More,” starting out with an energetic bang of dance before moving to a largely English ballad, “Wishing on the Same Star,” which allows Amuro to showcase her actual vocal ability with a basic R&B ballad that calls for some emotion along the way. “Alarm,” from 2004, lets her work amidst some Timbaland-style electronic and percussion grooves, and “Want Me, Want Me” introduces a thick bhangra beat that Amuro uses with surprising fluidity as she slinks around the overly sexualized lyrics. There’s some standard fare along the way as well — items that are sure to hit the charts but leave less lasting impressions. Before the end, though, Amuro explores some older samples with bass-heavy tracks and bits of the Supremes, Aretha Franklin, and Irene Cara’s “What a Feeling.” There’s a lot of range covered here, and all of it performed quite well. Not bad stamina for a onetime idol singer. ~ Adam Greenberg, Rovi Performers: Arvin Homa Aya – Vocals; Jun Abe – Piano, Keyboards; Kenji Suzuki – Guitar; Sam Salter – Vocals |
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Criticism and Fiction $36.99 The misfortune rather than the fault of our individual critic is that he is the heir of the false theory and bad manners of the English school. The theory of that school has apparently been that almost any person of glib and lively expression is competent to write of almost any branch of polite literature; its manners are what we know. Author: Howells, William Dean Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 62 Publication Date: 2010/09/10 Language: English Dimensions: 7.01 x 10.00 x 0.25 inches |
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Fireworks for Your Fiction $4.8 In real life, bad things happen to good people at exactly the wrong time, so why should your character(s) be any different? Ignite your fiction with deeply developed characters with flaws, quirks and real-life issues by mixing them into unpredictable situations and watch your fiction explode! This helpful book will give you plot ideas–100 of them as well as sizzle for your characters. |
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Fear of Fiction $11.78 Sigrid Anderssen (Oscar Winner Melissa Leo from “The Fighter”) is a hot young novelist who has a bad case of writer’s block. To clear her mind she answers an ad in the newspaper placed by Red (True Blood’s Sam Trammell), a man who is driving cross-country and needs a partner. Along the way, they pick up Red’s identical twin brother Tom and three embark on a surreal journey, providing a new outlook on life for Sigrid and more writing material than she ever bargained for. Hear 60′s garage music played by the mythic band “The Fabulous Failures” (Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth and Evan Lurie of the Lounge Lizards) lends a creepy narration to this tale of forgotten phantoms. |
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Bad Trips $13.99 The entries in this collection take us to the farthest extremes of travel with tales of danger, disorientation and bemused discomfort; combines reportage, fiction and poetry representing some of the best-known writers of our time. |
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The Bad Sister $9.29 Introduced by Candia McWilliam. The Bad Sister Two Women of London Wild Nights This omnibus edition brings together for the first time three of Tennant’s most acclaimed works, all of which share a spiritual affinity. The Bad Sister and Two Women of London retell two Scottish masterpieces of the macabre – James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – resetting their claustrophobic and terrifying examinations of duality in the contemporary environment of London through female protagonists. The third book, Wild Nights, is a tour de force of descriptive writing as well as a tale of old love and family friction, and completes a trilogy of immense power and enduring value. ‘Tennant has the authentic knack of tapping into one’s mental and nervous wiring . . . to read her is to feel oneself in the grip of something as absorbing and impossible not to respond to as a close family.’ Candia McWilliam ‘The year’s best novel . . . a whirlwind of pure imagination, and for that reason far more "real" than most so-called fiction: as exhilarating as racing the rapids in a glass gondola with a white witch at the helm.’ J.G. Ballard on The Bad Sister |
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A Bad Day for Pretty $4.99 This is the thrilling sequel to Littlefield”s debut, the IMBA and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller A Bad Day for Sorry. Crime fiction hasn”t seen a character as scrappy, mean, and incredibly appealing as Stella in a long time.– Entertainment Weekly. |
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A Dream of Old Leaves $11.95 Bret Lott”s powerful, insightful stories illuminate the everyday episodes that move us — husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and neighhors — along the intricate paths of intimacy. A little boy”s first bad dream brings his father back to his own childhood nights when danger lurked beneath the bed; in the California desert at night two brothers in a pickup tune into radio stations from distant places, interrupted by sudden bursts of static; estranged suburban friends become good neighbors again in the course of thwarting two thieves. Lott”s previous novels, The Man Who Owned Vermont and A Stranger”s House, established him as one of the strongest voices to come along in some time (The San Francisco Chronicle). A Dream of Old Leaves stakes out his place in the landscape of new American fiction. |
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A Taint in the Blood $7.99 Award-winning crime writer Dana Stabenow is at the top of her game in her latest spell-binding novel featuring Kate Shugak who’s taken on her toughest case yet… A MOTHER’S CRIME…Thirty-one years ago in Anchorage, Alaska, Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff was convicted of murdering her seventeen-year-old son William. The prosecution convinced the jury that she set fire to her home while both of her sons were trapped inside. William died and the other, Oliver, narrowly escaped. Victoria was sentenced to life in prison, and though she pled not guilty at the trial, she never again denied her guilt. A DAUGHTER’S DEVOTION…Now Victoria has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and her daughter Charlotte, who’s always believed in her mother’s innocence, wants her free. Kate Shugak is the only P.I. Charlotte can find who’s willing to take such a long-shot case. A FAMILY’S DARK PAST…Kate figures it can’t be bad to do a favor for the Bannister family, one of the wealthiest and most prominent families in Alaska’s short history. As she begins her investigation, Victoria refuses to cooperate. But it seems she isn’t the only one who wants to leave the past in the past as Kate finds herself caught in a web of deception, secrets, and danger… Kate Shugak is the answer if you are looking for something unique in the crowded field of crime fiction. –Michael Connelly, author of The Narrows |
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A West Texas Soapbox $22.95 Whether sprawled on barstools or preaching from pulpits, people need to make sense of their world, and in Jim Sanderson’s world of West Texas, pulpits and barstools are where many of them do so. Sanderson himself stood for many years at a podium, teaching at a community college in Odessa, Texas. There, tired of academic papers and sometimes losing the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, he turned to the world around him to figure out the meaning (or meanings) of education and of culture itself.In a series of autobiographical ruminations, Sanderson develops the theme that frontier wildness is still alive, especially in West Texas, though it may be repressed by fundamentalist religion and conservative politics. West Texans, he finds, have to reconcile the two sides of their contrary natures: the farmer, best represented by the fundamental church, and the frontiers-man, best represented by the sleazy bar.Through this theme of internal conflict, Sanderson weaves his experiences of art and censorship, Texas myths in film and fiction, the interaction of Hispanic culture with the culture of West Texas, contradictions posed by academic interests in vocational teaching institutions, intellectual elitism versus the real world, and West Texas women’s definition and self-definition. Through the examples of his students, he shows how the quest for the West Texas myth — freedom, liberation, and fulfillment — is always transforming, whether for good or bad.In the end, he recognizes that his insights may tell more about himself than about West Texas, but by trying to make meaning out of his experience, he tells us something about the way all of us learn and think about ourselves. |
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Air in the Paragraph Line #13 $9.95 The quality journal of absurdist and outsider fiction presents their thirteenth installment, the bad luck issue. Includes fact and fiction by Keith Buckley, Aaron Carnes, Joshua Citrak, Daniel Crocker, Timothy Gager, Nathan Graziano, Fiona Helmsley, Rebel Star Hobson, Robert Howington, Jon Konrath, Ben Mack, Jillian Olenik, Hassan Riaz, John Sheppard, Todd Taylor, and Daniel Trask. Edited by Jon Konrath, with cover art by Kurt Eisenlohr and cover design by Marie Mundaca. |
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Attack of the 50-Foot Teacher $3.33 It was Halloween. And it was a school day. The children were eager for school to be over. Everyone was excited about going trick or treating. Everyone except Miss Irma Birmbaum, the toughest teacher in town. She’s so mean that she assigns homework on Halloween! That very night, however, after she receives a surprise visit from an alien spacecraft, Miss Irma Birmbaum is mysteriously transformed into … The Fifty-Foot Teacher. As if things weren’t bad enough for Miss Birmbaum’s class! Can anything save Halloween for these kids, or will their giant teacher spoil the fun? Inspired by the good old, bad old science fiction movies that turn up on TV each October, Lisa Passen has created a hilarious tale that proves even the meanest teacher might just have a heart of gold. |
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Bad Dirt $14 From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes a stellar collection of short stories set in Wyoming.From The Publisher:The stories in Annie Proulx’s new collection are peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control in a kind of rural noir half-light. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they will themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. Bound by the land and by custom, they inhabit worlds that are often isolated, dangerous, and in Proulx’s bold prose, stunningly vivid.In What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick? rancher Gilbert Wolfscale, alienated from his sons, bewildered by his criminal ex-wife, gets shoved down his throat the fact that the old-style ranch life has gone. Several stories concern the eccentric denizens of Elk Tooth, a tiny hamlet where life revolves around three bars. Elk Toothers enter beard-growing contests, scrape together a living hauling hay, catch poachers in unorthodox ways. Man Crawling out of Trees is about urban newcomers from the east and their discovery, too late, that one of them has violated the deepest ethics of the place. Above all, these stories are about the compelling lives of rapidly disappearing rural Americans.Through Proulx’s knowledge of the history of Wyoming and the west, her interest in landscape and place, and her sympathy for the sheer will it takes to survive, we see the seared heart of the tough people who live in the emptiest state. Proulx, winner of the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and many other prizes, has written a collection of spectacularly satisfying stories.About The Author:Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. She is the author of two other novels: Postcards, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Accordion Crimes. She has also written two collections of short stories, Heart Song |
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Bad Girls of Pulp Fiction $184.53 Bright, lurid, and enormously entertaining, the covers of adult pulp novels published from the 1940s through the 1960s constitute a pop-art genre of enduring appeal. This Miniature Edition(TM) collection |
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Blood and Silver: Erotic Stories $15.95 For decades, Patrick Califia has been one of the most prolific and outspoken voices in favor of freedom of sexual expression between consenting adults. He is also the author of erotic classics such as Macho Sluts, Doing It For Daddy, and Doc and Fluff. Blood and Silver collects the best of Califia’s short erotic fiction along with three new stories. A submissive female android turns the tables on her abusive male master and runs off with his mistress. Little Red Riding Hood gets a makeover as a professional dominatrix who’s not afraid of the Big Bad Wolf for the very simple reason that she is one. Frankie and Johnny play out a hot initiation fantasy from the 1950s. Blood and Silver is fiction without a safe word–smart, transgressive, and always hot. |
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Broken Dishes $2.47 The national bestselling series continues with Benni Harper roping in suspects during one murderous Western week at a friend’s struggling dude ranch.From The Publisher:When Benni Harper’s friend passes away, he leaves his Broken DIS ranch to his daughter Shawna and her husband. Instead of raising cattle, the couple decides to turn it into a dude ranch. And while their intentions may be good, business is not. Leave it to Benni and her family to come to the rescue. Her plan? To tempt vacationers with a quilting and western extravaganza. It works. And soon, Benni and her family are cooking, quilting, and horseback riding with a whole slew of western tenderfoots.But the west gets a little too wild when one of the ranch dogs discovers a human bone on the property. It’s enough to scare any reasonable guest away. To top it off, there’s a rumor that one of the visitors is a nationally known travel writer, secretly working on a write-up. A bad review could easily kill business. Before long, Benni’s old nemesis, Detective Ford Hud Hudson, is on board investigating. Together they uncover the remains of a murdered man buried in a shallow grave. Now, Benni must keep the guests safe and happy while unearthing the truth behind a terrible crime…About The Author:Earlene Fowler was raised in La Puente, California, by a Southern mother and a Western father which is probably why her Benni Harper series features quilts, cattle, smart-mouthed women, cowboys and a sexy Latino cop. She wrote literary and commercial short fiction for ten years with no publishing success when she decided to change gaits and write a mystery novel.Her first novel Fool’s Puzzle and two sequels were sold within a week of submission to Putnam-Berkley Publishing Group as one of three lead titles for their new hardcover Prime Crime Line. Fool’s Puzzle was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Mystery of 1994. Kansas Troubles, Goose in the Pond, |
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Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Youngest and Most Daring Con Man in the History of Fun and Profit! $15.99 Frank Abagnale wrote $2.5 million in bad checks, practiced law without a license, practiced medicine with no medical training, copiloted a Pan Am jet with a fake license, taught at a college though he was actually a high-school dropout, and managed to outwit and outrage is the hilarious, now-classic story of Abagnale’s stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and his ingenious escapes — including one from an airplane. Stated for 2000 production at DreamWorks Entertainment, and now updated with a new afterword, Catch Me if You Can contains all of the elements of the most wildly imaginative fiction, except that all of Abagnale’s exploits actually happened. Stylish, charming, and not one to skimp on luxury, Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lam from which he retired when he was 21. Now recognized as the nation’s leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale tells the ultimate true-crime story, from the point of view of one of history’s most lovable rogues. |
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Comfort and Joi $11.95 She was one of the working stiff actors who made American movies a sort of extended family for me. If I don”t do this for her, who will? Memory and movies collide when the narrator of Comfort and Joi, award-winning screenwriter Joseph Dougherty”s imaginative blend of fiction and film fact, sets out to document the life and work of bosomy blonde bombshell Joi Lansing, a minor glamour girl who appeared in such classics as Hillbillys in a Haunted House and Queen of Outer Space. Alone in a borrowed house on the California coast during a winter weekend, he indulges his fascination with the pin-up who rose from extra girl to work with Orson Welles, only to end her career in grade-z horror pictures.Offbeat movie history from the fringes of Hollywood triggers haunting personal memories as he follows this beautiful beacon in a Sargasso of bad filmmaking and finds an unexpected path to his own past. Dougherty is a humanist who argues that each of us has to look, listen, choose, and commit. His work is as encouraging as it is enlightening. –Douglas Heil, Prime-Time Authorship |
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Cool Men and the Second Sex $23.48 Fraiman assesses the work of various contemporary male figures — bad boy innovative filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, and Spike Lee and such celebrity professors as Edward Said, Andrew Ross, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Lee Edelman — all of them on the left. She argues that despite their hipness — or because of it — these men consistently relegate women to the margins and feel free to ignore the insights of feminist scholars. Fraiman discusses movies like Pulp Fiction and Do the Right Thing, as well as other popular forms from pornography to rap music. |
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Cool Men and the Second Sex $30.09 Fraiman assesses the work of various contemporary male figures — bad boy innovative filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, and Spike Lee and such celebrity professors as Edward Said, Andrew Ross, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Lee Edelman — all of them on the left. She argues that despite their hipness — or because of it — these men consistently relegate women to the margins and feel free to ignore the insights of feminist scholars. Fraiman discusses movies like Pulp Fiction and Do the Right Thing, as well as other popular forms from pornography to rap music. |
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Country of Cold: Stories $13 A Vintage Tales Book. Graduating from high school in a small Canadian town, you are immediately faced with two stark choices: leave or stay. Country of Cold follows the stories of a disparate group of Dunsmuir, Manitoba’s class of 1980, most of whom leave, imagining that life happens elsewhere. They flee to the freedom of the big cities of the world and the far corners of Canada, but many end up feeling rootless and alone, whether as a physician in an Arctic Inuit community, a temporary boyfriend in Paris, or a student in the McGill Ghetto. The characters attempt to unravel the impossible puzzles of adulthood — searching for answers by hurtling over falls in a barrel, building a boat to escape a teen-daughter-gone-bad, or embarking on an unlikely affair with a two-bit wrestler. Kevin Patterson won international accolades for his wonderfully observed and moving memoir, The Water in Between. This fiction debut confirms him as a major new literary talent. |
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Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest: Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands $17.99 When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman”s oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on Southwest film noir from Humphrey Bogart”s tough hood in The Petrified Forest to Russell Crowe”s hard-nosed cop in L.A. Confidential. |
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Doctor Whom $9.95 Dr. Who better watch out-Doctor WHOM is here! He”s the grammatically correct TimeLord (or should that be Time Lord? Or Timelord?) who has come to save Earth from the terror”s of sloppy syntax and bad grammar. With his intrepid assistant by his side, Whom”s on a mission to correct greengrocers sign”s, the errors of popular fiction, and government memos ( memoes?). If he fails, the results are dire: inaccurate and lazy communication will rip apart the very fabric of the space time continuum. And one thing”s for sure: he”s not ready to eat, shoot, and leave before the job is done. |
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Eight Ball Boogie $127.56 Imelda Sheridan was dead, which was tough cookies on Imelda, but then every silver lining has its cloud. My job was to find out who and why, at 12 cent per word for the right facts in the right order…Which is how it all started out, anyway. Harry Rigby likes a smoke, the easy life, and Robert Ryan playing the bad guy in late night black-and-whites. Sweet. But when the wife of a prominent politician is murdered in her best nightie, Rigby finds himself caught in a crossfire between rogue paramilitaries, an internal Garda inquiry, and the heaviest blizzard of coke ever to hit the Northwest. If all this wasn’t bad enough, his relationship with girlfriend Denise is on the rocks, and he’s hitting the bottle. Then there’s Rigby’s psychotic brother Gonzo, back on the streets fresh out of prison and meaner than a jilted shark…Flashing with razor-sharp wit, black humor, and edgy, fast-paced plotting, Eight-Ball Boogie is an enthralling page-turner that marks the debut of a potent new talent in crime fiction. |
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Farscape 4th Season-4.5 $32.52 The home video release of television s most acclaimed science-fiction series concludes in this two-disc DVD set. Witness the final fates of Crichton, Aeryn, D Argo and the rest of the crew in this landmark release. Disc I We’re So Screwed, Part 1: Fatal Attraction Moya’s crew track Aeryn to a Scarran Border Station. She is imprisoned upon a freighter about to leave for Katrazi, a Scarran base. To keep the ship docked and under quarantine, Noranti gives Rygel a deadly, contagious disease. This gives the crew time to plan a rescue, but no one figures on the cunning and ruthlessness of Aeryn’s captor. We’re So Screwed, Part 2: Hot to Katrazi Moya’s crew travels to Katratzi, a Scarran base where Scorpius is being tortured for wormhole information. the crew plans to incite a confrontation between the Kalish and Charrid forces at the base, hoping the diversion will allow them to free Scorpius and keep wormhole knowledge out of Scarran hands. Disc II We’re So Screwed, Part 3: La Bomba After thwarting Crichton’s escape plan, Scorpius denies that he’s a Scarran spy and demands Crichton’s help to destroy a cavern of vital Scarran flora – claiming it will also provide them with a better means of escape. While Rygel and Noranti fight an evil Stark, Sikozu must reveal her true agenda if they are all to survive Series Finale: Bad Timing Safely back on Moya, Crichton learns of the Scarrans’ intention to invade Earth. He analyzes his data and comes up with a way to collapse the wormhole to Earth, but he can’t do it alone. meanwhile, Braca demands Scorpius be released from Moya and returned to his Command Carrier. And Aeryn has a few surprises of her own, including the identity of her baby’s father. |
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Forever Knight Trilogy-Part 2 $26.99 The undead are unleashed for the second season of the sexy an stylish vampire horror series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn Davies as Nick Knight, a 13th century vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Season Two highlights include: Nick’s battle with Jack the Ripper in the terrifying Bad Blood ; his infiltrating the Luminology cult and getting brainwashed in Faithful Followers ; and finding romance with an Anne Rice-type author in Stranger Than Fiction. And in Blood Money and Baby Baby, star Geraint Wyn Davies steps behind the camera to direct. Natsuko Ohama, as Captain Amanda Cohen, joins the cast in Season 2. During the course of it’s three-year run, Forever Knight amassed a huge cult following, whose fans can now sink their teeth into the delights of Season Two. |
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Frankenstein Meets Space Monster $14.98 During a solo space mission to Mars, NASA astronaut Col. Frank Saunders (Robert Reilly) who happens to be an experimental android– is shot down by an alien warship. Frank survives the attack, crash-landing on Puerto Rico. The space aliens led by Princess Marcuzan (Marilyn Hanold) and her putty-eared lieutenant, Dr. Nadir (Lou Cutell) — decide he must die, so they give chase, but manage to only disfigure him before commencing with their ultimate endeavor: steal bikini-clad young women to re-populate their nuclear-ravaged planet! Meanwhile, scientists Adam Steele (James Karen) and Karen Grant (Nancy Marshall) leisurely tour the scenery on a Vespa motor scooter in search of their creation, Frank, who s busy terrorizing the coastal populace. The marauding aliens crash a swingin pool party and steal the girls, who are brought aboard their ship to be separated by their lusty attributes and then further frightened by a hairy, skull-faced space monster In the overcrowded pantheon of bad but deliriously fun movies, few surpass this science fiction drive-in staple. Format: DVD MOVIE |
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Halo 3 Deluxe Adult Costume $66.96 If you’re a big fan of the best-selling Halo series of video games, then you know how much fun it is to play one of the big heroes of the game, Master Chief. The game Halo is all about action and suspense, as you plug the bad guys and try to bring order to a corrupt world, waging war against the Covenant in the defense of all humanity. Now you too can play in the chaotic 26th Century with this solid Deluxe Halo 3 Master Chief Jumpsuit EVA Molded Armor costume. The outfit includes a two-piece helmet, printed camouflage jumpsuit with EVA pieces, and sturdy gauntlets. Add a little make up work from our Tri-Color Camouflage Palettes, and some black trademark Halo gloves sold separately on our site, and you are ready to save the human race – or at least make one mighty impression for parties, science-fiction conventions or anywhere that Halo or war-games are the theme! |
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Hopalong Cassidy Complete Collection Box Set $38.03 The dark-garbed Hopalong Cassidy was a wildly popular matinee idol of the ’30s and ’40s and one of the most iconic cowboy heroes of all time. Astride his white steed Topper with a black, 10-gallon hat perched on his head, Hopalong (so named for a limp caused by a bullet wound) made a striking figure. Based on a rude, tough-talkin’ character from a popular pulp fiction series, the ‘Hoppy’ of the silver screen was a law-abiding good guy, who didn’t smoke, drink, chew tobacco or swear; rarely kissed a girl; and always let the bad guy draw first. Now own this Special Edition, 12-DVD Collector’s Set, including all 52 TV episodes and 10 bonus feature films! |
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Idiots $245.8 LIKE A POSTMODERN AESOP, JAKOB ARJOUNI WITTILY PUNC-tures pretension and self-deception. These tales are characterized by ironic humor with an underlying note of melancholy. Among the delightful idiots collected here, the author offers a domineering mother whose rock star son fails to appreciate her efforts on his behalf; a hopeful young movie director with a bad case of writer’s block; and an aging author of pulp fiction trying to write one good, serious book before he dies. They are all visited by a fairy who offers to grant one wish, with the exceptions of immortality, health, money, and love. Their wishes, once granted, have stinging consequences–the resolutions of which read like an updated version of the Brothers Grimm. A would-be novelist, whose marriage is on the rocks, longs for excitement and soon finds himself taken hostage by a girl bank robber; and a mysterious old man who comes to a village to end his days in peace winds up the close acquaintance of the local drunk. |
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It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer: And Hundreds of Other Facts from the World of Writing $11.47 Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo are the Queen and King of trivia, relied upon by game shows including Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and game manufacturers. Millions of people read their daily newspaper column and together they’ve written twenty books. The sixth book in the Totally Riveting Utterly Entertaining (TRUE) Trivia Series puts a magnifying lens on the wacky world of writers. It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer will tell you everything you could possibly want, or were afraid, to know about writers, publishing, and the writing life. Bite-sized facts are organized into chapters including Everyone’s a Critic, Stranger than Fiction, From Bad to Verse, Kiddie Lit, A Word’s Worth, and many more. You’ll learn things like: where Proust wrote (in bed with gloves on); what Voltaire drank (70 cups of coffee a day); and how James Cain prepared himself for yet another publisher’s rejection. (The title The Postman Always Rings Twice had nothing to do with the plot of the best-selling novel. It was a private joke of author James Cain. His postman would ring his doorbell twice whenever the many-times-rejected manuscript came back from a publisher.) Before they became the household names they are today, Cynthia Ozick, Dorothy Sayers, and Joseph Heller all wrote advertising copy. Kurt Vonnegut wrote press releases for General Electric. Amy Tan wrote horoscopes. Before her literary career took off, Rita Mae Brown wrote screenplays, most notably for the slasher film Slumber Party Massacre in 1982. Jack Mingo is a featured expert and regularly appears on the History Channel. Mingo and Barrett write a nationally syndicated daily newspaper column called On This Day in History. Erin Barrett and JackMingo’s books have combined sales of more than 525,000. |
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Kids Who Rule $6.56 They were queens. They were kings. They were kids. Lots of kids dream of becoming royalty. But being a child monarch is not all glory and bossing people around. Behold Kids Who Rule and discover the startling realities of five junior rulers from history. Boy king Tutankhamun was crowned pharaoh of Egypt at age nine. Groomed to lead armies, his homework involved firing arrows from a moving chariot. Mary Queen of Scots became royalty at only six days old. She grew up fleeing bad-tempered King Henry VIII who saw her as a child bride for his son. Other child monarchs profiled: Queen Christina of Sweden (1626 to 1689) Puyi, Last Emperor of China (1906 to 1967) The current Dalai Lama of Tibet (1935 to present). Each chapter focuses on a different ruler by offering a dramatic episode from their regal childhood, eye-opening elements of their country’s history, and an End of the Story section on how their life played out. Complete with photos of art and artifacts from each era and intriguing sidebars, Kids Who Rule is a crowning achievement of non-fiction storytelling. |
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Lackington’s Confessions, Rendered Into Narrative; To Which Are Added Observations on the Bad Consequences of Educating Daughters at Boarding-Schools $14.6 Subtitle: To Which Are Added Observations on the Bad Consequences of Educating Daughters at Boarding-Schools General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1804 Original Publisher: B. Crosby and co. Subjects: Boarding schools Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / School |
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Lois and Clark (Complete Seasons 1 and 2) $119.92 SEASON 1: Casting a fresh look on a timeless legend, this exciting, action-packed update of the DC Comics Superman captures the daring exploits of the mysterious visitor from another planet and brings the city of Metropolis to life. Originally aired in the 90′s on ABC, this humorously romantic action/adventure hour-long series puts a modern twist on the time-honored, legendary superhero, bringing to life the comic book characters Clark Kent (Dean Cain); his superhuman alter-ego, Superman; and Lois Lane (Teri Hatcher), fiction’s first lady of the press, in the most unrequited romance of all time.SEASON 2: He catches bullets in his hand, snatches innocent citizens from the jaws of death, and zooms bombs, toxic chemicals and other deadly whatnot deep into outer space. But just when you think nothing can overwhelm Superman, love brings him to his knees.Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher are back for the thrilling second season of new adventures. Action reigns as the Man Of Steel unleashes chop-’till-you-drop martial arts moves to battle the mysterious Chi Master, pits his mighty powers against the firepower of resurrected ’30s mobster Al Capone, and mows down a perp walk of twisted-genius bad guys who challenge him with a lethal array of threats, theft, murder and mayhem. Super hero, Super action, you’ve got ‘em both. |
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Mens Dlx Halo 3 Master Chief Jumpsuit w Molded Armor $66.96 If you’re a big fan of the best-selling Halo series of video games, then you know how much fun it is to play one of the big heroes of the game, Master Chief. The game Halo is all about action and suspense, as you plug the bad guys and try to bring order to a corrupt world, waging war against the Covenant in the defense of all humanity. Now you too can play in the chaotic 26th Century with this solid Deluxe Halo 3 Master Chief Jumpsuit EVA Molded Armor costume. The outfit includes a two-piece helmet, printed camouflage jumpsuit with EVA pieces, and sturdy gauntlets. Add a little make up work from our Tri-Color Camouflage Palettes, and some black trademark Halo gloves sold separately on our site, and you are ready to save the human race – or at least make one mighty impression for parties, science-fiction conventions or anywhere that Halo or war-games are the theme! |
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Nightmare Garden: A Novella and Stories $9.95 Two people in the novella Nightmare Garden are chained to bad or difficult relationships, find each other and escape into their passion for a time that they hope will last forever. The scenes play out in Paris, Madrid, and in cafes of Tangier and Marrakech, Morocco, locations that the author knows well. In the short story Dust, set in a small town in northwest Montana, a young man discovers that he can both love his uncle but hate him for what he does. Mother’s Helper was one of the most surprising mystery-horror stories of the year it was published and was mentioned in The Best Mystery Stories on 1999 as one of thirty-six most distinguished stories. In An Interview with my Imaginary Friend, the real John Herrmann is interviewed by his last novel’s central character in a playful exchange that ultimately reveals the complex nature of fiction writing. |
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Nocturnes $107.99 Featuring a Charlie Parker novella, this is a haunting collection of short fiction by the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Men. |
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Nothing Burns in Hell $25.5 A noted sci-fi writer turns to the pulp fiction detective novel with this tale of a private eye who witnesses an illegal transfer of money in a cemetery that goes bloodily wrong. Chasing the bad guys, he ends up a prisoner of a gruesome threesome in a cabin in the woods. His escape involves nudity, death, and a terrible snapping turtle. |
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On Courage $113 What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most universally admired virtues? How is it relevant in the world today, and what contemporary forms does it take? In this insightful and crisply written book, Geoffrey Scarre examines these questions and many more. He begins by defining courage, asking how it differs from fearlessness, recklessness and fortitude, and why people are often more willing to ascribe it to others than to avow it for themselves. He also asks whether courage can serve bad ends as well as good, and whether it can sometimes promote confrontation over compromise and dialogue. On Courage explores the ideas of Aristotle, Aquinas and many later philosophers who have written about courage, as well as drawing on classic and recent examples of courage in politics and fiction, including the German anti-Nazi White Rose Movement, the modern phenomenon of whistle-blowing, and Stephen Crane ”s The Red Badge of Courage. |
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PULP FICTION JULES WALLET BAD MOTHER POSTER PP31437 A $5.99 Wall Poster – Measures: 24 inches x 36 inches |
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Pulp Fiction $36.88 Arthur dent is having a really bad day! When he learns that a friend is actually an alien with knowledge of earth’s impending destruction, he is transported off the planet. And if that’s not enough, throw in being wanted by the police and a chronically depressed robot and you’ve got the greatest adventure off earth. |
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Resumes from Hell $14.95 Some resumes are good, some are bad, and some are simply from Hell. The all-too-real resumes in this book were no doubt written with the best of intentions, but a job search can be a misadventure. A wacky resume is a sure-fire way to derail your job application and slip from the interview pile into the joke file. In this illustrated how not to, former recruiters Jon Reed and Rachel Meyers open up their own joke files, and share highlights from the worst (and funniest) resumes they ever received. From Questionable References to Hostile Email Interactions, Jon and Rachel take the reader through more resume mishaps and job search meltdowns than they ever knew existed, sneaking in a bit of job search wisdom on the fly. The resumes in this book have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent, but Resumes from Hell is proof that truth is still stranger – and funnier – than fiction. |
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Rounders 3 $163.23 First published in 1960, the best selling novel The Rounders was immediately recognized as a rollicking classic of western fiction. The story of Dusty Jones and Wrangler Lewis, two stove-up cowboys whose luck is consistently bad, inspired a popular movie starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, and a television series. In this edition, all three of Evans’s classic rounders tales are here, The Rounders, The Great Wedding, and The Orange County Cowboys, accompanied by the wonderfully authentic drawings of cowboy artist Grem Lee. |
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Samurai Fiction $29.98 Heishiro Inukai, a noble Samurai, sets out in search of the renegade who stole his clan’s treasure and killed his best friend. The villain, Rannosuke, is actually not such a bad guy once you get to know him, and he’s a whole lot cooler than Heishiro. But Heishiro is from a long line of great warriors, so he must be a fantastic swordsman. After all, he did graduate from sword school with excellent marks. So, Heishiro should be able to hold his own against Rannosuke, who has only killed hundreds of men and fought entire armies while simultaneously defending himself against dozens of deadly ninja assassins. This is Samurai Fiction. Don’t believe everything you see in Chambara movies. |
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Shadow’s Stand $14.23 In Shadow’s Stand a visionary fiction novel for children ages 8 to 11, Raymond has woven a heartwarming story that was inspired by the true story of a dog whose illusive nature while camping out near the Humane Society of North Texas in Fort Worth some twenty years ago earned it the name of Shadow. For six months Shadow lived on a median of a busy street right across from the humane society and escaped various capture attempts. Only the general situation and Shadow’s name are borrowed from history.Shadow is a special dog who draws two young people together in their quest to help Shadow and each other. The characters, Becca, a determined and budding young journalist whose heart goes out to all of God’s creatures, and Shake Canwell, a troubled youth with an appreciation for life despite his deeply challenging family circumstances. Aiding Shadow, Becca and Shake is a colorful humane society director, who always has motivational quotes to fit any circumstance.The novel skillfully introduces character and plot and builds to a climax that changes everyone’s lives. The story deals with some difficult situations and issues with which today’s young people must face — such as loneliness, and animal and human cruelty.Spiritual and inspirational themes are subtly woven throughout the story, and includes such concepts and life lessons as all life is one and interconnected, something we learn when we reach out to people in need; lives touch for a purpose; a good way to live is with a perspective of appreciation; good comes out of seemingly bad situations; and there is a divine plan for our lives and things happen for a reason. |
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Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible: Flawed Women Loved by a Flawless God $13.99 Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel are five women from Genesis who often stubbed their toes on the rocky path of righteousness–mostly good, yet slightly bad. In this volume, Higgs combines contemporary fiction and verse-by-verse commentary in her novel approach to Bible study, offering eye-opening lessons for women who long to know if God loves them, flaws and all. |
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Spin State $6.99 From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware… SPIN STATE UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime–and has probably forgotten more than most people remember. But that’s what backup hard drives are for. And Li should know; she’s been hacking her memory for fifteen years in order to pass as human. But no memory upgrade can prepare Li for what she finds on Compson’s World: a mining colony she once called home and to which she is sent after a botched raid puts her on the bad side of the powers that be. A dead physicist who just happens to be her cloned twin. A missing dataset that could change the interstellar balance of power and turn a cold war hot. And a mining accident that is starting to look more and more like murder… Suddenly Li is chasing a killer in an alien world miles underground where everyone has a secret. And one wrong turn in streamspace, one misstep in the dark alleys of blackmarket tech and interstellar espionage, one risky hookup with an AI could literally blow her mind. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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The Best American Short Stories $39.13 From the Publisher To usher in the new millennium, The Best American Short Stories 2000 brims with a rich variety of lyrical and wise stories about our country’s past, present, and future. This year’s editor, the best-selling author E.L. Doctorow, has chosen new works by Raymond Carver, Amy Bloom, Ha Jin, Walter Mosley, and Jhumpa Lahiri, among others. The most popular compendium of its kind, The Best American Short Stories is the only volume that offers the finest short fiction each year, chosen by a distinguished author. From Publishers Weekly In an anthology that once again lives up to its title, guest editor Doctorow presents an eclectic mix of 21 stunning stories by writers of varied ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Each short fiction conjures up its own atmospheric world; most provide memorable glimpses deep into the souls of its characters. Five of the selections hail from the New Yorker, three from Story, two each from Harper’s magazine, the Atlantic Monthly and Ploughshares. In his introduction, Doctorow quotes Frank O’Connor: What makes the short story a distinct literary form is its intense awareness of human loneliness,’ a quality that applies to many of these tales. The protagonist of Amy Bloom’s The Story, bitter at having lost a baby and a husband while her new neighbor has an adorable daughter and a lover, callously destroys the guilty woman’s life. Veteran mystery writer Walter Mosley tells in The Fly of a young black man unjustly accused of sexual harassment after only a few days on the job at a Wall Street firm. Call If You Need Me, a newly unearthed story by the late Raymond Carver, is a terse, understated tale of the dissolution of a marriage. The pi ce de r sistance is by Wyoming-based writer Annie Proulx, People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water, the tale of a brain-damaged young man who suffers rough frontier justice. Seen by neighbors as an example of bad genetics, he is culled from the h |
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The First Five Pages $13.95 Using examples from actual manuscripts and query letters he’s received, a publishing professional illuminates principles that can be applied to virtually any type of writing–fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and even poetry. From the Publisher Noah Lukeman, a former editor who is now a successful literary agent, has seen his share of bad writing. As a longtime publishing professional, he has developed an efficient method for recognizing whether a manuscript is fit for publication or headed for the rejection pile. The first five pages, he asserts, serve as a microcosm for the: if the writing isn’t up to par, an agent or editor will look no further. Using examples from actual manuscripts and query letters he’s received, Lukeman illuminates principles that can be applied to virtually any type of writing — fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and even poetry. He covers the fundamentals of crafting good prose and examines every aspect of the bigger picture in detail, including viewpoint, tone, setting, characterization, pacing, momentum, and much more. Exercises at the end each chapter help writers hone their techniques and uncover unorthodox solutions to eliminate stubborn problems and take their art to a higher level. Unparalleled for its practicality and accessibility, filled with inspirational quotes and examples from classic literature, this book will be a much-needed guide, an essential reference for every writer’s bookshelf. Library Journal Novice and amateur writers alike will benefit from literary agent Lukeman’s lucid advice in this handy, inexpensive little book. Lukeman draws on his years of editorial experience to present an inside look at manuscript submission. He provides suggestions, examples, and practice exercises designed to lift ordinary prose to a higher level. Covering writing fundamentals, including viewpoint, tone, pacing, character development, grammar, and more, Lukeman sprinkles examples of common writ |
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The Gospel According To Twilight $17 The Twilight saga has become one of the most successful fiction series ever written, with more than one hundred million copies in print and several blockbuster films. Despite the tremendous commercial success Twilight has generated, few readers have analyzed its theological teachings or the messages Stephenie Meyer might be sending to women and teenage girls. This book offers both a feminist critique of Twilight and a theological review of the stories” ideas about salvation, heaven and hell, power, reconciliation, resurrection, and organized religion.Elaine Heath writes in an accessible voice, calling attention to both the good news of Twilight”s theology and the bad news of its gender stereotypes and depictions of violence against women.The book includes questions for youth and adult groups or for classroom discussions. |
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The Heist $181.7 Linc Jackson and his buddy Rick Weaver thought they’d seen it all on the brutal battlefields of Desert Storm, but found themselves displaced and forgotten men when they came back to the States. Now, a year later, the opportunity of a lifetime suddenly drops in their laps . . . That is, if they don’t mind tiptoeing on the dark side to make the score. During a freak flood that causes havoc in the downtown business hub of Chicago, Linc and Rick put everything on the line as they execute a heist that they hope will put them on Easy Street for the rest of their lives. It involves a foolproof plan for grabbing what they believe is a cool million of the mob’s money. But that’s when things start to go terribly wrong. As the Mafia calls in a specialist, nicknamed The Regulator, to get back their property, the two ex-marines find that they not only have the bad boys of the outfit hot on their trail, but some pretty tough cops as well. It will take all their battle-tested skills just to escape with their lives, in an ultimate showdown that’s guaranteed to make what they went through in Operation Desert Storm look like a cakewalk. Award-winning author Michael A. Black holds an MFA degree in Fiction Writing from Columbia College. He has been a police officer in the south suburbs of Chicago for the past twenty-six years. He is currently a sergeant on the Matteson, Illinois Police Department. |
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The Innocent Man $54.33 Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. In his first work of nonfiction, John Grisham delivers his most extraordinary thriller yet. From the Publisher John Grisham s first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution s case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you. |
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The Ozark Trilogy $28.86 The Ozark Trilogy (previously published in 1981) is a widely acclaimed fantasy/science fiction story with, as the title suggests, very strong ties to the Ozark region. Twelve Fair Kingdoms, The Grand Jubilee, And Then There’ll Be Fireworks the books that comprise the trilogy — chronicle life on the planet Ozark and its Confederation of Continents, which are appropriately named Arkansaw, Oklahomah, Mizzurah, Tinaseeh, Kintucky, and Marktwain. However, the story told here involves much more than a mere transplant of Ozark culture and heritage onto a new planet. While this new Ozark culture maintains and even intensifies many of the real Ozark traditions and customs (for instance, Grannys hold significant, stabilizing social roles and are important sources of wisdom), the planet Ozark combines many new, fantastical elements with traditional ways. Mules on Ozark fly, and the wise Grannys also work magic.The protagonist of The Ozark Trilogy, Responsible of Brightwater, appears at the center of Ozark society, a society she must save from evil magic, civil war, and, ultimately, alien invasion. As Responsible travels from continent to continent in an attempt to discover and squelch the evil magic and calm the civil unrest, we are witness to many dangerous and sometimes comical adventures along the way, including a spectacular flying Mule crash and a magic duel with a Granny gone bad.Elgin has created a fantastic world infused with the folk traditions, social and familial hierarchies, and traditional dialect of the Ozarks. While parallels might be drawn between, for example, the break-up of the Confederacy of Continents on planet Ozark and the American Civil War, Elgin comments onaspects of Ozark history and tradition in a non-didactic way. The trilogy, with its strong heroine and witty engagement of tradition, is a classic of Ozark literature. |
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The Public Burning $8.33 A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of contemporary fiction ever to use living historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the three fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the execution of alleged atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Vice-President Richard Nixon – the voraciously ambitious bad boy of the Eisenhower regime – is the dominant narrator in an enormous cast that includes Betty Crocker, Joe McCarthy, the Marx Brothers, Walter Winchell, Uncle Sam, his adversary The Phantom, and Time magazine incarnated as the National Poet Laureate. All of these and thousands more converge in Times Square for the carnivalesque auto-da-fe at which the Rosenbergs are put to death. And not a person present escapes implication in Cold War America’s ruthless public burning . |
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The Science of Battlestar Galactica $19.95 Battlestar Galactica (BSG) has been called the best show on television, and as real as science fiction gets. It has dealt with issues of religious freedom, patriotism, terrorism, genetic engineering, and the ultimate science fiction question: what does it mean to be human? While the re-imagined BSG may not be packed with cool techie tools (the bad guys don”t even have laser guns for frak”s sake!), this book shows that the science in the series has a lot to say about the use of science and technology in our lives today – |
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The Story of a Bad Boy $19.66 The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher”s website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher”s book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Publication date: 1895Description: These boyhood adventures of a mischievous lad in nineteenth-century New England are based on the author”s own experiences. This Northern man with Southern principles was sent from New Orleans to Massachusetts to live with his grandfather. Subjects: Boys; Conduct of life; Friendship; Practical jokes; Grandfathers; Slaves; Children and death; Fiction / Action |
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The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-Popping Cow Waddy $11.97 A sixteen-year-old runaway from Illinois, Charley Hester (1853-1940) lit out from home in 1869, bound to make a life for himself on the great American frontier. In the winter of his life seven decades later, he dictated an account of his experiences in the Wild West of his youth. Charley Hester’s memoir recounts the journeys that took him to Missouri, Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, and Nebraska and brought him face-to face with badman John Wesley Hardin, as well as Joel Collins before Collins formed his band of stagecoach and train robbers. The young cow waddy also tells of meeting Wild Bill Hickok, observing Doc Holliday’s deft card play, and witnessing the waylaying of a drunken buffalo hunter by Wyatt Erap. In his own colorful language, Hester relates stories ranging from high jinks on the trail to a heart-stopping surprise encounter with Indians, as well as conflict with nature in the form of blizzards, cyclones, quicksand, swollen rivers, bad water, prairie fires, and electrical storms. So engaging that they figured in Warner Brothers’ research for the classic movie Dodge City, Hester’s adventure, are the stuff of true Americana: history rendered in bolder strokes and brighter colors than the most outlandish fiction, as outrageous and outrageously entertaining as it is true. After life as a cowpoke on the Chisholm and Western Trails, Hester settled in Phillips County, Kansas, and then in Dundy County, Nebraska, where he helped his brother build a ranching empire. |
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Twin Study $4.07 Cavemen Roam The Suburbs, Morality is questionable, teens are angsting, and alcoholics abound. This is the world as Stacey Richter sees it. In spite of–or perhaps because of–this alarming cast of characters, Richter’s stories are infused with wit, humor, and keen observations of what makes humans tick. There is no sentimental hand-wringing about alcoholic or absentee parents, lost loves, or the most terrible suburban neighborhood Christmas displays. Richter’s characters live, exist, play, and often drink too much because that is simply what they do. Carrying on is the only option. Richter writes with volatile energy, hurtling through her stories while coasting seamlessly between the regular and mundane. She sees the repercussions of bad parenting, forgotten kids, and while she may scoff, her caustic observations never demean her characters. By turns heartbreaking, mirthful, sardonic, and wise, her stories occasionally take a turn into the bizarre. Still, Richter’s flights of fancy are not about whimsy or science fiction. They are one imaginative woman’s clever and naked view of the absurdities teeming around her. |
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Undead and Unwelcome $7.99 A just-laid-off secretary has a really bad week when she dies and is then made Queen of the Undead. Chick lit meets vampire fiction in this creative, sophisticated, sexy, and wonderfully witty book. –Catherine Spangler. |
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Undead and Unwelcome $7.09 A just-laid-off secretary has a really bad week when she dies and is then made Queen of the Undead. Chick lit meets vampire fiction in this creative, sophisticated, sexy, and wonderfully witty book. –Catherine Spangler. |
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Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound $11 This book is the account of the author”s eight and a half years of prosecuting for the State of Alabama. The reader will meet the prosecutors, (the white hats) the defense attorney”s, (the black hats) as well as the cops, the detectives and the bad men and blood spillers that plague our society. The book is not bereft of humor, with the reader being introduced to the court hangers on who are present in various incarnations in every jurisdiction in the country. The authour recounts some of the many cases that he tried and a few that were tried by other prosecutors. It is a fascinating account of people at their best and at their very worst. All in all, it is a terrific read that is absolutely true but reads like the best of crime fiction. |
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White Jazz $14.95 LOS ANGELES, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns — it’s standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He’s a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer — a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.Klein’s been hung out as bait, a bad cop to draw the heat , and the heat’s coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins — all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, forty-two and going on dead , it’s dues time.Klein tells his own story — his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he’s describing — taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It’s a world he created, but now he’ll do anything to get out of it alive.Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering. |
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