A young college student realizes his anxieties, frustrations, and ideals are not typical of his generation.

This Side of Paradise (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Fitzgerald,F.Scott

O'Donnell, Patrick

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Group USA

Private Investigator Phil Oxnard and his wife Paula are treated to a complimentary two-week stay at Pole Pine Lodge in the Sierras. Soon after their arrival, Phil learns of a young man who dropped out of sight several months earlier and was last heard from while in the vicinity of Pole Pine Lodge. 
 Within the next few days a brutally beaten woman falls into a coma, a prize-winning painting is vandalized, and a lodge employee is found dead in the woods, the ostensible victim of a hunting accident. Phil is sure all of these events are related. The question is how? 
 Phil finds he has no choice but to investigate. It’s not long before his relaxing vacation turns into a veritable busman’s holiday.

McCollum's Run

Contemporary

iUniverse

The Knights Next Door: Everyday People Living Middle Ages Dreams

Travel back in time to the Current Middle Ages, a re-created world of knights in shining armor, lords and ladies, artisans and minstrels with one foot in history, the other in today's modern society. Join a journey through the nation's largest medievalist group, the Society for Creative Anachronism, as it and other groups act out their passion for times long past. Meet the cast of colorful characters who call this re-created world home and follow a young fighter as he struggles to earn knighthood and the crown of the kingdom that serves as his stage.

Sports & Outdoors

Travel back in time to the Current Middle Ages, a re-created world of knights in shining armor, lords and ladies, artisans and minstrels with one foot in history, the other in today's modern society. Join a journey through the nation's largest medievalist group, the Society for Creative Anachronism, as it and other groups act out their passion for times long past. Meet the cast of colorful characters who call this re-created world home and follow a young fighter as he struggles to earn knighthood and the crown of the kingdom that serves as his stage.

What if a brachiosaurus needed braces? If a tyrannosaurus used toothpaste, would it squash the tube? A young child on the way to a dental checkup wonders if dinosaurs ever had cavities and if they had to brush their teeth, floss, get braces, and use fluoride or mouthwash. This whimsical picture book includes eleven common terms related to dental and oral health, along with a glossary of name pronunciations and fun, scientific facts about each of the eleven dinosaurs mentioned in the story. It takes an imaginative, humorous look at dinosaurs' dental health and eases children's fears about going to the dentist, while cleverly encouraging them to take care of their own teeth.

Did Dinosaurs Have Dentists?

Children's Books

Animals

Schiffer Kids

Do Penguins Have Pediatricians?

On the way to a doctor checkup, a young child asks an important question: Do animals that live in really cold places ever get sick? From the same author as Did Dinosaurs Have Dentists?, this picture book uses Arctic and Antarctic creatures to lessen anxiety about the doctor. Can penguins catch pneumonia? Can a caribou get chicken pox? By introducing ailments through charmingly drawn animals, this humorous look at common childhood illnesses will ease the fears and worries many kids have about visiting the doctor. The colorfully illustrated story contains 14 common terms related to children's health, as well as a glossary of fun, scientific facts about each of the animals featured.

On the way to a doctor checkup, a young child asks an importantquestion: Do animals that live in really cold places ever get sick? Fromthe same author as Did Dinosaurs Have Dentists?, this picturebook uses Arctic and Antarctic creatures to lessen anxiety about thedoctor. Can penguins catch pneumonia? Can a caribou get chicken pox? Byintroducing ailments through charmingly drawn animals, this humorouslook at common childhood illnesses will ease the fears and worries manykids have about visiting the doctor. The colorfully illustrated storycontains 14 common terms related to children's health, as well as aglossary of fun, scientific facts about each of the animals featured.

Schiffer+publishing Ltd

Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of World War II's OSS

History

Americas

Citadel

Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that the Cold War has ended and the threat of nuclear annihilation has been dramatically lessened by most estimates, the paranoia that has characterized the period has not gone away. Indeed, it is as if—as O’Donnell suggests—this paranoia has been internalized, scattered, and reiterated at a multitude of sites: Oklahoma City, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Bosnia, the White House, the United Nations, and numerous other places.O’Donnell argues that paranoia on the broadly cultural level is essentially a narrative process in which history and postmodern identity are negotiated simultaneously. The result is an erasure of historical temporality—the past and future become the all-consuming, self-aware present. To explain and exemplify this, O’Donnell looks at such books and films as Libra, JFK, The Crying of Lot 49, The Truman Show, Reservoir Dogs, Empire of the Senseless, Oswald’s Tale, The Executioner’s Song, Underworld, The Killer Inside Me, and Groundhog Day. Organized around the topics of nationalism, gender, criminality, and construction of history, Latent Destinies establishes cultural paranoia as consonant with our contradictory need for multiplicity and certainty, for openness and secrecy, and for mobility and historical stability.Demonstrating how imaginative works of novels and films can be used to understand the postmodern historical condition, this book will interest students and scholars of American literature and cultural studies, postmodern theory, and film studies.

Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (New Americanists)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Duke University Press Books

Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that the Cold War has ended and the threat of nuclear annihilation has been dramatically lessened by most estimates, the paranoia that has characterized the period has not gone away. Indeed, it is as if—as O’Donnell suggests—this paranoia has been internalized, scattered, and reiterated at a multitude of sites: Oklahoma City, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Bosnia, the White House, the United Nations, and numerous other places. O’Donnell argues that paranoia on the broadly cultural level is essentially a narrative process in which history and postmodern identity are negotiated simultaneously. The result is an erasure of historical temporality—the past and future become the all-consuming, self-aware present. To explain and exemplify this, O’Donnell looks at such books and films as Libra, JFK, The Crying of Lot 49, The Truman Show, Reservoir Dogs, Empire of the Senseless, Oswald’s Tale, The Executioner’s Song, Underworld, The Killer Inside Me, and Groundhog Day. Organized around the topics of nationalism, gender, criminality, and construction of history, Latent Destinies establishes cultural paranoia as consonant with our contradictory need for multiplicity and certainty, for openness and secrecy, and for mobility and historical stability. Demonstrating how imaginative works of novels and films can be used to understand the postmodern historical condition, this book will interest students and scholars of American literature and cultural studies, postmodern theory, and film studies.

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This Side of Paradise (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

McCollum's Run

The Knights Next Door: Everyday People Living Middle Ages Dreams

The Knights Next Door: Everyday People Living Middle Ages Dreams

Did Dinosaurs Have Dentists?

Do Penguins Have Pediatricians?

Do Penguins Have Pediatricians?

Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of World War II's OSS

Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (New Americanists)

Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (New Americanists)