A brand-new and revised edition of the hilarious guide to the national anti-holiday made famous by Seinfeld, complete with never-before-seen material, photos, and illustrations on how to prepare and enjoy your very own Festivus.

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LUNCH IN PARIS meets ADULTING in this funny and poignant memoir about collapsing cakes and coming of age in your twenties and thirties.

Set in the late Victorian era, An Oxford Scandal is the third book in Norman Russell's 'Oxford' series of detective novels. The book follows Anthony Jardine, a successful and popular tutor at St. Gabriel's College, as he finds his loyalties divided between his work, his wife Dora and his mistress Rachel. Unbeknown to Anthony, Dora is an advanced cocaine addict and he comes to resent her outrageous activities more and more, absorbing himself with the discovery of the remains of St Thomas à Becket in a hidden vault at the college. One rainy night Dora is found murdered in a tramcar out at Cowley and Jardine, who had been visiting Rachel in that area, becomes a suspect. The case is investigated by Inspector James Antrobus and his friend Sophia Jex-Blake, the pioneer woman doctor. A complex investigation follows and after Jardine's mistress is murdered, the clues take Antrobus to London, when the mystery starts to unravel and the killer is revealed in a grand climax... Inspired by the...

Jeremy Oakshott, Fellow of Jerusalem Hall and an authority on the Crusades, is content with life until renowned archaeolo­gist Mrs Lestrange urges him to join her expedition to Syria. His wealthy uncle, Ambrose Littlemore, refuses to help him, and is murdered soon afterwards. Detective Inspector Antrobus has already investigated the savage murder of one of Oakeshott's old friends, but the scholar's alibis are completely water-tight. Assisted by his doctor friend, Sophia Jex-Blake, Antrobus looks further afield, visiting two criminal lunatic asylums, a remote nunnery, and a quiet country village, where at last they uncover the truth about five savage murders, and the identity of their perpetrator.

FROM ACCLAIMED WRITERS BRUCE ELLIOT JONES and APRIL CAMPBELL JONESElliot Bledsoe has a university teaching career, a new screenwriting book, and a gorgeous fiance, Rita. He's also a cynic with phobias about everything from Rita's cat Garbanzo to drowning, but he's learned to live with that.Enter Katie Bracken, a paranormal investigator from New York who's convinced that Elliot holds the secret to her latest case, the twenty-year-old disappearance in the Louisiana swamps of a kidnapped girl that the local officials never solved. Now the little girl seems to be haunting not only her mother and the local voodoo queen but Elliot as well! And to make matters worse, he is stuck with Garbanzo, his mortal enemy, when Rita decides to visit her parents and Katie harasses him into accompanying her to New Orleans and helping her investigate the case.Is this the start of a beautiful romance or a horrible nightmare? Humorous, terrifying, realistic and filled with colorful characters, FEVER DREAMS is the first in the Bracken and Bledsoe Paranormal Mystery series and will make a believer out of you!The second Bracken and Bledsoe Paranormal Mystery, NIGHT CHILLS, is now available exclusively in Kindle format at amazon.com!

"There's a recession on, you know." With an unemployed son and a baby on the way, these are not words that Michael Wyman wants to hear, particularly not from his employers, the university where he's a professor of philosophy, or the British secret service for which he's worked for 30 years. And he most particularly doesn't want to hear them from both employers at once, accompanied by the information that he's being laid off without a pension. Happily, a miracle is at hand, in the form of a Communist spy burrowed deep in the highest reaches of British intelligence. An East German defector can identify the spy, thus safeguarding national security and protecting the government from crippling embarrassment. He is willing to give up the information, but only to one man. At fifty-six years old, Wyman has one last chance to get back in the game...and get out on his own terms.

Annabelle Tinker is shocked to learn her sister has been committed to the mental ward, but has to agree with the doctor that it's not quite normal to believe your boyfriend has been abducted by aliens.

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to the American plateIn the nineteenth century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. But as a new century approached, appetites broadened, and David Fairchild, a young botanist with an insatiable lust to explore and experience the world, set out in search of foods that would enrich the American farmer and enchant the American eater.Kale from Croatia, mangoes from India, and hops from Bavaria. Peaches from China, avocados from Chile, and pomegranates from Malta. Fairchild's finds weren't just limited to food: From Egypt he sent back a variety of cotton that revolutionized an industry, and via Japan he introduced the cherry blossom tree, forever brightening America's capital. Along the way, he was arrested, caught diseases, and bargained with island...

In this humourous and refreshing collection of short stories, David Thompson reveals the charm and grit of life in the Yukon.

The Kings continue to help the Worth family in their flight to escape a nasty posse of slave hunters.

There's a new family moving into the Kings' remote valley, but while building their cabin, they discover they're not the only ones to want to call the place home—a nest of viscious rattlers won't give up their claim without a fight.

Mountain man Nate King would never leave anyone in need, but he has his hands full this time trying to protect both a freight train and a colony of Shakers from a band of Pawnees on a personal vendetta.

A new neighbor in the King Valley harbors a dark secret and a violent past.

Siswan started life as a simple village girl but an alcoholic father and a needing mother would change her life forever. She must seek out the help of the foreign men who visit her country - but first she has to learn their ways. From the first chapter to the last Bar Girl tells a harrowing tale of life in Asia where the only thing that matters is money, where love and respect have to be bought rather than earned, and where women always come second.

In the depths of the Amazon rain forest, an archaeologist exploring ancient ruins discovers a mysterious artifact that heralds doom for all mankind. All around the world, corpses begin to rise from their graves, overwhelming the living and devouring their flesh. A ragtag group of survivors bands together in search of shelter and other survivors.

When Nate King agrees to help find a missing family, little does he know his gesture of goodwill will turn into a terrifying ordeal that will test his wilderness skills to their limits.

A lone warrior, cast out from his tribe, comes to the Kings’ valley—and decides he wants Zach’s pregnant wife for himself!

A buffalo hunt turns deadly when a group out to count coup decide the next scalps they want for their belts are Evelyn King’s and her friends’.

The King family takes on a mysterious monster lurking in their lake.

A naturalist studying the flora of the King family's remote valley runs up against three vicious gold-diggers who plan to strike it rich no matter what the cost.

Evelyn King and Dega are hoping for a quiet picnic in an unexplored valley paradise, but their plans are waylaid by a cunning and vicious mountain lion looking for a feast of its own.