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Daniel Peirce examines the graphic nature of historic engines, using 64 photographs from his 'Up-N-Smoke' engine project. He also tells the story of the project and the years it took to take it from an inspired idea to a tangible reality.

The Nameless Detective and Sharon McCone join forces at a San Diego private detective convention to investigate a case involving multiple murder, a crime ring dealing in smuggled fugitives, and bizarre, kinky lifestyles.

American Youth is a controlled, essential, and powerful tale of a teenager in southern New England who is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a fatal firearms accident in his home. This tragedy earns him the unwelcome admiration of a sinister group of boys at his school and a girl associated with them. Set in a town riven by social and ideological tensions – an old rural culture in conflict with newcomers – this is a classic portrait of a young man struggling with the idea of identity and responsibility in an America ill at ease with itself.

This volume contains two novels by southern fiction writer David A. Myers. Katelyn Manor introduced the mountain village of Arab, a town situated on Brindlee Mountain in the Appalachian foothills. The events that take place in the story are centered around the activities of a tight group of confederates who call themselves Le Cercle de Speculation. Le Cercle meets over wine, crackers and cheese to discuss and solve issues confronting the world. It isn't long, however, before much more immediate concerns demand their attention. Katelyn Manor is light, funny, and suspenseful. In Mona White's Diary, the darker side of mountain village life intrudes upon the good folks on Brindlee Mountain. Mona is a fugitive from the law. Her circumstance and a heart-wrenching sequence of events drives her to the brink of despair.

Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Every so often we get a glimpse into a world that we refuse to claim as our own, a world that we claim is not of our making and a world in which we desire to take no part. We ignore the battles that rage on the edges, beyond the glow of city street lamps or behind closed doors. Every city, every town, has its shadows. The demons that assaulted Mona White, and by default us as well, slipped right up First Avenue and slugged us in the gut. Mona's life started in the quiet countryside and that tranquility molded her spirit. That world didn't prevail. To this day she pays for the sins of the world that was thrust upon her. Mona White's Diary is a record that she exisited.

They were average kids looking for something to do. Today they started killing people. A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde are on the run through rural Minnesota—victim by victim they’re having the time of their lives. But when Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the hunt for the thrill-hungry kids, things take a shocking detour.

This book defies categorization. It is an auto-biographical novel, a book about how to have fun, a cautionary tale for the sexually and socially inhibited. It is a political treatise on how to combat puritanism, a philosophical tract on the importance of humour to the human soul, a buyers' guide to outstanding porno tapes and a business book for the entertainment industry. It is the life of Mark Breslin. Beginning as the enfant terrible of Canadian comedy, Mark Breslin rose up and built an empire: the Yuk Yuk's chain of comedy clubs. He pulled Jim Carrey out of open-mic obscurity, gave dozens of other comics their big breaks and made an astounding contribution to the widely held belief that Canadians are the funniest people in the world. Along the way he learned how far some people will go for money, or for a dream; how truly puritanical North American society remains in this supposedly progressive age; how as you move closer to the top, the only thing you really get is a better view of the men pulling the strings. Written in the sort of irreverent, confessional prose style that will keep the Yuk Yuk's lawyers awake at night, Control Freaked takes us on a hilarious and shocking journey into the dark corners of the entertainment industry.