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Hades is dead and the Agency needs a replacement, a new apprentice to carry on its good work. After a vote, number 72 18 9 11 1 13 49 is selected and promptly yanked from his grave to serve a seven-day trial sentence. Each day the hapless narrator is to assist Death in the killing of one unfortunate soul.

Pregnancy is filled with many joys and much wonder. But this miraculous journey can also be accompanied by a good deal of fear and anxiety. Will my pregnancy be difficult? Will my labor be painful? Will I be a good mother?While Hypnosis for a Joyful Pregnancy and Pain-Free Labor and Deliver will not be able to provide answers to all of the unknowns, this unique and innovative book can teach you how to lessen the common complaints of pregnancy ...

The National Book Award finalist for White Man's Grave now presents a scathing, hilarious satire of doctors, lawyers, hospitals, health care, life, and death. When Felicia Potter comes to the hospital to visit her comatose father, Dr. Peter Ernst, a young resident, sees the opportunity to spice up his grim routine with a little romance.

A handbook that covers the practical and emotional issues facing divorced fathers today, "Be a Great Divorced Dad" offers advice, guidance, and support for the ever-growing number of divorced fathers who seek to remain "real" dads, but fear that their situation after divorce will make that impossible.

For two years in the pages of "Esquire" magazine, with no more professional qualifications than a decent consience, Harry Stein examined the battle between right and wrong in the most intimate terms. Now collected in book form, Stein's provocative essays eloquently address many of the real, if unspoken, issues of everyday life, providing warm, personal insights that offer a rich reward beyond good and evil.

A frank, streetwise "Our Bodies, Ourselves" for young men and women, this guide answers the questions young people are asking--about sexuality, drugs, alcohol, fitness and nutrition, and much more.

Cricket Explained offers the sports enthusiast a user-friendly introduction to baseball's British cousin, a game that shares with America's national pastime the common ancestor "rounders".This is the definitive beginner's guide to the game of cricket, written by a world authority on the sport, the co-inventor of the Coopers & Lybrand World Cricket Ratings System. Cricket Explained takes the reader from the game's fundamentals -- basic rules, t...

A first-time-in-paperback reissue, this full-fledged biography takes on all of the famous Shakespearean debates, from whether or not Shakespeare actually wrote his plays to speculation regarding his sexuality to the mysterious curse he set upon his own grave. This lively and provocative book weaves together the most complete, objective, and readable account of Shakespeare's life ever written. Includes 24 pages of illustrations.

A collection of Barry's most profound musings on the condition and malaise of American society, including his advice on how to get kids to stop smoking (eliminate 10th grade), what to do if your car is making loud noises (turn up the radio), and more. A Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist at The Miami Herald, Barry has written 15 humorous books.

A serial killer is stalking the female reindeer of Stockholm, the world's leading expert on Baltic sturgeon has been kippered, and the body of Sweden's only non-bestselling thriller writer has been discovered in a private sauna. A story of corruption and perversion that reaches to the highest echelons of the world's largest producer of inexpensive ready-to-assemble wooden bookcases, THE GIRL WITH THE STURGEON TATTOO serves up a hilarious-and g...

After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of "Galatea 2.2"--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to tr...