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Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide by DK Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-13: 9780756635008
Celebrate the arrival of the new chapter in the saga of one of our time's greatest and most enduring mythic figures -- the great explorer/adventurer Indiana Jones (a.k.a. Harrison Ford) in the long-awaited new Steven Spielberg lollapalooza, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Shatter by Michael Robotham
This is the more pointed question asked by his nemesis, whose working knowledge of human psychology is on a par with that of the professor. Having driven a woman to jump naked off the Clifton Suspension Bridge (in Bristol, in Britain), this killer gets O'Loughlin's full attention, too, especially since O'Loughlin is the expert who fails to talk her down. And so the battle of wits begins with an opening score of 15-love to the amateur, or is he? Michael Robotham drip-feeds tantalising clues to the reader in italicised prose expressing the killer's stream of consciousness. It's a familiar device but is used effectively here, lending a contemporary political angle to what otherwise might be a simple story of personal revenge.
Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory by Mickey Rapkin
ISBN-10: 159240376X
ISBN-13: 978-1592403769
Pitch Perfect is a behind-the-scenes look at the bizarre, often inspiring world of collegiate a cappella groups. The first collegiate a cappella group, the Yale Whiffenpoofs, was founded by Cole Porter back in 1909. But what had been largely an Ivy League phenomenon has, in the past fifteen years, exploded. And it’s not what you think. There are now more than 1,200 a cappella groups at colleges across the country. The very best of these collegiate groups square off in the annual International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella—a showdown marked by wrenching close calls and exhilarating triumphs. And, really, where else can you hear Michael Jackson’s “Bad” in four-part harmony?
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
ISBN-10: 0316143472
ISBN-13: 978-0316143479
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.
Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times).
Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden by Morgan Spurlock
ISBN-10: 1400066522
ISBN-13: 978-1400066520
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even higher in Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? Spurlock is a jittery father-to-be with a simple question: If OBL is behind 9/11 and all the ensuing worldwide chaos, then why can’t we just catch him? And furthermore, why is his message so compelling to so many people? So the intrepid Spurlock kisses his anxious wife goodbye and–armed with a complete lack of knowledge, experience, or expertise–sets out to make the world safe for infantkind and find the most wanted man on earth.
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