Angel Bites the Bullet

Angel Bites the Bullet
Author: Judy Delton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2003-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618369201

What does a ten-year-old girl do when her mother's best friend moves into her room -- beauty products, sheepdog, pantyhose, and all? Angel springs into action, looking for a man to marry Alyce and take her away, out of Angel's hair, house, and family. But along the way, Angel learns that more changes are in store, and she can handle them much better than she thought.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions
Author: Elizabeth Webber
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
Total Pages: 614
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780877796282

A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students.

Bite Your Bullet

Bite Your Bullet
Author: Vijay Luhar
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 166558548X

Bite Your Bullet is the journey of discovering and utilizing your true power within and ultimately connecting with the universal energy. True power is confidence. Lack of confidence and trust in your own abilities is what holds you back. Weakness in avoiding certain situations or events only keeps you trapped in your own prison. Being in denial of these may be unrecognizable but you don’t know your limits until you feel the freedom of doing what you want without over questioning yourself. The pioneers of history did not give up at the first hurdle. More importantly they did not feel shy about inventing. What makes you different from them? There is no limitation except your mind. This book will take you places in your mind you may not have even considered you would get involved with. If you want to develop the best version of yourself by trusting a higher power within you then this is the book to mastering your own life. The action steps inside are valuable tools to spur you to action and is far from the idea of ‘all talk.’ Living authentically with an ambitious fire within is what this book can gift.

A Brief History of Pakistan

A Brief History of Pakistan
Author: James Wynbrandt
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2009
Genre: Pakistan
ISBN: 081606184X

From the Publisher: A Brief History of Pakistan attempts to answer these questions in a concise yet thorough account. By illuminating the nation's past, this book offers readers a detailed perspective of Pakistan today and enables them to consider soundly how the country, once a birthplace of civilization, might change in the future.

Really!?

Really!?
Author: Steve Elliott
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Total Pages: 798
Release: 2020-12-09
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 195226975X

Facts, facts, facts! We are surrounded by facts: some strange, some horrific, some unbelievable, and some funny. Those facts make us who we are. Humans are a curious species and we all want to know the truth. Astronomy, animals, plants, the human body, science, history, people, war, and the Earth are all interesting subjects about which most of us know very little. This book contains many known facts that you probably didn’t know before, but will make you say, “Really!?” Did you know that our galaxy, the Milky Way, and our nearest neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy, are on a collision course? But not to worry, the two galaxies won’t collide for about four billion years. Really!?

It's Been Said Before

It's Been Said Before
Author: Orin Hargraves
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199315744

Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our language? In It's Been Said Before, lexicographer Orin Hargraves examines the peculiar idea and power of the cliché. He helps readers understand why certain phrases became clichés and why they should be avoided -- or why they still have life left in them. Indeed, clichés can be useful -- even powerful. And few people even agree on which expressions are clichés and which are not. Many regard any frequent idiom as a cliché, and a phrase regarded as a cliché in one context may be seen simply as an effective expression in another. Examples drawn from data about actual usage support Hargraves' identification of true clichés. They also illuminate his commentary on usage problems and helpful suggestions for eliminating clichés where they serve no useful purpose. Concise and lively, It's Been Said Before serves as a guide to the most overused phrases in the English language -- and to phrases that are used exactly as often as they should be.

Western Film Highlights

Western Film Highlights
Author: Henryk Hoffmann
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2009-10-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786445017

Westerns may have had their heyday, but they remain popular. The greatest films from 1914, when The Squaw Man and The Virginian were among the genre's best, through 2001, when American Outlaws and Texas Rangers were tops, are the subject of this work. For each year, the author names the outstanding western films in the following categories: picture, screenplay (original and adaptation), direction, cinematography, music, male and female leading roles, and male and female supporting roles. Also for each year, the author lists the westerns that received Academy Award nominations (and those that won), makes note of the births and deaths of notable actors, directors, producers, composers, cinematographers, authors and other such personalities, and describes the genre's significant achievements.

Webster's New World Dictionary

Webster's New World Dictionary
Author: Michael Agnes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 771
Release: 2003-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0743470702

Over 60,000 entries -- covering business, computer, and scientific terms; colloquial, idiomatic, and current slang expressions; and more. Updated and revised biographical and geographical database -- with more than 2,000 new entries. Simple alphabetical listing for all entries -- including prefixes and suffixes, abbreviations, foreign words and phrases, and biographical and geographical names. Concise, easy-to-understand definitions -- many revised to reflect the latest research on usage and meaning. Precise and comprehensive pronunciation key -- designed for quick, convenient reference. Updated page design and layout -- modern, clear type appeals to the eye and makes for an easier-to-read reference tool. Complete A-to-Z preparation by the permanent lexicographical staff at Webster's New World" College Dictionary -- the word pros who prepared the acclaimed Fourth College Edition.

Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms

Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms
Author: Paul Heacock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2003-09-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521532716

This book unlocks the meaning of more than 5,000 idioms used in American English today.