Daze of the Dead


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El Muerto the Aztec Zombie appears in his first graphic novel, featuring an all-new retelling of his classic origin story! Born on Nov 2, el Dia de Los Muertos, Juan Diego de La Muerte is destined for the adventure of a lifetime. On his 21st birthday he is killed in a car accident, sending him to the Mictlan, the land of the dead. Once there, he is sacrificed and resurrected by the gods of Death and Destiny, endowing him with miraculous abilities and an unknown mission. Returned to Earth one year later, Diego is drawn to Mexico, where he soon finds himself at Mondragon's Circus and Festival of Freaks. New friendships ensue, as does unspeakable inhumanity, all while grand cosmic forces hover around him! Don't miss this limited Advance Reader Copy, featuring cover artwork exclusive to this edition. Originally created in 1998 by cartoonist Javier Hernandez, El Muerto made the leap from independent comic book to live action film in 2007, starring Wilmer Valderrama, Angie Cepeda, Joel David Moore, Tony Plana and Michael Parks. Now El Muerto stars in his first graphic novel!




Witch Daze


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Realm of the Dead


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In this collection of short stories, the lands of both the living and the dead are equally dark and mysterious worlds where logic and reality are subject to constant change and where ideas about identity and self are continually questioned.




Poochie's Changing Daze


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Beverly has been called Poochie by her family that her father occasionally forgets her real name. She grew up in Nairn Centre, Ontario, a small community where everyone knew almost everything going on in everyone else's household. Even so, she still managed to have secrets. In this memoir, she tells the story of her youth, from her childhood through her teenage years. She shares her wealth of exciting and embarrassing moments from her life as a child, trying to learn how to be herself in a constantly changing world. She was a child obsessively dependent on her mother, to the point of having suicidal thoughts when she believes she has lost her mother's respect. With an open and honest mind, Poochie shares each childhood turmoil as it gets conquered and turned into a stepping stone for the next adventure in Poochie's Changing Daze a story of the love and strength that a family gets from having each other.




Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem


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An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.




Daze of Infamy


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An intriguing coming of age storyfor the ages! Sojourn sleepy Savannah in the stormy Sixties, a city too dignified to hate. A storytelling delight, meet a Greek mentor, teaching and coaching a group of boys with varying heritage. Transforming moments, transforming livesoccasionally changing the world forever! Daze of Infamy is about all of us, a book for all of us. Creating a better understanding of Our Own Daze. One thing for sure, it will make you think! If Forrest Gump and a Big Fat Greek Wedding married and had a child, Daze of Infamy might be it!




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Death on the Learning Curve


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A hospital operating room may not be as safe as you think it is. Hiding among the sterile scrubs and gleaming instruments of an operating room is a whole lot of high drama: split-second life-and-death decisions.deep questions of ethics.roaring personality conflicts.the glory of saving a life-and the horror when a simple procedure goes terribly wrong.Renowned surgeon Pierce Scranton, Jr., kept a detailed diary of his internship year at a busy California teaching hospital. This book is a vivid, fictionalized memoir of that year in the trenches. Through the intertwined stories of teachers, students and patients, it explores issues like: What happens when teaching and healing come into conflict? When is a new treatment to prolong life a good idea, and when is it a disaster? How did lawyers and bean-counters get so much power? And when do relationships between doctors and other staff go too far? This honest account is startling and sometimes shocking-but always gripping.