New Releases by Christopher Moore

Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. ''Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit. It is the hap-hap-happiest time of the year, after all. But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he''s not on his deathbed; no, his dog hasn''t run away from home. But Josh is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has only one prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead. But hold on! There''s an angel waiting in the wings. (Wings, get it?) It''s none other than the Archangel Raziel come to Earth seeking a small child with a wish that needs granting. Unfortunately, our angel''s not sporting the brightest halo in the bunch, and before you can say "Kris Kringle," he''s botched his sacred mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong into Christmas chaos, culminating in the most hilarious and horrifying holiday party the town has ever seen. Only Christopher Moore, the man who brought you the outrageous lost gospel Lamb and the hysterical fish tale Fluke could have devised a new holiday classic that tugs at the heartstrings and serves up a healthy slice of fruitcake to boot. Move over, Charles Dickens -- it''s Christopher Moore time.

Le coyote, c''est le farceur de la cosmogonie indienne. Celui qui tire sur la couverture où les dieux ont soigneusement rangé les étoiles, donnant ainsi un léger côté pagaille su firmament. Autant dire que quand le coyote s''attaque à ce brave yuppie de Sam Hunter, sa vie devient un enfer... Mais un enfer revu par Tex Avery...

A bold, hilarious, speculative novel fills in the lost years of Jesus life, told from the perspective of Biff, Christ''s childhood best buddy. By the author of The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove.

Provides information and photographs on Canada, exploring the history, politics, territories, and people that have formed this nation.

Un Gozilla qui n''aime pas le blues depuis que son bébé a été tué par Catfish, le bluesman. Un flic, fumeur de joints. Une schizophrène, ex-actrice de films de série Z post-apocalyptiques et une serveuse qui ferait pâlir d''envie " L''Homme qui valait trois milliards ". Un restaurateur qui porte les prénoms de Lovecraft et rêve " d''observer une indicible créature venue de la nuit des temps s''élever de ténébreuses profondeurs abyssales pour venir dévaster la civilisation et se repaître de chair humaine ". On reprend depuis le début ?

Little Joshua Barker is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old prays for Santa to come back from the dead. There''s an angel waiting in the wings, but he''s botched his sacred mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong into Christmas chaos.

Eine Insel in der Südsee, Palmen, Strand, eine atemberaubende Blondine und ein paar Wilde: das Paradies auf Erden. Allerdings nicht für Pilot Tuck, den geborenen Verlierer. Die Eingeborenen entpuppen sich als Kannibalen, und die Sexbombe als pures Gift. Doch das ist noch nicht alles - ein skrupelloser Arzt missbraucht die Insulaner für seine Geschäfte. Zusammen mit einem verrückten Transvestiten und der Fledermaus Roberto plant Tuck die Rettung der Inselbewohner... Der ehemalige Journalist Christopher Moore arbeitete als Dachdecker, Kellner, Fotograf und Versicherungsvertreter, bevor er anfing, Romane zu schreiben. Seine Bücher haben in Amerika längst Kultstatus, und auch im deutschsprachigen Raum wächst die Fangemeinde beständig. Christopher Moore liebt - nach eigenen Angaben - den Ozean, Elefanten-Polo, Käsecracker, Acid Jazz und das Kraulen von Fischottern. Er mag aber weder Salmonellen noch Autoverkehr und erst recht nicht gemeine Menschen. Der Autor lebt in San Francisco, Kalifornien.

- More examples, taken from a range of technical and business settings. You''ll find examples of the kind of procedures you write- Chapters on flowcharts and logic tables. Guiding procedure users through the decision-making process can be among the most difficult tasks faced by the procedure writer. Flowcharts and logic tables present this information simply and intuitively- Essentializing--including only essential information in the procedure. The concept of essentializing is crucial to effective procedure writing- More on the procedure writing process. Many deficiencies in procedures stem from deficiencies in the process used to write the procedures. Compare your process to the process discussed in Chapter 3.

"In the 1860s, western alienation began at Yonge Street, and George Brown was the Preston Manning of the day." So begins Christopher Moore''s fascinating 1990s look at the messy, dramatic, crisis-ridden process that brought Canada into being - and at the politicians, no more lovable or united than our own, who, against all odds, managed to forge a deal that worked. From the first chapter, he turns a fresh, perceptive, and lucid eye on the people, the issues, and the political theories of Confederation - from John A. Macdonald''s canny handling of leadership to the invention of federalism and the Senate, from the Quebec question to the influence of political philosophers Edmund Burke and Walter Bagehot. This is a book for all Canadians who love their country - and fear for it after the failure of the constitution-making of the 1990s. Here is a clear, entertaining reintroduction to the ideas and processes that forged the nation.

By the end of the Revolutionary War there were a great number of Loyalists--people who could not support the Revolution. In 1783 and 1784, some 50,000 of these Loyalists headed north, forcing the British authorities in Halifax and Quebec to provide for the wave of refugees that far outnumbered the resident population. Those Loyalists went on to change the face of the Canadian colonies.