Collecting issues #7 to #11 of ABCtales Magazine. Featuring Richard Addison, Edmund Allos, Lane Ashfeldt, Patrick F Astre, Rask Balavoine, Tala Bar, Danny Bird, Katherine Black, Chris Blackburn, J L Bogenschneider, Lew Bowmere, Emma Bryant, Donna Carter, Christine Clatworthy, Felicity Cowie, Ruth Crome, Richard Dendrite, Liam Deveney, Kelvin Doyle, Jayne Dunsmuir, Chelsey Flood, Barry Foster, Jay Frankston, Lisa Fuller, Louise Gallagher, Ned Glasier, Nicky Goodman, Drew Gummerson, David Hadley, Rebecca Hainsworth, Mick Hanson, Taegan Harker, Andrew Hollyhead, Ben Ingber, Clive Jackaman, Paul Jennings, Andy Knudsen, Margot Lambert, Matt Langford, Ewan Lawrie, Mark Leech, Sarah Lester, Simon Locke, David Lott, Rachel Louise, Lorraine Mace, Mark Mason, Ross McCague, Hazel McSporran, Tanja Micic, Edward Mooney, Kenny Mooney, Molly Naylor, Brendan O'Neill, John Osborne, Jennifer Pickup, Nicoletta Poulakida and many more.

Collecting issues #18 to #22 of ABCtales Magazine. Guest editors Katie Beavis, Mark Mason and Thersa Newbill. Featuring Richard Aronowitz, Paul Askew, Jason Bates, Emily Bell, Chris Birrane, Steve Button, Paul Chappell, Marian Clare, Dave Clark, Christine Clatworthy, Tessa Davies, Jose Hernandez Dias, Dave Elsensohn, Andrew Evans, Anna Marie Fiore, Nicky Goodman, Jo Grigg, Tom Gunn, Zemikael Habte-Mariam, Karen Hadj, David Hadley, Bex Hainsworth, Joseph Harvey, Sam Hennig, Allen Houston, Jennifer Houston, Lila Joseph, Mark Kilburn, A J Kirby, Zak Klein, Ewan Lawrie, Anna Marie, Gemma Meek, Maureen Mooney, John Nandy, R J Newlyn, Jack O'Donnell, Luigi Pagano, David Pamment, Richard Penny, A Samuel Perez, Alanna S Petty, Matthew Pitts, Nicoletta Poulakida, Phil Sawyer, Anna Scott, Mhairi Shaw, Shirley Shoebridge, Sharon Smith, Andrew Spragg, Andrea Tallarita, Will Tate, Alex Tomlin, James Andrew Turner, Maggy VanEijk, Lesley Warren, Alison Wassell, Bruce Wiles, Glenn Wyatt and more.

A scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of twenty-first-century terms and lists explanations of word origins.

Written in the first person, Escape Inc. begins with two men bound together by the same experience. With both of their wives in prison, they are fired with the same ideaahow to get their ladies out. The idea becomes an obsession, with meticulous planning involving prison routines, deadlocks, and security cameras, not to mention razor wire and some very unfriendly dogs. Our two heroes spring their wives successfully and the idea occurs to them to form a limited companyalimited to certain prisoners who merit release. So Escape Inc. is born, a dedicated team of lawbreakers whose services are provided to inmates with large amounts of cash. There are rules of course. Terrorists, sex offenders, and psychos can stay where they are, but anybody else? Well, each case is decided on its own merits. Could such a scenario possibly work? Of course nota]oh, but there was that breakout from Parkhurst not so long ago. And wasnat there some incident at Barlinnie? Then, if you remember, there was all that hoohah at the Scrubsa]. No, it couldnat possibly work. Escape Inc. is pure fictiona]isnat it?

If you don't know idioms, you don't know English. Idioms are expressions that cannot be understood from their individual words alone, and the English language is full of them-and so is this dictionary: 17,000+ English idiom examples, plus slang words, phrases, and phrasal verbs, all compiled by the language experts at Farlex International and TheFreeDictionary.com, the award-winning reference site with 1 billion+ annual visits. That's thousands more idioms than other popular idioms dictionaries, plus thousands of examples of idioms used in real life: every definition also includes up to three example sentences to show exactly how the phrase is used by native speakers in everyday conversation. The Farlex Idioms and Slang Dictionary features idioms and phrases from across the English-speaking world, including American slang, British slang, Australian slang, and Irish slang, plus: Internet slang Abbreviations Proverbs Regional expressions And more! It's more than just a list of idioms: get details about the origin and history of both common idioms and rare ones, including in which countries they're used most. This is the essential idioms dictionary if you want to talk like a native speaker-or just find out more about the colorful phrases you hear and say every day. The essential guide to English idioms and slang, from Farlex International, the language experts behind the popular and award-winning TheFreeDictionary.com. Farlex brings its reputation for comprehensive and authoritative reference products to the most complete collection of idioms and slang from across the English language. Inside you'll find more than 17,000 idioms, slang terms, and phrasal verbs, all defined in plain language and with bonus example sentences to show how they're used in real life by native speakers. Featuring popular idioms and slang terms from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, and South Africa, plus valuable information you won't find anywhere else, including the origin of phrases. Whether you want to sound more like a native speaker or just know more about the strange expressions you're always hearing, The Farlex Idioms and Slang Dictionary is the best way to learn about the English language's most colorful phrases.

Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.

The bestselling author of "Those Who Walk in Darkness" delivers the second book of his action-packed series, featuring top LAPD mutant-hunter Soledad O'Roark, who teams up with rival Eddi Aoki when a vigilante starts killing metanormals without mercy. Original.