This book is for pig lovers everywhere. Humorous, unconventional, and chock-full of sage advice on life, Twist and Snout: A Guide to Pigging Out of Life will leave you snorting for more!The photography comes from the Big Pig Gig. During the year 2000, more than 400 fiberglass pigs were decorated and reborn by local artists and displayed throughout various parts of Cincinnati (that's Cin-sow-nati) and northern Kentucky. The event showed off the city's pork-producing history, increased tourism, and raised money for charity. The coffee-table book The Big Pig Gig: Celebrating Pigs in the City sold over 31,000 copies in just four months! Twist and Snout displays these photographs with witty observations on life, making this the perfect lighthearted, inspirational gift book for any occasion. Among the many porkers you'll meet are Uncle Ham, Swine Lake, Hamlite, Albert Swinestein, Cheshire Pig, Porker's Wild, and Bringin' Home the Bacon. Pig enthusiasts are sure to go hog-wild!

An arsonist has struck a top-secret research facility at a key US naval base. But it's not just a random terrorist attack. These people were after something specific. When Special Agent Patrick Bowers is called in to investigate, he is drawn into a deadly web of intrigue and deception. With his own criminology research being turned against him and one of the world's most deadly devices missing, Bowers is caught up in a race against time to stop an international assassin before it's too late. Full of fast-paced action and mind-bending plot twists, The Rook is an adrenaline-laced page-turner that will keep readers up all night. Book 2 in the Bowers Files, this riveting look into the criminal mind is the perfect follow-up to James's well-reviewed The Pawn.

In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell. Similar to the Inferno (34 cantos), this volume is divided into 33 cantos, written in tercets (groups of 3 lines). The English prose is arranged in tercets to facilitate easy correspondence to the verse form of the Italian on the facing page, enabling the reader to follow both languages line by line. In an effort to capture the peculiarities of Dante's original language, this translation strives toward the literal and sheds new light on the shape of the poem. Again the text of Purgatorio follows Petrocchi's La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, but the editor has departed from Petrocchi's readings in a number of cases, somewhat larger than in the previous Inferno, not without consideration of recent critical readings of the Comedy by scholars such as Lanza (1995, 1997) and Sanguineti (2001). As before, Petrocchi's punctuation has been lightened and American norms have been followed. However, without any pretensions to being "critical", the text presented here is electic and being not persuaded of the exclusive authority of any manuscript, the editor has felt free to adopt readings from various branches of the stemma. One major addition to this second volume is in the notes, where is found the Intercantica - a section for each canto that discusses its relation to the Inferno and which will make it easier for the reader to relate the different parts of the Comedy as a whole.