Scott Guy was a good man, a great dad, a salt-of-the-earth farmer who was gunned down at his front gate for no conceivable reason.His death enthralled us, partly because it was so inexplicable, but also because there were no obvious suspects. When police finally arrested someone, public fascination soared - because the person they claimed killed Scott Guy was his brother-in-law, colleague and former mate, Ewen Macdonald.While on the surface a hardworking husband and father ...

Shirley Temple possessed by demons? Danny Kaye singing like Michael Jackson? Are the characters in Night of the Living Dead planning a party? There's nothing wrong with your television set. It's Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection, the television show that ran from 1985-1989 in the wee hours of the night. Founded in 1977, The L.A. Connection is still going strong with sketch comedy, improv and "mock dubbing" of movies and television. Author Mike White (Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinem...

**"Mike White hits a heartwarming hat trick with this cute, funny, and action-packed adventure. Mellybean will bounce off the page and into your heart." —Mo O'Hara, New York Times bestselling author of the My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series and Agent MooseThe Secret Life of Pets meets The Wizard of Oz in this debut graphic novel about a spunky pup who gets trapped in a world filled with magic, adventure, and one giant, grumpy monster.**Mel...

Bob is a (mostly) obedient wage-slave at Xmart. The store exists some years after a localized zombie outbreak that was then largely contained. The CDC and cooperating government organizations are still mopping up the stragglers that occurred from the outbreak, however, and the occasional zombie walking into a store has become so commonplace Xmart actually has a code for informing employees about it, and they've added it into their training videos for employment.The occasional flare...

**The executive producer of The White Lotus shares how he got his big break in film and television production on “the greatest TV show of all time” (Rolling Stone)An inside look at the film industry for fans, students, and aspiring professionals — featuring a foreword by Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning creator of The White Lotus, Mike White**This page-turning account of starting at the lowest rung on the production ladder among enormously famo...

Kit had already been thinking about getting around to college when she's somehow transported to a university far away from anything she's ever seen before. She has a choice to make, will she join a college she barely understands and become a student along with elephants wearing helmets, cyborgs that shift into mist and cavemen with strange crystals on the giant rocks they carry?**Time Travel U is the story of a school that just is, no matter what time period a sapient entity ...

Kit had already been thinking about getting around to college when she's somehow transported to a university far away from anything she's ever seen before. She has a choice to make, will she join a college she barely understands and become a student along with elephants wearing helmets, cyborgs that shift into mist and cavemen with strange crystals on the giant rocks they carry?**Time Travel U is the story of a school that just is, no matter what time period a sapient entity ...

Joe is a mean, swearing, beer-drinking android programming machine, but lately, his ancestor keeps making him time travel back to the Ice Age to help her fight off an incursion from a local village.They may have spears, but the Chieftain known as Bear has a secret weapon: Joe.Plus the Internet. But on top of that, apparently technology similar to the mysterious vial Bear uses to pull Joe's consciousness back to the past is showing up both in the past and in the present in t...

**"Mellybean will bounce off the page and into your heart." —Mo O'Hara, New York Times bestselling author of the My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series and Agent MooseThe second book in this charming graphic novel series finds Melly and her feline friends returning to the magical world hidden in their backyard, only to discover that a wicked wizard has taken over and these pets may be the only ones who can stop her!**Melly's learned a new trick, and she can't w...

Harness the power of SQL Server, Microsoft’s high-performance database and data analysis software package, by accesing everything you need to know in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible. Learn the best practices, tips, and tricks from this comprehensive tutorial and reference, which includes specific examples and sample code, with nearly every task demonstrated in both a graphical and SQL code method. Understand how to develop SQL Server databases and data connections, how to administ...

This book considers how and why the field of arts development in community health has come about, the characteristics of its practice and the challenges it poses for evaluation. It summarises what has been learnt from a number of case studies and other forms of research from the UK and elsewhere.

**The highs and lows, joy and heartache of owning a dog are told in this beautifully written story of life in and around a dog park.'The book of the year. THE book on dogs. And people.' Andrew Dickens, Newstalk ZB**'This wryly affectionate portrait of dogs and their people is a tail-thumpingly delightful read.' Jane Clifton'So charming and funny and sincere - this is dog lit at its best.' Steve Braunias'Mike White, for decades one of the country's most persu...