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Tirthraj Pushkar
This book is about one of the most sacred place for Hindus-Pushkar. It is known as Tirhraj which means "king of holy places". It explains Philosophy of Hinduism and significance of Hindu rituals.About half a million foreigners visit this place. Some chapters throw light on rural culture of Rajasthan.
Will to Murder: The True Story Behind the Crimes & Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Killings
Finally, the true story of the Glensheen killings--the murder of elderly Duluth heiress Elisabeth Congdon and her nurse--as told through the eyes of former Duluth detective Gary Waller and St. Louis County prosecutor John DeSanto. This team led the case's investigation and successful prosecution of Roger Caldwell, Cong...
One Gay American
Dennis Milam Bensie is One Gay American. Born in the 1960s and raised with traditional values in Robinson, Illinois, Bensie desperately wanted romance, a beautiful wedding, and a baby to carry on the family name. He denied his sexuality and married a woman at nineteen years old, but fantasized of weddings where he coul...
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Illustrator Charles Reasonor's charming version of the traditional nursery rhyme Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Word balloons add a touch of sweet humor to a familiar tale.
The Language of Light: A Novel
FINALIST FOR THE BELLWETHER PRIZE Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order to escape the grief of her husband's death--and perhaps find a way back to her first love: photography. Easin...
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Illustrator Charles Reasonor's charming version of the traditional nursery rhyme Itsy Bitsy Spider. Word balloons add a touch of sweet humor to the familiar tale.
Humpty Dumpty
Illustrator Charles Reasonor's charming version of the traditional nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Word balloons add a touch of sweet humor to a familiar tale.
Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; and, Through the looking-glass
By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters.
The Falls
For as long as she can remember, Teagan Bliss has wanted to manage her family's property. She's invested everything in the farm, knowing that when her parents retire she'll be ready to take the reins. But when a family betrayal leaves her reeling, Teagan is forced to rethink her entire future. Heartbroken, Teagan flees...
A Taste of Candy
If you mention honor or affluence in Greybrook, Montana, thoughts immediately go to the Shane family, owners of the Montezuma Revenge Cattle Ranch. Daughter, thirty-five-year old Candy Shane, was off creating her own dynasty and succeeded tremendously. A world-renowned chef with two popular TV shows, a line of cook and...
The Mermaid’s Madness
What would happen if a star writer went back to the darker themes of the original fairy tales for plots, and then crossed the Disney princesses with Charlie's Angels? What he'd end up with is The Mermaid's Madness--a whole new take on The Little Mermaid. And with Jim C. Hines, of Jig the Goblin fame, penning the tale, ...
Princess of Fire (Fire, #1)
"New York Times" bestselling author Heather Graham, writing as Shannon Drake, offers the smoldering story of a land divided by treachery and a man and woman bound by passion. Although Alaric, a mighty Norman warrior, rescues Fallon from certain death, she tries desperately to resist this seductive enemy who vows to con...
No More Butterflies
A surprisingly uplifting psychological drama with dark moments and romantic overtones. Dealing with the subjects of domestic psychological, physical and sexual abuse and the lasting damage these do to their victims, it covers twelve years in the lives of two initially unconnected girls, Emma and Helen, both the victims...
The Price Of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
When George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men. Alongside them were Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, two distinguished British evolutionary biologists. All seven men had come to mourn an eccentric American genius who helped to unpick the riddle of how altruism, or u...
Monkeewrench
1 MP3-CD / 10 hours Haunted by a series of horrifying and violent episodes in their past, Grace McBride and the oddball crew of her software company, Monkeewrench, create a computer game where the killer is always caught, where the good guys always win. But their game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating...
Growltiger's Last Stand and Other Poems
Three poems describe the nighttime adventures of some rather special cats.
The Cocktail Party
A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. "An authentic modern masterpiece" (New York Post). "Eliot really does portray real-seeming characters. He cuts down his poetic effects to the minimum, and then finally rewards us with most beautiful poetry" (Stephe...
Skynappers
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As I Walk These Broken Roads
Out of the irradiated wastes comes a soldier. On the far edge of the trade routes, in a small farming community, there lives a mechanic. Two men from a previous era, surviving through steel and cunning in a world of degenerated philosophy; a world where the old tech is treated with savage, animistic worship. A storm is...
Blackout in the Garden of Love (Love Blooms Series Vol#1)
John Vincent and Amerise Carlton are ready to strangle their mutual friend, Ellen, when she pairs them on a blind date certain to be a recipe for disaster. What should have been a fun-filled evening turns sour when the mismatched couple butts heads over dinner. Toss in an inept waiter, the hottest day of the year, a ci...
The Saturdays
Meet the Melendys! The four Melendy children live with their father and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in a worn but comfortable brownstone in New York City. There's thirteen-year-old Mona, who has decided to become an actress; twelve-year-old mischievous Rush; ten-and-a-half-year-old Randy, who loves to dance and p...
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Why is the brain divided? The difference between right & left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound--not just this or that function, but two ...
Fire and Sword
Returning to camp from a dangerous solo mission behind enemy lines, career soldier Daniel Rawson finds himself stranded on foot, with French soldiers in fierce pursuit. With a help of a farmer Daniel manages to escape. Later, when Daniel goes back to return the horse, he finds the farmhouse and barn have been set ablaz...
Revenge Of The Living Dummy (Goosebumps HorrorLand #1)
Britney Crosby encounters an old ventriloquist's dummy with a lively secret - and a wicked plan. Soon afterwards she receives an invitation to an amusement park where all is not as it seems. Who - or what - is summoning kids to HorrorLand? Britney and her friends must find out fast - or remain trapped forever in the sc...
The Chivalry of Crime: A Novel
The Chivalry of Crime, is the story of one of America's most compelling figures, the outlaw gunslinger Jesse James. Bringing real and invented characters together in a dramatic and moving story, The Chivalry of Crime mingles the life of an imaginary boy with a factually faithful account of the lives of Jesse James and ...
The Ticket
Librarian Note: See Alternate Cover Edition . Tray Dunaway longs to be part of the popular set at school but she's growing too fast and her clothes no longer fit. The only person who understands Tray's need for acceptance is her grandmother, but when Tray wears Gram's hand-sewn clothes to school, the kids make fun of ...
The Dragons' Demon: A Dragon's Dream (Ethereal Foes, #1)
A prank gone wrong throws three unlikely partners together: A demon. A dragon. And an egg. In the ordinary world, forces are at work which keep the balance of the universe in order. Enter Eve Sinclair, a higher demon with a mission--to sway those souls on the brink of Decision, to push them toward hell. After a prank p...
Auctioned To The Commander (Sci-fi Alien Invasion Abduction Romance, #4)
Read For FREE On Kindle Unlimited Malik had done well by his people to get the title of commander, and during their invasion, he had made it clear that the spoils would be auctioned off to support the colonization even more. Malik was a man of his word, and he was going to pitch in his own funds as well to get what he ...
Say It in Polish
Contains over 1,000 useful sentences and phrases for travel or everyday living abroad: food, shopping, medical aid, courtesy, hotels, travel, and other situations. Gives the English phrase, the foreign equivalent, and a transliteration that can be read right off. Also includes many supplementary lists, signs, and aids....
Baptism of Fire
The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, ...
Out of the Light
Multi-award winning author. "Doug Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres, and he's also the most prolific. His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think." --Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winni...
So. Long.
I'm not going to be fooled by another Mr. Wrong. I once thought I'd found my Mr. Right--then my best friend found him as well. One divorce later, and this single mom swore off love, romance, and all smooth-talking, tattooed, bad boys. Until him. The worst mistake of my life moved in next door--a bona fide pain in my as...
Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era
Here is a tasty paradox: How did the Leftist legions regroup after history delivered its fatal blow to the Soviet system? Simple, argues Jean-Francois Revel: the Left retreated to the impregnable fortress of the Utopian ideal. After all, socialism incarnate was always vulnerable to criticism. Utopia, on the other hand,...
The Necklace and Other Short Stories
Nine memorable classics, characterized by ironic twists of plot, include "Ball of Fat," regarded by many as technically one of the finest short stories ever written, "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," "Mme. Tellier's Establishment," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Miss Harriet," "A Way to Wealth," "My Uncle Jules" and "The Hor...
The Wildest Dream (Forget-Me-Not)
Elizabeth is the daughter of an Irish lord and she makes the unforgiveable mistake of falling in love with Michael, a poor peasant boy. Can they ever escape Ireland and fulfil their wildest dream of reaching America?
StarTalk: Everything You Want to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe and Beyond
This beautifully illustrated companion to celebrated scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson's popular podcast and National Geographic Channel TV show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about the complexities of our universe. For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combina...
The Prince and the Potty
The prince will not use his potty, and the king and queen are quite perplexed! They are even more confused when they consult the Royal Wise Man, who tells them to get the prince a puppy. But the wisdom of his words becomes perfectly plain as the prince learns all about using a proper potty from his new pet.
Very Bad Things (Briarwood Academy, #1)
This is an alternate cover edition for . Born into a life of privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any nineteen-year-old girl could desire. She's an accomplished pianist, a Texas beauty queen, and on her way to Princeton after high school. She's perfect... Leaving behind her million-dollar mansion and Jim...
For Her Protection: An Alpha Romance
"I was amazed. It's a roller coaster of fear, suspense, love, and lust all wrapped up into a 5/5 book!" --Valerie, MamivalsBooks You shouldn't mix business with pleasure. Yet pleasure seems to be the one and only thing on Charlize's mind the moment Connor steamrolls into her life. Desperate to save her family company...
Nana
We first meet Nana in the Variety Theatre, where the captivating eighteen-year-old is appearing in the lead role of a musical--even though she can't act or sing. "Nana has something that makes up for everything else," the theater owner explains, and he's right. Instead of booing her off the stage, the crowd howls with ...
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania--pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat--became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk off the southern coast of Ireland b...
Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
In 1888 Lord and Lady Clayton sail from England but to West Africa and perish on a remote island. When their infant son is adopted by fanged, great anthropoid apes, he is Tarzan of the Apes. His intelligence and caring mother raise him to be king. Self-educated by his parents' library, Tarzan rescues genteel Jane Porte...
The Chocolate Clown Corpse (A Chocoholic Mystery, #14)
Revenge is sweet for a killer on the loose--and it all started with the murder of Warner Pier's most hated clown.... Everyone who knew the bozo wanted him dead. Odd, then, that a complete stranger was accused of bursting Moe Davidson's balloons. But it's been a month since the miserable shop owner of Clowning Around wa...
Hatchling's Vengeance (Dragshi Chronicles #4)
Glyn, former bodyguard and companion to a dragon lord, is now Lady Glynnes Janaleigh, a dragon lord in her own right. And she has found her intended mate. But, her new-found happiness is fleeting. Finding your mate is only half the battle. Keeping them alive is the other. For a dragshi, duty is more than administering ...
The Dead City Rollers
Alistair didn't know it yet, but in six days time he'd be putting both barrels of a shotgun in his mouth and putting his thumb on the trigger... Burdened down with a bag of pot and a lot of guilt over the person he killed, Alistair needs to escape. He wants out from the turf war brewing in Swansea between a bunch of cr...
Triptych (Will Trent, #1)
In the city of Atlanta, women are dying--at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chas...
Shopping for a Billionaire (Shopping for a Billionaire, #1)
Length: 2 hours and 31 minutes When mystery shopper Shannon Jacoby meets billionaire Declan McCormick with her hand down a toilet in the men's room of one of his stores, it's love at first flush in this hilarious new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent.
The Confederate Navy: A Pictorial History
This profusely illustrated volume describes one of the most amazing fleets in history--the hastily improvised Navy of the South. At the beginning of the Civil War, the Confederate navy was a modest collection of nearly anything that would float--mostly small, unmilitary vessels and a few captured Union ships; there was...
The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe: or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis sent merchant marine James D. Bulloch to Europe to clandestinely acquire arms and ships for the Confederate navy. His first stop was Britain, a country hedging its bets on who would win the War Between the States and willing to secretly provide the Confederacy with the ...
Louder Than Everything You Love
Louder Than Everything You Love is about transformation. The narrator in these poems is many: women who talk to the dead, women who mourn dead mothers and grandmothers, women suicides, women who've been raped/escaped rape, women who cradle premature babies, women who suffer depression, women who prepare the bodies of t...
Home and Heart
It's December in the Cotswolds, deep in the heart of England, and Ben Elliot of Home-Safe House & Pet Sitting is looking after Mrs Bonney's home and two dogs while the elderly lady is away for two months recovering from an operation. When her black-sheep grandson, Adam Prescott, turns up on the doorstep, Ben has to tak...
One for the Money (Night Huntress #4.5)
Previously published in Death's Excellent Vacation anthology and Magic Graves collection. An exciting novelette set in Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress world A romantic getaway for vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband Bones is cut short when they're called on to guard a spoiled heiress with a price on her head, and an...
George House Heritage Bed & Breakfast Kitchen Recipes
The award-winning, five-star George House Heritage Bed & Breakfast, located in Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador, is famous for its delicious cuisine, and now you can prepare this wonderful food yourself! George House Heritage Bed & Breakfast Kitchen Recipesis a cookbook containing more than 300 tried-and-true recipes t...
Spring (Faith, Love, and Fried Chicken #4)
Marriage plans are in full swing, but circumstances around Jaycee and Dash's wedding have gone from stressful to worrying. Will the pains of life cause them to postpone for a more convenient time? Let the peach-perfumed air of spring caress you in this last installment of this southern series as Jaycee finds love. A fo...
The Color of Us (College Bound, #2)
**This can be read as a standalone** Eighteen year old Alexis Sinclair is lost in the darkness of grief. Since the death of her sister in a car accident, she can't find the will to get out and enjoy life again. When she's forced to face her biggest fear and take a summer Driver's Ed course, she's surprised to find hope...
If I Can't Have You (The Thorntons #3)
Abby Davison only wants to focus on her career as a nurse, as she has no time for dating after a bad breakup over a year ago. When her mother presses her about settling down, Abby tells her a little white lie: she's dating Mark Thornton, the handsome and gruff rancher who both frustrates and makes her heart flutter eve...
How to Draw Manga Chibi
Another especially short tutorial on drawing chibi style. More details on eyes and clothes. But still felt lacking considering she messed up her own first tutorial and left an ear off the character.
Where Borders Bleed: An Insider's Account of Indo-Pak Relations
Where Borders Bleed is a keenly observed and anecdotal account of a factious landscape that has long engaged global attention: the Indo-Pak region. Covering almost seventy years of conflict, it chronicles the events leading up to Partition, reflects on the consequent strife, and provides a fresh, discursive perspective...
Catalina La Grande
Born a little German princess without a drop of Russian blood in her veins she came to embody Russia and as the country moved from war to war and conquest to conquest it was Catherine who became great. Those who served her throne, or her bed, were well rewarded while the serfs were condemned to ever-worsening condition...
FIRST WEEK AT COW SCHOOL
Starting school is full of fun in this laugh-out-loud sequel to The Cow That Laid and Egg and The Best Cow in Show. Marjorie the cow feels jolly proud when her daughter, Daisy, starts school. But lessons aren't as easy as they seem... Daisy can't hoof paint or swat flies like the other cows, and cowpat training is a di...
Bonfire (Hours of the Night #1.5)
Silent night, holy hell. Thaddeus and Sarasija are spending the holidays on the bayou, and while the vampire's idea of Christmas cheer doesn't quite match his assistant's, they're working on a compromise. Before they can get the tree trimmed, they're interrupted by the appearance of the feu follet. The ghostly lights a...
Sleuthing at Sweet Springs (Sleuth Sisters #4)
At a local nursing home, Faye meets a woman who insists she doesn't belong there. Though Faye suspects the claim is wishful thinking, she agrees to look in on Clara Knight's flock of chickens. Soon Barb and Retta must put aside their squabbling over the Oxford comma as the sisters become embroiled in murder and mayhem ...
Heaven can Wait
'Heaven can Wait' is the story of Faith Jones, an Angel who uses her empathic talents and ability to talk to the dead to bring comfort to the relatives of the deceased. In a world where the supernatural maintains an uneasy alliance with common humanity, Faith finds herself drawn into an alliance with Selene, a part-dem...
Beacon of Love (Hometown Heroes, #1)
Welcome to Lindsey Point: home of a haunted lighthouse, a 50-year old murder mystery, and a romance about to erupt between travel journalist Sophie Smithwaite and hunky local handyman Lucas Oakes. He wants to protect the town's secrets. She's bent on uncovering them at all costs. As the mystery deepens, sparks fly and ...
Daydreams: An End to My Nightmares
The author indicates that the words in this book will provoke you to stop looking for God just on Sundays, but rather to start seeking after God everyday! This book is filled with heart-touching, mind-transforming and life-changing Biblical truths. He conveys this though multiple medical diseases, family tragedy, paren...
Heroine Worship (Heroine Complex, #2)
Asian-American superheroines Evie Tanaka and Aveda Jupiter protect San Francisco from perilous threats in the second book in Sarah Kuhn's snarky and smart fantasy trilogy * "The superheroine we've been waiting for." --Seanan McGuire Once upon a time, Aveda Jupiter (aka Annie Chang) was demon-infested San Francisco's mo...
The Beatles Are Here!: 50 Years after the Band Arrived in America, Writers, Musicians Other Fans Remember
The arrival of the Beatles was one of those unforgettable cultural touchstones. Through the voices of those who witnessed it or were swept up in it indirectly, The Beatles Are Here!explores the emotional impact--some might call it hysteria--of the Fab Four's February 1964 dramatic landing on our shores. Contributors, i...
Out of Order (The Survivor's Club, #1)
Corinna "Corey" Nguyen's life seems perfectly average for a closeted bisexual whiz kid with her eyes on college and a budding romance with her friend Kate. Sixteen and navigating senior year with her tight-knit group of best friends through crushes, breakups, and pregnancy scares, Corey mistakenly believes that running...
Worth the Wait (Guthrie Brothers #2)
Ready or not...love will find a way Single dad Hogan Guthrie is getting his life back on track, and working as the "barbecue master" at a local diner is just a temporary detour. He and restaurant owner Violet Shaw constantly butt heads...until one night they end up mingling other parts instead. Hogan thought he had th...
Sir Chocolate and the sugar dough bees story and cookbook
A greedy snail damages the flower fields and the fondant bees are in danger of starving. Join Sir Chocolate on an adventure to find the fruit drop fairies who have magic healing powers and discover how to make some of his favourite foods on the way.
Books of Blood 1 (Books of Blood #1)
Volume One of Clive Barker's seminal Books of Bloodcontains the stories: 'The Book of Blood', 'The Midnight Meat Train', 'The Yattering and Jack', 'Pig Blood Blues', 'Sex, Death and Starshine', 'In the Hills, the Cities'. With the 1984 publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. ...
Left To Die (To Die, #1)
Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins Nothing's More Terrifying. . . One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can't yet see the beauty in his work--but soon, very soon, they will. . . Than Being Left Alone....
Collateral Damage (Hidden Scars, #2)
Ten seconds can change everything. Daisy Conners fell in love with her best friend's brother when she was little more than a child. In the blink of an eye, he became everything - the boy who made her heart beat faster with a single look and turned her world upside down. But you know what they say about young love. When...
A Girl Named Mary
A Girl Named Mary tells the story of Mary, the Mother of Jesus as a young girl. Though she has a much older sister, she's raised as an only child. Her cousin, Rebekka, is her closet friend and confidant. Together they grow and learn how to maneuver in a culture that is steeped in tradition. One that looks backward inst...
To Shield the Queen (Ursula Blanchard, #1)
In this compelling debut of her historical mystery series, Fiona Buckley introduces Ursula Blanchard, a widowed young mother who has become lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I. Armed with a sharp eye, dangerous curiosity, and uncanny intelligence, Ursula pledges... To Shield the Queen Rumor has linked Queen Elizabeth ...
The Queen Elizabeth Family (Family, #4)
Mike, Belinda and Ann can hardly contain their excitement. They are going to America on the Queen Elizabethand will spend two whole weeks in New York! They have their most exciting adventures yet, exploring the decks of the enormous ship and experiencing the whirl, bustle and sheer size of life in America.
Life, in a Grain of Sand
These 30 short stories are a mixture of genres and points of view: they cover horror, espionage, through thrillers, humour, romance and MG. There is something for everyone. They were written in a month, one a day, approximately 1667 words each. They can be read over breakfast and will have you laughing and crying, thin...
Shameless Embraces (Bound Hearts, #6-7)
Embraced Marey has run from herself and from Sax for over three years. Lost years, hiding in the home her parents left her, living on the fantasy, too wary to reach out and make real the dreams of the life and man that torment her. Sax Brogan is the embodiment of sinful and sexy - tall, dark, handsome and every inch of...
Shroud of Darkness (Robert MacDonald, #39)
They were five strangers on a fogbound train-- a psychiatrist's pretty secretary, an agitated young man, a tweedy lady with a deep voice, a stockbrockerish businessman, and an eel-like "spiv." One was brutally attacked in the choking black fog in Paddington Station. Attempted murder became bona fide manslaughter, and e...
An Accidental Murder (A Yellow Cottage Vintage Mystery, #1)
An alternate cover edition exists . Young widow, Isobella Bridges discovered and fell in love with The Yellow Cottage as a child. Many years later she returned to the Island, discovered it was for sale and bought it on a whim. Or so she thought. She had no idea at the time how much it would change her life, nor that i...
Eavesdrop
Diamond smugglers. A police conspiracy. High tech spies. Assassins intent on derailing Middle East peace talks. Customs Investigator James Winter must overcome them all if he is to save his career--and his life. Winter, an ex-MI5 operative wrongly accused of colluding with a smuggling ring that has a suspicious knack o...
The White Giraffe
PA thrilling adventure classic-inthe- making!P The night Martine Allen turns eleven years old is the night her life changes completely. Martine's parents are killed in a fire, so she must leave her home to live on an African wildlife reserve with a grandmother she never even knew she had. When Martine arrives, she hear...
Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland--the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War--by President Reagan's arms control director, Ken Adelman. In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour summit in Reykjavik, ...
The Visitor
The "magic" that once was America died horribly along with most of the Earth's inhabitants when an asteroid crashed into the planet sometime during the twenty-first century. Hundreds of years have passed, and all that remains of the time before are fragmented memories distorted by superstition -- as a tragically reduce...
Volition (The Perception Trilogy, #2)
Zoe Vanderveen is on the run with her captor turned rescuer, Noah Brody. They're in love. Or at least that's what he tells her. Her memories have returned but her feelings are dreamlike--thin and fleeting. Her heart can't be trusted. Just look at what happened with Taylor Blake. Senator Vanderveen's new team of cyborg ...
Sherlock Holmes: Year One
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dauntless detective returns in an all-new series of adventures exploring the sleuth's untold origins! Join Dr. John Watson as he meets young Sherlock Holmes in a fateful encounter that will forever shape both men's destinies! Mysteries and murders most foul abound as we discover clues that reve...
Stealing Mr. Right (Penelope Blue, #1)
"A sexy, fun, cat-and-mouse chase that hooked me from page one!" --Jennifer Probst, New York Times& USA TodayBestselling Author of The Marriage Bargain I'm a wanted jewel thief. He's FBI. What's that saying? Keep your friends close...and your husband closer. Being married to a federal agent certainly has its perks. 1....
Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Volume 20 (20th Century Boys, #20)
This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world! As boys, Kenji and his friends came up with a bunch of stories about an evil organization bent on world destruction. As adults, someone is now turning their fantasies into reality! Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+. Humanity, having faced ext...
Gillian of the Chalet School
Following events of The New Chalet School, Gillian of the Chalet Schoolshows Gillian Linton's time as head girl as well as the whole school coping with the new arrangements of mixing seniors, middles and juniors together in the separate Houses.
Little Red Lies
The war is over, but for thirteen-year-old Rachel, the battle has just begun. Putting childhood behind her, she knows what she wants - to prove she has acting talent worthy of the school drama club, and what she doesn't want - to romantically fall for someone completely inappropriate. Worries about her veteran brother'...
An Evening at the Garden of Allah: A Gay Cabaret in Seattle
"An Evening at the Garden of Allah" takes readers back in time with its vivid, exciting oral history of this shining moment in America's gay and lesbian past.
Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Volume 19 (20th Century Boys, #19)
This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world! As boys, Kenji and his friends came up with a bunch of stories about an evil organization bent on world destruction. As adults, someone is now turning their fantasies into reality! Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+. Humanity, having faced ext...
Into Temptation
Into Temptation is the debut collection of poems from Sophia Blackwell, a regular on the UK poetry scene who has been holding crowds spellbound for over five years in bars, nightclubs, and festival tents. Sophia takes us through love in all its guises - burning obsession, one-night stands that last too long, domestic b...
What the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grownups from Children's Books
This one-of-a-kind collection reminds weary adults not to lose sight of the values and virtues they learned as kids. Here are over three hundred quotations from over two hundred well-loved children's books, such as Charlotte's Web, Peter Pan, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Eloise, Sounder, Number the Stars, and...
When Good Toys Go Bad
In a world without men, one man stands out. Dara Athol should really get over this heterosexual thing. After all, in her twenty-third-century world, men are but a distant memory. Yet she can't help it; she's a self-admitted throwback. She tried the "couple" thing, but though she and Brynn are still friends with benefit...
Six Moon Dance
It was many years ago that humans came and settled the world of Newholme-cruelly bending the planet to their will; setting down roots and raising up cities and farms and a grand temple to their goddess.But now the ground itself is shaking with ever-increasing violence. And the Great Questioner, official arbiter of the ...
The Pilgrim Adventure
Finn & Ginny's parents are lost back in time, and the two young twins have decided to go back to early America to find them. Their search takes the twins to the Mayflower where they discover that the Pilgrims had far more adventures than they had ever realized. This first book in the Our America series is designed to t...
Dex (Impossible, #12)
Dexter Scott is in love. The only problem is, Katie is falling for another man. As his heart breaks, he turns to sex as his drug of choice to numb the pain. Can Dex learn to let go of his feelings for Katie, or will his obsession cause him to miss out on his chance to find true love?
Passion (Fallen, #3)
Luce would die for Daniel. And she has. Over and over again. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully torn apart: Luce dead, Daniel left broken and alone. But perhaps it doesn't need to be that way. . . . Luce is certain that something--or someone--in a past life can help her in her ...
In the Heat of the Bite (Regency Vampyre Trilogy #2)
She makes him feel more alive than he has since he died... Chivalry is far from undead... Matthew Halkett, Earl of Blodswell, is one of the few men in the tonwho can claim to be a knight in shining armor--because that's precisely what he was before being turned into a vampyre. When he spies a damsel in distress in the ...