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Pretty When You Cry (Stripped, #3) | A new dark romance novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderlust and Prisoner...
I came from a place of dirt floors and holy scriptures. They told me the world outside was full of sin, and the first night I escape, I find out it's true. Ivan saves me, but he does more than that. He takes me. He makes m... |
The Afrikaans | "Blending modern day piracy and the high seas with international and government intrigue and deception, Pirog has crafted yet another novel that is chock full of WTF moments that will have you skipping sleep and possibly meals just to find out what happens next. It's a real page turner, that's for sure. If I could give... |
There Will Be Phlogiston (Prosperity, #5) | An instructive story in which vice receives its just reward.
Inspired by true and scandalous tales of the Gaslight aristocracy, we present the most moral and improving tale of Lady Rosamond Wolfram.
Weep, reader, for the plight of our heroine as she descends into piteous ruin in the clutches of the notorious Phlogiston... |
Lizard Music | When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little-known invasion from outer space. |
Lust4Life | (This novel contains some Scottish dialect/slang, strong violence and language in parts and a couple of graphic sex scenes.)
If you knew you had only a short time left to live on this planet, to really live, what would you do with that precious time?
A young man with terminal cancer decides to live out his dreams and w... |
The Tree | There is a river flowing near me, and I?ve watched that river change and grow. For eight hundred years I have lived here, through the wind, the fire, and the snow. This powerful song of an ancient Douglas fir celebrates the age-old cycle of life in the Pacific Rain Forest, revealing the interconnectedness of all things... |
Karl Jaspers: From Selfhood to Being | This book traces the work of German philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) from his origins as a young psychiatrist up to his maturity as an existentialist philosopher. The critique of Jaspers's thought follows his attempts to grant meaning to the human search for self-understanding. It reveals the difficulties and frust... |
Irvin Cobb at His Best | Compilation of the Kentucky humorist's best comic stories and short books. Includes Speaking of Operations-; Eating in Two or Three Languages; The Life of the Party; A Plea for Old Cap Collier; One Third Off; and The Young Nuts of America. |
Stone Gods, Wooden Elephants | Lured to an ancient lost Khmer city in the jungle, which contains a fantastic cache of ancient bronze and stone carvings, Harry and Aloysius devise a plan to smuggle the massive cultural treasures across international borders and into the lucrative world art market. But all does not go well as the smugglers encounter s... |
Draconomicon: The Book of Dragons | The Book of Dragons
This title takes a comprehensive look at the dragons of the D&Dworld from a variety of perspectives. It includes information on playing dragons and dragon-like creatures, how to run a dragon in a fight, and how to both fight dragons and work with them as allies.
There are statistics on dragons of ev... |
Madigan Mine | Alex doesn't know what he wants to do, how to connect with people or what's good for him. He drifts his way through dead-end jobs and fumbled relationships, unable to find a way out of the rut his life has become. Then he runs into Madigan Sargood and everything changes.
A ray of light shining from an almost-forgotten ... |
Merry Christmas, Baby (Nightshade #4.5) | It's Christmas time in the City.
A time of wonder and magic.
Only Sabrina Arceneaux is beginning to wonder if the magic is gone from her marriage to Roman. She can feel the distance growing between them, and she's worried that not even her Christmas surprise will be enough to hold them together.
Roman Arceneaux wants t... |
Sandi (Shiver Cove #3) | Recent 'animal attacks' in Shiver Cove have everyone on edge, but only Sandi and her friends realize the connection to an evil, creature they call 'The Beast'.
Unlike some of her supernatural friends, Sandi is just a regular girl and she hates it. After failed months of trying to become a psychic medium, she decides to... |
The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf | From the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed The Greatest Game Ever Playedcomes The Grand Slam, a riveting, in-depth look at the life and times of golf icon Bobby Jones.In the wake of the stock market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression, a ray of light emerged from the world of sports in the summer of... |
Betrayed | Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually ... |
The Last Will of Moira Leahy | "The Last Will of Moira Leahy is haunting, exotic and romantic--the way Gothic tales are romantic, wrapped in luscious, dark atmosphere. It's a magicaldebut . . ."--Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells
Maeve Leahy is a busy professor of languages at a university in upstate New York. S... |
Using SANs and NAS: Help for Storage Administrators | Data is the lifeblood of modern business, and modern data centers have extremely demanding requirements for size, speed, and reliability. Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) allow organizations to manage and back up huge file systems quickly, thereby keeping their lifeblood flowing. W. Curti... |
Human Resources | Human Resources has been optioned for film or TV adaptation by Mace Neufeld Productions, producers of The Omen, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Invictus and a list of other titles.
Some things are much worse than getting fired. A beautiful business consultant swoops in to rescue a struggling company from finan... |
That One Thing (Alex and Jared - The College Years, #1) | A short story
Alex Ross expects to grow up during his four years at MIT, but he doesn't anticipate exactly how much things will change. Graduating valedictorian of his class opens the world to him in ways he never imagined.
A surprise visit from his boyfriend, Jared Douglas, shocks Alex into the realization he's no lon... |
Troublemakers | Troublemakersis an often hilarious, sometimes frightening, occasionally off-the-wall collection of stories about men living on the edge. From the streets of Chicago's southwest side to the rural roads of Nebraska to the small towns of southern Illinois, these men tread a very fine line between right and wrong, love and... |
Doctor Who: The Child | "Tell me another story, Leela. Not the one about the walking doll or the creepy mechanical men. A new one. I want to hear a new one..."
Leela is dead but her soul lives on. She has been reborn as a young girl, Emily, whose 'imaginary friend' tells her amazing tales about a great Wizard and the warrior who accompanies h... |
A Soldier's Promise | Overview
"These tears I cry...sure won't be the last...this pain inside...never seems to past...never seems to past me by..."
Tour the journey as this Officer and gentleman, John Dixon, rescues a woman that has been sold to drugs and slave trade. He is a hero to the states; but his soul is empty much like poor Nikki's.... |
Switched (Trylle Trilogy, #1) | Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Although certain she's not the monster her mother claimed she is she does feel that she doesn't quite fit in
The new girl in High School, she's bored and frustrated by her small town life and then ... |
Switched (Trylle, #1) | Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Although certain she's not the monster her mother claimed she is, she does feel that she doesn't quite fit in. The new girl in High School, Wendy is bored and frustrated by her small-town life -- a... |
Second Kiss (Second Kiss, #1) | 'Even my most humiliating moments seemed funny somehow when I told them to Jess.' Gemma Mitchell is a normal girl who somehow gets herself into abnormally embarrassing circumstances. And while she thinks she's the biggest loser in school because of them, there are a few people in her life who would disagree. One of tho... |
Thirteen Reasons Why | Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 13: 9780141328294
You can't stop the future.
You can't rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret is to press play.
Clay Jensen returns home to find a strange package with his name on it. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Bak... |
Goodness Gracious Green (Green #2) | Will Lois Barker put down roots in Green . . . or will small-town life be too tough?
The charming and uncertain journalist is delighted with her decision to keep The Green News-Item and excited about the possibility of romance with her good-looking catfish farmer/coach neighbor--and the growth of her fresh faith and fr... |
Awakening | Nerina has lived all her life as a mermaid, fascinated by humans and land but also repulsed by sex and unable to understand love. Her curiosity gets her captured by a human male intent on awakening her lust and turning her human. But Nerina doesn't believe the legend is real and fears Kyros will kill her when he learns... |
Gelignite | In the seamy Hong Bay district of Hong Kong, crimes of every shape and size are commonplace. But not letter bombs. Not until Leung and Ramaswamy are successfully and bloodily spread across their office walls. When Det. Inspector Bill Spencer narrowly escapes becoming victim number three, the cops are grimly determined ... |
The Agent's Secret Past | THREAT FROM HER AMISH PAST
Eight years ago, a drifter destroyed Becca Miller's ties to her Amish community--and murdered her family. Now a special agent with Fort Rickman's criminal investigation department, Becca knows her past has caught up with her and doesn't want to relive it. She's convinced that the killer, who ... |
The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) | The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wingscontinues her Dominion of the Fallen saga as Paris endures the aftermath of a devastating arcane war....
As the city rebuilds from the onslaught of sorcery that nearly destroyed it, the great Houses of Paris, ruled by Fallen angels, still contest one another... |
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main | The struggle between England and Spain for supremacy of the high seas, as seen through the eyes of a sixteenth-century teenager, Ned Hearne. Along with three friends, young Ned is swept up in one adventure after another as he accompanies the daring English mariner Francis Drake on amazing voyages of discovery across th... |
The Ghost Bride | Yangsze Choo's stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists.
Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she h... |
Mr. Majeika | As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what happens when Class Three's new teacher flies in through the classroom window and lands on the floor with a bump.
Mr Majeika can behave just like any ordinary teacher if he wants to, but something has to be done about Hamish Bigmore, the class n... |
Entice (The Embrace Series, #2) | Every day Violet Eden wonders whether she made the right choice.
She still doesn't fully understand these powers she's been granted as a half-angel Grigori. And worse, isn't even sure she's capable of using them. Stab someone through the heart? Really?
No matter how bad things get, though, Violet doesn't run and she do... |
At the Highwayman's Pleasure | CAPTIVATED BY THE DARK RIDER...
Embittered by injustice, Ross Durden leads a double life: gentleman farmer by day, roguish highwayman by night. He has sworn to right the wrongs of the past, but danger lurks around every corner--not least when he sets eyes on the beautiful daughter of his sworn enemy.
Celebrated actress... |
How To Make Money Online As An Artist: An In Depth Guide On How I Use The Internet To Make Money With My Art | Imagine a world where anyone could make a living doing exactly what they wanted professionally.
Imagine a world with more musicians, painters, sculptors, poets, and in general, more passion.
If you walk into a kindergarten class and say, "raise your hand if you are an artist", it's more than likely that almost every, i... |
The Road to Wigan Pier | Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell o... |
Smithsonian Everything You Need to Know: Grades K-1 | Curious minds find hundreds of fascinating facts in "Smithsonian Everything You Need to Know: Grades K-1." The flip-top box is packed with 275 fact cards covering categories such as Earth and space, plants and animals, geography, history, and health. Whether it s the number of teeth in a great white shark s mouth or ho... |
Shattered (Open Heart #2) | Mishca needs to save her sisters, but only Ryder can save her.
The truth about Mishca's past shattered her heart. She deals with the pain by focusing on a new mission: saving her newfound family from their creator. With her sisters scheduled for termination, Mishca and her friends set out on a journey up the North Quee... |
Killer Plan (DI Geraldine Steel, #7) | Leigh Russell returns with Killer Plan, the seventh book in thebestselling DI Geraldine Steel series.
Caroline's husband is killed, but she can't turn to the police without implicating herself in his murder. When one of her 10-year-old twins is kidnapped, the desperate mother is forced to resort to drastic measures to ... |
Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart | According to ancient legends, alchemists use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. In Emotional Alchemy, Tara Bennett-Goleman shows readers how they can use this alchemist metaphor to transform emotional confusion (lead) into insightful clarity (gold). And what does the magic stone represent? "Mind... |
Second Chance for Love | World's Apart?
When Tom Quinn rescued Josey, the handsome country vet had little sympathy for the mess she was in, or her ability to get out of it. To him, Josey was a spoiled city girl -- just like his ex-wife.
Forced to rely on Tom's hospitality, Josey soon found the strength to start again -- to make a new home and ... |
The Young Hitler I Knew | August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 and over the next four years they became close friends, eventually sharing a flat together in Vienna. This book tells the story of their extraordinary friendship, and gives fascinating insight into Hitler's character during these formative years. |
Hitler's War Directives, 1939-1945 | The Second World War was Hitler's personal war in many senses. He intended it, prepared for it, chose the moment for launching it, planned its course, and, on several occasions between 1939 and 1942, claimed to have won it.
Although the aims he sought to achieve were old nationalist aspirations, the fact that the polic... |
One Million Tomorrows | People born into the complacent bitch society of the 22nd Century regard indefinitely prolonged life as a birthright. But to get their one million tomorrows men have to make the transition from FUNKIE to COOL. FUNKIE is a slang for `functional male`. Immortality can only be achieved at the expense of male sexuality. So... |
The Different Girl | Four nearly identical girls on a desert island. An unexpected new arrival. A gently warped near future where nothing is quite as it seems.
Veronika. Caroline. Isobel. Eleanor. One blond, one brunette, one redhead, one with hair black as tar. Four otherwise identical girls who spend their days in sync, tasked to learn. ... |
The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return | "A fascinating new perspective on modern finance," --Oliver Hart, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Economics
"Lucid, witty and delightfully erudite...From the French revolution to film noir, from the history of probability to Jane Austen and The Simpsons, this is an astonishing intellectual feast." --Sebastian Mallaby, author of... |
Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative | Following up on her successful Life Is a Verb, and in the tradition of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, Patti Digh here presents a book that leads readers by both heart and head to acknowledge, reinforce, and use their own creative spirit. Creative Is a Verb is equally a book for people who say, "I'm not creative" or ... |
Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter | It's 1920s Chicago--the guns-and-gangster era of Al Capone--and it's unusual for a girl to be selling theTribuneon the street corner. But ten-year-old Isabel Feeney is unusual . . . unusually obsessed with being a news reporter. She can't believe her luck when she stumbles into a real-life murder scene andher hero, the... |
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century | Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when ca... |
The Girl Who Could Not Dream | "A perfect combination of adventure, humor, and pure imagination!" --Jessica Day George, New York Timesbest-selling author of Tuesdays at the Castle"Funny, scary, and endlessly inventive." --Bruce Coville, author of Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon HatcherSophie loves the hidden shop below her parents' bookstore, where dreams a... |
The Disappearances | What if the ordinary things in life suddenly...disappeared?
Aila Quinn's mother, Juliet, has always been a mystery: vibrant yet guarded, she keeps her secrets beyond Aila's reach. When Juliet dies, Aila and her younger brother Miles are sent to live in Sterling, a rural town far from home--and the place where Juliet gr... |
Bradford Street Buddies: Springtime Blossoms | CHIRP! CHIRP! CHIRP! It's springtime on Bradford Street. Jada and Jamal are searching for signs of spring. So are their best friends, Carlita Garcia and Josh Cornell. But the most surprising sign of spring awaits them at school the next day . . . a surprise that blossoms into a colorful plan to beautify the schoolyard ... |
The Secrets We Keep (A Letty Whittaker 12 Step Mystery #3) | When psychotherapist and recovering alcoholic Letty Whittaker responds to a middle-of-the-night crisis call, she knows helping Trinnie face her demons won't be easy. However, instead of finding her friend dead drunk, Letty finds her just . . . dead. And Paul, another close friend, is the primary suspect.
Worse, Trinnie... |
The Big Game | A dark fantasy was about to be made real. Could she handle four Dominant men? She was about to find out. |
A Little Bit Country | Rock singer, Ash Ivers, and country music star, Jackson Abrams, have intense passion that brings them together, but will they be able to overcome all their differences when Jackson's career is threatened?
Ash Ivers says and does what he wants, and with being the lead singer of the world famous rock band, From Ashes, he... |
The Teddy Bear Habit | A twelve-year-old boy, whose problems include having to take "Square" music lessons, an attachment to a childhood teddy bear, and a father who earns a living creating comic strips, gets involved with jewel thieves in an attempt to break the dull routine. |
The Ghost Catcher | A gift to know when people are in trouble of the ghostly type puts Hailey Hatmaker in the middle of a major problem - one that winds up getting her into more hot water than she can handle. In true Hailey Hatmaker fashion, she dives into what turns out to be a battle with Limbo, her number one nemesis.
Can Hailey rescue... |
Japanese Cooking Made Simple: A Japanese Cookbook with Authentic Recipes for Ramen, Bento, Sushi & More | Japanese food is adored throughout the globe, yet a mysterious shroud remains over Japanese cooking. Perhaps cooking with exotic flavors is as daunting as attempting to recreate the artful presentation, but the love for Japanese food rarely finds its way into the home. Japanese Cooking Made Simple demystifies the cuisi... |
The Colombian Mule | When Colombian Arias Cuevas is caught trying to smuggle drugs through Venice airport, his fear isn't fuelled by the idea of prison. He's much more frightened of his aunt--it was her coke he took off with. The cops set up a sting to find out who was to be the recipient of the drugs, and art smuggler Nazzareno Corradi fa... |
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age | Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old.... |
Mein Kampf | Madman, tyrant, animal - history has given Adolf Hitler many names. In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), often called the Nazi bible, Hitler describes his life, frustrations, ideals, and dreams. Born to an impoverished couple in a small town in Austria, the young Adolf grew up with the fervent desire to become a painter. The d... |
The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920 | Originally published in 1983, The Changing Face of Inequalityis the first systematic social history of a major American city undergoing industrialization. Zunz examines Detroit's evolution between 1880 and 1920 and discovers the ways in which ethnic and class relations profoundly altered its urban scene. Stunning in sc... |
Moonburner (Moonburner Cycle #1) | Kai is a Moonburner--a female sorceress reviled by her people and normally killed at birth. Except Kai's parents saved her by disguising her as a boy--a ruse they've kept up for almost seventeen years. But when her village is attacked, Kai's secret is revealed and she's sentenced to death.
Thankfully, the gods aren't d... |
Death Minus Zero (Sam Turner, #2) | With his second novel Baker takes more risks than many writers would dare and triumphs. Val McDermid, novelist, Manchester Evening News.
Baker's second novel is strong, dark and discursive. There's no doubt that - with his York setting and up-from-the-gutter hero - Baker has added something new to the crime scene. Phil... |
Woof! | Eric is a perfectly ordinary boy - perfectly ordinary, that is, until the night he turns into a dog! This is the story of his adventures with his best friend, Roy, and their efforts to puzzle out the reason for his transformation. |
In These Words: Chapter 1 | Asano Katsuya is the spirit of the United States experienced pathologist, He is recruited to police stations in Tokyo to accept a serial murder suspect for personality profiling work. ("Personality profiling" - the spirit of forensic experts to test the behavior of the suspect or speculate that, after a report of items... |
The Possession of Lawrence Eugene Davis | At the beginning of the Great Depression Lawrence Eugene Davis returns to his family's ranch to set his father's affairs in order. But the house stirs memories of his unhappy childhood and his miserable time in the trenches. Memories are not the only thing woken, however, and Lawrence finds himself hunted and eventuall... |
Start Calligraphy: The Right Way to Write | Start Calligraphy- The Right Way To Write Book Description calligraphy is the art and craft of beautiful writing and lettering. |
Lucifer's Children | From the author of FAMILY BUSINESS comes the next shocking installment of the Breeder Series -- LUCIFER'S CHILDREN.
A family tragedy thrusts Amanda into the foster care of the Henning family at the start of her senior year of high school. Amanda soon learns that the prestigious private school isn't what it seems. Monar... |
Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive #2.5) | From #1New York Timesbestselling author Brandon Sanderson, a special gift edition of Edgedancer, a short novel of the Stormlight Archive.
Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time s... |
One Cold Night (ARe Fearless #3) | Heat sizzles during the winter...
John Prince has been undercover for the ATF for over two years when his cover is blown. His rescuer comes in the female form and goes by Leena. Their attraction is hot enough to melt the snow outside but he has to wonder: are the ones who set him up for death still after him?
Leena Par... |
Marriage Can Be Murder (Baby Boomer Mystery, #3) | Empty-nester Carol Andrews is thrilled when daughter Jenny announces her engagement. She's dreamed of planning her daughter's wedding since the day Jenny was born. But with only two months to pull together a destination wedding on Nantucket, Jenny insists on hiring Cinderella Weddings to organize the event. Father-of-t... |
His Brother's Widow | During the course of gaining a divorce from the man she had called husband only hours after meeting him, Annie Markham becomes the last thing she ever expected to be; a widow.
She is too stunned to even think about how she is going to deal with being a widow, instead of just a divorced woman. But, when her brother-in-l... |
Parisian Chic: A Style Guide | Celebrity model Ines de la Fressange shares the well-kept secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and a timeless allure. Ines de la Fressange--France's icon of chic--shares her personal tips for living with style and charm, gleaned from decades in the fashion industry. She offers specific pointers on ... |
No mean feat | Mark Inglis was working and climbing on Mt Cook, when, at age 23, he and his companion were trapped by the weather on Middle Peak. They were 13 days in an ice cave and both suffered such severe frostbite that their legs had to be amputated below the knee.
This book takes us from childhood to Mt Cook, through the experi... |
On the Laws of Japanese Painting | This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as... |
Grey's Ghost | NOTE: Grey's Ghost is an excerpt from the novel .
When Nan and Sarah attended a seance, they discovered that the medium holding it was not the one who could communicate with ghosts. |
The Job | My name is Jessica. I own a women's clothing store in New York City and need work done on my store to be able to advertise my company to females walking on the sidewalk. So I had to find a company. The best I could find for a reasonable price is owned by Eric. He's tattooed and fights me on everything. But he's the one... |
McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation | This edition features the exact same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value for your students-this format costs 35% less than a new textbook. Continuing Tom L. McKnight's well-known thematic focus on landscape appreciation, Darr... |
Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution | In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation s seamen, whose labor took them far from home and deep into the Atlantic world. "Citizen Sailors "tells ... |
The Root of Wild Madder: Chasing the History, Mystery, and Lore of the Persian Carpet | Every Persian carpet has a story to tell -- from the remote villages of Afghanistan and Iran, down the ancient trade routes traveled for centuries, to the bazaars of Tehran and the markets of the Western world. Carpet-making is one of this tumultuous region's few constants, an art form that transcends religious and pol... |
Persian Myths | The traditional tales and stories of ancient Iran describe confrontations between good and evil, the victories of the gods and the exploits of heroes and fabulous supernatural creatures such as the magical bird Simurgh and the div or demons. |
Girl in the Mirror | After a vicious encounter forces her to have plastic surgery to forever correct her facial deformity, Charlotte Godowski becomes beautiful Charlotte Godfrey, the darling of Hollywood, but when destiny intervenes causing Charlotte to face her past, she learns that only love can heal a bruised heart. |
Wylding Hall | When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will make their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: Julian Blake, the group's lead singer, disappea... |
Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero | "What was he like?" Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. What was he like, this man whose own wife called him "that elusive, unforgettable man"? In this New York Times bestselling biography, Chris Matthews answers that question with the verve of a novelist. We see this mo... |
The Taste of the Hucow: Total Dairy Submission | When nineteen year old Mary borrowed money from the outlaw Neal Barton, she thought she'd have no problem paying him back. She was wrong. One night she receives a knock on the door from someone wanting to collect - And it looks like Mary's only other option is to volunteer as Neal's cow for a night. She accepts the biz... |
Die Überraschung im Schneesturm | "The Magnificent Century," the second volume of Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers Henry III's long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272.
During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw spectacular advancement in the arts, sciences and theology, as well ... |
Send | Send--the classic guide to email for office and home--has become indispensable for readers navigating the impersonal, and at times overwhelming, world of electronic communication. Filled with real-life email success (and horror) stories and a wealth of useful and entertaining examples, Senddissects all the major minefi... |
Conservation of Luck | For every good fortune, there's an equal and opposite misfortune.
As a brilliant young computer scientist working on her master's degree, Ella Hote doesn't believe in luck. But when bizarre accidents, insane coincidences, and weird encounters with improbably handsome strangers start to happen all around her, even hardh... |
Sorceress Awakening (Gargoyle and Sorceress Book 1) | As a child, a near-drowning accident stole Lillian's old life. Her new life began the moment she awoke at the foot of a brooding, stone gargoyle.
Years later, Lillian still finds comfort in Gregory, her gargoyle, never guessing he is more than cold stone until demonic creatures called the Riven attack. Gregory senses h... |
Surrender (Steel Brothers Saga, #6) | Jonah Steel has fallen in love with Melanie Carmichael but still lives with the guilt that consumes him as he tries to unravel the mystery of his family's past. A new threat has surfaced, and he finds himself trapped in a web of deceit and lies.
Melanie loves Jonah but has yet to surrender completely to his needs. Mean... |
The Art of Divine Contentment | Based on Philippians 4:11, I have learned, in whatever state I am therewith to be content, Watson considers the great dishonor done to almighty God by the sin of discontent. The doctrine of Christian contentment is clearly illustrated and profitably applied. The special cases where, through changes in providences, disc... |
'I am an American': Filming the Fear of Difference | From Samuel Huntington's highly controversial Who Are We?to the urgent appeal of Naomi Wolf's The End of America, Americans are increasingly reflecting on questions of democracy, multiculturalism, and national identity. Yet such debates take place largely at the level of elites, leaving out ordinary American citizens, ... |
Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans | Throughout African-American history, religion has been indelibly intertwined with the fight against intolerance and racial prejudice. Martin Luther King, Jr.-America's best-known champion of civil liberties-was a Baptist minister. Father Divine, a fiery preacher who established a large following in the 1920s and 1930s,... |
The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy | A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.
Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. Working al... |
Prom Dates to Die for | Five young adult authors cordially invite you to five paranormal proms with...
Supernatural hunters hired to save a prom date hungry for souls
A reaper haunted by a past she doesn't remember
A prom queen seeking justice...and revenge
A loner musician called to save his classmates from an enemy only he can see
A heroine... |
British Campaign Furniture: Elegance Under Canvas, 1740-1914 | Campaign furniture was designed to be folded up, packed, and carried on the march by traveling armies. During the 18th and 19th centuries, British furniture makers from Hepplewhite to Chippendale produced the most stylish and elegant collapsible chairs, tables, bookcases, beds, sofas, and desks. This first book on the ... |
A Religious History of the American People | This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century's choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day. |
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