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Body Actions | The human body can be astonishing. This book is filled
with energy-packed photographs of kids running, jumping,
riding bikes, and using all five senses. The photos
are overlaid with depictions of the nervous, skeletal,
muscular, respiratory, and circulatory systems and
major organs to show the amazing ways in which act... |
Borderlands/La Frontera | First published in 1987, "Borderlands" has become a classic in Chicano border studies, feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and cultural studies. Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence of those living on the frontier between cultures and languages. Writing... |
Phantom Lives - Power | Last year Abigail Black's life was turned upside down. Her parents were killed, her abusive boyfriend was chasing her, and she found out that the place she had been dreaming about since she was a small child was real. A Civil War plantation - Collier. It's a magical place, guarded by Immortal's who also haunted her dre... |
Stop Alzheimer's Now: How to Prevent and Reverse Dementia, Parkinsons, ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders | Dementia and other forms of neurodegeneration are not a part of the normal aging process. You should not expect to develop dementia as you grow older. The brain is fully capable of functioning normally for a lifetime, regardless of how long a person lives. While aging is a risk factor for neurodegeneration, it is not t... |
Bound to be Dirty (Dirty Girls Book Club) | As the women in the Dirty Girls Book Club open each new selection of erotica, they also open up their minds to sexual adventure...
Lily Nyland married sexy bad boy Dax Xavier because he made her dreams come true--in bed and out. But after a decade of marriage, her helicopter bush pilot husband spends more time in the ... |
Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide | A snowflake that describes the multiverse. A team of archaeologists with a mystery benefactor. A century of pulp heroes, atomic ants, kung-fu ghosts, and ships that sail between universes. Villains who hide these wonders from a world they have sold to an unfathomable alien intelligence. And the man, born with the 20th ... |
CYBERKILL | Nanotechnology and genetic research have the power to transform the world into a Utopian paradise. In the high-tech world of modern warfare, they also have the power of unlimited, targeted destruction - sometimes with unintended consequences.
Travis Cole is a brilliant programmer with a challenging career, a beautiful ... |
The Memoir of Marilyn Monroe | "My so-called death scene is always described the same: My housekeeper, Eunice Murray, finds my wasted, naked body tangled in a sheet, wet from secretions better left unexplained. I am face down with one hand hanging over the telephone. This detail is discussed often; am I answering a call or making one and if I am cal... |
The Predator Part Two | Katie
Broken, cast away, and forgotten, I started to find myself again and become the woman I always wanted to be. But after I saw him again, the ghosts of my past no longer held me back, and I spilled it all to my best friend, Beth.
It was as if everything I went through and the years apart didn't change how just seei... |
Write Your Novel From the Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between | A powerful secret and a fresh approach to writing bestselling fiction! What's the best way to write a "next level" novel? Some writers start at the beginning and let the story unfold without a plan. They are called "pantsers," because they write by the "seat of the pants." Other writers plan and outline and know the en... |
Cutting It Short | This is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10:
'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a cream puff like that'
In a quiet town where not much happens, Maryska, the flamboyant brewer's wife, stands out. She cuts her skirt short so tha... |
Black Anthology: Adult Adoptees Claim Their Space | "We are diverse. In no way could anyone simply summarize our beginnings. The historical, socio-political contexts from which countries we come from are culturally varied. Our identities are connected to Haiti, Germany, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Korea, Sweden, Canada, the USA and many other places not mentioned within this pub... |
Scandalous Again (Switching Places, #1) | Two exquisite cousins must exchange identities in a scandalous deception.
Madeline de Lacy, the duchess of Magnus, prides herself on being one of the most sensible young women in England, which is why she can't believe that, in a turn of the cards, her noble father has lost his entire estate -- and her! -- to a strange... |
Just.Another.Common.Killer | Under hypnosis, six-year-old Jack Huntington tells his psychiatrist the dark unsolved tale of Jack the Ripper's 19th century murders. Such details are given, that Dr. Philips begins to believe that his patient might be the Ripper himself in another life. When the boy fails to give him any information that would reveal ... |
The Computer Takeover (Choose Your Own Adventure, #160) | A renegade super computer thinks it's time HE gave the orders. As the world's top computer genius, the reader is the only hope to escape the computer's power. |
The Perfect Stranger (Los Santos Cartel #2) | The Devil is like a shadow.
It follows.
It waits.
Gabriel Nicholas Santos. Born with a name belonging to saints, yet evil to the core. When he smiled, people would die. When he lost control, hell would open up its fiery gates. He was nothing more than a malevolent puppet to his elusive uncle.
Together they were LOS SAN... |
Fugitive (Choose Your Own Adventure, #182) | Two weeks in New York City with your cool 25-year-old uncle Henry--freedom, at last! Your parents weren't crazy about the idea, but they're going to Japan and aren't about to leave you at home alone. But when you get to the city, things go horribly wrong. You're kidnapped by a gang of thugs that forces you to help them... |
Supercomputer (Choose Your Own Adventure, #39) | You've won a computer programming contest. Now you're the lucky new owner of a Genecomp AI 32 computer named Conrad. You read the operating instructions carefully and turn on the power. Suddenly Conrad begins to talk. He already knows everything about you! Your new supercomputer is a genius. You can do almost anything ... |
Spain: A Unique History | From bloodthirsty conquest to exotic romance, stereotypes of Spain abound. This new volume by distinguished historian Stanley G. Payne draws on his half-century of experience to offer a balanced, broadly chronological survey of Spanish history from the Visigoths to the present. Who were the first "Spaniards"? Is Spain ... |
You have the Power for Incredible Success. Manifesting Success. | You have the Power for Incredible Success. Manifesting Success; Your thoughts create reality.
It's easier than you realize it could possibly be. It's child's play, and that is the Key.
It's been known since the beginning of time. There are no difficult techniques for you to learn. There is no mind re-programming steps.... |
Connecting to the Legacy!: Learn the Ethical and Spiritual Concerns of Jesus and His Disciples | The last supper is how we were conditioned to see this image. But for Jesus and his disciples, this was a Passover Seder. Connecting to the Legacy is an ancient document that I am presenting for the first time for gentiles translated in verbatim. With access to this document, you too can understand the ethical concerns... |
Sever (Deathstalkers MC Book 6) | Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, and I'm a damn idiot.
That's what he does to me.
Ryder. Smith.
The first heartbreak is always the hardest to heal
And those wounds get ripped right back open,
When he walks back into my life.
Seven years,
It took seven long and grueling years,
To get that cocky, leather-wearin... |
The Baptism of Billy Bean | In a rolling journey through Appalachia's forests and towns, Lane must fight not only for his life, but for all the things it has lacked: love, family, and peace.
Lane Hollar's seen little of the world beyond West Virginia--Parris Island and Vietnam--but that was enough. Now, thirty years later, he's estranged from his... |
Magical Mechanications | Four steampunk novelettes from the authors of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
Little Red Flying Hood by Tee Morris
Prepare for a dogfight with the Big, Bad Wolf...
In France a deadly battle is raging in the skies, but Scarlett Quinn has been shuffled off to reconnaissance duty in an ... |
God's Not Dead: Evidence for God in an Age of Uncertainty | The Evidence Behind the Hit Movie
The goal of God's Not Dead: Evidence for God in an Age of Uncertaintyis straightforward: to help readers develop "a faith that is real and credible--and strong enough to help others find faith in God." To that end, Rice Broocks outlines a roadmap that guides seekers to acknowledge the ... |
When God Doesn't Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, Truths You Can't Live Without | Is It Possible That Good Things Can Come Out Of Our Broken Dreams?
Worship leader and recording artist Laura Story's life took an unexpected turn when her husband, Martin, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Their lives would never be the same. Yes, with God all things are possible. But the devastating news was that no c... |
People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful | Serial entrepreneur and business visionary Dale Partridge reveals seven core beliefs that create success by putting people first.
Every day major headlines tell the story of a new and better American marketplace. Established corporations have begun reevaluating the quality of their products, the ethics of their supply ... |
The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert: 21 Stories and Novellas | This masterly volume comprises the best shorter fiction written by Just over the last 25 years. "The working life, the war, politics, love affairs, and marriage seem to be the waters in which my boats set sail," Just writes. Here is a generous selection of the work that has earned Just his reputation as "one of the mos... |
The Best One-Dish Suppers | A one-of-a-kind collection of one-dish suppers.
Do you wish you could make dinners like a hearty, authentic Bolognese sauce and linguine or chicken pot pie with a fluffy biscuit topping, without hauling out an arsenal of pots and pans and spending hours in the kitchen? Let The Best One-Dish Suppers show you how.
We al... |
A Simple Soul | For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress - although the latter was by no means ... |
Bar Flaubert | Both a search for identity and an intriguing family saga, this tale follows the journey--filled with love, denial, and danger--undertaken by a young man who tries to discover why a novel by an aspiring writer seems to echo his own innermost thoughts. In Barcelona, Berlin, and Florence, he traces his Greek family's many... |
Running Hot (EMS Heat, #1) | A thrill of excitement always went through paramedic James Willson whenever he transported a patient to St. Michael's hospital, but it had nothing to do with the rush of the job. It was one of the emergency department doctors that set his heart racing--the very sexy, very aloof Calvin Dane. |
New Theories of Everything | The author presents and explains the latest theories, predictions and controversies surrounding the ultimate explanation, from superstrings and multiverses to speculations about the world as a computer, and the implications of these theories for own existence. |
The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless | For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisib... |
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food | Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplac... |
Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems | "Erotic poetry that evokes feelings of joy, happiness, and an overall celebration of the arts of physical and romantic love." - KIRKUS REVIEW
"Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems" is an extraordinary storytelling in the form of erotic love poetry, speaking directly to the reader's heart through sensations that course thr... |
The Taken (Celestial Blues, #1) | Griffin Shaw was a PI when alive. Fifty years later, he's a celestial Centurion assisting the recently and violently dead. But being an angel doesn't mean he's a saint. One small mistake altered fate, and dumped him back on the mortal mudflat to collect another soul - Katherine "Kit" Craig, a journalist whose latest in... |
Not Before Sundown | This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN10- 0720613507; ISBN13: 9780720613506
A young photographer, Mikael, finds a small, man-like creature in his courtyard: a troll, known from Scandinavian mythology as a demonic wild beast, a hybrid like the werewolf, and supposedly extinct. Mikael takes him home but soon discover... |
Ravenous (The Dark Forgotten, #1) | Alternate cover edition of .
A dark AND sexy paranormal romance from an exciting debut author
Vampires, Werewolves, and other creatures have emerged from the shadows. And some of them have sinister THINGS on their minds...
One kiss is all it takes to lose your soul...
Holly Carver is a small-time witch who busts ghost... |
Bloodlines (Irene Kelly #9) | The year is 1958. O'Connor, a young reporter with the "Las Piernas News Express," is desperate to discover who has perpetrated a savage attack on his mentor, Jack Corrigan. In and out of consciousness, Corrigan claims to have witnessed the burial of a bloodstained car on a farm, but his reputation as a heavy drinker ca... |
Flame Out: A Novel | June Lyons, the former FBI-agent-turned-small-town-cop introduced in the acclaimed Ice Shearmust solve two connected cases whose roots stretch back decades in time--and dangerously touch the lives of those closest to her.
As a police officer in the rust belt town of Hopewell Falls, New York, June Lyons keeps an eye on ... |
Overlay - A Tale of One Girl's Life in 1970s Las Vegas | An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found .
What is it that makes one person's life interesting to another? Could it be the reader's perceived shared experiences with the writer? A profound thankfulness for not having shared such experiences? A desire to know about a life not personally lived? A well-crafted, mesm... |
Once a Year: Some Traditional British Customs | Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Haxey Hood Game -- Burning the Clavie -- Goathland Plough Stots -- Wassailing the Apple Tree -- The Baddeley Cake -- Dicing for Maids Money -- Carlows Charity Woodbridge -- Westminster School Pancake Greaze -- Shrove Tuesday Skipping -- Hurling the Silver Ball -- Comp... |
Changing Fate (Fate, #1) | "Will attract fans of Anne McCaffrey and Andre Norton... A sparkling addition to any fantasy collection. Four stars!" -Mercedes Lackey
Akila uses her wits and her shape-changing abilities to save her brother Briam when their home is besieged. But that leaves them both on the run, with Akila trying to keep them safe, wh... |
The Captain's Christmas Bride | Wrong man
Lady Julia Whitney is at her wit's end. Her perfect beau just won't propose! But she's struck upon a plan to ensure her marriage by Christmas. Between masquerades and mistletoe, she finds herself fully compromised by the wrong man!
Right husband?
Captain Dunbar cannot believe he's fallen for this chit's game!... |
Falling Down the Aether Sky | Cloistered in the womb of 'Space, the consummate hyper-virtual reality, humanity sinks into entropy as the slow decay of life, and the environment await them at the end of time. There are rumors of things in 'Space, of people disappeared, a seductive destroyer that people at the end of their sanity go to meet in the ba... |
The Vampire's Spell | Vampire Romance
Ariella Fontago is a super smart accountant that lives in Las Vegas. She has a job, and a nice apartment. She's content in her life. That is until she discovers a horrible truth about her current employers. Suddenly found jobless with no prospects, Ariella makes a decision to count cards for money. She ... |
Across the Blue Pacific: A World War II Story | When the United States enters World War II, Molly is attending Beechwood Elementary. But her thoughts are with Ted Walker, her neighbor, who is serving aboard a cruiser in the South Atlantic.
Three years later, the war is still going on and Molly is in the fourth grade. Ted is still at sea, as a naval officer of the US... |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamasis very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about.
If you do start to read this book, you w... |
A Boy in Winter | A Boy in Wintertakes the stuff of newspaper headlines and explores, in a taut, deeply moving narrative, the human passions behind it.
After Nancy Horvath and her eleven-year-old son, Danny, move into their dream house, Danny becomes fast friends with ten-year-old Eddie Nova, the boy next door. Eddie is a hyperactive, d... |
Temptation: Part 1 (The Hunted, #1.1) | *Discontinued edition*
Indulge in the temptation in the breakout series The Hunted by Ivy Smoak.
When Penny Taylor runs into a handsome stranger in a coffee shop, she believes her luck has finally changed. After having her confidence unwound by her ex, she falls hard for a true gentleman. But once she realizes that her... |
Afflicted (Afflicted, #1) | A high priced male escort and a blind gay man meet by chance. What ensues is a hot, steamy romance by two men looking for something more than a one night stand. But can they reach beyond their own insecurities to grasp what they really desire?
Meet Hunter Stephens. He's gay, tall, dark haired, and he's hot. Very hot. B... |
Sacred Cows: A Lighthearted Look at Belief and Tradition Around the World | Did you know God forbids the tying of shoelaces on Saturday? Or that humans emit an color aura which can only be discerned with a Third Eye? That bountiful harvest requires the flinging of a live goat from a church bell tower? That instead of wishing upon a star, we can wish upon a...cow? Well into the 21st century, ou... |
Frostwalker | There's something in the woods behind Jake Marsden's house - and someone wants him to find it. A strange dream shatters his sleep, night after night, and a compulsion to find the dark presence in the forest wars with his logical and ordered nature. What's a geek to do?
When his small hometown of Wynn falls under an anc... |
The Saint's Devilish Deal | Esmerelda Quinn has been looking for a place to belong since her parents were killed in a car crash when she was young. The closest thing to home has always been Aunt Constance's villa in Puerto Vallarta, so after a string of hotellier jobs, she's coming home to run the villa.
Santiago Cruz has called the villa home fo... |
Having Patience | Throughout their long engagement, James Camplyon, Earl of Somerset, has fantasized about Patience Hadley Mims' silken skin and voluptuous curves. He expects his witty, beautiful bride to be timid on their wedding night. But Patience is far more than shy. She's terrified.
James presents his reluctant bride with a box of... |
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) | 93rd print run cover of the 1991 paperback edition of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Parkwith ISBN 0-345-37077-5
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now, one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true. Creatures extinct for eons now roam Jurassic Park with their a... |
The Body | Made into the acclaimed film Stand By Me, The Bodyis a mesmerizing tale of four young boys and their quest to find a dead body, never realizing how much death will affect their lives and their friendship. |
Breadcrumb Trail (The Yellow Hoods, #2) | In an act of desperation, inventor Maxwell Watt sends his teenage son to Nikolas Klaus with the secret plans for his steam engine. The Fare, a nefarious secret society, learns of the game-changing invention and accelerate their timeline to neutralize Klaus and reclaim control over the kingdoms.
While wars spark to the ... |
Kain (Sex, Drugs, and Cyberpunk, #1) | Alt cover edition for ASIN B00CQ8BJLI
Beaten to a pulp, drugged into a daze, and brainwashed into oblivion, human experiment Lukian Valentin gambles his life to evade another eviscerating afternoon with his trigger-happy superiors. Fifty stories of a maximum-security building and hundreds of trained special operatives ... |
Uniquely Unwelcome (The Shadow World, #1) | Being unique isn't all it's cracked up to be.
After searching all over the world for someone as unique as she is, Racquel finds herself back in her home town where she's treated like a monster ready to kill. Racquel is one of the most unique beings ever created. Four of the most powerful beings in the Shadow World are ... |
The Art of Seduction | This bold, instructive guide to power of attraction by the bestselling author of "The 48 Laws of Power," "The 33 Strategies of War," and "Mastery "can make anyone a master of this devastating and timeless art
This mesmerizing exploration of the most subtle, elusive, and effective form of power is a masterful analysis o... |
Fearless (Ruin, #2.5) | When I met Kiersten, time stood still. It was as if every cell in my body screamed HER. I couldn't look away, I couldn't walk away, I couldn't even move. My other half, my soul mate, was staring right at me. I had to have her. I had to make her mine. But I felt selfish doing that--knowing that I may not have endless am... |
Vanished from Dust (Vanished from Dust #1) | This is an ACE of ASIN:B00FBZXMHW
Vanished from Dust, Book 1
A CHILL RUNS THROUGH HIS SKIN AS THE PHANTOM APPEARS.
HE SEES THEM EVERYWHERE . . .
Eric Stark is not insane. Or at least he doesn't think so. He wishes everyone in Dust, Texas, felt the same way. But that's not going to happen since the whole town thinks h... |
The Darkangel Trilogy | They had been searching the mountain for a rare nectar -- the mistress, Eoduin, carelessly scoffing at old tales of the evil creatures they might encounter... the slave, Aeriel, apprehensive, and rightly so. For a darkangel DID swoop from the sky, and he stole the beautiful Eoduin away...
Loyal Aeriel understood nothin... |
The Father's Love: Amid a Frantic Search for His Son, a Father Finds His Faith | The drive home seemed to be endless. My mind was a battleground of extremes. Ideas of what to do next to help find David seemed to constantly flood my thinking. Yet the negative side, thinking the worst of what might have happened to my son, was always occupying my mind. Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welco... |
Say "YES" To Hollywood | Three Books in One Volume |
Mugging the Muse | Want to Get PAID for Writing What You LOVE?
In this collection of thirty-one essays, workshops, quizzes, Q&As, and how-to-do-it articles, novelist Holly Lisle -- who went pro with her award-winning first novel, Fire in the Mist, in 1992 and who's been writing full-time ever since (more than thirty novels published by m... |
Grimoire | This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN #0575067861.
For centuries, magicians have compiled grimoires to call up demons. In Victorian London, one ambitious warlock, Peter Owling, designed a book of shadows to summon the Lord of the Demons - Satan himself. The plan backfired, Owling was killed and the book was rippe... |
A Ripple in Time - Angel of the Titanic | Wren's dream changed the course of history. To regain his world he must travel back one hundred years. This time, the "Angel of the Titanic" must ensure the ship of dreams fulfils her destiny. And he's willing to sacrifice everything.
A young woman experiences nightmares of a terrifying collision; a collision with a mo... |
Getting Lucky (Getting, #3) | Three friends realize a hard man is good to find. In fact, it takes more than just luck to keep him around. |
Winter Falls: A Tale of the Snow Queen | Katie knows better than to believe in happy endings.
She learned there was no such thing after her mother died. In the postindustrial town of Riverside, Katie struggles to care for her distant father and his failing hotel. Her only comfort lies in the arms of her true love, Shay.
Yet one evening, he disappears without ... |
Shock Wave (Virgil Flowers, #5) | The thrilling new Virgil Flowers novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
Talk about risky business.
The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: the local merchants fearing for their businesses, and the environmentalists predicting ec... |
The Monkey and the Panda | Lean, lively Monkey causes havoc in the village. Fat, friendly Panda spends her days quietly munching bamboo. Who is more lovable? The Chinese villagers cannot decide, and call in a wise old monk to help them choose. Antonia Barber's "The Ghosts" was runner-up for the Carnegie Medal. |
An Engagement (Loving Jenna, #2) | This series is contemporary, erotic romance featuring a billionaire, alpha male bachelor who, after attempting a false engagement to ensure his inheritance, falls helplessly in love with the reluctant Jenna.
As he fights for her affection while trying to secure his Father's fortune, Morgan is forced to come to terms wi... |
Living with the Active Alert Child: Groundbreaking Strategies for Parents | Bright, controlling, fearful, and highly energetic, active alert children are frequently misdiagnosed as hyperactive or learning disabled. This book shows parents and teachers how to raise, teach, and enjoy active alerts by offering: -a clear description of common characteristics
-day-to-day parenting strategies with ... |
Catkin | Catkin is a tiny cat given by the Wise Woman to protect the human child Carrie. One day Carrie is taken under the hill by the Little People. Sent to bring her back, Catkin finds his courage and cleverness tested to the full.
Antonia Barber's original story reads like a classic fairy tale. Rich with English folklore and... |
One Night with the Prince | The rules were simple: 15 girls were chosen from royal bloodlines to be with the Prince. They are given one night each with him, and in the end he shall choose a bride and make her Queen. So how did someone from Montana, USA get involved in something that was supposed to be for those chosen? Anna sure doesn't know, but... |
A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 4 | Bestselling writer Daniel Abraham and acclaimed illustrator Tommy Patterson bring their stunning graphic-novel adaptation of George R. R. Martin's classic A Game of Thronesto a stunning finish that merits a place alongside the majestic original on the bookshelf of every fantasy fan.
The death of King Robert Baratheon a... |
The R Word | The R-Word follows the story of Zachary Chandler, a young man adrift in life, struggling with the complexities of sexual identity and hindered by subconscious guilt. After a night out at a bar, he wakes to find himself locked in a cage in an ominous basement. Along with two other captives, he is forced to endure tortur... |
ABC Under the Sea: An Ocean Life Alphabet Book | Provides an introduction to ocean creatures by using each letter of the alphabet. |
An Unconventional Desire | With the season about to begin, Lord Joshua Rutherford arrives in the capital knowing that he must enter the marriage mart and finally find himself a wife. But Joss has a problem. He has never found himself attracted to females...his tastes run in another direction entirely.
When he arrives at the first ball of the sea... |
Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire | The first book in a spellbinding fantasy adventure series so believable you may wonder if it's happening in your own backyard.
As Arlo looked around, the walls of his room began to vanish, revealing a moonlit forest. Only his bed remained, and the frame of his window, through which he saw the girl. The world on her sid... |
The Red Book | The Big Chill meets The Group in Deborah Copaken Kogan's wry, lively, and irresistible new novel about a once-close circle of friends at their twentieth college reunion.
Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until their graduation in 1989. Clover, homeschooled on a commune by mixed-race parents, felt... |
The Ambassadors | The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad... |
Run | Marc Bowman, a highly successful computer consultant and software designer, walks into his job at a major tech company one morning only to find himself fired on the spot, stonewalled by his boss, and ushered out of the building. Then things get worse: An explosive argument drives his wife away and a robbery threatens t... |
The Pre-Raphaelites | The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed by a group of rebellious young English artists in 1848 as a reaction against what they saw as the abuses and excesses of the art of their day. They created an entirely new style of painting that looked back to the romance of medieval chivalry and also documented contemporary Vi... |
Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours? | In little more than ten years St. Paul established the Church in four provinces of the Empire, Galatia, Macedonia, Achaia and Asia. Before AD 47 there were no churches in these provinces; in AD 57 St. Paul could speak as if his work there was done, and could plan extensive tours into the far west without anxiety lest t... |
The New Big Book of U.S. Presidents: Fascinating Facts about Each and Every President, Including an American History Timeline | This is the perfect introduction for young readers to the lives and times of America's most influential leaders. Just as the new president is inaugurated, readers can easily relive the course of American history through a detailed timeline, more than 50 vivid photographs and illustrations, information about each presid... |
Second Glance | Ross, a suicidal drifter and ghost hunter, is called upon to investigate whether an Indian burial ground is real by property developers who are desperate not to offend the local native Americans. Ross's work is complicated by the arrival of a skittish, mysterious woman called Lia. |
The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells | Preface by H.G. Wells / In the Days of the Comet / The Invisible Man / The Island of Dr. Moreau / The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds / The First Men in the Moon /The Food of the Gods. |
Buyout (Roy Groves #1) | For five ordinary guys and one rather extraordinary woman, the only escape from the corporate rat-race is to buy the company they're working for: take it all to a new level, save hundreds of jobs and make some serious money. But it quickly becomes clear that nothing is as easy as it seems. The bid is quickly undercut a... |
The Day My Teacher Came to Tea | Matty's teacher, Mrs Green, known by all as the 'meanest of the mean' gets much more than she bargains for when visiting Matty and his mum for tea and cake. Hoping to tell tales on Matty, Mrs Green is thwarted by one disaster after another and..... well, let's just say her visit does not go to plan! A laugh out loud fa... |
Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion | At thirteen, Danya Ruttenberg decided that she was an atheist. Watching the sea of adults standing up and sitting down at Rosh Hashanah services, and apparently giving credence to the patently absurd truth-claims of the prayer book, she came to a conclusion: Marx was right.
As a young adult, Danya immersed herself in t... |
Pleasure Extraordinaire 4 (Pursuit, #7) | I love a man who doesn't want me, and the man who I detest most is ready to give up on his promiscuous life to be with me.
The final pieces of the puzzle are coming together to reveal one of the most shocking secrets from the past. The bricks of the unbreakable walls of Hawkins Media Group are falling off one by one.
W... |
Stickeen | This heartwarming and hair-raising "icy-storm story," published in 1909, recounts Muir's Alaskan adventures in 1880 with his little black dog named Stickeen--an animal that Muir initially views with scorn but comes to regard with the greatest affection following a near-death experience on a frozen glacier.
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Complete book of horses and riding: A practical training course on how to ride, with step-by-step photographs and a complete encyclopedia of horse breeds | The horse is one of the most beautiful and complex animals, and has fascinated mankind for many thousands of years. The purpose of this book is to capture some of the magic associated with horses - why so many have devoted their lives to them. It also aims, on a more practical level, to provide invaluable information f... |
Black Liquor: Poems | Dennis E. Bolen's forthcoming volume of poetry, "Black Liquor," continues his exploration of modern disconnection and the disparate paths taken by those railing against the austere landscape of their lives. Imbued with lyrical evocations of lost childhood, mature love and deep friendship contrasted against brutal depic... |
Gena/Finn | The story follows the unlikely friendship of two young women forged via fan fiction and message boards, and is told entirely in texts, chats, and blog posts.
Gena (short for Genevieve) and Finn (short for Stephanie) have little in common. Book-smart Gena is preparing to leave her posh boarding school for college; down-... |
Sullivan's Secret | Dr. Marie Bartek's life has been uneventful as the local veterinarian on Sullivan's Island, SC, until her ability to see spirits returns after eighteen years. After confiding in her best friend and realizing their interests in the paranormal, they organize a paranormal investigation team called Sullivan's Island Parano... |
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