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A Nun Walks into a Bar (Nun-Fiction #1) | Dogs of Fire Spin-Off...
18+ for language and sexual content...
After growing up in an abbey, orphan Sadie Ross becomes Sister Abigail Eunice. Her life and career are on track until a chance meeting with a handsome stranger in a place no nun should ever go.
Ryder Carsen's sister is missing, and he doesn't have time for... |
If You See a Kitten | From the creator of While You Were Sleeping and Hush, Little Ones comes a perfect read-aloud book that young children will want to read again and again. Full color. |
Lt. Commander Mollie Sanders | Lt. Commander Mollie Sanders is a female Navy officer who has striven to be the best even if it earns her enemies. A graduate of the Naval Academy, she is on the Navy pistol team, she fenced saber in college, and she does tai chi for relaxation.
She is also an electronic weapons officer and is tasked with coming up wit... |
Otherwise Engaged | Playboy Rain Foster is nowhere near ready to settle down, but if there's one woman he would make that sacrifice for, it's Carolina Perez. When Carolina tells Rain she's getting married, he decides he must find a way to stop that wedding.
Overly cautious Daphne Moore has had a thing for Rain Foster since she first saw h... |
Berlin Poplars | On a remote farm in northern Norway, eighty-year-old Anna Neshov is rushed to hospital after suffering a stroke. Her three sons have not spoken in some time. Margido, a devout Christian, works in Trondheim as a funeral director. Erlend, a successful window dresser, lives a life of luxury in a penthouse in Copenhagen, w... |
Moral Hazard | On Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. Funny, liberal and left-leaning, she is an unlikely candidate to be writing speeches on derivatives in a cubicle in a Manhattan tower, 'putting words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious of metaphors and words of more than tw... |
Stones | When Julie Paver's husband Matt moves his business to Atlanta, she is forced to leave behind her thriving jewelry boutique, Stones. The move threatens their twenty-five-year marriage, because now if Matt isn't out of town negotiating a merger, he's spending late hours on overseas phone calls with his sexy-sounding seco... |
Prison Pound: Straight Turning Gay | Prison Pound: Straight Turning Gay - An Older Meet Younger In Jail First Time Group Erotic Sexual Short Story
A Steaming Hot Erotic Prison Pound Short Story
Transformation
'I felt the rough surface of his palm on my cheek before he attacked me with his lips. The kiss lasted a mere second or two before he pulled back an... |
Silent Witness | This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 0590557165 / 9780590557160.
When Lucy Monroe's friend, Allen, dies, Lucy is faced with sorting through his stuff. There's not much - just a few posters, a basketball, and a videotape...
Lucy knew all about Allen's home movies of his friends. They're just a bunch of kids messin... |
Just a Summer Fling | Broken-hearted, self-esteem shattered, and dragged on vacation by his parents, Ryan doesn't think he could be more miserable. All that changes when he meets Chris, the most gorgeous surfer he's ever seen. Shocked when Chris takes an interest in him, Ryan decides that maybe a summer fling is just what he needs to get ov... |
The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine | Hailed by The Boston Globeas "a compact, faceted gem that shines with intelligence," this stunning collection offers a startling and moving look at people whose lives are on the line and the men and women who try to keep them from crossing it. These twenty-eight vignettes
seamlessly juxtapose visceral portrayals of lif... |
NYPD Red | It's the start of Hollywood on Hudson, and New York City is swept up in the glamour. Every night, the red carpet rolls out for movie stars arriving at premieres in limos; the most exclusive restaurants close for private parties for wealthy producers and preeminent directors; and thousands of fans gather with the papara... |
Ota pallo kiinni! | Wherever a buoyant red ball goes, a dog follows close behind, running, jumping, and wreaking delightful havoc in its wake! Turn the distinctive pages to discover what happens as the ball and the dog enter each new scene. Children and adults alike will be amused by this simple story featuring easy-to-learn action words.... |
Wideacre (Wideacre, #1) | Beatrice Lacey, as strong-minded as she is beautiful, refuses to conform to the social customs of her time. Destined to lose her family name and beloved Wideacre estate once she is wed, Beatrice will use any means necessary to protect her ancestral heritage. Seduction, betrayal, even murder -- Beatrice's passion is wit... |
The Good Knight | Intrigue, suspicion, and rivalry among the royal princes casts a shadow on the court of Owain, king of north Wales... The year is 1143 and King Owain seeks to unite his daughter in marriage with an allied king. But when the groom is murdered on the way to his wedding, the bride's brother tasks his two best detectives--... |
The Horror of Kuchisake-onna | Jo Cartwright is travelling to Tokyo without her ever-attentive husband. Persuaded to take advantage of her unexpected liberty, she accompanies her friends for a night out on the town.
A night out that ends in murder. Police Inspector Okitsu claims an open-and-shut case against a local man, suspected of being a serial ... |
Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2012 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #702) | Novellas:
"The Fullness of Time", by Kate Wilhelm
Novelets:
"Wearaway and Flambeau", by Matthew Hughes
"The Afflicted", by Matthew Johnson
"Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls", by Rachel Pollack
Short Stories:
"Hartmut's World", by Albert E. Cowdrey
"The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times", by Eleanor Arnason
"A Natural ... |
Judge Dredd, Vol. 6 | Judge Anderson is trying to make it back to Mega-City One in "To Live and Die in Deadworld" and Judge Dredd must go inside the area formerly known as Sector One to rescue the Chief Justice and the Council of Five in "Black Light District." Collects issues #21-24. |
Fencing You In (Riding Tall, #3) | Tess Grady doesn't do playboy cowboys and as far as she's concerned that's exactly what Gage McBride is. Tess wants steady, stable, and secure in a man and Gage seems to be the farthest thing from that. When women come up to a man in a bar and slap him, that's got to be a good sign that he's not the one for her, or a s... |
Tomas Young's War | Tomas Young's Waris the tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with his injuries, while courageously speaking against America's wars.
Based on hours of interviews with Young and those close to him, the book puts the reader alongside Young as he s... |
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization | "A hugely entertaining and often moving portrait of a civilization to which the modern West owes and immense but neglected debt." --Tom Holland, Author of Millenium, Persian Fire, and Rubicon
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell--or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantin... |
Koine Greek New Testament | This is the Byzantine Majority text of the Koine Greek New Testament. |
Civil War Pittsburgh: Forge of the Union | On Christmas Day 1860, the "Daily Pittsburgh Gazette "announced that more than one hundred cannons from the nearby U.S. Arsenal were to be shipped south. Fiercely loyal to the Union, Pittsburghers halted the movement of the artillery, which would have been seized by secessionist sympathizers. Over the course of the Civ... |
Benazir Bhutto: Benazir Bhutto,Asif Ali Zardari,Bilawal Bhutto Zardari,Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,Pakistan,Pakistan Peoples Party,Prime Minister Of Pakistan,Politics ... Pakistan,2007 Pakistani State Of Emergency | Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan, Pakistan Peoples Party, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Politics of Pakistan, Constitution of Pakistan,2007... |
Shoe Dog | In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrow... |
We Are the Ants | From the author of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.
Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to... |
His Favorite, Vol. 8 | Yoshida is short, scrawny and generally unattractive. To make matters worse, all the girls in his class hate him because Sato, the hottest guy in school, always uses hanging out with him as an excuse to turn them down. Is Yoshida just a convenient excuse or is there something more? Could this odd couple even make thing... |
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE | In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrow... |
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History | He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called "the devil" by the
enemies he hunted and "the legend" by his Navy SEAL brothers . ..
From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career
sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has
officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (... |
Hot Dudes Reading | Humans of New York meets Porn for Women in this collection of candid photos, clever captions, and hilarious hashtags about one of the most important subjects of our time: hot dudes reading. Based on the viral Instagram account of the same name, Hot Dudes Reading takes its readers on a ride through all five boroughs of ... |
I Won't Comb My Hair | Tanya is about to have a very-bad-hair day!
It's easy to tell when Tanya doesn't want to do something. "I WON'T!" she screams, so loudly that the whole neighborhood can hear. And there is one thing Tanya really doesn't want to do. She WILL NOT EVER comb her hair. |
Be An Author | As a fledgling writer, you may have burning questions about your place in the world of publishing as it is now:
- How do I know if what I have to say deserves to be published?
- Should I try to find a publisher or self-publish?
- What might life be like after my book is in print?
- What is a reasonable goal for my book... |
Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity | In its eerie likeness to Earth, Mars has long captured our imaginations--both as a destination for humankind and as a possible home to extraterrestrial life. It is our twenty-first century New World; its explorers robots, shipped 350 million miles from Earth to uncover the distant planet's secrets.
Its most recent scou... |
Walker | He has the power to walk between worlds.
His captors think they can hold him.
They're wrong.
What do you say when offered a lifelong position in the most powerful and corrupt secret organization in mankind's history?
If you want your life to last longer than the job interview, you say yes.
In exchange for wealth, power... |
Letters to Myself | The ties that bind a co-dependent relationship are complex and interwoven. It can be almost impossible to untangle them all, just ask Cassie.
Cassie seems to have everything - a charismatic husband, kids, a nice house. But things are never what they seem. Cassie is struggling to keep her identity in a toxic relationshi... |
Sit Still! | Patrick is a whirling, swirling bundle of energy who knows 101 ways to sit in a chair |
Don't Bite the Messenger (NIght Runner, #0,5) | Anchorage, Alaska
The vampire population may have created an economic boom in Alaska, but their altered energy field fries most technology. They rely on hard-living--and short-lived--couriers to get business done...couriers like Sydney Kildare.
Sydney has survived to the ripe old age of twenty-six by being careful. She... |
Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom | In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty--and your life--can depend on the right calculation.
In Math on Trial, mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials s... |
My Everything (The Beaumont Series #1.5) | When Nick Ashford lost his friend, Mason, he didn't realize he was going to lose his family as well, but that's exactly what happened. Alone and in a foreign country, Nick is working on rebuilding his life one patient at a time, that is, until a striking volunteer makes her presence known.
Can Nick finish his year in A... |
Clockwork Fairies | Desiree feels the most at home with her clockwork creations, but Claude worries about all this science and Darwinist nonsense--after all, where do clockwork fairies fall in the Great Chain of Being? |
Speed Shrinking | "Proust had a cookie. Susan Shapiro has a cupcake--and a really hilarious book."
--Patricia Marx, author of Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him
In Susan Shapiro's laugh-out-loud funny fictional debut Speed Shrinking, Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got her addictive personality under control. Then... |
Forever Burning (Eternals, #3) | Forever Burning, is the third and last book in the Burning Miniseries, part of the Eternal series.
He watched her burn, becoming a pile of ashes at his feet...
Now, there is hope, he might be able to get his She, his one true mate, back.
There might be a miracle that allows him to hold her again. Or will she be snatche... |
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere | I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhereexplores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment. A pregnant mother's plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns the consequences of an almost-missed exit on the motorway in the newspaper the next morning; while a perfe... |
Cornflakes: Poems | Want to savor something really delicious? Try something snappy? Give yourself a treat? Open this book! |
Benji, Benji Marshall: my game, my story | "Benji equals anybody I've seen in terms of flair, and making something happen he is a remarkable talent, born out of living on the edge. That's the way he is. He was made to be a footballer..." -Wayne Bennett
Benji Marshall is a sporting superstar- a once in a generation player.
This is his story- from growing up in a... |
The Devil's Own | At the Threshold of Tenderness - or Terror
Isabel's life was suddenly glorious. Her Aunt Camilla welcomed her to her new home. Her boyfriend, Matthew, would make her life complete. But frightening things began to happen at Camilla's - strange parties, midnight meetings in the woods, dreams - or were they dreams? - of b... |
Petropolis | Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she's a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art school drop-out who lives inside... |
Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia | A polemical account of Britain's disruptive and damaging role in the break-up of Yugoslavia.
For most of 1992-1995, Britain stood aside while an internationally recognised state was attacked by externally-sponsored rebels bent on a campaign of territorial aggression and ethnic cleansing. It was her unfinest hour since ... |
Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child | Raising anEmotionally Intelligent Childis John Gottman's groundbreaking guide to teaching children to understand and regulate their emotional world.
Intelligence That Comes from the Heart
Every parent knows the importance of equipping children with the intellectual skills they need to succeed in school and life. But ch... |
To Santa With Love | The holidays are coming and free-spirited Jacquie Grey plans to head west and start a new life. Her solo road trip is going great - until she collides with rancher Choya Barnett in Arizona. |
Power of Four | This is a preview collection of the first four chapters of the first four books of the suspenseful romance COLONY Series where sexy vampires protect the President of the United States. |
Lone Wolf (FBI K-9 #1) | When a madman goes on a bombing spree, an FBI K-9 team of one woman and her dog is the key to stopping him before more innocents die and panic sweeps the Eastern seaboard.
Meg Jennings and her Labrador, Hawk, are one of the FBI's top K-9 teams certified for tracking and search and rescue. When a bomb rips apart a gover... |
The Heart of Parenting: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child | An award-winning research psychologist who has spent more than 20 years studying parent-child interactions shows parents how to "emotion coach" their kids to deal with their feelings--and help them develop into emotionally healthy adults. |
Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers: Guiding the Way for Compassionate, Committed, Courageous Adults | The world before September 11, 2001, was challenging enough for parents of teenagers. Now it is more so. Our families, schools, and workplaces need Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers who will not only be knowledgeable, responsible, nonviolent, and caring youths, but who also will grow up to be compassionate, committed, ... |
Point of Hopes (Astreiant, #1) | Nicolas Rathe is a pointsman, a dedicated watchman in the great city of Astreiant. During the annual trade fair, with a city filled with travelers and merchants, someone is stealing children. The populace is getting angry and frightened and convinced that a foreigner must be to blame. Rathe calls on the aid of both an ... |
The Lost Codex (OPSIG Team Black #3) | In a novel Jeffery Deaver has called "brilliant," two ancient biblical documents reveal long-buried secrets that could change the world as we know it
In 930 CE, a revered group of scholars pen the first sanctioned Bible, planting the seed from which other major religions will grow. But in 1953, half the manuscript goes... |
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty | From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets, a short, lively, action-packed history of how the Magna Carta came to be
The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was thi... |
Three Days and a Life | "In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief--and ongoing shame--he is never suspected of any connection to the child's disappearance. But the boy's death co... |
The Stolen Mackenzie Bride (MacKenzies & McBrides, #8) | 1745, Scotland: The youngest son of the scandalous Mackenzie family, Malcolm is considered too wild to tame...until he meets a woman who is too unattainable to resist.
Lady Mary Lennox is English, her father highly loyal to the king, and promised to another Englishman. But despite it being forbidden to speak to Malcolm... |
Once Upon A Kiss (Be-Wished, #3) | Livvy thought she lost her chance for a Happily Ever After when she dismissed the wish fairy who knocked on her door, so when a prime specimen of masculinity appears on her front lawn one stormy night, she can't quite believe it. Like a prince in distress, he needs her kiss to bring him out of his enchanted sleep.
Afte... |
The Chairman: A Novel of Big City Politics | In The Chairman: A Novel of Big City Politics, award-winning short fiction writer and journalist Mark M. Quinn offers a character driven plot that shows the thin line between good and evil in a big city ward boss. In a way that few authors can, Quinn offers a convincing portrait of how complicated and mercurial the wor... |
Fallen Grace | Grace Parkes has just had to do a terrible thing. Having given birth to an illegitimate child, she has travelled to the famed Brookwood Cemetery to place her small infant's body in a rich lady's coffin. Following the advice of a kindly midwife, this is the only way that Grace can think of to give something at least to ... |
Once I Was A Wife | A British Earl murders his children's nanny, mistaking her in the dark for his wife, and disappears, never to be seen again.
For forty years the British press will look for him. There will be 'sightings', there will be leads, but the police will eventually close the case when the Earl is officially declared dead.
For m... |
Secrets That Kill (Shelby Nichols #4) | As a "favor" to Uncle Joey, Shelby must deliver a letter to his associate in Orlando where she has been vacationing with her family. When things go terribly wrong, Shelby finds herself being pursued by a Florida Kingpin for the information he thinks she stole. On her own and in trouble, Uncle Joey sends Ramos to her re... |
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) | Speak again the ancient oaths,
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.
And return to men the Shards they once bore.
The Knights Radiant must stand again.
Roshar is a world of stone swept by tempests that shape ecology and civilization. Animals and plants retract; cities are built in she... |
Huntress / Stunner (Alexa O'Brien, Huntress, #0.5-0.75) | Two prequel short stories from the urban fantasy Alexa O'Brien Huntress series.
HUNTRESS:
A brief look at Alexa O'Brien before meeting the one man who would change her life forever. A werewolf with an unusual power, Alexa discovers that love may just be her greatest enemy yet.
STUNNER:
Reckless and young, Alexa O'Brien... |
Buried Secrets (Nick Heller, #2) | Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his own shop. There he's urgently summoned by an old family friend. Hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus desperately needs Nick's help. His teenage daughter, Alexandra, has just been kidnapped.
Her abduction was clearly a sophisticated, professional job, done with ... |
Imagine-- Ernie is Teeny-Tiny | Imagine... Ernie is Teeny-Tiny is a 1994 Sesame Street book in which Ernie imagines that he shrinks. |
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution | A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America's marginalized voices. Now, in... |
Aidan's First Full Moon: A Magical Child Story | Aidan and his parents have been solitary witches for as long as he can remember. At the rising of the Harvest Moon, his family is invited to a local coven's Full Moon Esbat celebration. Aidan is jittery about joining a Circle full of strangers. While he is enjoying himself around the bonfire, the High Priestess and his... |
Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles | The anthology explores the myriad tragic, frustrating, humorous possibilities of the teen love triangle, and features 15 new stories by these authors. |
Destination: India | Let yourself go...
Georgia Green is about to board a plane to India, alone - again. Things were supposed to be different this time, but Georgia backpacked solo to Thailand and survived, what could possibly go wrong?
Only she is about to find out that when in India the country calls the shots - not you.
The new favourit... |
Destination Chile | Welcome to Paradise
Next on her bucket list Georgia Green is heading to Chile, but this time she's not going alone...
The new favourite series for fans of The Curvy Girls Club, the Shopaholicseries and Eat, Pray, Love.
Join Georgia Green for a romantic trip into the sunset...
What reviewers are saying about The Lonely ... |
Been There Done That~ In Flames (The Tested Love Series) | Book II of The Tested Love Series!
Andrea Nicholls-Fountaine is grieving the loss of her daughter, trying to make sense of how her world was suddenly upended with one phone call. She decides to keep her daughter's memory alive by creating a business doing the very thing that they shared. When Andrea suddenly finds hers... |
Crushing on You (Love Stories For Young Adults, #25) | Shauna Phillips's sophomore year is off to a killer start! The Junior she's been crushing on--Tommy Jansen--has finally noticed her. Soon Shauna's so busy with everything but school that her grades take a sudden nose-dive--and she ends up with an after-school tutor! Shy Chad Givens is nice, but Shauna isn't interested.... |
Nightmare Ballad | One day, while instructing a swim class, Luke Rhodes hears a strange ballad in his head that twists reality. After a series of terrifying events, he escapes through a black curtain and leaves a living nightmare behind.
The ballad hasn't left him though. Pieces remain. And when the song surfaces... the nightmare returns... |
Escape from Tykonia (Galactic Odyssey #1) | A lone space captain arrives in a new galaxy and finds himself on the mysterious planet of Tykonia. He inadvertently joins a failing rebellion using top secret files he obtained. With this new rebellion, he attempts to leave Tykonia, but finds the rebels & himself pursued by the controlling alien empire of the galaxy: ... |
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Indiana , 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe lea... |
Post Mortem, Parish Mail #2 | Celia Macarty is back in Post Mortem, the second installment in the Parish Mailsaga.
Autumn in New Orleans means Homecoming, romance--and murder. When a friend vanishes, Celia believes a desperate letter about an unsolved Civil War-era murder holds the key to unraveling the mystery.
As she searches for answers, Celia e... |
Bursting with Confidence | Haley and Abigail are best friends.Abigail is babysitting a little boy named Peter Larsen at an old mansion. She calls Haley and ask her to visit.
Haley visits the Larsen mansion.
After Haley meets Peter, strange things start to happen. Soon, Haley and Abigail learn a few of the Larsen mansion's dark secrets. |
Dark Swan (Otherworld Assassin, #3) | The Alien Huntress series is back with fan favorite AIR agent Dallas Gutierrez from New York Timesand USA TODAYbestselling paranormal romance author Gena Showalter, who doesn't disappoint with this sizzling hot alpha hero.
From Blood Red Kiss anthology
Lilica Swan isn't quite human or otherworlder; she is the best--and... |
Welou, My Brother | Welou, My Brotheris the story of a boy and his family, and their struggle to live between three cultures. They are Islanders, descended from labourers who were shanghaied from Vanuatu and put to work in the Queensland cane fields. Welou, his mother Ivy and father Wacvie, and his brothers and sisters live a simple and c... |
Christopher Columbus and the Knights Templar | "Fire," the man chuckles, "has always been a friend to the Templars."
The signs are everywhere. Viking symbols carved into a rock in a Rhode Island lake. A medieval knight chiseled on an ancient North American boulder. A tower said to have been built hundreds of years before Europeans arrived in America.
Join your best... |
Gratitude Challenge For Inspired Women: 10 Days of Affirmations and Challenges for a Happier Life | (Discover How To Use Gratitude To Create A Happier Life.)
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You're about to discover how to manifest a happier, healthier life of abundance by challenging yourself to focus on GRAT... |
The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett | He's that regular guy from Astoria, Queens, who left his heart in San Francisco. He's the postwar heartthrob who inspired hundreds of young girls to wear black outside St. Patrick's Cathedral on his wedding day. He's the darling of the MTV generation who made music history when, at the age of 68, he won the coveted Gra... |
Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist | The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II --and were later dismissed as "depression economics." Then came the great meltdown of 2008. Market forces that the world relied on suddenly failed to self-correct--and Keynes's doctrine of corrective action in a... |
Sona and the Wedding Game | Sona's big sister is getting married and she's been given an important job to do. She has to steal the groom's shoes. She's never attended a wedding before, so she's unfamiliar with this Indian tradition as well as many of the other magical experiences that will occur before and during the special event. But with the a... |
A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific | This is the first field guide to the identification of the birds of the islands of the tropical Pacific, including the Hawaiian Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, southeastern Polynesia, and Micronesia. It is intended both as a reference for the expert and as an introduction to birding in the region for the novice. Small eno... |
Empire | 'Sumptuously detailed, beautifully imagined...Empire is an exceptional achievement and will be the mark against which later books will be measured.'
--The Wire
'As high on adrenaline as it is on authentic detailing.'
--Firstpost
'A gripping historical novel.'
--Hindustan Times
'Yesodharan does a beautiful job of bringi... |
The Bush | Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or should be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us?
Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a living from t... |
Before the Poison | "The accomplished Robinson never disappoints, mixing well-developed characterizations with edge-of-the-seat action."
--New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Make no mistake, he's among the very best."
--The Times(London)
Already justifiably acclaimed for his bestselling crime fiction novels featuring British Chief Inspector Alan... |
Created In Fire (Art of Love, #2) | Like to laugh one minute and cry the next? This is the right romance for you.
Read this story and become immersed in the Larson family saga. Follow metal sculptor Michael Larson, the eldest of Will Larson's sons, as he painfully learns the true art of love in the second book of this entertaining romantic comedy series.... |
Meet a Baby Hippo | Did you know that baby hippos are born underwater? Or that a baby hippo weighs about as much as ten human babies? Find out more fascinating facts about hippo calves. |
A Dragonling's Haunted Halloween and Night of the DeMented Symbiots: Two Dragonlings of Valdier Novellas | Listening Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
A Dragonlings' Haunted Halloween
During one of her many excursions exploring the palace, Cara Truman discovers a vast underground chamber that turns out to be the perfect place for her next invention. Soon, her dream of building the ultimate playground for the dragonlings is a realit... |
A Passionate Prodigality | Following the declaration of war in 1914, Chapman joined the Royal Fusiliers as an adjutant and was sent to the Western Front in August 1915.
Chapman survived the Battle of Arras in 1917 but was badly affected by a mustard gas attack. Following treatment for this he returned to the Western Front, remaining until the ar... |
Gardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home | This lyrical and articulate mix of the practical and the poetic combines personal story, wildland ecology, restoration gardening practices, and native plant horticulture. Judith Lowry's voice and experiences make a rich matrix for essays that include discussions of wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, w... |
The Woman on the Stairs: A Novel | In a museum far from home a man stumbles onto a painting of a woman for whom he once, long ago, risked everything and who then mysteriously disappeared from his life.
As a young lawyer, the nameless protagonist of The Woman on the Stairs became entangled in the affairs of three people mired in a complex and destructive... |
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. | What's a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what's contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the "white elephant" role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers.
A constellation... |
Street Soldier | Jamal 'Prince' Perkins is on a mission to let the world see into his unstable, single-mother-run home and walk them down the life-threatening neighbourhood streets he wants to control. He's only 17 years old and classifies himself as a true street soldier. |
The Day the World Ended | From the dust jacket:
He had five hours to save the world!
Brian Woodville, adventurer and explorer, sat up in bed. A cold inexorable voice was speaking: "You have three days," it said, "you will leave Baden-Baden within this time. This is the first warning. You have three days!"
The most gruesome of all superstitions ... |
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