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Arsene Wenger: The Inside Story of Arsenal Under Wenger | In this fascinating account of Arsene Wenger's reign as manager of Arsenal and the methods he has used to keep the club at the top, John Cross has spoken to everyone from board members to players and backroom staff to build the most complete portrait of the man and his management style, and the club he has inspired for... |
The More Loving One | Free online poetry.
From Random House's Boldtype.
Excerpted from The Voice of the Poet: W.H. Auden by W.H. Auden. |
Farangi Girl | AshleyDartnell's mother was a glamorous American and her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old and living in Tehran in the 1960s: the Shah was in power, and life for Westerners was rich ... |
Pursuit | Thirteen bodies are discovered inside a small Louisville restaurant just after closing time. The ferocity and apparent randomness of the crime prompt the police to call in criminology professor DanielMillikan-they want a profile of the murderer. Millikan determines that the crime was committed not by a psychopath but b... |
Ritual Magic (World of the Lupi, #10) | In Eileen Wilks's new Novel of the Lupi, FBI agent Lily Yu is about to confront a power even darker than magic...
On her 57th birthday, Lily's mother suddenly loses all memory beyond the age of twelve. Lily knows her mother was attacked by something more than magic. More . . . and darker.
When Lily and Rule discover th... |
The Soldiers of Halla (Pendragon Series #10) | It has all been leading to this.
Every victory. Every loss. All the thrills and sadness; the hope and despair. Bobby Pendragon's heart-pounding journey through time and space has brought him to this epic moment. He and his fellow Travelers must join forces for one last desperate battle against Saint Dane. At stake is n... |
Watch your Words: How to Say the Right Things | Have you ever been in a situation where you said something you wished you never said?
Spoken words are like bullets; once fired, they're difficult to retrieve!
An unkind word is like a bullet. It can kill a man's spirit, soul, and body
You can make someone's heart glad or sad by your words.
"WATCH YOUR WORDS!" is a new... |
1500 Words in 15 Minutes a Day | Improve your vocabulary in your spare time-and enhance your opportunities for a lifetime
Whether you're studying for school, preparing a business presentation, or mingling at a cocktail party, your mastery of words is essential to your overall success. 1,500 Words in 15 Minutes a Dayis the ultimate crash course in voca... |
Lying Eyes | No-nonsense jewelry designer Iris Fortune yearns for a normal life. But life as Vegas magician Cosmo Fortune's daughter is anything but normal, especially since dear old Dad is also a scam artist. When Cosmo's latest scheme goes awry and he pulls a real-life disappearing act, Iris is left holding the bag.
Now Iris must... |
September Sky (American Journey, #1) | When unemployed San Francisco reporter Chuck Townsend and his college-dropout son, Justin, take a cruise to Mexico in 2016, each hopes to rebuild a relationship after years of estrangement. But they find more than common ground aboard the ship. They meet a mysterious lecturer who touts the possibilities of time travel.... |
The Jungle Books Part 1 | Set in faraway India and the Aleutians, the animals and humans who inhabit Kipling's Jungle Books have been children's favorites for generations. Book I introduces the black panther Bagheera, the lame and evil tiger Shere Khan, the rock python Kaa, the brown bear Baloo who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle, t... |
The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age | As staff writer for Scientific American,John Horgan has a window on contemporary science unsurpassed in all the world. Who else routinely interviews the likes of Lynn Margulis, Roger Penrose, Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Kuhn, Chris Langton,... |
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order | Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA, and information fill the role once occupied by gods? These questions lie at the heart of George Johnson's audacious exploration... |
The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science | In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world's philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, or What doesn't kill you makes you stronger-can enric... |
Generica | An emotional balancing act of Herculean proportions, Will Ferguson's debut novel is somehow both caustically cynical and touchingly humane. Its message: there is no happiness without sadness. The pursuitof happiness is all--actually attaining it, if that were even possible, would be death. When Edwin de Valu, an editor... |
Inherit the Wind | A meaningful play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution. The accused was a slight, frightened man who'd deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus, the chief gladiators being the two great legal giants of the century. Locked in mortal comb... |
The Bride Sale | A Bartered LadyLord James Harkness is shocked to discover a bride sale taking place in his small English village -- and surprised by the depth of his feelings for the unfortunate gentlewoman being auctioned off by a disreputable husband. But is it honor and nobility that compel James to outbid the townfolk for the prou... |
Bearing Witness: Stories of Martyrdom and Costly Discipleship | What does it cost to follow Jesus?For these men and women, the answer was clear. They were ready to give witness to Christ in the face of intense persecution, even if it cost them their lives. From the stoning of Stephen to Nigerian Christians persecuted by Boko Haram today, these stories from around the world and thro... |
Gambit Classic, Vol. 1 | Pagin' the Ragin' Cajun! When Storm is reverted to a teenage mutant thief, she's rescued by fellow felon Gambit in his first appearance! But befriending even one X-Man means making enemies like the Shadow King, Orphan-Maker, and the Hounds! After joining the X-Men himself, Gambit romances fellow southern-born super her... |
Operation Itchy Bum | Alistair D'Arcy McDermott has a great mum and a great dad who love him very much - but aren't so keen on each other. He also has a teacher who wears tight white trousers and likes humiliating kids. So when his mum decides that she's going on a blind date with the teacher from hell, Burke the Jerk, Al's worst nightmare ... |
Superior Spider-Man Team-Up: Superiority Complex | New creative team! New direction! The Superior Age begins, as the all-new Superior Spider-Man teams with Wolverine and the X-Men! Then, Spider-Man faces the future...the Future Foundation, that is. The Superior Spider-Man is forced to work with the FF as the literal future comes crashing in on them, threatening to dest... |
Gambit, Volume 2: Tombstone Blues | The ragin' Cajun X-Man's solo adventures continue!
Receiving a distress call from an imperiled ESU archaeology team, Gambit makes a detour on his way back to the Big Apple and heads to the Forever City! But how exactly will he outwit the hyper-evolved locals and snatch the students (and some loot) from their clutches?
... |
Dead Beautiful | After Renee Winters discovers her parents lying dead in California's Redwood Forest in what appears to be a strange double murder, her grandfather sends her off to Gottfried Academy in Maine, a remote and mysterious high school dedicated to philosophy, "crude sciences," and Latin: the Language of the Dead. It's here sh... |
First X-Men | X-Men legend Neal Adams returns to Marvel's mutants to reveal the secret history of the X-Men...BEFORE Xavier's team! What terrifying threat led the solitary secret agent nicknamed Wolverine to form a mutant strike force decades in the past? As the government solidifies its plans for the new subspecies known as mutants... |
Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, by Brian Michael Bendis, Volume 4 | The Daily Bugle is on the hunt to find out everything they can about the new Spider-Man...but what they discover will surprise them, you - and him!
Then: Venom Wars begins! Miles Morales finally has his costume, his web-shooters, and now he has his first A-list Spider-Man villain...there's a new Venom in town, and he's... |
The Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 11: The Future | Tony Stark has always been obsessed with the future. Whether starting his first company, designing the Mark I Iron Man armor or launching Stark Resilient, his optimism has always been guided by the question, "What comes next?" Six months after quitting Resilient, he's found the answer. The sanctity of his mind violated... |
Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen, Vol. 4 | Even gods may fall! Five X-Men - Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik - have been imbued with the cosmic Phoenix Force, becoming living avatars of destruction and creation. They have transformed Earth into a Utopia - but deep underground, Hell awaits.
Mr. Sinister, mutant geneticist and longtime X-Men foe, ha... |
Uncanny X-Force, Vol. 7: Final Execution - Book 2 | X-Force exists to tackle the problems that ordinary X-Men can't or won't confront - with extreme prejudice. But as the killing begins to take its toll, a less existential crisis faces the team: a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants - led by Wolverine's twisted son, Daken, and specifically designed to dismantle X-Force...an... |
X-Force: Phalanx Covenant | It's the incredible conclusion to Fabian Nicieza's definitive X-Force run! When the techno-organic Phalanx kidnap the X-Men and establish a foothold on Earth, X-Force must team with X-Factor and Excalibur to battle the aliens...but who or what is Douglock? And how will X-Force react to fighting alongside what appears t... |
FF by Jonathan Hickman, Vol. 4 | Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman bids farewell to the FF! In a story that kicks off in Spider-Man and Human Torch's bathroom (?!), the Future Foundation explores the farthest reaches of the Marvel Universe - from Wakanda to the Negative Zone - encountering the Wizard, the Universal Inhumans and the Negative Zone's dar... |
Avengers Assemble | Iron Man! Captain America! Thor! Hulk! Black Widow! Hawkeye! ASSEMBLE! The world's best-known Avengers are teaming up for a high-stakes mission with the fate of the Marvel Universe at stake! When the Avengers stumble upon a string of heists of some of the world's most dangerous weapons, masterminded by the criminal tea... |
How to Abduct a Highland Lord (MacLean Curse, #1) | It's hardly the type of wedding Fiona MacLean dreamed of. No family, no guests, just a groom who's been dragged -- literally -- to the altar. But if marriage to Black Jack Kincaid, the handsome wastrel she'd sworn never to see again, will avert a bloody war between their clans, so be it. Surely she can share his bed wi... |
Trial by Fire: The Hundred Years War, Volume 2 | What history records as the Hundred Years War was in fact a succession of destructive conflicts, separated by tense intervals of truce and dishonest and impermanent peace treaties, and one of the central events in the history of England and France. It laid the foundations of France's national consciousness, even while ... |
Crashing the Crease | *This book will not be available after 12/4/15. All monies raised will be donated to cancer research and patient care.*
Isaac Spencer met J.D. Bazin for the first time during game one of the collegiate championship in Isaac`s junior year. The meeting did not go well. Bazin, a power forward for the opposing team, crashe... |
Tell Me No Lies | Gemma and Mike - two kids hurt by their past are now inextricably linked. Their effect on each others' lives will be explosive. |
Checkmate (Noughts & Crosses, #3) | Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows... |
Knife Edge (Noughts & Crosses, #2) | WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . .
Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses... |
After Magritte: A Play. by Tom Stoppard | 'Mother lies prone on an ironing board under a basket of fruit suspended from the ceiling, while a young couple - the girl in a ball dress, the man stripped to the waist in waders - are frantically changing light bulbs; through a street window at the back a policeman spies on this domestic scene in a posture of frozen ... |
Time After Time | The Swifts--three sisters of marked eccentricity, defiantly christened April, May, and baby June, and their only brother, one-eyed Jasper--have little in common, save some vivid memories of their darling mother and a long lost youth particularly prone to acts of treachery. Into their world comes cousin Leda from Vienna... |
The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress, #5) | The Body of a Goddess...with the Heart of Hell itself.
The devil is a dead-beat dad and his consort Lilith couldn't care less. A stolen embryo stirs in Lilith's womb and a plan pulses through her veins: To unleash her child from the gates of hell--as soon as she destroys the only two vampire hunters who can possibly st... |
Every Bitter Thing (Chief Inspector Mario Silva #4) | The son of the Foreign Minister of Venezuela is found dead in his apartment in Brasilia. Due to the political nature of the crime, Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil's Federal Police is called in to investigate. As he delves deeper into the murder, he discovers that a chain of murders have occurred throughout Brazil... |
Blame | It is the summer of 1989 when Lucas witnesses an event that will tear his family apart. Over a decade later, his estranged father succumbs to a suspected heart attack. Lucas shuns grief and escapes to New York with his colleague Mariana. However, a dark secret from his past threatens to re-emerge and destroy the burgeo... |
Anything Prose and Poetry Too | A One of a Kind Collection! As the saying that influenced the title suggests, anything goes here...literally! Poetry, adventure, motivation, humor - you will find all of this and more in Anassa Publication's debut anthology, Anything Prose...and Poetry, Too! Written by multiple, talented authors, this unique collection... |
The Boy From Brighton | Eleven-year-old Charlie thinks he is invincible. He is convinced he has a clock for a heart, which makes it impossible for him to die or feel the sort of heartache his mother always feels every time she and Charlie must flee another abusive loser who doesn't deserve a woman like Charlie's mum.
So yet again Charlie and ... |
Rudie Nudie | A delightful celebration of those nudie moments between bath and bedtime from award-winning author and illustrator Emma Quay. Ages 2+ 'One, two Rudie Nudie, Rudie Nudie in the bath...' Emma Quay captures all the joy and energy of childhood in this irresistible rhyming tale. With its charming illustrations and lively te... |
Disciplinary Action | When Leigh is called into her boss's office, she's sure she's in trouble, but when Ms. Blake tells her she knows about the BDSM website Leigh runs in her free time, she knows she's well and truly screwed.
When her boss decides to punish her for her shameful behavior, Leigh submits. Will she learn her lesson, or will he... |
Starfire | Two ships launch, but only one can come home with the prize--and no one suspects what they'll find when they get out there.
On June 30, 1908 an object fell from the sky releasing more energy than a thousand Hiroshima bombs. A Siberian forest was flattened, but the strike left no significant crater. The anomaly came to ... |
Team of Rivals | Soon to be a major motion picture, Lincoln, from Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning writer Tony Kushner, and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the President and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln.In this mega bestseller, the acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincol... |
No Ordinary Time | No Ordinary Timedescribes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become the preeminent economic and military power in the world. Using diaries, interviews, and White House records of the president's and first lady's comings and goin... |
The DeadJohnson's Big Incredible Day (Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, #2) | "Clyde and Marguritte Deadjohnson. Just average suburbanites who enjoy barbecues, lawn darts, and bowling. Good friends, good neighbors, and active members of their community.
Of course, Clyde and Marguritte are dead, but that doesn't keep them from enjoying everything life has to offer. THE DEADJOHNSON'S BIG INCREDIBL... |
Daughters of the Dust | Inspired by her Sundance Festival award-winning film "Daughters of the Dust," Julie Dash has put her cinematic vision on the page, penning a rich, magical new novel which extends her story of a family of complex, independent African-American women.Set in the 1920s in the Sea Islands off the Carolina coast where the Gul... |
Tycoon | Sexy, outrageous, and irresistible, Tycoonshowcases Harold Robbins at his rip-roaring best. Jack Lear rises from a modest Jewish background to take on the WASP world, but never quite feels he's succeeded in his ambition to be accepted as one of them. Making his fortune as a pioneering radio and television broadcaster a... |
Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker | The book that Janet Maslin of The New York Timeshas called "indispensable" and "a transfixing study of American mores and manners that happens to incorporate boundless laughs, too" is finally available in paperback--fully updated and featuring a brand new introduction by Adam Gopnik.
Organized by decade, with commentar... |
Capital Crimes | Lawrence Sanders presents the ultimate Washington thriller, a novel as sexy and shocking as "The Fourth Deadly Sin" and "Timothy's Game." A power-crazed holy man named Brother Kristos has slipped into the halls of the White House. To the President of the United States, he is a miracle worker-the only person who can hea... |
Fight for Her #3: MMA New Adult Contemporary Romantic Suspense (Fight for Her #3) | The continuing series from bestselling romantic suspense author JJ Knight
They took her.
I can't believe it.
Striker and his thug fighter friends kidnapped Maddie.
I don't know how, or when, or where, but there will be vengeance.
And there is one thing I can guarantee.
I will be the last man standing.
FIGHT FOR HER #3 ... |
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed | From the 1930s to the 1960s, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe of people. The Navajo worked unprotected in the uranium mines that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Long after these mines were abandoned, Navajos in all four corners of the Reservation (which borders Utah, New Mex... |
Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643-1648 | This book is the first full-length study of the French negotiating position, culminating in the end of a long conflict with the Holy Roman Empire. The author demonstrates that military success and defeat had less effect on the French negotiating position than had been assumed. Instead, the network of alliances not only... |
Gus (Bright Side, #2) | The journey that began in top-rated, best-selling Bright Side, continues ...
This is the story of Gus.
Losing himself.
Finding himself.
And healing along the way.
" ... but the honest-to-God truth is I don't even know how to function anymore. Bright Side wasn't only my best friend; she was like my other half ... the ot... |
What Is Left the Daughter | Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country's finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books-- The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L--in this erotically charged and morally complex story.
Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his paren... |
Leota's Garden | Leota's garden was once a place of beauty, where flowers bloomed and hope thrived. It was her refuge from the deep wounds inflicted by a devastating war, her sanctuary where she knelt before a loving God and prayed for the children who couldn't understand her silent sacrifices.Now, eighty-four-year-old Leota Reinhardt ... |
Queen Mean (Honey Creek Royalty, #3) | Beckie Clark knew winning state in cheerleading was a big deal to her and the other squad members. Little did she know the small town of Honey Creek, Ohio felt the same way. The sudden royal treatment catches her off guard, leaving her to wonder what has gotten into everyone.
Then Grandma throws Beckie a curve by hirin... |
The Auroran | August Nightingale, in late middle age, has had little success with relationships-- and not much meaningful satisfaction in the world of work. Abruptly deciding to "leave it all behind," he embarks on a snowy road trip to visit Civil War battlefields in Pennsylvania. His journey becomes one of self-realization. A misha... |
Sundiver | No species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron--except perhaps mankind. Did some mysterious race begin the uplift of humanity aeons ago? Circling the sun, under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in history--a journey into the boiling inferno o... |
The Practice Effect | Physicist Dennis Nuel was the first human to probe the strange realms called anomaly worlds -- alternate universes where the laws of science were unpredictably changed. But the world Dennis discovered seemed almost like our own -- with one perplexing difference. To his astonishment, he was hailed as a wizard and found ... |
100 Buildings 100 Years | The Twentieth Century Society protects outstanding British architecture and design created from 1914 on--so 2014 marked a century's worth of buildings under its care. Since its inception, the society has safeguarded structures of all types and styles, from neo-Georgian to Art Deco, Modern Movement to pre-fab, and now b... |
The Rose and the Thorn (The Riyria Chronicles #2) | From the Amazon description of the paperback edition: "A dear friend is brutally beaten. Two thieves want answers. Riyria is born.
For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, the tw... |
On the Beach | On the Beach is a post-apocalyptic, end-of-the-world novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. It was published in 1957. The book takes its name from the T. S. Eliot poem The Hollow Men, which includes the line "Gathered on this beach of the tumid river." Some editions of t... |
The Bait of Satan (Book with DVD): Living free from the deadly trap of offense | The Bait of Satanexposes one of the most deceptive snares Satan uses to get believers out of the will of God--offense. Most people who are ensnared by the bait of Satan don't even realize it. John Bevere shows you how to stay free from offense and escape the victim mentality. With nearly one million copies in print, th... |
The Lost Ship | The Captain and his men are looking at the strange ship.
"Hello. Is there anybody there? Can you hear me?"
But there is no answer.
Audio CD available for this title. |
John the barman | John runs a bar frequented by gods, angels and all manner of divine creature. They all have their own problems and stories which John gets to listen to - whether he likes it or not. |
The Texan's Forbidden Fiancee (Lone Star Legends #1) | One taboo Texan
After a century-long family feud, Madison Milan doesn't trust any Calhoun--especially Jake, the man who ditched her on the night of their elopement. But when he shows up claiming an heirloom map leads to gold on her ranch, she's swamped by steamy memories. She may not trust Jake, but she just might want... |
Too Close to Resist | Forced proximity, natural attraction
Moving in with her brother isn't what free-spirited Grace McKnight imagined doing at age thirty. But under the circumstances, it's for the best. The complicating factor? Kyle Clark, her brother's business partner--aka the most infuriatingly buttoned-up person Grace has ever met.
Liv... |
No Place to Run | "DON'T THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH IT."
Just when she started to feel safe, small-town librarian Lorie Narramore begins receiving threatening notes. They prove that her worst fears have come true--her dark past has followed her to Arkansas. And someone wants her to pay for what she's done. As the threats turn into full... |
A Romance Rekindled | SUSAN HILL ISN'T READY TO FORGIVE
The small-town CPA can't forget how Blake Mitchell jilted her and left their hometown without an explanation. But when her first love returns to Leavenworth, the ruggedly handsome writer evokes conflicting emotions, especially when Susan meets the child she assumes is his daughter.
Si... |
Collateral Damage | HOMETOWN SECRETS
Was the explosion that took the lives of Sarah Russell's parents an act of murder? Her teenage daughter thinks so and is determined to seek answers in the sleepy small town where Sarah grew up. Sarah fears the teen will uncover a secret she's not ready to share: everyone, including Sarah's daughter, be... |
El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde | In September of 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his mid-thirties, moved with his family to Bournemouth, a resort on the southern coast of England, where in the brief span of 23 months he revised A Child's Garden of Versesand wrote the novels Kidnappedand The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
An intriguing ... |
Sew, It's a Quest (The Bookania Quests, #1) | Note: An alternate cover edition can be found here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Robin and Robert are royal twins. They are the only two to have received a Fairy Godmother gift in nearly a century, an amazing honor. Soon it was clear that their gifts had been switched and a search began to find the Fairy God... |
The Shirt off His Back | Terry Winston exemplifies all the attributes of a "real African American man--the good husband, good father, good son, good friend." Brown leaves nothing to the imagination about the richness of his life. His mother, sister, girlfriend, daughters, and best friend all recognize and appreciate his dedication and sincerit... |
Why Bad Things Happen to Good People | Why bad things happen to good people is a topic that has increasingly captured my attention-and for two principal reasons: First, the number of dedicated Christians and Jews to whom this question seems to remain quietly disturbing-in times of personal crisis, occasionally even evoking a desperate plea: Why, God? Second... |
Murder in St. Barts (Gendarme Trenet, #1) | Charles Trenet of the Gendarmerie Nationale has just arrived on St. Barthelemy for three years in paradise. The exclusive island in the French West Indies lives up to its jet-setters' reputation as a beautiful and peaceful retreat for models, moguls and movie stars. However, Trenet's life is suddenly thrown into turmoi... |
Ian Botham: The Power and the Glory | Ian Botham arrived on the international scene just in time to ride sport's first big financial wave and exploit the Thatcherite mantra of go-out-and-get-what-you-want. He certainly needed the cash, having been regularly short since leaving state school in Yeovil at 15. In an era short on glamour and personalities, Both... |
Jackrabbit Junction Jitters (Jackrabbit Junction, #2) | The dusty pit-stop of Jackrabbit Junction, Arizona is rampant with jitters, and not just the pre-marital kind. Claire is back, blowing in with a monsoon storm on her heels and raining trouble throughout the cactus-filled valley. A burglar is on the loose and she wastes no time forming suspicions, but her usual suspects... |
The Knitting Book | Pick up your needles and get knitting
Whether you're new to knitting or already a wonder with wool, The Knitting Bookis a bible that no knitter should be without. With many celebrities picking up their needles and hundreds of people getting into knitting every month, this book will help you join the trend and enjoy kni... |
Poetry is Not a Project | In a style much like her poetry--expansive, vulnerable, and never without fire--Dorothea Lasky delivers a theory of writing based as much in the Humanist tradition as Hermeticism. Calling poets away from civilization, back towards the wilderness, Lasky brazenly urges artists away from conceptual programs, resurrecting ... |
National Geographic Investigates: Outbreak: Science Seeks Safeguards for Global Health | Outbreaksprovides a fascinating introduction to the fight against infectious diseases, including scientists who discovered various viruses and bacteria. The text outlines how we have learned to fight nature's harmful strains and to use others to our advantage; it also provides the latest findings on bird flu and SARS, ... |
Winter Of The Wolf Moon (Alex McKnight, #2) | Ex-cop and sometime-P.I. Alex McKnight endures the bitter winter of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in his log cabin with warm fires and cold Molsons. When Dorothy Parrish, a young Ojibwa woman asks him for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after secreting her in one of his cabins, he finds her gone t... |
The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues | Answering an advertisement for an artist's assistant involves seventeen-year-old Dickory Dock in several mysteries and their ultimate solutions. |
The Widow's War | Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts--running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. And when her worst fear is real... |
Ways to Disappear | For fans of Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette, an inventive, brilliant debut novel about the disappearance of a famous Brazilian novelist and the young translator who turns her life upside down to follow her author's trail.
Deep in gambling debt, the celebrate... |
The Beckoning Lady (Albert Campion #15) | Old William Faraday is dead, apparently of natural causes. Another man is dead too, and it was certainly murder. Mr Campion and his family are back in Pontisbright, along with Magersfontein Lugg and DCI Charles Luke. Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic Suffolk village, but it is a less romantic peril than on Mr Ca... |
Manners & Mutiny | If one must flirt...flirt with danger.
Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia's sootie Soap nearby. She would rather thwart dastardly Picklemen, yet her concerns about their wicked intentions are ignored.
Who can she trust? Royal werewolf... |
The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary, How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood, The Story of all Three Movies | If you've ever wondered how a movie gets made, you're not alone. Author and illustrator Jeff Kinney didn't know either, but when his bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series was turned into a live-action movie by 20th Century Fox, he learned how books get adapted for the screen in not one but three major motion pictures... |
Act of Treason (Mitch Rapp, #9) | CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation's capital in New York Timesbestselling author Vince Flynn's eighth explosive thriller.It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dut... |
Provocative (White Lies Duet, #1) | Book one in the sexy and scintillating new White Lies duet by Lisa Renee Jones!
There are those moments in life that are provocative in their very existences, that embed in our minds forever, and sometimes our very souls. They change us, mold us, maybe even save us. But some are darker, dangerous. If we allow them to, ... |
That Darn Squid God | In the year 1881, the moon suddenly begins to turn around and reveal its long-hidden darker side to the startled world. While most of Humanity finds the event fascinating, two British explorers know the horrible truth. The rotating moon is the legendary sign that foreshadows the return of a prehistoric demon, the monst... |
At First Sight | There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of hi... |
Dream Days | Featuring the adventures of five children - Edward, Selina, Harold, Charlotte and an unnamed narrator - Kenneth Grahame's Dream Days was such a critical and popular success that The Wind in the Willows, published ten years later in 1908, was felt to be a disappointment in comparison. A century on, it is clear that this... |
The Pay-Off | A Detective Chief Inspector Roger Hayes mystery - The body of Lulu Starewska, an eccentric antique dealer, is found in her home in an Oxfordshire village. A specialist in Russian icons, Lulu owned a gallery in London, which its manager, Raoul Musset, seems destined to inherit. That is, until an arson attack destroys th... |
Junk Day on Juniper Street | Seven short stories for children who are starting to read independently, from an author whose name every grade-school teacher knows. |
Snow Flower: Arara's Tale (Flower's Fang, #0.5) | Born as an undersized puppy, Arara has been constantly bullied by the bigger pups in her pack. As far as she is concerned, her life is horrible and it's not going to change anytime soon.
Until Arara discovers that she can move things with her mind. Armed with this new power, Arara convinces another bullied puppy to hel... |
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