| TITLE: |   The Essential Tantra by Kenneth Ray Stubbs |
| DESCRIPTION: | With more than 200 vivid illustrations, here is the complete guide to tantric lovemaking.For the first time, Kenneth Ray Stubbs brings together the books of his beloved "Secret Garden Trilogy"--Tantric Massage, Sensual Ceremony, and Sacred Orgasms--into one complete volume. In this three-in-one book, couples will find the broadest range of creative ideas and resources available in any Tantric guide. |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | Fast Company by Rich Wallace |
| DESCRIPTION: | Manny Ramos is the fastest guy on the Hudson City Youth football team?maybe even the fastest in his school?so the new track club seems perfect for him. His light weight could finally be a benefit instead of a curse! When he first sees the enormous indoor sporting complex where he?ll race some of the fastest guys around, Manny is awed. Will his time in the 800 meters be any competition for guys who?ve been racing for years? Manny is determined to put in the time and effort to be a track contender He?s finally found his sport. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: |  The Zap Gun by Philip K. Dick |
| DESCRIPTION: | Scaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, The Zap Gun is Dick's remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions--Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world, a task made all the more difficult by Lars falling in love with Lilo even as he knows she's trying to kill him. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $12.95 |
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| TITLE: | Babylon Rising Book 3: The Europa Conspiracy by Tim LaHaye |
| DESCRIPTION: | Tim LaHaye, creator of the Left Behind series, blends suspense and Biblical prophecy in a new series of thrillers with a chilling relevance to the events of our time. Here are ancient secrets never before revealed, dire warnings, and a man who must rise to face the greatest evil of all."Michael Murphy is a hero for our troubled times. He's an archaeologist and a scholar of Biblical prophecy. He's also a man of action hunting ancient artifacts at the risk of his life. And this time he's onto a find that will send him toward a confrontation with an evil of unimaginable power. For Murphy has unlocked secrets that were never meant to be revealed--secrets challenging everything Murphy's ever believed--and jeopardizing everyone he's ever loved. But that's not all that's at stake. For what Murphy has discovered is that the countdown to the end-time of all humankind has already begun. It's later than anyone thinks. And if Murphy fails--we all fail. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Deathstalker Destiny by Simon R. Green |
| DESCRIPTION: | Owen Deathstalker's greatest love--Hazel d'Ark--has been abducted by the Blood Runners, a culture dedicated to the extremes of genetic experimentation. Stranded in a mission on Lachrymae Christi, Owen busies himself with the task of ensuring the survival of the leper colony living there, awaiting an opportunity to rescue Hazel--or avenge her death. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt |
| DESCRIPTION: | "The logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke" (Stephen King) takes readers on a science fiction adventure tour through time. When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time--or worse--Shel enlists the aid of Dave MacElroy, a linguist, to accompany him on the rescue mission. Their journey through history takes them from the enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through the American Wild West to the civil-rights upheavals of the 20th century. Along the way, they encounter a diverse cast of historical greats, sometimes in unexpected situations. Yet the elder Shelborne remains elusive. And then Shel violates his agreement with Dave not to visit the future. There he makes a devastating discovery that sends him fleeing back through the ages, and changes his life forever. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | Plague Zone by Jeff Carlson |
| DESCRIPTION: | After surviving the machine plague and the world war that followed, nanotech researcher Ruth Goldman and ex-army ranger Cam Najarro discovered that a new contagion is about to be unleashed. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Cujo by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | Acute family dog turns into a vicious family killer in King's canine classic. |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: |  Desperation by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | This is knock-out classic horror about the loneliest town off Nevada's Interstate 50-and the scariest. |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Different Seasons by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | A collection of four novellas by the bestselling master, three of which became the basis for the hit films Stand by Me, The Shawshank Redemption, and Apt Pupil. So varied in tone that "you have to compare King to Twain, Poe-with a generous dash of Philip Roth and Will Rogers thrown in." -Los Angeles Times |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Firestarter by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | In this "terrifying and gripping" (Miami Herald) thriller, a young girl exhibits some rather explosive psychic powers. Now the government wants her for their own insane ends. |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Four Past Midnight by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | The scary story has never been the same since.
An extraordinary quartet of full-length novellas: The Langoliers, Secret Window, Secret Garden, The Library Policeman, and The Sun Dog. |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Gerald's Game by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | An erotic game with handcuffs between husband and wife. One of them won't make it through the night. For the survivor, death would have been a blessing. |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Insomnia by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | Ralph Roberts hasn't been sleeping well lately. Every morning he wakes just a little bit earlier until pretty soon, he isn't sleeping at all. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the strange hallucinations--and the nightmares that keep coming to life. |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | It by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | They were just kids when they stumbled upon the horror of their hometown. Now, as adults, none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them all back to Derry, Maine, to face the nightmare without end, and the evil without a name... |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $8.99 |
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| TITLE: | Needful Things by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | A new store has opened in the town of Castle Rock, Maine. It has whatever your heart desires...if you're willing to pay the price. In this chilling novel by one of the most potent imaginations of our time, evil is on a shopping spree and out to scare you witless. |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $8.99 |
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| TITLE: | Rose Madder by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | This is the story of Rose Daniels, "the most richly portrayed female King's ever created."* Escaping from her macabre marriage is not as easy as fleeing to a new city, picking a new name, finding a new job, and lucking out with a new man. Not with a husband like Norman... |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Skeleton Crew by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine... A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction. A trip to the attic turns into a journey to hell. A woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil. And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Dead Zone by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | John Smith awakens from an interminable coma with an accursed power-the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in...the dead zone. |
| CATEGORY: | Horror |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Dragon Book by Jack Dann |
| DESCRIPTION: | Never before published stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, and others. Whether portrayed as fire-breathing reptilian beasts at war with humanity or as noble creatures capable of speech and mystically bonded to the warriors who ride them, dragons have been found in nearly every culture's mythology. In modern times, they can be found far from their medieval settings in locales as mundane as suburbia or as barren as post-apocalyptic landscapes?and in The Dragon Book, today's greatest fantasists reignite the fire with legendary tales that will consume readers? imaginations. With original stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, Tamora Pierce, Harry Turtledove, Sean Williams, and Tad Williams as well as tales by Naomi Novik, Peter Beagle, Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple, Cecelia Holland, Kage Baker, Samuel Sykes, Diana Wynne Jones, Mary Rosenblum, Tanith Lee, Andy Duncan, and Bruce Coville. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | Elric In the Dream Realms by Michael Moorcock |
| DESCRIPTION: | Kinslayer. Soul reaver. Sorcerer. Thief. And last emperor of a cruel, decadent race. Elric of Melnibon is all of these and more. His life is sustained by drugs and magic and energy sucked from the victims of his vampiric black sword, Stormbringer, a weapon feared by men and gods alike. Denied the oblivion he seeks, poised between a tragic past he cannot escape and a terrifying future he is doomed to bring about, Elric is a hero like no other. Del Rey is proud to present the fifth installment in its definitive collection featuring the immortal creation of Michael Moorcock, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Highlights include an epic novel of Elric's early years, The Fortress of the Pearl; the script of the graphic novel Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer; a previously unpublished proposal for a new series; and Hugo Award--winning author Neil Gaiman's moving fictional tribute to Elric, the short story "One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock." Gorgeously illustrated by Michael Wm. Kaluta, Elric: In the Dream Realms is a dream come true for sword-and-sorcery fans. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $16.00 |
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| TITLE: | Zandru's Forge by Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| DESCRIPTION: | In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, a legendary friendship is forged between king and keeper which will lead to a new destiny for Darkover. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey |
| DESCRIPTION: | As Storm Breaking opens, the western allies, led by Karal, Karsite Sunpriest and delegate to the Valdemaran Court, and the Adepts Firesong and An'desha, have traveled deep into the Dorisha Plains to locate the ancient ruins of the Tower of Urtho, Mage of Silence, creator of the gryphons. Legend has it that below the Tower, deeply buried beneath the plains, is Urtho's Vault, hidden stronghold of some of the most powerful magical weapons ever devised - weapons that Urtho himself felt were too dangerous to use. With the help of the Shin'a'in plainsmen, they have successfully excavated this ancient arsenal, and risked their lives triggering one of these antique but potent tools of death to unleash a monstrous burst of mage-energy. With this explosion of magical power, Karal, Firesong, and their companions have temporarily counteracted the ever-increasing waves of the mage storms. But they know that this desperate action will not save them - they have bought themselves precious time, but are still far from a permanent solution. They know now that the mage storms are an "echo" through time of the prehistoric Cataclysm which destroyed Urtho's Tower, created the vast and barren Dorisha Plains, and permanently warped their world more than two thousand years ago. And they also know that if they don't find a way to banish these magical vibrations they will culminate in another Cataclysm - this time destroying their world for good. But the Vault is not the only thing buried for centuries below the Dorisha Plains, and camped in the ruins of what once was the workplace of the most ingenious mage their world has ever known, the desperate allies soon come to realize that their solution may lie beneath the dust at their feet. The saving of their world just might be accomplished by the work of a man who has been dead for millennia! |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Serpent's Shadow by Mercedes Lackey |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the magical mysteries of India to the gaslit streets of Victorian London, Mercedes Lackey's unique departure from her Valdemar series follows a young woman doctor as she searches for the secret behind the sorcery in her blood. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Elegy Beach by Steven R. Boyett |
| DESCRIPTION: | A publishing event twenty-five years in the making: the long awaited sequel to the unforgettable post-apocalyptic fantasy, Ariel. Thirty years ago the lights went out, the airplanes fell, the cars went still, the cities all went dark. The laws humanity had always known were replaced by new laws that could only be called magic. The world has changed forever. Or has it? In a small community on the California coast are Fred Garey and his friend Yan, both born after the Change. Yan dreams of doing something so big his name will live on forever. He thinks he's found it?a way to reverse the Change. But Fred fears the repercussions of such drastic, irreversible steps. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams |
| DESCRIPTION: | Fifteen years ago, a young author surprised and enchanted readers with his first novel?the story of Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous tom cat in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods and strange, furless creatures called M'an.The book was Tailchaser's Song, the author was Tad Williams. The legend was born. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | To Green Angel Tower (II) by Tad Williams |
| DESCRIPTION: | A major event in the annals of Fantasy: the long-awaited conclusion of Tad Williams' bestselling trilogy Memory, Sorrow and Thorn (which began with The Dragonbone Chair and Stone of Farewell). In Part 2 of To Green Angel Tower, Simon and Miriamele undertake a dangerous quest through the war- and magic-torn lands. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $8.99 |
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| TITLE: | In His Majesty's Service by Naomi Novik |
| DESCRIPTION: | Together in one volume, here are the first three novels in Naomi Novik's New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, combining the gripping history of the Napoleonic era, the thrill of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books, and the excitement of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring adventures. In His Majesty's Service also includes an exclusive original Temeraire short story. Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo--an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation's history. Thrust into England's Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. But the pair has more than France to contend with when China learns that an imperial dragon intended for Napoleon--Temeraire himself--has fallen into British hands. The emperor summons the new pilot and his dragon to the Far East, a long voyage fraught with peril and intrigue. From England's shores to China's palaces, from the Silk Road's outer limits to the embattled borders of Prussia and Poland, Laurence and Temeraire must defend their partnership and their country from powerful adversaries around the globe. But can they succeed against the massed forces of Bonaparte's implacable army? |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $28.00 |
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| TITLE: | In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield |
| DESCRIPTION: | During a time of great upheaval, the citizens of Venice make a pact that will change the world. The landsmen of the city broker a treaty with a water-dwelling tribe of deepsmen, cementing the alliance through marriage. The mingling of the two races produces a fresh, peerless strain of royal blood. To protect their shores, other nations make their own partnerships with this new breed--and then, jealous of their power, ban any further unions between the two peoples. Dalliance with a deepswoman becomes punishable by death. Any "bastard"child must be destroyed. This is an Earth where the legends of the deep are true--where the people of the ocean are as real and as dangerous as the people of the land. This is the world of intrigue and betrayal that Kit Whitfield brings to life in an unforgettable alternate history: the tale of Anne, the youngest princess of a faltering England, struggling to survive in a troubled court, and Henry, a bastard abandoned on the shore to face his bewildering destiny, finding himself a pawn in a game he does not understand. Yet even a pawn may checkmate a king. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | Haiku: A Novel by Andrew Vachss |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the author of the acclaimed Burke series: a searing new novel that follows a band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost. Ho was a revered sensei, but when his dismissive arrogance caused the death of a beloved student, he renounced not only his possessions but also his role as a master, and now roams the streets in search of a way to atone. Drawn by his presence, a group forms around him: Michael, an addicted gambler who has lost everything, including himself; Ranger, a Vietnam veteran with a tenuous grip on reality; Lamont, a once-fearless street-gang warlord turned hopeless alcoholic; Target, a relentless "clanger" who speaks only by echoing the sounds of others; and Brewster, an obsessive collector of hardboiled paperbacks he stashes in an abandoned building even vermin avoid. Late one night, Michael spots a woman in a white Rolls-Royce throwing something into the river. Convinced that the woman is a perfect blackmail target, he attempts to recruit the others to search for her. But news that Brewster's library is slated for demolition turns this halfhearted effort into a serious mission to find the ultimate problem-solver: money, and with it a new home for Brewster's precious collection. Each frantic knock opens another barred door as the building's destruction draws nearer. And the answers to each man's questions trigger shocking explosions that hit you with all the visceral power we have come to expect from this fierce and dynamic writer. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | A Woman's Eye by Sara Paretsky |
| DESCRIPTION: | Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski's Chicago in a case of music and murder... to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of Sharon says mum's the word. And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers--ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse... to the final story of a summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death... this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Emperor Norton's Ghost by Dianne Day |
| DESCRIPTION: | Caroline Fremont Jones revels in her return to San Francisco, where a new city rises from the ruins of the 1906 earthquake. Even more rewarding is her business partnership and rekindled love with ex-spymaster Michael Archer Kossoff. But their private investigation agency is barely off the ground when Fremont's new friend, lovely but quirky Frances McFadden, becomes their first client--and it's a most troubling case.The adventurous but skeptical Fremont, lured by Frances to a seance, sees her companion fall into a disturbing trance. Despite the opposition of her powerful, controlling husband, Frances is determined to develop her budding psychic ability. Soon she confides to Fremont that a restless spirit from San Francisco's legendary past has entrusted her with a mission.But when one of the city's female mediums is murdered, and then another, Fremont's reservations turn to dread. Who has killed these women who wield their own power in the metaphysical world, and why? As Fremont's investigation takes her into the murky depths of spiritualism, she places not only herself, but also her dearest friends in mortal danger. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.50 |
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| TITLE: | Valediction by Robert B. Parker |
| DESCRIPTION: | The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than halfway. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: |  Kindred in Death by J. D. Robb |
| DESCRIPTION: | When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena's body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our own Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who was specifically requested by the captain to investigate. When the evidence starts to pile up, Dallas and her team think they are about to arrest their perpetrator; little do they know yet that someone has gone to great lengths to tease and taunt them by using a variety of identities. Overconfidence can lead to careless mistakes. But for Dallas, one mistake might be all she needs to bring justice. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $26.95 |
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| TITLE: | Decked with Folly by Kate Kingsbury |
| DESCRIPTION: | Make room for murder with all the trimmings in the latest of the Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas mystery series. It's the holiday season and the Pennyfoot staff is brimming with anticipation. The scents of the season overflow from the kitchen and the country club's halls are decorated with festive displays thanks to Cecily's dear friend Madeline. But when one of Cecily's candlesticks disappears, she realizes someone is lacking in Christmas spirit. Petty thievery seems the least of Cecily's problems after she learns a former employee has been found dead in her duck pond. He hasn't worked at the Pennyfoot in years, but his ex-wife is still their head maid?and now she heads the list of suspects. And when Madeline has a vision of more misfortune to come, Cecily starts feeling more jinxed than jolly. Now a killer and a thief must be taken off the guest list in order to put the merry back into Christmas. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Come to Grief by Dick Francis |
| DESCRIPTION: | When ex-jockey Sid Halley becomes convinced that one of his closest friends--and one of the racing world's most beloved figures--is behind a series of shockingly violent acts, he faces the most troubling case of his career. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Holly and Homicide by Leslie Caine |
| DESCRIPTION: | It's Christmastime in sleepy Snowcap, Colorado, and the town is up in arms. The venerable Goodwin Estate has been sold to enterprising out of towners and is getting a major makeover just in time for the holidays. Interior designers Erin Gilbert and Steve Sullivan walked smack into a storm of chaos: the estate's new owners, including one whose idea of holiday decor involves inflatable elves and a gingerbread facade, are battling among themselves. Erin's big-talking ex-boyfriend shows up just in time to make Sullivan crazy jealous, and when a local building inspector is found strangled with a strand of Christmas lights, Gilbert and Sullivan begin to suspect it might be time to leave this psychodrama of a project behind. But after an incompetent sheriff accuses Erin of murder and there's another gruesome killing, the only way out is to turn detective. Her new job: solve a mystery with too many clues�and far too many guilty parties.. FEATURING DOMESTIC BLISS HOME DECORATING TIPS! |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin |
| DESCRIPTION: | Florence,1855. "The English are dying too much," the city's police chief observes. And members of the foreign community in this quaint Italian backwater, both English and American, are indeed dying at an alarming rate and in an extraordinary variety of ingenious and horrible ways. With the local authorities out of their depth, the distinguished resident Robert Browning launches his own private investigation, aided and abetted by an expatriot Robert Booth. Unfortunately, their amateur sleuthing is hampered by the fact that each of their suspects becomes the next victim in a series of murders orchestrated by a killer with a taste for poetic justice. A Rich Full Death features characters both historical and imaginary, ranging from an enticing servant girl to Mr. Browning's consumptive, world-famous wife, Elizabeth Barrett, in a tale lush with period detail, intricately plotted, and with a truly astonishing final twist. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $13.00 |
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| TITLE: | All the Wrong Moves by Merline Lovelace |
| DESCRIPTION: | USAF Lieutenant Samantha Spade and her techies try out the latest gizmos for the military. On a test run with the Ergonomic Exoskeletal Extension (EEEK), Sam stumbles over two dead bodies in the desert. With the help of handsome Border Patrol Agent Jeff Mitchell, Sam must unravel a cover-up involving an illegal arms deal. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | The End of The Road by Sue Henry |
| DESCRIPTION: | New from the multiple award-winning author of The Refuge, whose "grasp of storytelling and strong characterization matches her with Sue Grafton" (Colorado Springs Gazette). Maxie McNabb and her miniature dachshund, Stretch, are just back from their latest adventure when a murder shatters the quiet in their hometown of Homer, Alaska. Now it's up to Maxie to find the killer--a search that leads her to a place called "the end of the road." |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $23.95 |
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| TITLE: | Murder Had a Little Lamb: A Reigning Cats & Dogs Mystery by Cynthia Baxter |
| DESCRIPTION: | Things get wild and woolly when Jessica Popper's wedding to longtime fiancé Nick Burby is interrupted by the sound of bloody murder. The sacrificial lamb is the black sheep of the Burby flock, a long-lost relative Nick has never even met. In fact, no one thought Cousin Nathaniel would return to the fold for the event?except his killer. Now, instead of enjoying her honeymoon, Jessie finds herself playing Bo Peep to a growing list of suspects, none with a past as white as snow. All the clues lead to an exclusive private school in Long Island's high-toned Bromptons, where snobby socialites and a smattering of locals on scholarship take classes in African drumming and field trips to Europe. But shearing away the thick fleece of politics, tension, and rivalries reveals a very different animal under the school's progressive appearance. And just when Jess thinks she's about to herd in the killer, she realizes she's being led like a lamb to slaughter?. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Holiday Grind by Cleo Coyle |
| DESCRIPTION: | The jolly latest in the nationally bestselling Coffeehouse mystery series, from the author of Espresso Shot It's Christmastime?and when manager and head barista Clare Cosi finds a red- suited body in the snow, she adds solving Santa's slaying to her coffeehouse menu. Soon, a few clues convince her his death was something more than a mugging gone awry. With Clare's NYPD Detective boyfriend distracted by his own cold case, Clare discovers on her own that Santa had a list that he was checking twice? and the folks on it were not nice. But Clare had better watch out, because if she fails to stop this stone cold killer, she may just get the biggest chill of her life. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $23.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Barker Street Regulars by Susan Conant |
| DESCRIPTION: | Susan Conant continues to surprise--this time by involving dog writer Holly Winter in a wickedly amusing tale full of dastardly deeds and delightful eccentrics.An avid devotion to the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and an equally avid devotion to dogs, combine to draw Holly Winter and her two beloved malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, into one of Conant's most original and entertaining mysteries to date. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Mrs. Jeffries and the Yuletide Weddings by Emily Brightwell |
| DESCRIPTION: | Upper Edmonton Gardens looks forward to a jolly Christmas, until one humbug sings of murder?in Mrs. Jeffries's 26th mystery. ?Tis the week before Christmas, and all through the house, every creature is stirring... But just as Inspector Witherspoon's staff prepares for the long-awaited wedding of Betsy and Smythe, a Yuletide murder falls in the Inspector's lap. A middle-aged spinster has been killed in what her murderer hoped would look like a random crime. But the Inspector's investigation reveals a web of lies, intrigue, and long-buried secrets. With uncooperative witnesses, sulking relatives, and a second Christmas wedding, a simple investigation seems unlikely. And the household will have to put aside its holiday spirit to save the Inspector's reputation. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $23.95 |
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| TITLE: | Sun and Shadow by Ake Edwardson |
| DESCRIPTION: | Like his fellow countryman Henning Mankell, Åke Edwardson is a successful figure on the international mystery scene and a brilliant discovery for lovers of intricate, psychologically charged, and stylish crime novels. With Sun and Shadow, Edwardson introduces readers to detective Erik Winter, the youngest chief inspector in Sweden, who wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for jazz, and is about to become a father. He's also moody and intuitive, his mind inhabiting the crimes he's trying to solve. In this atmospheric, heart-stopping tale, Winter's troubles abound?and a bloody double murder on his doorstep is just the beginning. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Southern Ghost by Carolyn G. Hart |
| DESCRIPTION: | Bookstore owner Annie Darling must set aside her shame and do some serious sleuthing when her husband Max becomes the prime suspect in an unspecified crime involving a beautiful blonde. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $7.50 |
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| TITLE: | Mulch by Ann Ripley |
| DESCRIPTION: | Rooting out a killer can dig you a grave... Amateur gardener and housewife Louise Eldridge has big plans for her family's new Sylvan Valley home, situated among the flower of suburban Washington, D.C., society. Some Japanese iris here, some skunk cabbage there...and her own cozy cabin for her horticultural writings. But barely has she turned the topsoil when her organic mulching unearths the unidentifiable remains of a murder victim. Suddenly her elegant garden is a crime scene blighted by garish yellow police tape.And Louise--cultivating the rich and restless wives of the neighborhood and their hothouse secrets--must find out who has gone missing. For only then can she root out a rare species of killer who could soon be digging her grave. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $7.50 |
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| TITLE: | Quieter than Sleep by Joanne Dobson |
| DESCRIPTION: | Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts's elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined--and that not even the privileged world of academia is immune to murder....Professor Karen Pelletier's prime literary passion is poet Emily Dickinson--a passion she shares with her hotshot colleague Randy Astin-Berger. Heir apparent to the head of Enfield's English department, the pompous Randy is the campus Casanova. That is, he was--until he was found strangled with his own flashy necktie.The last person to see Randy alive--and the first to find him dead--Karen knows she must solve the case before she becomes the prime suspect. But to do that, she must first discover the truth behind Randy's final Dickinsonian discovery--a literary bombshell that may well have been to die for.... |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris |
| DESCRIPTION: | Fifth in the ?fast-moving?(Publishers Weekly, starred review) British-set historical mystery series starring ?a charismatic hero.?(Kirkus Reviews starred review) Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury to help in the investigation of two corpses found in an ancient crypt, their violent deaths separated by decades. One is the Bishop of London, the elderly Archbishop's favored but controversial successor. The identity of the other seems lost in time. Sebastian amasses a list of suspects that range from some of the Prince Regent's closest cronies to William Franklin, embittered son of famous American patriot Ben Franklin?and finds himself confronting the well-guarded secrets of his own family's history. Now each step he takes toward the killer brings him closer to a devastating truth that could ultimately force him to question who?and what?he really is. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $23.95 |
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| TITLE: | Afterlife by John Updike |
| DESCRIPTION: | 22 short stories from Updike, many concerned with aging and attempts to sustain intimate relationships. |
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| PRICE: | $14.95 |
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| TITLE: | Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates |
| DESCRIPTION: | Meet Quentin P. He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother, though of course they do not believe the charge (sexual molestation of a minor) that got him in that bit of trouble. He is a challenge for his court-appointed psychiatrist, who nonetheless is encouraged by the increasingly affirmative quality of his dreams and his openness in discussing them. He is a thoroughly sweet young man for his wealthy grandmother, who gives him more and more, and can deny him less and less. He is the most believable and thoroughly terrifying sexual psychopath and killer ever to be brought to life in fiction, as Joyce Carol Oates achieves her boldest and most brilliant triumph yet?a dazzling work of art that extends the borders of the novel into the darkest heart of truth. |
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| PRICE: | $13.99 |
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| TITLE: | Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut |
| DESCRIPTION: | An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves. |
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| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | To Green Angel Tower (I) by Tad Williams |
| DESCRIPTION: | A novel of vast scope, detail, and complexity, To Green Angel Tower is the momentous tour-de-force finale of a ground-breaking series. Replete with war, deception, adventure, sorcery, and romance, To Green Angel Tower brings to a stunning and surprising conclusion Tad Williams' monumental tale of a magical conflict which fractures the very fabric of time and space, turning both humans and Sithi against those of their own blood.As the evil minions of the undead Sithi Storm King prepare for the kingdom-shattering culmination of their dark sorceries and King Elias is drawn ever deeper into their nightmarish, spell-spun world, the loyal allies of Prince Josua desperately struggle to rally their forces at The Stone of Farewell. And with time running out, the remaining members of the now-devastated League of the Scroll have also gathered there to unravel mysteries from the forgotten past. For if the League can reclaim these age-old secrets of magic long-buried beneath the dusts of time, they may be able to reveal to Josua and his army the only means of striking down the unslayable foe.But whether or not the League is successful in its quest, the call of battle will lead the valiant followers of Josua Lackhand across storm tossed seas brimming with bloodthirsty kilpa...through forests swarming with those both mind- and soul-lost... through ancient caverns built by legendary Dwarrows...to the haunted halls of Asu'a itself?the Sithi's greatest stronghold! |
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| TITLE: | Captive Desires by Diane Whiteside |
| DESCRIPTION: | The national bestselling mistress of erotica returns to the fantasy world of Captive Dreams--and she's raising the temperature even more. Danae Livingston is an author of scorching tales about a fantasy realm inhabited by her favorite hero, Alekhsiy. Now an obsessed fan wants her to rewrite her novels to his own twisted liking and have the legendary villain win. Little does she realize, but Alekhsiy is more real than she dreamed, and he's the only one who can save her as fantasy and reality merge, swords and sorcery cross, and the sensual world of her vivid imagination becomes the most impossible one of all to resist-or escape. |
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| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle |
| DESCRIPTION: | Set in Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle's newest and most delightful novel is filled with culinary delights, sumptuous wines, and colorful characters. It's also a lot of fun. The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately, after inviting the Los Angeles Times to write an extensive profile extolling the liquid treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist. Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, cultivated crime expert, and wine connoisseur. Called in by Roth's insurance company, which is now saddled with a multimillion-dollar claim, Sam follows his leads--to Bordeaux and its magnificent vineyards, and to Provence to meet an eccentric billionaire collector who might possibly have an interest in the stolen wines. Along the way, bien sur, he is joined by a beautiful and erudite French colleague, and together they navigate many a chateau, pausing frequently to enjoy the countryside's abundant pleasures. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle's seductive rendering of France's sensory delights--from a fine Lynch-Bages and Laoville Barton to the bouillabaisse of Marseille and the young lamb of Bordeaux. Even the most sophisticated of oenophiles will learn a thing or two from this vintage work by a beloved author. |
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| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | A Christmas Promise: A Novel by Anne Perry |
| DESCRIPTION: | Anne Perry's Victorian Christmas novels have attracted as many faithful readers as her two New York Times bestselling series featuring investigators Thomas Pitt and William Monk. A Christmas Promise is the seventh in Perry's holiday series, and it will surely bring joy to this special season. Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie Maude Mudway, who is only eight, alone, and determined to find her friend Charlie. However Charlie is no ordinary companion: He is a donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it. Now, come hell or high water, Minnie Maude means to rescue Charlie--and Gracie decides to help. But the path that Uncle Alf had taken to his death was not his regular route, and in his cart were not just the usual bits of worn silver and china but also, the children are told, a dazzling golden box. What its contents may have been no one can say, for, like Charlie and the cart, it too has vanished. Uncertain where their four-legged friend may be, the children are drawn into an adult world far beyond their innocent imaginings. And in a shop gleaming with beautiful objects, they recruit an unexpected ally: Mr. Balthasar, who warns them that the shining prize may be a Pandora's box of evil. Set in the Victorian world where Anne Perry reigns supreme, A Christmas Promise culminates in a radiant finale that will remain with you long after the final page is turned. |
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| PRICE: | $18.00 |
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| TITLE: | Anne Perry's Silent Nights: Two Victorian Christmas Mysteries by Anne Perry |
| DESCRIPTION: | Here are two holiday mysteries set in remote, snow-covered regions of Victorian Britain�where the nights are indeed silent but all is not calm, and where some will sleep in eternal peace. A CHRISTMAS BEGINNING While spending Christmas on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn of Scotland Yard, a lonely bachelor, stumbles upon the lifeless body of the vicar's younger sister in the village churchyard. Everyone insists that only a stranger to the island could have committed the heinous crime, but the evidence proves otherwise. Intending to uncover the identity of the ruthless killer, Runcorn never dreams that the case may also, miraculously, open the door to a new future for himself. A CHRISTMAS GRACE With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt on the western coast of Ireland. Emily soon discovers that painful memories of an unsolved murder haunt the lonely Irish town and sets out to unmask the culprit. When a lone shipwreck survivor washes up onshore, he brings with him not only the key to solving the terrible crime but the opportunity for the townspeople to make peace with the past--and with one another. |
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| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Gift by Cecelia Ahern |
| DESCRIPTION: | New York Times bestselling author Cecelia Ahern spins a witty, warm, and wise modern-day fable of love, regret, hope, and second chances. extremely successful executive, Lou Suffern is always overstretched, immune to the holiday spirit that delights everyone around him. The classic workaholic who never has a moment to spare, he is always multitasking while shortchanging his devoted wife and their adorable children. And ever since he started competing for a big promotion, he has barely seen his family at all. One frigid morning in an uncharacteristic burst of generosity, he buys a cup of coffee for Gabe, a homeless man huddled outside his office building. Inspired by his own unexpected act of kindness, Lou decides to prolong his charitable streak and contrives to get Gabe a job in his company's mailroom. But when Gabe begins to meddle in Lou's life, the helping hand appears to be a serious mistake. Gabe seems to know more about Lou than Lou does about himself, and, perhaps more disturbingly, Gabe always seems to be in two places at once. With Lou's personal and professional fates at important crossroads and Christmas looming, Gabe resorts to some unorthodox methods to show his stubborn patron what truly matters and how precious the gift of time is. But can he help him fix what's broken before it's too late? |
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| PRICE: | $19.99 |
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| TITLE: | Charlie Class by David E. Meadows |
| DESCRIPTION: | In the last novel of the Final Run series from an author who delivers ?rip-snorting, realistic action adventure? (Stephen Coonts), the USS Manta Ray faces off against a Russian Charlie class nuclear sub in the Strait of Gibraltar as the Yom Kippur War puts Israel in a fight for survival. |
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| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Three Centuries of American Poetry by Allen Mandelbaum |
| DESCRIPTION: | A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as significant works of lesser-known American poets.From the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the Romantic Era and the Gilded and Modern Ages, this unrivaled anthology also presents a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols that echo through our nation's history. Highlights include Native American poems, African American writings, and the works of Quakers, colonists, Huguenots, transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians, journalists, and clergymen.These discerning selections demonstrate that the American canon of poetry is as diverse as the nation itself, and constantly evolving as we pass through time. Most important, this collection strongly reflects the peerless stylings that mark the American poetic experience as unique. Here, in one distinguished volume, are the many voices of the New World. |
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| PRICE: | $24.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Girls' Almanac by Emily Franklin |
| DESCRIPTION: | The Girls' Almanac chronicles the lives of Jenna and Lucy?two thirty-something women who desperately long for a true friend?as well as the lives of the women and men who have touched them: friends, lovers, parents, and neighbors. Set across the Northeast?through suburban neighborhoods, preppy camps, island resorts, and Ivy League colleges?as well as far flung locales like Ecuador and Iceland, The Girls' Almanac traces the friendships of women willing to risk both self-consciousness and intimacy, loss and betrayal, in pursuit of a proper best friend. Exploring the fascinating closeness and distance that female friendships encompass, The Girls' Almanac reveals the map of Jenna and Lucy's interconnected lives, and ultimately their pathways to each other. |
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| PRICE: | $12.99 |
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| TITLE: | Heart Change by Robin D. Owens |
| DESCRIPTION: | First time in print-the fantastic new Celta novel from the award-winning author of Heart Fate. Robin D. Owens returns to the world of the faraway planet Celta in the eighth novel of her award-winning series. Signet D'Marigold's lonely life is shaken when a prophet reveals she is a catalyst for change. But to accept her new life-and the charge of the noble child Avellana-means embracing a danger that may be fatal for them both. Especially when Signet's attraction to her new bodyguard signals a secret enemy sworn to destroy them. |
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| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | Fate and Ms. Fortune by Saralee Rosenberg |
| DESCRIPTION: | When destiny called, she pressed 1 for more options With the name Robyn Fortune, shouldn't luck be a sure thing? Instead, black clouds love me. All I did was show up at a family bar mitzvah and cue lightning ... this huge storm blew in. My mom announced she was leaving my dad and moving in with me. (Perfect! More competition on JDate.) I found out my boss planned to fire me. (Help wanted: Be the exclusive makeup artist for a two-faced network news star.) My ex's gambling debts left me near bankruptcy. (Please buy our wedding gifts on craigslist.) But, good news. I was offered money to date a man who had worse luck than me. (Dear Visa, I hope you appreciate that I said yes.) If not for my friend Rachel, I would have chickened out. Instead, I went to his apartment, spotted an old photo, and realized it was HIM! The boy I was mad for in college but never got to meet. And get this! Turns out our paths had been crossing since birth. Coincidence or karma? Our finagling families wouldn't talk ... until the day destiny sent me on a wild ride that became my long lost spiritual journey. Ladies, take my advice. When fate knocks, answer the damn door! |
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| PRICE: | $12.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Blind Side of the Heart by Michael C. White |
| DESCRIPTION: | Maggie Quinn, the narrator, is a middle aged Irish woman who has settled as a housekeeper at the rectory of Father Jack Devlin, an admired and beloved priest in a small town in western Massachusetts. Two young men accuse Father Jack of sexually abusing them decades ago when they were altar boys. Maggie is convinced it is a lie. Father Jack assumes a dignified, quiet stance through the course of the trial. Slowly, doubts creep into Maggie's mind as she sifts through memories of her life with Father Jack. When an unsolved case of a murdered boy resurfaces, she faces a crucial dilemma: does she stand by a man who may have perpetrated horrible crimes, or does she go with her instinct that the kind man she has known for decades is being falsely accused?A gripping tale of crime, punishment, and faith in small town America, The Blind Side of the Heart features vividly drawn characters faced with compelling moral choices. |
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| PRICE: | $12.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver |
| DESCRIPTION: | In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico?from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City?Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. There in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America's hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. He finds support from an unlikely kindred soul, his stenographer, Mrs. Brown, who will be far more valuable to her employer than he could ever know. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach?the lacuna?between truth and public presumption. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist?and of art itself. The Lacuna is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time. |
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| PRICE: | $26.99 |
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| TITLE: | Leah's Choice by Marta Perry |
| DESCRIPTION: | The first of three Amish-set novels in which a woman's faith must guide her through challenging times. All of Pleasant Valley seems to think the newcomer from Lancaster County is the perfect match for Teacher Leah. After all, so few new families come to their separate Amish community, and fewer still unmarried men. Daniel Glick is a widower with three young children to look after?clearly he's in need of a wife. Daniel's past haunts him. Though he cannot miss the beauty in Leah's bright eyes and patient ways, he also sees a reminder of his pain-filled marriage. Leah, too, has a burden to bear. Years ago, she was engaged to Johnny Kile, and she was heartbroken when he decided to leave the Amish community. Since then she has immersed herself in teaching, forgetting any hopes of having her own family. When Johnny returns, seeking reconciliation, Leah must decide between two pathways, either of which will completely change her life. |
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| TITLE: | Lord of the Highlands by Veronica Wolff |
| DESCRIPTION: | An online dating service may have pronounced Felicity "unmatchable" but she's determined-and destined-to find her perfect mate. All it takes is a mystical deck of Tarot cards and suddenly she's in 17th-century Scotland, smitten by a warrior who must make a daring choice: send Felicity back to her own time, or endanger both their lives. |
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| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Solemn Lantern Maker: A Novel by Merlinda Bobis |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the award-winning author of Banana Heart Summer--[a] wonderful debut [that] resembles Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street and is destined to be a hit among book club members*--comes a wondrous tale of hope, secrets, and family devotion. It's six days until Christmas, and on the bustling streets of Manila a mute ten-year-old boy sells his version of the stars: exquisite lanterns handmade with colorful paper. But everything changes for young Noland when he witnesses an American tourist injured in a drive-by shooting of a journalist and imagines he's seen an angel falling from the sky. When Noland whisks her to the safety of the hut he shares with his mother, the magical and the real collide: shimmering lanterns and poverty, Christmas carols and loss, dreams of friendship and the global war on terror. While the story of the missing tourist grips the media, Noland and his mother care for their wounded guest, and a dark memory returns. But light sneaks in--and their lives are transformed by the power of love. *Library Journal ( starred review, Editor's Pick) |
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| TITLE: | A Time to Love by Al Lacy |
| DESCRIPTION: | At the altar Linda Forrest discovers her fiancee has eloped--with her own sister! Starting a new life as a mail order bride she finds her husband has a sinister secret, but that no danger can place her beyond God's love.From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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| PRICE: | $10.99 |
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| TITLE: | Battles of Destiny 2-in-1 Vol. 3 by Al Lacy |
| DESCRIPTION: | Dramatic Tales of Love and Civil War The Battles of Destiny series is now available in four attractive two-in-one volumes! Bestselling author Al Lacy packs each dramatic novel in the popular historical fiction series with heartwarming romance and solid moral values. Set during the Civil War, these are the tales of families, soldiers, nurses, and spies as they contend with the deadly threats posed by war and the eternal hope that springs from love. Fast-moving and historically accurate, these stories appeal to men and women who enjoy a trip back in time. Now longtime and new Lacy fans can purchase the entire Battles of Destiny classics and enjoy hours of endless reading pleasure. The Civil WarJoy From AshesBattle of FredericksburgWhile fighting to defend his home and family against Union attack, Major Lane Dalton learns that enemy soliders have brutalized his wife. Tragically, the actions of three cruel-hearted Hegland brothers have caused not only the suffering of his bride, but also the death of Layne and Melody's unborn son.Thirsting for vengeance, the young major vows to bring judgment upon those responsible, yet surprising circumstances make Dalton, presumed dead by his wife and fellow solider's, a prisoner of the very men he swore he would destroy.Season of ValorBattle of GettysburgAs teenagers, Shane Donovan and Ashley Kirino promise to love each other forever. But when Ashley's parents decide to return to Ireland and take their daughter with them, the sweethearts sadly bid each other farewell and accept their fate. After several years, both have found other loves and married. So when Ashley returns to Maine and the friendship between the two is rekindled, Shane and Ashley find that a new kind of love is needed to overcome the sprouting seeds of tragedy in their freshly intertwined lives. Story Behind the Book--While studying American history in high school, I was struck with a strange fascination for the Civil War. That fascination grew stronger when I studied it again in college, and I have visited many of the sites where the battles took place. When I visited the Appomattox Court House in Virginia , where General Robert E. Lee signed the documents of surrender before General Ulysses S. Grant, I was struck with the thought of creating a series of novels based upon specific battles in the Civil War. I wanted to mold fictional characters with real ones and fill the stories with romance, suspense, intrigue, and the excitement of battle. That's how the Battles of Destiny series came to be." --Al Lacy |
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| TITLE: | Southern Lights: A Novel by Danielle Steel |
| DESCRIPTION: | Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel--at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment. Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, making a name for herself as a top prosecutor, handling the city's toughest cases while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa prepares for a high-stakes trial�until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to her beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, Savannah, whom Alexa has been raising alone since her divorce. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters--and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly she must make the toughest choice of all--and send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak�her ex-husband's world of southern tradition, memories of betrayal, and the antebellum charm of Charleston. Now, while Alexa's trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter is settling into southern life, discovering a part of her family history and a father she barely knows--from the ice-cold stepmother who stole him away to a fascinating ancestry and a half-sister and half-brothers she comes to love. As secrets are exposed and old wounds are healed, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together again--strengthened by the challenges they have faced, changed by the mysteries they have unraveled, and with Savannah now at home in the southern world her mother fled. In this masterfully told tale, Danielle Steel creates a stunning array of contrasts: from the gritty chaos of Manhattan's criminal court system to the seductive gentility of the South, from the rage of a hardened criminal to the tender bond between a mother and daughter--and a loving father who has welcomed Savannah home at last. A novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, Southern Lights is Danielle Steel at her electrifying best. |
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| PRICE: | $28.00 |
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| TITLE: | Christmas Cake by Lynne Hinton |
| DESCRIPTION: | With the holiday season drawing near, the ladies of Hope Springs, North Carolina, are making plans for a cake cookbook?a project that will hopefully lift the spirits of a beloved member of their close-knit quartet. But Margaret Peele is downhearted and uninspired now that her cancer has returned. All she wants this Christmas is to visit her mother's Texas hometown ... and to see their absent friend, pastor Charlotte Stewart, who left Hope Springs to run a battered women's shelter. So impulsive Beatrice Newgarden Witherspoon commandeers a very inappropriate?but comfortable?van to transport Margaret, Louise Fisher, and Jessie Jenkins across the country for a Lone Star State reunion with Charlotte. And over the course of a remarkable journey they will rediscover the greatest Christmas gift of all: eternal friendship. |
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| PRICE: | $13.99 |
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| TITLE: | Impossibly Tongue-Tied by Josie Brown |
| DESCRIPTION: | All over Hollywood, men are dialing O?for orgasms. Her steamy naughty talk fills them with lust and longing, and helps them perform like the studs they claim to be. In truth, the industry's favorite "erotic phone operatrix" is Nina Harte, a struggling actress who has put her career on hold so that her husband, Nathan, can pursue his own dreams of stardom. When Nathan's career takes off, so does he, leaving Nina and their four-year-old son, Jake, for his diva costar, Katerina McPherson. Then "Kat 'n' Nat" are crowned the media's newest celebrity sweethearts, and Kat labels Nina an unfit mother in order to win custody of Jake, just so that she can have that highly-coveted celebrity accessory?an adorable child?sans any unsightly stretch marks. The one person who does care about Nina is Nathan's agent, Sam Godwin. In fact, he's in love with her. And because he has both a heart and a conscience, Sam feels guilty for having put Nat in Kat's path in the first place ... Then again, how will he feel when he learns that Nina and O are one and the same? |
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| PRICE: | $12.99 |
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| TITLE: | No Promises in the Wind (DIGEST) by Irene Hunt |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the Newbery Award winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly comes a tale of a brave young man's struggle to find his own strength during the Great Depression? No Promises in the Wind In 1932, Americans? dreams were simple: a job, food to eat, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes. But for millions of people these simple needs were nothing more than dreams. When he was just fifteen years old, Josh had to make his own way through a country of angry and frightened people. This is the story of his struggle to find a life for himself during these turbulent times. |
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| TITLE: | Carousel of Progress by Katherine Tanney |
| DESCRIPTION: | Meet Meredith Herman, a fourteen-year-old expert witness to the slow unraveling of her parents' marriage amid the lunacy of Los Angeles, 1978, a world of bell-bottoms, grapefruit diets, and plastic surgery. Meredith is a girl of a specific time and place tackling the universal challenges of boys, school, and parents. Her mother, Leigh, is a housewife suffering an excruciating and often hilarious midlife discontent, a malaise that leaves Meredith's father, Robert, genuinely baffled. As Leigh attempts to reinvent herself as a liberated lady - complete with assertiveness-training classes and a dalliance with an exotic artist - Robert runs for cover into a hasty second marriage. Through it all, Meredith and Leigh struggle in a combative mother-daughter relationship as wonderfully real as any in contemporary fiction. Tanney's debut sparkles with pitch-perfect dialogue and an astonishingly accurate sense of place. This novel will take readers on a journey of belly laughs and heartbreak. The Herman family's story will charm and captivate you long after you've turned the last page. |
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| PRICE: | $19.00 |
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| TITLE: | Identity Lessons by Maria Mazziotti Gillan |
| DESCRIPTION: | In stories and poems that explore how our society shapes us, Identity Lessons features a wide array of ethnic perspectives on growing up in America. Leading the reader into the living-rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, and movie houses of America, distinguished writers from all points of the American ethnic landscape shed light on the space between conformity and difference, and examine the struggle between the need to belong and the pull of one's cultural roots. With insight, wit, and poignancy, the contributors to this anthology recall their attempts to reconcile family from the old country with the powerful messages about race, gender and class confronting them in their new surroundings. A collection of superb and moving writing, Identity Lessons deconstructs conceptions of personal and national identity, and forms an indispensable primer for understanding our cultural selves. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $16.95 |
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| TITLE: | Girl from the South by Joanna Trollope |
| DESCRIPTION: | When Gillon comes back to her native Charleston, she has a young Englishman in tow. He has accompanied her on a lark, planning to take pictures. But he soon falls in love with the sights of South Carolina, with Gillon's family-and perhaps, with Gillon herself...From the acclaimed author of Marrying the Mistress, this is an unforgettable novel about feeling like a fish out of water-and finding those with whom we can breathe more easily. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki |
| DESCRIPTION: | The perfect fiction companion to The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food Now that Michael Pollan's New York Times bestsellers have opened up a national dialogue about where food really comes from, conscientious readers everywhere will want to devour My Year of Meats. When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by the American meat-exporting industry, she begins to uncover some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a very dangerous hormone called DES. A modern-day take on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, veteran filmmaker Ruth Ozeki's novel has been hailed as ?rare and provocative? (USA Today) and ?up-to-the-minute? (Chicago Tribune). |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | Marrying Mozart by Stephanie Cowell |
| DESCRIPTION: | Amadeus meets Little Women in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award- winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitchen, the sisters struggle with their futures, both marital and musical?until twenty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives. Bringing eighteenth-century Europe to life with unforgiving winters, yawning princes, scheming parents, and the enduring passions of young talent, Stephanie Cowell's richly textured tale captures a remarkable historical figure?and the four young women who engage his passion, his music, and his heart. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Code 15 by Gary Birken |
| DESCRIPTION: | When Code 15s?deaths due to seemingly preventable medical errors?rise at Dade Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Morgan Connolly, Chief of Emergency Medicine, is suspected of losing her edge. But she suspects that someone is cutting a deadly path of vengeance through the hospital?a path that may end with Morgan facing her own demise at the hands of a madman. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Love in the Time of Taffeta by Eugénie Olson |
| DESCRIPTION: | At age 30, Iley Gilbert is thoroughly sick of trying to make it in the photo biz, and disenchanted after putting in stints at a Boston-area newspaper, a photography gallery, and even a pathetic frame shop. When she abruptly quits the frame shop, she's ready to give up for good, until she spots a compelling ad in the paper. A photographer who shoots high school prom photos is looking for an assistant. Not only that, he's willing to pay top dollar to someone who would give up Friday and Saturday nights to help take pre-prom pictures of high-school kids dressed in their finery and candid shots during the dance. William Jasper, Prom Photographer, is not the brand of aging, greasy wedding photographer she was expecting. Rather, he's 35, strikingly handsome, and sharp-witted. Iley is instantly attracted to him and gets the sense the feeling is mutual. But William isn't everything he's made himself out to be-that is, he's not single. He's got a permanently out-of-town wife-he doesn't need a girlfriend. But Iley has lost her way, and she'll need her friends and her photos and a lot of bad proms before she can find her way back on track, away from the sleezeball, and into a life that's a little more picture-perfect. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $12.99 |
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| TITLE: | Time After Time by Kay Hooper |
| DESCRIPTION: | New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper spins a tale of ageless love and the power of fate, in which dreams from the distant past imperil one woman's search for a passion that transcends history. They first met in a darkened loft, in the middle of a blackout, but the power of attraction supplied all the juice that Alex Bennet and Noah Thorne required. Noah was Alex's match in every way, while the onetime lion tamer turned world-class interior designer possessed just the air of wildness that Noah preferred in a woman. Inexorably, they found themselves drawn together. So why was each haunted by dreams of the other that seemed to hint at secret lives in bygone times and places--and a relationship fated to end in separation? For Alex, the solution may lie in a Gypsy fortune-teller's prophecy. To repeat the past is the one thing neither of them wants--but how do you overcome the pull of a destiny that is stronger than time itself? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Dangerous to Hold by Elizabeth Thornton |
| DESCRIPTION: | It's 1815, and Catherine Courtnay lives the life of an independent woman in London, writing opinion pieces for one of the city's leading newspapers. Until the evening Marcus Lytton, Earl of Wrotham accosts her outside a brothel, sure she's his missing wife, Catalina. Catherine may look exactly like his Spanish bride, but as he gets to know her, Marcus sees that Catherine is nothing like the deceitful wench who tricked him into marriage and ruined his life three years before. But Catherine may be able to help him anyway. Marcus believes Catalina is in England. He also believes she intends to remain hidden until he has been killed and she can claim the Wrotham fortune. Marcus wonders what his wretched wife would do if her place was usurped, if an impostor paraded around London as Lady Wrotham. It might just be enough to bring Catalina and her helpers out into the open where he can deal with them. To Marcus's surprise, Catherine agrees to his half-witted scheme. Catherine may not be his Spanish wife, but she has her own reasons to hate the Earl of Wrotham. Indeed, her only reason for agreeing to pose as his wife is to bring the mighty Earl down herself. She more than anyone else knows just how black his heart truly is. And finally, irrevocably she is going to make him pay for destroying her life.A page-turning adventure from the very beginning! Don't start this book near bedtime, or Dangerous to Hold will become dangerous to your sleep. You'll have to stay up half the night to find out what happens! Once again, Elizabeth Thornton has taken the perfect ingredients--tight plotting, strong conflict, and smooth characters, and sewn them into a seamless romp! No one knows how to keep the action building better than Elizabeth Thornton! |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Dangerous to Kiss by Elizabeth Thornton |
| DESCRIPTION: | Handsome, kind, and unassuming, Mr. Gray seemed the answer to Deborah Weyman's prayers. For once she accepted the position he offered, she would finally be safe from the notorious Lord Kendal, a man she had good reason to believe had murdered her former employer--and was now after her. But there were certain things about Mr. Gray that Deborah should have noticed: the breadth of his shoulders, the steel in his voice, the gleam in his uncommonly blue eyes--things that might have warned her that Mr. Gray was no savior, but a very dangerous man....Too tempting to resist...Though she posed as a dowdy schoolteacher, Lord Kendal saw right through her disguise to the treacherous beauty beneath. Now, convinced that she alone can tell him the truth about Lord Barrington's murder--and the whereabouts of Barrington's young son--he coolly masquerades as the innocuous Mr. Gray. And only when it's too late for Deborah to run will she learn what it means to be at his mercy--and powerless to resist his seduction.... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Between Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey |
| DESCRIPTION: | Eric Jerome Dickey is "at the top of his game" (Detroit News and Free Press) with a hip, sexy, and wise novel that brings a new twist to the game of love...as a woman torn between two lovers-one male, one female-becomes the center of an emotional storm of anger, passion, and exhilarating excitement. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Drive Me Crazy by Eric Jerome Dickey |
| DESCRIPTION: | The New York Times bestseller-now in trade paperback. Praised for his storytelling, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey turns up the heat in his explosive new novel of the reckless desires that bind an irresistible woman to a desperate man-and the one wrong move that could destroy them both. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Other Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey |
| DESCRIPTION: | The New York Times bestselling hitmaker scores again with a "wonderfully written" (Washington Post Book World) new novel... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Mermaid by Betina Krahn |
| DESCRIPTION: | Sheltered scientist Celeste Ashton has no idea that her unorthodox work with dolphins would end up causing such a stir in both the academic community and the popular press. When the Times labels her a "mermaid" and an group of prestigious scientists condescendingly question her research and her qualifications, she has no choice but to allow the "professional skeptic," ichthyology professor Titus Thorne, to come to her sea-side home and observe her dolphins in action. The result is an unusual story written with whimsy and grace. Krahn (The Unlikely Angel, Bantam, 1996) lends a lively, humorous touch to some of the more important women's issues of the day. Her fans won't be disappointed in this one. She lives in Minnesota. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Hot as Sin by Bella Andre |
| DESCRIPTION: | THEY'RE LIVING LIFE TO THE EXTREME--AND BURNING UP THE COLD MOUNTAIN NIGHTS Only total desperation could reunite Dianna Kelley with Sam MacKenzie, the irresistible bad boy she walked out on ten years ago. But the fearless firefighter with the awesome wilderness skills is the only one who can take her where she needs to go. It's a gamble--tracking down her endangered sister while keeping Sam and their undeniable attraction at arm's length. Not easy when they're trekking into a remote corner of the Rockies, where she's got to trust her former lover with her life. Despite their past, Sam never could refuse a damsel in distress, especially one who has haunted his dreams for years. He'll help find her sister and get Dianna out of his system once and for all. But soon it's hard to tell whether the greatest threat is from the rushing rapids, the deadly enemy on their trail, or the passion that's sending them straight into the line of fire... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Me and My Shadow by Katie MacAlister |
| DESCRIPTION: | May Northcott is at the end of her tether. Her demon boss has moved in and is making life hell. Her scorching hot dragon lover seems to think everything can be solved with a fiery kiss. And worse still, she's being shadowed by her ditsy twin sister--a naiad who simply can't seem to stay out of trouble. The arrival of a nearly-dead man on May's doorstep could be the final spark that sets light to their tinder-box world. And with dragon war imminent, it's looking increasingly like it will be up to May (and her watery shadow) to stop it before the fire consumes them all, and their lives end up in smoke... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | A Highlander Christmas by Dawn Halliday |
| DESCRIPTION: | A festive anthology featuring three all-new stories, three sexy Scotsmen, and a magical holiday setting. An enchanting trio of paranormal Christmas stories: Dawn Halliday?s Winter Heat?Lost in a blizzard, a young woman casts a spell over the brooding Highland warrior who rescues her. Cindy Miles?s A Christmas Spirit?A museum curator's tour of a Scottish castle leads to an unexpected encounter with a dead-sexy spirit. Sophie Renwick?s Yuletide Enchantment?Passion blooms between an anxious bride-to-be and a dark, sensual stranger from another world. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Knit the Season: A Friday Night Knitting Club Novel by Kate Jacobs |
| DESCRIPTION: | Another heartwarming Friday Night Knitting Club novel from #1 New York Times?bestselling author Kate Jacobs. Knit the Season is a loving, moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family. The story begins a year after the end of Knit Two, with Dakota Walker's trip to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland, accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine. Together, they share a trove of happy memories about past Christmases with Dakota's mom, Georgia Walker, from Georgia's childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom. From Thanksgiving through Hanukkah and Christmas to New Year?s, Knit the Season is a story about the richness of family bonds and the joys of friendship. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | Waking the Dead by Kylie Brant |
| DESCRIPTION: | A former forensic anthropologist and an outdoor guide search for clues to seven deaths in the Oregon wilderness. But as desire burns between them, a cold-hearted killer closes in. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Bunco Babes Gone Wild by Maria Geraci |
| DESCRIPTION: | Romance gets a little dicey in the sassy, sizzling second novel by the author of Bunco Babes Tell All. Georgia Meyer needs some time to think?and what better place to get her head on straight than Whispering Bay, Florida, in the company of her sister Frida and her sister's Bunco-playing friends, aka the Bunco Babes? Georgia's boyfriend?and boss?Spencer Moody made a slight miscalculation in the romance department and gave her a calculator instead of an engagement ring. So she needs some sisterly advice, in between rolling dice and drinking frozen margaritas, as to her next move. While considering subtracting Spencer from her life, Georgia meets the very handsome Dave Hernandez. Unfortunately when a Bunco night gets a little out of hand, Georgia reveals more of herself to Dave than she intended. Now, as she helps the Babes prepare for a Bunco Black Tie fundraiser, she needs to search her heart?and keep her shirt on?long enough to decide if a love affair with Dave might be a dream come true. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Last Arrow by Marsha Canham |
| DESCRIPTION: | The Last Arrow. The Prince of Darkness. She caught him trespassing on her family's lands, the sensuous and mysterious knight who had come to Normandy to challenge her brother, Robin, in the tournament at Chateau Gaillard. Brenna Wardieu's well-honed instincts warned her that Griffyn Renaud was no ordinary mercenary. When she discovered he was the invincible Prince of Darkness, undefeated champion in three lands, she feared he has been hired to do more than just defeat Robin in the lists. The Fires of Passion. She was Lady Brenna Wardieu, daughter of the legendary Black Wolf, and from the moment Griffyn found himself at the mercy of the magnificent lady archer, he suspected he had met his match. And when she offered him her body in exchange for her brother's life, it proved to be the instrument of his own defeat, for the passion he discovered in her arms threatened to shatter not only the armor surrounding his heart, but the peace of two kingdoms. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Scotsman by Juliana Garnett |
| DESCRIPTION: | A Scottish rebel makes an unholy exchange when he strikes back against the English enemies who have captured his brother--taking the beautiful daughter of the lord hostage. Now he faces the wrath of a violent, determined man. The battle has begun. But his heart is already lost--to the fiery woman he must use to save his kin... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $7.50 |
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| TITLE: | Eating by Jason Epstein |
| DESCRIPTION: | Jason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisher of Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow, among many other distinguished writers, and the editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Maida Heatter, takes us on a culinary tour through his eventful life, beginning with his childhood summers in Maine, where his decision to improve upon his grandmother's chicken pot pie led to a lifetime at the stove. From the great restaurants of postwar Paris to the narrow streets of New York's Chinatown today; from a New Year's dinner aboard the old Ile de France with Buster Keaton to an evening at New York's glamorous "21" restaurant with the dreaded Roy Cohn; from Chinese omelettes with the great Jane Jacobs at the edge of the Arctic Ocean to a lobster dinner with the Mailers on Cape Cod, as well as a warning to examine the chair before you sit down to dinner with W. H. Auden, this delicious book celebrates a lifetime of pleasure in cooking and eating well. The author agrees with the Greek philosopher Heraclitus that you can never step in the same river twice, that every act is unique and so is every dish. In Jason Epstein's hands, rather than being presented in the usual rigid formula, recipes unfold as stories that he would tell a friend in stove-side conversation. And as Epstein demonstrates his personal touches in putting a dish together, he inspires his readers to be creative. A rich and provocative book, Eating will whet the appetites of all who love good food and delightful company. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $25.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Physics of Superheroes: Spectacular Second Edition by James Kakalios |
| DESCRIPTION: | A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books," a hugely popular university course that generated coast-to-coast media attention for its unique method of explaining complex physics concepts through comics. With The Physics of Superheroes, named one of the best science books of 2005 by Discover, he introduced his colorful approach to an even wider audience. Now Kakalios presents a totally updated, expanded edition that features even more superheroes and findings from the cutting edge of science. With three new chapters and completely revised throughout with a splashy, redesigned package, the book that explains why Spider-Man's webbing failed his girlfriend, the probable cause of Krypton's explosion, and the Newtonian physics at work in Gotham City is electrifying from cover to cover. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $16.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live by Colin Tudge |
| DESCRIPTION: | How are birds so good at flying and navigating? Why are birds so like mammals, and yet so very different? Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs? How do they court each other and fend off rivals? What' s being communicated in birdsong? Can we ever know how birds think? In this fascinating exploration of the avian class, Colin Tudge considers the creatures of the air. From their evolutionary roots to their flying, feeding, fighting, mating, nesting, and communicating, Tudge provocatively ponders what birds actually do--as well as why they do it and how. With the same curiosity, passion, and insight he brought to redwoods, pines, and palm trees in his widely acclaimed book The Tree, Tudge here studies sparrows, parrots, and even the Monkey-eating Eagle to better understand their world--and our own. There is far more to a bird's existence than gliding gracefully on air currents or chirping sweetly from fence posts--the stakes are life and death. By observing and explaining the complex strategy that comes into play with everything from migration to social interaction to the timing of giving birth to young, Tudge reveals how birds are uniquely equipped biologically to succeed and survive. And he offers an impassioned plea for humans to learn to coexist with birds without continuing to endanger their survival. Complete with an "annotated cast list" of all the known birds in the world--plus gorgeous illustrations The Bird is a comprehensive and delightfully accessible guide for everyone from dedicated birders to casual birdwatchers that celebrates and illuminates the remarkable lives of birds. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $30.00 |
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| TITLE: | How to Modify Your Mopar Magnum V-8HP1473 by Larry Shepard |
| DESCRIPTION: | Famed Mopar performance guru Larry Shepard offers a comprehensive guide on modifying Chrysler's popular Magnum V-8, used in 1992-and-newer Dodge Ram and Dakota; 1998-and-newer Durango; and 1994-98 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.2L and 5.9L V8 engines. Includes sections on the cylinder block, piston/rods/crankshafts, cylinder heads and valvetrain, induction, exhaust, ignition and lubrication systems, engine swapping guide and horsepower calculations. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $18.95 |
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| TITLE: | Ht Hot Rod Small Hp1405 by Larry Shepard |
| DESCRIPTION: | A completely revised and updated edition of the bestselling Mopar A engine performance book in print. Includes new parts and technology for all Mopar A series engines built from 1964 to 1992. Sections include blocks, heads, camshafts, valvetrains, blueprinting, assembly cooling, oiling, induction and exhaust. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $21.95 |
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| TITLE: | Magic in the Shadows by Devon Monk |
| DESCRIPTION: | Allison Beckstrom's magic has taken its toll on her, physically marking her and erasing her memories?including those of the man she supposedly loves. But lost memories aren't the only things preying on Allie's thoughts. Her late father, the prominent businessman?and sorcerer?Daniel Beckstrom, has somehow channeled himself into her very mind. With the help of The Authority, a secret organization of magic users, she hopes to gain better control over her own abilities?and find a way to deal with her father? |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives by Guy Fieri |
| DESCRIPTION: | Join New York Times bestselling author and Food Network star Guy Fieri for a second helping of the best diners, drive-ins, and dives across America!Guy Fieri strikes again with More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, giving you a road map to road food that's earned its culinary citizenship in "Flavortown." Join Guy on a cross-country noshing parade, mapping out the best places you've never heard of?more than fifty establishments off the beaten path. Compete in a (no hands) apple-pie-eating contest at Bobo Drive-In in Topeka, Kansas, dip your taste buds in Sweet Spicy Love sauce at Uncle Lou's Fried Chicken in Memphis, Tennessee, and get a load of the killer four-cheese mac-and-cheese at Gorilla Barbeque in Pacifica, California. Filled with Guy's hilarious voice and rampant enthusiasm for these hidden culinary gems, More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives is the perfect book for lovers of the American food scene and fans of Triple D. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $19.99 |
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| TITLE: | Street TurbochargingHP1488 by Mark Warner |
| DESCRIPTION: | Transform an average car or truck into a turbocharged high performance street machine. A handbook on theory and application of turbocharging for street and high-performance use, this book covers high performance cars and trucks. This comprehensive guide features sections on theory, indepth coverage of turbocharging components, fabricating systems, engine building and testing, aftermarket options and project vehicles. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $21.95 |
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| TITLE: | Salsas, Sambals, Chutneys & Chowchows by Christopher Schlesinger |
| DESCRIPTION: | Start with the head-busting floral heat of the Scotch Bonnet pepper, add a juicy raw mango, some crisp jícama, a handful of aromatic cilantro, and a spritz of lime juice, and what do you get? Dice it up with avocado and corn just off the cob, fresh oregano, raw red onion, and a few dashes of Tabasco, and you've got Avocado and Corn Salsa. Succulent peaches? Slice them up, squeeze some oranges and limes, stir in some molasses and a jalapeño or two, and you're ready for Sweet and spicy Peach Relish.You get the picture: small effort, big flavor. Using fiery chile peppers, fresh aromatic herbs and spices, and the tropics luscious fruits and vegetables, the authors bring you over forty original recipes for the intensely "little dishes" of the world's cuisines. With their machine-gun succession of intense, flashy, pungent flavors, these dishes can dress up grilled meat or fish, and turn simple beans, rice, or grains into a festive meal.Included here are chapters on Chutneys, the original relishes; Blatjangs, Atjars, and Sambals, progeny of the marriage between African and Southeast Asian cuisines; Chowchows, Piccalillies, and Other Pickleded Things, the traditional little dishes of the American South; Relishes, the "home base" of little dishes and Catsups and Other Condiments, in which America's most familiar condiment appears in new guises like Smoky Shiitake Mushroom Catsup and Chunky Papaya Catsup. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $14.99 |
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| TITLE: | Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich |
| DESCRIPTION: | In this inspiring new book, Lidia Bastianich awakens in us a new respect for food and for the people who produce it in the little-known parts of Italy that she explores. All of the recipes reflect the regions from which they spring, and in translating them to our home kitchens, Lidia passes on time-honored techniques and wonderful, uncomplicated recipes for dishes bursting with different regional flavors--the kind of elemental, good family cooking that is particularly appreciated today. Penetrating the heart of Italy--starting at the north, working down to the tip, and ending in Sardinia--Lidia unearths a wealth of recipes: From Trentino Alto Adige: Delicious Dumplings with Speck (cured pork); apples accenting soup, pasta, salsa, and salad; local beer used to roast a chicken and to braise beef From Lombardy: A world of rice--baked in a frittata, with lentils, with butternut squash, with gorgonzola, and the special treat of Risotto Milan-Style with Marrow and Saffron From Valle d'Aosta: Polenta with Black Beans and Kale, and local fontina featured in fondue, in a roasted pepper salad, and embedded in veal chops From Liguria: An array of Stuffed Vegetables, a bread salad, and elegant Veal Stuffed with a Mosaic of Vegetables From Emilia-Romagna: An olive oil dough for making the traditional, versatile vegetable tart erbazzone, as well as the secrets of making tagliatelle and other pasta doughs, and an irresistible Veal Scaloppine Bolognese From Le Marche: Farro with Roasted Pepper Sauce, Lamb Chunks with Olives, and Stuffed Quail in Parchment From Umbria: A taste of the sweet Norcino black truffle, and seductive dishes such as Potato-Mushroom Cake with Braised Lentils, Sausages in the Skillet with Grapes, and Chocolate Bread Parfait From Abruzzo: Fresh scrippelle (crepe) ribbons baked with spinach or garnishing a soup, fresh pasta made with a "guitar," Rabbit with Onions, and Lamb Chops with Olives From Molise: Fried Ricotta; homemade cavatelli pasta in a variety of ways; Spaghetti with Calamari, Shrimp, and Scallops; and Braised Octopus From Basilicata: Wedding Soup, Fiery Maccheroni, and Farro with Pork Rag From Calabria: Shepherd's Rigatoni, steamed swordfish, and Almond Biscottini From Sardinia: Flatbread Lasagna, two lovely eggplant dishes, and Roast Lobster with Bread Crumb Topping This is just a sampling of the many delights Lidia has uncovered. All the recipes she shares with us in this rich feast of a book represent the work of the local people and friends with whom she made intimate contact--the farmers, shepherds, foragers, and artisans who produce local cheeses, meats, olive oils, and wines. And in addition, her daughter, Tanya, takes us on side trips in each of the twelve regions to share her love of the country and its art. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $35.00 |
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| TITLE: | Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer |
| DESCRIPTION: | Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $25.99 |
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| TITLE: | Heaven's Banquet by Miriam Kasin Hospodar |
| DESCRIPTION: | Written with the support of the Maharishi Ayur-Veda Institute, this comprehensive cookbook shows how to incorporate the timeless principles of Ayurveda into the twenty-first-century kitchen.A result of Miriam Kasin Hospodar's twenty-year culinary journey, Heaven's Banquet draws from a rich palette of international cuisines and shows how to match your diet to your mind-body type for maximum health and well-being. The more than 700 recipes included here range from Thai Corn Fritters and Asian-Cajun Eggplant Gumbo to West African Avocado Mousse and Mocha-Spice Cake with Coffee Cream Frosting. Readers will discover the most effective methods of preparing food, the benefits of eating seasonally for individual types, and how to create a diet for the entire family. There are special sections on how to lose weight and control sugar sensitivity, a questionnaire to help determine mind-body type, and essential ingredients for a well-stocked Ayurvedic kitchen.Fully illustrated, and written for everyone from the beginner cook to the experienced chef, Heaven's Banquet shows how to use food to tap into your body's intelligence and create lifelong health. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $23.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Cleaning Encyclopedia by Don Aslett |
| DESCRIPTION: | The ultimate guide to the art of cleaning, this reference is packed with professional secrets for getting maximum results through minimum results through minimum effort. Discover how to save time, money, and elbow grease on every cleaning problem, as well as how to prevent housework with surprising tricks of the trade. From aluminum siding to zoom lenses, this alphabetical index covers every job, big and small. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck |
| DESCRIPTION: | A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research |
| CATEGORY: | Travel |
| PRICE: | $25.00 |
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| TITLE: | High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly by Donald Spoto |
| DESCRIPTION: | Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood's legendary actresses. In just seven years--from 1950 through 1956--Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the thrill-seeking Frances Stevens of To Catch a Thief, Grace established herself as one of Hollywood's most talented actresses and iconic beauties. Her astonishing career lasted until her retirement at age twenty-six, when she withdrew from stage and screen to marry a European monarch and became a modern, working princess and mother. Based on never-before-published or quoted interviews with Grace and those conducted over many years with her friends and colleagues--from costars James Stewart and Cary Grant to director Alfred Hitchcock--as well as many documents disclosed by her children for the first time, acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto explores the transformation of a convent schoolgirl to New York model, successful television actress, Oscar-winning movie star, and beloved royal. As the princess requested, Spoto waited twenty-five years after her death to write this biography. Now, with honesty and insight, High Society reveals the truth of Grace Kelly's personal life, the men she loved, the men she didn't, and what lay behind the facade of her fairy-tale life. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $25.99 |
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| TITLE: | Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry |
| DESCRIPTION: | Britain's best-loved comic genius, Stephen Fry, turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his chariot of Englishness, a black London cab.Stephen Fry has always loved America. In fact, he came very close to being born here. His fascination for the country and its people sees him embarking on an epic journey across America, visiting each of its fifty states to discover how such a huge diversity of people, cultures, languages, and beliefs creates such a remarkable nation. Stephen starts his journey on the East Coast and zigzags across America, stopping in every state from Maine to Hawaii, talking to each state's hospitable citizens, listening to music, visiting landmarks, viewing small-town life and America's breathtaking landscapes, following wherever his curiosity leads him. En route he discovers the South Side of Chicago with blues legend Buddy Guy, catches up with Morgan Freeman in Mississippi, strides around with Ted Turner on his Montana ranch, marches with Zulus in Mardi Gras in New Orleans, drums with the Sioux Nation in South Dakota, joins a Georgia family for Thanksgiving, "picks" with bluegrass hillbillies, and finds himself in a Tennessee garden full of dead bodies.Whether in a club for failed gangsters in Brooklyn, New York (yes, those are real bullet holes), or celebrating Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts (is there anywhere better?), Stephen is welcomed by the people of America?mayors, sheriffs, newspaper editors, park rangers, teachers, and hoboes, bringing to life the oddities and splendors of each locale. A celebration of the magnificent and the eccentric, the beautiful and the strange, Stephen Fry in America is the author's homage to this extraordinary country. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $34.99 |
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| TITLE: | Bowie: A Biography by Marc Spitz |
| DESCRIPTION: | Finally an expansive biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest music and cultural icons From noted author and rock 'n' roll journalist Marc Spitz comes a major David Bowie biography to rival any other. Following Bowie's life from his start as David Jones, an R & B--loving kid from Bromley, England, to his rise to rock 'n' roll aristocracy as David Bowie, Bowie recounts his career but also reveals how much his music has influenced other musicians and forever changed the landscape of the modern era. Along the way, Spitz reflects on how growing up with Bowie as his soundtrack and how writing this definitive book on Bowie influenced him in ways he never expected, adding a personal dimension that Bowie fans and those passionate about art and culture will connect with and that no other bio on the artist offers. Bowie takes an in-depth look at the culture of postwar England in which Bowie grew up, the mod and hippie scenes of swinging London in the sixties, the sex and drug-fueled glitter scene of the early seventies when Bowie's alter-ego Ziggy Stardust was born, his rise to global stardom in the eighties and his subsequent status as an elder statesman of alternative culture. Spitz puts each incarnation of Bowie into the context of its era, creating a cultural time line that is intriguing both for its historical significance as well as for its delineation of this rock 'n' roll legend, the first musician to evolve a coherent vision after the death of the sixties dream. Amid the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll mayhem, a deeper portrait of the artist emerges. Bowie's early struggles to go from follower to leader, his tricky relationship with art and commerce and Buddhism and the occult, his complicated family life, his open romantic relationship and, finally, his perceived disavowal of all that made him a touchstone for outcasts are all thoughtfully explored. A fresh evaluation of his recorded work, as well as his film, stage and video performances, is included as well. Based on a hundred original interviews with those who knew him best and those familiar with his work, including ex-wife Angie Bowie, former Bowie manager Kenneth Pitt, Siouxsie Sioux, Camille Paglia, Dick Cavett, Todd Haynes, Ricky Gervais and Peter Frampton, Bowie gives us not only a portrait of one of the most important artists in the last century, but also an honest examination of a truly revolutionary artist and the unique impact he's had across generations. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $26.99 |
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| TITLE: | Lit by Mary Karr |
| DESCRIPTION: | The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" (Entertainment Weekly). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness?and to her astonishing resurrection. Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott," with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith. Not since Saint Augustine cried, "Give me chastity, Lord?but not yet!" has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity. Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up?as only Mary Karr can tell it. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $25.99 |
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| TITLE: | Exit Music: The Radiohead Story by Mac Randall |
| DESCRIPTION: | This October, when Radiohead release their highly anticipated follow-up to 1997's guitar-driven OK Computer, music critics may very well bestow the Oxford quintet with "The Most Important Band in Rock" accolade that cursed U2, R.E.M. and the Clash. The East Coast editor of Launch magazine, Randall is undoubtedly one of the many journalists eager to exclaim "genius!" again, but his biography of the Grammy winners is economical, restrained and unauthorized (band members "respectfully declined" Randall's requests to cooperate). After briefly reenacting the now mythic June 1997 concert at New York City's Irving Plaza, attended by rock's superstar aristocracy (Bono, Lenny Kravitz, Madonna, etc.), Randall smartly spends most of his narrative on the band's fascinating, decade-long conception in and around culturally barren Oxford, whose Radiohead landmarks he visited and lays out. Non- and neo-Anglophiles will especially appreciate Randall's definitions of British terms and background on the British music industry, music press and education system (all five musicians met at the all-male Abingdon School). As for the inevitable "record critique" chapters, Randall rarely throws in his two cents, preferring to sprinkle passages with the band's own pithy observations and recording-session anecdotes culled from magazine interviews. Exit music? Not quite, as Radiohead are pushing the boundaries of pop music (the new record is rumored to include Miles Davis and backwards singing). Because the book will be published right before the new album debuts, it will be nearly out of date by the time it hits bookstores. However, Randall's work will still serve as a reliable introduction to an ever-evolving band. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $16.00 |
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| TITLE: | For Bea by Kristen Von Kreisler |
| DESCRIPTION: | A touching and humorous account of the author's fifteen years with her beagle, Bea, a refugee from an animal research laboratory. Harried by recent upheavals in her life, the last thing Kristin von Kreisler needed was another dog. But when she came upon Bea, a scrawny beagle abandoned by the roadside, she couldn't turn away. Bea became part of her family, and changed it forever. Disheveled, malnourished, and terrified of human contact, Bea seemed damaged beyond repair. But, gradually, she began to trust von Kreisler. After resisting her touch again and again, the dog one day leaned in and nuzzled her neck. From that moment, Bea began to give love as well as receive it. With the typically unforgettable personality of a beagle, over the next decade and a half she taught von Kreisler the value of living utterly in the present, of meeting each day with a good bark, and of moving forward in life without being dragged down by past grief. Written with rare eloquence and down-to-earth wit, this memoir of Bea and von Kreisler's fifteen-year love story will charm "beaglers" and touch the heart of anyone who has ever loved a dog. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $12.95 |
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| TITLE: | Unlikely Allies by Joel Richard Paul |
| DESCRIPTION: | The gripping true story of how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution. Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical figures. Silas Deane was a Connecticut merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American colonies struggled to break with England. Caron de Beaumarchais was a successful playwright who wrote The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. And the flamboyant and mysterious Chevalier d?Eon ?officer, diplomat, and sometime spy?was the talk of London and Paris. Is the Chevalier a man or a woman? When Deane is sent to France to convince the French government to support the revolutionary cause, he enlists the help of Beaumarchais. Together, they successfully smuggle weapons, ammunition, and supplies to New England just in time for the crucial Battle of Saratoga, which turned the tide of the American Revolution. And the catalyst for Louis XVI's support of the Americans against England was the Chevalier d?Eon, whose decision to declare herself a woman helped to lead to the Franco-American alliance. These three people spin a fascinating web of political intrigue and international politics that stretches across oceans as they ricochet from Versailles to Georgian London to the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. Each man has his own reasons for wanting to see America triumph over the British, and each contends daily with the certainty that no one is what they seem. The line between friends and enemies is blurred, spies lurk in every corner, and the only way to survive is to trust no one. An edge-of-your-seat story full of fascinating characters and lavish with period detail and sense of place, Unlikely Allies is Revolutionary history in all of its juicy, lurid glory. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $25.95 |
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| TITLE: | Miracle on the Hudson: The Survivors of Flight 1549 Tell Their Extraordinary Stories of Courage, Faith, and Determination by The Survivors Of Flight 1549 |
| DESCRIPTION: | In this heart-stopping, page-turning tale of fear, heroism, and redemption, the passengers of the Hudson River crash landing tell their remarkable stories.  Millions watched the aftermath on television, while others witnessed the event actually happening from the windows of nearby skyscrapers. But only 155 people know firsthand what really happened on U.S. Airways Flight 1549 on January 15, 2009. Now, for the first time, the survivors detail their astounding, terrifying, and inspiring experiences on that freezing winter day in New York City. Written by two esteemed journalists, Miracle on the Hudson is the entire tale from takeoff to bird strike to touchdown to rescue, seen through the eyes and felt in the souls of those on board the fateful flight. Revealing many new and compelling details, Miracle on the Hudson dramatically evokes the explosion and "smell of burning flesh" as both engines were destroyed by geese, the violent landing on the river that felt like a "huge car wreck," the gridlock in the aisles as the plane filled swiftly with freezing water, and the thrill of the passengers' rescue from the wings and from rafts—all of it recalled by the "cross section of America" on board. Jay McDonald, a thirty-nine-year-old software developer, had survived brain-tumor surgery just two years earlier and now faced the unimaginable. Tracey Wolsko, a nervous flier, suddenly became other people's rock: "Just pray. It's going to be all right." Jim Whitaker, a construction executive, reassured a nervous mother of two young children on board, only later admitting, "I was pathologically lying the whole time." As the plane started sinking, Lucille Palmer, eighty-five, told her daughter to save herself: "Just leave me!" Featuring much more than what the media reported—moments of chaos in addition to stoicism and common sense, and the fortuitous mistakes and quick instincts that saved lives that otherwise would have been lost—Miracle on the Hudson is the chronicle of one of the most phenomenal feel-good stories of recent years, one that could have been a nightmare and instead became a stirring narrative of heroism and hope for our times. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $25.00 |
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| TITLE: | Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller |
| DESCRIPTION: | Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and influenced White House economic policies throughout the Reagan years and beyond. A passionate advocate of laissez-faire capitalism and individual rights, Rand remains a powerful force in the political perceptions of Americans today. Yet twenty-five years after her death, her readers know little about her life. In this seminal biography, Anne C. Heller traces the controversial author's life from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout, Heller reveals previously unknown facts about Rand's history and looks at Rand with new research and a fresh perspective. Based on original research in Russia, dozens of interviews with Rand's acquaintances and former acolytes, and previously unexamined archives of tapes and letters, AYN RAND AND THE WORLD SHE MADE is a comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $35.00 |
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| TITLE: | Post-Capitalist Society by Peter F. Drucker |
| DESCRIPTION: | Business guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive analysis of the major world transformation taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society, and examines the radical effects it will have on society, politics, and business now and in the coming years. This searching and incisive analysis of the major world transformation now taking place shows how it will affect society, economics, business, and politics and explains how we are moving from a society based on capital, land, and labor to a society whose primary source is knowIedge and whose key structure is the organization. |
| CATEGORY: | Business |
| PRICE: | $16.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Sellout by Charles Gasparino |
| DESCRIPTION: | From critically acclaimed investigative journalist and CNBC personality Charles Gasparino comes a sweeping examination of the most recent volatile, anxiety-ridden era in our nation's socioeconomic history. The Sellout traces the implosion of the financial services business back to its roots in the late 1970s when Wall Street embraced a new business model predicated on taking enormous risks. It shows how a backwater business involving the trading of risky bonds packed with mortgages showered countless billions in profits on the financial industry but sowed the seeds of its ultimate demise. Gasparino walks readers through Wall Street's three-decades' love affair with risk, revealing a trail of culpability?from the government bureaucrats who crafted housing policies that encouraged homeownership, to the Wall Street firms that underwrote and invested in risky debt, to the mortgage sellers who handed out loans to people without the financial wherewithal to pay them back, to the homeowners who became convinced they could afford mansions on blue-collar wages. The ongoing tumult in financial markets and the global economy began when some of our most esteemed financial institutions, our government, and even average citizens abdicated their collective responsibilities, eventually selling out investors and selling off the American Dream itself. In the spirit of classics such as Barbarians at the Gate and Liar's Poker, this page-turning narrative captures how avarice, arrogance, and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Street's dominance and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of middle-class Americans. Eye-opening and engrossing, The Sellout provides the most thorough investigation to date of this latest gilded era. |
| CATEGORY: | Business |
| PRICE: | $27.99 |
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| TITLE: | Stop Whining--and Start Winning by Roger Gittines |
| DESCRIPTION: | Filled with the kind of contagious energy and upbeat attitude that has made Frank Pacetta one of America's most popular motivational speakers, this unique book is for anyone who wants a difference in the workplace. Whatever the occupation, organization, or industry, here are tried and tested solutions, techniques, rules and tactics that get the job done right. Whether you're a manager fed up with your worker's ho-hum attitude or an individual who can't seem to live up to your potential no matter how hard you try, this book will give you ideas that can put into immediate action--a no-fail formula for ending the whining and instilling in yourself and your employees a winning spirit. |
| CATEGORY: | Business |
| PRICE: | $15.99 |
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| TITLE: | You Are What You Choose by Scott de Marchi |
| DESCRIPTION: | The hidden patterns behind the way we make decisions Several recent books, from Blink to Freakonomics to Predictably Irrational, have examined how people make choices. But none explain why different people have such different styles of decision making?and why those styles seem consistent across many contexts. For instance, why is a gambler always a gambler, whether at work, on the highway, or in a voting booth? Scott de Marchi and James T. Hamilton present a new theory about how we decide, based on an extensive survey of more than thirty thousand subjects. They show that each of us possesses six core traits that shape every decision, from what to have for lunch to where to invest. We go with ?the usual? way of deciding whenever there's a trade-off between current and future happiness, when facing the risk of a bad outcome, or when a choice might hurt other people. We're also consistent about how much information we want and how much we care about the opinions of others. Readers can determine their own decision-making profile with a test in the book. Once they understand the six core traits, they'll have a big advantage in their marketing campaigns, management strategies, investments, and many other contexts. |
| CATEGORY: | Business |
| PRICE: | $23.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Buyout of America by Joshua Kosman |
| DESCRIPTION: | An authoritative exposé of the mysterious and potentially dangerous world of private equity Few people realize that the top private equity firms, such as Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, have become the nation's largest employers through the businesses they own. Using leveraged buyouts that load their acquired companies with loans, private equity firms have generated more than $1 trillion in new debt?which will come due just when these businesses are least likely to be able to pay it off. Journalist Josh Kosman explores private equity's explosive growth and shows how its barons wring profits at the expense of the long-term health of their companies. He argues that excessive debt and mismanagement will likely trigger another economic meltdown within the next five years, wiping out up to two million jobs. He also explores the links between the private equity elite and Washington power players, who have helped them escape government scrutiny. The result is a timely book with an important warning for us all. |
| CATEGORY: | Business |
| PRICE: | $26.95 |
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| TITLE: | Double-Digit Growth by Michael Treacy |
| DESCRIPTION: | A world-renowned consultant and bestselling author answers every company's most compelling needIn their 1995 blockbuster The Discipline of Market Leaders, Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema explained how great companies dominated their markets by offering superior value propositions. Now Treacy is back with an equally groundbreaking book?revealing how great companies master growth each year and how all businesses can identify and exploit opportunities for increased revenues, gross margins, and profits.Treacy's main point is simple?it really is possible to grow your business by 10 percent or more, year after year, in good times and bad, without cheating. Great companies already know how to do it, and the rest of us can learn their strategies and do the same thing. Using case studies from industry leaders such as Dell Computer, Home Depot, and GE, he shows the five steps that are imperative to ensure growth: * keep the growth you have already earned * look for growth where it's likely to be found * take business from your competitorsTreacy believes that any business can grow at a consistent double-digit rate, and with Double-Digit Growth, managers and investors now have the tools to achieve that lofty goal and maintain corporate success.On the web: http://www.michaeltreacy.com |
| CATEGORY: | Business |
| PRICE: | $16.00 |
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| TITLE: | Books to Build On by E.d. Jr Hirsch |
| DESCRIPTION: | A companion volume to the highly successful series of textbooks for grades one through six lists books and other print resources--organized by topic--related to the material covered in the textbooks, designed to encourage further study. |
| CATEGORY: | Education |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | Roadwork by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | They're tearing down Bart Dawes's home, leveling his memories, and destroying his past, all for a new highway extension. Funny what that kind of progress can do to a man. Scary, too. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-THE PRELUDE TO THE CLASSIC DARK TOWER SERIES.
A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | A Darker Place by Laurie R. King |
| DESCRIPTION: | Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before....A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment. Until she learns of more than one hundred children living in the Change movement's Arizona compound....Anne soon realizes that Change is no ordinary community and hers is no ordinary mission. For, far from appeasing the demons of her past, this assignment is sweeping her back into their clutches...and to the razor's edge of danger. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Mortal Fear by Robin Cook |
| DESCRIPTION: | "A chilling odyssey into the origins of life-and death." (USA Weekend) |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Thieves' Paradise by Eric Jerome Dickey |
| DESCRIPTION: | New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey returns with a powerful novel about grifters and con artists, brothers and sisters, looking for love and making ends meet-on the wrong side of the law... |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Trailsman #337 by Jon Sharpe |
| DESCRIPTION: | When Fargo hits the little town of Las Vegas, he knows that the nearby silver strikes are filling the town with opportunity. But when he signs on with an old frontier buddy to guard shipments from the mines to the town, he gets pulled into a fight not just against bandits, but against a vendetta-packing family out to end the Trailsman's lucky streak for good?. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Longarm 372 by Tabor Evans |
| DESCRIPTION: | In the blood-soaked rangelands of Texas, a powerful ranch fenced in its smaller neighbors?and now the entire valley is about to explode like a powder keg. Deputy Marshal Custis Long will have to slap leather and sling lead before he can lay down the law. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Longarm 373 by Tabor Evans |
| DESCRIPTION: | When a beautiful Indian woman drops into Deputy Marshal Custis Long's arms with a bullet hole in her head, he vows to find her murderer, no matter where he has to go?or who he has to shoot. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Gunsmith 336 by J. R. Roberts |
| DESCRIPTION: | Widow Lillian Kingsforth desperately needs Clint Adams's help. She's being pressure to sell her hotel by several gambling entrepreneurs who believe the property could be put to better use?and whose business practices include attempting to murder her. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Slocum 370 by Jake Logan |
| DESCRIPTION: | A greedy businessman has rallied the law, locals, rustlers, and outlaws to try to get his hands on the land of one of John Slocum's friends. Big mistake. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Slocum Giant 2009 by Jake Logan |
| DESCRIPTION: | A race across the West has fifty daring contestants fighting for a prize of 50 grand. Slocum thinks it's just bull, until a buxom beauty gets him involved in order to find her missing brother. And now he's in it to win it. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Shadow Season: A Novel by Tom Piccirilli |
| DESCRIPTION: | An ex-cop, Finn was left literally blinded by violence. The one thing he can still see is the body of his wife, Dani, and a crime scene that won't fade from his mind's eye. Now a professor, Finn never would have guessed that an isolated girls' prep school could be every bit as dangerous as city streets. Especially when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard in the middle of a raging blizzard. Finn may live in a world of total darkness, but it's about to get a splash of red. The memories that torment him still have the power to kill, and a group of innocent students has been put in harm's way by a pair of vicious criminals stalking Finn for unknown reasons. Secrets are creeping from the shadows around him--the kind that even a man with perfect vision never sees until it's too late. They're about to become terrifyingly clear to Finn--and it all begins with the scent of blood. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Death in a Mood Indigo by Francine Mathews |
| DESCRIPTION: | When two children make a grisly discovery on Sconset beach, Detective Meredith Folger finds herself with a perplexing case on her hands. The crime lab can tell her only that the newly unearthed skeletal remains belonged to a woman who was strangled to death somewhere between two and ten years ago--a conclusion that sends Merry sifting through old missing-persons files. But then a shocking piece of news changes everything.The Massachusetts police have arrested a man they believe to be a serial killer. His five known victims were all women--all strangled. Is Merry's Nantucket skeleton the killer's first victim? And do the state cops have the right man? When the murderer strikes again, he'll draw Merry into a deadly cat and mouse game in which she's the final target.... |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Abandoned: A Thriller by Cody Mcfadyen |
| DESCRIPTION: | He doesn't kill for thrills, for sex, or even for power. It's far more twisted than that. Cody McFadyen, acclaimed author of The Darker Side, The Face of Death, and Shadow Man, delivers this shocking new thriller that brings to light a psychopath unlike any we've ever seen--a killer who thrives in absolute darkness and doesn't derive pleasure from the kill. And only one woman has the ability to see him coming--even if it's already too late to stop her own murder. For FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett, the wedding of one of their own was cause for celebration. Until a woman staggered down the aisle, incoherent, emaciated, head shaved, and wearing only a white nightgown. No one knows who she is or where she's come from--or why she's chosen to appear in a church filled with law enforcement agents. Then a fingerprint check determines that the woman has been missing for nearly eight years--that once she was someone's wife, someone's mother--and a cop. Imprisoning her in a dark cell, depriving her of any contact with the outside world, her enigmatic captor was a man she didn't know and who seldom spoke, who punished her only when she failed to follow his most basic instructions designed to keep her alive. Cold, businesslike, seemingly indifferent to his victims, he's a predator with an M.O. as terrifyingly inscrutable as any Smoky has ever encountered. As she fits together the pieces of what remains of his victim's fractured life, a chilling picture emerges of a killer every bit as calculating, masterful, and professional as Smoky and the team she leads--a professional psychopath who doesn't take murder personally and never makes a mistake. There's a reason he let one of his victims go free. And by the time Smoky pierces the darkness of his twisted mind, it may cost her more than she can bear to lose to escape. For a trap snapped closed the moment she took this case too much to heart. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $25.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Lawman: Hanging Judge by Lyle Brandt |
| DESCRIPTION: | As Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade watches the day's condemned men march to the ropes, a shootout takes the life of the hanging judge. A note from the judge's pocket, along with a single matchbox, is all Slade has to track the gunman. As he follows these slim leads, Slade hears ominous tales about the Son of Dixie?and a group of hooded killers he thought long gone. To release their deadly grip on the area, Slade's going to need a sure hand?and a ready gun. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Mint Julep Murder by Carolyn G. Hart |
| DESCRIPTION: | One of America's most beloved mystery writers, Carolyn G. Hart, the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning author, returns to her original mystery series that features Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand Bookstore, and her husband, Max, with Mint Julep Murder.Normally, Annie Laurence Darling would be eagerly awaiting her trip to Head Island, where this year's Dixie Book Festival is being held. But this year Annie has agreed to be the author liaison to five authors honored with the much-coveted Dixie Book Festival Medallions, and she fears she is going to have her hands full juggling murderous egos. What Annie doesn't count on is the untimely death of ambitious Mint Julep Press publisher Kenneth Hazlitt. Hazlitt arrives at the Festival peddling a proposal for Song of the South, a trashy roman clef that details the indiscretions of some famous Southern authors at a writers' conference--writers who more than resemble the Dixie Festival Medallion winners. When Hazlitt drops dead after drinking a hit of bourbon from his private stock, the evidence points to Annie--the fatal glass is imprinted with her fingerprints. As more and more evidence points her way, Annie and Max must act fast to catch a wily killer...before the police throw the book at Annie! |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Tunnel of Night by John Philpin |
| DESCRIPTION: | A sequel to "The Prettiest Feathers", this novel continues the story of forensic scientist Dr. Lucas Frank and his NYPD detective daughter, Lane. The serial killer they thought was dead is back, and he's on a chilling spree that begins with the murder of his own sister in Florida, and continues throughout the country. He won't stop until he arrives at the FBI Behavioral Studies Unit, where he plans to teach them a lesson in criminal behavior that they'll never forget. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $19.00 |
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| TITLE: | Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King by Brad Matsen |
| DESCRIPTION: | Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality. With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau's collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this remarkable life. Here is Cousteau working for the French resistance during World War II (for which he received France's Croix de Guerre); developing--and risking his life to test--the regulator that made scuba diving possible; running the world's largest scuba equipment manufacturing firm; becoming a legendary catalyst of the worldwide environmental movement; starring in The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and in hundreds of documentaries; and publishing more than fifty books. And here is the widowed Cousteau marrying his longtime mistress--forty years his junior and the mother of two of his children--kindling a bitter family feud that continues to this day. Vividly conveying the people, the adventure, the science, and the lure of the sea that shaped Cousteau's life, Matsen paints a luminous portrait of a man who profoundly changed the way we view, and treat, our planet. |
| CATEGORY: | Technology/Science |
| PRICE: | $27.95 |
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| TITLE: | Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene |
| DESCRIPTION: | A renowned cognitive neuroscientist's fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires reading How can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the ?reading paradox?: Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words? Reading in the Brain describes pioneering research on how we process language, revealing the hidden logic of spelling and the existence of powerful unconscious mechanisms for decoding words of any size, case, or font. Dehaene's research will fascinate not only readers interested in science and culture, but also educators concerned with debates on how we learn to read, and who wrestle with pathologies such as dyslexia. Like Steven Pinker, Dehaene argues that the mind is not a blank slate: Writing systems across all cultures rely on the same brain circuits, and reading is only possible insofar as it fits within the limits of a primate brain. Setting cutting-edge science in the context of cultural debate, Reading in the Brain is an unparalleled guide to a uniquely human ability. |
| CATEGORY: | Technology/Science |
| PRICE: | $27.95 |
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| TITLE: | Denialism by Michael Specter |
| DESCRIPTION: | In this provocative and headline- making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet. In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution of science more today than ever before. For centuries, the general view had been that science is neither good nor bad?that it merely supplies information and that new information is always beneficial. Now, science is viewed as a political constituency that isn't always in our best interest. We live in a world where the leaders of African nations prefer to let their citizens starve to death rather than import genetically modified grains. Childhood vaccines have proven to be the most effective public health measure in history, yet people march on Washington to protest their use. In the United States a growing series of studies show that dietary supplements and ?natural? cures have almost no value, and often cause harm. We still spend billions of dollars on them. In hundreds of the best universities in the world, laboratories are anonymous, unmarked, and surrounded by platoons of security guards?such is the opposition to any research that includes experiments with animals. And pharmaceutical companies that just forty years ago were perhaps the most visible symbol of our remarkable advance against disease have increasingly been seen as callous corporations propelled solely by avarice and greed. As Michael Specter sees it, this amounts to a war against progress. The issues may be complex but the choices are not: Are we going to continue to embrace new technologies, along with acknowledging their limitations and threats, or are we ready to slink back into an era of magical thinking? In Denialism, Specter makes an argument for a new Enlightenment, the revival of an approach to the physical world that was stunningly effective for hundreds of years: What can be understood and reliably repeated by experiment is what nature regarded as true. Now, at the time of mankind's greatest scientific advances?and our greatest need for them?that deal must be renewed. |
| CATEGORY: | Technology/Science |
| PRICE: | $27.95 |
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| TITLE: | Gilbert Guide to Senior Housing by Gilbert Guide |
| DESCRIPTION: | Finding the best place to live in the golden years of life 2008 was a landmark year, as over 79 million people became eligible for Social Security benefits. More and more senior citizens and their children will need to make decisions about where they will live the remainder of their lives and most will seek to downsize and seek out age-appropriate communities. Gilbert Guide, America's premier source of information for senior care and housing needs, provides helpful and comprehensive information about: *How to evaluate housing needs *Each available housing option, including services, contacts, and financing *Subsidized housing *Moving and settling in *How to get the best services *Government agencies and other resources |
| CATEGORY: | Personal Finance |
| PRICE: | $16.95 |
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| TITLE: | Building Your Field of Dreams by Mary Manin Morrissey |
| DESCRIPTION: | Building Your Field of Dreams is both a compelling personal story and a practical and inspiring guide for anyone who has ever hoped for a better life.Mary Morrissey's own dreams were nearly shattered at age 16, when pregnancy forced her into a reluctant marriage that nevertheless became the crucible for remarkable lessons in faith. As she was tested by the near-death of one of her children, by life-threatening kidney disease, and by years of struggling to make ends meet, she clung to her determination to be a minister.Now, with powerful examples from many dream-builders she has known, she shows how anyone can identify their deepest desires, build a partnership with God, confront obstacles and failure, and overcome the mental blocks that keep us from our potential. It's a great message, compellingly delivered by a great teacher. |
| CATEGORY: | Spiritual/Religion |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Tao of Abundance by Laurence G. Boldt |
| DESCRIPTION: | Through his intelligent, appealing integration of Eastern philosophy and practical advice, Laurence G. Boldt has helped thousands of readers find personal satisfaction in their work and personal lives. Now he applies these principles to the subject of abundance: How do we achieve material wealth without sacrificing our souls? In The Tao of Abundance, Boldt applies ancient wisdom to modern times, presenting eight guiding principles from Taoist philosophy geared to help readers make practical life changes that will bring them a truer and deeper sense of abundance. Boldt encourages readers to strike a balance between material and spiritual wealth--not to favor one over the other--and argues that increased material wealth comes as a natural byproduct of psychological fulfillment. With exercises designed to help readers find their own balance between societal demands and their own deepest desires, this helpful, inspiring book offers the chance to experience a new feeling of abundance in all aspects of life. |
| CATEGORY: | Spiritual/Religion |
| PRICE: | $20.00 |
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| TITLE: | Heresy by Alister McGrath |
| DESCRIPTION: | In Heresy, leading religion expert and church historian Alister McGrath reveals the surprising history of heresy and rival forms of Christianity, arguing that the church must continue to defend what is true about Jesus. He explains that remaining faithful to Jesus's mission and message is still the mandate of the church despite increasingly popular cries that traditional dogma is outdated and restricts individual freedom. |
| CATEGORY: | Spiritual/Religion |
| PRICE: | $24.99 |
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| TITLE: | My Prince Will Come by Sheri Rose Shepherd |
| DESCRIPTION: | Your Knight in Shining Armor Awaits When a royal princess is rescued by a brave prince, every girl's heart pitter-patters at the thought. But women of all ages can easily miss the glorious truth that Jesus is the Prince who has already chosen her and is waiting at her door. Such an occasion is motivation for you to be at your best--healthy in every way! Now, as encouraging as it is practical, My Prince Will Come equips every woman to start living today a life of incredible freedom from the past, joy in the present, and hope for the future! Sheri Rose Shepherd's message has been empowering women to become their best self, while inspiring them to confidently embrace an eternal view of themselves, for more than ten years. This is the third book in the acclaimed His Princess series. What a Day That Will Be! It's the moment you've waited for all your life. Hopes and dreams long buried suddenly come alive;heartache and pain melt away;your eyes meet and you're overcome with joy.It's a love story beyond the most amazing fairy tale. A true Happily Ever After--all for you! Your eternal reign will begin on that day because your Princeloves you and paid the ultimate price to call you His princess. Come now, and get to know your Prince, understand your royal calling, live with passion and peace,and prepare for that glorious day? when you finally meet Jesus--your Prince--face-to-face. Story Behind the Book? This inspirational, motivational, instructional guide contains in written form the message that I have been delivering for the past ten years to over 100,000 women. My Prince Will Come is a practical tool for women preparing for Christ's return to take us home. It reveals how to keep an eternal view in the midst of daily life. I've certainly learned that when I am not proactive, Satan will attack me in whatever area of my life that he can. I want to help women not only be on guard against the enemy, but show them how to proactively pursue their relationship with their King."--Sheri Rose Shepherd |
| CATEGORY: | Spiritual/Religion |
| PRICE: | $14.99 |
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| TITLE: | A Marriage After God's Own Heart by David Clarke |
| DESCRIPTION: | Isn't sexual--or emotional--intimacy enough? "No," says Christian psychologist Dr. David Clarke. "Spiritual bonding is the process by which a couple cultivates the presence of God in their relationship," he says, "and it's the only 'glue' that sustains relationships long-term." Working with hundreds of couples, Clarke observes that when we take specific steps to keep God at the center of our relationships, every area of intimacy is energized. This book teaches men and women in a committed relationship how to pray together, create "spiritual conversations," read and study Scripture together, hold private worship sessions, and allow the Holy Spirit to guide them. It's extremely practical counsel all couples need today. |
| CATEGORY: | Spiritual/Religion |
| PRICE: | $10.99 |
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| TITLE: | Angels in Our Midst by Guideposts Editors |
| DESCRIPTION: | A special collection of extraordinary true stories about the presence of angels in our everyday lives.Six-year-old Macy was sleeping peacefully in her family's home when a sudden crash of thunder woke her up. The next thing she realized was that her house had been struck by a bolt of lightning and was engulfed in flames. Macy saw no way out of her bedroom and cried out for her parents. Just moments before the spreading fire would have swallowed her up, an unseen force gently took her by the hand and guided her through the fire and outside to safety. She turned to thank this stranger, only to find no one in sight. "It must have been my guardian angel," Macy later concluded.Have you ever wondered if you would be able to spot your guardian angel" Angels in Our Midst invites you to ponder the real-life stories of ordinary men and women whose lives have been completely altered by the remarkable work of angels. The stories collected here will help all of us understand the true nature of angels, and realize that their presence provides not just succor, but the reassuring evidence of a loving God who is forever watching over us. Here is your invitation to enter a new level of wonder in your life, explore the ageless mysteries of divine intervention, and discover how you might recognize your own guardian angel in times of need. |
| CATEGORY: | Spiritual/Religion |
| PRICE: | $9.95 |
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| TITLE: | Spirits of the Earth by Robert Lake-Thom |
| DESCRIPTION: | "There are ancient secrets and lessons hidden in nature. If you seek for guidance, you will discover truth." ?Bobby Lake-ThomMuch of the ancient knowledge that has been passed down from Native American medicine men, or shamans is in danger of being lost. Bobby Lake-Thom, a Native American healer known as Medicine Grizzly Bear, has sought to preserve this powerful heritage by sharing his wisdom and experience learning from the world around us. The result is Spirits of the Earth, an extraordinary compilation of legends and rituals about nature's ever-present signs. From the birds that soar above us to the insincts beneath our feet, Bobby Lake-Thom shows how the creatures of the earth can aid us in healing and self-knowledge.What does it mean if a hawk appears in a dream? What are the symbolic interpretations of a deer, a skunk, a raccoon? Lake-Thom, who has studied with the elders of many tribes, explains the significance of animal figures as manifestations of good or evil, and shows how we can develop our own powers of awareness and intuition. The first book of its kind, this practical and enlightening resource includes dozens of fashinating animal myths and legends, as well as exercises and activities that draw upon animal powers for guidance, healing, wisdom, and the expansion of spiritual influences in our lifes. You'll discover here: * How animals, birds, and insects act as signs and omens * The significance of vision quests * How to make and use a medicine wheel * The role of spirit symbols?and how they affect the unconscious * Excercises for creative dreaming * The power of the earth-healing ceremony * How to increase your spiritual strength and create sacred spaces * And more |
| CATEGORY: | Spiritual/Religion |
| PRICE: | $18.00 |
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| TITLE: | Chassis & Suspen Hp1406 by Carl Munroe |
| DESCRIPTION: | Chassis and suspension modifications for Chevy, Ford, Jeep and Dodge trucks. Includes sections on lift kits, shocks, springs, chassis modifications for off-road use, tires and wheels. |
| CATEGORY: | Reference |
| PRICE: | $19.95 |
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| TITLE: | Double Team #2 by Michael Teitelbaum |
| DESCRIPTION: | It's basketball season and all of the Backyard Sports kids love playing games after school. But it's not all fun and games?a lot of the kids, like Pablo, love basketball and take it pretty seriously. Unfortunately, Ernie isn't one of them. He's too busy showing off funny moves and telling jokes on the court! Can Pablo convince Ernie to stop goofing off and focus on the game before Ernie's horseplay sends them on a major losing streak? |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $3.99 |
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| TITLE: | Doggone It! #8 by Nancy Krulik |
| DESCRIPTION: | When Katie's teacher moves in next-door, Katie can't believe her bad luck! Nothing could be worse than your own teacher living next-door-or could it? Mrs. Derkman hates dogs, and she wants the dogs on their street to be kept on leashes at all times! Katie is furious. Then the magic wind blows, turning Katie into her own dog, Pepper. Will she be able to convince her teacher that dogs are not all bad? Illustrated by John & Wendy |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $3.99 |
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| TITLE: | Drat! You Copycat! #7 by Nancy Krulik |
| DESCRIPTION: | Becky is the new girl in class 3A, and she's a great big copycat! She's trying to be just like Katie's best friend Suzanne. She follows Suzanne around, dresses like her, and steals Suzanne's class report topic. Suzanne can't stand Becky! Then, the magic wind turns Katie into Becky. Will Suzanne change her mind about the new girl? Will Katie turn back into herself without causing too much trouble? Illustrated by John & Wendy |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $3.99 |
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| TITLE: | Get Lost! #6 by Nancy Krulik |
| DESCRIPTION: | Katie Carew (nicknamed Katie Kazoo by the class bully) always wished that she could be anyone but herself. Now her wish has come true - and she keeps turning into other people! Katie's class is going on a two-day science field trip to Nature School. The Nature School counselor is named Genie-Genie the Meanie! Genie is very strict and doesn't want the kids to have any fun. She's ruining the field trip! When Katie turns into Genie and is left leading her class on a hike, she gets them totally lost! Back in her own body, how will Katie get things on track again? Illustrated by John and Wendy. |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $3.99 |
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| TITLE: | Gotcha! Gotcha Back! #19 by Nancy Krulik |
| DESCRIPTION: | Katie and her friend George try to spice up the school day by playing a few practical jokes. Using a special kit full of whoopee cushions, pepper gum, and a water-spraying camera, the two kids make a splash pulling off gag after gag. But then Katie turns into George?just as he gets blamed for all the trouble! How will Katie get out of this one? |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $3.99 |
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| TITLE: | On Your Mark, Get Set, Laugh! #13 by Nancy Krulik |
| DESCRIPTION: | Katie thinks the fourth grade is awesome! She's making lots of friends and just joined the new track team. But Katie thinks her new track coach is simply unfair! She only puts in the fastest runners, leaving Katie on the bench. But when Katie turns into Coach Debbie, she decides to give all the kids a cha |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $3.99 |
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| TITLE: | Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy by Jane Yolen |
| DESCRIPTION: | Commander Toad and the crew of the "Star Warts" go in search of Commander Toad's cousin, Tip-Toad--who just happens to be an intergalactic spy. Will Commander Toad be able to find his elusive cousin? Four-color and b&w illustrations accompany the text of this beginning reader book. |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes by Jane Yolen |
| DESCRIPTION: | Commander Toad and his crew are back in another comic outer space adventure!When Commander Toad finds a new planet that seems the ideal place for a picnic for his tired crew, he and Lieutenant Lily go down to look around first, only to be swallowed up by giant grapes. Is this the end for the brave crew of the Star Warts? Or can Doc Peeper, the ship's medical officer, help them escape from the Planet of the Grapes? |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Horrible Harry on the Ropes by Suzy Kline |
| DESCRIPTION: | Normally, Harry loves gym class, and is better than the rest of Room 3B at just about every activity. But he's dreading the newest challenge?the climbing rope?especially since Sid is great at it. At first, Harry isn't even willing to try out the rope. But when a special valentine that Song Lee makes for him goes missing, Harry has to conquer his fears to prove who took it. Will he be able to climb up the rope? Or will his Valentine's Day end horribly? |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $14.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Novel by Tracey West |
| DESCRIPTION: | Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy follows the story of a young robot who was created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. This novel is based on the new animated film, includes 8 pages of full-color images from the movie, and is written by New York Times bestselling author Tracey West. |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | The TV Kid by Betsy Byars |
| DESCRIPTION: | Lennie is addicted to television. Even reruns are more exciting than real life, and Lennie likes to pretend he's the one experiencing the drama. But Lennie's daydreams lead him into a real situation that could cost him his life--and suddenly he's in trouble more terrifying and dangerous than anything he's ever seen on TV. "Byars infuses the story with her special magic. Lennie is a likable, funny, moving, and always entertaining character."--Publishers Weekly |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Hey, New Kid! by Betsy Duffey |
| DESCRIPTION: | Cody's father is an F.B.I. agent, he's got a pet emu, and he's an ace on Rollerblades. At least, that's what Cody tells his class on the first day at his new school. Being Super Deluxe Cody is great, until someone throws a skating party. And suddenly, the game may be up! Betsy Duffey is the author of numerous books for young readers, including How to Be Cool in the Third Grade, The Math Wiz and Utterly Yours, Booker Jones. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Ellen Thompson has illustrated over one hundred children's book jackets, and her work has appeared in numerous magazines. She lives in Franklin Park, New Jersey. |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Math Wiz by Betsy Duffey |
| DESCRIPTION: | Marty Malone is great at math, but finds out that he needs more than just math to tackle third grade problems like PE and making friends. |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | 97 Ways to Train a Dragon #9 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Wiglaf's supposed to be a dragon slayer, but he's more like a dragon babysitter when he finds a baby dragon and decides to keep it! Back in his first new adventure in four years, Wiglaf is as funny and appealing as ever. In keeping with the reissue of the original books in the series, the ninth book is 112 pages long and includes a hilarious bonus yearbook section that will have kids laughing out loud. |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Class Trip to the Cave of Doom #3 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | The Dragon Slayers' Academy is back-and it's bigger and better than ever! The books have new covers and are now 112 pages long. Expanded from the old 96-page format, they now feature a fun Dragon Slayers' Academy Yearbook at the end of each story, with funny profiles of the faculty, the staff, and, especially, the students of D.S.A. All the things kids want to know about their favorite characters are revealed: their silly nicknames, inner secrets, wildest dreams, and lofty plans for the future! The Dark Forest just doesn't seem like the best place for a class trip. But that's where Seetha the dragon hid her gold, so that's where Wiglaf and the other kids from D.S.A. have to go-even if it means entering the booby-trapped Cave of Doom! Illustrated by Bill Basso. |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Countdown to the Year 2000 #8 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | It's the year 999 and the end of the world is coming?at least according to a mysterious prophecy. But then Wiglaf meets a strange boy who claims to have come from the future. It's Zack, star of the best?selling The Zack Files? series by Dan Greenburg, and he says he's living proof that there is life after the year 1000! |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Danger! Wizard at Work! #11 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Those crazy kids from Dragon Slayers' Academy are back, in an all-new adventure!When Wiglaf and his pals from Dragon Slayers' Academy meet up with the wizard Zelnoc, all they ask is for a little magic to help them get through the Dark Forest fast. But unfortunately, Zelnoc's spells always end with an "Oops! Sorry about that!" So, yes, the boys are able to travel much faster now...but that's because they have wings, can fly, and have been turned into dragons! And they become the newest students at Dragon Slackers' Academy, a school that teaches knight-slaying! This funny turnabout in which the kids from DSA suddenly see life from a dragon's point of view makes a wonderful addition to this popular series! |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Help! It's Parents Day at DSA #10 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | It's visiting day at Dragon Slayers? Academy and Wiglaf's entire family is coming! Will Wiglaf be able to survive the day with his wacky parents and crude older brothers and come out of it without becoming the laughingstock of the entire school? Hot on the heels of book #9, here's another all-new story starring everyone's favorite dragon-slayer-in-training. |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Knight for a Day #5 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | When Wiglaf learns that he has won "A Day With Sir Lancelot (The World's Most Perfect Knight)," he can hardly believe it. His friend Erica can't believe it, either! And when the big day arrives, she is even more doubtful. Is Erica just jealous, or is there something fishy about The World's Most Perfect Knight? |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Little Giant--Big Trouble #19 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Something BIG is going on in the woods near DSA! Wiglaf and his friends are on a rescue mission to save Worm, the dragon they've raised since he hatched. They thought that a gang of knightsin- training was the problem, but it turns out that it's a little girl GIANT! The DSA kids can't let Worm become her house pet. But how can they free him? |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Never Trust a Troll! #18 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | After spending the summer at spooky Camp Dragononka, Wiglaf and his pals are back at DSA. They're no longer the youngest lads and lasses?now they're in Class II, and they are expected to show new students the ropes. Wiglaf not only has to put up with his wild and crazy little brother Dudwin, but also with his Class I "Little Buddy, who turns out to be a not-so-little troll! Wiglaf wants to be a good "Big Buddy" but it's not easy when the troll is always playing jokes on him. And what about the fire-breathing dragon that the troll swears is in the woods outside DSA? Is it really there? Or is this just another one of the troll's great big fibs? |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Revenge of the Dragon Lady #2 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | The Dragon Slayers' Academy is back-and it's bigger and better than ever! The books have new covers and are now 112 pages long. Expanded from the old 96-page format, they now feature a fun Dragon Slayers' Academy Yearbook at the end of each story, with funny profiles of the faculty, the staff, and, especially, the students of D.S.A. All the things kids want to know about their favorite characters are revealed: their silly nicknames, inner secrets, wildest dreams, and lofty plans for the future! Is a wizard's spell for courage enough to save Wiglaf when the "Mother of all Dragons" (or at least of 3,684 of them) comes looking for the lad who slayed son number 92? Illustrated by Bill Basso. |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | The New Kid at School #1 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | The Dragon Slayers' Academy is back-and it's bigger and better than ever! The books have new covers and are now 112 pages long. Expanded from the old 96-page format, they now feature a fun Dragon Slayers' Academy Yearbook at the end of each story, with funny profiles of the faculty, the staff, and, especially, the students of D.S.A. All the things kids want to know about their favorite characters are revealed: their silly nicknames, inner secrets, wildest dreams, and lofty plans for the future! When a traveling minstrel foretells that he is to become a hero, Wiglaf sets out to fulfill his destiny: he signs up at the Dragon Slayers' Academy. But how can he ever hope to be a dragon slayer when he can't even stand the sight of blood? Illustrated by Bill Basso. |
| CATEGORY: | Children's Fiction |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Devil's Dream: A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison Smartt Bell |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the author of All Souls' Rising which The Washington Post called "A serious historical novel that reads like a dream," comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his previous works, Madison Smartt Bell gives us a wholly new vantage point from which to view this complicated American figure. Considered a rogue by the upper ranks of the Confederate Army, who did not properly use his talents, Forrest was often relegated to small-scale operations. In Devil's Dream, Bell brings to life an energetic, plainspoken man who does not tolerate weakness in himself or in those around him. We see Forrest on and off the battlefield, in less familiar but no less revealing moments of his life: courting the woman who would become his wife; battling a compulsion to gamble; overcoming his abhorrence of the army bureaucracy to rise to its highest ranks. We see him treating his slaves humanely even as he fights to ensure their continued enslavement, and in battle we see his knack for keeping his enemy unsettled, his instinct for the unexpected, and his relentless stamina. As Devil's Dream moves back and forth in time, providing prismatic glimpses of Forrest, a vivid portrait comes into focus: a rough, fierce man with a life fill of contradictions. |
| CATEGORY: | Historical Fiction |
| PRICE: | $26.95 |
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| TITLE: | Hold Tight the Thread by Jane Kirkpatrick |
| DESCRIPTION: | BASED ON A TRUE STORY... In a land occupied by foreign powers and torn by confusion and conflict, a mother seeks to weave her family and her past into a fabric that will not tear.Their Lives Were Woven by Wars and Wilderness Places, and Tied by the Peace of Family and Faith.As the 1840s bring conflict to the Pacific Northwest's rugged Columbia Country, new challenges face Marie Dorion Venier Toupin: the wife, mother, and Ioway Indian woman who crossed the Rocky Mountains with the Astor Expedition, the first big fur trapping expedition after Lewis and Clark's. On French Prairie in the newly forming Oregon Territory, Marie strives to meet the needs of her conflict-ridden neighbors: British settlers and Americans, missionaries and disease-stricken natives, fur trappers and French Canadian farming families, and the surviving natives of the region.At the same time, as a mother, Marie must weave together the threads of an unraveling family. One daughter compares and judges as she seeks to find her place; another reaches for elusive evidence of her mother's love. Marie's memories are threatened with the emergence of a figure from the past. In the midst of this turmoil, Marie discovers an empowering spiritual truth: Unconditional love can shed light on even the darkest places in the heart. |
| CATEGORY: | Historical Fiction |
| PRICE: | $14.99 |
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| TITLE: | Rebels by Peter De Rosa |
| DESCRIPTION: | "A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days ... It's powerful stuff."--The Sunday Press (Ireland)On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed and wounded hundreds of the rebels in the week of fighting, and British artillery shells left Dublin's city center in ruins.But the Rising of 1916 was not in vain. The short-lived insurrection and the subsequent executions of sixteen rebel leaders galvanized the Irish people. The overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland began on Easter Monday, 1916.In Rebels, Peter de Rosa, author of the bestselling Vicars of Christ, tells the story of the 1916 Rising in all its terror and beauty. With the dramatic flair of a novelist and the scrupulous accuracy of a professional historian, de Rosa brings to life the people, passions, politics, and repercussions of this historic event. |
| CATEGORY: | Historical Fiction |
| PRICE: | $18.00 |
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| TITLE: | Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | The inspiration for the film starring Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh. |
| CATEGORY: | Sports/Entertainment |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Dark Half by Stephen King |
| DESCRIPTION: | Bestselling author Thad Beaumont would like to say he has nothing to do with the evil that has resulted in a series of monstrous murders. But he can't. He created it. |
| CATEGORY: | Sports/Entertainment |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Saving Grace: Cry Me a River by Nancy Holder |
| DESCRIPTION: | A wonderful novel based on the nationwide hit cable television series Saving Grace In the shadow of past misfortune, Oklahoma police detective Grace Hanadarko lives life hard and fast. After Grace's drinking and driving leads to tragedy, an uncharacteristic angel named Earl answers her prayers and hopes to guide her back on the right path. But saving Grace is about to become a hell of a ride. Ever defiant and rebellious, Grace does have a soft side, especially for kids. The body of a teenage boy dredged out of the Oklahoma River appears to be a suicide. But Grace soon discovers that the boy, Zack Lacey, may have been murdered, the victim of a brutal hate crime. As Grace digs with her typical driven style, she uncovers shocking secrets in young Zack's life, forcing her to wrestle with questions of faith, hope, and justice. She'll deliver justice for the boy. As for faith�well, she's working on it. |
| CATEGORY: | Sports/Entertainment |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Wicked Good Year by Steve Buckley |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the fall of 2007 through the spring of 2008, Boston sports fans enjoyed a run of good fortune that was unprecedented in sports history. The Red Sox won their second World Series championship in four years. The Celtics, with their newly assembled big three of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen, won their first NBA championship since 1986. And the Patriots, already hailed as the first sports dynasty of the twenty-first century, roared through an undefeated regular season before being derailed by the New York Giants in a shocking upset in Super Bowl XLII.In Wicked Good Year, acclaimed Boston Herald sports columnist Steve Buckley tells the remarkable story of the dizzying, glorious seven months and twenty days when these three teams established Boston as the capital of the sports world. More than just a recitation of dates and games and stats, this book looks at that remarkable season through the eyes of the players, coaches, and team personnel, and explores how their lives created a fascinating backdrop to the action taking place on the field and the court.It was a season when old-time motivational techniques were reintroduced with Celtics coach Doc Rivers taking his big three on a tour of the parade route that had been traveled by the Red Sox and Patriots?just to show them what it's like to win a championship in Boston. It was a season when veteran Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi, no longer happy just to be playing again after recovering from a stroke, wanted to take his game to a higher level. And it was a season when a rookie second baseman named Dustin Pedroia, seen as brash and confident from afar, actually suffered through sleepless nights as he tried to find his way in his first full season with the Red Sox.Wicked Good Year also introduces an eclectic cast of devoted fans, ranging from sidewalk Red Sox autograph collector Andrew J. Urban II to internationally known singer/actor?and Celtics fanatic?Donnie Wahlberg. Buckley's tribute is a must-read not only for the Boston faithful but also for the legions of sports fans wondering exactly how these teams worked together to shed the city's "Loserville" image that had been in place at the dawn of the new century. It is a story not just about teams that ruled but about a city that rocked. |
| CATEGORY: | Sports/Entertainment |
| PRICE: | $25.99 |
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| TITLE: | Ocho Cinco: What Football and Life Have Thrown My Way by Jason Cole |
| DESCRIPTION: | The moment I walked out of that tunnel that first time I was in the NFL and saw that 70,000 people, I said, "This is me, this is mine, this is what I was meant to do." Some people get scared that first time. Me? Scared my ass. I was loving it. NFL superstar Chad Ochocinco is one of the most feared weapons in football, having amassed six consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons and made it to five straight Pro Bowls. And he does things his way--always big, always fun, always outrageous. Take Ochocinco's extravagant touchdown celebrations: performing the Riverdance jig, mock-proposing to a cheerleader, tossing presents into the crowd on Christmas Eve, performing CPR on the football, putting on a gold sport coat that says "Future Hall of Famer." Or his sense of style: the blond Mohawk, the gold teeth, the nude photo shoot for a sports magazine. Or his trash-talking: People tell me I have to tone it down. Man, do you know what I've been through to get here? You're going to tell me to stop having fun? Sorry, it's not happening. Or his unabashed self-confidence: I got six paintings of myself in the living room of my town house in Cincinnati. Why? Because I love me. I'm great and I know it. In Ocho Cinco, Chad offers his blunt take on his life and career and on the bizarre game--and business--of football. He takes us back to his days growing up in a poor, dangerous section of Miami, where he was raised by his stern grandmother: You want to know how I turned out like this? Don't talk to me, talk to my grandmom. A high school quarterback, he went to two junior colleges before landing for a single year at Oregon State. From there he was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals, a team he eventually helped lead to the playoffs for the first time in fifteen years. Ochocinco reveals what really goes on in the locker room, on the field, and in the clubs where so many of his fellow athletes get in trouble. He talks about fights with teammates, coaches, and owners. He offers his honest observations on drugs, cheating, and women: You get all this money and you get all these women at your disposal.... You're going to do your thing, trust me. You're going to do it. And he deals frankly with his reputation as a malcontent and drama king: People want to be entertained, but the minute you open up about it and have some fun, they bash you for it. They want you to play inside this little box, and if you ever dare step outside this little box you're in trouble. Well, there is no box for me. I am completely out of the box. Ocho Cinco gives fans a rare inside look at pro football, presented by a singular athlete who's not afraid to speak his mind: What I do may be funny, but nothing I do is a joke. |
| CATEGORY: | Sports/Entertainment |
| PRICE: | $25.00 |
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| TITLE: | At My Best by Anonymous |
| DESCRIPTION: | "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."--Ralph Waldo Emerson. To achieve well-being in life you need physical, spiritual, and emotional health.At My Best, by author of A Day At A Time, draws on the wisdom of the present and past to help you set personal priorities in your search for well-being and follow through with disciplined and consistent actions toward that goal. Here are 365 mediations, one for each day of the year, built around appropriate quotations form famous authors that deal with such themes as your inner power, the link between mind and body, how your thoughts affect your health, how to choose affirming responses to setbacks in your life, and the use of mental imagery and visualization to conquer addiction and self-defeat. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $10.95 |
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| TITLE: | When Dad Hurts Mom by Lundy Bancroft |
| DESCRIPTION: | Can my partner abuse me and still be a good parent? Should I stay with my partner for my children's sake? How should I talk to my children about the abuse and help them heal? Am I a bad mother? Mothers in physically or emotionally abusive relationships ask themselves these questions every day. Here, a counselor reveals how abusers interact with and manipulate children-and how mothers can help their children recover from the trauma of witnessing abuse. This book, the first ever of its kind, shows mothers how to: - Protect children and help them heal emotionally - Provide love, support, and positive role models, even in the midst of abuse - Increase their chances of winning custody - Help their kids feel good about themselves |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $16.00 |
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| TITLE: | Stretching Lessons by Sue Bender |
| DESCRIPTION: | In the tradition of such classics as Hugh Prather's Notes to Myself, and other books on how to connect with our inner selves and the things that matter in life, Sue Bender asks the question we all want answered in these fast-moving times: ?Is it possible to have a full and complex life, and still remain peaceful?" In her 1989 bestseller Plain and Simple, Sue Bender invited the reader along on a spiritual sojourn which led her to live with an Amish community, thus changing her outlook and values, and healing her fragmented life. In her 1996 follow-up book Everyday Sacred, she returned home from the Amish, struggling to apply the peaceful wisdom and simplicity she learned to her hectic time-starved everyday life, a place she finds transformed by her newly simple conception of what is sacred. Now with Stretching Lessons, she brings that wisdom home, to the body and spirit. In her candid and intimate way, she, who sees herself as a poster child for our stressful times, reflects on the feeling of being constantly overwhelmed and how it requires us to dig deeper: to learn to see ourselves and be seen by others, to listen to our bodies? wisdom, to overcome obstacles, to take risks, and to find solutions. In this, her wisest book yet, her down-to-earth reflective musings on the quest for self-awareness and soul ease find resolution. Bender's writing holds out the promise that struggling is only the first step in the process of stretching our souls to adequately encompass our hopes, dreams, and goals. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $13.99 |
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| TITLE: | A Writer's Guide to Fiction by Elizabeth Lyon |
| DESCRIPTION: | The second book in the Writer's Compass series from professional writing instructor Elizabeth Lyon offers both aspiring and established authors the fundamentals of writing and selling a great novel or short story. In addition to the basics of characterization, plot, pacing, and theme, A Writer's Guide to Fiction also features a plan for revising fiction, a guide to marketing, samples of cover and query letters, and methods of honing the writing craft. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $14.95 |
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| TITLE: | Change Your Mind, Change Your Life by Gerald Jampolsky |
| DESCRIPTION: | "Most of us want to change the world, but only a few of us are willing to change our own minds!" Yet there is a shift taking place in the world, where more and more people are recognizing that it is our own thoughts and attitudes that determine how we look at the world and, ultimately, what we see. This book is for people of all ages, religions, and cultures who have a desire and a willingness to change the thoughts in their minds. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $16.00 |
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| TITLE: | You Have the Power by Frances Moore Lappe |
| DESCRIPTION: | Frances Moore Lappé-author of the million-selling Diet for a Small Planet-and Jeffrey Perkins offer the radical notion that our fears can be a source of energy to create the lives and the world we want. NOw more than ever, it seems, our lives and the lives of our loved ones are at risk. Our normal response is to retreat. But what if fear were not a negative force but a positive one-a source of energy and strength? Sharing their own intimate journeys with fear, as well as the experiences of others, the authors offer seven liberating notions that can help unleash your power to walk into the unknown and create a more fulfilling, authentic life. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $14.95 |
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| TITLE: | It's a Meaningful Life by Bo Lozoff |
| DESCRIPTION: | Here is a universal, time-tested path for finding true meaning and joy in every aspect of our lives. Drawing on his 30 years of teaching and service, Bo Lozoff shows why compassion--not success, self-improvement, or self-esteem--is at the root of happiness. In 26 intimate, inspiring chapters--each accompanied by a specific practice--Lozoff covers themes such as developing honesty, learning humility, dealing with anger, and honoring relationships. He shows how practices such as a daily vow of kindness or a simple commitment of time with others can have a profound effect on ourselves and our world. Lozoff's stories and lessons can awaken everyone to a happier and more fulfilled life. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall |
| DESCRIPTION: | A classic since 1928, this masterly encyclopedia of ancient mythology, ritual, symbolism, and the arcane mysteries of the ages is available for the first time in a compact "reader's edition." Like no other book of the twentieth century, Manly P. Hall's legendary The Secret Teachings of All Ages is a codex to the ancient occult and esoteric traditions of the world. Students of hidden wisdom, ancient symbols, and arcane practices treasure Hall's magnum opus above all other works. While many thousands of copies have sold since its initial publication in 1928, The Secret Teachings of All Ages has previously been available only in oversized, expensive editions. For the first time, Hall's celebrated classic is now published in an affordable trade paperback volume. Literally hundreds of entries shine a rare light on some of the most fascinating and closely held aspects of myth, religion, and philosophy from throughout the centuries. More than one hundred line drawings and a sixteen-page color insert reproduce some of the finest illustrations of the original book, while reset and reformatted text makes this edition of The Secret Teachings of All Ages newly accessible to readers everywhere. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | Synchronicity by David Peat |
| DESCRIPTION: | With fascinating historical anecdotes and incisive scientific analysis, this important work combines ancient thought with modern theory to reveal a new way of viewing our universe that can expand our awareness, our lives, and may well point the way to a new science for the twenty-first century. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $16.00 |
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| TITLE: | Give a Little by Wendy Smith |
| DESCRIPTION: | ?With open hearts and open hands, we gave what we could, and a little became a lot." ?from Give a LittleDimes destroyed polio. Five bucks can beat malaria. Give a Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World not only contains remarkable, inspiring stories of how small donations are making an extraordinary difference in the lives of millions both here in the United States and around the world, but also lays out where and how to start giving ... today. Together, ordinary Americans have far more transformational power than any government or big foundation. In 2007, giving by American individuals amounted to $229 billion?that is, 82 times the amount the Gates Foundation gave that same year. Simple, inexpensive things?a water filter, a bike, an irrigation pump, a bed net, a goat?cause a ripple effect that lifts a whole family, a town, and, astonishingly, even a nation out of poverty. Inspired by Smith's twenty years in the nonprofit sector, Give a Little shows how easily we can dip into our pockets and, with just a few dollars, change the world. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $14.99 |
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| TITLE: | A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients, 7th Edition: Complete Information About the Harmful and Desirable Ingredients Found in Cosmetics and Cosmeceuticals by Ruth Winter |
| DESCRIPTION: | Everything you need to know about the safety and efficacy of cosmetics and cosmeceuticals. Is it a cosmetic? A drug? A nutrient? It's becoming more and more difficult to tell the difference with the cosmetic companies combining the three. And unlike with food additives, the FDA has little control over what goes into the products that claim to make you look more beautiful--even though cosmeceuticals (cosmetics that purport to have druglike benefits) have skyrocketed into a multibillion-dollar industry. So before you slather on that "wrinkle-reducing" cream or swallow a "skin-rejuvenating" vitamin, find out what's in your health and beauty products with A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients. This updated and expanded edition gives you the facts you need to protect yourself and your family from possible irritants, confusing chemical names, and the exaggerated claims of gimmicky additives. With 800 new ingredients found in toiletries, cosmetics, and cosmeceuticals--everything ranging from shampoo to shaving cream, bath lotions to Botox--this alphabetically organized guide evaluates them all, and includes targeted information for children and for people of color. A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients is more indispensable than ever to anyone who cares about the health of themselves and their loved ones. |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $18.00 |
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| TITLE: | Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer--And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place by Suzanne Somers |
| DESCRIPTION: | In Knockout, Suzanne Somers interviews doctors who are successfully using the most innovative cancer treatments--treatments that build up the body rather than tear it down. Somers herself has stared cancer in the face, and a decade later she has conquered her fear and has emerged confident with the path she's chosen. Now she shares her personal choices and outlines an array of options from doctors across the country: * EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS * without chemotherapy *without radiation *sometimes, even without surgery * INTEGRATIVE PROTOCOLS *combining standard treatments with therapies that build up the immune system * METHODS FOR MANAGING CANCER * outlining ways to truly live with the diease. Since prevention is the best course, Somers' experts provide nutrition, lifestyle, and dietary supplementation options to help protect you from getting the disease in the first place. Whichever path you choose, Knockout is a must-have resource to navigate the life-and-death world of cancer and increase your odds of survival. After reading stunning testimonials from inspirational survivors using alternative treatments, you'll be left with a feeling of empowerment and something every person who is touched by this disease needs--HOPE. |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $25.99 |
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| TITLE: | Inner Work by Robert A. Johnson |
| DESCRIPTION: | From Robert A. Johnson, the bestselling author of Transformation, Owning Your Own Shadow, and the groundbreaking works He, She, and We, comes a practical four-step approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation. In Inner Work, the renowned Jungian analyst offers a powerful and direct way to approach the inner world of the unconscious, often resulting in a central transformative experience. A repackaged classic by a major name in the field, Robert Johnson's Inner Work enables us to find extraordinary strengths and resources in the hidden depths of our own subconscious. |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $15.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Listening Hand by Ilana Rubenfeld |
| DESCRIPTION: | The Rubenfeld Synergy Method is an elegant, powerful system that integrates bodywork, intuition, and psychotherapy. Memories and emotions stored in our bodies can result in energy blocks and imbalances. Rubenfeld Synergy utilizes talk, movement, awareness, imagination, humor, and compassionate touch as gateways--contacting and melting frozen tensions and emotions, freeing the body from pain and the mind from suffering. The Listening Hand includes:? Body-mind exercises designed to awaken awareness, free breathing, and reveal the body metaphors that tell your life story? Guided steps that break through inner barriers and lead to concrete improvements in your daily life and relationships? Energy explorations for contacting the energy field in yourself and others--and how you can use it to heal? Experiments for couples that gently increase communication, intimacy, and sexual openness? Practices that enable helpers to avoid physical, emotional, and spiritual burnout? A complete 7-day Mind Your Muscles program for tension release, body alignment, and enhanced flexibility. |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $15.95 |
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| TITLE: | Healing Mudras by Sabrina Mesko |
| DESCRIPTION: | "The practice of mudras for at least three minutes daily will bring you health, wealth, balance, success, and happiness."--from Healing MudrasMudras are yoga movements involving only the arms and hands. They are extremely easy to do, but so powerful that they can transform your life. How? Simply by liberating the energy locked within your body--in energy channels called nadis and energy centers called chakras--and directing it to help you meet your goals and deal with the problems of everyday life.In this the first book to make the sacred healing techniques of mudra available to everyone, expert yoga teacher Sabrina Mesko includes dynamically illustrated instructions for performing the fifty-two most accessible mudras, with appropriate breathing exercises, eye movements, mantras, meditations, visualizations, prayers, and affirmations to enhance the power of each. Inside you'll find mudras for- Creating inner peace and inner strength - Eliminating fatigue and overcoming anxiety - Protecting your physical and emotional health - Transcending stress, depression, guilt, and anger - Calming the mind and sharpening intuition - Promoting happiness, love, prosperity, longevity - Healing a broken heart - and much more!No previous experience with yoga is needed. If you can move your arms and hands freely and pay attention to your breathing, you can use these ancient healing mudras to enrich your life--wherever you are--in as little as a few minutes a day! |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $18.00 |
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| TITLE: | Calling the Circle by Christina Baldwin |
| DESCRIPTION: | The original small-press edition of Calling the Circle has become one of the key resources for the rapidly-growing "circle" movement. This newly revised edition brings Christina Baldwin's groundbreaking work to an even broader audience ranging from women's spirituality groups to corporate development teams.50,000 years ago, women and men gathered around campfires to decide the key issues in their lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering a new form of this ancient ritual for communication, mutual support, teamwork, and social change. Now, in a book as consciousness-changing as Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade or Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity.In this simple, profound practice, participants sit in a circle, pass a talking piece from person to person, and speak and listen from the heart. Christina Baldwin gives detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving disagreements safely and respectfully. She also offers inspiring examples of circles in action: a women's spirituality group, a father and son in crisis, a PTA group that averts a school strike and a work project team that accesses a new level of creativity and caring. |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $17.00 |
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| TITLE: | Fight Fat After Forty by Pamela Peeke |
| DESCRIPTION: | It's a fact: stress makes you fat. Renowned clinician and scientist Dr. Pamela Peeke goes beyond diet and exercise with a lifestyle program that shows women how to stop being diet "POWs" ("Prisoners Of Weight") or victims of "Toxic Stress" and how to evolve into physically and mentally stress-resilient individuals. Peeke helps women identify their stress-eating profiles (Are you a stress-overeater? A stress-undereater?) and explains that to remove weight, you have to lift weight. She explains what to eat and, equally as important, when to eat by navigating the afternoon "CortiZone," the hours of highest vulnerability to stress eating. Learn how to put it all together through the fine art of regrouping.Women can tailor this accessible program to their individual needs using Peeke's three behavior templates:* Stress-resilient nutrition* Stress-resilient physical activity* Stress-resilient regroupingDr. Peeke's program is a must for women who want to break the stress-fat cycle that has thickened their after-forty waistlines. |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | David Copperfield by Charles Dickens |
| DESCRIPTION: | The quintessential novel from England's most beloved novelist, David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful author. |
| CATEGORY: | Classic Literature |
| PRICE: | $6.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving |
| DESCRIPTION: | With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van Winkle to Ichabod Crane, his gifts were not confined to the short story alone. He was also a master of satire, essay, travelogue, and folktale, as evidenced in this classic collection.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, "Every reader has a first book.... which, in early youth, first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was The Sketch Bookof Washington Irving... The charm of The Sketch Book remains unbroken; the old fascination still lingers about it." |
| CATEGORY: | Classic Literature |
| PRICE: | $8.95 |
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| TITLE: | Howards End by E. M. Forster |
| DESCRIPTION: | An End of Innocence Meet the wealthy Wilcoxes, the cultured, emancipated Schlegals, and poor, young Bast. Howards End, a house in the countryside, is the source of their conflict-and a symbol of class strife within society, as Forster poses the question of who shall inherit England. |
| CATEGORY: | Classic Literature |
| PRICE: | $4.95 |
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| TITLE: | Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare |
| DESCRIPTION: | The work of the world's greatest dramatist is edited by outstanding scholars and presented here, along with an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world and theater, a special note on the sources from which Shakespeare derived this work, dramatic criticism, commentaries, and much more. |
| CATEGORY: | Classic Literature |
| PRICE: | $4.95 |
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| TITLE: | Selected Dialogues of Plato by Plato |
| DESCRIPTION: | Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style.Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest texts. Ion takes up the question of poetry and introduces the Socratic method. Protagoras discusses poetic interpretation and shows why cross-examination is the best way to get at the truth. Phaedrus takes on the nature of rhetoric, psychology, and love, as does the famous Symposium. Finally, Apology gives us Socrates' art of persuasion put to the ultimate test--defending his own life. Pelliccia's new Introduction to this volume clarifies its contents and addresses the challenges of translating Plato freshly and accurately. In its combination of accessibility and depth, Selected Dialogues of Plato is the ideal introduction to one of the key thinkers of all time. |
| CATEGORY: | Classic Literature |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| DESCRIPTION: | The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, believing he is exempt from moral law, murders a man only to face the consequences not only from society but from his conscience, in this seminal story of justice, morality, and redemption from one of Russia's greatest novelists. |
| CATEGORY: | Classic Literature |
| PRICE: | $7.95 |
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| TITLE: | Jews, God, and History by Max I. Dimont |
| DESCRIPTION: | From ancient Palestine through Europe and Asia, to America and modern Israel, Max I. Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the story of virtually every nation on earth. |
| CATEGORY: | Classic Literature |
| PRICE: | $8.95 |
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| TITLE: | I Am Morgan le Fay by Nancy Springer |
| DESCRIPTION: | Morgan is a willful, mischievous girl with mismatched eyes of emerald and violet. A girl of magic, whose childhood ends when King Uther Pendragon murders her father and steals away her mother. Then Pendragon dies and, in a warring country with no one to claim the throne, there are many who want Morgan dead. But Morgan has power, and magic. She is able to change the course of history, to become other, to determine her own fate-and, thus the fate of Britain. She will become Morgan le Fay. "Springer wields language like a sword, and both blood and flowers spring to these pages in vivid hues." (Booklist, starred review) |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | A Whirlwind Vacation by Nancy Krulik |
| DESCRIPTION: | Katie can't wait to go on a European vacation with her family! She's so excited to see new things and learn how people in other countries live. But she realizes that traveling abroad is harder than she thought, especially when you don't speak another language! And to make matters worse, the magic wind appears four times?turning her into a Buckingham Palace guard, a flamenco dancer in Spain, a gondola driver in Venice, and an artist in Paris! Will Katie be able to handle this vacation chaos?! |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Friends for Never #14 by Nancy Krulik |
| DESCRIPTION: | Katie and Suzanne have been best friends for ever. But now Suzanne's become a total snob! Katie has had enough, and declares that she and Suzanne are now friends for never! Then Katie turns into Suzanne at a very important moment--just as Suzanne is about to make her modeling debut! Will Katie's walk down the runway ruin their friendship forever? |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $3.99 |
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| TITLE: | Love Stinks! #15 by Nancy Krulik |
| DESCRIPTION: | It's February and love is in the air! Everyone in the fourth grade is getting into the Valentine spirit. The kids are making cards, and are ordering personalized candy hearts from Cinnamon's Candy Shop, the new candy store in the mall. But Katie has had enough?she is definitely not into all this mushy gushy stuff! So Katie makes a decision: there'll be no Valentine's Day for her this year. But then Katie turns into Cinnamon, the candy store owner. And the personalized hearts she makes up are...well...not exactly to order! By doing this, she practically ruins Valentine's Day for everyone. Will Katie have a change of heart and save the day? |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $3.99 |
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| TITLE: | Quiet on the Set! #10 by Nancy Krulik |
| DESCRIPTION: | Katie and her friends are so excited when they find out that a movie is being filmed in their town. And what makes it even better is that the star of the movie is Rosie Moran-the world's most popular child actress. Katie not only gets to meet Rosie, but she turns into her. Will Katie shine in the spotlight, or will she get stage fright? Illustrated by John & Wendy. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $3.99 |
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| TITLE: | Lad by Albert Payson Terhune |
| DESCRIPTION: | Lad, a courageous and dignified 80-pound collie, lived in The Place. The Place was thick with woods, abounding with squirrels to chase, and a cool lake in which to plunge--a beautiful kingdom--and Lad was its undisputed king. Lad's loyalty to his chosen Master and Mistress knew no bounds. The stories in this book are all about Lad. Some will make you laugh out loud, some will make you cry. And when the book comes to its conclusion, you will know one thing for sure--that Lad was a dog with a soul ... |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block |
| DESCRIPTION: | Witch Baby comes to live with Weetzie Bat and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man and has wild adventures in Los Angeles as she tries to understand where she belongs.
Witch Baby feels alone in the communal house of the family that took her in as a baby. It seems everyone has someone special in their life, someone to connect them to the rest of the world, except her. Frustrated, Witch Baby leaves the house of her almost-mother, Weetzie, to go in search of her real mother and father. Will Witch Baby discover her true identity? |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $9.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Ribbajack by Brian Jacques |
| DESCRIPTION: | What if revenge were a monster of your own creation, and all you needed to summon it were enough hatred and enough imagination? Which of you would really be the monster? From vengeance monsters to haunted schools to the threat of a modern-day Medusa, New York Times bestselling author Brian Jacques spins six all-new tales of horror and suspense. Read on, but be careful.... |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Crocodile Tears: An Alex Rider Novel by Anthony Horowitz |
| DESCRIPTION: | ItÆs just another day in the life of an average kid. If youÆre Alex Rider, that is. A con artist has realized there is big money in charityù the bigger the disaster, the greater the money flow! So that is what he will produce: the biggest disaster known to man, all thanks to genetically modified corn that can release a virus so potent it can knock out an entire country in one windy day. But Alex Rider will face whatever it takesùgunfire, explosions, hand-to-hand combat with mercenariesù to bring down his most dangerous adversary yet. Often imitated, never equaled, the series that triggered a reading phenomenon is back, exhilarating and addictive as ever. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $17.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck |
| DESCRIPTION: | In this story set in 1913, Blossom Culp, Alexander Aimsworth, adventurer Miles Armstrong, and Blossom's spiritualist mother set out to exorcise a ghost. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Dark Moon by Meredith Ann Pierce |
| DESCRIPTION: | Jan now bears a silver crescent on his brow and a white star on his heel, tokens that he will become the legendary Firebringer-but he has no knowledge of fire. Swept out to sea while defending the unicorns, Jan is washed up on a distant shore, only to find himself the revered captive of a strange race who treats him with awe, yet hold him against his will. He witnesses the magic of fire for the first time and discovers how he himself can create it. But can he escape and bring this knowledge back to the unicorns in time to save them? |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Ultimate Sports by Donald R. Gallo |
| DESCRIPTION: | A knockout collection of 16 original stories featuring young adults playing basketball and football, running track and cross-country, and training for the triathlon. Challenges abound in water sports, racquetball and tennis, boxing and wrestling, and the "ultimate" sport of the future. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Miranda's Last Stand by Gloria Whelan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Miranda and her mama have always agreed about everything. So when Mama is offered a job with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show painting scenery, she and Miranda certainly agree that it is time to get out of Fort Lincoln, where they've been doing soldiers' laundry for as long as Miranda can remember. But while Miranda blossoms on the road--meeting Annie Oakley, making friends with an Indian girl, and even participating in the show herself--Mama stews in her hatred of the Indians; she blames them all for her husband's death. And when Chief Sitting Bull joins the troupe, Miranda begins to see that there are two sides to every battle, a vision Mama won't share. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $9.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Book of the Lion by Michael Cadnum |
| DESCRIPTION: | Edmund, an apprentice coin minter, is accused of counterfeiting in this novel set in 12th-century England. In an effort to escape his punishment, Edmund becomes the squire to a knight who is joining Richard the Lionhearted in the crusades. Traveling from London to Venice, Edmund and his compatriots takes part in the siege of Acre. The author does not gloss over the horrors of the crusades as Edmund wonders if there can ever be such a thing as a "holy war." Nominated for a 2000 National Book Award. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Cybil War by Betsy Byars |
| DESCRIPTION: | As soon as Cybil grins and crosses her eyes at Simon, he's in love. But the road to Cybil's heart is bumpy--mainly because of Simon's best friend, Tony, whose outrageous lies keep Cybil and Simon apart. "Young love, fifth-grade variety, portrayed with warmth and humor and that extra, penetrating touch one expects of Byars".--Kirkus Reviews. 10 illustrations. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Parzival by Katherine Paterson |
| DESCRIPTION: | A retelling of the 13th-century epic poem by Wolfram von Eschenbach in which Parzival becomes a knight in King Arthur's court, discovers he is of noble heritage, and sets out to seek the Holy Grail. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Meet M & M by Pat Ross |
| DESCRIPTION: | Best friends Mandy and Mimi do everything together until they have a falling out. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Dancing In Cadillac Light by Kimberly Willis Holt |
| DESCRIPTION: | 1968 looks like it'll be a pretty good year for Jaynell Lambert. The town's going to pave the dirt road she lives on, her girly-girl sister, Racine, isn't driving her completely crazy, and Grandpap has just moved in with his new emerald green Cadillac convertible. Jaynell and Grandpap have something special. But why won't Grandpap tell her the reason he visits with the dirt-poor Pickens family on the other side of town? When Jaynell finds out Grandpap's secret, the legacy of an old man transforms a family, and a town. "At once gritty and poetic, stark and sentimental ... a solid page turner. Holt once again displays her remarkable gift."(School Library Journal, starred review) |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Pig Latin--Not Just for Pigs! #14 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | When Mordred announces a three-day weekend for DSA, Wiglaf and his friends (including his Pig Latin?speaking pig, Daisy) are off to Erica's castle. But when they arrive, they discover that Erica's father, King Ken, has come down with a horrible case of liver pox. The wizard Zelnoc manages to cure the king's pox, but as with all the wizard's spells, there's a magical mishap. Now, King Ken can only speak in Pig Latin! Can Zelnoc fix his mistake, or is there a better chance that pigs will fly? |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Sir Lancelot, Where Are You? #6 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | The evil witch Morgana le Fay has put a terrible curse on Sir Lancelot, and it's up to Wiglaf and his DSA buddies to find and save him. But they're just dragon-slayers-in-training. Can they really outsmart the trolls, witches, and other villains that stand in their way? |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Ghost of Sir Herbert Dungeonstone #12 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | What are those strange noises coming from the dungeon at DSA? Wiglaf and his stalwart cohorts Angus and Erica decide to investigate and inadvertently free the long-imprisoned ghost of the school founder?Sir Herbert Dungeonstone. Overjoyed to be on the loose again, Sir Herbert wreaks havoc, threatening to spoil the greedy headmaster's plan to turn DSA coed. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Wheel of Misfortune #7 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Wiglaf, Erica, and Angus are representing DSA in the All-Schools Brain-Power Tournament! But what on Earth are they going to do about their know-it-all captain Bragwort? And how can they even stand a chance against the snobbish Knights Noble Conservatory team? |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Seven Professors of the Far North by John Fardell |
| DESCRIPTION: | When Sam visits Zara and Ben and their great-uncle, the quirky inventor Professor Ampersand, he never expects to embark on a fantastical adventure. But when Professor Ampersand and his group of professor friends are kidnapped by the evil Professor Murdo, it's up to Sam, Zara, and Ben to save them. They have only three days in which to journey to an icy, desolate land and uncover Murdo's sinister plot. Only then can they save the professors? and the fate of the whole world. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Boxes by William Sleator |
| DESCRIPTION: | Annie's Uncle Marco goes on one of his mysterious trips, leaving her in charge of two sealed boxes on one condition: she must not open either one while he is away. But she is tempted...and soon she has unleashed the unspeakable. The creatures inside the box are crab-like and grotesque. And they possess a power Annie could never have imagined: the power to transmute time. "Sleator is the master of the creepy-crawly, and his inventiveness is at full power here." --The Horn Book |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye |
| DESCRIPTION: | Along with Wit, Charm, Health, and Courage, Princess Amy of Phantasmorania receives a special fairy christening gift: Ordinariness. Unlike her six beautiful sisters, she has brown hair and freckles, and would rather have adventures than play the harp, embroider tapestries ... or become a Queen. When her royal parents try to marry her off, Amy runs away and, because she's so ordinary, easily becomes the fourteenth assistant kitchen maid at a neighboring palace. And there ... much to everyone's surprise ... she meets a prince just as ordinary (and special) as she is! "This delightful fairy tale is sure to please young romantics ... Neither Kaye's princess nor her book should be considered ordinary." (School Library Journal) |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Beautiful Land by Nancy Antle |
| DESCRIPTION: | On April 22, 1889, thousands of settlers surged across the Oklahoma border in a race to claim some beautiful land of their own. Each title in the Once Upon America series tells of a significant event in America's past. "An effective snapshot of the past".--School Library Journal. Black-and-white illustrations. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Ghost Sitter by Peni R. Griffin |
| DESCRIPTION: | Charlotte is looking forward to spending the summer in her new home-she has her own bedroom, a nearby pool, a friendly neighbor, and there's a big block party coming up. Then her little brother suddenly starts asking for his new friend, "Susie." Is someone else playing with him? Someone only he can see? Soon Charlotte realizes that her all-too-normal house is haunted-by the ghost of a girl who doesn't realize that she's dead.... "Has several strong appeals: new best friends solving a mystery together, a just-scary-enough ghost girl, and a deathless bond between sisters that provides the book with its resoundingly satisfying conclusion."(The Horn Book) |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Thanks to My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici |
| DESCRIPTION: | Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Over the next few years, she endured starvation, brutality, and forced labor in three concentration camps. With courage and ingenuity, Susie's mother helped her to survive--by disguising her as an adult to fool the camp guards, finding food to add to their scarce rations, and giving her the will to endure. This harrowing memoir portrays the best and worst of humanity in heartbreaking scenes you will never forget.Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder AwardAn ALA Notable BookAn NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $8.99 |
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| TITLE: | They Had a Dream by Jules Archer |
| DESCRIPTION: | Traces the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four prominent and influential African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Dying for Heaven by Ariel Glucklich |
| DESCRIPTION: | In Dying for Heaven, Georgetown scholar and advisor to the defense community Ariel Glucklich explains the religious motivation of terrorism. This provocative work of political science argues that the very best qualities of religion?its ability to make people feel good and bring them together?are in fact its most dangerous. Glucklich, author of Sacred Pain and Climbing Chamundi Hill, offers a new understanding of religion and provides a vision for preventing further religiously-inspired violence. |
| CATEGORY: | Politics/Government |
| PRICE: | $25.99 |
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| TITLE: | Invisible Darkness by Stephen Williams |
| DESCRIPTION: | Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts. To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and they buy a fashionable dream house in the suburbs. But, bored with his straight, prestigious accounting job, Paul soon went freelance as an international smuggler. He also revealed his boredom with conventional sex--enough so that, one Christmas Eve, he persuaded his wife to drug her own sister and engage in a menage a trois, during which the sister died (a bungling coroner ruled her death accidental).The couple then upped the ante, kidnapping and imprisoning several high school girls for sexual marathons, which they videotaped before savagely murdering their captives. When the girls' bodies were found, the police were stymied (although Paul had been accused of rape and given a DNA test that vanished for two years and only recently was linked to some fifty sexual-assault cases) until Karla tried to have her husband arrested for wife beating. During questioning, she confessed to the crimes and is now serving two concurrent twelve-year sentences for manslaughter in exchange for testifying against her husband who was jailed for life. |
| CATEGORY: | True Crime |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | I'm No Monster by Stefanie Marsh |
| DESCRIPTION: | The true-crime story that stunned and appalled the world. With photos and never-before-revealed information. For 24 years Josef Fritzl held his daughter Elizabeth prisoner as a sex slave and, with her, he fathered seven of his own grandchildren. But the true depth of his depravity was yet to be uncovered in the underground bunker his children called home. Over the years, his secret family knew next to nothing of the outside world. Incredibly, Josef's submissive wife Rosemarie never suspected a thing. It was a tale so appalling, so unbelievable, it reverberated in shock waves across the globe. In defense of his own moral character, Josef Fritzl made a stunning statement. ?I'm no monster," he reasoned. ?I could have just killed them and no one would have ever found out about it." With exclusive interviews, and never-before- released information, award-winning journalists Stefanie Marsh and Bojan Pancevski tell the complete story of an abominable crime. |
| CATEGORY: | True Crime |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Beauty of Surrender by Eden Bradley |
| DESCRIPTION: | Shibari, the ancient art of erotic restraint.... Its finely knotted ropes are a turn-on, a sexual experience--and, for some, an absolute necessity. Serving the Master: Desmond and Ava At a San Francisco sex club called Pinnacle, Ava Gregory seeks something she cannot quite describe. But of one thing she is certain: the moments when she feels her most beautiful and complete are when she is tightly restrained in the Shibari ropes. At Pinnacle, she's paired with a master: Desmond Hale, who thrives on control. But something surprising happens when Desmond binds Ava's willing body and takes her to the edge of ecstasy. And now the two are taking their relationship out of the shadows of the club, sharing secrets unleashed and bodies unbound. Soothing the Beast: Marina and James An art dealer and Shibari master, Marina has never hesitated to dominate anyone. Until she meets James, a dark, gorgeous, towering journalist who's survived horrors around the world. James confesses that submission is the only way to clear his troubled mind, but Marina is instantly overwhelmed by his strength and magnetism. To share the pleasures of bondage, something must change between them. When it does, it will come with an explosion of unexpected pleasure--and a relationship that neither could ever have imagined. |
| CATEGORY: | Erotica |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | Real Moments for Lovers by Barbara De Angelis |
| DESCRIPTION: | Here is a liberating vision of love that offers couples powerful new ways of using words and touch to create levels of intimacy they have never reached before. Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., reveals how partners can experience deeper sexual and emotional connections as she helps them become better lovers in--and out of--the bedroom.Interweaving the sensual and the spiritual, Real Moments for Lovers offers inspiration for finding profound meaning in our most intimate relationships. It shows couples how to make their relationship a sanctuary from stress and distress, and how lovemaking can not only satisfy the body but nourish the spirit. Combining wisdom, clarity, and exciting new insights, it is the unique and essential guide for all those seeking true spiritual and sexual fulfillment. |
| CATEGORY: | Family/Relationships |
| PRICE: | $8.95 |
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| TITLE: | 5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great by Terri L. Orbuch |
| DESCRIPTION: | What makes marriages last? What makes couples happy? Is it possible for a so-so marriage to become a great one? From Dr. Terri Orbuch, the renowned therapist and nationally recognized relationship expert known as The Love Doctor, comes a book that breaks new ground in marital relationships. The head researcher in a large-scale, unprecedented study funded by the National Institutes of Health--which has followed 373 couples for more than twenty-two years and is ongoing--Dr. Orbuch made some remarkable discoveries about happiness, sexuality, human mating patterns, and relationship longevity. In 5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great, she releases the study's findings to the public in a book for the first time, sharing her insights and never-before-revealed strategies for improving and enhancing your marriage--at every stage. Do you remember the feeling of first being in love? Based on the latest research about what works in happy marriages, Dr. Orbuch offers an accessible, step-by-step roadmap for reconnecting with those feelings and gaining a deeper appreciation for the things you and your spouse share. She defines the five simple strategies to help couples navigate the daily minefield of marriage--from defusing frustrations that erode your relationship to the simple things that will keep your partner happy--from the 10-minute rule to help you really get to know your spouse to reducing boredom and weeding out unprofitable behaviors. Filled with exercises, check lists, and some surprising statistics, 5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great will help you bring happiness, joy and fulfillment to the most important relationship of your life. |
| CATEGORY: | Family/Relationships |
| PRICE: | $26.00 |
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| TITLE: | Fun Facts About Babies by Richard Torregrossa |
| DESCRIPTION: | Did you know that:Babies tears caused by crankiness have a different chemical composition than those caused by eye irritants? One soothes with stress hormones, the other cleanses with a saline solution.A fetus develops a sense of touch at eight weeks and fingerprints at three months.The peak months for delivering babies are July, August, and September; which means that the sexiest months are November, December, and January.This little book is for parents, expectant parents, and baby lovers alike. With charmingly illustrated, fascinating facts and truly useful information, this book reveals what an amazing creature a baby is. It will be of special value to new parents who are wondering how their "little bundle of joy" turned into a 24-hour-a-day "need machine." Turn to any page, read any brief, amusing tidbit, and reconnect with the delight of babyhood. |
| CATEGORY: | Family/Relationships |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | Child Sense by Priscilla J. Dunstan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Your infant is crying and you don't know why. Your toddler refuses every kind of food--except one. Your preschooler wages war with you each morning over what to wear. Every day, parents struggle unsuccessfully to understand why their children act the way they do. Now child development expert Priscilla J. Dunstan breaks down those barriers to understanding with this revolutionary and accessible guide that teaches a new way of parenting--custom-designed for each child's personality. The product of eight years of groundbreaking research, this book will help you understand how your child interacts with the world. Dunstan begins from the premise that every child has his or her own dominant sensory "interface" with the world. Some children are highly sensitive to touch, others to sound or to sight. And some are unusually sensitive to all outside stimuli, especially taste and smell. This sensitivity affects how your child behaves, learns, and communicates from the very first days of life. Uncovering your child's dominant sense--and knowing what your own dominant sense is�is essential for finding common ground and creating bonds of trust and intimacy with your child. Use this book to * take comprehensive "sense tests" to determine your child's dominant sense--and your own * understand how sensory overload plays out from infancy to age five, at home and in school * learn why your child's sensory personality shapes the way he or she instinctively reacts to new experiences and people appreciate the richness of your child's emotional life, and help your child thrive in the outside world For every parent who has ever looked at a child's behavior and thought. What is he trying to tell me?, Child Sense shows you how to find the answer. |
| CATEGORY: | Family/Relationships |
| PRICE: | $26.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon |
| DESCRIPTION: | Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century a.d. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a compass equivalent to a long novel. Casual readers now have access to the full sweep of Gibbon's narrative, while instructors and students have a volume that can be read in a single term. This unique edition emphasizes elements ignored in all other abridgments--in particular the role of religion in the empire and the rise of Islam. |
| CATEGORY: | History |
| PRICE: | $15.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers by Thomas Fleming |
| DESCRIPTION: | A compelling, intimate look at the founders?George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison?and the women who played essential roles in their livesWith his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, Tom Fleming examines the women who were at the center of the lives of the founding fathers. From hot-tempered Mary Ball Washington to promiscuous Rachel Lavien Hamilton, the founding fathers' mothers powerfully shaped their sons' visions of domestic life. But lovers and wives played more critical roles as friends and often partners in fame. We learn of the youthful Washington's tortured love for the coquettish Sarah Fairfax, wife of his close friend; of Franklin's two "wives," one in London and one in Philadelphia; of Adams's long absences, which required a lonely, deeply unhappy Abigail to keep home and family together for years on end; of Hamilton's adulterous betrayal of his wife and then their reconciliation; of how the brilliant Madison was jilted by a flirtatious fifteen-year-old and went on to marry the effervescent Dolley, who helped make this shy man into a popular president. Jefferson's controversial relationship to Sally Hemings is also examined, with a different vision of where his heart lay.Fleming nimbly takes us through a great deal of early American history, as his founding fathers strove to reconcile the private and public, often beset by a media every bit as gossip seeking and inflammatory as ours today. He offers a powerful look at the challenges women faced in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While often brilliant and articulate, the wives of the founding fathers all struggled with the distractions and dangers of frequent childbearing and searing anxiety about infant mortality?Jefferson's wife, Martha, died from complications following labor, as did his daughter. All the more remarkable, then, that these women loomed so large in the lives of their husbands?and, in some cases, their country. |
| CATEGORY: | History |
| PRICE: | $27.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception by Robert Wallace |
| DESCRIPTION: | Magic or spycraft? In 1953, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the CIA initiated a top-secret program, code-named MKULTRA, to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques. Realizing that clandestine officers might need to covertly deploy newly developed pills, potions, and powders against the adversary, the CIA hired America's most famous magician, John Mulholland, to write two manuals on sleight of hand and undercover communication techniques. In 1973, virtually all documents related to MKULTRA were destroyed. Mulholland's manuals were thought to be among them?until a single surviving copy of each, complete with illustrations, was recently discovered in the agency's archives. The manuals reprinted in this work represent the only known complete copy of Mulholland's instructions for CIA officers on the magician's art of deception and secret communications. |
| CATEGORY: | History |
| PRICE: | $24.99 |
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| TITLE: | 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
| DESCRIPTION: | The world would end in 1492?so the prophets, soothsayers, and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. Ours began.In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single, fateful year. Everything changed in 1492: the way power and wealth were distributed around the globe, the way major religions and civilizations divided the world, and the increasing interconnectedness of separate economies that we now call globalization. Events that began in 1492 transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Our individualism and the very sense we share of inhabiting one world, as partakers in a common humanity, took shape and became visible in 1492.In search of the origins of modernity, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travelers, drawing together the threads that came to bind the planet. The tour starts in Granada, where the last Islamic kingdom in Europe collapsed, then moves to Timbuktu, where a new Muslim empire triumphed. With Portuguese explorers, we visit the court of the first Christian king in the southern hemisphere. We join Jews expelled from Spain as they cross the Mediterranean to North Africa, Italy, and Istanbul. We see the flowering of the Renaissance in the Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent and go to the corrupt Rome of Alexander Borgia. We see the frozen frontiers of the dynamic, bloody Russia of Ivan the Great and hear mystical poets sing on the shores of the Indian Ocean. We sail the Atlantic with Columbus. In the depths of an old volcanic crater in the Canary Islands, we witness the start of the first European overseas empire. We observe the Aztecs and Incas laying the foundations of a New World in the Americas. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith?all the glories and follies of the time are in this book. Everywhere, new departures marked the start of a new configuration for humankind, revealing how and why the modern world is different from the worlds of antiquity and the Middle Ages.History seems a patternless labyrinth?but a good guide can trace our paths through it back to the moment when some of the most striking features of today's world began. |
| CATEGORY: | History |
| PRICE: | $25.99 |
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| TITLE: | A Shining Thread of Hope by Darlene Clark Hine |
| DESCRIPTION: | At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of antebellum plantations, from the reign of lynch law in the Jim Crow South to the triumphs of the Civil Rights era, and it illustrates how the story of black women in America is as much a tale of courage and hope as it is a history of struggle. On both an individual and a collective level, A Shining Thread of Hope reveals the strength and spirit of black women and brings their stories from the fringes of American history to a central position in our understanding of the forces and events that have shaped this country. |
| CATEGORY: | History |
| PRICE: | $14.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Kingdom of New York by The New York Observer |
| DESCRIPTION: | For the last two decades, The New York Observer has documented the Platinum Age of New York, when the city's new elite rose and dominated society, media, business, and culture with an amusing arrogance that redefined the power capital of the world. The Kingdom of New York jauntily chronicles the Rise and Fall and Rise of New York City, as personified by the protagonists and antagonists of the past twenty years, told in archival pastiche?a breathtaking sprint of headlines, great reporting, witty writing, and stories in fashion, ideas, real estate, style, media, movies, politics, sex, and finance.All of New York's major players are here?including Bill and Hillary, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, Graydon Carter, Katie Couric, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Tina Fey, J. Lo, Seinfeld, Tina Brown, Anderson Cooper?as well as essays by Cynthia Ozick, Gay Talese, Woody Allen, and Martin Scorsese. Here, too, are many of the country's finest journalists reporting on the high opulence of the 1990s; the wry irony of the Seinfeld years; the poignant loss of John Kennedy Jr. and the inconceivable assault of September 11, 2001, and New York's rallying return. Among it all are signature features?from Candace Bushnell's "Sex and the City" columns as they initially appeared to the couples counseling of "George and Hilly"?as the Observer grew into one of the city's most influential papers.Handsomely designed and filled with the paper's trademark attention to politics, status, and wealth, this is a rollicking insider's account of contemporary New York. At once wickedly funny and astute, The Kingdom of New York is a striking tribute to an unforgettable era in the city's history. |
| CATEGORY: | History |
| PRICE: | $34.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White |
| DESCRIPTION: | The greatest political story ever told?the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, as captured in Theodore White's dramatic and groundbreaking chronicleThe Making of the President 1960 is the book that revolutionized?even created?modern political journalism. Granted intimate access to all parties involved, Theodore White crafted an almost mythic story of the battle that pitted Senator John F. Kennedy against Vice-President Richard M. Nixon?from the decisive primary battles to the history-making televised debates, the first of their kind. Magnificently detailed and exquisitely paced, The Making of the President 1960 imbues the nation's presidential election process with both grittiness and grandeur, and established a benchmark against which all new campaign reporters would measure their work. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction?and the first entry in White's influential four-volume "narrative history of American politics in action"?this classic account remains the keystone of American political journalism. |
| CATEGORY: | History |
| PRICE: | $16.99 |
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| TITLE: | Eats, Poops & Leaves: The Essential Apologies, Rationalizations, and Downright Denials Every New Parent Needs to Know and Other Fundamentals of Baby Etiquette by Adam Wasson |
| DESCRIPTION: | Because What You Don't Know, Will Embarrass You. What should you do if your baby shrieks at a wedding or "stealth vomits" on an innocent bystander? How can you use your child to avoid old friends you never liked in the first place? Is there a polite way to encourage cash baby-shower gifts or determine whether or not your babysitter is insane? Are there special rules for parentally impaired drivers? Eats, Poops & Leaves has the answers to all these questions and more, offering polite yet innovative solutions to the etiquette situations--from the mundane to the bizarre--that confront all new parents, including: Travel Etiquette: What to do when your baby screams on a plane Workplace Etiquette: How to use your child (or your friend's!) as an excuse for tardiness and incompetence Beauty Etiquette: Do strangers confuse your bald baby girl for a boy? We've got solutions. Lots of books teach you how to change diapers, but this is the first book that will help you trick your spouse into doing it. At last, a hip, hysterical, illustrated etiquette guide to the things new parents really need to know. |
| CATEGORY: | Humor |
| PRICE: | $12.00 |
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| TITLE: | Sly the Sleuth and the Pet Mysteries by Donna Jo Napoli & Robert Furrow |
| DESCRIPTION: | There are some strange new pets in Sly's neighborhood: a cat on a diet that keeps getting fatter, a fish that seems angry at its owner, and a peculiar pet named Wilson that suddenly disappears! Only Sly the Sleuth can solve these mysteries. Grade-schooler by day, private detective by afternoon, Sly (a.k.a Sylvia) uses her sharp wits and reasoning skills to get to the bottom of these odd goings-on. Donna Jo Napoli teams up with her son, Robert Furrow, and illustrator Heather Maione to create a heroine who is not only smart and spunky, but also tremendously funny. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $15.99 |
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| TITLE: | Living Your Best Life PA by Laura Berman Fortgang |
| DESCRIPTION: | Being happy doesn't have to be hard, says prominent personal coach Laura Berman Fortgang. We each possess an internal compass that expresses our individual wisdom and points to the things that would most fulfill us. Personal and professional satisfaction, Fortgang believes, comes from tapping into this wisdom. In Living Your Best Life, she offers ten tried-and-true strategies that help us to access our own inner knowledge to achieve what she calls a "best life"-a life that awaits all of us, in which gains come more easily because we've learned to honor our true desires and work with our individual talents rather than exhausting our energy on a traditional model of achievement. Her techniques focus on asking ourselves what we really want instead of frenetically trying to "have it all." We learn to ask questions that move us forward, not backward, to discover our own unique "lucrative purpose," and to design a "magnet" life plan that draws to us the more rewarding existence we deserve. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $14.95 |
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| TITLE: | Obmanos! by Hendrik Hertzberg |
| DESCRIPTION: | The most critical election in living memory, viewed in real time through the eyes of one of our most trusted political commentators. Celebrated political analyst for The New Yorker Hendrik Hertzberg watches the long presidential campaign of 2007 and 2008 as it unfolds to reveal the transformation of the Democratic Party, the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, and other seismic shifts in our national political consciousness. Hertbzerg wrote about the events that culminated in the victory of Barack Obama in two venues, one Olympian and one immediate: his "Comments" for "The Talk of the Town" and the informal blog he began keeping on the magazine's Web site fifteen months before the election. OBMANOS! is adapted from both and framed by a new introductory essay. OBMANOS! shares the context needed to truly understand the events of the general election-the first in more than a half century in which no incumbent president or vice president was on the ballot-by first examining Bush's second term and the primary campaign. Hertzberg follows the central political players and rising stars while also looking at the issues that emerged as critical during the debates, such as health care, the Iraq war, and our economic crisis. Through his documentation and analysis of the campaign's defining moments, we come to understand the current political landscape in a whole new way. Hertzberg's voice combines sharp observation, historical perspective, analytic power, and often funny polemic. He brings all these qualities to his chronicle of one of the most intense, exciting, and surprising campaigns in the nation's history, sharing how most Americans-including The New Yorker editors-came to identify a junior senator from Illinois as "a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe." OBMANOS! heralds a new chapter in American politics. |
| CATEGORY: | Politics/Government |
| PRICE: | $25.95 |
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| TITLE: | Broken Music by Sting |
| DESCRIPTION: | Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwriting I had ever done.And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know. I had no interest in writing a traditional autobiographical recitation of everything that's ever happened to me. Instead I found myself drawn to exploring specific moments, certain people and relationships, and particular events which still resonate powerfully for me as I try to understand the child I was, and the man I became. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2009 by Dell Magazine Authors |
| DESCRIPTION: | David A. Hardy's spectacular December cover illustrates a story as hard to capture in a single image as it was to imagine in the first place: "Formidable Caress," the latest of Stephen Baxter's "Tales of Old Earth." Old Earth, you may remember (though you don't have to) is a most peculiar place where time is layered, running at different rates at different altitudes. That's what makes it possible to experience a drama on such a colossal scale that it would at first seem intrinsically beyond the scope of individual human lives--but both author and artist succeed admirably.
We'll also have a new entry in H. G. Stratmann's "Paradise" series (about another quite peculiar place), plus stories by Carl Frederick and (in a seasonal vein) Jerry Oltion. Richard A. Lovett's fact article, "Plate Tectonics, Goldilocks, and the Late Heavy Bombardment" sheds new light on why the Earth isn't Mars or Venus. And G. David Nordley continues the "peculiar place" theme with the mind-stretching conclusion of To Climb a Flat Mountain.
CONTENTS:
Reader's Department: EDITORIAL: CONTROL by Stanley Schmidt
Novelette: FORMIDABLE CARESS by Stephen Baxter
Science Fact: PLATE TECTONICS, GOLDILOCKS, AND THE LATE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT: WHY EARTH ISN'T MARS OR VENUS by Richard A. Lovett
Probability Zero: A FLASH OF LIGHTNING by Robert Scherrer
Short Story: THE JOLLY OLD BOYFRIEND by Jerry Oltion
Reader's Department: THE ALTERNATE VIEW: OPUS 150: DARK FORCES IN THE UNIVERSE by John G. Cramer
Short Story: THE UNIVERSE BENEATH OUR FEET by Carl Frederick
Novelette: WILDERNESS WERE PARADISE ENOW by H. G. Stratmann
Reader's Department: IN TIMES TO COME
Serial: TO CLIMB A FLAT MOUTAIN: CONCLUSION by G. David Nordley
Reader's Department: THE REFERENCE LIBRARY by Don Sakers
Reader's Department: BRASS TACKS
Reader's Department: UPCOMING EVENTS by Anthony Lewis |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 73708 words; Reading time: 210-294 minutes
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| PRICE: | $3.99 |
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| TITLE: | Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2009 by Dell Magazine Authors |
| DESCRIPTION: | Stories both sweet and savory await you in our piquant December issue--and something for almost every taste. The more sophisticated palates among us often prefer both flavors intertwined, and Brian Stableford posits, in his newest novelette for us, that "Some Like It Hot." Don't fear--there will be no sign of either Tony Curtis or Jack Lemmon dressed as not-so-lovely ladies (and sadly no sign of Marilyn, either), but, instead, we offer a sophisticated fictional treatise on the future of commercial environmentalism, global warming, and the role Mother Nature herself must play in the mediation of the climate change conflict. It's a fine story, and it may cause some consternation as to which houseplants you'll have to choose from for your home in the near-future. . . . As you'll find, the rest of the December tales are no less tasty:
Jeff Carlson returns with a sprightly tale in which two intrepid bug-hunters must dampen the holiday spirit of some "macho" termites as they all make an unholy mess of the holiest of Christian holidays in "A Lovely Little Christmas Fire." It would be a challenge to calculate a "gender score," as some critics are doing online, when one considers Sara Genge's new tale, "As Women Fight," a Tiptree-esque examination of a society of gender-changing tribespeople that is sure to turn heads and appear on next year's award ballots; Nick Wolven returns with a frightening examination of the evils men do and the desperate situations women are then forced to endure in "Angie's Errand"; John Shirley, after too long an absence, tells of two higher beings locked in eternal "Spy vs. Spy" conflict through the ages in "Animus Rights"; Mike Resnick retells the story of "The Bride of Frankenstein" in a sweet and sour fashion that is sure to surprise you; enter Jim Aikin's curiosity shop where a new proprietor seeks to lure a friendly ghost into "Leaving the Station"; and Benjamin Crowell does my job for me, offering a story with "A Large Bucket, and Accidental Godlike Mastery of Spacetime."
CONTENTS:
Department: EDITORIAL: ALL AROUND THE TOWN by Sheila Williams
Department: REFLECTIONS: BUILDING WORLDS: PART III by Robert Silverberg
Short Story: A LOVELY LITTLE CHRISTMAS FIRE by Jeff Carlson
Poetry: THE ANTI-WORLD by Andrew Gudgel
Short Story: AS WOMEN FIGHT by Sara Genge
Short Story: ANIMUS RIGHTS by John Shirley
Short Story: ANGIE'S ERRAND by Nick Wolven
Poetry: THE WORLD'S ENDING AGAIN IN 2012 by Darrell Schweitzer
Short Story: LEAVING THE STATION by Jim Aikin
Novelette: A LARGE BUCKET, AND ACCIDENTAL GODLIKE MASTERY OF SPACETIME by Benjamin Crowell
Poetry: SHINER by G.O.Clark
Short Story: THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by Mike Resnick
Department: NEXT ISSUE
Novelette: SOME LIKE IT HOT by Brian Stableford
Department: ON BOOKS by Peter Heck
Department: SF CONVENTIONAL CALENDAR by Erwin S. Strauss |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 65834 words; Reading time: 188-263 minutes
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| TITLE: | 10:15 by Trent Kinsey |
| DESCRIPTION: | One second always makes the difference. The suspenseful tale of three students and one teacher trapped in one second of time, only to find out that something is there with them. Something no one has ever seen before, with an appetite none of them want to bear witness to. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 9839 words; Reading time: 28-39 minutes
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| PRICE: | $3.50 |
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| TITLE: | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2009 by Spilogale Authors |
| DESCRIPTION: | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine and original publisher of SF classics such as Stephen King's "Dark Tower," Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," and Walter M. Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz." Each issue contains the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on literature, film, and science, along with compelling short stories and novellas by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mike Resnick, Terry Bisson, and many others.
NOVELETS
DRAGON'S TEETH by Alex Irvine
HELL OF A FIX by Matthew Hughes
INSIDE TIME by Tim Sullivan
I NEEDS MUST PART, THE POLICEMAN SAID by Richard Bowes
SHORT STORIES
BAD MATTER by Alexandra Duncan
FAREWELL ATLANTIS by Terry Bisson
ILLUSIONS OF TRANQUILITY by Brendan DuBois
THE BLIGHT FAMILY SINGERS by Kit Reed
THE ECONOMY OF VACUUM by Sarah Thomas
IRIS by Nancy Springer
THE MAN WHO DID SOMETHING ABOUT *IT* by Harvey Jacobs
DEPARTMENTS
EDITORIAL by Gordon Van Gelder
BOOKS TO LOOK FOR by Charles de Lint
BOOKS by James Sallis
FILMS: POST-MODERN HASIDISM ... WITH PUPPETS! by Kathi Maio
COMING ATTRACTIONS
INDEX TO VOLUMES 116 &117
CURIOSITIES by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
CARTOONS: Arthur Masear, Bill Long, S. Harris
COVER BY KENT BASH FOR "HELL OF A FIX"
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| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 93142 words; Reading time: 266-372 minutes
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| PRICE: | $7.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Pledged Word [Avalon series] by Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| DESCRIPTION: | When you're young and in love it's easy to make extravagant promises. But when the day comes to fulfill the vow you made, you may feel very different about it. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 2382 words; Reading time: 6-9 minutes
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| TITLE: | Wanted: True Love by Janet Quinn |
| DESCRIPTION: | Bree-Anna, a witch, has been searching for true love her whole life, with no success, thanks to Gerard, a warlock. As her two-hundredth birthday approaches, she has given up and knows she must face Gerard and culmination of the curse he put on her. If she doesn't find true love, she must marry Gerard or give him her powers. She flees Gerard and moves to Los Angeles to reinvent herself. There she meets Quinton Lawrey, a man whom she knows she can love. He comes under her spell and wants nothing more than to spend time with her. Then, she must tell him her secret--she is a witch with magical powers. Can Quinton accept Bree-Anna for who she is? Will his love prove to be true and break the curse, or must Bree-Anna give up her powers to escape Gerard? |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 62931 words; Reading time: 179-251 minutes
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| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Overseer's Island by R.C. Baze |
| DESCRIPTION: | Jack Murphy has been tormented by nightmares of death--his death in past lives--for as long as he can remember. Reliving those last moments in painful detail: while the scenes change, the end is always the same; murdered by a stranger come out of nowhere, without warning and without reason. Jack has been reduced to a shell of a man; going through the motions of life as he waits for death. It will be soon now. It will be quick, it will be violent, and he will be dead. Even then it will not be the end. He will not move on. He will be born again into the world, a new face, a new name, but the same end. In the life he leads now, his only friend is Carl Langum, an old man who is more than he appears to be. When the stranger does come and Jack is attacked, Carl intervenes and prevents his murder. They flee to Carl's encampment where Jack discovers their meeting was not an accident. Carl shares knowledge of truths lost to the rest of mankind. Jack learns of the Land's Energy; a way of communicating with the world, and tapping into Her power. When the Viraki come again to finish their kill, Carl, in desperation, opens a gateway through time, sending them back to where it all started... |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 144901 words; Reading time: 414-579 minutes
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| TITLE: | Blood Soup by Kelly Harmon |
| DESCRIPTION: | A tale of murder, betrayal and comeuppance. King Theodicar of Borgund needed an heir. When his wife, Queen Piacenza, became pregnant, he'd hoped for a boy. His wife, along with her nurse, Salvagia, had other plans. With each cast of the runes, Salvagia's trusted divination tools yielded the same message: "A girl child must rule or the kingdom will fall to ruin." As such, the women were convinced that the child would be a girl. When the queen finally gives birth, the nurse and the king are equally surprised. The king is faced with a terrible choice, and his decision will determine the fate of his kingdom. Will he choose wisely, or will he doom Borgund to ruin? |
| CATEGORY: | Dark Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 19112 words; Reading time: 54-76 minutes
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| PRICE: | $3.95 |
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| TITLE: | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 2009 by Dell Magazine Authors |
| DESCRIPTION: | Mexico, India, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, are just a few of the places where the December issue finds charming thieves, wily con artists, and murderous moneymen. The Chevalier Remy descends into the depths of the seventeenth century Parisian underworld in R. T. Lawton's "Boudin Noir." A slave called Colm in ancient Iceland proves to be calm and quick thinking in the midst of murderous passions in Mike Culpepper's "The Trollfarm Killing." In Iain Rowain's eerie story "Nowhere To Go," a homebound man in England uses the Net to tap into Web cams around the world. In "A Sorcerer's Fate," Susan Oleksiw brings us another tale featuring photographer Anita Ray, who is staying with relatives in India. John C. Boland's P.I. Meggie Trevor travels to Mexico on a case in "Out of Her Depth," and the Yeats-loving Mr. O'Nelligan helps P.I. Lee Plunkett suss out an art thief in Scarsdale, New York, in "O'Nelligan and the Perfect Man" by Michael Nethercott. Finally, the mansions might be empty and cavernous in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, but their absent owners still haunt the valley in Terence Faherty's "The Caretaker."
This month's mystery classic is the first English publication of a tale by Ecuadorian writer Pablo Palacio; "The Man Who Was Kicked to Death" was chosen and translated by Kenneth Wishnia.
Lock the doors and settle in for a little felonious armchair travel.
CONTENTS:
Department: EDITOR'S NOTES: A KILLER YEAR by Linda Landrigan
Department: THE LINEUP
Fiction: A SORCERER'S FATE by Susan Oleksiw
Fiction: THE TROLLFARM KILLING by Mike Culpepper
Department: THE MYSTERIOUS CIPHER by by Willie Rose
Fiction: OUT OF HER DEPTH by John C. Boland
Fiction: O'NELLIGAN AND THE PERFECT MAN by Michael Nethercott
Department: BOOKED & PRINTED by Robert C. Hahn
Fiction: BOUDIN NOIR by R. T. Lawton
Fiction: THE CARETAKER by Terence Faherty
Fiction: NOWHERE TO GO by Iain Rowan
Mystery Classic: THE MAN WHO WAS KICKED TO DEATH by Pablo Palacio
Department: INDEX: VOLUME FIFTY-FOUR 2009
Department: COMING IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010 |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| LENGTH: 46834 words; Reading time: 133-187 minutes
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| TITLE: | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2009 by Dell Magazine Authors |
| DESCRIPTION: | Our December issue is here, and it's our favorite time of year: Time for you to send us your 2009 Readers Award ballots, and tell us which of the year's stories you liked best! Before making your choices, be sure to read this last issue of 2009. See mysteries unfold by paper trail, first in a series of letters to an old school chum, in Richard A. Lupoff's "Patterns," then in a teenager's journal washed up on the Jersey shore, in David Dean, "Erin's Journal." Catch a glimpse of a criminal: a neighbor, paddling onto the lake with a guest but returning alone, in Jean Rae Baxter's "An Afternoon at the Cottage"; or a frightening, somehow familiar, figure fleeing the scene of a crime, in Robert Barnard's "Memory." Follow along with the narrator as he tries to track down his vanished friend in debut author Ryan Daff's Department of First Stories entry, "Gone Missing"; discover the truth about why a wife would leave her husband in Mick Herron's "Dolphin Junction"; and feel the menace beneath the jollity of a German church festival in Friederike Schmo�'s Passport to Crime story, "Death of a Fish Concessionaire." Close out the issue in a lighter mood, with "The Problem" by Phil Lovesey, an ironic twist-in-the-tailer about a husband and wife and their favor to a presumptuous friend, and with "Sea Change" by Brynn Bonner, a comic caper about a pair of P.I.s whose investigation goes south--way south--all the way to Tierra del Fuego.
CONTENTS:
Fiction: PATTERNS by Richard A. Lupoff
Reviews: BLOG BYTES by Bill Crider
Reviews: THE JURY BOX by Jon L. Breen
Fiction: AN AFTERNOON AT THE COTTAGE by Jean Rae Baxter
Fiction: ERIN'S JOURNAL by David Dean
Fiction: MEMORY by Robert Barnard
Department of First Stories: GONE MISSING by Ryan Daff
Special Feature: INDEX: VOLUMES ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE & ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR--2009
Passport to Crime: DEATH OF A FISH CONCESSIONAIRE by Friederike Schmoe
Fiction: DOLPHIN JUNCTION by Mick Herron
Fiction: SEA CHANGE by Brynn Bonner
Fiction: THE PROBLEM by Phil Lovesey
Special Feature: 2009 EQMM Readers Award Ballot |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| LENGTH: 61401 words; Reading time: 175-245 minutes
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| TITLE: | Death Shall Have No Dominion by P.K. Paranya |
| DESCRIPTION: | How she explains her psychic powers. The electric static of the computer reacts with the energy field surrounding her psychic powers and forms the picture on the screen. Although that wasn't very scientific, it was the way she thought of it as happening. Who could explain such a thing? It just was. Death Shall Have No Dominion takes the reader on a journey into the mind of a psychopath and the psychic detective who is the only one who could end his insatiable thirst for vengeance. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| LENGTH: 70031 words; Reading time: 200-280 minutes
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| TITLE: | The Misadventures of the Laundry Hag: Skeletons in the Closet by Jennifer L. Hart |
| DESCRIPTION: | Maggie Phillips hasn't had it easy. As the wife of a retired Navy SEAL and the adoptive mother of two little hellions, Maggie is constantly seeking new ways to improve her family's financial situation. She accepts a cleaning position for her new neighbors (who redefine the term 'eccentric'), never imagining she will end up as the sole alibi for a man with a fascination for medieval torture devices when he is brought up on murder charges. While Maggie struggles to prove the man's innocence, her deadbeat brother arrives, determined to sell Maggie and Neil on his next great scheme and to mooch with a vengeance. If that isn't bad enough, her in-laws (cutthroat corporate attorneys), descend on the house, armed with disapproval and condemnation for the family's annual Thanksgiving celebration. As the police investigation intensifies, Maggie searches for the killer among the upper echelon of Hudson, Massachusetts, in the only way she can--by scrubbing their thrones. Of the porcelain variety, that is.... |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| LENGTH: 59830 words; Reading time: 170-239 minutes
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| TITLE: | A Strange Little Band by Judith B. Glad |
| DESCRIPTION: | Every family is dysfunctional in one way or another, but mostly the Blankenships get along in spite of themselves. Cecile, the family matriarch, has invited (read commanded) everyone to a family reunion at the ancestral ranch near Yellowstone. Annie brings inconsolable sorrow, Hetty dreads her parents' reaction to her latest lover, Evan has a secret, and Serhilda wants to be anywhere else. With four generations living in each others' pockets, everyone expects bickering, spats, hurt feelings, and perhaps a few secrets finally revealed. When the week is over, even Cecile wonders if the reunion brought the family closer together, as she had hoped, or created rifts so great that they'll never be mended. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| LENGTH: 102282 words; Reading time: 292-409 minutes
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| TITLE: | A Second Seduction by Janet Lane Walters |
| DESCRIPTION: | Mark figures it's the Blakefield curse to fall in love once and never forget that love. True or not, he's never forgotten Christa and never gotten over her. When he discovers his long lost love is running an Inn in Vermont, he heads for Vermont to try to win her back. Rating: Sensual. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 21573 words; Reading time: 61-86 minutes
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| TITLE: | Lacey's Ghost by Blaise Kilgallen |
| DESCRIPTION: | Widowed, with a son, Lacey Bright deserts London to find harmony and rewards for her paintings until her ghostly landlord invades her privacy.and heart. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 31826 words; Reading time: 90-127 minutes
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| TITLE: | The Cabochon Ring by Heide Katros |
| DESCRIPTION: | Ruttgar von Hohenfels returns from war, only to find his castle usurped by a greedy uncle, who now wants him dead. Shot in the back as he tries to escape his uncle's clutches, he heads deeper into the forest with the soldiers in hot pursuit. Kitt travels the countryside with her brothers Oxnard and Oxley, entertaining the gentry with their acrobatic skills. Their way of life changes abruptly, when a rider crashes through the underbrush. The arrow in his back and soldiers in hot pursuit bring back the dark memories of the secret surrounding their sister's birth. Refusing to take the easy way out, the brothers come to Ruttgar's aid. When they offer to help him recapture his birthright, they do not realize that their bargain puts Kitt's life in jeopardy. Rating: sensual/spicy. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 96725 words; Reading time: 276-386 minutes
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| TITLE: | Dirty Little Lies by Tawny Taylor |
| DESCRIPTION: | The destruction of a historical landmark sparks a treacherous chain of events?and Reed Harris's life isn't all that's in jeopardy. Tall, dark and sinfully seductive, Bain Kavanagh won't stop until he gets his ex-fiancée, Reed Harris, back in his life and his bed. Danger and unbridled desire keep her there, for now. But with gun-toting treasure hunters thwarting their search for answers, Bain's resolve, his strength and his love will be tested. A sweet little old lady drags freelance writer Reed Harris into a world of dark intrigue. Not only does Reed have merciless killers chasing her heels, but one ruthless male pursuing her heart. Spurred on by a lifelong dream of becoming an investigative reporter, Reed casts aside caution to help Bain solve a deadly mystery. Unfortunately, she has no idea what she's in for. It'll take more than her sharp wits and a nail file to get her out of it. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language, mild violence?and a man with a killer body. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 31601 words; Reading time: 90-126 minutes
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| PRICE: | $3.50 |
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| TITLE: | Discovering Dani [Book 1 of Jamesville] by N. J. Walters |
| DESCRIPTION: | Burke Black wanted something he could live with, but ended up finding someone he could live for. Book 1 of Jamesville Dani O'Rourke has had the responsibility of raising her two brothers, Patrick and Shamus, since the death of their parents. As sole owner and operator of O'Rourke Cleaning Services, she is no stranger too hard work, but she is a beginner when it comes to men. Burke is a very rich and successful businessman whose brush with death has made him question his priorities. He's traveled to Jamesville for peace and quiet while he plans the rest of his life. Their lives collide when Burke accuses her of breaking into his cabin to steal from him. Their attraction to each other is immediate, and after a series of misunderstandings he finds himself caught up in the lives of Dani and her brothers. But can this gentle, giving woman get a man as hard and cynical as Burke to believe in the power of love? Or will Burke leave town without ever discovering the wonders of life with Dani? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 56854 words; Reading time: 162-227 minutes
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| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | Star Flyer by Bonnie Dee |
| DESCRIPTION: | Two men on trajectory for an explosive collision? Still mourning the loss of his lover to invading forces, Marr Hingo operates his farm under a dictatorship while keeping his mind--and feet--planted firmly on the ground. Spring arrives right on schedule, bringing with it something completely unexpected--an unconscious pilot from a downed star jet. Unable to bring himself to give up the handsome aviator to searching troops, Marr hides him in the barn's cellar. The last thing Davan Siedel remembers before ejecting is getting in a couple of good blasts against a Galactic Forces F150. He wakes to find his vague memory of being carried by an angel wasn't far off the mark. A tall, dark-haired, dark-eyed farmer has brought him to safety and is tending his injured leg. The attraction between solid, earthy Marr and clever, quicksilver Davan catches them off guard--and their sexual union is as sweet as it is powerful. Yet the longer Davan lingers, the tighter the enemy's web grows, threatening their love, their freedom?and their lives. Warning: Contains hot male/male loving, sweet sexual healing, a down-to-earth farmer who knows how to wield a?plow, a smart-mouthed pilot with fast?jets. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 38696 words; Reading time: 110-154 minutes
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| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | Dream Walk [The Sentinels, Book 1] by Meg Allison |
| DESCRIPTION: | Some nightmares are deadly real. The Sentinels, Book 1 Camille Bryant is a gifted medium being slowly driven insane by terrifying dreams. When she is forced to accept help from a Sentinel--a mysterious warrior of her race--her comfort zone is quickly invaded. Try as she might, she can't seem to stop the erotic visions that fill her mind when her rescuer is near. Ian Spain is a dream walker who's been assigned to banish the dream demon from Camille's restless nights. But complications quickly ensue. This is no ordinary demon and Camille is no ordinary woman: both are far stronger than anyone realizes. So strong, Ian suddenly isn't sure he has the power to vanquish her demon--not when his own hound his every step. Their passion ignites even as the body count rises and their courage is put to the test in a battle as old as time. Winner takes all. Warning: Scenes of leather-clad hero may induce spontaneous drooling, erotic fantasies, and unfair comparisons to spouse or significant other. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 101590 words; Reading time: 290-406 minutes
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| PRICE: | $5.50 |
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| TITLE: | Dragon's Oath by Nicole Ash |
| DESCRIPTION: | Despite his attempts to sleep, Taos was well aware of the humans outside his cave and the fact that they'd brought a sacrifice to appease him, but he wasn't worried. He was a large, healthy young male dragon and they posed no threat to him-at least he hadn't thought so until he discovered the damned fools had bound him to the human female. He didn't want to get married at all! He certainly didn't want to be wed to a human female! As relieved as she was that the dragon didn't appear interested in eating her, Isra wasn't any more thrilled to find herself bound to a dragon than Taos was happy about being bound to her. The problem was, even Taos wasn't certain of how to break the spell. He saw no alternative, though, than to drag her with him in the search for an ancient with the knowledge and power to dissolve the union. Rating: Spicy-adult situations and language. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 44167 words; Reading time: 126-176 minutes
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| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | Dirty Deeds by Lorelei James |
| DESCRIPTION: | DIRTY DEEDS?when good, clean fun isn't an option. Just once, good girl Tate Cross wants to experience a red-hot, no-strings-attached affair. She's temporarily left her graphic artist position in Denver to settle her aunt's estate in Spearfish, South Dakota. However, Tate receives a city mandate: she must comply with new landscaping regulations before she can resell the property. Given Tate's precarious finances, she asks her friend, Val for advice. Val swears her brother--owner of a local construction company, and a man well-versed in purely physical relationships--might consider trading dirt work for art lessons. When Tate meets the mysterious Casanova, can she convince him to toss in a few sex lessons as well? Nathan LeBeau believes few women look at the Native American man beneath the filthy work clothes and hard hat. He's kept past liaisons casual--a fact his sister shared, hence Tate's sexy proposition of wanting a hands on demonstration of his sexpertise. But in truth, he's tired of relationships based solely on sex. His goal of proving he's not completely hopeless in matters of the heart is second only to his dream of expanding his business. What happens when Tate desires no-holds-barred sex and Nathan favors a good old-fashioned romance? A battle of wills ensues. And Tate is willing to get down and dirty to get what she wants. Warning, this title contains the following: steamy, explicit sex told in contemporary, graphic language. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 82241 words; Reading time: 234-328 minutes
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| PRICE: | $5.50 |
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| TITLE: | Virtually Hers by Gennita Low |
| DESCRIPTION: | He can't get her out of his head?literally. Virtually, Book 2 In Helen "Hell" Roston's elite black ops world, failure isn't listed as an option in the rule book. As the leading guinea pig in a dangerous combination of virtual reality training and a mind-altering serum, though, every day offers a thousand ways to blow it. And the very real sexual chemistry that sizzles between Hell and her trainer is messing with her head even more. COS Commando Jed McNeil is an expert in mind manipulation games. He's been chosen to be Hell's monitor and anchor in the Super Soldier Spy program. Trained to compartmentalize his needs and feelings in an assignment, he's unprepared by how much Hell affects him. When the experimental serum gives Helen incapacitating headaches, her pain throws Jed into protect-at-all-costs mode. A position the fiercely independent Hell would rather die than be in. But with a rogue CIA faction out to sabotage the program, Hell has no choice--even if it makes her head explode. It's trust Jed, or die. Book 1 of this series was published by the Mira imprint of Harlequin. Warning: Contains scenes of voyeuristic hanky panky, bad guys that feed off mind-blowing sexual energy, a heroine who knows how to get her kick-ass on, and a hero who gives as good as he gets. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 108625 words; Reading time: 310-434 minutes
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| PRICE: | $6.50 |
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| TITLE: | Hunting Season by Shelly Laurenston |
| DESCRIPTION: | Stubborn, lethal, and from Jersey?what more could a Viking warrior want from his woman? The Gathering, Book 1 Neecy Lawrence, winged warrior for a Viking goddess and second-in-command of the fierce Crows, doesn't know what to do with a nice guy. As it is, making up for a past she'd sooner forget leaves her barely polite most days. But Raven leader and loyal Odin warrior, Will Yager, isn't just nice. He's gorgeous, hot, and a distraction she simply can't afford. Yager has wanted Neecy in his life--and in his bed--for a long time. Not just for a night, but forever. And, like any self-respecting Viking, he'll stop at nothing to get what he wants. So what if she's the most difficult, complex, never-gives-him-a-break woman he's ever known? She's more than worth the effort. In fact, she's worth everything. And if it turns out that twenty-four hours of non-stop, any-way-she-wants-it sex doesn't work with Neecy? Then it looks like he'll just have to get a little more creative? This book has been previously published. Warning: Contains a strong, intelligent, ass-kicking heroine; an alpha hero with the occasional geeky tendency; gritty, realistic violence; and sex so hot that, well, let's just say there's not enough ice water in the world? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 93138 words; Reading time: 266-372 minutes
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| PRICE: | $5.50 |
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| TITLE: | Dreams for Stones by Ann Warner |
| DESCRIPTION: | A man holding fast to grief and a woman who lets go of love too easily--it will take all the magic of old diaries and a children's story to heal these two. Caught in grief and guilt over his wife's death, English professor Alan Francini is determined never to feel that much pain again. He avoids new relationships and keeps even his best friend at arm's length. His major solace is his family's ranch south of Denver. Children's book editor Kathy Jamison has learned through a lifetime of separations and a broken engagement that letting go is easier than hanging on. Then she meets Alan, and for once, begins to believe a lasting relationship is possible. But Alan panics and pushes her away--into the arms of his best friend. Now the emotions of three people are at stake as they struggle to find a way to transform their broken dreams into a foundation for a more hopeful future. Indie Next Generation Book Award Finalist "?a wonderful choice." -Literary Nymph Reviews Warning: Have a box of tissues handy before starting this book. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 82113 words; Reading time: 234-328 minutes
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| PRICE: | $5.50 |
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| TITLE: | Captain's Surrender by Alex Beecroft |
| DESCRIPTION: | Love? Might as well ask for the moon. But a man can dream? Despite his looks and ambition, Midshipman Joshua Andrews hides urges that, in his world, make him an abomination. Living in fear of exposure, unnecessary risk is something he studiously avoids. Once he sets eyes on the elegant picture of perfection that is Peter Kenyon, though, temptation lures him like the siren call of the sea. Soon to be promoted to captain, Peter is the darling of the Bermuda garrison, with a string of successes behind him and a suitable bride lined up to share his future. He seems completely out of Joshua's reach. Then the two men are forced to serve on a long voyage under a sadistic commander with a mutinous crew. As the tension aboard the vessel heats up, their unexpected friendship intensifies into a passion neither man can rein in. Intimacy like theirs can only exist in the shadow of the gallows. Both men are determined their "youthful curiosity" must die before it brings disaster down on them. Yet neither man can root it from his heart. Warriors both, they think nothing of risking their lives for their country. In the end they must decide whether love, too, is worth dying for. This book has been previously published. Warning: Contains some mild m/m sex scenes and some graphic violence. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 63916 words; Reading time: 182-255 minutes
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| PRICE: | $5.50 |
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| TITLE: | Angelic Avenger [Angelic Avengers, Book 1] by Kaye Chambers |
| DESCRIPTION: | The road to hell is paved with heavenly desire? Angelic Avengers, Book 1 Fetch a soul? No problem. Quell a little shape shifter rebellion? She can do that, too. Just an average day in the afterlife of Arabella "Bella" Morrison. Or, what she hopes will become an afterlife after restoring the cosmic imbalance caused by her suicide over a love affair gone bad. Protect a willful fallen angel? That takes a little more teamwork than she's accustomed to. Especially when the team includes Gray Devereau, a sexy, half-breed angel who's got an eye on her--in more ways than one. Their attraction could set fire to Heaven itself. Normally not a problem for Bella, but Gray's sights are set on something more than a fly-by-night affair. Save mankind from chaos? Bring it on. Let her heart trust a man enough to love again? It'll be a cold day in hell? Warning: Sexy angels running amok. Heroine hell-bent on saving the world, the rules be damned. Hero bent on making her his, come hell or high water. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| LENGTH: 101916 words; Reading time: 291-407 minutes
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| PRICE: | $5.50 |
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| TITLE: | Her Heart His Soul by Kari Thomas |
| DESCRIPTION: | Antique Book Dealer Sara Winters has been searching for a rare book that may not even exist, her obsession taking her all over the world. When her father mysteriously dies, she returns home and immediately is involved in a battle between good and evil, with the fabled book the main catalyst to win for either side. Her s |
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