| TITLE: |   The Myriad [Tour of the Merrimack #1] by R.M. Meluch |
| DESCRIPTION: | The U.S.S. Merrimack was the finest battleship class spaceship in Earth's fleet, able to stand up against the best the Palatine Empire could throw at them, even able to attack and kill swarms of the seemingly unstoppable Hive. But nothing could have prepared the captain and crew of the Merrimack to face the Myriad-three colonized worlds in the midst of a globular cluster that the Hive had somehow overlooked. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: |  The Dark Reaches [Linnea Kiaho Series Book 3] by Kristin Landon |
| DESCRIPTION: | After the Earth was destroyed by ruthless machine intelligences known as the Cold Minds, the remnants of the human race sought refuge among the Hidden Worlds. Now, renegade pilot Linnea Kiaho and her fellow pilot Iain sen Paolo embark on a dangerous journey to Earth's solar system, where humans may have survived. But what they find is a secret so powerful it may save the Hidden Worlds?or shatter them forever. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: |  The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt by Ruth Andrew Ellenson |
| DESCRIPTION: | Twenty-eight of todays top Jewish women writers tell the truth about all the things their rabbis warned them never to discuss in public in this hilarious and provocative collection. Includes original essays on: * Finding (and Divorcing) the Perfect Jewish Man * Not Calling Your Mother * Marrying a German * Failing to Supply Enough Grandchildren * Learning to RSVP No * And many other guilty pleasures ... Includes pieces by: Elisa Albert, Aimee Bender, Jennifer Bleyer, Kera Bolonik, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Baz Dreisinger, Pearl Gluck, Rebecca Goldstein, Lori Gottlieb, Lauren Grodstein, Dara Horn, Molly Jong-Fast, Rachel Kadish, Jenna Kalinsky, Cynthia Kaplan, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Amy Klein, Daphne Merkin, Tova Mirvis, Gina Nahai, Katie Rophie, Francesca Segr, Wendy Shanker, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Susan Shapiro, Ayelet Waldman, Rebecca Walker, Sheryl Zohn |
| CATEGORY: | Humor |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: |  How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry by Adrian Colesberry |
| DESCRIPTION: | A guidebook to seducing, satisfying, and loving the only man you'll ever need. In an act of generosity, Adrian Colesberry has written an exquisitely detailed guidebook to ensure that every reader knows precisely how to please him--in bed and beyond. Brimming with self-indulgent and incredibly bawdy humor, How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry is a sexual memoir disguised as a manual on Colesberry's pet peeves, favorite positions, and surefire ways to turn on your man (aka Adrian Colesberry). Recounting dozens of annoying peccadilloes and helpful pro tips gleaned from his experiences with former lovers, Colesberry covers all corners to ensure that no stage of the court-and-conquer process is overlooked. Beginning with how to attract Colesberry, he later progresses to foreplay and finally the full monty, revealing his own erratic, often unerotic sexual history along the way. From his awkwardly celibate teenage years to the emotional scars inflicted by his domineering ex-wife, Colesberry muses on bondage, three-ways, toys, bi-curiosity, and other kinks. A pitch-perfect parody that spares no detail, How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry is a hilarious and filthy new entrant into the fratire genre. |
| CATEGORY: | Humor |
| PRICE: | $20.00 |
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| TITLE: | 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do by Tom Cutler |
| DESCRIPTION: | For everyone who loved The Dangerous Book for Boys-an oddly useful and hilarious handbook for the mischievous child in all of us. If you've reached adulthood without knowing how to spin a rope like a cowboy, cure a hangover, or make a citizen's arrest, this is the book you've been waiting for. Funny, far-ranging, and surprisingly handy, the book presents tutorials, including:--How to Be a Real Man: mow the perfect lawn; defend yourself with nothing but an umbrella--Bracing Outdoor Activities: skate backwards; make a boomerang come back; snare wild game--Amusing Diversions: float an egg; eat a goldfish; master fiendish tongue- twisters; judge a woman's bra size at a glance Also includes:--Sumo wrestling for beginners--Four diversions with a banana--And much more |
| CATEGORY: | Humor |
| PRICE: | $15.95 |
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| TITLE: | Red Gold Bridge [Gordath Series Book 2] by Patrice Sarath |
| DESCRIPTION: | In the heart of the Gordath, danger is waiting...A year ago, Lynn Romano and Kate Mossland stumbled through the Gordath, a portal between our world and the war-torn society called Aeritan. Now, a powerful Aeritan general has crossed through to Earth, and his obsession with Kate could tear both worlds apart. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: |  L.A. Dead by Stuart Woods |
| DESCRIPTION: | Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington ventures out to the west coast-and out on a limb-in this "stylish whodunit" (Detroit News) filled with romance and murder from the bestselling author of The Run and Worst Fears Realized. Stone's trip to Venice-with a fiery Mafia princess-is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and has a former flame pining for Stone's help-in more ways than one... |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $9.99 |
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| TITLE: |  Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds by Nancy Martin |
| DESCRIPTION: | When a high society jewel thief winds up drowned at the bottom of a pool with a tacky garden gnome tied to her ankles, Nora must swing into action to save her old flame from a hasty murder charge. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Cold War Reprise by Don Pendleton |
| DESCRIPTION: | Early in his blitz days, Mack Bolan single-handedly shook the KGB to its core. Now intelligence puts him in a face-off with Spetsnaz soldiers revitalized as the new enforcement arm of old-guard Russia. At its helm, a secret consortium is determined to restore the terror tactics of the former Soviet Union, but bigger and bloodier than ever. Bolan's hunt begins in London, where he avenges the deaths of two Russian friends, but leads him deep into Moscow, where trained killers backed by money and power plan an explosive death knell to Russian freedom...and millions of innocents. It's a repackaged enemy backed by old-school terror, a breed Bolan intends to take down once again with lethal force. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $6.30 |
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| TITLE: | Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family by Dirk Wittenborn |
| DESCRIPTION: | An honest, insightful, and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-à-vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary epic. The novel follows William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, who has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness to those who ingest it and fame and fortune to the man who can synthesize it. But when a brilliant and troubled research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt Friedrich and his family for years to come. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | City of Strangers by Ian MacKenzie |
| DESCRIPTION: | Faith, family, and the weight of history intersect in this remarkable debut from a rising literary talent A cold, gray Sunday dawns on New York City to find Paul Metzger trudging through the winter streets to visit his past. He goes first to see his estranged, decades-older half-brother; then his dying father, whose notorious early life still haunts his children; and finally the ex-wife he cannot help but continue to love. But a fourth encounter?violent, unexpected?sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change Paul's life, as well as the family he's struggled so long to understand. Ian MacKenzie's stirring and lyrical debut is a story of a family inalterably fractured by its past, of a man who refuses to believe that what is done cannot be undone, and of a world that insists?catastrophically, in the end?otherwise. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Hidden Currents by Christine Feehan |
| DESCRIPTION: | In her Drake Sisters novels, #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan delivers ?everything her fans have come to expect? (Publishers Weekly). Now, she exceeds expectations as the fate of all seven sisters depends on the destiny of one. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Chocolate Kisses by Francis Ray |
| DESCRIPTION: | Inhibitions melt away with these three deliciously erotic romance novellas that have something sweet in common: tempting chocolate. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $13.95 |
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| TITLE: | Hot-Shot Surgeon, Cinderella Bride by Alison Roberts |
| DESCRIPTION: | When Kelly dances with gorgeous Tony Grimshaw at a lavish masquerade ball, she's swept away in the fantasy of the moment. Her beautiful borrowed gown, the sizzling attraction in the air and the touch of his hands make her feel like a princess! But come morning Kelly is left with only memories. In her nurse-orderly uniform, she knows she's invisible to the likes of wealthy top-notch surgeon Tony. All her life Kelly's dreams have been just out of reach. Little does she realize that the dashing surgeon is searching for his real-life Cinderella.... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Assignment: Baby by Lynne Marshall |
| DESCRIPTION: | Dr. Hunter Phillips has to look after his little baby niece for a month. He's completely besotted and totally out of his depth! As if that weren't enough, he also finds himself working with his ex-wife, Amanda--the woman who left him when he told her he didn't want children. Hunter is still fiercely attracted to Amanda, and she's amazing with baby Sophie. As they pretend to play at happy family, Hunter begins to realize that winning Amanda back and having a family for real might be what he really wants after all.... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Falling for her Mediterranean Boss by Anne Fraser |
| DESCRIPTION: | Dedicated doctor Julie McKenzie is dumbstruck by her new boss. Plastic surgeon Pierre Didier's sexy accent, striking looks and professional expertise make him the most gorgeous man she has ever met! However, Pierre also has a reputation as a playboy--the kind of man Julie knows would never look twice at her. Julie is the last woman Pierre should allow himself to become involved with. If she falls in love it will be for keeps, and forever is the one thing he cannot give her. Yet Pierre is drawn to shy, pretty Julie, and he vows to make her feel like the beautiful woman she really is.... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | A Mother For His Twins by Lucy Clark |
| DESCRIPTION: | Day one in Paramatta's E.R. and surgical director Jennifer Thorngate's head is spinning--she's just met gorgeous surgeon Jasper Edwards! Simply being near him makes her sizzle. But Jennifer is determined not to allow her personal and professional worlds to collide. Her resolve is tested to the limit when she meets Jasper's little girls! Watching the loving single dad with his twins puts the smile back on Jennifer's face...a smile that brings Jasper's heart back to life. Jasper is left with only one option: he must convince Jennifer that together they can all have the most wonderful life. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Darkness Calls by Marjorie M. Liu |
| DESCRIPTION: | Demon hunter Maxine Kiss, inked with living tattoos, is on a mission to rescue the man she loves from a bloodthirsty army. To save him, Maxine has only one choice: to lose control?and release her own powers of darkness. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Concrete Reveries by Mark Kingwell |
| DESCRIPTION: | An exploration of urbanism, personal identity, and how the space we live in shapes us According to philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell, the transnational global cityNew York and Shanghaiis the most significant machine our species has ever produced. And yet, he says, we fail again and again to understand it. How do cities shape us, and how do we shape them? That is the subject of Concrete Reveries, which investigates how we occupy city space and why place is so important to who we are. Kingwell explores the sights, smells, and forms of the city, reflecting on how they mold our notions of identity, the limits of social and political engagement, and our moral obligations as citizens. He offers a critique of the monumental architectural supermodernism in which buildings are valued more for their exteriors than for what is inside, as well as some lively writing on the significance of threshold structures like doorways, lobbies, and porches and the kinds of emotional attachments we form to ballparks, carnival grounds, and gardens. In the process, he gives us a whole new set of models and metaphors for thinking about the city. With a spectacular interior design and more than seventy-five photos, Concrete Reveries will appeal to fans of Jane Jacobs, Witold Rybczynski, and Alain de Bottons The Architecture of Happiness. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Grizzly Maze by Nick Jans |
| DESCRIPTION: | With a new introduction on Werner Herzogs film entitled The Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell, self-styled bear whisperer dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled in October 2003, it created a media sensation. In The Grizzly Maze, Nick Jans, a seasoned outdoor writer with a quarter century of experience writing about Alaska and bears, traces Treadwells rise from unknown waiter in California to celebrity, providing a moving portrait of the man whose controversial ideas and behavior earned him the scorn of hunters, the adoration of animal lovers and the skepticism of naturalists. BACKCOVER: Intensely imagistic, artfully controlled prose ... behind the building tension of Treadwells path to oblivion, a stunning landscape looms. Newsday |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano |
| DESCRIPTION: | An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, his ten years of labor on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766, and his life afterward as a leading and respected figure in the antislavery movement in England. A spirited autobiography, a tale of spiritual quest and fulfillment, and a sophisticated treatise on religion, politics, and economics, The Interesting Narrative is a work of enduring literary and historical value. |
| CATEGORY: | People |
| PRICE: | $12.00 |
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| TITLE: |  Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson |
| DESCRIPTION: | Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming returns in this high-intensity thriller from New York Times' bestselling author Ridley Pearson. Sun Valley, Idaho--playground of the wealthy and politically connected--is home to an annual wine auction that attracts high rollers from across the country, and Blaine County Sheriff Walt Fleming is the one who must ensure it goes off without a hitch. The world's most elite wine connoisseurs have descended on Sun Valley to taste and bid on the world's best wines, including three bottles claimed to have been a gift from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams. With sky-high prices all but guaranteed for these historic items, it's no wonder a group of thieves is out to steal them. Walt is responsible for all aspects of the glitzy event, from security of the dignitaries to the physical safety of the auction site to the transportation and safeguard of the wines themselves.Walt is enjoying a rare afternoon of freedom, fly-fishing with his nephew, Kevin, when a passing truck catches his eye--his suspicions throwing him headlong into the discovery of a complicated plan to steal the rare wine. When a bomb detonates just as the auction revs up, the investigation explodes as well, pulling Walt in a dozen different directions. It seems Walt is caught in the middle of a heist of epic proportions--and not the heist he had prepared for--all orchestrated by the ingenious mind of Christopher Cantell, a man who appears to have covered everything, including the way Walt's own sheriff's office will react. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | Longarm 368 by Tabor Evans |
| DESCRIPTION: | On a mission to avenge his friend's death, nothing can stop Longarm?not even Ute Indians. That is, until he meets some wild young women whom he's happy to protect from imminent danger. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | A Plague of Secrets [Dismas Hardy Series Book 13] by John Lescroart |
| DESCRIPTION: | Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt return in a compelling and timely legal thriller filled with blackmail, political intrigue, and multiple murder.The first victim is Dylan Vogler, a charming ex-convict who manages the Bay Beans West coffee shop in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. When his body is found, inspectors discover that his knapsack is filled with high-grade marijuana. It soon becomes clear that San Francisco's A-list flocked to Bay Beans West not only for their caffeine fix.But how much did Maya Townshend?the beautiful socialite niece of the city's mayor, and the absentee owner of the shop?know about what was going on inside her business? And how intimate had she really been with Dylan, her old college friend?As another of Maya's acquaintances falls victim to murder, and as the names of the dead men's celebrity, political, and even law- enforcement customers come to light, tabloid-fueled controversy takes the investigation into the realms of conspiracy and cover-up. Prosecutors close in on Maya, who has a deep secret of her own?a secret she needs to protect at all costs during her very public trial, where not only her future but the entire political landscape of San Francisco hangs in the balance, hostage to an explosive secret that Dismas Hardy is privilege-bound to protect. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $26.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Gunsmith 331 by J. R. Roberts |
| DESCRIPTION: | Young Sheriff Dan Starkweather sure hates his outlaw father?but he sure can shoot. Clint Adams is impressed and agrees to help track the senior Starkweather's ruthless gang. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Slocum 365 by Jake Logan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Slocum's being hunted by Goose Martin?a man with a bad rep and a worse need to put some lead into Slocum. Then a young man approaches him with news that hits harder than any bullet?Slocum is his father. |
| CATEGORY: | Suspense/Thriller |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Visualizing Information with Microsoft Visio 2007 by David J. Parker |
| DESCRIPTION: | Complete coverage of the new release of Visio Written by a Microsoft insider and Visio expert, this definitive guide will help experienced users and business professionals master the powerful new tools and features available in Visio 2007. Offering practical examples, reusable templates, and technical accuracy, this book is better suited than any others for showing you how to get the most out of this leading data visualization application. David Parker was one of the first Visio European business partners and was named Most Valued Professional for Visio by Microsoft in 2005. |
| CATEGORY: | Technology/Science |
| PRICE: | $49.99 |
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| TITLE: | Latin for All Occasions by Henry Beard |
| DESCRIPTION: | A new edition of Henry Beards bestselling classics Latin for All Occasions and Latin for Even More Occasionsnow updated and available together for the first time ever in paperback! Who says Latin is a dead language? Latin for All Occasions and Latin for Even More Occasions have helped scores of readers harness the language of Caesar and Cicero to turn ordinary remarks into timeless utterances. Impress your boss with Lingua Latina Occupationi (Occupational Latin); flirt with your classics professor with Lingua Latina Libidinosa (Sensual Latin); look like the hipster you are with Lingua Latina Popularis (Pop-Cultural Latin); survive holidays with the family with Lingua Latina Domestica (Familial Latin) and Lingua Latina Festiva (Celebrational Latin). Here are hundreds of useful expressions rendered into grammatically accurate classical Latin with a foolproof pronunciation guideall in one handy volume. Whether you are a student of the language or just want to talk like one, Latin for All Occasions is guaranteed to help you delight your friends (wittily), insult your enemies (fearlessly) and elevate the public discourse. |
| CATEGORY: | Reference |
| PRICE: | $12.50 |
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| TITLE: | The Plane Truth for Golfers Master Class by Jim Hardy |
| DESCRIPTION: | Swing away for more accuracy, lower scores, and unmatched success on the course In his bestseller, The Plane Truth for Golfers, Jim Hardy revolutionized how golf is taught around the world by introducing his innovative one-plane and two-plane swings. If you want more instruction, more insider tips, more Hardy--the author's new book will take your game to the next level. In The Plane Truth for Golfers Master Class, one of Golf magazine's top teachers shows you how to execute these swings perfectly for on-target shots every time. With sharpened accuracy, you will see your confidence in your swing go up as your handicap and scores go down. |
| CATEGORY: | Sports/Entertainment |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | Leadership When the Heat is On by Danny Cox & John Hoover |
| DESCRIPTION: | TURN EVEN THE MOST STRESSFUL SITUATION INTO AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHINE FOR YOU AND YOUR TEAM People aren't born to be high-performing leaders; instead, they need to learn to develop the time-proven characteristics of great leadership. Leadership When the Heat's On shows you how to acquire these characteristics, motivate your people, and achieve remarkable results across your organization-particularly during times of change and stress. This quick-hitting, hands-on rulebook is chock-full of hard-won advice and action steps for keeping your cool under pressure and inspiring incredible performance from your team. You'll see how to: Start turning problems into opportunities that can enhance your career; Practice "humanagement"-using the job to develop the person while having fun in the process; Overcome your team's roadblocks to goal achievement; Develop an organization with free-flowing, two-way communication, from top-to-bottom; Know the signs of low morale, take immediate action to counteract the causes, and make strategic plans to keep spirits from falling again; Encourage inspired thinking by relaxing old rules of conformity and publicly recognizing new ideas Leadership When the Heat's On prepares you to meet all leadership challenges, whether anticipated or unexpected. Danny Cox is one of today's most sought-after speakers and trainers. A proven sales executive, former supersonic test pilot, and author of There Are No Limits, Cox is a member of the National Speaker Association's Hall of Fame. John Hoover, PhD is a former executive with Walt Disney Productions andMcGraw-Hill. He consults in organization development and behavior, specializing in leadership, communications, transformation, and sustaining change. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $12.95 |
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| TITLE: | Relax Into Wealth by Alan Cohen |
| DESCRIPTION: | An inspiring guide to the secret formula for wealth-building by one of todays top motivational writers and speakers. In Relax into Wealth, master storyteller Alan Cohen demonstrates the intrinsic link between passion, authenticity, and prosperity. He shows that nothing pays like ... being yourself. This popular national speaker and bestselling writer delivers his prosperity principles in fifty-two true stories of successful people he has encountered, including celebrities, Midas-touch entrepreneurs, shuttle-bus drivers, wide-eyed children, and even a stripper. Then, in his unique way, Cohen highlights the lesson within each parable and expands upon it, enabling readers to apply the principle to their own lives. Cohen uses the story, the most cogent teaching device in history, to give readers an entertaining and accessible model. Relax into Wealth makes use of personal (and sometimes quite intimate) tales to capture the readers attention and impart the wisdom found in the experience. Each of its fifty-two anecdotes ends with a personal affirmation to help readers remember the lesson and carry it into real life. Most popular books on success in business or personal finance are formula-driven, focusing on techniques to make more money, climb the corporate ladder, or outpower competition. Relax into Wealth is character-driven, shining the spotlight on the kind of heart, faith, and vision required to overcome fear, peer pressure, limiting beliefs, or a history of failure. The book is about real peoplein whom readers can recognize themselvesfeaturing moneymakers who have been true to their passion and successful in their chosen domain. Every reader will see his own financial hopesand how to achieve themin the lives of the various characters. |
| CATEGORY: | Self Improvement |
| PRICE: | $14.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Diet Cure by Julia Ross |
| DESCRIPTION: | For the more than eighty million Americans who diet regularly--and without success--this amazing new program, based on ten years of proven clinical results, offers a revolutionary approach to nutrition that can safely curb your cravings and make you feel better in less than twenty-four hours. The Diet Cure begins with an 8-Step Quick Symptom Questionnaire that helps readers identify their unique underlying biochemical imbalances, such as depleted brain chemistry caused by too much dieting, hormonal irregularities, blood-sugar swings, food allergies, thyroid dysfunction, and a deficiency of "good" fats. Then it provides targeted strategies and nutritional guidelines to correct those imbalances, along with meal plans, tasty recipes, and inspiring case histories. Using amino acids to jump-start the program, readers create a safe, customized, easy-to-follow plan to end their food obsessions and attain their ideal healthy weight for good. |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $16.00 |
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| TITLE: | Undoing Perpetual Stress by Richard O'Connor |
| DESCRIPTION: | The author of bestselling Undoing Depression, Dr. Richard O'Connor goes beyond depression and into the world of perpetual stress--a condition that affects us all and leads to serious physical and mental health problems. Twenty-first-century life is evolving at a breakneck pace-and with it, stresses multiply by the day. With people working long hours, worrying about families and finances, and receiving non-stop e-mail and cell phone calls, stress is at an all time high. This is perpetual stress syndrome and the human nervous system was never meant to handle this many stressors. Here psychotherapist O'Connor explains how many common problems, both emotional and physical, are actually side effects of modern life, and how to undo their damage. He explains how readers can:--Recognize the hidden effects of stress on the brain and body--Understand their inner sanity in conflict with a crazy world--Develop self-control over how to think, act, and feel when stressed--Regain a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $15.95 |
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| TITLE: | Cancer Has Its Privileges: Stories of Hope and Laughter by Christine Clifford |
| DESCRIPTION: | Cancer survivor and founder of The Cancer Club, Christine Clifford has been sharing her inspiring, humorous outlook on living with cancer with thousands of cancer patients and their families. Now she has gathered a collection of battlefield stories and anecdotes from her fellow survivors that go from the outright hilarious to the downright moving, and combined them with her own personal story of triumphant survival. "The perfect dose of medicine for anyone whose life has been touched by cancer." (Michele Smith, Olympic gold medalist) "A remarkable woman whose sense of humor became her best weapon against an often dehumanizing disease." (Arnold Palmer, from the Introduction) |
| CATEGORY: | Health/Fitness |
| PRICE: | $13.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame |
| DESCRIPTION: | A classic of magical fancy and enchanting wit, this children's tale follows the adventures of an intrepid quartet of heroes-Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and the incorrigible Toad. |
| CATEGORY: | Classic Literature |
| PRICE: | $5.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| DESCRIPTION: | Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville familys home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is deadand the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate? |
| CATEGORY: | Classic Literature |
| PRICE: | $4.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Several years have passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, first met, and Will is finally a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepyboring, evenuntil Lord Syron, master of a castle far in the north, is struck down by a mysterious illness. Joined by his friend Alyss, Will is suddenly thrown headfirst into an extraordinary adventure, investigating fears of sorcery and trying to determine who is loyal to Lord Syron. As Will battles growing hysteria, traitors, and most of all, time, Alyss is taken hostage, and Will is forced to make a desperate choice between his mission and his friend. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | My Soul to Lose [Soul Screamers series] by Rachel Vincent |
| DESCRIPTION: | It was supposed to be a fun day, shopping at the mall with her best friend. Then the panic attack started and Kaylee Cavanaugh finds herself screaming, unable to stop. Her secret fears are exposed and it's the worst day of her life. Until she wakes up in the psychiatric unit. She tries to convince everyone she's fine--despite the shadows she sees forming around another patient and the urge to scream which comes burbling up again and again. Everyone thinks she's crazy. Everyone except Lydia, that is. Another patient with some special abilities.... An eBook exclusive prequel to Rachel Vincent's SOUL SCREAMERS series. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $2.99 |
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| TITLE: | Hail! Hail! Camp Dragononka #17 by Kate Mcmullan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Its the last day of the school year, so it must be time for Wiglaf and all his friends at Dragon Slayers Academy to go home and enjoy the lazy hazy days of a medieval summer. Ummm, not quite. Not when Mordred the gold-hungry headmaster realizes theres money to be made running a camp. This double-sized summer super special packs in twice the fun for fans of DSA, and theres a full-color 8-page insert that pulls out and includes a ghost story, jokes, and more. The Horn Book calls DSA a hilarious and deservedly popular magic-propelled series set in the Middle Ages. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Who Was William Shakespeare? by Celeste Davidson Mannis |
| DESCRIPTION: | The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man. With black-and-white illustrations that include a diagram of the famous Globe theater, Celeste Davidson Mannis puts together the pieces of Shakespeare's life and work for young readers. |
| CATEGORY: | Young Adult |
| PRICE: | $4.99 |
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| TITLE: | Gunfight at Cold Devil by Ralph Cotton |
| DESCRIPTION: | At Cold Devil, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack and Marshal Pete Summers apprehend two wanted men--one of whom has posted a bounty on the lawmen's heads. When Sam is dry gulched and Pete is wounded, a pretty young woman and her family nurse the lawmen back to health. |
| CATEGORY: | History |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | Ralph Compton Rio Largo by Ralph Compton |
| DESCRIPTION: | FEUDING FRIENDS For years, the Circle T ranch and the D/P ranch have existed in Sweet Grass Valley. Separated by the Rio Largo river, both ranches have managed to prosper-mostly due to the ranch owners Kent Tovey and Dar Pierce, who are the best of friends. But all that is about to be challenged. Two new ranch hands are fomenting a cycle of violence between the ranches-with a ruthless gang waiting to pick their bones clean after they destroy one another. One loyal cowboy caught in the carnage knows the truth. And when the Circle T and the D/P can no longer be protected, they must be avenged. |
| CATEGORY: | History |
| PRICE: | $5.99 |
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| TITLE: | The New Space Opera 2 by Gardner Dozois |
| DESCRIPTION: | Some of the most beloved names in science fiction spin all-new tales of interstellar adventure and wonder Neal Asher * John Barnes * Cory Doctorow * John Kessel * Jay Lake * John Meaney * Elizabeth Moon * Garth Nix * Mike Resnick * Justina Robson * Kristine Kathryn Rusch * John Scalzi * Bruce Sterling * Peter Watts * Sean Williams * Tad Williams * Bill Willingham * Robert Charles Wilson * John C. Wright |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $15.99 |
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| TITLE: | StarCraft: Dark Templar: Twilight by Christie Golden |
| DESCRIPTION: | Archeologist Jacob Ramsey has spent much of the last two years on a miserable backwater planet wasting his time on a fruitless excavation. It seems like a miracle when he gets a message from Augustine Mengsk himself, son and heir of Emperor Arcturus Mengsk, inviting him to join an elite group of archeologists being sent to excavate one of the Xel'Naga artifacts that are suddenly appearing on various worlds.When Jake stumbles across a dying Protoss and attempts to revive him, the Protoss psychically bonds to him and begins to violently "upload" its memories. In order to do this, the Protoss must in essence rewrite and rewire Jake's human brain.Jake soon realizes that the Protoss has shared with him a terrible secret--one so important that the dying alien was willing to pass it on to an enemy in order to insure that the knowledge survives. And what Jake decides to do with the information will seal the fate of worlds throughout the galaxy. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Traitor to the Crown: The Demon Redcoat by C.C. Finlay |
| DESCRIPTION: | The War of Independence appears to have no end in sight. Discouraged by the bloodshed and suffering their magic can do nothing to prevent, Proctor and his wife, Deborah, dream of starting a family. But when Deborah gives birth, a powerful demon called Balfri, summoned by the secret society of European witches known as the Covenant, tries to possess the child. Though the attack in unsuccessful, it makes Proctor and Deborah realize that there can be no safety for them, or for anyone, until the Covenant is destroyed. With the help of such patriots as Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, Proctor embarks on a desperate journey to take the fight to the heart of the Covenant's power: Europe. There he will uncover a dark, necromantic design of chillingly vast proportions. Meanwhile, back in America, Deborah will face Balfri again--only this time the demon will have the whole British army to command. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Vicious Circle by Linda Robertson |
| DESCRIPTION: | A girl's got to do what a girl's got to do....Being a witch doesn't pay the bills, but Persephone Alcmedi gets by between reading Tarot cards, writing her syndicated newspaper column, and kenneling werewolves in the basement when the moon is full--even if witches aren't supposed to mingle with wolves. She really reaches the end of her leash, though, when her grandmother gets kicked out of the nursing home and Seph finds herself in the doghouse about some things she's written. Then her werewolf friend Lorrie is murdered...and the high priestess of an important coven offers Seph big money to destroy the killer, a powerful vampire named Goliath Kline. Seph is a tough girl, but this time she bites off more than she can chew. She needs a little help from her friends--werewolf friends. One of those friends, Johnny, the motorcycle-riding lead singer for the techno-metal-Goth band Lycanthropia, has a crush on her. And while Seph has always been on edge around this 6'2" leather-clad hunk, she's starting to realize that although their attraction may be dangerous, nothing could be as lethal as the showdown that awaits them. |
| CATEGORY: | Dark Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Return to Sullivans Island by Dorothea Benton Frank |
| DESCRIPTION: | Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the enchanted landscape of South Carolina's Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island to tell the story of the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes. Return to Sullivans Island Whether you were away from the Lowcountry for a week or for years, it was impossible to remember how gorgeous it was. It never changed and everyone depended on that. Newly graduated from college and an aspiring writer, Beth Hayes craves independence and has a world to conquer. But her notions of travel, graduate study, and writing the great American novel will have to be postponed. With her mother, Susan, leaving to fulfill her own dreams in Paris and her Aunt Maggie, Uncle Grant, and stepfather, Simon, moving to California, Beth is elected by her elders to house-sit the Island Gamble. Surrounded by the shimmering blue waters of the Atlantic, the white clapboards, silver tin roof, and confessional porch have seen and heard the stories of generations of Hamiltons. But will the ghosts of the Island Gamble be watching over Beth? Buoyed by sentimental memories of growing up on this tiny sandbar that seems to be untouched by time, Beth vows to give herself over to the Lowcountry force and discover the wisdom it holds. She will rest, rejuvenate, and then reenter the outside world. Just as she vows she will never give into the delusional world of white picket fences, minivans, and eternal love, she meets Max Mitchell. And all her convictions and plans begin to unravel with lightning speed. There is so much about life and her family's past that she does not know. Her ignorance and naivet nearly cost her both her inheritance and her family's respect. But Beth finds unexpected friends to help her through the disaster she faces: her wise and charming Aunt Sophie; Cecily Singleton, the granddaughter of Livvie Singleton; and Woody Morrison, the solid young investment banker. This wonderful ensemble of characters could be your own family, but watch what unfolds as they succumb to the island's spell. If everything happens for a reason, then Beth's return to Sullivans Island teaches her that betrayal and tragedy are most easily handled when you surround yourself with loyal family and friends in a magical place that loves you so much that it wants to claim you as its own. |
| CATEGORY: | Alternate History |
| PRICE: | $25.99 |
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| TITLE: | Dark Child: A Novel by Travis Hunter |
| DESCRIPTION: | When poor babies wind up missing, no one seems to care.Urban Brown is a white man who grew up in the dark recesses of the inner city where he was the victim of torment, abuse, abandonment, deception and murder. Urban overcame his horrid past to live a peaceful and prosperous existence in his upper-class community. He has everything a man could ask for: a career, which he loves; a sprawling estate and a drop-dead gorgeous fiancee, Sierra. Then out of the blue, he receives a phone call that changes his life. Jamillah is Urban's sister, and unlike her brother, she wasn't able to overcome the horrors of her past and turned to drugs to ease the pain. Life on the streets is hard enough, but once a baby comes along, she tries to sell him on the black market. Urban won't hear any of it, and he and Sierra resolve to raise the child as their own. But upon further investigation, Urban realizes that his sister is involved in a dark and sinister scheme to steal black babies from poor girls in small, rural towns and sell them to the highest bidders. As Urban digs deeper and deeper into the kidnapping network, he gets dangerously close to the heart of the matter and is disgusted and disheartened by what he discovers.Dark Child is a chilling story about the untold struggles of the disenfranchised that inspiringly illustrates how one man is not able to turn his back on the problems of his former community--even though he so desperately wants to leave that troubled place in his past forever. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $23.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Last Summer of Her Other Life by Jean Reynolds Page |
| DESCRIPTION: | From Jean Reynolds Pagethe critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Before and After and one of the most compelling voices in contemporary women's fictioncomes a dazzling novel of loss and redemption, of relationships that damage and those that heal. Thirty-nine and pregnant by a man she's decided to leave behind in California, Jules' life is changing. Always the protected daughter, she must now relinquish that role and prepare to be a mother herself. But her efforts are upstaged by shocking allegations from a local teen in her North Carolina hometown. The boy has accused her of what the police are calling inappropriate sexual contact. Three men rally in her defense: Lincoln, her brother, who flies in from New York to help her; Sam, her high school boyfriend, who after so many years still offers unconditional support; and Walt, the uncle of the teen, who charms Jules with his intelligence and unanticipated kindness. Her search for the truth about the troubled teenager becomes, for Jules, a first step toward discovering the woman she wishes to be. But with so many wrong choices behind her, how can she trust herself with the future of her unborn child? |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $13.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Goodbye Cousins by Maggie Leffler |
| DESCRIPTION: | A tender, funny, effervescent novel about reconnecting cousins, family secrets, and a season of change "Your family will find you." It was the last thing Diotima Linzer's mother, Roxanne, ever told her. But this was the same mother who kidnapped Di when she was eleven and fled to Europe where her broken-hearted father--and the FBI--would never find them. Now a single mom herself, Di is making a belated return to the States with her two-year-old son, Max, searching for the father she lost. That means moving in temporarily with her cousin Alecia and Alecia's fiancee, Ben, in a Pittsburgh apartment crowded with wedding gifts. If that's not already a recipe for disaster, Di soon finds herself falling for the wealthy, handsome, "nearly divorced" father who hires her as a nanny for his troubled teenage son, while her cousin Alecia, preoccupied by her promotion to television news anchor and a prenup she hasn't mentioned to her fiancee, has to cope with the sudden reappearance of her estranged mother--who may hold the secret to Di's parents' past. Suddenly these two very different cousins--one searching for direction in the universe, the other desperate to stop her well-ordered life from unraveling--are about to discover that the family they thought they'd lost may have found them instead. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | Soul of a Highlander by Melissa Mayhue |
| DESCRIPTION: | Nine years ago, Faerie Magic saved Mairi MacKiernan at the cost of her dreams of happiness, snatching her from her life in 1272, and depositing her in the twenty-first century. Now, she must save the last Daughter of the MacKiernan family...who was murdered in 1295. Transported back in time at her request, Mairi finds herself captured by the same evil men as before! Is this the price the Faerie Magic requires of her this time? Ramos Servans has dedicated his dreams to service as a Guardian, but when he discovers the evil unleashed on the Mortal Plain by his father and their people, he swears he will atone by ridding the world of Nuadian deceit. Part of his mission involves rescuing a lovely Highland lassie, and in the passion that grows between them, Ramos and Mairi find a new dream.But falling in love can be dangerous when Faerie Magic is involved. Dreams may not be the only cost.... |
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| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | No More Tomorrows: Two Lives, Two Stories, One Love by Rodney Lofton |
| DESCRIPTION: | After awaking from a restless sleep that has plagued him for weeks, Mark Jones awakes to the realization it is his last physical day on earth. Mark begins to reflect on his life of living with HIV and his love for his HIV negative partner Kevin Williams, who despite his initial reservations has embraced and loved Mark knowing that "death would come knocking soon." This love story traces the relationship between Mark and Kevin from the very first date, the very first kiss, the first time they made love and the last time they would say good-bye. |
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| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte by Syrie James |
| DESCRIPTION: | "I have written about the joys of love. I have, in my secret heart, long dreamt of an intimate connection with a man; every Jane, I believe, deserves her Rochester." Though poor, plain, and unconnected, Charlotte Bronte possesses a deeply passionate side which she reveals only in her writingscreating Jane Eyre and other novels that stand among literature's most beloved works. Living a secluded life in the wilds of Yorkshire with her sisters Emily and Anne, their drug-addicted brother, and an eccentric father who is going blind, Charlotte Bronte dreams of a real love story as fiery as the ones she creates. But it is in the pages of her diary where Charlotte exposes her deepest feelings and desiresand the truth about her life, its triumphs and shattering disappointments, her family, the inspiration behind her work, her scandalous secret passion for the man she can never have ... and her intense, dramatic relationship with the man she comes to love, the enigmatic Arthur Bell Nicholls. "Who is this man who has dared to ask for my hand? Why is my father so dead set against him? Why are half the residents of Haworth determined to lynch himor shoot him?" From Syrie James, the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, comes a powerfully compelling, intensely researched literary feat that blends historical fact and fiction to explore the passionate heart and unquiet soul of Charlotte Bronte. It is Charlotte's story, just as she might have written it herself. |
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| PRICE: | $14.99 |
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| TITLE: | Heroic Measures: A Novel by Jill Ciment |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the author of The Tattoo Artist ("Beautifully written"--Alice Sebold; "Boldly conceived"--The New York Times Book Review), a new novel--taut, moving, accomplished--set in a fraught, post-9/11 New York... about real estate, dog love, and a city on alert. A gasoline tanker truck is "stuck" in the Midtown Tunnel. New Yorkers are panicked .... Is this the next big attack? Alex, an artist, and Ruth, a former schoolteacher with an FBI file as thick as a dictionary, must get their beloved dachshund, whose back legs have suddenly become paralyzed, to the animal hospital sixty blocks north. But the streets of Manhattan are welded with traffic. Their dog, Dorothy, twelve-years-old and gray-faced, is the emotional center of Alex and Ruth's forty-five-year-long childless marriage. Using a cutting board as a stretcher, they ferry the dog uptown. This is also the weekend that Alex and Ruth must sell their apartment. While house hunters traipse through it during their open house, husband and wife wait by the phone to hear from the animal hospital. During the course of forty-eight hours, as the missing truck driver terrorizes the city, the price of their apartment becomes a barometer for collective hope and despair, as the real estate market spikes and troughs with every breaking news story. In shifting points of view--Alex's, Ruth's, and the little dog's--man, woman, and one small tenacious beast try to make sense of the cacophony of rumors, opinions, and innuendos coming from news anchors, cable TV pundits, pollsters, bomb experts, hostages, witnesses, real estate agents, house hunters, bargain seekers, howling dogs, veterinarians, nurses, and cab drivers. A moving, deftly told novel of ultrahigh-urban anxiety. |
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| PRICE: | $23.00 |
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| TITLE: | Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum Mccann |
| DESCRIPTION: | In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city's people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the "artistic crime of the century." A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a "fiercely original talent" (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal. |
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| PRICE: | $25.00 |
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| TITLE: | Children of the Waters: A Novel by Carleen Brice |
| DESCRIPTION: | Still reeling from divorce and feeling estranged from her teenage son, Trish Taylor is in the midst of salvaging the remnants of her life when she uncovers a shocking secret: her sister is alive. For years Trish believed that her mother and infant sister had died in a car accident. But the truth is that her mother fatally overdosed and that Trish's grandparents put the baby girl up for adoption because her father was black. After years of drawing on the strength of her black ancestors, Billie Cousins is shocked to discover that she was adopted. Just as surprising, after finally overcoming a series of health struggles, she is pregnant--a dream come true for Billie but a nightmare for her sweetie, Nick, and for her mother, both determined to protect Billie from anything that may disrupt her well-being. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Appetite: A Novel by Erika J. Kendrick |
| DESCRIPTION: | MANY CULTURES; ONE WORLD With her exotic looks and killer body, Kennedy Lee is a rising star in the reality TV and soap opera worlds. Now she's really hit the big time and landed a role on the hugely popular daytime drama America's Next Sweetheart. As this great news coincides with Kennedy's birthday, her friends take her out for a wild night on the town. So wild, in fact, that the next morning Kennedy wakes up with a hard-bodied hunk in her bed, a vicious headache, and no recollection of how this gorgeous guy ended up beside her--naked. Not only that, but it's her first day at the new gig, and Page Six has already chronicled her previous night's exploits, calling her "America's Next Lush." Now Kennedy must endure dirty looks on the set, abuse from the soap's bitchy diva, and the shocker that the guy who broke her five-year celibacy streak is none other than her co-star, Jesse James. As she battles catty actors, snarky production assistants, malicious gossip, and her growing appetite for food and sex, she struggles to fit in, find her true Prince Charming, and eat a slice of red velvet cake without any guilt. |
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| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Sound of Water: A Novel by Sanjay Bahadur |
| DESCRIPTION: | Written with rare literary style by a former director of the Indian Ministry of Coal, The Sound of Water provides an agonizing 360-degree account of an Indian mining disaster as seen from three perspectives: an old miner struggling to save himself and his coworkers hundreds of feet below the surface of the earth as water threatens to drown them; the company and government officials charged with managing the rescue efforts; and the miners' families anxiously awaiting word of survival or death. The Sound of Water is a searing fictional expose of the appalling conditions that Indian miners endure and a moving story of the spiritual strength and conviction that enables one to survive against the odds. Despite the despair, futility, and negatives, The Sound of Water is a story about those who find their own redemption in an impossible situation and liberation from elements that throttle life. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $16.00 |
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| TITLE: | Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Love, Lust & Forbidden Fruit by Adam Schell |
| DESCRIPTION: | A village in Tuscany is the setting for this joyous debut--a novel that defies all our expectations as it puts a fresh, clever, captivating spin on the age-old tale of forbidden love. Rich in literary delights, filled with spectacular wordplay, and rife with the bawdy humor of Shakespeare's comedies, Tomato Rhapsody is the almost-true tale of how the tomato came to Italy--at once a brilliantly inventive fable of love, lust, and longing, and a dazzling feast for the imagination. This is a story born from love--a forbidden love--between Davido, an Ebreo tomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl....But it's not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for something--from Davido's grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Mari's villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughter's virginity and his neighbor's land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to change as what is forbidden becomes too delicious to resist. Tradition, religion, and good taste collide unforgettably in a story about the courage to pursue love and tomato sauce at all costs. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $25.00 |
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| TITLE: | Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange: A Novel by Amanda Smyth |
| DESCRIPTION: | Men will want you like they want a glass of rum...One man will love you. But you won't love him. You will destroy his life. The one you love will break your heart in two. So says the soothsayer, when predicting young Celia's future. Raised in the tropics of Tobago by an aunt she loves and an uncle she fears, Celia has never felt that she belonged. When her uncle--a man the neighbors call Allah because he thinks himself mightier than God--does something unforgivable, Celia escapes to the bustling capital city. There she quickly embraces her burgeoning independence, but her search for a place to call home is soon complicated by an affectionate friendship with William, a thoughtful gardener, and a strong sexual tension with her employer. All too quickly, Celia finds herself fulfilling the soothsayer's predictions and living a life of tangled desperation--trapped between the man who offers her passion and the one who offers his heart. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | This Little Mommy Stayed Home: A Novel by Samantha Wilde |
| DESCRIPTION: | The Mother of all Motherhood novels. In this riotously funny, ruefully honest, and irresistibly warmhearted debut, Samantha Wilde writes about one new mother who discovers the wonders and terrors of motherhood--one hilarious crisis at a time. For new moms, potential moms-to-be, and anyone who just wants to (wisely) live the experience vicariously... New mom Joy McGuire hasn't changed her sweatpants since her baby was born. Of course she's crazy about her newborn son; it's her distracted, work-obsessed husband and his impossible mother she can't stand. Joy turns to her own mom for support, but she's too busy planning her fourth wedding to a suspicious self-help guru. Sure, Joy's a woman on the brink, but it's nothing a little sleep, sanity, and chocolate can't fix. Until her old college boyfriend shows up at their ten-year reunion. The one she was still in love with when she married her husband. It must be the lack of sleep, because Joy is starting to think she might have ended up with the wrong man. Not to mention she's obsessed with her sexy yoga instructor, who might just be interested in her. Joy used to be single, skinny, and able to speak in complete sentences, but who is she now? As she's trying to figure that out, her husband goes missing.... Frank, bawdy, and full of keenly self-aware observations, this novel tells the story of one new mother, three men, one marriage, and the baby love that keeps us up at night |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $15.00 |
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| TITLE: | A Monster's Notes by Laurie Sheck |
| DESCRIPTION: | What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein's monster but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother's grave, and he came to her unbidden? What if their secret bond left her forever changed, obsessed with the strange being whom she had discovered at a time of need? What if he were still alive in the twenty-first century? This bold, genre-defying book brings us the "monster" in his own words. He recalls how he was "made" and how Victor Frankenstein abandoned him. He ponders the tragic tale of the Shelley's and the intertwining of his life with that of Mary (whose fictionalized letters salt the narrative, along with those of her nineteenth-century intimates) in this riveting mix of fact and poetic license. He takes notes on all aspects of human striving--from the music of John Cage to robotics to the Northern explorers whose lonely quest mirrors his own--as he tries to understand the strange race that made yet shuns him, and to find his own freedom of mind. In the course of the monster's musings, we also see Mary Shelley's life from her childhood through her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley, her writing of Frankenstein, the births and deaths of her children, Shelley's famous drowning, her widowhood, her subsequent travels and life's work, and finally her death from a brain tumor at age fifty-four. The monster's fierce bond with Mary and the tale of how he ended up in her fiction is a haunted, intense love story, a story of two beings who can never forget each other. A Monster's Notes is Sheck's most thrilling work to date, a luminous meditation on creativity and technology, on alienation and otherness, on ugliness and beauty, and on our need to be understood. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $30.00 |
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| TITLE: | Pop Tart by Kira Coplin |
| DESCRIPTION: | An eager, aspiring make-up artist, Jackie O'Reilly has always dreamed of a high-profile Hollywood careerand now fate has made her fantasy a glittering reality. Filling in at the last minute for her boss, Jackie finds herself working with America's newest sweetheartwild and glamorous Brooke Parker, who's on the brink of superstardom. Jackie's right where she's always wanted to be: in the entourage of an "it-girl," a globe-trotting world of private jets, long white limos and all-night parties. Brooke is fun and real, but also impetuous and unpredictable. And when the pop princess begins to unravel, Jackie will have to decide where her true loyalties lieor become a victim of the unrelenting chaos of the twenty-four-hour media circus. A blistering, dazzling, and authentic novel written by two knowledgeable Hollywood insiders, Pop Tart is a high-speed roller-coaster ride through the treacherous playland of pop culture stardom. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $14.99 |
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| TITLE: | What Happens in London by Julia Quinn |
| DESCRIPTION: | Rumors and Gossip ... The lifeblood of London When Olivia Bevelstoke is told that her new neighbor may have killed his fiance, she doesn't believe it for a second, but, still, how can she help spying on him, just to be sure? So she stakes out a spot near her bedroom window, cleverly concealed by curtains, watches, and waits ... and discovers a most intriguing man, who is definitely up to something. Sir Harry Valentine works for the boring branch of the War Office, translating documents vital to national security. He's not a spy, but he's had all the training, and when a gorgeous blonde begins to watch him from her window, he is instantly suspicious. But just when he decides that she's nothing more than an annoyingly nosy debutante, he discovers that she might be engaged to a foreign prince, who might be plotting against England. And when Harry is roped into spying on Olivia, he discovers that he might be falling for her himself ... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Surrender to the Devil by Lorraine Heath |
| DESCRIPTION: | A Devilish Duke on a Quest for Pleasure ... Frannie Darling was once a child of London's roughest streets, surrounded by petty thieves, pickpockets, and worse. But though she survived this harsh upbringing to become a woman of incomparable beauty, Frannie wants nothing to do with the men who lust for her, the rogues who frequent the gaming hall where she works. She can take care of herself and feels perfectly safe on her ownsafe, that is, until he strides into her world, and once again it becomes a very dangerous place indeed. To bed her but not wed her. That's what Sterling Mabry, the eighth Duke of Greystone, wants. But Frannie abhors arrogant aristocrats interested only in their own pleasure. So why then does the thought of an illicit tryst with the devilish duke leave her trembling with desire? Her willing body begs for release ... and a wicked, wonderful surrender. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Game for Seduction by Bella Andre |
| DESCRIPTION: | The daughter of a powerful sports agent, Melissa McKnight has harbored lust-filled fantasies for Dominic DiMarco ever since she was an awkward teenager, when the San Francisco Outlaws' gorgeous wide receiver became her father's superstar client. Now Melissa's a beautiful, tenacious associate in her father's firm, and being around to-die-for hard-bodies is all in a day's work...until tangling with Dominic at a photo shoot blindsides her with passion. Dominic has built a flawless career by being in control--on and off the field. And despite his intense desire for Melissa, he's not about to seduce his agent's daughter--until Melissa stages a power play to break free from her domineering father and winds up at an edgy bar on the wrong side of town. Dominic thinks he's rescuing the innocent Melissa he met years ago...but one night of sizzling passion reveals a woman with no limits--including a penchant for hot sex in public places. If anyone's breaking all the rules of seduction, it's sexy, irresistible Melissa. But Dominic has a secret from years ago--one that could ruin his sterling reputation and take Melissa along with him. Will his bad-boy past bind them closer together? Or will they crash and burn? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Good Things I Wish You by A. Manette Ansay |
| DESCRIPTION: | The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances--one historical, the other modern-day--separated by thousands of miles and well over a century. Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, novelist Jeanette struggles to complete a book about the long-term relationship between Clara Schumann, a celebrated pianist and the wife of the composer Robert Schumann, and her husband's protege, the handsome young composer Johannes Brahms. Although this legendary love triangle has been studied exhaustively, Jeanette--herself a gifted pianist--wonders about the enduring nature of Clara and Johannes's lifelong attachment. Were they just "best friends," as both steadfastly claimed? Or was the relationship complicated by desires that may or may not have been consummated? Through a chance encounter, Jeanette meets Hart, a mysterious, worldly entrepreneur who is a native of Clara's birthplace, Leipzig, Germany. Hart's casual help with translations quickly blossoms into something more. There are things about men and women, he insists, that do not change. The two embark on a whirlwind emotional journey that leads Jeanette across Germany and Switzerland to a crossroads similar to that faced by Clara Schumann--also a mother, also an artist--more than a century earlier. Accompanied by photographs, sketches, and notes from past and present, A. Manette Ansay's original blend of fiction and history captures the timeless nature of love and friendship between women and men. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $25.99 |
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| TITLE: | Sucker for Love: A Dead-End Dating Novel by Kimberly Raye |
| DESCRIPTION: | Divalicious darling of the undead Lil Marchette is this close to finding her own happily-ever-after with hunky live-in bounty hunter Ty Bonner. Unfortunately, reality is biting back in a big way. Lil's got mounting bills to pay and clients to keep happily hooked up courtesy of Dead End Dating, the ultimate meet-and-greet for New York's fanged, furry, and fabulous. But leave it to a drop-dead gorgeous eight-hundred-year-old warlock with a big-girl fetish to take the biggest chomp out of Lil's happiness by kidnapping Esther Crutch, one of Lil's plus-size clients, now stamped as Grade-A Ritual Meat. Leaving Ty warming the bed, Lil races to rescue Esther's curvy behind before she's turned into a Mayan sacrifice. The trail leads to Texas--hell by any other name--and as if dust, demons, and hopelessly outdated fashion weren't bad enough, fate gives Lil an unexpected partner: her mom, who is on a mission to meddle (as usual) and grab a little mother-daughter time. Will Lil remain calm in the face of smotherly love and save Esther--or will her client bite the dust? |
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