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[ "In this glorious undersea setting, mermaids study shipwrecks at school and Neptune rules with an iron trident. A fantasy about family secrets, loyal friendship, and the convention-defying power of love. Turtleback binding is a highly durable alternative to a hardcover or paperback book. The comprehensive cover reinforcement process will drastically combat wear and tear, keeping your favorite books in great condition for years to come! Turtleback books are ideal for any reader, or for use in schools or libraries." ]

[ "About the Author", "Liz Kessler lives on a canal boat in rural Cheshire, England, and has worked as a teacher, journalist, and editorial consultant. She says she first knew she wanted to become a writer at the age of nine, when she had a poem published in a local newspaper. THE TAIL OF EMILY WINDSNAP, her first children's book, grew out of a poem she wrote about a mermaid.", "\"From the Hardcover edition.\"" ]

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[ "For years, chef and cookbook author Alice Hart has been crafting—and sharing—“recipes for giving pleasure.” Now,", "Good Veg", "showcases ebullient vegetables, fruits, and grains—in inventive, reliable dishes to sustain you (and family and friends) all day, through every season. Hart’s food surprises and thrills through", "contrasts", "(think crisp and soft, sweet and sour, chile heat and refreshing herb):", "Roasted Carrot Soup with Flatbread Ribbons", "Roasted Carrot Soup with Flatbread Ribbons", "Chickpea Crepes with Wild Garlic", "Chickpea Crepes with Wild Garlic", "Brown Rice Bibimbap Bowls with Smoky Peppers", "Brown Rice Bibimbap Bowls with Smoky Peppers", "Toasted Marzipan Ice Cream", "Toasted Marzipan Ice Cream", "Plus, her thoughtfully organized chapters help you find just the right dish:", "Mornings • Grazing • Quick • Thrifty • Gatherings • Grains • Raw-ish • Afters • Pantry", "“The time is right for a book packed to the rafters with ideas and a rainbow of colors, so you never need wonder what to cook for any occasion.”—", "Alice Hart" ]

[ "Review", "“I could cook from this book every night.”—", "Nigella Lawson", "“The 200 colorful creations presented here represent a veritable master class in meat-free cookery…[a] worthy addition to any cook’s shelf, no matter vegetarian or omnivore.”—", "Booklist", "“Whether you’re in search of a quick breakfast, a midweek meal, or a showstopper for a special occasion, you’ll find . . . satisfying dishes for everyday cooking. Hart’s new collection is a great choice for readers seeking vegetarian recipes beyond the ordinary.”—", "Library Journal", "“[Alice Hart’s] meat-free recipes allow home cooks to move past the typical, easy staples.”—", "Toronto Star", "“The new contender for best vegetarian cookbook on the planet . . . this is so, so special. It is revolutionary. I want to cook and eat everything in it.”", "—Gizzi Erskine,", "UK chef and author of", "Gizzi’s Kitchen Magic, My Kitchen Table: 100 Foolproof Suppers, Skinny Weeks and Weekend Feasts,", "and", "Gizzi’s Healthy Appetite,", "TV presenter for", "Iron Chef", "“", "The New Vegetarian", "could be our favorite yet . . . Alice’s book is bursting with easy, seasonal dishes and twists on old favorites. At a time when we’re all trying to go a little greener, this book is essential.” —", "Jamie Magazine", ", by Jamie Oliver “This beautiful book is full to the brim with recipes that reflect the way we want to eat now: vibrant, joyful food that is not only delicious but healthful as well. I want to cook everything in it!” —", "Skye Gyngell,", "Australian Michelin-starred chef and former food editor for", "Vogue", "“This is the best vegetarian book I’ve ever read or cooked from. I absolutely love it and indeed every food lover should own this book.”", "—Diana Henry,", "Irish chef, food writer for", "The Sunday Telegraph", ", author of eight cookbooks “The vegetarian cookbook to end them all, the one that all this Meat-Free Monday and Veganuary and 5:2 Flexitarianism has been leading to: veggie recipes that scrimp on absolutely nothing. You know you should be eating less meat, you know about the eco and health and financial benefits. And this is how to do it.”—", "Red", "magazine", "“Her food just tastes amazing.”—", "The Pool", "online magazine", "About the Author", "Alice Hart", "is a seasoned food writer, editor, stylist, chef, and cookbook author whose work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines. Her previous books include", "Vegetarian: A Delicious Celebration of Fresh Ingredients", "and", "Friends at My Table", "." ]

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[ "CoolKids Volume 03 ––", "Looking for an awesome new challenge in word search puzzles?Have fun with the American Sign Language Alphabet!", "This is the ultimate challenge for the truly fearless word search addicted who are looking for a new experience, or for fingerspelling aficionados eager to hone their craft. No matter what your fingerspelling ability level is – even if you have never tried it before: This puzzle collection is sure to provide you with many hours of fun!", "->", "Get it now!", "Are you ...", "... looking for a new word search puzzle challenge?or... looking for ways to train your fingerspelling skills without the need for a partner?or... tired of seeing poor quality hand shape illustrations being used for sign language alphabet word search puzzles?or... looking for material that is suitable for kids and adults alike?", "->", "Each professionally illustrated book of the", "Finger Alphabet Cool Kids", "series focusses on a specific topic:", "The first book of the series centers on ADVERBS (3rd-5th grade)", "->", "These books include:", "• Handshape illustrations approved by sign language experts from Gallaudet University• Large print• Teacher's material• Vocabulary appropriate for kids (3rd-5th grade or older) and adults alike• Quality illustrations• Basic how-tos of fingerspelling • The complete ASL Alphabet chart• Key solutions for all of the puzzles• Clearly marked levels of difficulty• Download links for free alphabet • Teachers: classroom licenses available!", "->", "Get it now!", "................................................................" ]

[ "Review", "Praise for the ASL Fingerspelling Word Search Book Series:", "\"I love this book! It's so fun and just the right amount of challenge. It can be used by beginners and fluent speakers. My daughter and I do them together. I love doing the puzzles when I need to keep my mind busy or challenged.\"", "- Amazon Reviewer", "\"Had been looking for something that would reinforce parts of speech and give practice with finger-spelling, this is absolutely perfect. Nice font size, very clear representations of finger alphabet.\"", "- Amazon Reviewer", "\"It's good practice for my ASL students. It's also an easy bell work to pass out at start of class to keep them busy when I'm taking attendance or after a quiz.\"", "- Amazon Reviewer", "\"A fun book for puzzlers and those practicing ASL fingerspelling. The idea of showing the signs from the view of how you would see them is brilliant!\"", "- Amazon Reviewer", "\"Everyone loves to do a search a word puzzle now and then, but how about searching for signs that create them instead of letters? Can't get much cooler than that. Language development comes in many forms and puzzles are a fun and easy way to learn.\"", "- Amazon Reviewer", "\"Bought the book for a neat stocking stuffer for my daughter who is slowly trying to learn sign, thought this would be such a fun way. I love the size of the book and print, I may even sneak in and use a puzzle or two.\"", "- Amazon Reviewer", "\"If you want a fun way to learn / improve in the ASL alphabet, finger-spelling, recognition of the hand's / finger's position for each letter of the alphabet to spell words, these are fun books to help you do it. And the prices are extremely reasonable on Amazon. We recommend the series.\"", "- Amazon Reviewer", "About the Author", "Lassal is a contemporary German artist and author of several non-fiction, short fiction, and illustrated books. Her works of non-fiction for the Deaf international communities garnered critical acclaim and a nomination for the German Award for Civic Engagement." ]

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[ "Detroit lawyer Charley Sloan has been around the block once or twice. Down for the count, drinking heavily, a three-time loser in the marriage wars, Charley repairs his tattered career and gets back in the game. Heading his rogues' gallery of clients is the infamous, twisted angel of mercy, Doctor Death, whose patients have a strange habit of dying under very peculiar circumstances.But now Charley steps into a case with the opportunity to do some good. The high stakes include a literal matter of life and death. And, as he quickly discovers, they also include the sinister stench of corruption that reaches to the highest levels of jurisprudence-including Charley Sloan's respected mentor. Suddenly, a rock and a hard place never looked so good." ]

[ "Review", "\"A superb book, rich in the elements that make for a wonderful read.", "Death Penalty", "is the best of [Coughlin's] novels...a remarkable legacy...the most enjoyable book I've read all year.\"-The Detroit News\"Bravo! Coughlin brilliantly captures the corruption of the legal system by human error and greed. Thought-provoking and timely.\"-Library Journal\"A wily, likeable tale.\"-Time\"Coughlin delivers another thoughtful, brisk-paced and fully satisfying legal mystery.\"-Publishers Weekly\"Readers who enjoyed Scott Turow's", "Presumed Innocent", "are likely to enjoy this fast-paced novel. Will not fail to please connoisseurs of legal fiction.\"-American Bar Association Journal", "From Publishers Weekly", "Coughlin ( Shadow of a Doubt ) delivers another thoughtful, brisk-paced and fully satisfying legal mystery. Though his drinking caused his near-disbarment, former hot-shot Detroit attorney Charlie Sloan, now practicing from Pickeral Point, a small town outside the Motor City, gets a chance to rescue his career. The recovering, thrice-divorced criminal lawyer hits the headlines when his client, a physician labeled Dr. Death, is convicted of murder for helping a wealthy, terminally ill patient speed his demise. While appealing that conviction and advising a waitress who has accused a Pickeral Point bigwig of rape, Sloan is asked by an old drinking buddy and fellow lawyer to take charge of the appeal of a $5-million personal injury suit brought against Ford by a man paralyzed in an auto accident. Sloan soon finds himself being lured into a extortion scam that seems to incriminate his mentor, a much-respected judge. As the rape case evolves into homicide, Dr. Death is jailed again on another murder charge, and the personal injury appeal confirms Sloan's suspicions of high-court corruption. In Coughlin's deft handling, Sloan triumphs in each case with his credibility and self-respect intact--and without taking a drink. Readers will regret that Coughlin (Shadow of a Doubt) died earlier this year. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates; R e ader's Digest Condensed Books selection. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "1Sometimes I like my clients, sometimes I don’t. I try to convince myself that I do an adequate job either way. But sometimes I wonder. I wasn’t fond of Miles Stewart, M.D., whom I had just defended in the Wayne County Circuit Court. We were in a courtroom located high up in the towering City-County Building, a governmental sky-scraper overlooking the sports-minded City of Detroit. Detroiters love all sports, especially contact sports, like mayhem. Here mayhem has been raised to a contest of Olympic proportions. Mayhem is a sport where scorekeeping is easy. Corpses, number of stitches, or artful location of bullet wounds count for points, but you truly win only if you survive. Lately, in Detroit, there had been a lot of losers.Stewart, who had been reading a medical journal, put it down and walked to where I was sitting. His steps echoed in the nearly empty courtroom.“They’ve been out a very long time,” he said. “I presume that’s a good sign.”“You never really know,” I replied. “Juries tend to take murder cases somewhat seriously. Even in Detroit. It’s been a long trial, and this is only the second day of deliberations. But common wisdom does say that the longer a jury is out the better it is for the defendant.”“I have a difficult time thinking of myself that way, as the defendant.”I studied him for a moment, wondering if at last he might be exhibiting some sign of human vulnerability. He had maintained an icy cool throughout the trial, almost a detachment. Although I had kept him off the witness stand, I knew the jurors had watched him. They had eyes. They had seen the obvious arrogance.Dr. Stewart was tall, well over six feet, and athletically lean. He was almost sixty, but looked forty. His silky ginger hair, groomed as carefully as a television anchorman’s, held no trace of gray. His alabaster skin was smooth and unwrinkled. His features would have been pleasant if it weren’t for his eyes. They were two little green stones, cold and without emotion. He seldom blinked. The total effect suggested a reptilian quality.“Do you still think I’ll be convicted?” He smiled, but as usual the expression was more imperious than friendly.“We’ll see. Maybe we’ll get lucky. You never know.”“And if not, if we’re not lucky, what happens then?”“It’s all been arranged, Doctor. This is a front-page case, so there will be quite a fuss no matter which way it goes. Should the jury come back with a verdict of guilty, you’ll be taken into custody, handcuffs and all, chiefly for the benefit of the photographers. The court officers will hold you in an office behind the courtroom for an hour and then you’ll be released. The judge has agreed to continue bail.”“Does this sort of thing happen often?”“What?”“Where both sides come together like this to orchestrate a theatrical charade for the benefit of the great unwashed.” The words held the suggestion of a sneer. His reptilian eyes watched for a reaction. “Or is this how the legal system really works?”I restrained myself. I had often had to practice such restraint during the course of our lawyer-client relationship. It seemed to please him when he could provoke an angry response. I paused and then spoke in a carefully measured tone. “I have no idea about medicine, but the law lends itself to compromise, real as well as for show. I worked out this arrangement to save you a night in jail. The prosecutor knows you would eventually get out on bond, pending appeal, no matter how vigorously he objected. He just wants his triumphant moment in the camera’s eye if you’re convicted. I admit it’s for show, but this way no one is inconvenienced, especially you.”“How thoughtful.” His words dripped with contempt. He turned away from me, no longer interested.Boredom permeated the almost empty courtroom. A few newspeople sat around talking. A court officer, his face slack, his eyelids heavy, was losing his fight against sleep.My client walked to a courtroom window and looked down on the city below.The press had tagged him Doctor Death. His face caught the outside light, lending shadow and texture to his angular features, accentuating his unusual eyes and producing an effect that suggested something sinister. It was the way villains in the old horror pictures were lighted, just before they bit someone in the throat. There wasn’t a discernible trace of human concern or care in that face. The prosecutor had called him an executioner. At the moment, he looked exactly that.If a sulfuric mist had suddenly swirled up about him, it wouldn’t have seemed at all out of place.Despite a certain oily charm, a facile quality he could call forth when it suited him, I hadn’t liked Miles Stewart even the first time we had met. That very negative reaction had grown with each day we had spent together.The case against him wasn’t legally strong, mostly just a weak web of circumstances and suspicions. But the judge had purposely allowed the prosecutor to enter grossly inadmissible evidence against my client. Judge Gallagher, who didn’t like doctors and especially doctors accused of killing their patients, had his own ethical idea about how the case should come out. The trial was drawing national attention, and legal or not, the judge wanted to send a public message. A warning to all doctors. And it was a very, very public warning. It was that kind of public case, the kind tabloid editors dream about, the kind that produced wonderful headlines like TYCOON CONTRACTS FOR OWN MURDER.The tycoon, Francis X. Milliard, had been just that, a financial wizard who had gobbled up half the manufacturing companies in America. Milliard, the father of three grown sons, had divorced his socialite wife and then stepped out of the closet and into the leather bars. But he had danced with the wrong partner and had contracted AIDS, although his publicity people had artfully concealed his condition, even at the last.Despite his billions, Milliard couldn’t buy a cure for the deadly disease that had been slowly killing him. No amount of money could buy that. But the prosecutor said Milliard did have sufficient funds to acquire the sinister services of Dr. Miles Stewart, purchasing a happy little injection and a quick, painless way out of a bad situation.The right-to-die people rallied to the cause of Dr. Stewart, calling him a pathfinder, an angel. The other side did everything but put a bounty on him.The officer assigned to shepherd the jury came hurrying into the courtroom. His excited whisper had the force of a shout. “They got a verdict!”Boredom evaporated instantly.Within minutes every seat in the courtroom was filled. The jury came trudging in slowly, as if they had done something wrong and expected trouble. They looked solemn, mournful. They awkwardly formed a ring before the judge.“Have you reached a verdict,” the court clerk spoke the formal question, “and if so, who will speak for you?”“We have, and I shall speak,” the rotund little woman who was a computer programmer answered. Her words had a distinct tremor, and she continued in an unnaturally loud voice. “We find the defendant guilty as charged, guilty of second-degree murder.”No trial lawyer likes to lose, but I had expected the verdict. During the trial, old Judge Gallagher had committed more errors than a blind shortstop.I would take the case up to the court of appeals and I would win there. They would order a retrial, a fair one.But the jury case was a public loss, and I had to face the press and television cameras out in the hallway. They didn’t like my client any more than I did, so their questions seemed unusually vicious.After that ordeal I made sure my original deal was carried out. It was, and Doctor Death was eventually spirited away to freedom, on bond, far from the prying eyes of the camera crews.It all took more time than I had anticipated, but finally I was finished, although I was beginning to experience the tiring drain of an emotional cool down. In the old days I would have sucked up some quick liquid energy at the nearest saloon. That seemed so long ago now.I set about gathering up my court papers and possessions for the hour-long drive back to Pickeral Point.Pickeral Point is a small Michigan city approximately forty miles northeast of Detroit. It is a river city. I moved there after my trouble. That’s all behind me now, I hope, but I still live in Pickeral Point, and my office is there, although I’m doing Detroit trial work once again.“Hey, Charley!”I had been alone in the deserted courtroom. I turned to see who had come in.At first I didn’t recognize him. I hadn’t seen him for six or seven years.“It’s me. Mickey Monk.” He grinned, exhibiting the familiar crooked smile. It was a beguiling choirboy grin, the kind that belonged on a fresh innocent face. But the face I was looking at wasn’t innocent or fresh. It was puffy, and the skin color resembled something you might see on ice in a fish market. Fleshy bags hung below cornflower blue eyes. Only the eyes and the smile looked healthy.“How are you, Mickey? It’s been a while.”We shook hands. His was warm and sweaty.“Jesus, I hear the jury jammed it up Doctor Death’s ass. Too bad.”“It won’t stick. The court of appeals will overturn it.”“You got the fix in?”I laughed. “I don’t need a fix. This thing will practically appeal itself.”I took a closer look at him. Mickey, a lawyer too, and I were old drinking buddies, brothers at the bar in more ways than one. We were about the same age, with the big five-oh looming just down the road for us both. He had put on weight, a lot of weight. His clothes, expensive but wrinkled, strained against thigh and belly.“Let’s go grab a drink, Charley.”I shook my head. “I don’t drink anymore.”He nodded slowly. “I heard that. Was it tough? Quitting, I mean?”“Depends on how you define tough. Why? Are you interested in giving it up?”He laughed, his puffy cheeks shaking from the effort. “Hell, no. If I stopped drinking, the national economy of Scotland would collapse. How about coming with me while I get a quick one?”“I try to avoid saloons these days.”“Hell, Charley, you got your law license back. You’re doing okay again. Relax, enjoy life a bit. One snort won’t kill you.”“I’ll pass, Mickey. Thanks anyway.”He ran a meaty hand through his thinning blond hair. “I gotta confess I didn’t just happen by. I heard you were up here so I came looking for you.”“You’ve found me. What’s up?”“I’d talk better if I had a drink.”I remember the need I saw in his eyes. My eyes used to look that way, too, the need bordering on pain. In those days I was never very long between drinks.“Okay, where do you want to go?”He brightened. “Mulrooney’s, of course.”Mulrooney’s, one of the oldest bars in the city, was the traditional watering hole for circuit court lawyers, judges, and clerks. I thought I probably held some kind of record there for number of consecutive times drunk.“Anyplace but Mulrooney’s,” I said.He looked disappointed. “Well, there’s a nice bar over at the Westin Hotel. And it’s close.”“Let’s go.”During the trip over I noticed even the short walk tended to wind him and his puffy face began to glisten with sweat. Mickey filled me in on his life as we walked. His second wife was talking divorce, and his kids were in perpetual trouble of various kinds. He was in a downtown Detroit office with three other personal injury lawyers. Business was up and down, mostly down.I told him of my little one-man office located above an insurance agency and looking out on the St. Clair River. He wasn’t impressed. And I told him about my daughter, although I didn’t tell him she was a recovering alcoholic just like her dear old dad. I did tell him, brag would be the better word, that she was an honor student at the University of Pennsylvania and thinking about going on to law school. He remembered my third wife, who had divorced me years ago. He had some unkind things to say about her. I didn’t object. They were all true.By the time we got to the bar we were all caught up on personal history.Mickey ordered a double scotch, straight up, and gulped it down, then ordered another. Sometimes it bothers me to watch people drink. Sometimes it doesn’t. This time I wasn’t bothered. I sipped my Coke and waited for him to tell me what had prompted him to search me out.“Are you going to handle the Doctor Death appeal yourself?” he asked. “I mean, prepare and brief it yourself and then argue the case?”I nodded.He worked a bit slower on the second drink. “As I remember, you got some friends over there on the court of appeals, right?”“I do, but that won’t count for a hell of a lot. I know a couple of the judges there. So do you.”“Not as well as you do,” he said quickly.“What’s your point, Mickey?”“You know what I do, right?”“Sure.”“I’m a personal injury lawyer,” he said, staring at the ice cubes in his glass. “I used to be pretty good, or at least I thought I was. Made money, too. It’s tougher now, Charley. No-fault this, no-fault that. It’s hard to make an honest buck anymore. At least it is for someone like me who handles mostly small stuff. Quantity, not quality, that’s what pays my rent, you know?”“So?”“I finally got my teeth into something good, real good. Big bucks, you know? But it’s on appeal. I’ve handled appeals before but not many, and none that were really big. I don’t think I want to do this one all on my own.”“The town is full of appellate experts, Mickey. Hire someone to help you.”He shrugged and signaled for another drink. “I know those guys. Paperwork men, nothing more. I need someone who has a wire in over there.”“I don’t have a wire in, if that’s what you mean. No one does, as far as I know.”He laughed, but it had a mocking sound. “You been away from the action around here, Charley. Things have changed.”“Like what?”“There’s a whisper that a judge or two over there is up for sale.”“Which ones?”“I don’t know. It’s just a rumor, but I think it’s probably true. It’s one of those things you hear a lot. You know the old wheeze, where there’s smoke there’s fire.”“There’s always that kind of rumor floating around, no matter what court it is. You know that, Mickey.”“What about Judge Newark in Recorder’s Court? Would you call that a rumor?”I laughed. “No matter what they may say about him he’s still on the bench. I understand the grand jury came close a few times, but they couldn’t nail him.”Mickey looked around to make sure no one could hear what he was about to say. Then he spoke in a near whisper. “I know how he does it.”“Oh?”“Remember Sid Williams?”A memory flashed in my mind, a picture of a sleazy little lawyer with bulging eyes and the world’s worst toupee. Sid was a fixture in Recorder’s Court. He had no law office but practiced out of a bondsman’s storefront. “I remember Sid.”“He’s Judge Newark’s partner.”“C’mon! Newark wouldn’t have anything to do with a slime like Sid.”“You wouldn’t think it, would you? Maybe that’s why it works so well.” Monk sipped his drink. “Sure you won’t have one of these, Charley?”“No. Go on. Tell me about Sid and the judge.”He flashed that boyish grin, then chuckled. “Suppose you got a criminal case in front of Judge Newark. Say, for instance, you got a client charged with sale and possession of narcotics. He’s got a record, and they got a good case on him. He’s looking at twenty years. The prosecutor won’t go for a lesser plea and your man is desperate. What do you do?”“Try it.”Monk nodded. “You do, but you waive a jury so that Newark will make the ultimate decision. But before you try it, you quick find Sid Williams. Only you don’t discuss that case, not a word, nothing. But you hire Sid to be your cocounsel on another case. It doesn’t matter what case, civil, criminal, whatever. You pay Sid maybe four thousand dollars, then you go to trial before Newark.”“And you win.”“No. You lose. That’s the neat part. You lose, but the judge finds your man guilty of a lesser offense. And he does some time too, but not much, maybe six months. Nobody complains. The prosecutor and the police aren’t happy, maybe, but they’re satisfied. The fucking dope dealer is ecstatic. You get the four grand from him, plus a bonus. You’re a hero, the judge looks good, and there’s no way to trace anything. Even if you were trying to make a case and were wearing a wire it wouldn’t do any good. You and Sid never talk about the matter up before Newark.”", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "About the Author", "William J. Coughlin, a former defense attorney and judge in Detroit for twenty years, was the author of sixteen novels. He lived in Grosse Point Woods, Michigan, with his wife, Ruth, an author and book critic.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "From Library Journal", "Detroit trial lawyer Charley Sloan ( Shadow of a Doubt , LJ 7/91) is defending a doctor accused of helping his patients die--for a fee. At the same time he is asked to handle the appeal in a $5 million lawsuit involving Ford and a man injured in an accident. Sloan, whose reputation for alcohol consumption and legal shenanigans far outweighs his current nondrinking, now-honorable life style, is approached by a former appellate judge who offers him a way to win the appeal. Juggling both cases, Sloan demonstrates a high level of heroism and professional ethics and the courage to implement both. Coughlin, an attorney and judge himself, brilliantly captures the corruption of the legal system by human error and greed. This 14th in a long line of well-written novels is thought-provoking and timely. Bravo! Literary Guild alternate; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/92.", "-Jo Ann Vi carel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio", "Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Review", "\"A superb book, rich in the elements that make for a wonderful read.", "Death Penalty", "is the best of [Coughlin's] novels...a remarkable legacy...the most enjoyable book I've read all year.\"-The Detroit News\"Bravo! Coughlin brilliantly captures the corruption of the legal system by human error and greed. Thought-provoking and timely.\"-Library Journal\"A wily, likeable tale.\"-Time\"Coughlin delivers another thoughtful, brisk-paced and fully satisfying legal mystery.\"-Publishers Weekly\"Readers who enjoyed Scott Turow's", "Presumed Innocent", "are likely to enjoy this fast-paced novel. Will not fail to please connoisseurs of legal fiction.\"-American Bar Association Journal", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "From the Back Cover", "There's Big Trouble In Motor CityDetroit lawyer Charley Sloan has been around the block once or twice. Down for the count, drinking heavily, a three-time loser in the marriage wars, Charley repairs his tattered career and gets back in the game. Heading his rogues' gallery of clients is the infamous, twisted angel of mercy, Doctor Death, whose patients have a strange habit of dying under very peculiar circumstances.And The Game Is Winner-Take-AllBut now Charley steps into a case with the opportunity to do some good. The high stakes include a literal matter of life and death. And, as he quickly discovers, they also include the sinister stench of corruption that reaches to the highest levels of jurisprudence-including Charley Sloan's respected mentor. Suddenly, a rock and a hard place never looked so good.\"In Charley Sloan...the author has given us a character we can care about. The verdict here is that Coughlin wins decisively in his final case.\"-", "USA Today", "\"A breakthrough crime novel.\" -", "Playboy", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Thrillers & Suspense" ]

[ "A 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor Book", "A young seamstress and a royal nursemaid find themselves at the center of an epic power struggle in this stunning young-adult debut.", "On the eve of Princess Sophia’s wedding, the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn prepares to fete the occasion with a sumptuous display of riches: brocade and satin and jewels, feasts of sugar fruit and sweet spiced wine. Yet beneath the veneer of celebration, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening the lives of the throne’s heirs, and a courtier’s wolfish hunger for the king’s favors sets a devious plot in motion. Here in the palace at Skyggehavn, things are seldom as they seem — and when a single errant prick of a needle sets off a series of events that will alter the course of history, the fates of seamstress Ava Bingen and mute nursemaid Midi Sorte become irrevocably intertwined with that of mad Queen Isabel. As they navigate a tangled web of palace intrigue, power-lust, and deception, Ava and Midi must carve out their own survival any way they can." ]

[ "From", "Booklist", "Skyggehavn, a fictional sixteenth-century kingdom, is a desperate place plagued by ­madness, disease, and mercury poisoning. Political intrigue, murder, and manipulation abound as Cokal wends the troubling tale of Ava, an aspiring royal seamstress, and Midi, a mute foreign nursemaid, who together orchestrate a daring gambit to ensure both the continued power of the reigning queen and the downfall of the cruel man who sadistically took advantage of them both. The author seamlessly interweaves crooked fairy tales throughout her dark story, which only serves to underscore the grim realities of the women who suffer terrible violence at the hands of brutal men. The graphic depictions of sex and rape make this a difficult read—and reserve it for the most mature readers—though Cokal gives a powerful and poignant voice to both Ava and Midi, whose indignation simmers until they enact a gruesome form of revenge. Despite the challenging content, the book’s lyrical writing, enthralling characters, and compelling plot will give older readers lots to ponder. Grades 10-12. --Sarah Hunter", "Review", "[A]lmost de Sadean in its rich, sumptuous details.—The New York Times Book ReviewThe events at court are recounted in richly detailed prose that renders immediate the sights and smells of a time when science was deeply intertwined with superstition and politics was a blood sport. ... The novel demands and rewards full immersion in its account of the everyday life, beliefs, and medical practices of the royals, and readers will definitely come away with a (dis)taste for the cultural history of the Renaissance. ... Cokal skillfully and unapologetically blurs the lines between fairy tale and history.—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)[T]he novel's ... brutality, eloquence, and scope are a breathtaking combination.—Publishers Weekly (starred review)This novel is distinctive in thought and elocution, but it is also dense and full of adult content.—School Library Journal (starred review)Complex and carefully crafted — mesmerizing.—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Cokal creates a mystical, shadowy setting full of intrigue and hidden passions.—VOYAThe author seamlessly interweaves crooked fairy tales throughout her dark story... [T]he book’s lyrical writing, enthralling characters, and compelling plot will give older readers lots to ponder—BooklistBrazen, baroque,", "The Kingdom of Little Wounds", "plots coordinates of history, fever, and magic in such a way that each is occasionally disguised as the other. However, there's no disguising Susann Cokal's immediate rise to eminence as a pantocrator of new realms. I lived in her controversial kingdom for only a week, but I suspect and hope I shall never recover.—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and What-the-DickensThere are deep and shallow reading experiences; this is a deep reading experience. There is nothing like it, though the fossil record flashes all kinds of petticoat. (Sigrid Undset. Margaret Atwood.) Elegant, complex, and sharp as a needle.—Blythe Woolston, winner of the William Morris Prize and author of Black HelicoptersAn epic, mercurial tale of astounding beauty, power, and madness.—Gigi Amateau, author of Claiming Georgia TateCokal's complex and dark fairy tale is not merely a primer of Renaissance cultural life — it's a window cut directly into that world.—San Francisco ChronicleBy combining fantasy with an incredibly realistic depiction of Renaissance Europe, Cokal brings to life a world that easily could have been a true one. Her exquisite descriptions spring off the page and into your senses. Just as easily as you marvel at the ornate details of a gown, you’ll wrinkle your nose at the scent of unwashed courtiers’ bodies and uncleaned chambers. You’ll gasp at the iniquities of the time and root for the unaristocratic underdogs. Cokal makes Skyggehavn as real as any writer can make her fictional realm.—TeenReads.com", "About the Author", "Susann Cokal", "is the author of two adult novels,", "Mirabilis", "and", "Breath", "and Bones", ", and her short stories and literary criticisms have been widely published in literary journals and", "The New York Times Book Review", ". This is her first novel for young adults. Currently an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, she lives in Richmond, Virginia.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Teen & Young Adult", "Science Fiction & Fantasy" ]

[ "How much would you sacrifice to save someone you love?When Olivia, wild-haired and headstrong, makes a terrible mistake, she must turn to the person least likely to help--her mother, Elaine. Motherhood was a role that Elaine never embraced and her best never amounted to much. But now Olivia faces prosecution for a naïve connection to a drug deal and she needs Elaine more than ever. As the days count down and Olivia’s future hangs in the balance, Elaine must decide just how much she is willing to give for a second chance with her daughter.With Daughter’s Keeper, Ayelet Waldman has crafted a redemptive journey at once highly emotional and unbearably suspenseful, as Olivia and Elaine’s struggle builds to a beautiful, heart-wrenching climax. In this luminous, gripping novel, Waldman brings to life the tensions and the tenderness that forge the unshakeable bond between parent and child. Daughter’s Keeper reveals the unlimited boundaries of forgiveness and the sacrifices we make for love.\"A powerhouse novel of complex emotions so compelling that when I finished the book, I started over again.\"--Amy Tan\"In Daughter’s Keeper, Ayelet Waldman shows that the power of love, even when prickling with thorns, can ultimately provide what the criminal system cannot: a hard-fought, hard-won second chance.\"--Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil\"Waldman’s passion and affection for her characters shine through.\"--Publishers Weekly\"Waldman has written Daughter’s Keeper with enough intelligence, tenderness and craft to shape outrage into a story that is both moving and enthralling.\" --Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity!\"Ayelet Waldman has brought the war on drugs home, and has shown us just how close to home it can come.…She looks past headlines and into the heart. What she finds there is hope for us all.\" --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina" ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Waldman, author of the Mommy Track mystery series, here takes a more serious tack, telling the story of a young woman who battles the American legal system's inflexible drug laws. Olivia Goodman, a rebellious 22-year-old, dropped out of college as a sophomore and headed for Mexico. After she moved back to her hometown of Oakland, Calif., she was followed by Jorge Luis Rodriguez Hernandez, with whom she had a brief affair in Mexico. Jorge crossed the border illegally and is unable to find work, and Olivia feels obligated to support him. Desperate for money, Jorge is persuaded to participate in a drug deal, and Olivia's vague complicity sweeps her into an intense legal battle when she is arrested with Jorge. To make matters worse, Olivia discovers she's pregnant with Jorge's baby. As Olivia fights for her freedom, her mother, Elaine Goodman, is doubly tormented. Elaine raised Olivia on her own, but never felt she could love her enough. Now, when she has finally found happiness with a man, she is forced to choose between helping her daughter and holding on to her fiance. Waldman takes a somewhat didactic approach-U.S. drug laws are discussed at length, and the story of Elaine and Olivia's relationship can read like a case history-but Waldman's passion and affection for her characters shines through.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From School Library Journal", "Adult/High School-Waldman departs from her relatively lighthearted \"Mommy Track\" mysteries with this politically charged, emotionally complex novel. Olivia, in her early 20s and living with her illegally immigrated Mexican boyfriend in Oakland, CA, identifies with a number of radical causes. Her pharmacist mother, Elaine, having struggled against her tendency to be free of the burdens of motherhood almost from Olivia's birth, is about to marry her accountant boyfriend, with whom she already leads a judiciously predictable life in a middle-class Berkeley neighborhood. When Olivia's boyfriend participates in a methamphetamine deal, the young woman is arrested as an accomplice. The machinations of federal law pertaining to drug conspiracy, the use of criminal informants, a mother's lifelong connection to her child, and the hothouse of Berkeley's raised consciousness on issues from biracialism to psychotherapy to choice of street slang all come to life. The two women and the men in their lives are fully realized, with both their sympathetic and shameful motivations clearly limned and juxtaposed to create optimum tension. How Olivia copes with her unexpected pregnancy and Elaine's eventual discovery of her own ability to nurture a dependent baby resonate with credible bumps and jerks that ironically enhance the plot's smoothness. Waldman gives readers the opportunity to consider how economics, the law, social mores, and human beings' natural tendencies interact with and counteract one another.", "Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA", "Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From", "Booklist", "Elaine, a middle-aged pharmacist, has recently become engaged to Arthur, her accountant. The only \"wrinkle\" in their affluent, carefully planned life is Olivia, Elaine's 22-year-old daughter, currently living with Jorge, whom she met in Mexico. Jorge starts dealing drugs, and Olivia becomes an unwitting accomplice when he gets busted while giving her a ride home from work. Olivia is jailed, facing up to 40 years in prison due to the mandatory minimum sentence for collaboration in a drug crime. Elaine hesitates to post bail, knowing she needs that money for the Tahoe condo she and Arthur have dreamed about. But as the severity of Olivia's grim predicament, including an unplanned pregnancy, gradually dawns on her, Elaine's mothering instincts are finally aroused. Suspense builds on two levels regarding the trial's outcome and the question of whether or not Elaine will step up and care for Olivia's baby. Waldman's unusual novel captivates the reader both with her reflection on the effects of mandatory sentencing, and her perceptive digging into a tenuous mother-daughter relationship pushed to unexpected limits.", "Deborah Donovan", "Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved", "Review", "\"Ayelet Waldman has done a hard thing—written a book that really matters. --", "Dave Eggers", "\"Ayelet Waldman masterfully explores the intricacies and complications of love between a mother and daughter. --", "Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden", "\"Ayelet Waldman's Daughter's Keeper is a powerhouse novel of complex emotions and legal intricacy.\" --", "Amy Tan", "\"Be prepared to stay up all night—Waldman combines sophisticated psychology with savvy courtroom drama.\" --", "Heidi Julavitz, author of The Mineral Palace", "\"Waldman explores the mother-daughter relationship with a sure touch\" --", "Kirkus Review, August 15, 2003", "\"Waldman’s unusual novel captivates the reader\" --", "Booklist", "From the Publisher", "\"Ayelet Waldman's Daughter's Keeper is a powerhouse novel of complex emotions and legal intricacy, so compelling that when I finished the book I started over again. In a feat of storytelling, Waldman unfolds layers with intelligence and heart: An unwilling mother is trapped into raising an exasperating daughter. Her grown daughter is now trapped in a crime in which she was an unwilling participant. The story examines the question of responsibility and consequences within the law, between lovers, and among family. What penalties will be exacted for ambivalence? Just when we are sure the tenuous bond between this mother and daughter will permanently snap, Waldman deftly weaves the shreds into an outcome that is both devastating and uplifting. This is a book that made me cry with joy and recognition.\" —Amy Tan", "\"In Daughter's Keeper, Ayelet Waldman shows that the power of love, even when prickling with thorns, can ultimately provide what the criminal system cannot: a hard-fought, hard-won second chance.\" —Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil", "\"Ayelet Waldman has brought the war on drugs home, and has shown us just how close to home it can come. Her mother and daughter reminded me of the women I most love and for whom I hold the greatest fear, those women and girls who fight tooth and nail, when their best hope lies in supporting each other. She looks past headlines and into the heart. What she finds there is hope for us all.\" —Dorothy Allison", "\"Waldman shapes outrage into a story that's always compelling, always compassionate -- always so close to real that it feels like nonfiction.\" —Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity!", "\"Be prepared to stay up all night—Waldman combines sophisticated psychology with savvy courtroom drama to create a turbulent and mesmerizing mother-daughter tale. Daughter's Keeper is a zippily intelligent and emotionally charged peephole into the peculiar politics that govern motherhood and the American legal system.\" —Heidi Julavitz, author of The Mineral Palace", "\"Ayelet Waldman masterfully explores the intricacies and complications of love between a mother and daughter. Set against the tension and complexities of the judicial system, Waldman skillfully balances each world with heartrending, searing truths. Smart and involving, it is a story of second chances, of reclaiming what has been lost, and of finding your way through the darkness and into the light.\" —Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden", "\"A rivetting story, as generous as it is large; Waldman presents a tale that unfolds layer by layer, revealing the complexities of sacrifice and regret, along side that ultimate desire to DO RIGHT, in this triumph of mother-daughter love.\" —Elizabeth Strout, author of Amy and Isabelle", "\"I LOVE this book. I'm having a hard time concentrating on work today because I'm worried about Olivia and Elaine....It grabs you right in the gut and doesn't let go. The characters are so believable that I doubt they will ever leave me. I can see, taste and feel everything they are going through. The legal stuff is terrific too.\" —Elaine Petrocelli, owner of Book Passage", "About the Author", "Ayelet Waldman graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for a federal judge prior to becoming a public defender. She is also the author of a successful mystery series including, among others, Nursery Crimes and The Big Nap. CBS is developing the mysteries for a TV series, and the pilot is being fast-tracked. She lives with her husband, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon, in Berkeley, California.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Thrillers & Suspense" ]

[ "This is history. Call it a documentary novel if you like, but not fiction. For here you will find no manufactured plots, no imaginary characters, just the events and men of the California conquest. (But what events! And what men—especially Serra!) All are brought to e as accurately as possible from the facts buried in the diaries, letters and memoirs of the time. These include: The diaries of Father Serra Father Crespi Senor Costans6 (the expedition's mapmaker) Captain Vila (skipper of the San Carlos) Colonel Anza Father Font (chaplain of the Anza expedition) The letters of Father Serra Inspector-General Gaivez Father Palou Commander Portola. Lieutenant (later Governor) Fages Governor Rivera Governor Neve Viceroy Bucareli And a score of others The memoirs of Father Baegert Father Palou (in four volumes) The Life of Fray Junipero Serra by PalOu. (These and others are listed in a formal bibliography at the end of the book.)" ]

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[ "Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, food habits, and babies of a mammal that has inhabited the Earth since the time of the giant dinosaurs." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books" ]

[ "A concise, no-nonsense rulebook for investors looking to achieve Buffett-like results", "Warren Buffett is one of the wealthiest investor in the world. Millions of independent investors follow his every move. But why Buffett? What signs does he see that others miss? And more important, what can investors do to follow Buffett's path to investment and financial success?", "How Buffett Does It", "explores the 24 primary rules Buffett has followed from day one, and that people from market novices to seasoned veterans can use to strengthen their investing results.", "Drawing from literally hundreds of quotes and maxims, Buffett admirer and attorney James Pardoe has chosen those that encapsulate and explain the Buffett legend. This plain-talking and investor-friendly guidebook takes readers on an in-depth journey through strategies including:", "Focus on not losing money rather than making it", "Focus on not losing money rather than making it", "Don't own any stock for 10 minutes that you wouldn't own for 10 years", "Don't own any stock for 10 minutes that you wouldn't own for 10 years", "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful", "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful" ]

[ "From the Publisher", "James Pardoe", "(Los Angeles, CA) is the principal attorney with Pardoe & Associates and one of today’s most knowledgeable followers of Warren Buffett. He received his JD from Pepperdine University.", "From the Back Cover", "Warren Buffett's straightforward rules for long-term success", "One thousand dollars invested in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock in 1965 would be worth roughly $5 million today! This astonishing success didn't come through Buffett's use of high-tech computer trading models, or intricate market timing systems. Instead, it came through his stubborn adherence to the time-honored fundamentals of value investing.", "How Buffett Does It is a step-by-step guidebook for investing like Buffett in any market environment. This value investing primer presents and expands on 24 primary ideas Buffett has followed from day one that include:", "* Choose simplicity over complexity * Make your own investment decisions * Be patient * View stocks as businesses not pieces of paper * Practice inactivity, not hyperactivity * View downturns as buying opportunities * Practice independent thinking * Ignore stock market forecasts * Be fearful when other are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful * Avoid the costly mistakes of others", "Warren Buffett still lives in the house he bought three decades ago, still drives his comfortable Lincoln Town Car, and still holds to the sound and simple value investing style that helped him become one of the world's wealthiest individuals. How Buffett Does It explains, in Buffett's words as well as those who know him best, what you can do to achieve Buffett-like results in your own portfolio.", "Warren Buffett's legendary patience and single-mindedness have helped him become one of the world's greatest investors, with a $40 billion fortune built solely on his market prowess. But what signs does he see that others miss? And more important, what can you do to follow Warren Buffett's path to financial and investment success?", "How Buffett Does It examines the Buffett record and paints a surprisingly clear picture of the beliefs and principles that make up that record. Drawing from literally hundreds of Buffett quotes and maxims, this value-packed investors' guide will show you how to follow Buffett's example to:", "Seize opportunities when presented by stock market folly", "Seize opportunities when presented by stock market folly", "Avoid diversification, instead investing in a few enduring companies with predictable business models", "Avoid diversification,", "instead investing in a few enduring companies with predictable business models", "Embrace bear markets, taking advantage of the opportunity they provide to \"buy when everyone else is selling\"", "Embrace bear markets,", "taking advantage of the opportunity they provide to \"buy when everyone else is selling\"", "Think for yourself, avoiding the majority of analysts and investors think too much, trade too often, and listen to the wrong people", "Think for yourself,", "avoiding the majority of analysts and investors think too much, trade too often, and listen to the wrong people", "Look to invest in great businesses with great management", "Look to invest in great businesses with great management", "Beware of hidden costs, meaning everything from commissions on active stock trading to high mutual fund fees", "Beware of hidden costs,", "meaning everything from commissions on active stock trading to high mutual fund fees", "Invest in \"old economy\" businesses, boring companies that have been around for fifty years and will probably survive the next fifty", "Invest in \"old economy\" businesses,", "boring companies that have been around for fifty years and will probably survive the next fifty", "Always search for value, and learn the keys to distinguishing a temporary setback from a fatal flaw", "Always search for value,", "and learn the keys to distinguishing a temporary setback from a fatal flaw", "Keep your head at all times, recognizing that acting on emotion can kill a stock market portfolio", "Keep your head at all times,", "recognizing that acting on emotion can kill a stock market portfolio", "Virtually every Buffett principle came into play during the Internet stock bull market. Between mid-1998 and early-2000, as cautious veterans like Buffett were laughed at for missing the boat, Berkshire-Hathaway shares lost more than half of their value. Still, Buffett refused to buy Internet stocks, quietly counseling patience, prudence, and long-term value.", "When the dust cleared, Buffett was right. Again.", "Warren Buffett believes that successful investing requires little more than quality research, common sense, and patience. How Buffett Does It shows you how to follow his lead, and build a portfolio that is solid, easy to understand, and designed to provide you with tremendous long-term returns without the short-term headaches.", "About the Author", "James Pardoe", "(Los Angeles, CA) is the principal attorney with Pardoe & Associates and one of today’s most knowledgeable followers of Warren Buffett. He received his JD from Pepperdine University.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Business & Money", "Investing" ]

[ "Regarded by many as the finest poet of twentieth-century Spain, Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875–1939) is not well known outside the Spanish-speaking world. This volume will introduce him to Anglo-American readers, enabling them to experience at first hand the subtle nuances of his verse. Some two hundred fifty poems in Spanish, drawn from Machado’s entire oeuvre, are accompanied on facing pages by sensitive and beautifully fluent translations which render the originals accessible to the mind and the ear.Alan S. Trueblood annotates the individual poems, placing them in context and illuminating their allusions and undertones. In addition, he provides a substantial biographical and critical Introduction. This gives an overview of Machado’s life, as a poet and teacher and wide-ranging commentator on cultural, political, and social affairs. (Forced into exile at the end of the Civil War, he crossed the Pyrenees on foot and died a month later.) The Introduction also discusses the qualities of Machado’s predominantly quiet and reflective verse, as well as the development of the thought of this major poet." ]

[ "Review", "“Antonio Machado (1875–1939) [is] regarded in Spain as the greatest Spanish poet of the century. Trueblood’s volume…can only serve to win readers for one of the greatest of European poets.”", "―", "The Literary Review", "“Trueblood’s discriminating anthology, with its very readable and resourceful English renderings facing the Spanish text, and its lightly handled erudition…is the best initiation into the poetic legacy of Machado for the general reader.”", "―", "Times Literary Supplement", "“Trueblood…makes [the poems] breathe with the same laconic power they have in Spanish. It is no small accomplishment that he has been able to keep his English so wind-swept.”", "―", "New York Times Book Review", "“A magnificent volume.”", "―", "Modern Language Journal", "From the Back Cover", "Antonio Machado is regarded in Spain as the greatest Spanish poet of the century. This volume can only serve to win readers for one of the greatest of Europe's poets.", "About the Author", "Alan S. Trueblood was Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "History & Criticism" ]

[ "Eden can run... but she can't escape her shadow.", "Hunted by the followers of a vicious god, Eden leaves behind everyone she loves to flee with Ash--a man as deadly as he is mysterious. He's promised to protect her, but Eden soon finds herself in even more danger and wondering if she can trust someone who's already betrayed her. But when she discovers she's the key to unlocking Agamon's prison, she decides fighting beside a skilled foe is better than going it alone. And the more time they spend together, the more Eden realizes Ash may be the only one who truly understands her.Back at home, Sarah's got problems of her own. She and Kai are in trouble and not just because the mojo emanating from a mysterious crack in the earth threatens the whole town. When a harbinger warns of doom and betrayal, Sarah wonders if the earth is all that will split. With every test she faces, Eden becomes stronger, and the darkness within her grows. Will she defeat her enemies only to find she's become worse than the monsters hunting her? And when Ash comes face-to-face with his past, will it be him or Eden who pays the ultimate price?", "The Witches of Coventry House is page-turning urban fantasy with badass heroines + a bit of romance. This series will appeal to fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Legacies, and Fate: The Winx Saga.", "The complete Witches of Coventry House series:Book 1: PLEDGEBook 2: INITIATEBook 3: BOUNDBook 4: SHADOWBook 5: CIRCLE" ]

[ "From the Author", "For giveaways, new releases, and exclusive content, join my readers' group!", "Copy and paste this into your browser: christinagarner.com/readersgroup/More books by Christina Garner:", "Gateway (Gateway Trilogy Book 1) FREE", "Gateway (Gateway Trilogy Book 1)", "FREE", "Chasm (Gateway Trilogy Book 2)", "Chasm (Gateway Trilogy Book 2)", "Tether (Gateway Trilogy Book 3)", "Tether (Gateway Trilogy Book 3)", "The Gateway Trilogy Complete Series Box Set", "The Gateway Trilogy Complete Series Box Set", "Find me on Facebook, Twitter & IG: garnerchristina", "About the Author", "Christina Garner", "began writing stories at the age of six. Her first - about a young girl who busted up a nefarious ring of furniture thieves - was a huge hit with her mother. She is the author of the bestselling", "Gateway Trilogy", "as well as her new series,", "The Witches of Coventry House.", "Christina lives in Los Angeles and when she's not writing novels spends her time traveling, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns, and playing with her dog, Griffin." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Genre Fiction" ]

[ "If it's important for you to incorporate the scientific method into your teaching, this lab manual is the perfect fit. In every exercise there are scientific method boxes that provide students with insight into the relevance of the scientific method to the topic at hand. The manual also includes \"In Greater Depth\" problems, a more challenging probe into certain issues. They are more quantitative in nature and require more in-depth, critical thinking, which is unique to this type of manual." ]

[ "About the Author", "Charles Jones is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.Norris Jones is a professor at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh." ]

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[ "Books", "Science & Math", "Earth Sciences" ]

[ "This book is written for firefighters, fire officers, and chief officers who hope to improve their firefighting skills. It can be utilized in college fire science courses, or at a fire training academy. It can be beneficial for a candidate preparing for promotion to company or chief officer.", "Improve readers’ understanding with real-world insight and research", "Blending research and over 40 years of personal experience in the field,", "Strategic and Tactical Considerations on the Fireground", ", Fourth Edition", ", draws on author Chief Smith’s career operating in one of the largest fire departments in the United States. This authoritative text covers strategic decisions as well as tactical operations, guiding readers through the process of problem identification and solution response. From planning to incident scene control, this text exposes readers to almost every possible tactical scenario and provides knowledge that can be applied to a variety of complex fire situations. The", "Fourth Edition", "is updated and expanded to include information that addresses evolving fire service operational approaches." ]

[ "About the Author", "James P. Smith", "was appointed to the Philadelphia Fire Department on June 29, 1966. He was promoted to lieutenant on December 18, 1972; to captain on December 30, 1974; to battalion chief on August 3, 1981; and to deputy chief on June 27, 1987. Deputy chief is the highest fire department civil service position. Chief Smith reported to the deputy commissioner. He retired on July 7, 2007, and continues to lecture and write on firefighting. Chief Smith has worked on both engine and ladder companies and in every section of the city. He has served as director of the Philadelphia Fire Academy. In this role, he was the departmental Safety Officer and responded on multiple alarm fires performing the Safety Officer’s function. Additional areas of responsibility included the research and planning unit. In his role as a field deputy chief, Chief Smith had responsibility for operations for one half of the city. Currently he is a member of the Atlantic County New Jersey All-Hazard Incident Management Team, serving as a Safety Officer. Chief Smith has developed and taught many programs. He has been associated with the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland, since 1982. As an adjunct instructor since 1984, he has taught numerous operational courses. He is a graduate of the prestigious Executive Fire Officer’s Program. He also teaches courses for the Emergency Management Institute. Chief Smith has authored the Fire Studies column in", "Firehouse", "magazine since 1987. He has served as a technical consultant for numerous textbooks, and has lectured throughout the United States on incident management, officer development, safety, church fires, building construction, building collapse, strategy and tactics, incident command systems, tank farm fires, and high-rise firefighting. Chief Smith has also served as a subject matter expert and testified as a technical expert on firefighting strategy and tactics, operations in vacant buildings, dangers of vacant buildings, and the training needs of fire departments. Chief Smith has also been involved in independent fire investigations involving fire fatalities and firefighter injuries, to determine whether the strategy and tactics that were employed at those fires met national standards. Chief Smith can be contacted at  JPSMITHPFD@aol.com." ]

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[ "Books", "Engineering & Transportation", "Engineering" ]

[ "This well-illustrated book―in color throughout―presents a thorough introduction to the mathematics of Buckminster Fuller’s invention of the geodesic dome, which paved the way for a flood of practical applications as diverse as weather forecasting and fish farms. The author explains the principles of spherical design and the three main categories of subdivision based on geometric solids (polyhedra). He illustrates how basic and advanced CAD techniques apply to spherical subdivision and covers modern applications in product design, engineering, science, games, and sports balls." ]

[ "Review", "\"… illustrations in the book, nearly all of them computer generated, are very good indeed. … The book contains an extremely detailed metrical treatment of all the regular and Archimedean polyhedra. An important construction is the space tessellating octahedron + tetrahedron which Fuller described as ‘simplest, most powerful structural system in the universe.’ Taking tubes along the edges of the tessellation, he devised and patented a joint to which up to nine tubes could be connected, making a very rigid structure. This is called the ‘octet struss connector’ and receives an entire, beautifully illustrated chapter in the book. … remarkable book … the sheer scale of the book, 509 pages on how to divide up the surface of a sphere, is amazing.\"―Peter Giblin,", "The Mathematical Gazette", ", March 2014", "\"The text is written for designers, architects and people interesting in constructions of domes based on spherical subdivision. The book is illustrated with many figures and sketches and examples of real-life usage of the constructions developed during (roughly) the past 60 years. Overall, the book is written in a way accessible to a non-expert in mathematics and geometry. … The book could certainly be a good source for inspiration, with many applications, mostly in architecture and other related areas.\"―Pavel Chalmoviansky,", "Mathematical Reviews", ", May 2013", "\"This well-illustrated book-in color throughout-presents a thorough introduction to the mathematics of Buckminster Fuller's invention of the geodesic dome, which paved the way for a flood of practical applications as diverse as weather forecasting and fish farms. The author explains the principles of spherical design and the three main categories of subdivision based on geometric solids (polyhedra). He illustrates how basic and advanced CAD techniques apply to spherical subdivision and covers modem applications in product design, engineering, science, games, and sports balls.\"―", "L'ENSEIGNEMENT MATHEMATIQUE", ", 2013", "\"… the ways in which spheres are modified that make them functional and more interesting … [are] the main point[s] of the book. … Implementations of tessellated spheres are used to describe real-world situations, from computer processor grids to fish farming to the surface of golf balls to global climate models. This is a very entertaining section, demonstrating once again how powerful and useful mathematics is. … this book is an existence proof of how complex, interesting and useful properly altered spheres can be.\"―Charles Ashbacher,", "MAA Reviews", ", December 2012", "\"In support of his primer, Popko provides a glossary of over 300 terms, a bibliography of 385 citations, reference to 28 useful websites, and an index of nine double columned pages. For some readers, these aids will be most useful in accessing and keeping track of the great diversity of ideas and concepts as well as practical and analytical procedures found in this complex and engaging volume. … a broad array of readers will find much of interest and value in this volume whether in terms of mathematics, conceptualization, application, or production.\"―Henry W. Castner,", "GEOMATICA", ", Vol. 66, No. 3, 2012", "\"I have loved the beauty and symmetry of polyhedra and spherical divisions for many years. My own efforts have been concentrated on making both simple and complex spherical models using classical methods and simple tools. Dr. Popko’s elegant new book extends both the science and the art of spherical modeling to include Computer-Aided Design and applications, which I would never have imagined when I started down this fascinating and rewarding path. His lovely illustrations bring the subject to life for all readers, including those who are not drawn to the mathematics. This book demonstrates the scope, beauty and utility of an art and science with roots in antiquity. Spherical subdivision is relevant today and useful for the future. Anyone with an interest in the geometry of spheres, whether a professional engineer, an architect or product designer, a student, a teacher, or simply someone curious about the spectrum of topics to be found in this book, will find it helpful and rewarding.\"―Magnus Wenninger, Benedictine Monk and Polyhedral Modeler", "\"Edward Popko’s", "Divided Spheres", "is the definitive source for the many varied ways a sphere can be divided and subdivided. From domes and pollen grains to golf balls, every category and type is elegantly described in these pages. The mathematics and the images together amount to a marvelous collection, one of those rare works that will be on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the wonders of geometry.\"―Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor and Photographer", "\"Edward Popko’s", "Divided Spheres", "is a ‘thesaurus’ must to those whose academic interest in the world of geometry looks to greater coverage of synonyms and antonyms of this beautiful shape we call a sphere. The late Buckminster Fuller might well place this manuscript as an all-reference for illumination to one of nature’s most perfect invention.\"―Thomas T.K. Zung, Senior Partner, Buckminster Fuller, Sadao & Zung Architects", "\"My own discovery, Waterman Polyhedra, was my way to see hidden patterns in ordered points in space. Ed's book", "Divided Spheres", "is about patterns and points too but on spheres. He shows you how to solve practical design problems based spherical polyhedra. Novices and experts will understand the challenges and classic techniques of spherical design just by looking at the many beautiful illustrations.\"―Steve Waterman, Mathematician", "\"Ed Popko’s comprehensive survey of the history, literature, geometric and mathematical properties of the sphere is the definitive work on the subject. His masterful and thorough investigation of every aspect is covered with sensitivity and intelligence. This book should be in the library of anyone interested in the orderly subdivision of the sphere.\"―Shoji Sadao, Architect, Cartographer, and Lifelong Business Partner of Buckminster Fuller", "\"Any math collection concerned with spherical modeling will find this offers a basic yet complex introduction … blends art with scientific inquiry, providing a college-level coverage of geometry that will bring math alive for any who want a discussion of sphere science.\"", "―Midwest Book Review" ]

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[ "Books", "New, Used & Rental Textbooks", "Science & Mathematics" ]

[ "Have you ever wondered why some travel destinations set your soul on fire and drive you to return again and again while other locations leave you cold?", "A Colonial Williamsburg Love Affair: Tales, Takes and Tips From a Lifetime of Visits", ", explores this very theme. Through heartfelt and intimate reflections about the people, the activities, and the historic town itself, the author mines memories from more than five decades of visits to Colonial Williamsburg to explore this question. Along the way she introduces the reader to a delightful destination.", "Imagine crossing a street and suddenly entering 1775. Left behind, as much as you choose, are the stresses and annoyances of the 21st century. Around you are hundreds of historically accurate, restored or reconstructed, and furnished buildings, circa the 18th century. The streets are alive with people dressed in the garb of the mid-1700s. Their speech carries more formality, with a \"Good Day\" replacing the more modern \"Hello.\" Down the mile-long central road in the town, horses", "clip-clop", "along as they pull fancy carriages.", "Everywhere you look, something is happening--a blacksmith works a forge then pounds out nails to be used for repairs on a nearby house; a shopkeeper expounds to a patron on the variety of scented candles displayed in a bin; and a wig-clad man rides his horse down the street greeting all he meets and engaging them in conversation about the latest British indignities. In the town's center, an open-air market offers everything from fresh vegetables and seeds, to woven blankets, toys, and a visit by sheep from a nearby pasture. And across the street, hungry visitors crowd around the posted bill of fare to decide what they will eat at one of the four operating taverns in the town.", "Is this all a dream? A mirage? Not at all. This is 21st-century Colonial Williamsburg - CW for short - doing what it does best every day--being one of the largest living history museums in the United States! It is a life-sized, ongoing colonial town replicating a particular place and time - the 18", "th", "-century capital of the Virginia colony. As the seat of power during the Revolution, it was host to famous participants like George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson. It was home to events that led to the Revolution and eventually, a new nation.", "The author, a self-avowed history geek, has crafted a journey that is part memoir, part science, and part history, to arrive at her own answer to why we visit the places we do. In addition, the book also offers many tips on how to experience your own visit to the fullest. Come along for the tour!" ]

[ "About the Author", "Debra Bailey is a freelance writer, nature artist, and science educator whose previous projects range from magazine articles and CliffsNotes, to dictionary and medical editing. In addition, Debra has over thirty years of experience in clinical and research laboratories, pharmaceutical AIDS research, and medical ethics. An unrepentant history geek, her favorite time periods are the American Revolution, World War II, the Middle Ages, and Ancient Greece, and her only regret is not getting to meet Apollo's Oracle at Delphi. She is currently at work on a middle- grade historical-fiction book-The Reluctant Hero-which is set in Williamsburg during the American Revolution. Originally from New England, she lives with her husband and soulmate, Ed, in Durham, NC. They have a son, Matt, whose patience in dealing with the antics of the college students he works with, and the beauty of his photographic creations, never ceases to amaze them." ]

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[ "Books", "Biographies & Memoirs", "Leaders & Notable People" ]

[ "Christmas is coming! Swirling snowflakes have us reaching for our coziest scarves and mittens, thinking about tree trimming and cookie baking. Ready, Set, Christmas! is filled with yummy tried & true recipes shared by home cooks across the country...sure to put you in the spirit in no time at all. After a day of frosty winter fun with the kids, serve up crescent-top chicken casserole and tossed salad with apple cider dressing. Relax with a steaming bowl of creamy chicken & rice soup and a basket of warm applesauce muffins after shopping.On Christmas morning, slow-cooker sausage & egg casserole is perfect after opening gifts. Serve up a memorable holiday dinner of homestyle pot roast, garlic smashed potatoes and honey-glazed carrots. And since it's Christmas, we can't forget the sweets! Almond butter cookies, chocolate crinkle cookies, fudgy mocha brownies and peppermint snowballs are all easy to make and sure to be welcome on cookie platters. So get comfy by a crackling fire, enjoy a steamy cup of tea and get ready to create sweet new memories for Christmases to come!" ]

[ "From the Author", "Grandma Nona's Bar Cookies2/3 c. butter, room temperature16-oz. pkg. dark brown sugar1 t. vanilla extract3 eggs2-3/4 c. all-purpose flour2-1/2 t. baking powder1/2 t. salt12-oz. pkg. semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate chipsOptional: 1 c. chopped nutsIn a large bowl, combine butter and brown sugar until blended. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Add vanilla; mix well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. Add chocolate chips and nuts, if using; mix until well combined. Spread dough in a greased 15\"X10\" jelly-roll pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool bars in pan on a wire rack; cut into squares. Makes 4 dozen.", "From the Back Cover", "Dear Friend,Christmas is coming! Swirling snowflakes have us reaching for our coziest scarves and mittens, thinking about cookie baking and tree trimming. Ready, Set, Christmas! is filled with yummy tried & true recipes shared by home cooks across the country...sure to put you in the spirit in no time at all.So get comfy by a crackling fire, enjoy a steamy cup of tea and get ready to create sweet new memories for Christmases to come!We Wish you a merry Christmas! Jo Ann & Vickie", "About the Author", "Gooseberry Patch was founded by Vickie Hutchins and Jo Ann Martin, two moms looking for a way to do what they loved and stay home with kids too. Celebrating 25 years of publishing in 2017, Gooseberry Patch is best known for their collection of family-friendly, community-style cookbooks. Each book is created with today's time-strapped, budget-conscious families in mind and filled with recipes shared by cooks all across the country... with some from friends in Canada and occasionally \"across the pond\". Along with treasured family recipes, each book includes the stories the go along with these tried & true dishes.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Cookbooks, Food & Wine", "Entertaining & Holidays" ]

[ "A wine tasting course: The practical way to know and enjoy wine" ]

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[ "Books", "Cookbooks, Food & Wine", "Beverages & Wine" ]

[ "A compilation of transmissions from celestial teachers and commentaries of humans who have experienced contact with these personalities over the past 20 plus years." ]

[ "About the Author", "Jim Cleveland has written and published 10 books of fiction and new spirituality and recorded and released 11 CDs of spiritual poetry and music. He is retired from a career in public relations, marketing and corporate communications and is chairman of the Teaching Mission Network." ]

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[ "Books", "Self-Help", "Personal Transformation" ]

[ "Bridget has always tried her best to emulate her older brothers--wearing cutoffs, doing push-ups, and never acting like a wimp--but suddenly things are beginning to change around her parents' Blue Moon Motel." ]

[ "From School Library Journal", "Grade 3-5-Bridget, 10, lives with her parents and brothers in their combination home/office of the Blue Moon Motel, which consists of 13 log cabins that they own and operate. Her brothers, 14-year-old triplets, try their best to keep her from turning into a wimp by bullying her into becoming physically fit and teaching her the right kind of clothes to wear-cut-offs and sweats. When Aunt Dawsie, who lives in cabin 13, suddenly announces she is getting married for the first time at the age of 68, she wants her niece to be her maid of honor. Bridget doesn't like the idea of wearing a dress or of her aunt moving away. Meanwhile, since the Blue Moon is not doing so well and a new motel presents competition, she and Aunt Dawsie convince the family to spruce up their rundown miniature golf course and business booms. In the end, the wedding is wonderful, Bridget loves her new outfit, and accepts her new uncle. The book is short and fast-paced, too short in some aspects. The two main characters are well defined, but the others remain one dimensional. Nonetheless, this is an entertaining story with a happy ending.", "Nancy P. Reeder, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Columbia, SC", "Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From", "Booklist", "Gr. 3-5. Ten-year-old Bridget wants to fit in with her three older brothers, and the boys are perfectly willing to help her out. It's easy for them to lay down the law: no flowered shorts, plenty of push-ups, and, for heaven's sake, no dresses. Finding a niche for herself is particularly important, since her parents are expecting a new baby, and it appears the baby is to be Bridget's new roommate. Unfortunately, Bridget's endeavors to change come to a quick halt when her beloved 68-year-old great-aunt Dawsie, who has always made Bridget feel special, announces her engagement. Bridget is suddenly afraid she's losing her very best friend. Herzig and Mali don't spend a lot of time on characters--wise, down-to-earth Dawsie is probably the best--but they manage to capture the hubbub of a big, close, hardworking family of individuals, and there's not a slow moment in their sweet, warm story. If kids aren't deterred by the book's rather small type, they'll find Bridget's journey toward personhood a quick, pleasant read.", "Stephanie Zvirin" ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books" ]

[ "From Joanna Seibert, a recovering alcholic, physician and a deacon in the Episcopal church, comes this extraordinary book of daily readings and meditations inspired by small sections of each of the 150 Psalms. Specifically written for people in recover, The Call of the Psalms: A Spiritual Companion for People in Recovery is full of honesty, self-reflection, and illumination by Seibert, which then teaches us to slow down to hear the natural rhythms of nature and a higher power. Seibert unflinchingly bares her own faults and flaws, and then shows how to soothe the pain in the minds and hearts of those in recovery by listening to the timelessness of the Psalms." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Christian Living" ]

[ "\"Army Field Manual FM 21-76 (Survival, Evasion, and Recovery)\" is the United States Army's official guide to survival. With an emphasis towards the soldier who may be trapped behind enemy lines or in a combat zone, the field manual focuses on essential topics such as evasion, navigation, radio communications and signaling, recovery, medical, personal protection, water, food, and other extreme circumstances that the soldier may face. \"Army Field Manual FM 21-76 (Survival, Evasion, and Recovery)\" is a must for military buffs and a useful survival guide for anyone venturing into the wilderness." ]

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[ "Books", "History", "Europe" ]

[ "AN ADORABLE COLLECTION OF PERSONALIZED COUPONS THAT LET YOU SHOW MOM HOW MUCH SHE IS LOVED AND APPRECIATED", "Make any day Mother's Day with these personalized gift coupons you can tear out and give to your mom to make her feel special.Includes coupons for:", "• A day of complimentary, full-service laundry• Her own personal garden assistant• One week of personal caffeine delivery service• A sparkling-clean bathroom• One full week of daily super-duper extra-thorough dish duty" ]

[ "About the Author", "Ulysses Press", "is a book publishing company with offices in Brooklyn, New York, and Berkeley, California." ]

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[ "Books", "Self-Help", "Relationships" ]

[ "One of", "Horn Book", "'s Best Picture Books of 2011When Pa brings a turkey poult home to fatten for Christmas dinner, he assures Ma that it will be no trouble since it can live in a box by the stove and eat table scraps--and just think of the money we'll save! But it's not quite so simple to raise a turkey in a tiny flat in a nineteenth-century New York City tenement. Can Pa and the children manage the willful and growing Alfred and keep the neighbors happy until Christmas? Pa finds a solution for every difficulty--until he encounters one that threatens to ruin Christmas completely. How the family joins together to solve this last difficulty makes for a very funny and satisfying holiday story." ]

[ "Review", "“When Pa brings home a young turkey to fatten up for Christmas dinner, chaos follows in Cole's picture book tale about a penny-pinching family squeezed into a 19th century New York City tenement.” ―", "Sacramento Bee", "“...all ends well in this humorous, wholesome story about tightened straits, with its not-too-vinegary perspective on how the other half celebrates.” ―", "NYTimes.com", "“This could easily be incorporated into a class history lesson or simply enjoyed as a unique and humorous holiday story.” ―", "BCCB", "“Nothing is sumptuous for the 19th-century tenement-dwelling family at the heart of Brock Cole's endearing picture book 'The Money We'll Save' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 40 pages, $16.99)...With Mr. Cole's watercolor-filled wobbly line drawings, we see the family--and soon their neighbors--struggling to accommodate the growing bird. Not a penny is saved, of course, but in the end the bird offers enrichment of a charmingly different sort.” ―", "Wall Street Journal", "“Cole's buoyant watercolors capture the busy chaos and warm homeyness of family life plus turkey in this folksy journey into a different time.” ―", "Booklist", "“Cole's blithe illustrations, comfortably crowded with his amusing, expressive characters, set this entertaining holiday story in nineteenth-century New York City.” ―", "Horn Book Magazine, starred review", "“…a holiday story as humorous as it is touching.” ―", "Publishers Weekly", "“Cole's humorous illustrations bring to life the crowded conditions in a 19th-century New York tenement building; the characters are raggedy and poor, but full of spirit and good will.” ―", "School Library Journal", "“When Pa brings home a turkey poult to raise for Christmas dinner, hilarious complications ensue in this heartwarming family story set in 19th-century New York City.” ―", "Kirkus Reviews, starred review", "About the Author", "Brock Cole is the author/illustrator of many picture books and young adult novels. He lives in Buffalo, New York." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Literature & Fiction" ]

[ "Stories From the Inkslingers is a collection of short stories by members of the Written Remains writer's group." ]

[ "From the Publisher", "\"A tantalizing collection of multi-genre fiction by talented Delaware authors.\"", "\"Two stories nominated for the Washington Science Fiction Association¢s Small Press Award.\"", "\"Title page illustrations.\"" ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Short Stories & Anthologies" ]

[ "One of the greatest players of all time, Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946) was world chess champion for over 16 years. Not only a supreme master of the complicated position, he was also an excellent annotator. In this volume he supplies much information and insight about more than 100 games played between 1939 and 1945, as well as delightfully candid views on fellow masters and rivals for the world title.In Part One, devoted to open games, Alekhine analyzes games featuring such openings as the Ruy Lopez, Four Knights Game, Philidor's Defense, and the Scotch Gambit. Part Two is devoted to semi-open games, featuring the French Defense, Caro-Kann Defense, Sicilian Defense, Alekhine's Defense, and King's Pawn, Nimzowitsch Defense. In Part Three Alekhine discusses examples of closed games, including the Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense; Queen's Gambit Declined, Slav Defense; Queens' Gambit Accepted; Queen's Pawn, Nimzowitsch Defense; the Queen's Pawn Game, English Opening, Catalan System; and more.This book lets you discover the stratagems and strategies involved in a host of fascinating struggles between the world's greatest chess players: Alekhine, Capablanca, Bogoljubov, Kashdan, Reshevsky, Tartakower, Keres, Najdor, and numerous others. With characteristic thoroughness, clarity, and humor, Alekhine guides you through the intricacies of each contest, illuminating complicated positions and offering a world champion's special insight and commentary.Whatever your level of chess expertise, you'll enjoy and benefit from studying these games, presented and analyzed by one of the supreme strategists in chess history." ]

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[ "Books", "Humor & Entertainment", "Puzzles & Games" ]

[ "The Whitman Pocket Checklist of United States Coins is a convenient way for collectors to keep track of their U.S. coin collections. Each volume packs a lot of information into one handy resource you can carry in your pocket or bag. Take it to coin shows and shops while you re on the hunt for your next purchase. The spiral binding allows you to easily flip it open for note-taking. Inside is plenty of room, to write down when and where you bought each coin, its grade, the price you paid, who sold it, or other information you want to record. The Checklist measures 3 x5 . A perfect fit for your pocket.", "Don t lose track of your collections-stay on top with the Whitman Pocket Checklist of United States Coins!" ]

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[ "Books", "Reference" ]

[ "Grow your heart three sizes and get in on all of the Grinch-mas cheer with this hardcover collectible activity book that gives kids the chance to write and draw about their favorite holiday traditions-with a little help from Dr. Seuss himself!", "This hardcover collectible activity book based on", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", "has the easy-to-read and easy-to-fill-in style of Dr. Seuss's classic", "My Book About Me", ". Elementary school-age children will be excited to write-and draw-about their family, school, and community holiday traditions. Includes quotes from", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", ", simple writing activities, yes-and-no questions, unfinished images for kids to complete, mazes, and space for family and friends to share their favorite traditions. Perfect for getting children to think about what the holidays truly mean to them and their family,", "My Book About Christmas by ME, Myself", "is a great gift that will become a cherished keepsake. The Dr. Seuss holiday classic", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "is now a major motion picture from Illumination Presents -", "Dr. Seuss' The Grinch!" ]

[ "About the Author", "Theodor Seuss Geisel—aka", "Dr. Seuss", "—is one of the most beloved children’s book authors of all time. From", "The Cat in the Hat", "to", "Oh, the Places You’ll Go!,", "his iconic characters, stories, and art style have been a lasting influence on generations of children and adults. The books he wrote and illustrated under the name Dr. Seuss (and others that he wrote but did not illustrate, including some under the pseudonyms Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone) have been translated into 45 languages. Hundreds of millions of copies have found their way into homes and hearts around the world. Dr. Seuss’s long list of awards includes Caldecott Honors, the Pulitzer Prize, and eight honorary doctorates. Works based on his original stories have won three Oscars, three Emmys, three Grammys, and a Peabody." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Religions" ]

[ "Lively juvenile science fiction collection of 3 stories starring teen Lucky Starr includes \"Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury\" that takes Lucky to a scientific station on Mercury, where mysterious sabotage threatens research that could make Earth a paradise. Lucky employs his keen understanding of the Sirian menace and the three Laws of Robotics to save the day. \"Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter\" where the Sirians clever spy scheme puts the secrecy of Project Agrav's prototype spaceship in jeopardy. Lucky has to stop the data breach before it's too late. \"Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn\" tells of the aliens who have invaded our solar system to put a base on Titan. Lucky must outwit an entire Sirian fleet to stop them. Sequel to \"The Adventures of Lucky Starr\" Out of Print." ]

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[ "This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition.Financial Accounting, 8th Edition, by Weygandt, Kimmel, Kieso provides students with a clear introduction to financial accounting that is full of real world and relevant examples to students lives. The Team for Success authors understand where students struggle in this course and have developed a learning system that illustrates the accounting cycle and key transactions, while giving them the tools to apply their learning through sample exercises throughout the chapter. By expanding coverage of IFRS, this edition keeps students at the forefront of global issues that impact their future careers in business and accounting." ]

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[ "Books", "Business & Money", "Accounting" ]

[ "The only authorized edition of Ernest Hemingway", "’", "s first novel.", "“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” —", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Sun Also Rises", "is a classic example of Hemingway’s spare but powerful writing style. It celebrates the art and craft of Hemingway’s quintessential story of the Lost Generation—presented by the Hemingway family with illuminating supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926,", "The Sun Also Rises", "is “an absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heartbreaking narrative...a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard, athletic prose” (", "The New York Times", "). The Hemingway Library Edition commemorates Hemingway’s classic novel with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the author’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by Sean Hemingway, grandson of the author. Hemingway considered the extensive rewriting that he did to shape his first novel the most difficult job of his life. Early drafts, deleted passages, and possible titles included in this new edition elucidate how the author achieved his first great literary masterpiece." ]

[ "Review", "\"Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced.\" --", "New York World", "\"An absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heart-breaking narrative...It is a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard athletic prose...magnificent.\" --", "The New York Times", "“An elegy for the loss of innocence, of religion, of our old comforting myths... While every generation has its novel about dissipated young people drinking and drugging, the reason this book has survived is that it is a fundamentally philosophical work.” -- Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of THE SON\"The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.\" --Tara Isabella Burton, The Wall Street Journal", "About the Author", "Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of", "The Sun Also Rises", "and", "A Farewell to Arms", "immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel", "The", "Old Man and the Sea", "won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick,", "Hemingway", ". Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Genre Fiction" ]

[ "Sometimes it happens that we want to find out about details of our sex life. We ask our cards: If there will be sex with our new admirer?What kind of lover is he?What we can expect in bedroom?Will he take the initiative?It is not easy to determine in detail what our sex life will be, the most important here is an experience, our own observations and the deck of cards we are using. There are special decks with erotic scenes and we can use them for such type of readings. But what to do if we do not have such a deck and we want to ask what is awaiting us?This book will help you to find answers for your questions, you`ll find here erotic meaning for all 78 cards.You`ll also find few simple spreads to be able to check what is waiting for you and how you can spice up your sexual life." ]

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[ "Books", "Religion & Spirituality", "New Age & Spirituality" ]

[ "The furry friends are together and ready to have lots of fun! What adventure will they go on today? This is a picture book series about a quirky girl named Rosie who transforms into a unicorn named Fairy. Along with her best friend and side kick, Charlie, Fairy goes on many adventures. In today's adventure, the friends journey to the desert where there are many dangers. They overcome the dangers and make a new friend. Read on to find out how their adventure goes." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Science Fiction & Fantasy" ]

[ "As treatment for myeloma improves and patients live longer, it is important to reduce the disability that can result from the painful problem of vertebral compression fractures, which occur when the vertebra collapses or fractures because the bone is too weak to withstand the pressure or stress placed upon it." ]

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[ "Books", "Medical Books", "Medicine" ]

[ "\"I'm in trouble,\" Ivanya whispered. \"The kind that comes with a stroller.\" When an attack leads to pregnancy, Ivanya doesn't know what to do. She is not ready to be a mother. Things are further complicated when she comes across a prophecy stating that her child will be the vessel for the most malevolent spirit of all time. This tale of growth and empowerment leads the reader on a roller coaster of emotion through Ivanya's struggles, all the while lifting the veil from secrets that reside in her strange town. Demons, prophecy, and fighting an incredible evil are all part of this vivid, well-paced tale that is the first entry in a new series. (Contains some graphic imagery)" ]

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[ "American novelist John Manderino's latest work is a sparkling, hilarious novella, Bopper's Progress. Told over the course of a day in the life of Bopper, a directionless young man who has found himself on a month-long Zen Buddhist retreat, Manderino probes life's most challenging questions with sharp observations, uproarious dialogue, and a clarity of prose rarely found. “Manderino's work is able to poke fun at the fear that so ably sparks our imaginations, while simul- taneously revealing a shared feature of humanity that is both reassuring and haunting in its own right.\" - Cory Johnston, Books Editor, The Literary Review" ]

[ "About the Author", "Manderino lives in Maine with his wife Marie, where he teaches college writing. He has published three novels, two short story collections and a memoir with Academy Chicago. John has also written plays that have been performed at theatre festivals and other venues. A stage version of his memoir Crying at Movies was produced." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "United States" ]

[ "What if a secret society, founded during the Civil War, accumulated a fortune in gold coins in the hopes of someday funding a second war between the states? What if they buried their treasure in a vast network of remote locations across the South and the Southwestern United States, and appointed sentinels to guard them -- sentinels who passed the secrets of this treasure from generation to generation? What if the keys to this fantastic treasure were hidden in a series of mysterious coded maps? In", "Rebel Gold,", "investigative journalist Warren Getler and Bob Brewer, a descendant of one of the Confederate sentinels sworn to protect this treasure, uncover the truth behind the legend of this buried gold and the group rumored to have hidden it, the Knights of the Golden Circle.", "A fast-paced blend of history and modern-day detective story, Rebel Gold reveals a shadowy chapter in American history -- and how its legacy may be continuing to this day." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Conspiracy connoisseurs tired of contemplating whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone will feast on this tale of the 19th-century doings of the Knights of the Golden Circle. According to treasure hunter Brewer (aided by Bloomberg News editor-at-large Getler), who attempts to unravel their secrets in hopes of finding millions of dollars of hidden gold, the KGC was a sinister group of influential Southerners intent on engineering the secession of Southern states. They supposedly conspired to split the 1860 Democratic convention so that a weak candidate would emerge, guaranteeing Lincoln's election and support for secession-a deep game indeed. Losing the Civil War sent them underground, where, the authors say, political theorist and KGC member Jesse James, whose death they faked, led them to amass a fortune primarily through the pedestrian crimes of bank and stagecoach robbery and, more creatively, by collecting a multimillion-dollar award from Mexican Emperor Maximilian as repayment for aiding Maximilian's tottering regime. They hid their treasure, preserving knowledge of its whereabouts through a series of devilishly complex symbols known only to initiates for the day the South would rise again. Brewer believes some of his relatives were \"sentinels\" charged with protecting the KGC's hidden treasure. As fanciful as the group's history sounds (and the authors admit it is heavily based on circumstantial evidence), Brewer is convincing that the code existed and that he deciphered some of it, and his treasure hunting meets with modest success. In the end, this is a curiosity that will strain many readers' credibility, but leave a lingering \"Maybe.\" Photos, maps.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From", "Booklist", "Buried treasure! Secret societies! The South shall rise again! Yes, all the red-blooded elements of a boy's adventure story crowd this tale, except that, tall as it is, it purports to be true. While growing up in the 1950s, Brewer learned at his grandpa's knee that rebels cached gold in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas to finance round two of the Civil War. After a career in the navy, Brewer dedicated himself to pursuing the story, written up here by reporter Getler. This exceedingly recondite story involves Scottish Rite Freemasonry, codes, cabalistic carvings on trees, Jesse James, a furtive entity called Knights of the Golden Circle, and a helluva lot of speculation. Still, Brewer is convinced the Confederacy's hidden treasury is still out there waiting to be dug up; alas, he unwisely confided one location to a rogue who allegedly absconded with the multimillion-dollar rebel stash. But Brewer perseveres, secret maps in hand, searching in, aptly enough, Arizona's Superstition Mountains. A saga that inveigles more than it convinces.", "Gilbert Taylor", "Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved", "Review", "Dan Burstein, editor of the national bestseller", "Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code", "Rebel Gold", "is a great adventure story and a fascinating treasure-hunt tale, but it is much more than that. It is an improbable, fantastic, and yet ultimately eye-opening trek through unknown, unseen, and unremembered episodes of American history. Jesse James, Confederate gold, the Knights of the Golden Circle, Freemasons, Albert Pike, the Ku Klux Klan, mysterious maps, codes, and symbols, echoes of the Knights Templar: It would make a great case for Dan Brown's Robert Langdon character -- except Warren Getler and Bob Brewer got there first -- and in non-fiction!", "About the Author", "Warren Getler", "is an investigative journalist based in Washington, D.C. Previously he has been a New York-based financial reporter for", "The Wall Street Journal", "and a London and Frankfurt correspondent of the", "International Herald Tribune.", "Bob Brewer", "is a U.S. Navy Vietnam War veteran who grew up in Hatfield, Arkansas. Since retiring from the Navy, he has returned to Arkansas to devote his time to investigating the mysteries of the Knights of the Golden Circle.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "History", "Americas" ]

[ "Introduces sounds made by animals, humans, and machines and the words used to describe those sounds" ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Dodds, author of On Our Way to Market and Wheel Away! , offers a rhyming text that is certain to regale young listeners with its opportunities for histrionic reading: \"Snakes HISS / Lips SMACK\"; \"Big bass drums / go BOOM BOOM BOOM.\" She also addresses an issue of importance to more than a few curious children learning to talk, many of whom begin to identify animals by the sounds they make: What noise does the bunny make? Does it talk? Her ultimate answers don't satisfy, however, and Dubanevich's illustrations, which seem intended to echo graphically the lively words, might confuse literal-minded children--mice look crazed; bolts of lightning have eyes; a snake seems to crawl across the sky. The bright, almost neon colors (including blue cows and green ghosts), random exclamation points and geometric shapes also jangle unnecessarily. Older children will probably scratch their heads over this title, but younger ones may enjoy the sounds and noises the text occasions. Ages 3-6. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From Kirkus Reviews", "From the author of Wheel Away (1989), an ebullient survey of sounds. On a typical page, animals are creatively mixed with other noisemakers: ``Horses NEIGH/Pigs OINK/Pogo sticks go/BOINK/BOINK/BOINK''; in the varied refrain, ``quiet little bunnies don't make a peep'' or ``never speak.'' The verse is precisely cadenced and amusingly phrased. Most of the verbal representations are familiar; those that aren't are plausible facsimiles of the sounds they portray. Dubanevich's cartoon-style illustrations, with boldly clashing areas of flat color, add a lot to the humor; the large sans serif type echoes her sturdy black line for an unusually well-integrated visual effect. An entertaining vehicle for tuning young ears; with its reiteration of the theme of the bunnies' silence, it may even serve to settle a group down at the beginning of a program. (It's not true that rabbits are incapable of sound--as James Stephens dramatized in a haunting poem, ``The Snare''--but it would be unnecessarily curmudgeonly to point that out, so we won't.) (Picture book. 3-7) --", "Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books" ]

[ "Fans of Sharpe will love the first novel in the Jack Tanner series. Set in Norway, April 1940. Sergeant Jack Tanner and his Yorks Rangers, separated from the main battalion, are drawn into a desperate mission to smuggle Norway’s King Haakon’s treasures to safety.", "From the Hardcover edition." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Genre Fiction" ]

[ "A 3-chapter preview of the best-selling guide to Sony's Alpha 99! Download and peruse these sample chapters and see why everyone is calling the Friedman Archives' books about the Sony cameras to be the best. Rich in detail, easy to understand, and practical at every level, you will enjoy the informal style and have several \"Aha!\" moments just within Chapter 2. :-) If you like what you read, the full version is offered at a discount at the end of the sample." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Photography & Video" ]

[ "The comic-book equivalent of a lost Beatles track! Together, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby produced 102 consecutive issues of Fantastic Four. But there was a 103rd story they'd begun in 1970, but never finished - until now! Working from copies of Jack's penciled pages, Stan Lee and Joe Sinnott reunite to complete the work they started almost four decades ago! Plus: The legendary writer and Fantastic Four co-creator joins forces with artist John Romita Jr. to tell his final story of the team that started the Marvel Age! Collecting Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure and The Last Fantastic Four Story, plus rare Stan Lee stories from Fantastic Four #296 and #543." ]

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[ "Books", "Comics & Graphic Novels", "Graphic Novels" ]

[ "A fascinating historical mystery by Sulari Gentill, author of #1 LibraryReads pick", "The Woman in the Library", "\"Set in Australia in 1933, Gentill's entertaining third mystery featuring portrait artist Rowland Sinclair will appeal to fans of Greenwood's Phryne Fisher.\" ―", "Publishers Weekly", "\"Norman Lindsay is a complete and utter bastard!\"", "With this curse heaped upon the renowned real-life Australian artist and cartoonist,", "Miles Off Course", "gets underway. It is early in 1933, and wealthy bohemian Rowland Sinclair and his companions, a poet, a painter, and a sculptress who also models nude, are ensconced in the superlative luxury of The Hydro Majestic-Medlow Bath, where trouble seems distant, despite Australia's being roiled by the same political currents as are upending Europe.", "But Rowland, try as he might to lead the boho life in Sydney in the family mansion or in a luxury spa, can't dismiss the responsibilities of being a Sinclair. Most of them rest upon his conservative elder brother, Wilfred. And Wil now makes two claims on Rowly. One is to appear at an important upcoming board meeting of a firm where Rowly, pressured by Wil, serves as a director. And the other is to hustle up into the high country where a longtime family stockman appears to have gone missing―and find him.", "Harry Simpson is an aborigine. The easy answer is that Harry has gone walkabout, but neither Sinclair brother believes this to be true. Plus there are the Sinclair cattle to round up.", "Instead of saddling up, Rowly insists upon driving his beautiful if despised Mercedes-Benz and taking a posse in the persons of his three live-in friends along. And off they go into a rollicking Outback adventure, where the familiar elements of an American Western blend with gangsters, spies, murder―and a very belligerent writer. The plot dances inventively around actual historical events and a cameo appearance or two made by famous Australian historical figures. Which takes us back to Norman Lindsay....", "Brimming with larger-than-life characters and brain teasing crimes, this Rowland Sinclair WWII Mystery will appeal to fans of Rhys Bowen, Kerry Greenwood, and Jacqueline Winspear." ]

[ "Review", "\"Gentill's third reads like a superior Western, alternating high adventure with social and political observations about prewar Australia.\" ―", "Kirkus Reviews", "\"Set in Australia in 1933, Gentill's entertaining third mystery featuring portrait artist Rowland Sinclair will appeal to fans of Greenwood's Phryne Fisher ... Gentill matches Greenwood's skill at blending suspense with a light touch.\" ―", "Publishers Weekly", "\"Rowland is an especially interesting character: at first he comes off as a bit of a layabout, a guy who feels he's entitled to a cushy life by virtue of his aristocratic roots, but, as the story moves along, we realize he has a strong moral center and a compulsion to finish a job once he's started it. A great addition to a strong series and a fine read-alike for fans of Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher novels.\" ―", "Booklist", "About the Author", "After setting out to study astrophysics, graduating in law and then abandoning her legal career to write books, SULARI GENTILL now grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of Australia.", "Gentill’s Rowland Sinclair mysteries have won and/or been shortlisted for the Davitt Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and her stand-alone metafiction thriller, After She Wrote Him won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel in 2018. Her tenth Sinclair novel, A Testament of Character, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Best Crime Novel in 2021." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Genre Fiction" ]

[ "Renowned for his remarkable use of colour and technical mastery, this beautifully illustrated volume explores Bukovnik's work in vivid detail. A full chronology, bibliography, and listing of exhibitions and collections complete this stunning examination of the art and career of an important American watercolourist." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "History & Criticism" ]

[ "Patty got up to peer into the refrigerator. “Honey, don’t look so guilty,” she said. “Men are like horses. If they’re even-tempered and sweet, you stay on for the ride. If they buck and run around, you get off before you get hurt.” She slammed the refrigerator door. “Damn, we’re out of cake.” --from", "Horseplay: A Novel", "A debut novel full of sparkle and wit,", "Horseplay", "is a story of the animals that touch our hearts… and the men who try our souls.When Judy Van Brunt finally decides to leave her cheating husband, she makes immediate plans to quit her teaching job, take the money she inherited from her mother, and run off, leaving a note on her husband's pillow. There is only one problem: Where is she going?During her weekly riding lesson, her instructor makes a suggestion just crazy enough to work—and before she knows it, Judy has a position as a groom at an exclusive North Carolina horse farm. There, she shares an apartment with three remarkable women who also work at the farm, and she puts in long hours caring for the horses in addition to learning the demanding sport of dressage from the farm’s owner, a former Olympic champion. Exhausted but fulfilled, she learns for herself that a horse in the barn is worth far more than a husband at home. Her housemates gladly supplement her education with lessons not found in the riding ring, such as how to avoid the farm’s snootier patrons and weed out unsavory suitors. Her devotion to horses is far more rewarding than her marriage ever was—after all, horses never lie or cheat, and even the most hot-blooded stallion won't kick her when she's down. Nevertheless, her new life doesn't keep her away from men entirely. She finds her early vow of chastity and cheeseburgers weakening as she is drawn to one especially eligible bachelor. But after a few escapades with studs of the two-legged variety, is she really ready to be with someone?Set against the alternately glamorous and grimy world of competitive horse shows,", "Horseplay", "is a jubilant ride." ]

[ "From", "Booklist", "When Judy Van Brunt catches her husband, Marshall, in his third infidelity, she decides she has had enough. But she does more than just leave him; she quits her teaching job and heads south to a North Carolina farm owned by a horse trainer named Katarina, for whom Judy hopes to work. Soon she is living in an apartment above the barn with three other women and an unruly teenager, and slaving away as a groom during the daytime. The work is hard, but Judy loves riding (even if she has to try to manage the ornery Ivan) and soon finds herself being courted by Speed Easton, the most eligible bachelor in town. And though she is plagued by both her husband and a snotty socialite who might have designs on Speed, the happiness Judy gets from working with horses and her friends on the farm far outweighs any problems. Some of the secondary characters are cliched to the point of caricature, but readers who love horses and light, funny reads will enjoy this debut.", "Kristine Huntley", "Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved", "From the Inside Flap", "Patty got up to peer into the refrigerator. “Honey, don’t look so guilty,” she said. “Men are like horses. If they’re even-tempered and sweet, you stay on for the ride. If they buck and run around, you get off before you get hurt.” She slammed the refrigerator door. “Damn, we’re out of cake.” --from", "Horseplay: A Novel", "A debut novel full of sparkle and wit,", "Horseplay", "is a story of the animals that touch our hearts… and the men who try our souls.When Judy Van Brunt finally decides to leave her cheating husband, she makes immediate plans to quit her teaching job, take the money she inherited from her mother, and run off, leaving a note on her husband's pillow. There is only one problem: Where is she going?During her weekly riding lesson, her instructor makes a suggestion just crazy enough to work—and before she knows it, Judy has a position as a groom at an exclusive North Carolina horse farm. There, she shares an apartment with three remarkable women who also work at the farm, and she puts in long hours caring for the horses in addition to learning the demanding sport of dressage from the farm’s owner, a former Olympic champion. Exhausted but fulfilled, she learns for herself that a horse in the barn is worth far more than a husband at home. Her housemates gladly supplement her education with lessons not found in the riding ring, such as how to avoid the farm’s snootier patrons and weed out unsavory suitors. Her devotion to horses is far more rewarding than her marriage ever was—after all, horses never lie or cheat, and even the most hot-blooded stallion won't kick her when she's down. Nevertheless, her new life doesn't keep her away from men entirely. She finds her early vow of chastity and cheeseburgers weakening as she is drawn to one especially eligible bachelor. But after a few escapades with studs of the two-legged variety, is she really ready to be with someone?Set against the alternately glamorous and grimy world of competitive horse shows,", "Horseplay", "is a jubilant ride.", "About the Author", "A former high school English teacher with graduate degrees in psychology,", "JUDY REENE SINGER", "has been in love with horses since childhood. She has covered the equestrian world for more than a decade, writing for", "Dressage Today, Horse Play", ", and", "The Chronicle of the Horse,", "which named her a top feature writer in 1996. Her experience with horses ranges from saddle breaking to riding Grand Prix Dressage. She rides and writes in Orange County, New York.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Chapter OneWhen you're running away from a bad marriage, Willie Nelson is the music of choice. His voice has just the right nasal, reedy, twangy quality, which encourages singing along, as well as making it okay for an occasional self-indulgent splash of tears to roll down your cheeks. I was driving to North Carolina and listening to \"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,\" and although my eyes are green, it did actually pour the day I left my blue-eyed husband, Marshall.Marshall and I had been together eight years. He had had three affairs. I had forgiven him twice. And it was about four months after his last fling that the realization struck me: I had been far more gracious than any woman had a reason to be. I was tapped out. Not only did I no longer love him, but the way he walked annoyed me, the color of his hair annoyed me, his ears annoyed me, the fillings in his teeth, the air he exhaled--all had become intolerable. I had begun to hate him, and found myself spending alarmingly more frequent moments planning his dramatic and imminent demise. There was choking, electrocution, car accidents, hanging, knifing, head wounds, poisoning . . . well, it wasn't a good omen for our relationship, and I made my decision.The first one I told was Ruth, my older sister. Saint Ruth of the Perfect Life, as I had always thought of her, was horrified. We were having our weekly ritual of coffee and fabulous scones from a secret-source bakery whose location she was reluctant to share, since Ruth always likes to have the best of everything, as well as exclusive rights to it. I dropped my news.\"I am leaving Marshall,\" I casually mentioned. She choked on a mouthful of fabulous scone.\"What did you say?\" She wheezed crumbs at me from across the table, trying to compose her lungs.\"I said, 'I am leaving Marshall.' \"She looked alternately alarmed and sympathetic, but I could see in her eyes that she was secretly pleased with my news. Now she would have the best marriage. She recovered quickly.\"Are you sure you want to do that?\"\"Yes.\"\"Why don't you let Henry prescribe something for you? You're probably just going through . . . something.\"Henry, her husband, was a psychiatrist, and like many psychiatrists, he was more of a pharmacist than a therapeutic patch maker of holes in the psyche.\"Jesus, I finally come to my senses, and you want to drug me out of them again?\"\"Not drug--just to calm you down a little, restore some tranquillity, so you can think clearly. Just view it merely as a misdirected discharge of his sex glands. All he did was fuck some woman!\"\"Three women--that I know about. There could be a line around the block where his office is.\"Ruth tapped her manicured fingers on the gleaming granite countertop.\"They all fuck around. Live with it, darling. He was a great catch.\"\"I can't live with it.\"\"It would break Mother's heart.\"She was not above firing off her ultimate weapon. Citing our mother was the one thing she could always count on to sweep me back into line. She always used it, whether it was the time I wanted to get engaged to a handsome illiterate named Bolt, or when I ran off to try my hand at Clown College before Real College. Ruth knew my weak spot: I was on an eternal quest to find the ultimate mother figure. One who would guide and comfort me and share some of the burden of my having been put on earth without consultation. And the fact that Ruth was older than I and had spent more time with our mother bestowed upon her, she felt, a certain cachet and authority, which I always acquiesced to.Except this time, it wasn't working.\"Mother's been dead for ten years,\" I said. \"She doesn't care anymore.\"\"Mother liked Marshall.\"\"Mother needed better taste in men.\"Ruth rolled her eyes heavenward, as though looking for a conciliatory vision from Mother.\"How can you end a marriage so casually?\" She poured us more coffee.\"I'm not being casual at all.\"\"And how were you planning to tell him?\" she continued. \"Marshall's so . . .\" She trailed off vaguely.She could have finished with any number of descriptive adjectives:", "nasty", ",", "controlling", ",", "selfish", ",", "lying", ",", "cheating", ". . .\"Vulnerable\" was what she finally said. I never would have thought of", "vulnerable", ".\"Vulnerable?\"\"I think it's his blue eyes.\"\"I am going to leave him a note pinned to my pillow,\" I said. \"He's going to find it after I'm gone. Now promise me you'll keep your mouth shut.\"She sighed and blinked twice. I took it for a yes, finished the last of my fabulous scone, and left her fabulous house.And that's how I left him. Of course, after waiting a few weeks.First and most important, I needed a place to go. Second, I would have to quit my job of rendering high school students comatose by trying to instill the wonders of the English language. And last, I needed to take stock of my worldly possessions and then cull them down to a box or two that would fit neatly into the back of my little Mazda.That first one was going to be a bit tricky.I was thirty-three. And a tad overweight. Okay, chunky. With no devouring passions in life except cheeseburgers, chocolate, and my weekly horseback-riding lessons, a holdover from childhood and college. There were no promising adventures looming on the horizon, no ambitious plans. I just wanted somewhere else.It was at my riding lesson that lightning struck and gave me the rest of my plan.I was grooming Sunny, the old Palomino that I usually rode. Like me, he was a dirty blonde, overweight, and given to brief naps and wobbly knees. I loved pushing the brush across his faded yellow hair, rubbing in slow, round circles, grooming his cellulite-covered body. Now his eyes fluttered closed, his breathing grew deep and sonorous, and he buckled to the ground.\"Come on, Judy, don't let him do that,\" Mickey, my instructor, chided as Sunny leapt once again to his feet and gave an embarrassed snort. \"You know enough to smack him when he gets sleepy.\"While resuming my grooming routine, which now included brushing and smacking, shouting Sunny's name into his ear so he would stay alert enough to remain vertical, I looked around and took a deep breath. It was wonderful to stand in the aisle of the old barn. The ritual grooming of horses while birds chirped at us from up in the rafters was almost hypnotic. It occurred to me that I was happiest here. Happy to help Mickey muck the horse shit out of the stalls, happy to carry the backbreaking sixty-five-pound bales of hay and fifty-pound bags of grain, happy to scrub the slime from the water buckets and fill them back up again with fresh water. There was a peace and a sense of timelessness, a feeling of being insulated from the outside world. I took a deep breath. I loved the scent of horses, that warm, peculiar smell that only horses possess. And there was the horse equipment--the hard brush, the soft brush, the curry comb, the hoof pick--the way all of it lined up in plastic shoe-shine boxes, the sour leather smell, the comforting weight when I carried the bridle and saddle.Most of all, I loved sitting on a horse.That an animal weighing over a thousand pounds could be controlled with the touch of a leg or the movement of a hand was an amazing thing. Mickey was a good instructor and had made sure that the basics of riding were constantly emphasized: sitting correctly and quietly and in balance. I mounted Sunny and took him out back to the ring, where we picked up a slow, contemplative trot, with me doing the contemplating.I was being too quiet.\"What the hell is going on?\" Mickey finally asked me after my third excursion around the muddy ring. \"You're usually chewing my ear off.\"I told her.\"So, are you getting an apartment near your school?\"I hadn't planned to.\"Too bad you're not a kid.\" She shrugged. \"I know an Olympic trainer who takes a few working students every year--they work their asses off, but she teaches them to ride to the top levels.\"I stopped Sunny short for more information.Mickey obliged, but she warned me that I was not a twenty-year-old kid. The work was hard, and besides, what was I going to do with all that training? It's not like there is a riding center in every strip mall, where I could earn a living teaching little girls to sit properly on ponies. It was an impractical thought, Mickey apologized, she had just thrown it out there. \"You have to be crazy,\" she said, \"to even think of interrupting your life at thirty-three to pursue something this outlandish.\"Of course I wanted to hear more.Katarina Rheinboldt was the trainer, Mickey explained, and her farm, Sankt Mai, was in North Carolina.The whole thing was a preposterous, ridiculous notion, and I wrote Katarina as soon as I got home. Her answer came three weeks later in the form of a personal note tucked inside a brochure filled with photos of lithe young women on gleaming horses. She was willing to take a chance on me. There was also a page with a carefully drawn map. I was hooked.I withdrew all the money Mother had left me, mentally reassuring her that it was for a good purpose, turned my resignation in at school, and started composing a note to Marshall. It was going to be brief and unsentimental. Something along the lines of \"Buh-bye, and make sure you use condoms.\"Another week was spent struggling to cram a lifetime's accumulation of clothes, books, and all my music tapes surreptitiously into two cartons and a suitcase. What didn't fit, includ...", "Read more" ]

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[ "Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight." ]

[ "About the Author", "Neal Stephenson is the author of seven previous novels. He lives in Seattle, Washington." ]

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[ "Take an incredible journey to 13th century Krak des Chevaliers and experience life inside a medieval castle. A horseman arrives with urgent news that the sultan's army is on its way to attack! Weave your way through the great halls, towers, turrets and passages as the message is passed on among the knights: 'Prepare for battle!' Breathtaking digital imagery takes you into the heart of the fortress. Meet the 'fighting monks', find out what it was like to be under siege in a medieval castle and see how everyday life was very different to your own. Eyewitness accounts and action-packed scenes turn discovering about castles into an edge-of-your seat adventure. Bring the past to life in your bedroom with the gigantic panoramic poster! It is brilliant for homework and school projects or just for fun." ]

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[ "Books", "Boxed Sets", "Children's Books", "All Children's Boxed Sets" ]

[ "In 12 detailed demonstrations, Petrie explains how a simple lead pencil can be manipulated to create finished landscape drawings that rival the beauty of works in any other medium." ]

[ "About the Author", "Ferdinand Petrie", "was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, and received his art training at Parsons School of Design and The Famous Artist School of Illustration. He also studied painting with Frank Reilly at The Art Students League in New York. After working for 20 years in advertising agencies and studios in New York City, he began painting full time. For the past 20 years he has operated his own in Rockport, Massachusetts. Petrie's work can be found in many public and private collections throughout the United States. Mr. Petrie’s other book published by Watson-Guptill is", "The Big Book of Painting Nature in Watercolor", ", with photographs by John Shaw." ]

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[ "This compilation of short fiction represents the next chapter in Douglas Thayer's recent literary success. Described by Richard Cracroft as \"LDS literary fiction at its finest,\" Thayer's third collection of stories presents a dozen of his career-best work, including several that have never before appeared in print." ]

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[ "This adult coloring book has 30 beautiful animals from all over the world", "The wonderful patterns and designs are all unique and will provide you with hours of stress free coloring.There are some intricate and complex patterns, but there’s something for everyone, whatever your level.It’s time to relax, unwind and let your imagination to run wild.If you like coloring, then you’ll love this book. You won’t know which design to choose first!Hour after hour of stress-free relaxation. Relax, unwind and express your creativity.Pages are single sided, with richly detailed line art. There’s no risk of bleed through, as with some other coloring books.High resolution, crisp images for you to color in with your choice of coloring tool, be it gel pens, markers, colored pencils or even crayons.🐨", "30 Stunning individual animal illustrations", "🦎", "Color that anxiety away. Feel yourself unwind as the stress flows away", "🦛", "Various levels of intricacy, so suitable for everyone, any skill level.", "🐵", "Coloring books make wonderful inexpensive gifts. Perfect for Birthday Presents, Christmas gifts, stocking fillers, Mother’s Day gifts, Father’s Day gifts, Valentine’s Day gifts. The list goes on!", "We are a family business and have been selling our coloring books offline for many years.Your stress free relaxation is our goal.", "Buy now and relax. Scroll back up the page to the ‘Add to Cart’ button.Happy coloring 😊" ]

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[ "Brian has found solace in alcohol, while Kate spends most of her time sedated. Until the night on the mountain road, and the briefcase they suddenly come to possess-an important briefcase that was not intended for them. Now, battling with their own inner struggles, the two of them become the targets of an unknown adversary less interested in the briefcase than in the games he can play. As their lives threaten to completely fall apart, Brian and Kate must find the strength not only to work together, but to face the horrible tragedy that haunts them both. \"I have someone new to admire.\" --Joe R. Lansdale, Edgar Award winner\"Trent Zelazny has already begun to carve out his own genre niche. He's got the right stuff to make fiction both engrossing and literate.\" --Tom Piccirilli, winner of two International Thriller Awards and four Bram Stoker Awards \"A gift for storytelling is in Trent Zelazny's genes.\" --Charles Ardai, publisher of Hard Case Crime \"Trent Zelazny will surprise you, entertain you, and take you places you've never been before.\" --Warren Lapine, World Fantasy and Hugo Award nominee \"Passion. Power! Fear! Zelazny is a force of wonder...and darkness!\" --Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., author of the Lovecraftian novel Nightmare's Disciple Trent Zelazny is the author of numerous short stories of horror, fantasy, suspense, erotica, and humor. A former professional drummer, he has also studied martial arts, animation, and film. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico." ]

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[ "“A book that looks at existence with equal measures of fear, humility and gratitude. In a time when novelists tend to be more concerned with psychology than the soul, that makes it a rare and valuable thing.” --Sam Sacks,", "Wall Street Journal", "From the author of", "Mr. Eternity", ", a darkly comic road novel about a millennial couple facing the ultimate question: how to live and love in an age of catastrophe.", "Young Miami couple Murphy and Eva have", "almost", "decided to have a baby when Yahweh, the Old Testament God, appears to Eva and makes an unwelcome demand: He wants her to be his prophet. He also wants her to manage his social media presence.Yahweh sends the two on a wild road trip across the country, making incomprehensible demands and mandating arcane rituals as they go. He gives them a hundred million dollars, but he asks them to use it to build a temple on top of a landfill. He forces them to endure a period of Biblical wandering in the deserts of the southwest. Along the way they are continually mistaken for another couple, a pair of North Carolina society people, and find themselves attending increasingly bizarre events in their names. At odds with their mission but helpless to disobey, Murphy and Eva search their surroundings for signs of a future they can have faith in. Through wry observations about the biggest things--cosmology and theology--and the smallest things--the joys and irritations of daily life--Thier questions the mysterious forces that shape our fates, and wonders how much free will we really have. Equal parts hilarious and poignant,", "The World Is a Narrow Bridge", "asks: What kind of hope can we pass on to the next generation in a frightening but beautiful world?" ]

[ "Review", "\"With deep tenderness and a wonderful, feather-light sense of humor, Mr. Thier rehearses ancient conundrums over free will and the existence of evil . . .", "The World Is a Narrow Bridge", "is genuinely religious, a book that looks at existence with equal measures of fear, humility and gratitude. In a time when novelists tend to be more concerned with psychology than the soul, that makes it a rare and valuable thing.\" -", "Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal", "\"Captivating . . . Wonderfully zany . . . the prose is powerful, filled with dread and compassion--a welcome surrealist take on Alexis de Tocqueville.\" -", "New York Times Book Review", "\"Thier is hilarious and provocative, his worldly insights sagely and frighteningly on the mark.\" -", "starred review, Booklist", "\"A rambling, innovative, cerebral, and wildly entertaining \"trippy\" journey that drives home essential questions while providing none of the answers.\" -", "New York Journal of Books", "\" 'Why is the world the way it is, and how can we accept it?' This is the question at the center of Aaron Thier's hilarious, absurd, and cosmically-attuned new novel. Along the way he invents a genre of his own: the American magic-realist road trip.\" -", "Karan Mahajan, author of THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS", "\"Thier has written a book for our particular moment in American history, and it's a testament to his amazing talent that he can pull the wreckage towards something beautiful . . . A wild, humane novel.\" -", "Kevin Wilson, author of PERFECT LITTLE WORLD", "\"Mr. Thier's dizzying time-travels will inevitably call to mind David Mitchell's", "Cloud Atlas", ", and the danger of such books is that they tend to grow solemn and sanctimonious as they peer into the future. Happily,", "Mr. Eternity", "remains playful even as it relates catastrophe.\" -", "The Wall Street Journal", "\"[A] sharp, inventive and compassionate novel . . . to be savored and heeded.\" -", "San Francisco Chronicle on MR. ETERNITY", "\"With symbolism and analogy, surrealism and fantasy, Thier deftly reflects on and explores the human condition through \"the lavender light and sweet scented dust of history.\" Erudite. Imaginative. A work to be read slowly and savored.\" -", "Starred review, Kirkus Reviews on MR. ETERNITY", "\"[A] mordant and mischievous satire . . .", "The Ghost Apple", "does what satire is meant to do. It makes us laugh and it makes us think. Thier renders a deranged world that we recognize as our own.\" -", "Boston Globe on THE GHOST APPLE", "About the Author", "Aaron Thier", "is the author of the novels", "Mr. Eternity", ", a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and", "The Ghost Apple", ", a semifinalist for the Thurber Prize. A contributor to the", "Nation", "and a graduate of Yale University and the MFA program at the University of Florida, Thier received a 2016 NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing. He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "The World Is a Narrow Bridge", "A Novel", "By AARON THIER", "Bloomsbury Publishing Plc", "Copyright © 2018 Aaron ThierAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-63557-141-7", "CHAPTER 1", "On this quiet tropical night, while Murphy drools at her side like a man beaten unconscious, Eva lies awake reviewing the small traumas and embarrassments of the day. It's a routine moment of contemplation in the instant before sleep. She curses herself for buying the French vanilla yogurt instead of plain. She wishes she hadn't said that thing to that person. She wonders if the pain in her ear is the first symptom of a devastating illness that will culminate in her death. She is certainly not thinking about the Judeo-Christian god, nor of any other god, because she is a secular humanist who believes in goodness for its own sake, and in reason, and in fermented foods and renewable energy and a single-payer health care system. So imagine her surprise when she sighs and adjusts her pillow and there at the foot of the bed is Yahweh, god of the Israelites and troubled protagonist of the Hebrew Bible.", "* * *", "For context, if you're a lover of context, it's eleven o'clock on a late-April night in Miami. Nighttime lows have risen into the seventies, the convective outlook is general, and the black vultures have gone north for the summer. Gunfire can be heard, but only faintly. A reality-television personality has just been elevated to the presidency. Murphy and Eva are living in a temporary furnished apartment, just the latest in a sequence of temporary furnished apartments, and there is no prospect of a permanent residence, nor any prospect of real jobs beyond the freelance adjunct part-time work they've been doing for years. Eva is a poet, but she also teaches ESL classes. Murphy writes occasional restaurant and movie reviews for the local free paper, but he has yet to conceive of a more meaningful professional ambition. Those are the facts.", "How does she know it's Yahweh? If this is a dream and not an authentic encounter with the divine, and it's reasonable to assume that it's a dream, then it's one of those dream moments when you're talking to a stranger but you also know that the stranger is your aunt Patricia. Yahweh is wearing sunglasses and an elegant linen shirt and he's attended by a deputy angel of some kind. The deputy looks more or less like Yahweh himself, minus the sunglasses. Both have a Levantine cast of feature. In fact they resemble Murphy, whose mother is a Lebanese Jew.", "\"This is her?\" Yahweh asks.", "\"That's what I was told.\"", "He gazes searchingly at Eva and scratches his chin. Eva is not afraid. She knows that gods delight in doing depraved things to human women, but it looks as if these two are here on business.", "\"Can she talk?\" says Yahweh.", "\"She's said to have an attractive throaty voice.\"", "\"Ask her to say something.\"", "The angel nods. \"You,\" he says. \"Can you speak?\"", "Eva finds that she cannot.", "\"She can't speak,\" says the angel.", "\"She can speak. She's malingering. They always do.\"", "\"You,\" says the angel. \"Repeat after me. 'From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores.' \"", "Eva says, \"From a soul and a foot and even into the head, there are no sounds in it, but ...\"", "\"She does have a nice voice,\" says Yahweh.", "\"You,\" says the angel. \"You will go where you're told to go, and speak as you're told to speak. You will ask the people you meet, 'Have you heard the name of the Lord, which is Yahweh?' And then they'll know that he is the Lord. Do you agree?\"", "\"No.\"", "Yahweh crosses his arms. The angel leans forward and glares at her.", "\"Do you agree?\"", "Eva says, \"I'm innocent! You've got the wrong woman!\"", "\"This is how she behaves in the presence of the Lord,\" says Yahweh. \"The Lord of Hosts! Slow to anger and always merciful. It never fails to amaze me.\"", "But it's a dream, it's just a dream, it must be a dream, because that's all there is. Next thing she knows, it's morning and the dust is dancing in a thick bar of sunlight.", "As the poet James Schuyler writes: \"Now it's tomorrow, as usual.\" The sun rises, a bird begins to scream in the yard, and it's time once again to undertake the complex business of daily life. Murphy and Eva assess the day's likely meteorological scenarios and select clothing on that basis. They each prepare a breakfast that satisfies their unique dietary preferences without transgressing the rigid boundaries of nutritional requirement. They read the news with terror and incomprehension, like pedestrians witnessing a violent crime.", "Today is a day like any other. Eva teaches her classes and doesn't think of Yahweh at all. Murphy reads a novel and takes a long walk. In the evening, when the world heaves a big sigh and the warm air turns to glass, they visit the Whole Foods downtown. It's important to do these things together sometimes — that's the foundation on which a solid relationship is built. But because they go together, they approach their task in an unfocused manner and forget both the plain yogurt and the olive oil. They manage to buy milk, a few passion fruits, biodegradable trash bags, some toothpaste, and a bar of unscented soap.", "Their conversation is less trivial than their errand. They are trying to decide whether to have a baby right away, i.e. as soon as possible, or later, i.e. in a year or two. They have been exploring this question for weeks and they flatter themselves by imagining that they have approached it \"rationally,\" as if that were a virtue and as if the matter of hauling a new soul out of the cosmic ether were susceptible to reason in the first place. Tonight Eva argues that having a child under \"these circumstances,\" by which she probably means America's toxic political situation as well as the temporary nature of their domestic and professional arrangements, is an \"insane and hubristic thing to do,\" but she goes on to say that having a baby is always an insane and hubristic thing to do, since it means introducing an innocent person to the perils and sorrows of the universe, which is all to say, she says, shaking her head, that now is as good a time as any.", "Whether they remember the yogurt or not, whether they chart a new course for their lives or not, the trip home should be a quick one. If all goes well, they should be able to get back to their apartment in fifteen minutes. But all does not often go well on the lawless highways of greater Miami. Tonight there's an accident at the very end of I-95, at the spot where you have to descend to US 1. It involves three cars and a tractor-trailer. There are no fatalities, thank heavens, but they're stuck here while the municipal authorities clear a path. At least the waiting isn't as psychologically taxing as it might be. The spectacle of the ruined vehicles fills them both with a sense of life's fragility, and although they use this time to check their iPhones and make tart observations about Miami's lack of public transportation and overstressed highway system, they also count their blessings. Meanwhile, their Prius shuts off with a sigh.", "* * *", "\"I just remembered,\" says Eva. \"I had a dream last night about Yahweh.\"", "\"About who?\"", "\"He had an angel with him. Like a bagman.\"", "\"Did you remember this because of the car accident?\"", "\"Yes.\"", "Murphy nods sadly. \"Because you were thinking about death.\"", "\"They asked me to go around saying the Lord's name. I don't think I agreed, but I was having a dream problem where I couldn't really talk. At first I couldn't open my mouth at all.\"", "Murphy is rocking back and forth and tugging at his seat belt. He has expressive hair and staring eyes. He's the kind of person who enters the elevator and rushes to press the door-close button before the doors close. Eva doesn't often press the door-close button, but she has staring eyes too, and her spirit is less placid than her languorous demeanor suggests. The two of them are almost exactly the same height, but because human women tend to be smaller than human men, Eva is considered very tall and Murphy is able to wear a medium right off the rack. This phenomenon is called sexual size dimorphism and it occurs throughout the animal kingdom. Sometimes it runs in the other direction. Ceratioid anglerfish males are tiny. They cling parasitically to the bellies of the much larger females.", "Now Murphy is looking out the window at the thick slice of moon in the powdery blue sky. He tends to think of the moon as a cold place, he says, but he knows that's not right. During the day it must be very hot. It's no farther from the sun than the earth is, and there's no atmosphere to protect you.", "Eva says, \"You could get a moontan.\"", "\"Does the moon spin? I can't remember if it spins.\"", "\"I remember from somewhere that they did their manned lunar explorations at dawn, because of the sun.\"", "\"I guess it's probably like a desert. It's hot in the day and cold at night.\"", "Eva nods. A moment later she says, \"They used to think that sleeping outside under the moon would make you insane. But maybe only the full moon.\"", "Murphy opens his window and pokes his head out, trying to see what's happening up ahead and meanwhile exposing his face to the dangerous glare of the rising moon. He's surprised to find that he can see the ocean from here. On this April evening, in the low sunlight, in the steady breeze, the water of the bay is a pale sandy blue, like Cool Mint flavor Listerine Zero Antiseptic Mouthwash. There are a great many islands floating around out there as well. Some of them are man-made. Some are private. Some are still uninhabited and some have been overwhelmed by Australian pine, which is not a pine tree at all but a flowering plant, an angiosperm, called casuarina in the Pacific because of its resemblance to cassowary plumes. We know this because we've just looked it up. It's easy to look things up. That's the world we live in.", "Murphy gazes meditatively at the islands, the Australian pines, the Listerine-colored water, the iconic skyline. He counts ten construction cranes downtown — so much enterprise, and all despite the inevitable inundation of this low-lying coastal metropolis. Eva watches a few pelicans fly past with what the poet Elizabeth Bishop once called \"humorous elbowings,\" a phrase she knows without having to look it up, although she could do so very easily, as we've just said.", "When Murphy slides back into his seat, Eva says, \"That's where we get the word", "lunatic.", "A lunatic is someone afflicted with moonsanity.\"", "* * *", "It doesn't spin, to answer Murphy's question. The moon is tidally locked, which means that it presents the same face to the earth at all times. The length of a lunar day is equal to the period of time required to complete its orbit of the earth. \"With respect to the stars,\" this takes 27 Earth days, 7 Earth hours, 43 Earth minutes, and 11.5 Earth seconds, except it actually takes longer, or appears to, God knows why. Its \"actual\" average orbital period is 29 Earth days, 12 Earth hours, 44 Earth minutes, and 3 Earth seconds. We're just reporting the facts, or the putative facts. It's one thing to know and quite another thing to understand. In any case, lunar dawn is a couple of days long — plenty of time for some manned exploration. And as for the conditions up there: Surface temperatures in the equatorial and midlatitude regions vary from 224 degrees Fahrenheit during the day to about minus 300 degrees at night, although there are permanently shadowed polar craters where temperatures are as low as minus 397 degrees. We might have hoped for a less changeable moon, but no doubt you get the moon you deserve.", "Now Eva declares that she's going to eat a passion fruit. Murphy seems distressed by this decision and observes that passion fruits are \"so messy,\" but never mind about Murphy — it's not always possible to indulge him. Eva saws the fruit in half with her house key and eats it with a plastic spoon from the glove box. Meanwhile, she looks out at the tossing heads of the palm trees in the low light. It's a beautiful sight, but she experiences the beauty of this moment as a kind of longing. We might imagine that what she longs for is an alternative present in which she is not marooned on I-95, but that isn't true. In a sense, she longs for the very moment in which she's living, marooned or not. She longs to experience it completely, as she thinks a younger and more innocent Eva would have been able to do. An eighteen-year-old Eva, just escaped from the dank Pennsylvania woods. Then she has a cascade of troubling thoughts — that life is ephemeral, that beauty is ephemeral, that beauty is inseparable from the ephemeralness of life, that beauty", "is", "the perception of life's ephemeralness — and then she closes her eyes and tries to stop thinking about these things, which are nothing more, after all, than thoughts of death. She tries to savor her passion fruit, which is so delicious that she can barely taste it.", "Murphy says, \"I read once about somebody who set up a ton of mirrors to focus the moon's light. I want to say it was Galileo. He said he could feel the warmth of the moonlight.\"", "\"That's a recipe for a serious moonburn. Moonsanity would be the least of your troubles.\"", "They're stuck here for slightly less than half an hour. It's a long time, but not when you consider the vast labor involved in clearing away the ruined vehicles. Maybe the most remarkable thing is not this magical human ability to move thousands of pounds of metal in short order but our unexamined conviction that the job can and should be accomplished so swiftly. It doesn't matter, because when they do begin to move, it's a short reprieve. Down here on US 1, which is also called the Dixie Highway, commuters from downtown are joining the aggravated motorists from I-95, and now a teenager in a champagne-colored Honda comes roaring down the ramp, darts in and out of traffic for a luminous high-spirited moment, and slams into a lavender Chevy Blazer. This causes a sequence of other traffic incidents and soon every lane is blocked and they're trapped once again, and trapped at the very worst point, where there's no place to exit.", "* * *", "This time there is to be no discussion of the moon, nor any wistful reflection on the impermanence of an individual life on this blue sun-dazzled pebble of a world. They have seen the accident, they know that it's the result of carelessness or drunkenness or texting-while-driving, and both of them are angry and frustrated. Murphy exits the vehicle immediately. Eva shuts the car off but stays where she is. It is no longer possible for her to apprehend the beauty of the light in the palm trees, or else, if beauty is nothing more than an aspect of subjective experience, and what reason does she have for thinking it's not, then beauty itself fades from the palm trees. They are no more than two miles from home.", "Now Murphy is the one thinking about death. Even the sunniest of people must think about death now and then, and no one could justly accuse Murphy of being a sunny person. He squints and frowns into the breeze. All he knows for certain is that he and everyone he loves will die. The only way to avoid witnessing the deaths of his loved ones is to die a tragic and premature death himself, and in that case his loved ones will have to witness it. What kind of demented and malevolent deity would make such a world?", "Eva watches him stamping back and forth on the median. She sees him stoop to pick some Surinam cherries, which he eats with every appearance of relish, morbid reflections notwithstanding. Above the incessant honking and the rush of the wind, she can hear the sounds of lawn care. In Florida, there is never a moment when you can't hear the sounds of lawn care. The aerial fig roots have to be cut before they reach the ground. Coconuts have to be removed and carted away so they don't fall and cause property damage or personal injury. The grass needs mowing even in the dry season because people like to water their lawns. Leaf blowers run all the time. Miami is the only major city in the contiguous United States with a tropical monsoon climate (Koppen climate classification", "Am", "), and the struggle to subdue wild nature is never-ending. Native flora encroaches upon the man-maintained tropical lawnscape; exotic plants escape from the lawnscape and invade untended spaces. Eva wonders why it's necessary to subdue nature in the first place. Whence the convention of the green lawn? Is it because the United States derives many of its preoccupations from Mother England, and England is a country of lawns? Or is it that we instinctively prefer a savanna-like environment similar to the one in which our species was born?", "Two screaming parakeets flap by above Murphy's head, and he turns to shout at them as they go. Then he too thinks of his younger self — that morose little boy, so oppressed by the suffocating snows and obscene purple darkness of the northern winter — and wonders what he'd have thought if he'd known that the cries of parakeets would one day become a routine irritation.", "(Continues...)", "Excerpted from", "The World Is a Narrow Bridge", "by", "AARON THIER", ". Copyright © 2018 Aaron Thier. Excerpted by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.", "Read more" ]

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[ "First edition thus. Another selection of letters by Lewis. With an introduction by him. xix, 323 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo.." ]

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[ "Selected by IBM Competitive Edge Book Club Selection.", "\"The beauty of this book on top of its life-saving timeliness is its capacity to give the reader concrete steps to live the good life and enjoy it.  The book made me understand that work can be more fun than fun.”", "–Warren Bennis, Ph.D., University Professor, University of Southern California, coauthor,", "Judgment: How Great Leaders", "Make Winning Calls", "and", "Transparency: How Leaders Create", "a Culture of Candor", "Change. It’s your job. It just won’t stop. It’s relentless. It keeps coming at you like never-ending rapids in a permanent whitewater river. Change will burn you out if you don’t learn how to handle it. This book is not, however, about mere survival.  It is about", "thriving", "amidst the challenges of your permanent whitewater world at work.", "•Protect your career, improve your resilience, and seize the opportunities in turbulent times", "•Take charge, learn to pace yourself, set your own course, and lead others in ad-hoc teams", "•Ride the rapids and rediscover play and adventure in today’s demanding work environment", "•Learn from research and the experiences of hundreds of professionals in industries from energy to telecommunications to financial services to health care", "There’s nothing abstract or cute about the way this book talks about change: This is practical, grounded knowledge for managing your life in a business world that’s churning with change. Gregory Shea, Ph.D. and Robert Gunther show how to keep your working life on course instead of being pushed beyond your limits...find fun and fulfillment...regroup and rebound from failure...protect yourself from events you can’t predict...take charge of your life, an your future!" ]

[ "Review", "Two kinds of readers will profit from this extremely timely… guide for working in the increased uncertainty… of our times: those who need to understand our challenging world better and know it, and those who need to … but don’t yet know it.", "-Fritz Steele, Ph.D., author", "of", "The Open Organization", ";", "co-author", "Workplace by Design", "and", "The Feel of the Workplace", "This book… about embracing and thriving in a world of high-octane change…gives…some great practical tips that you can apply back in your workplace.", "-“Richard’s Book Review”, The Proteus Leadership Centres", "From the Back Cover", "Selected by IBM Competitive Edge Book Club Selection.", "\"The beauty of this book on top of its life-saving timeliness is its capacity to give the reader concrete steps to live the good life and enjoy it.  The book made me understand that work can be more fun than fun.”", "–Warren Bennis, Ph.D., University Professor, University of Southern California, coauthor,", "Judgment: How Great Leaders", "Make Winning Calls", "and", "Transparency: How Leaders Create", "a Culture of Candor", "Change. It’s your job. It just won’t stop. It’s relentless. It keeps coming at you like never-ending rapids in a permanent whitewater river. Change will burn you out if you don’t learn how to handle it. This book is not, however, about mere survival.  It is about", "thriving", "amidst the challenges of your permanent whitewater world at work.", "•Protect your career, improve your resilience, and seize the opportunities in turbulent times", "•Take charge, learn to pace yourself, set your own course, and lead others in ad-hoc teams", "•Ride the rapids and rediscover play and adventure in today’s demanding work environment", "•Learn from research and the experiences of hundreds of professionals in industries from energy to telecommunications to financial services to health care", "There’s nothing abstract or cute about the way this book talks about change: This is practical, grounded knowledge for managing your life in a business world that’s churning with change. Gregory Shea, Ph.D. and Robert Gunther show how to keep your working life on course instead of being pushed beyond your limits...find fun and fulfillment...regroup and rebound from failure...protect yourself from events you can’t predict...take charge of your life, an your future!", "About the Author", "Gregory Shea, Ph.D.,", "consults, researches, writes, and teaches in the areas of organizational and individual change, leadership, group effectiveness, and conflict resolution. He is president of the consulting firm Shea & Associates, a principal in The Coxe Group international consultancy; Senior Consultant at the Center for Applied Research, Adjunct Professor of Management at The Wharton School, where he has taught for more than 25 years, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and a Faculty Associate of the Wharton School’s Center for Leadership and Change. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard, Shea holds an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and an M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Administrative Science from Yale. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association.", "Robert Gunther", "is coauthor or collaborator on more than 20 books, including", "The Wealthy 100", "and", "The Truth About Making Smart Decisions.", "He has appeared on CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and numerous local and national radio and television programs, and his projects have been featured in", "The New York Times", ",", "Time", ",", "USA Today", ", and", "Fortune", ". His columns or articles also have been published in", "Harvard Business Review", ",", "American Heritage", ",", "Investor’s Business Daily", ", and", "The Philadelphia Inquirer", ". As founder of Gunther Communications, he has consulted with Fortune 500 companies, universities, and major nonprofits. He is a graduate of Princeton University.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Auto Electricity and Electronics Workbook", "contains chapter review questions, job sheets, and an ASE-style practice test for student use in mastering the subject matter and preparing for ASE Certification Test A6. It is for use in conjunction with the", "Auto Electricity and Electronics", "textbook as chapters correlate between the two products. Both word and illustration problems are included to address the needs of different learning styles. The 13 jobs are hands-on activities in component inspection, testing, problem diagnosis, service, and repair." ]

[ "About the Author", "James E. Duffy has devoted much of his professional life to developing educational materials that help people understand vocational and technical subjects. Jim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from Indiana State University. After college, Jim worked as an automotive instructor at Brandon High School in Brandon, Florida, and at Hillsborough Adult Education Center in Tampa, Florida. After teaching for several years, Jim joined Goodheart-Willcox Publisher as a technical editor and eventually began writing textbooks. In addition to Modern Automotive Technology, Jim's books include Auto Electricity and Electronics, Auto Engine Repair, Automatic Transmissions and Transaxles, and Manual Drive Trains and Axles." ]

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[ "In this first collection of the new SPIRIT series, an international crime syndicate wants to help Central City’s villain, The Octopus, consolidate control over the underworld. They’ve offered The Octopus the services of one of their finest assassins to take The Spirit’s breath away for good." ]

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[ "Provides drills, timed writings, and formatting exercises to teach basic keyboarding, using AppleWorks, Word Perfect, or MicroSoft Works." ]

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[ "When ghost-stumbler Sherry Landis’s quasi-friend Julie—beautiful, aggravating, and now ridiculously rich—buys a moldering Northern California hotel and invites Sherry and her sister Laura for an “elegant house-party weekend” to kick off her glorious restoration project, they just know it’s going to be the kind of trouble for which Julie is famous.As soon as they arrive in the secluded canyon surrounding the Garnet Springs Resort, Julie can’t help flaunting both her natural and extravagantly purchased charms as well as rekindling her flirtation with Sherry’s beau Marc. Weary, wary, and wondering at the wisdom of their road trip, Sherry is further unbalanced by an unexpected wave of hatred . . . from the hotel itself?Once a Jazz-era destination and headquarters for the stars of the 1930s Hollywood classic Fool’s Gold, the hotel has old mystery and grandeur in its bones. But madness as well? Trying to discount the psychic rumblings only she feels, Sherry’s nerves are shattered by a visitation from a phantom of shadows whose glee in her terror only makes it more bone-chilling.Admitting she’d bought far more than she had bargained for, Julie begs, cries, and finally cajoles Sherry into tackling the most daunting task of her life: tracking down the insane spirit that haunts the hotel’s faded halls and empty rooms and banishing it to the heaven—or hell—to which it belongs." ]

[ "About the Author", "Karen Marie Peacock lives in a forested small town in Northern California with her husband Mike, an antique roll top desk, thousands of books, and the ticking of old clocks. She has had a love affair with words and writing since she was a very little girl, listening to her mother read Jane Eyre from a battered book she still has.", "--This text refers to the", "paperback", "edition." ]

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[ "La característica principal de esta Biblia es la codificación de los versículos en 12 colores, que representan diferentes temas bíblicos tales como Dios, discipulado, amor, familia y profecía entre otros. Características: Introducción para cada libro de la Biblia, mapas en el texto, concordancia de 88 páginas, 8 páginas de presentación y registro familiar, selección especial de versículos para memorizar, palabras de la Trinidad subrayadas, referencias en columna central, bosquejos de los libros, 365 citas bíblicas populares, calendario anual de lectura bíblica diaria, plan de salvación, armonía de los evangelios y cinta marcadora.The entire Bible features in color-coded verses, with each of the 12 colors representing a different biblical theme such as God, discipleship, love, family and prophecy.Features: Book introduction, intext-maps, 88-page concordance, 8 presentation pages and family records section, special memory verse selections, words of the Trinity underlined, center column references, outline of each bible book, daily bible reading calendar, plan of salvation, harmony of the Gospels, ribbon marker." ]

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[ "A bucking horse and a confident young broncobuster who has never been thrown meet in a contest in front of the whole town" ]

[ "From School Library Journal", "PreSchool-Grade 2 Sewall has enlivened this old cowboy song with a set of illustrations straight out of the Wild West. The first-person narrative recounts the story of a young out-of-work cowboy who's bragging promises to earn him ten dollars if he can break the strawberry roan. The confident young cowpoke soon discovers that the little old horse is a hard bronc to bust. Despite his brave attempt, there's no question who comes out the victor in this showdown. Amidst the book's watercolor-washed pages featuring gold desert and blue sky, Sewall's strawberry roan comes to life. The expert use of action lines and superimposed figures bring to life the wildly cavorting bronc whose personality glints in his eyes. The pictures tell the story every bit as well as the words. The music for this little-known ballad is not included, but, despite this omission, the book will hold appeal for all those young 'uns seeking a good cowboy story. Susan Scheps, Bertram Woods Branch Library, Shaker Heights, OhioCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc." ]

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[ "A rousing novel fraught with sex, glamour, and suspense features a devoted wife and mother who, abandoned and left penniless by her husband, hits on a plan of deception to obtain a fabulous new life and lover. Reprint." ]

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[ "My Historically Black Purpose is an introduction to the Historically black college world that is often talked about but never thoroughly dissected for an understanding of the holistic benefits they bring to the black community. Specifically the unique ability Historically Black Colleges have to transform young black boys and girls into strong black men and women. This journey includes joy, pain and eventual triumph for those who choose to take the path. There is no way to describe the life-changing experience one has at their HBCU adequately, but you can get an idea of the culture you can expect. The experience was broken down into ten points to give each reader a sense of the values and lessons they will be exposed to by attending an HBCU. Exposure is the highest form of currency, so hopefully, through this read, all people will be able to understand the relevance and importance of Historically black colleges and the obligation we have to embrace and build upon the legacy." ]

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[ "“One of the most significant books in my life.”", "—Obie Fernandez, Author,", "The Rails Way “Twenty years ago, the first edition of The Pragmatic Programmer completely changed the trajectory of my career. This new edition could do the same for yours.”", "—Mike Cohn, Author of", "Succeeding with Agile", ",", "Agile Estimating and Planning", ", and", "User Stories Applied “. filled with practical advice, both technical and professional, that will serve you and your projects well for years to come.”", "—Andrea Goulet, CEO, Corgibytes, Founder, LegacyCode.Rocks", "“. . . lightning does strike twice, and this book is proof.”", "—VM (Vicky) Brasseur, Director of Open Source Strategy, Juniper Networks", "The Pragmatic Programmer", "is one of those rare tech books you’ll read, re-read, and read again over the years. Whether you’re new to the field or an experienced practitioner, you’ll come away with fresh insights each and every time. Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of books, screencasts, and audio books, as well as thousands of careers and success stories. Now, twenty years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. Read this book, and you’ll learn how to:", "Fight software rot", "Fight software rot", "Learn continuously", "Learn continuously", "Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge", "Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge", "Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code", "Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code", "Harness the power of basic tools", "Harness the power of basic tools", "Avoid programming by coincidence", "Avoid programming by coincidence", "Learn real requirements", "Learn real requirements", "Solve the underlying problems of concurrent code", "Solve the underlying problems of concurrent code", "Guard against security vulnerabilities", "Guard against security vulnerabilities", "Build teams of Pragmatic Programmers", "Build teams of Pragmatic Programmers", "Take responsibility for your work and career", "Take responsibility for your work and career", "Test ruthlessly and effectively, including property-based testing", "Test ruthlessly and effectively, including property-based testing", "Implement the Pragmatic Starter Kit", "Implement the Pragmatic Starter Kit", "Delight your users", "Delight your users", "Written as a series of self-contained sections and filled with classic and fresh anecdotes, thoughtful examples, and interesting analogies,", "The Pragmatic Programmer", "illustrates the best approaches and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Whether you’re a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you’ll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You’ll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career. You’ll become a Pragmatic Programmer.", "Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details." ]

[ "Review", "\"To participate in the next generation of professional product delivery you have to be pragmatic but disciplined. Otherwise, you are fated to be ungrounded dreamers whose products endanger people and whose ideas never become successfully integrated into the world. Andy and Dave described a pragmatic but disciplined approach which is a key step towards professionalism.\"–", "Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum and founder of Scrum.org, agile manifesto signatory, and author of", "Software in 30 Days.", "\"Picking adjectives is hard work. In", "The Pragmatic Programmer", ", Dave and Andy set the tone for their work–thoughtful, expert, aspirational, and full of care for themselves and those they touch through their programs. From its publication, this was the book to read if you wanted to work to improve.\"–", "Kent Beck, Gusto, author of", "Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Test-Driven Development: By Example,", "and", "The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns", "\"Some say that with", "The Pragmatic Programmer,", "Andy and Dave captured lightning in a bottle; that it’s unlikely anyone will soon write a book that can move an entire industry as it did. Sometimes, though, lightning does strike twice, and this book is proof. The updated content ensures that it will stay at the top of “best books in software development” lists for another 20 years, right where it belongs.\"", "―", "VM (Vicky) Brasseur, Director of Open Source Strategy, Juniper Networks", "\"If you want your software to be easy to modernize and maintain, keep a copy of", "The Pragmatic Programmer", "close. It’s filled with practical advice, both technical and professional, that will serve you and your projects well for years to come.\"", "―", "Andrea Goulet, CEO, Corgibytes; Founder, LegacyCode.Rocks", "\"", "The Pragmatic Programmer", "is the one book I can point to that completely dislodged the existing trajectory of my career in software and pointed me in the direction of success. Reading it opened my mind to the possibilities of being a craftsman, not just a cog in a big machine. One of the most significant books in my life.\"", "―", "Obie Fernandez, Author,", "The Rails Way \"First-time readers can look forward to an enthralling induction into the modern world of software practice, a world that the first edition played a major role in shaping. Readers of the first edition will rediscover here the insights and practical wisdom that made the book so significant in the first place, expertly curated and updated, along with much that’s new.\"", "―", "David A. Black, Author,", "The Well-Grounded Rubyist \"I have an old paper copy of the original", "Pragmatic Programmer", "on my bookshelf. It has been read and re-read and a long time ago it changed everything about how I approached my job as a programmer. In the new edition everything and nothing has changed: I now read it on my iPad and the code examples use modern programming languages―but the underlying concepts, ideas, and attitudes are timeless and universally applicable. Twenty years later, the book is as relevant as ever. It makes me happy to know that current and future developers will have the same opportunity to learn from Andy and Dave’s profound insights as I did back in the day.\"", "―", "Sandy Mamoli, Agile coach; Author of", "How Self-Selection Lets People Excel", "From the Back Cover", "The bestselling software development guide – more than 200,000 sold – now thoroughly updated by its world-class author team", "Today’s best approaches to transforming requirements into working, maintainable code that delights users", "Today’s best approaches to transforming requirements into working, maintainable code that delights users", "Thoroughly revised with 10 new sections, extensive new coverage, new examples throughout – and future-proofed with greater technology-independence", "Thoroughly revised with 10 new sections, extensive new coverage, new examples throughout – and future-proofed with greater technology-independence", "Brings together pragmatic advice on everything from personal career fulfillment to more effective architecture", "Brings together pragmatic advice on everything from personal career fulfillment to more effective architecture", "“One of the most significant books in my life.”", "―Obie Fernandez, Author,", "The Rails Way“Twenty years ago, the first edition of The Pragmatic Programmer completely changed the trajectory of my career. This new edition could do the same for yours.”", "―Mike Cohn, Author of", "Succeeding with Agile", ",", "Agile Estimating and Planning", ", and", "User Stories Applied“. . . filled with practical advice, both technical and professional, that will serve you and your projects well for years to come.”", "―Andrea Goulet, CEO, Corgibytes, Founder, LegacyCode.Rocks", "“. . . lightning does strike twice, and this book is proof.”", "―VM (Vicky) Brasseur, Director of Open Source Strategy, Juniper Networks", "About the Author", "Dave Thomas", "and", "Andy Hunt", "are internationally recognized as leading voices in the software development community. They consult and speak around the world. Together, they founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf, publishing award-winning, leading-edge books for software developers. They were two of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. Dave currently teaches college, turns wood, and plays with new technology and paradigms. Andy writes science fiction, is an active musician, and loves to tinker with technology. But, most of all, they’re both driven to keep learning.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Colorado! Some came for freedom; others, to build a new life. But in 1858, when gold is discovered in the Colorado region, thousands of desperate men and women descend on Denver like a hungry swarm. Homesteaders struggle to hold onto their claims, but none are immune to the effects of gold fever. Wagon train veteran Chet Harris risks his life to repeat the success he found in the California gold fields. Mineral expert Luke Brando masquerades as a banker, while his wife hides a yearning for riches of her own. And young Cathy Blake discovers just how far she’ll go to defeat a voluptuous rival. But the greatest challenge belongs to General Lee Burke, one of the original pioneers of the Oregon Trail. Under orders from U.S. President James Buchanan, he must gain the support of Colorado – with all its newfound wealth – to forge the fate of a nation. But time is running out. Tensions between the North and the South are heating up. Soon every American will be called on to fight – for the greatest dream of all…" ]

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[ "Learn the basics of Java 9, including basic programming concepts and the object-oriented fundamentals necessary at all levels of Java development. Author Kishori Sharan walks you through writing your first Java program step-by-step. Armed with that practical experience, you'll be ready to learn the core of the Java language. Beginning Java 9 Fundamentals provides over 90 diagrams and 240 complete programs to help you learn the topics faster. The book continues with a series of foundation topics, including using data types, working with operators, and writing statements in Java. These basics lead onto the heart of the Java language: object-oriented programming. By learning topics such as classes, objects, interfaces, and inheritance you'll have a good understanding of Java's object-oriented model. The final collection of topics takes what you've learned and turns you into a real Java programmer. You'll see how to take the power of object-oriented programming and write programs that can handle errors and exceptions, process strings and dates, format data, and work with arrays to manipulate data. This book is a companion to two other books also by Sharan focusing on APIs and advanced Java topics. What You’ll Learn Write your first Java programs with an emphasis on learning object-oriented programming in Java Work with data types, operators, statements, classes and objects Handle exceptions, assertions, strings and dates, and object formatting Use regular expressions  Work with arrays, interfaces, enums, and inheritance Take advantage of the new JShell REPL tool Who This Book Is For Those who are new to Java programming, who may have some or even no prior programming experience." ]

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[ "This book includes both Hospital Corpsman NAVEDTRA 14295 and the Advancement Handbook for Hospital Corpsman. The United States Navy training programs have long been the standard used as the pinnacle of training achievement. The Hospital Corpsman training program has been continuously tested and updated to successfully educate every member of the Navy Hospital Corps since its inception. The needs of the instructor, the student, the patient, and the Navy are perfectly balanced. This is the model all educators should follow when developing training programs." ]

[ "About the Author", "Following in the footsteps of Gordon Allport, all of Mindy J. Allport-Settle's books are built on a foundation of psychology and sociology with a focus on improving some aspect of industry through research and education. Her career in healthcare began when she was a teenager working as an emergency medical technician. Since then, she has joined the U.S. Navy's advanced hospital corps, worked in organ and human tissue procurement, specialized in ophthalmology, and moved on to serve as a key executive, board member, and consultant for some of the best companies in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology industry. She has provided guidance in regulatory compliance, corporate structuring, restructuring and turnarounds, new drug submissions, research and development and product commercialization strategies, and new business development. Her experience and dedication have resulted in international recognition as the developer of the only FDA-recognized and benchmarked quality systems training and development business methodology. Her education includes a Bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina, an MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix, and completion of the corporate governance course series in audit committees, compensation committees, and board effectiveness at Harvard Business School.", "--This text refers to the", "paperback", "edition." ]

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[ "Kendra Donovan’s adventures in nineteenth-century England continue when she is called upon to investigate the murder of a spymaster.", "February 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone streets of London ends inside an abandoned church—and a horrific discovery. Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly is called to investigate the grisly murder of Sir Giles Holbrooke, who was left naked and garroted, with his tongue cut out. Yet as perplexing as that crime is, it becomes even stranger when symbols that resemble crosses mysteriously begin to appear across the dead man’s flesh during autopsy. Is it a message from the killer? Sam turns to the one person in the kingdom who he believes can answer that question and solve the bizarre murder—the Duke of Aldridge’s odd but brilliant ward, Kendra Donovan. While Kendra has been trying to adapt to her new life in the early nineteenth century, she is eager to use her skills as a twenty-first century FBI agent again. And she will need all her investigative prowess, because Sir Giles was not an average citizen. He was one of England’s most clever spymasters, whose life had been filled with intrigue and subterfuge. Kendra’s return to the gritty streets and glittering ballrooms of London takes her down increasingly dangerous paths. When another body is discovered, murdered in the same apparently ritualistic manner as Sir Giles, the American begins to realize that they are dealing with a killer with an agenda, whose mind has been twisted by rage and bitterness so that the price of a perceived betrayal is death." ]

[ "Review", "\"Outstanding. With perfect pacing, McElwain holds the reader’s interest from the first page to the last.\" ―", "Publishers Weekly (starred)", "\"McElwain cleverly expresses Donovan’s modernity and forensic expertise without betraying the concept of the series: Here is a character who is out of place in time, but still manages to get along in the 19th century, giving readers a blend of crime scene investigation and historical period color.\" ―", "Historical Novels Review", "\"An unusual, absorbing tale. Well-integrated story lines involve Kendra’s romance and a grief-stricken family whose son’s fate is an education in the horrors of war. The highlight here, however, is the time-travel aspect, which sees FBI investigatory skills muted to match the knowledge and mores of the day.\" ―", "Booklist", "\"A much improved mystery, a touch of history, and the obligatory romance combine for a pleasing read.\" ―", "Kirkus Reviews", "\"An entertaining mystery with considerable period detail and a touch of romance. Fans of historical mysteries with strong female characters, such as Rhys Bowen’s ‘Molly Murphy’ series or Laurie King’s ‘Mary Russell’ books will enjoy.\" ―", "Library Journal", "\"A deftly crafted and unique time-travel based mystery,", "Betrayal in Time", "is a thoroughly entertaining page-turner of a read from beginning to end.\" ―", "Midwest Book Review", "About the Author", "Julie McElwain", "is the author of the Kendra Donovan mysteries—", "A Murder in Time", ",", "A Twist in Time", ",", "Caught in Time", ",", "Betrayal in Time,", "and", "Shadows in Time", "—which are available from Pegasus Crime. Julie lives in Long Beach, California." ]

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[ "Ever since psychologist Daniel Goleman published his landmark book", "Emotional Intelligence", "in 1995, psychology has shifted from measuring cold intellect alone to evaluating what is known as the “Emotional Quotient.” And your EQ may be even more important than your IQ for determining success. This compilation of tests will analyze your emotional intelligence from a variety of perspectives, help you pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses, and reveal aspects of your personality you may not have realized existed. The booklet is divided into two sections, with the first part containing eight tests aimed at measuring such qualities as self-image, independence, leadership, relationships, and job satisfaction. The second section contains a key for interpreting the scores, along with insightful explanations about your emotional reactions." ]

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[ "In", "Life Promises for Women", ", best-selling author and beloved Bible study teacher Cynthia Heald shares a collection of inspiring readings, Bible promises, and meditative thoughts designed to ground women in God's Word.", "Life Promises for Women", "is the perfect devotional for any woman who is looking for encouragement, wisdom, and inspiration in her walk with God." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Christian Living" ]

[ "When Jack gets a second chance at love, he knows he has to take it, even if it means leaving his entire life behind and time travelling to 1984.Jack can’t wait to leave his high school tormentors, his ex and his junior office clerk job in the past. But living in 1984 isn’t the bright future he’d hoped for either. Working as a server at the diner and sleeping on his English teacher’s couch was not part of the plan.But a trip to LA changes everything. Jack comes up with an idea for how he can make a lot of money from this time travelling thing, and he meets someone who turns his whole world around.Will Jack heed the warnings of using time travel for financial gain? Even if it means all his wildest dreams could come true?And will Jack finally find true love?Find out in Summer of 1984, the follow up to the Amazon best seller Class of 1983.Like a Back to the Future Part II, Valley Girl and Sixteen Candles mash-up with a dash of Sweet Valley High for good measure, this is a story about facing your demons, heartache and hope, and the power to choose who you want to be in the future." ]

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[ "Review", "In today’s high-tech fast paced world when many of us live in a virtual world full of pretenses, Erin Zinzilieta-Pennington’s poetry brings us back to real America. Her deep-rooted love for the Midwest permeates through her portrayal of cornfields and sunsets, the blue collar man, the coal miner, the single mother, the love for her family. Her language, like the stories she tells in her poems, is authentic, direct, stripped of mannerisms and clichés, telling it like it is, evoking our most basic and underlying emotions. Her poems convey the struggles and pain of hard working Americans, yet a sense of survival and victory pervade. Reading Erin’s poems is like drinking a cup of coffee and eating apple pie in a Norman Rockwell painting. It’s a journey back home.", "Devora Hellerstein", ", Israeli Authoress, Author of", "STAR: Steps to Academic", "Reading", "(2003) and", "Celebrating Diversity: the significance of cultural", "differences on reading processes of the young adult EFL Learner", "(2013)", "The poetry of Erin Pennington is about life, from reminiscing about our youth to dealing with a major medical issue—it’s honest and raw emotion about the “real” world, the world that most folks deal with on a daily basis. The greatest compliment I can pay to any writer is when I read their work and find myself racing through a sentence, just so I can see what the next sentence says. The work of Erin Pennington certainly merits that praise. It’s gripping, riveting, and regardless of your preferred reading material, it’s a must-read.", "Jim Muir,", "Author of the devotional book", "Offerings", "(2019)", "About the Author", "Erin Zinzilieta-Pennington is a 2010 graduate of McKendree University and a 1994 graduate of Eastern Illinois University. She possesses a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership and a Bachelor's Degree in Secondary Education English. She has been an educator since 1994. Ms. Pennington is from Benton, Illinois, but has been a resident of Carmi, Illinois since 2000." ]

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[ "There's a prankster in all of us. Whether you're carving evil messages into your coworker's banana peel or telling your kids that, yes, raisins are actually dehydrated people, there's a certain, sinister-yet-fun draw to really messing with people. In Perhaps I've Said Too Much (the much anticipated follow-up to the heralded, award-winning Things Go Wrong For Me), Rodney Lacroix gives the reader some insight on what it's like to live the prankster life. No one is safe, including Rodney himself as not all of his antics go entirely as planned. Join him as he spins some yarns, gives you some new ideas and lets you relive the catastrophic consequences of jokes gone terribly wrong. Complete with original hand-drawn artwork and graphics, one-two punch Brain Nuggets, and the ever-popular Draw Something Files, Perhaps will not disappoint.* (Assumes you are an immature child who enjoys potty humor and making fart noises with your armpits.)" ]

[ "Review", "\"I laughed so hard my toolie leaked and I had to change my pants; I now understand I should've been armed with wings. Amazingly funny stories from my favorite man of steel.\"", "-JennieK, Internet Radio Host, TheBrawdcast", "\"It's a true gift when a writer puts something on paper and makes you laugh out loud.  Rodney has that gift and shares it repeatedly in Perhaps I've Said Too Much!\"", "- Gene Lavanchy, FOX Boston", "\"Hysterical stories that had me crying tears of laughter and pissing my pants.\"", "- Jennifer Garcia, Author of \"My Mr. Manny\"", "\"I laughed so hard I came untucked.\"", "- Bailey Jay, AVN Winner/ Radio Personality", "\"There's a lot of boobs in this book. I read it for the pictures. I'm sure it's very good though.\"", "- Neal Mayhem, Broadcaster, Voice Actor, and Writer for Radio and TV", "\"Rodney Lacroix wins again! His second book, Perhaps I've Said Too Much, blows my mind like an exploding Tiffany lamp.  It made me excited for my next issue of Chicken Pluckers Monthly.\"", "- Sierra, Co-host of \"The Curvacious Bounty of Sin City\" radio show", "\"It's actually possible for someone to make you laugh too hard to the point of pain. That's what Rodney has done again!", "- Summer Felix, Author of \"Lost & Profound\" and \"The Right One\" series", "\"Not quite sure what state program let this lunatic out long enough to write a book, but thank God for government failure. This is brilliant, funny stuff.\"", "- James C. Mulligan, Celebrity Artist and Social Media Whore", "About the Author", "Rodney Lacroix is a comedian, father of two amazing kids, reluctant 40-hour-a-week software engineer and best-selling author. In 2013, Rodney was awarded an NGI Book Awards Medal for his memoir, \"Things Go Wrong for Me.\" This beautiful medal is currently on display around his neck because he has not taken it off since receiving it. Also he's not very humble.   Rodney firmly believes that fabricating grandiose tales about one's self makes a person more impressive. That's exactly what he told Playgirl Magazine when they did a four-page nude spread of him.   It's probably best you don't believe anything Rodney says.   You can find Rodney at MidgetManOfSteel.com and DumbECards.com." ]

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[ "Go around the world with this beautifully illustrated picture book from Margaret Wise Brown, celebrated author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny! This classic tale is newly illustrated with bright, vibrant pictures that children will love." ]

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[ "Books", "History", "Military" ]

[ "Can Repana, a tribal woman just seventeen-years- old, care for a dragon’s egg?", "Repana has always been an outcast in her tribe: she is the only tribal to continue the worship of dragons. Her fellow tribe members ridicule her for her religion, claiming that the dragons abandoned them long ago when not", "one", "dragon had appeared to rescue the tribals from the oppression of the aggressive Casprallos …", "A dying mother dragon, shot from the sky and discovered by Repana, bestows upon the young tribal the task of raising one of her eggs. Repana, strong in her faith, unhesitantly promises to protect the egg — but she doesn't know that this is the exact egg the Casprallo’s king is scouring the land to find, an egg that will hatch a dragon far more powerful than any dragon alive …", "Will Repana be able to raise it on her own? Will she be able to protect the egg from the dragon’s enemies?" ]

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[ "Collected here are 98 poems that made Robert Frost’s reputation as the greatest American Poet of his or any other time. Uniquely powerful and uniquely American Frost’s poems are important and approachable.", "Mr. Frost is an honest writer, writing from himself, from his own knowledge and emotion . . . he is quite consciously and definitely putting New England life into verse. —Ezra Pound", "The best poetry written in America in a long time.— William Butler Yeats" ]

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[ "Giant sticker and activity book based on the new major motion picture!", "Based on the hotly anticipated new stop-motion feature film", "Early Man", ", from director Nick Park (", "Shaun the Sheep", ",", "Wallace and Gromit", ",", "Chicken Run", ") and Aardman Animation, coming to U.S. theaters this February.Caveman Dug needs your help to unite his tribe and save his valley! An official movie tie-in, this activity book is packed with puzzles, games, and activities, as well as over 800 stickers. With 5 tear-out posters of scenes and characters from the movie and 12 pages of stickers, this book is sure to provide hours of fun.Perfect for young fans of the movie and Aardman Animation, soccer enthusiasts, and prehistory buffs!" ]

[ "About the Author", "Aardman Animation Ltd", "is the four-time Oscar-winning stop-motion animation studio behind", "Shaun the Sheep", ",", "Wallace and Gromit", ",", "Chicken Run", ",", "Arthur Christmas", ", and more. Aardman Animation is based in Bristol, England." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Arts, Music & Photography" ]

[ "Patty Lurie's pilgrimage in 2011 from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago de Compostela culminated in this day-by-day chronicle of color-filled oil paintings. Included in the book are invaluable profile maps and an introduction by the author. Patty is a painter, writer (G", "uide to Impressionist Paris", "and G", "uide to Impressionist Landscape", "), astrologer, tarot card reader and caviste at L", "a Derniere Goutte", "wine shop. She was born in LA, studied at UC Berkley and has a MFA from Claremont Graduate Universtity. She now lives in Paris." ]

[ "About the Author", "Patty is a painter, writer (Guide to Impressionist Paris and Guide to Impressionist Landscape), astrologer, tarot card reader and caviste at La Derniere Goutte wine shop. She was born in LA, studied at UC Berkley and has a MFA from Claremont Graduate Universtity. She now lives in Paris." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions" ]

[ "There's no escaping betrayal.", "My life once centered around justice. As a trained warrior for the people of Shadow City, I never questioned what I was taught... until now.My preordained mate and I are finally on the same side, with our list of enemies growing. All we have learned has changed our very foundation and put a target on both our backs.A war that has been brewing for over a Millenium is on the horizon. One that could change the course of the Earth forever. It’s up to our friends to find a way to stop it... but Fate has a way of forcing her hand.", "Scroll up and one click", "Dark Prince", "today.", "*Please Note*Welcome to Shadow City, where each trilogy focuses on a different pair of fated mates. By the end of every trilogy, each couple will have their happy ever after.However, not every mystery will be solved. Some secrets will span additional trilogies but will in no way take away from the individual stories. You can still read the trilogies out of order, but the suggested reading order is as follows:Scroll up and one click Demon Marked today.*Please Note*Welcome to Shadow City, where each trilogy focuses on a different pair of fated mates. By the end of every trilogy, each couple will have their happy ever after.However, not every mystery will be solved. Some secrets will span additional trilogies but will in no way take away from the individual stories. You can still read the trilogies out of order, but the suggested reading order is as follows:", "Shadow City: Silver Wolf", "Broken MateRising DarknessSilver Moon", "Shadow City: Royal Vampire", "Cursed MateShadow BittenDemon Blood", "Shadow City: Demon Wolf", "Ruined MateShattered CurseFated Souls", "Shadow City: Dark Angel", "Fallen AngelDemon MarkedDark PrinceFatal SecretsBroken MateRising DarknessSilver MoonShadow City: Royal VampireCursed MateShadow BittenDemon BloodShadow City: Demon WolfRuined MateShattered CurseFated SoulsShadow City: Dark AngelFallen AngelDemon MarkedDark PrinceRead less" ]

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[ "Books", "Science Fiction & Fantasy", "Fantasy" ]

[ "This magisterial volume based on the life and art of Venetian painter Giorgione, examines new sources and scientific analysis to reinterpret his work while presenting essential pieces in beautiful detail. Includes a catalogue raisonne." ]

[ "Review", "The production of the book is elegant, as befits Giorgione: wide margins, very high quality color plates, close-ups that allow one to drink in the special Giorgione effect. --", "Washington Times, January 11, 1998" ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Individual Artists" ]

[ "Mining the deepest ores of non-belonging with vibrant, often hilarious prose, disabled author Brian Koukol's thirteen harrowing works of speculative fiction, collected here for the first time, subvert disability tropes to delightful and unnerving effect.Will you flinch at the choices of a man cynically peddling virtual reality inspiration porn extracted from his own miserable life? Can your dignity survive its plunge into a jar, in desperate need of a fluid-change, which hosts a disembodied head looking for his disappeared wife? Will you dare empathize with a myriapod refugee, otherworldly and bristle-legged, as it wrestles with its innate longing to fatally absorb the soul of each human it touches? What of the deformity-leasing friends actively circumventing facial-recognition-based toilet paper rationing? And how might you manage PTSD symptoms emerging off-planet along with a fast-killing vegetation borne from the corpses of your freshly vanquished foes?Wry, irreverent, and uncommonly wise, meet a new disability fiction. Here Tiny Tim and his ilk are replaced by protagonists far from innocent, passive, or sweet...but defiantly human, instead.This own voices collection of sci-fi and fantasy short stories featuring disabled characters and protagonists includes the following titles:– Circling the Brain– A Rock and a Hard Place– Propinquity– Useless Eaters– Cry Havoc– Much Abides– Compost Traumatic Stress– Pie in the Sky– Cardiophobia– Regeneration Gap– Dedition by Subtraction– Fish in a Barrel– Autumn in the Dying Light" ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Short Stories & Anthologies" ]

[ "The single most internationally read and referenced text in sports medicine, exercise science, and health and fitness, this manual succinctly summarizes recommended procedures for exercise testing and exercise prescription in healthy and diseased individuals. This gold-standard text is a convenient, one-stop resource for the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that must be mastered by candidates for all ACSM certifications. Written by international experts in numerous fields, the Eighth Edition is fully compatible with newly released physical activity guidelines from the United States Department of Health and Human Services and state-of-the-art, research-based recommendations.", "A companion Website for instructors will offer a test generator, an image bank, PowerPoint slides, and a WebCT/BlackBoard-ready course cartridge. A student Website will offer the fully searchable text." ]

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[ "Books", "New, Used & Rental Textbooks", "Medicine & Health Sciences" ]

[ "Despite the world's elation at the Arab Spring, shockingly little has changed politically in the Middle East; even frontliners Egypt and Tunisia continue to suffer repression, fixed elections, and bombings, while Syria descends into civil war. But in the midst of it all, a quieter revolution has begun to emerge, one that might ultimately do more to change the face of the region: entrepreneurship. As a seasoned angel investor in emerging markets, Christopher M. Schroeder was curious but skeptical about the future of investing in the Arab world. Travelling to Dubai, Cairo, Amman, Beirut, Istanbul, and even Damascus, he saw thousands of talented, successful, and intrepid entrepreneurs, all willing to face cultural, legal, and societal impediments inherent to their worlds. Equally important, he saw major private equity firms, venture capitalists, and tech companies like Google, Intel, Cisco, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and PayPal making significant bets, despite the uncertainty in the region. With", "Startup Rising", ", he marries his own observations with the predictions of these tech giants to offer a surprising and timely look at the second stealth revolution in the Middle East-one that promises to reinvent it as a center of innovation and progress." ]

[ "Review", "“One of the Best Business Books on Globablization of 2013” ―", "Strategy+Business", "“[Schroeder] paints a remarkable picture of the entrepreneurial shift going on in Dubai, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and other regions...illuminating.” ―", "Publishers Weekly", "“The narrative really comes alive when the author chronicles the activities of the tech-savvy young Eygptians, Jordanians and Lebanese who are beginning to create new kinds of hope for their countries... his accounts of Jordan, where youth programs are providing opportunities to explore notions of self-determination while learning about entrepreneurship, are particularly fascinating. A lively introduction to a new generation's efforts to shape a future free of outdated notions of entitlement.” ―", "Kirkus", "“Provides a refreshing break from the hackneyed analyses of the region that reduce its people to cultural cliches while ignoring the other things that motivate young Arabs (like people everywhere...)” ―", "Financial Times", "“What Schroeder found will startle even the most jaded observer.” ―", "The Washington Post", "“Entrepreneurship isn't about just starting a business--it's a way of looking at the world. In this terrific book, Schroeder profiles dozens of innovators in the Middle East who are world class exemplars of this way of thinking. They're taking control of their lives, starting amazing businesses, and changing the world. There's no better guide to the Middle East's own Silicon Valley than Christopher M. Schroeder. Highly recommended.” ―", "Reid Hoffman, co-founder/chairman of LinkedIn and co-author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Start-up of You", "“Here's a book that makes you think beyond the gloomy headlines about the Middle East--and see how smart men and women are building the foundations of a prosperous future. In", "Startup Rising", ", Christopher M. Schroeder takes readers on a guided tour of the entrepreneurial movement that has gone almost unnoticed as the Arab Spring shatters the old political order. By the end of the book you'll be rooting for these young business leaders and gutsy innovators to build the Arab 21st century.” ―", "David Ignatius, columnist, The Washington Post", "“Christopher M. Schroeder has a message we should all hear loud and clear: To hell with pessimism about the Middle East. In", "Startup Rising", ", Chris's more than one dozen trips across the Arab world are woven together into a deeply personal and detail filled narrative of how technology can transform social and political orders from the ground up. He convincingly shows Arabs rich and poor seizing the moment, and converting centuries of entrepreneurial spirit into disruptive and positive energy. The startups rising in the wake of the Arab Spring will ensure that the region isn't left behind.” ―", "Parag Khanna, international bestselling author of The Second World, How to Run the World, and Hybrid Reality", "“In this rich and incisive book Christopher Schroeder tells a fascinating tale about another Middle East, where new ideas, bustling startups, and promising ventures, as opposed to politics and violence, are shaping the future. A rare and eye-opening first hand account that provides a powerful explanation for why the Arab Spring happened, and why its future may yet be brighter than headline news suggest. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the Middle East or how entrepreneurship and technology startups take flight.” ―", "Vali Nasr, author of Forces of Fortune and The Dispensable Nation", "“", "Startup Rising", "is one of the first to cover this very important topic: The young entrepreneurs who are the major driving force in the future growth and development of the Arab World.” ―", "Wael Ghonim, Founder and Chairman, Nabadat Foundation, and author of Revolution 2.0", "“", "Startup Rising", "is contrarian, as are many great entrepreneurs: His stories of people, innovation, and ideas in the Middle East are cautiously hopeful--a contrast to the grim news stories. Full of policy and investment insight, this is a bottom-up look at the new generation of tech entrepreneurs of the Middle East that are fast becoming their countries' greatest resource.” ―", "Robert B. Zoellick, Former President of the World Bank Group, US Trade Representative, and Deputy Secretary of State", "“This is one of the rare books that will change how you see the world. Christopher M. Schroeder brings to life the emerging Middle East entrepreneurial ecosystems, providing a powerful understanding of entrepreneurship anywhere in the world and specifically of the Middle East's emerging generation of questioning risk-takers.” ―", "Marvin Ammori, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, The New America Foundation", "“", "Startup Rising", "shatters our stereotypes of the Middle East. You can just feel the dynamism bubbling up from below and sense the immense possibilities for the future. Schroeder's ability to tell this fascinating story of the breadth and depth of entrepreneurship in the region is stunning.” ―", "James Goldgeier, Dean, School of International Service, American University", "“", "Startup Rising", "powerfully articulates what we instinctively know to be true--each country, region, and society has the will and talent to determine its own future. Schroeder illuminates a Middle East poised for entrepreneurial growth, fueled by innovation, and ready to turn opportunity into impact and collective progress for both women and men.” ―", "Alyse Nelson, President & CEO, Vital Voices Global Partnership", "“Christopher M. Schroeder identifies the trends reshaping the Middle East from the bottom-up. He talks to the entrepreneurs at the cutting edge to reveal the revolution the media has missed--whether in mobile technologies, consumer products, or, yes, women eager to make their mark. This book is essential for anyone looking to understand--or invest in--the new Middle East.” ―", "Karen Kornbluh, former US Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development", "“Interest in entrepreneurship in the Middle East has never been greater, which reflects the critical role that new ventures can play in catalyzing economic change in the region. This book provides a lively look at the individuals and institutions behind these exciting and important developments.” ―", "Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School and author of The Architecture of Innovation", "“Christopher M. Schroeder has done a service to the Middle East by highlighting the extraordinary energy and potential of entrepreneurs in the region. This area will be a hotbed of new ideas over the next 20 years creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.” ―", "Kevin Ryan, chairman and founder, Gilt", "“This powerful and essential book will open your eyes to a new world of opportunity for people in the Middle East and emerging markets all over the world. Through vivid introductions to young entrepreneurs in the region and a compelling analysis of macro technology and economic trends,", "Startup Rising", "brilliantly demonstrates that peace and prosperity is attainable for the region.” ―", "Julius Genachowski, Chairman of United States Federal Communications Commission, 2009-2013", "“Important reading for anyone wishing to understand the promise and challenges of technology and entrepreneurial activity in the Middle East. Christopher Schroeder's gifted storytelling brings us close to talented entrepreneurs who are breaking through, providing a fresh narrative for the region and promise for a better world.” ―", "Premal Shah, Co-Founder & President, Kiva", "“A quick, fun read… he reveals the opinions of several Arab entrepreneurs and investors who he's already introduced in contrast with the subtle biases of colleagues in the U.S., Schroeder deftly – but unapologetically – invites a cross-cultural dialogue.” ―", "Wamda", "About the Author", "Christopher Schroeder is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the author of", "Startup Rising.", "In 2010, he wrote an op-ed for", "The Washington Post", "about the start-ups in Dubai, and was subsequently invited by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to judge a start-up competition in Cairo one week before Tahrir Square. He is on the boards of advisors of the American University of Cairo School of Business and regional start-up resources Wamda and Oasis500. He lives in Washington, DC.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Startup Rising", "The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East", "By Christopher M. Schroeder", "Palgrave Macmillan", "Copyright © 2013 Christopher M. Schroeder,All rights reserved.ISBN: 978-0-230-34222-4", "Contents", "Foreword by Marc Andreessen, ix, Chapter 1: Celebration of Entrepreneurship, 1, Chapter 2: Work-Around: \"Entrepreneurship Isn't New to the Middle East\", 21, Chapter 3: The New Breed, 41, Chapter 4: Leap Frog, 71, Chapter 5: The Ecosystem Builders, 93, Chapter 6: Startup/Turn-Around: The Education of a New Generation, 121, Chapter 7: The New Middle East: Women at the Startup Helm, 147, Chapter 8: Religion and the Ecosystem, 171, Chapter 9: Not a Matter of Whether, but When, 189, Notes, 207, Acknowledgments, 211, Annotated Bibliography, 223, Index, 229, Eight pages of photographs appear between pages 120 and 121, CHAPTER 1", "Celebration of Entrepreneurship", "I sat, jet-lagged, in a small conference room, watching the desert sun sink toward the western horizon. It was my first trip to the Middle East in over a decade, and I had forgotten how hot it could get there even in November. Last time I had been a tourist — all antiquity, pyramids, and museums in Cairo. Now I was a seasoned internet investor, board member, and entrepreneur, attending one of the first region-wide gatherings of tech startups in Dubai. The looming skyscrapers and business towers before me had been barely an architect's dream during my last visit. Now, only the heat was familiar. By the end of this conference, virtually all my preconceptions of the Middle East would be thoroughly altered.", "As if on cue, a flowing figure in black glided before me like a phantom. She sat beside me, shoulders proudly back, dressed in the traditional head-to-toe", "abaya", "that revealed only her face and hands. She said she was a university student in Saudi Arabia, and while there had designed a luxurious leather carrying case for mobile devices like smartphones and iPads — complete with a battery pocket to keep them charged. She asked whether I thought this was a good business idea.", "I have happily listened to hundreds of ideas, investment pitches, and calls for mentorship throughout my career. It's inspiring to meet people trying to start something from scratch, with the odds so strongly against them, and it's gratifying to flatter myself that my nearly two decades of business experience might materially help these budding entrepreneurs. But on this day in 2010, my first mentorship experience in the Middle East was unnervingly different.", "Fumbling for a coherent answer, I asked a few questions about her background and the genesis of her idea and offered some generic encouragement about following her dreams. She nodded politely, but with a palpable sense of boredom. \"Thank you for that,\" she said. \"It is very helpful. But I should have been more precise. I have a pre-order for a thousand units, and this leaves me with a dilemma. There are four low-cost manufacturers in China who are enthusiastic about doing business with me, but I am nervous about having my suppliers so far away. Should I risk manufacturing my idea with people I don't know very well, or should I raise the roughly $45,000 I'd need for machinery and then hire a young woman I know locally to handle production?\"", "I was stunned. Before me was a young, Saudi Arabia — based, tech-savvy woman entrepreneur looking to expand her operations globally. This was not the Middle East that I had been taught to expect. It was not the Middle East that my Western peers, even the most sophisticated businesspeople, knew. In fact, her story shocked even many of my skeptical friends in the region when I later described her.", "One of the other young entrepreneurs in the room, the founder of a computer animation startup based in Syria, sensed my amazement. Eerily resembling a younger Leonardo DiCaprio with a ponytail, he winked at me. \"There's a lot going over here, right sir?\" Right.", "I was in Dubai because I have been a successful entrepreneur and sometimes successful investor in many startup companies. I've played the roles of leader, board member, mentor, and amateur psychologist. I know the high of watching customers flock to a new product, and the gut-wrenching terror of realizing that even a small mistake on my part could cost my employees their livelihoods. When I talk with young entrepreneurs so passionate about technology and the internet that they can't imagine doing anything else, I am conversing with a sister or a brother. I know what they're in for, and I applaud them for it. It's a life of bold choices; one that, as the legendary founder of Netscape and venture investor Marc Andreessen reminded me at the beginning of one of my ventures, yields only two emotions: total euphoria and abject fear.", "I was there primarily, however, because of an unusual journey.", "In the United States, I am frequently asked why I care about the Middle East. My answer is usually a baffled, \"Why don't you?\" It's hard to name two regions of the world whose mutual needs, tensions, misunderstandings, and mistakes have had more impact in shaping their fortunes than these two. When I was growing up, when we thought about the Middle East at all, we generally lumped its unique cultures and histories into some simplistic context framed around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Iranian Revolution. In college, I had a brilliant roommate who had recently escaped civil war — torn Lebanon with his family. When our late-night bull sessions turned to the Middle East, he tried patiently to teach our dorm-mates about the nuances of the region and how we were viewed there. One night, one of our classmates turned to him, as if the West had had no responsibilities for the region's challenges and said, \"There is no hope. We should build a wall around the region and let you just figure your own shit out.\" There was embarrassed silence, but none of the rest of us had anything more sophisticated to offer our exasperated friend.", "In the following decades, America's economic and strategic connectedness to the Middle East continued to increase. The accompanying tension and confrontation reached their apex in the terrible and brutal shock that was September 11. By that time I was a well-travelled executive. I understood that engagement and problem-solving anywhere required sensitivity to the countless big and small distinctions on the ground — that the most creative solutions were rarely one-size-fits-all. I had just joined the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), which has nearly 16,000 CEO members from around the world. The group's mission is less about business networking than building connectedness and understanding among senior executives. In 2003, a fellow U.S. member introduced me to other members from the Arab world. We collectively decided to form a sub-group of U.S. and Arab CEOs to help each other learn and understand our various cultural perspectives.", "\"The purpose of our group,\" as one Arab member more colloquially but accurately described later, \"was to convince one another after September 11 that we're not all assholes.\" About two dozen of us met as often as three times a year — once in New York or Washington, once in Europe, once in the region. We got to know each other personally, and debated with outside experts. Most importantly, we learned about the unique problem-solving under way in both regions, well below the radar of the broader political narrative of economic aid and potential military conflict.", "Two members of this remarkable group stood out. Lebanese-Jordanian entrepreneur Fadi Ghandour had built Aramex, the region's largest FedEx-like logistics and transportation company. Just over 50, he has the lean figure and tenacity of a man who swims two miles each morning regardless of what time zone he's crossed that day. Arif Naqvi had founded the Abraaj Group and built it into one of the largest private equity investment firms among all global growth markets. His legendary twenty-hour days underscore his insatiable curiosity about newly opening and changing worlds. They met when Arif invested in Fadi's company, and soon became close friends. They shared a passion for the broader societal impact of business, and led innovative corporate social responsibility initiatives around the Middle East. And as they compared notes on their teenage sons, how their lives were structured around and changing due to technology, they became convinced that they were witnessing an age of unparalleled historic opportunity.", "During our YPO gatherings, they championed the rise of young tech-driven entrepreneurs throughout the developing world — especially in the Middle East. They believed that there were now significant opportunities for young people to create and build businesses that did not exist just a few years ago. A rising generation was demanding a different and better life than their parents', they argued, and they expressed these demands through the businesses they were creating. For Naqvi and Ghandour, embracing these entrepreneurs was nothing short of embracing the potential for a new Middle East. And they are putting their money and time where their mouths are. Both are leading go-to figures in the region, investing in, mentoring, and connecting regional tech-based startups. In the summer of 2010 they joined forces to hold what they called the region's first \"Celebration of Entrepreneurship\" in Dubai, an event that perfectly symbolized their beliefs. \"You have to come and see this for yourself, man,\" they emailed me in invitation. I was skeptical, but most of our group knew we needed to be there.", "The sold-out gathering had all the earmarks of a typical Silicon Valley event: more than 2,400 eager entrepreneurs and investors — most of them young and tethered to their mobile devices — sharing, debating, and connecting. There was the requisite hip music. Been-there/done-that speakers mixed with kids who were new to the game, dashing out ideas on whiteboards and rallying each other to new ventures. Yet the participants weren't familiar U.S. internet startups but a new generation of entrepreneurs from the Arabic-speaking Middle East. The music wasn't LA hip-hop but Arif Lohar, a leading Pakistani folk/fusion artist, whose band's vibrant rhythms combined with the vocals of Meesha, a stunning pop singer and top star in the region. They rocked the house with Urdu lyrics expressing love for and thankfulness to God.", "Nobody discussed politics, religion, or historic obstacles. Instead, all they wanted to do was invent and build new businesses.", "The Celebration of Entrepreneurship set me on subsequent journeys beyond Dubai — to Cairo, Amman, Beirut, Istanbul, even Damascus — and I saw similarly talented, successful, and intrepid entrepreneurs by the thousands, all driven to build, all willing to face the cultural, legal, and societal impediments inherent to their worlds. Just as importantly, I saw major global private equity and venture investors and tech companies like Google, Intel, Cisco, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, and PayPal among others making significant bets, and doubling down on earlier investments, despite uncertainty in the region.", "Fadi's and Arif's instincts were, of course, prophetic. Only three months after the Dubai event, many of these same young people we met were protesting in Tahrir Square and other cities throughout the region, demanding open societies that would allow them to prosper.", "l", "Before Dubai, my own instinct was to summarily dismiss the likelihood that Ghandour and Naqvi were right. In retrospect, I attribute this not only to my own regional bias, but also to the fact that I ignored everything I was witnessing in my own daily work running internet companies. I knew — as well as anyone — what level of innovation individuals are capable of when they build connections and share collaborative experiences through technology, no matter where they live. I should have known better.", "My start in the early days of the internet was deeply personal. Within eighteen months in the late 1990s, I learned that my best friend suffered from crippling bipolar disorder and my mother-in-law was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to her brain. I am the grandson of Italian immigrants, so depression was not a disease, but something to \"suck up.\" Cancer was only discussed in hushed tones among family and left in the hands of the doctors. Shocked by what turned out to be death sentences for both people I loved, I turned to the internet to try to understand things outside of my comfort zone.", "This was nearly a decade before social networks, but I found small communities of people online who were going through similar experiences. We never knew each other, but in the months to come we taught each other, pointed each other to resources, and supported each other in troubling moments. When my loved ones lost their battles, these communities helped me process and mourn. I was a smarter, better informed, more sensitive support to my family and friends because of these connections. And I had no doubt that technology was unleashing not merely tools of convenience, but entirely new ways to share insight, build relationships, and take action. \"You are not alone. You are not crazy. Actions you take can make a difference because others like you did the same.\" This has since become my stump speech on what this technology means for us. It was empowering and signaled a power shift. We as individuals could demand the transparency and make the connections to help us act. The world would change.", "Some years later, a group of like-minded entrepreneurs and I decided to put our personal and professional experiences to work. We launched one of the first social platforms in health, HealthCentral.com, to aggregate \"patient wisdom\" in safe and trusted environments. Our company consisted of nearly fifty individual web and mobile sites where people who had \"been there\" could share their condition-specific experiences. We convinced some of the leading investors in the internet and media worlds to back us. Through the tumultuous ups and downs that characterize most startups, our platform grew to engage over 15 million people monthly. We were inundated daily with stories of people emboldened to step up, help each other, and better their own health as well as that of their loved ones.", "It was on a chance trip during my tenure in my previous company — Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive — that the global ramifications of technology and collaboration hit me like a two-by-four. The", "Washington Post", "'s gracious and forward-thinking chief executive Don Graham asked me to visit Tokyo, Seoul, and Helsinki to get a closer look at these rapidly changing and advanced broadband and mobile societies. I spent several weeks with established CEOs and upstarts, thinkers, business professors, and students to see how they bought and used technology.", "The cultures, histories and approaches in these countries are quite different from those in the United States. But the groundwork for social networks, mobile e-commerce, mobile texting, and shared video were well laid there several years before they became the norm here. My greatest epiphany, however, was that in expecting to see everything technology — a tech-powered,", "Jetsons", "-like world — I was unprepared to see almost nothing. Technology in these societies had become like water or electricity. People assumed its availability and simply embedded it in their day-to-day lives. Many were puzzled as to why I had made these trips at all. A diffusion of innovation — due to exponentially increasing access to information technology — was allowing entrepreneurs to create, collaborate, and affordably scale business to solve local, regional and even global problems as never before.", "These societies were electrifying. And I began to wonder even then: what will happen when", "every", "country has similar access to these technologies?", "The West tends to look at the world through the prism of its own successes, and believes that it has a monopoly on innovative ideas and entrepreneurship. Nothing amuses the entrepreneurs I meet around the world more than when some U.S. politician refers to entrepreneurship as a \"leading American export,\" as if other, thousands-of-years-old entrepreneurial cultures have only recently discovered it. And one of the most common questions I hear from American entrepreneurs, investors, and policy makers as they consider looking at new growth markets is, what will be the \"next Silicon Valley\" of a certain region or country?", "For all the hype, hubris, wealth, and celebrity associated with \"the Valley,\" it remains an extraordinary place. It stands alongside Periclean Athens or eleventh-century Andaluca or Renaissance Florence for its raw, competitive, innovative zeal, which has utterly changed the world we live in. One cannot avoid stepping off a plane there without almost feeling the ubiquity of drive and innovation in almost every conversation in every restaurant, coffee shop, or bar.", "Ben Horowitz, the former CEO of the tech juggernaut Opsware and co-founder of one of the most successful venture capital funds, Andreessen Horowitz, told me that what people most often underestimate about the Valley is the pure network effect of talent that is drawn to it. \"Extraordinary engineering, product, creative people tend to attract the same,\" he told me, \"to a point now that every company is tripping over themselves to attract the best — and the best really are in control of their own destinies here because of it.\" Mike Moritz, chairman of the legendary Sequoia Capital — a pioneering venture capital firm responsible for backing the likes of Apple, Google, Cisco, PayPal and LinkedIn which are among the other most successful technology companies in the world — agrees: \"We try to find the most promising companies but if they are even a few hundred miles away — say Los Angeles and San Diego — our number-one challenge is to get the best people to move there.\"", "(Continues...)", "Excerpted from", "Startup Rising", "by", "Christopher M. Schroeder", ". Copyright © 2013 Christopher M. Schroeder,. Excerpted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Business & Money", "Economics" ]

[ "Hiding from the horrors of her past, Miss Martha Haskett is content living her days serving as a lady's maid to her friend Eliza, the Marchioness of Lansdowne. But then her father, the new Earl of Waterford, shows up, with the shocking news that she is now a titled lady. Further turning her life upside down, he proposes a bargain. She will have a single Season in London, and if she does not marry by the end of the Season, she will be gifted with her dowry and a small estate. Despite her mistrust of her father, Martha accepts his offer, but can’t seem to let go of the anger that has been festering inside of her, or her discomfort with a position in Society where she feels she does not belong.Dr. Emmett Maddix is tired of the frivolity of the ton and spends his time atoning for his past sins by providing medical care to the poor. His life takes an unexpected turn when he is recruited to be an agent of the Crown. He is assigned to run a charity hospital as a front to collect information about a vicious band of smugglers known as The Cursed Lot, who have managed to overtake the entire town of Gravesend with a reign of murder and oppression.As Emmett delves further into The Cursed Lot’s domain, he quickly discovers that not everything is what it seems, and it will take far more than one new agent to take down this ruthless gang. While the tangled web of intrigue begins to unravel, Martha and Emmett battle an undeniable but unspoken attraction that grows between them. But before either can be ready to share their hearts, they must overcome their past mistakes, and find their own reasons to keep fighting. With more than just their hearts at stake, surviving the mission will be more difficult than either of them could ever imagine." ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Mystery" ]

[ "In 1795 a convict ship leaves England for New South Wales in Australia. Nearing its destination, it encounters a savage storm but, miraculously, their battered ship stays afloat and limps into Sydney Harbour. Here, the convicts rebel, overpower the crew and make their escape, destroying the ship in the process. Fleeing the sinking vessel with only the clothes on their backs, the survivors struggle ashore. Among the escaped convicts, seething resentments fuel an appetite for brutal revenge against their former captors while, for their part, the crew attempts to track down and kill or recapture the escapees. However, it soon becomes apparent that both convicts and crew have more to concern them than shipwreck and a ruthless fight for survival; they have arrived in Sydney in 2017.TimeStorm is a thrilling epic adventure story of revenge, survival and honour set in a strange new world of unfamiliar technology and equally unfathomable social norms. In the literary footsteps of Hornblower, comes Lieutenant Christopher 'Kit' Blaney, an old-fashioned hero, a man of honour, duty and principle, dragged into the 21st century… literally. A great fan of the grand seafaring adventure fiction of CS Forester, Patrick O’Brien and Alexander Kent, and modern action thriller writers such as Lee Child, Steve Harrison combines several genres in his debut novel.The book was inspired by a replica 18th century sailing ship on Sydney Harbour and a question from Steve’s brother, Tony: “What if that was a real convict ship?” TimeStorm explores that question in a fast-paced story as a group of desperate men from the 1700s clash in modern-day Sydney.TimeStorm was Highly Commended in the 2013 Jim Hamilton Award fantasy/science fiction category of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards" ]

[ "About the Author", "Steve Harrison was born in Yorkshire, England, grew up in Lancashire, migrated to New Zealand and eventually settled in Sydney, Australia, where he lives with his wife and daughter.As he juggled careers in shipping, insurance, online gardening and the postal service, Steve wrote short stories, sports articles and a long running newspaper humour column called HARRISCOPE: a mix of ancient wisdom and modern nonsense. In recent years he has written a number of unproduced feature screenplays, although being unproduced was not the intention, and developed projects with producers in the US and UK. His script, Sox, was nominated for an Australian Writers' Guild 'Awgie' Award and he has written and produced three short films under his Pronunciation Fillums partnership." ]

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[ "Books", "Science Fiction & Fantasy", "Science Fiction" ]

[ "Composition Notebook Features • 120 Double sided wide ruled pages • Sturdy softbound cover • 7.44” x 9.69” dimensions. Perfect size for your purse, tote bag, desk, backpack, school, home or work • Can be used as a notebook, journal, diary or composition book for school and work • Perfectly suited for taking notes, writing, organizing, lists, journaling and brainstorming • Composition Notebooks are the perfect gift for adults and kids for any gift giving occasion • Designed in USA" ]

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[ "Books", "Education & Teaching", "Studying & Workbooks" ]

[ "A very cool book by Timothy Leary" ]

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[ "“In these poems, Ace Boggess pursues the tough questions about what makes us tick, what makes us keep going, what makes us say enough is enough. With Boggess the pursuit is made with an abnormally brutal honesty and deft manipulation of image that creates poetry rich with surprise and revelation—definitely not to be missed. There are poems about the ‘ultra deep field’ of the universe, about garbage trucks, fake orchids, and what it’s like to have a one-night stand with a good poem. No one-night stand with these poems, though—the danger here is long term.”—Marc Harshman, poet laureate of West Virginia, author of BELIEVE WHAT YOU CAN and GREEN-SILVER AND SILENT“Ace Boggess’ poems are part political, part visionary, part blunt force love. His work moves between the radiant and the relish. That is, they shine and then, when you read them, after you have read them, they just continue on and you appreciate and appreciate and appreciate what has been given to you. ULTRA DEEP FIELD is a body of work that illuminates the whole of your being. No joke. These poems light you up, because the one collective heart that he has built from verse is filled with light. It’s a light of the mind and blood and whatever else comes between—that quiet, that everlasting, inside Existential quiet: still the stillness of losing oh that lost art of the lost. Ace Boggess is a poet of extraordinary vision. His work is born from the ‘still’ and shines up the world.”—Matthew Lippman, author of AMERICAN CHEW and THE NEW YEAR OF YELLOW“You can count on two things with the poet Ace Boggess: he deals out truth and he doesn’t put on airs. Reading his poems is like hanging out with some secular Jesus, following paths to places we haven’t been before, no one too low for his love. One of my favorite poems from when I was editor-in-chief of MID-AMERICAN REVIEW was ‘Potato Chip Sandwich,’ included here; it is a poem that celebrates exactly what it claims to: its riffled valleys crunching on a bun / … twigs snapping once twice. Ace and I have been in similar straits, but he has found a way to make them lyrical. These poems enact themselves right on the page. They speak of beauty and simultaneously create it. They speak of truth and throw it down. Ask me why beautiful moments rob entire days of their despair / or why truth may be painful but it’s never personal: This poet does the asking, and the questions themselves are answers that both ache and elevate.” —Karen Craigo, author of NO MORE MILK and PASSING THROUGH HUMANSVILLE" ]

[ "Review", "\"In these poems, Ace Boggess pursues the tough questions about what makes us tick, what makes us keep going, what makes us say enough is enough. With Boggess the pursuit is made with an abnormally brutal honesty and deft manipulation of image that creates poetry rich with surprise and revelation--definitely not to be missed. There are poems about the 'ultra deep field' of the universe, about garbage trucks, fake orchids, and what it's like to have a one-night stand with a good poem. No one-night stand with these poems, though--the danger here is long term.\"", "--Marc Harshman, poet laureate of West Virginia, author of", "BELIEVE WHAT YOU CAN", "and", "GREEN-SILVER AND SILENT", "\"Ace Boggess' poems are part political, part visionary, part blunt force love. His work moves between the radiant and the relish. That is, they shine and then, when you read them, after you have read them, they just continue on and you appreciate and appreciate and appreciate what has been given to you.", "ULTRA DEEP FIELD", "is a body of work that illuminates the whole of your being. No joke. These poems light you up, because the one collective heart that he has built from verse is filled with light. It's a light of the mind and blood and whatever else comes between--that quiet, that everlasting, inside Existential quiet: '", "still the stillness of losing oh that lost art of the lost.'", "Ace Boggess is a poet of extraordinary vision. His work is born from the 'still' and shines up the world.\"", "--Matthew Lippman, author of", "AMERICAN CHEW", "and", "THE NEW YEAR OF YELLOW", "\"You can count on two things with the poet Ace Boggess: he deals out truth and he doesn't put on airs. Reading his poems is like hanging out with some secular Jesus, following paths to places we haven't been before, no one too low for his love. One of my favorite poems from when I was editor-in-chief of", "MID-AMERICAN REVIEW", "was 'Potato Chip Sandwich, ' included here; it is a poem that celebrates exactly what it claims to: its '", "riffled valleys crunching on a bun / ... twigs snapping once twice", ".' Ace and I have been in similar straits, but he has found a way to make them lyrical. These poems enact themselves right on the page. They speak of beauty and simultaneously create it. They speak of truth and throw it down. '", "Ask me why beautiful moments rob entire days of their despair / or why truth may be painful but it's never personal'", "This poet does the asking, and the questions themselves are answers that both ache and elevate.\"", "--Karen Craigo, author of", "NO MORE MILK", "and", "PASSING THROUGH HUMANSVILLE", "--This text refers to the", "paperback", "edition." ]

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[ "Laura Pazzaglia’s", "Hip Pressure Cooking", "offers over 200 surefire recipes designed to work in the Instant Pot, electric pressure cookers, multi-cookers with pressure programs, and stove top pressure cookers, too! In fact, the recipes were tested across multiple pressure cookers - Instant Pot, Fagor, WMF and Kuhn Rikon – to ensure delicious results no matter what you have in your kitchen.", "That’s right, the once-lowly and maligned pressure cooker is making a comeback! This relic of your grandparents' kitchen is not only improved and safer than ever before, but it saves time, creates more flavor, and conserves energy. Laura Pazzaglia wasn't thinking of all this when she tried pressure cooking for the first time, but after watching a friend make dinner in 10 minutes, Pazzaglia knew she had found the solution to her time-crunched life. In fact, she cooked so much she began offering recipes and advice on a website she created. At the time, pressure cooking recipes didn't emphasize aesthetics; while the food might be delicious, it was often unappealing in presentation. But Pazzaglia not only figured out how to make pressure cooked food appealing, she gained a large following for her recipes and techniques while doing it!", "A culmination of Pazzaglia’s experience,", "Hip Pressure Cooking", "offers everything from tasty recipes featuring fresh ingredients to special cooking techniques perfected over the years to basic tips on operating your pressure cooker where she walks you through every step of the process. The secret is out―and now you too can discover the potential of this super appliance with this revolutionary guide to cooking with pressure!" ]

[ "Review", "“The hip pressure cooking website has done much to elevate pressure cooking. Laura has done a tremendous job in making pressure cooking approachable and easy to understand. She has brought the 'fun' back into pressure cooking with her easy and delicious recipes. Her understanding of the differences between conventional and pressure cooking produces new and classic dishes in a fraction of the time. This book is packed with all of her knowledge and will turn you into a true pressure cooker expert.” ―", "Anne-Mari Kelly, Director Sales & Marketing WMF Americas Group Inc.", "“One of my favorite kitchen tools is the humble pressure cooker. It is an amazing tool for rapidly turning tough foods tender and maximizing flavor. Sadly, pressure cooking is often misunderstood, but Laura Pazzaglia does a fantastic job in explaining the hows and whys of this invaluable cooking method.” ―", "Chris Young, cofounder of www.ChefSteps.com and coauthor of Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking", "“Authoritative, concise, and creative,", "Hip Pressure Cooking", "is the final word on using your pressure cooker to full effect. This isn't just your grandmother's cooking tool. The harried, modern home cook can benefit immensely from a pressure cooker's ability to get an elegant and delicious meal on the table in short order...” ―", "John Becker (Irma Rombauer's grandson) and Megan Scott, Joy of Cooking editorial team", "“If you haven't yet discovered the magic of pressure cooking, this book will make you want to rush out and buy a cooker.", "Hip Pressure Cooking", "is a treasure trove of imaginative recipes and ingenious techniques that will quickly convince you that there's no better way to prepare healthy, delectable, contemporary meals in minutes.” ―", "Lorna Sass, author of Pressure Perfect and Great Vegetarian Cooking under Pressure", "“Due to their safety and convenience, electric pressure cookers are rapidly replacing age-old stove-top pressure cookers. However, no one has tackled writing quality recipes for them until now. This is the only book that covers this appliance with new knowledge in a practical and lively manner. Highly recommended. ” ―", "Robert J. Wang, CEO, Instant Pot Company", "“Laura Pazzaglia is one of the most knowledgeable pressure cooker experts we know. . . This book is a comprehensive guide to pressure cookery for everyone--from the beginner to the chef.” ―", "René ab Egg, head marketing & product management, Kuhn Rikon AG, pressure cooker manufacturers", "“It is exciting to see a creative handbook that we can we reach for as a resource rather than guesstimating a starting point in the kitchen.” ―", "H. Alexander Talbot & Aki Kamozawa, culinary consultants and authors of Ideas in Food and Maximum Flavor", "“", "Hip Pressure Cooking", "not only teaches eaters how to prepare easy, nutritious meals, but it's also a how-to guide for environmentally conscious consumers who want to waste less food without skimping on taste. ” ―", "Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank, www.foodtank.com", "About the Author", "LAURA PAZZAGLIA picked up her first pressure cooker after seeing a friend make dinner in ten minutes flat. She quickly realized that the flavor of pressure cooked food is like tasting food in high definition! In 2010 Laura launched", "hippressurecooking.com", "to share her discoveries, recipes, reviews and tips. Today Laura is considered one of the world's top experts. She lives in Italy, near Rome, and travels frequently to the U.S. and Europe to share her passion for pressure cooking." ]

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[ "In", "Empire of Light", ", Sidney Perkowitz combines the expertise of a physicist with the vision of an art connoisseur and the skill of an accomplished writer to offer a unique view of the most fundamental feature of the universe: light.", "Empire of Light", "discusses the nature of light, how the eye sees, and how our understanding of these phenomena have emerged over the ages, including the role of light in the development of quantum physics. The author examines the making of electrical light and its integration into commerce, telecommunications, entertainment, medicine, warfare, and every other aspect of our daily lives. And he presents the role of light in the search for the beginning and the end of the universe, as astronomers with their instruments penetrate ever deeper into the sky.", "Visible light spans the spectrum between infrared and ultraviolet, but this book reaches across many other spectra as well?from the cave paintings at Lascaux to Mark Rothko's stark blocks of color in today's art museums, from Plato's speculation that the eye sends out rays to Ramon y Cajal's discovery that vision actually works in the opposite way, from Tycho Brahe's elegant antetelescope measurements of planet positions to the Hubble telescope's exquisite sensitivity to light from billions of light years away.", "What are the biological and neurological processes of perceiving visible light? How does a person typically scan a scene? Do you see red or blue the same way I do? What are our physiological reactions and emotional responses to light? Perkowitz explores these and many other fascinating questions, drawing together the experiences, achievements, and perspectives of a diverse cast of characters, including Galileo, Einstein, Newton, Van Gogh, and Edison.", "Empire of Light", "is written so that lay readers will readily grasp the scientific principles and science professionals will readily appreciate the human experience. It will impart new wonder to the daily experience of light in our world.", "Sidney Perkowitz is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics at Emory University. His work has appeared in national publications such as", "The Sciences, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect,", "and", "Technology Review." ]

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[ "This book can help you make shame, guilt and anger your allies instead of our enemies. They can become keys to your inner life and to your dreams. Getting to know these feelings will help you better meet your needs for respect, acceptance, belonging and freedom. What would be possible if you no longer needed to shrink yourself to avoid shame or guilt?" ]

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