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[ "Become the", "Bean", "Queen or King.", "Get your copy of the best and most unique Bean recipes from BookSumo Press!Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply. In this book we focus on Beans. The", "Easy Bean Cookbook", "is a complete set of simple but very unique Bean recipes. You will find that even though the recipes are simple, the tastes are quite amazing.So will you join us in an adventure of simple cooking?", "Here is a Preview of the", "Bean", "Recipes You Will Learn:", "Pinto Beans Tennessee", "Pinto Beans Tennessee", "Creamy Country Casserole", "Creamy Country Casserole", "Beans Caprese", "Beans Caprese", "Cannellini and Carrot Bowls", "Cannellini and Carrot Bowls", "Hot Refried Dip", "Hot Refried Dip", "Garden Green Beans", "Garden Green Beans", "Karen’s Lunch: (Kidney Bean Salad)", "Karen’s Lunch: (Kidney Bean Salad)", "Saturday Night Burritos", "Saturday Night Burritos", "Smoky Mountain Rice and Beans", "Smoky Mountain Rice and Beans", "Cajun Chickpeas", "Cajun Chickpeas", "Southwest Dinner: (Rice and Beans)", "Southwest Dinner: (Rice and Beans)", "Refried Jalapeno Dip", "Refried Jalapeno Dip", "Buttery Beans Supreme", "Buttery Beans Supreme", "20-Minute Rice and Beans", "20-Minute Rice and Beans", "Refried Bean Hot Pot", "Refried Bean Hot Pot", "Chickpea Salad", "Chickpea Salad", "American Bean Salad", "American Bean Salad", "Baja Bean Casserole", "Baja Bean Casserole", "Ms . Kim’s Kidney Beans", "Ms . Kim’s Kidney Beans", "Boston Baked Beans", "Boston Baked Beans", "5-Ingredient Romano Penne", "5-Ingredient Romano Penne", "Brenda’s Baked Sesame Beans", "Brenda’s Baked Sesame Beans", "November Green Bean Soup", "November Green Bean Soup", "Green Bean Fritters with Cucumber", "Green Bean Fritters with Cucumber", "Meatless Italian Stew: (Faggioli)", "Meatless Italian Stew: (Faggioli)", "Much, much more!", "Much, much more!", "Again remember these recipes are unique so be ready to try some new things. Also remember that the style of cooking used in this cookbook is effortless. So even though the recipes will be unique and great tasting, creating them will take minimal effort!Related Searches: Bean cookbook, Bean recipes, Bean book, Beans, beans cookbook, beans recipes, bean recipe book" ]

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[ "Set against the backdrop of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, young George Byram is more than ready to leave his distant father and harsh life at Willow Creek, his family's farm in rural Idaho. Just as World War I ends, George's life begins to unravel when his mother dies suddenly from influenza, and the rest of his family becomes ill. Unable to cope with the grief and responsibility of his young children, George's father makes a drastic decision that further alters the course of the family's life. In his darkest hour, George must now make an unimaginable choice. Keeping Willow Creek is a coming of age story that provides a modern-day road map for moving forward after a pandemic. George Byram gives a fresh voice to modern feminism and shows how resilience is possible when we face our grief and embrace the roles we were meant to play." ]

[ "About the Author", "Erika Taylor is the author and granddaughter of George Byram, the main character in Keeping Willow Creek. Erika is a former journalist who has always enjoyed asking questions and writing. An essay about George Byram's life was first published in The Corona Silver Linings Anthology, and from there, the idea of Keeping Willow Creek was born. Erika is passionate about how the past can helps us find meaning in our lives and is now working on her second novel. Erika lives in Canada with her family, where she enjoys skiing and sunshine. Currently, she spends time on projects she is not qualified to tackle on the family farm." ]

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[ "This sixth edition of the number one bestselling employee retention book in the world (over 800,000 copies sold) puts a new emphasis on diversity and inclusion but keeps the same appealing format: twenty-six simple strategies from A to Z.", "Despite booms and busts, technology advances, talent wars, layoffs, and even a global pandemic, people want what they’ve always wanted", ".", "Employees want—and now expect—meaningful work, supportive bosses, regular recognition, and a chance to learn and grow. And managers want their amazing people to stay—for at least a little while longer. For two decades, this", "Wall Street Journal", "bestseller—over 800,000 sold—has offered twenty-six simple strategies, from A to Z, that managers can use to address their employees’ real concerns and keep them engaged. The authors have gone over every word of the previous edition, revising, updating, and streamlining. This edition includes a timely focus on diversity and inclusion in every chapter. For example, chapter 6 focuses on family. Different cultures view family responsibilities differently, so the authors address how to take that into consideration when a treasured employee asks for extended leave to care for a grandparent. And a new section called “Conversations That Count” offers discussion questions for sparking deeper conversation around the topics in the book. This new edition will ensure that", "Love ’Em or Lose ’Em", "will continue to help managers all over the world create a supportive workplace culture", "so they can fight burnout and keep the people they can least afford to lose." ]

[ "Review", "“The future of work actually has little to do with technology, AI, or algorithms. It’s all about people, organizations, and how we manage people within those organizations. Bev and Sharon’s book will guide and advise leaders at all levels in making the right people-focused decisions. Readers will find specific and practical ideas to help them be more inclusive and empathetic leaders.”", "—Josh Bersin, global industry analyst", "“To be a great team, you need outstanding players. The authors show you how to engage your outstanding players and keep them on your team for a long time.”", "—Mike Krzyzewski, Head Coach, Duke University Men’s Basketball", "“The principles laid out in", "Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em", "offer opportunity for people committed to advancing true equity and inclusion in their businesses.”", "—Liji Thomas, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Southern California Edison", "“A passionate book about how to deal with the most vexing problem organizations now confront – attracting and retaining the best talent. With knowing wit and practical intelligence, Kaye and Jordan-Evans give us elegant solutions and engaging examples. Based on a solid foundation of broad-based research,", "Love 'Em or Lose 'Em", "will give you a sense of urgency, a renewed faith in your own leadership abilities, and delight that you took the time to read and use it.”", "—Jim Kouzes, coauthor of", "The Leadership Challenge", "and", "Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University", "“The future of work actually has little to do with technology, AI, or algorithms. It’s all about people, organizations, and how we manage people within those organizations. Bev and Sharon’s book will guide and advise leaders at all levels in making the right people-focused decisions. Readers will find specific and practical ideas to help them be more inclusive and empathetic leaders.”", "—Josh Bersin, global industry analyst", "“To be a great team, you need outstanding players. The authors show you how to engage your outstanding players and keep them on your team for a long time.”", "—Mike Krzyzewski, Head Coach, Duke University Men’s Basketball", "“The principles laid out in", "Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em", "offer opportunity for anybody committed to advancing true equity and inclusion in their businesses. The future of inclusive organizations lies in mitigating bias across talent management practices, and this book provides key practices to consider. Kudos to Bev Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans for timeless wisdom on retaining and engaging talent!”", "—Liji Thomas, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Southern California Edison", "“This sixth edition is a strong “shout out” to the importance of using a diversity and inclusion lens as leaders practice effective engagement and retention strategies.  Bev and Sharon say, “", "Love ‘Em", "practices support", "both", "engagement", "and", "inclusion", ".”  Inclusion must be practiced in parallel with", "Love ‘Em", "efforts or you risk losing key members of your diverse workforce.  Read this book if you want tips for how to include, engage and retain your talent.”", "—Julie O’Mara, Board Chair, The Centre for Global Inclusion", "“It’s no wonder this book has had a 20-year life.  The twenty-six practices that Bev and Sharon describe continue to give any leader at any level the “how tos” of engagement and retention.”", "—Marshall Goldsmith,", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "Triggers", ",", "Mojo", ", and", "What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.", "“Our global strategy is based on recruiting and developing the best talent.  Retaining and engaging that talent globally is crucial to every manager’s business goals.  Love Em or Lose Em is their playbook.”", "—J. Craig Mundy, Senior Vice-President, Ingersoll Rand", "“I’m a big fan of the ‘stay interview’ and its power; nothing speaks louder than a manager who genuinely cares. That’s just one great idea from this latest edition of", "Love ’Em or Lose ’Em", ", which should be at every manager’s fingertips!”", "—Rebecca Ray, Senior Vice President of Human Capital, The Conference Board", "\"The biggest challenge facing organizations today is keeping their good people.", "Love 'Em or Lose 'Em", "can help you build a productive and healthy organization that people will not want to leave.\"", "—Ken Blanchard, coauthor,", "The One Minute Manager®", "and", "The 3 Keys to Empowerment", "“Talent matters. Few dispute this truth. But keeping great talent continues to challenge many companies. This marvelous book offers specific tools and hundreds of examples of how to care for people.", "Love ’Em or Lose ’Em", "is the best treatise available on retaining talent.”", "—Dave Ulrich, Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and coauthor of HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources", "“You just have to love", "Love ’Em or Lose ‘Em", ". This charming, clever, practical, and user-friendly book is a great desk-side coach for anyone who manages people.”", "—Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, author of", "Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time", "“Kaye and Jordan-Evans offer a user-friendly, practical guide that reflects the realities of diversity.", "Love 'Em or Lose 'Em", "challenges managers not to simply accept the loss of employees, but rather embrace responsibility for the critical tasks of developing and retaining talent.”", "—The late Dr. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., author of", "Redefining Diversity", "and", "Beyond Race and Gender", "About the Author", "Beverly Kaye", "is founder and Chairwoman of Career Systems International. She is a recipient of ASTD’s Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award and is the author of", "Up Is Not the Only Way", ".", "Sharon Jordan-Evans", "is president of the Jordan Evans Group and is a sought-after keynote presenter and a certified executive coach. Kaye and Jordan-Evans are the coauthors of", "Love It, Don’t Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work", "." ]

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[ "Short chapters, great stories, and tons of study tools! Adler and Pouwels's WORLD CIVILIZATIONS is a vibrant introduction to world history structured to meet the demands of your study schedule. It's clearly written, packed with charts and illustrations, and loaded with review features so you'll be up to date in class and ready for the test. And, because WORLD CIVILIZATIONS offers extensive coverage of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, you'll have timely historical insights into the issues that make today's news. Get WORLD CIVILIZATIONS and discover how having all the information you need to know for the test really does equal a better grade." ]

[ "About the Author", "Philip J. Adler taught college courses in world history to undergraduates for almost thirty years prior to his recent retirement. Dr. Adler earned his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna following military service overseas in the 1950s. His dissertation was on the activity of the South Slav emigres during World War I, and his academic specialty was the modern history of Eastern Europe and the Austro-Hungarian empire. His research has been supported by Fulbright and the National Endowment for the Humanities grants. Dr. Adler has published widely in the historical journals of the U.S. and German-speaking Europe. He is currently professor emeritus at East Carolina University, where he spent most of his teaching career.Randall L. Pouwels earned his B.A. in history at the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. in history at UCLA. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the history of Islam in East Africa. His book, HORN AND CRESCENT: CULTURAL CHANGE AND TRADITIONAL ISLAM ON THE EAST AFRICAN COAST, 800-1900 (Cambridge, 1987), has become a standard work in African history. THE HISTORY OF ISLAM IN AFRICA (Athens, Oxford, and Cape Town, 2000) was jointly edited with Nehemia Levtzion of Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Widely praised in reviews, it was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 and was made a selection of the History Book Club. In addition, he has written numerous articles and reviews on East African history, the history of Islam in Africa, and historical methodologies. Dr. Pouwels's other research interests include the history of the Middle East, the Indian Ocean, and the history and archaeology of Native Americans. Over the years, his work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Fulbright-Hays, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Studies Research Council, the National Geographic Society, and the American Philosophical Society. He taught African history for over twenty years at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and at UCLA. He has been the Professor of African and Middle Eastern History at the University of Central Arkansas since 1984." ]

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[ "LEFT HANDED NOTEBOOK", "This Left Handed Composition Notebook is ergonomically designed to make writing more convenient for lefties. A wide ruled composition book, with the lines angled to avoid smudging - and make writing a more comfortable experience for left handed people.Perfect for use at school, home, or on campus. Makes a Great Gift for Left Handed People!", "100 Wide Ruled, Angled Line Pages", "100 Wide Ruled, Angled Line Pages", "Perfect Size Notebook for All Ages: 7.46 x 9.49 Inches", "Perfect Size Notebook for All Ages: 7.46 x 9.49 Inches", "Makes a Great Gift for Left Handed People", "Makes a Great Gift for Left Handed People", "Great for Inspirational Journals for Women to Write In", "Great for Inspirational Journals for Women to Write In", "Great for Left Handed Notebooks", "Great for Left Handed Notebooks", "Great Gift Idea for a Left Handed Kid", "Great Gift Idea for a Left Handed Kid", "Perfect Left Handed Notebook for School Supplies", "Perfect Left Handed Notebook for School Supplies", "100 Slanted Ruled Pages With Lots of Space to Write in All Your Thoughts and Ideas", "100 Slanted Ruled Pages With Lots of Space to Write in All Your Thoughts and Ideas", "Great to Write Down All Your To-do-Lists or Just to Take Notes at School or at Home", "Great to Write Down All Your To-do-Lists or Just to Take Notes at School or at Home", "Great Notebook for Women to Practice Your Creative Writing", "Great Notebook for Women to Practice Your Creative Writing", "Beautiful and Trendy High Quality Cover Design in Elegant Matte Finish", "Beautiful and Trendy High Quality Cover Design in Elegant Matte Finish", "Perfect for Gifts for Teenage Girls", "Perfect for Gifts for Teenage Girls", "Perfect for Gifts for Teenage Boys", "Perfect for Gifts for Teenage Boys", "Perfect for Gifts for Women and Girls", "Perfect for Gifts for Women and Girls", "Perfect for Gifts for Men and Boys", "Perfect for Gifts for Men and Boys", "Great for Nice Birthday Gifts for Men", "Great for Nice Birthday Gifts for Men", "Great for Birthday Gifts for Women", "Great for Birthday Gifts for Women", "Great for Christmas Gifts for Men and Boys of All Ages", "Great for Christmas Gifts for Men and Boys of All Ages", "Great for Any Occasion Gifts for Teenage Girls and Teenage Boys", "Great for Any Occasion Gifts for Teenage Girls and Teenage Boys", "Makes a Beautiful Journal - Notebook for Women to Take Notes", "Makes a Beautiful Journal - Notebook for Women to Take Notes", "Lots of Space to Write In and Practice Creative Writing", "Lots of Space to Write In and Practice Creative Writing", "Great for Graduation Gifts for Her, Graduation Gifts for Him", "Great for Graduation Gifts for Her, Graduation Gifts for Him", "Great Journal - Notebook for School, for College or for the Office", "Great Journal - Notebook for School, for College or for the Office", "Great to Practice Your Journaling Every Day", "Great to Practice Your Journaling Every Day", "Great if You are Looking for Affordable and Beautiful Gift Ideas for Lefties", "Great if You are Looking for Affordable and Beautiful Gift Ideas for Lefties", "Great if You are Looking for Nice Affordable Notebooks and Journals for Left Handed Kids", "Great if You are Looking for Nice Affordable Notebooks and Journals for Left Handed Kids", "Great if You are Looking for Nice Gifts for Women Coworkers", "Great if You are Looking for Nice Gifts for Women Coworkers", "Stand out from the Crowd With This Beautiful and Trendy Notebook", "Stand out from the Crowd With This Beautiful and Trendy Notebook", "Great Design and Large Size Lined Journal - Notebook with Lots of Space to Write In", "Great Design and Large Size Lined Journal - Notebook with Lots of Space to Write In", "Great to Write Down All Your Beautiful Ideas and to Practice Your Creativity", "Great to Write Down All Your Beautiful Ideas and to Practice Your Creativity", "Get Yours Today!", "Get Yours Today!" ]

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[ "The Doorway to your Vegan Lifestyle", "If you’re looking to add natural and nutritious plant foods into your everyday diet, this book is for you. Learn about the ethical and humane concepts of veganism, and understand how this eating system enriches your body and mind.", "Life Changing Benefits of the Vegan Diet", "Plant foods are nutritional powerhouses loaded with proteins, vitamins, and antioxidants. Wholesome foods retain these micro-nutrients unlike the mass-produced and chemically processed foods that have become the dietary norm. But just because most people eat unhealthy doesn’t mean you have to. More and more, people are growing aware of the wonderful health and environmental benefits of the vegan diet. In fact, many celebrities are known to be Vegan. Ellen DeGeneres, Woody Harrelson, Liam Hemsworth, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Joaquin Phoenix, Jessica Chastain, and many more personalities have made the humane and healthy choice to eat Vegan. By implementing a clean vegan diet, you will join them in building a better world while learning to eat and savor the rich and original flavors of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.", "A Simple Guide for a Healthier YOU", "This book is both for newbies eager to explore veganism, and experienced vegans looking to expand their recipe collection. It is the perfect companion for beginners and contains easy guidelines on becoming vegan and following a sustainable clean eating diet. It will teach you everything you need to know in order to adopt the vegan lifestyle, including:•A definition of Veganism and common misconceptions•Foods to avoid•Ingredients to shop for•Useful tips for cooking vegan and eating vegan when dining out•35 Delicious and Easy recipes for clean and healthy meals •Nutritional information with each recipe to help you balance your diet•Much moreThe hearty and delectable meals contained in this book will introduce you to a whole new world of nutritious foods that keep you healthy, fit, and active. You will discover new recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, soups, salads, deserts, stews, and sides, to keep you and your loved ones well fed at any time of the day. Add these 35 exciting vegan recipes to your meal plan, and surprise your family and friends with your expanded collection of delicious vegan recipes.", "Don't hesitate. To learn all about veganism and start cooking your own vegan meals, scroll up and grab your copy right now." ]

[ "About the Author", "Hi,
 My name is Angela Valenti and I'm a certified nutritionist and stay at home Mom. I became a vegan 5 years ago and I have to say, it has completely changed my life. It has helped me lose over 60 pounds and become fit and healthy. I am a big advocate of the vegan cause and have made it my life mission to spread the world about veganism with as many people as possible. Not only is it a healthier way to live, it also helps prevent millions of animals from being tortured every day, an helps preserve our beautiful planet. I firmly believe everybody should be vegan, and I hope my books can help people see why. Furthermore, cooking is my passion. Over the years, I have read hundreds of recipe books and created hundreds of recipes of my own for tasty dishes, deserts, snacks, and smoothies. My husband is a chef and we have been together for 8 years. Our love for food was what we initially bonded over, and we have spent the past years exchanging, discovering, and perfecting a variety of recipes. 
 My goal here is to share my love for food with the world and teach everything I know about the art of crafting high quality dishes. Nothing gives me more joy than cooking for people and seeing them appreciate the result off years of passion, hard work, and dedication. I want to share my recipes and simplify the process as much as possible to make sure everyone can cook their own tasty, high-quality meals. I also want to do my part by spreading the word on veganism and contributing to the preservation of our planet. Thank you in advance for reading, and please keep an open mind and a full belly. Bon Appétit!
 Cheers, 
 Angela" ]

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[ "Books", "Cookbooks, Food & Wine", "Vegetarian & Vegan" ]

[ "Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z!", "Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries® have been hooking chapter book readers on mysteries and reading for years. Now this classic kid favorite is back with a bright new look!", "Q is for Quicksand . . .", "Quack, quack", "—ducks crossing! Green Lawn is raising funds for a special bridge to keep ducks safe when they cross River Road. But then the money is stolen! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are on a quest to get it back. Not even quicksand can stop them. . . ." ]

[ "From the Back Cover", "\"A to Z Mysteries #17 Q is for \"Quicksand. . . . Everyone in Green Lawn is quaking about the ducks that keep crossing River Road. But just when the town raises enough cash to build a special duck bridge, the money is stolen! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are on a quest to find the culprit. But to catch their quarry, the kids have to go wading . . . through quicksand!", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "About the Author", "RON ROY has been writing books for children since 1974. He is the author of dozens of books, including the popular A to Z Mysteries®, Calendar Mysteries, and Capital Mysteries. When not working on a new book, Ron likes to teach tricks to his dog Pal, play poker with friends, travel, and read thrilling mystery books.   STEPHEN GILPIN is the award-winning illustrator of dozens of children’s books, including the popular and very funny", "Pirate Mom", ". He brings his fresh, kid-friendly style to all the covers of the A to Z Mysteries® series.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "From the Inside Flap", "A to Z Mysteries #17Q is for", "Quicksand", ". . . . Everyone in Green Lawn is quaking about the ducks that keep crossing River Road. But just when the town raises enough cash to build a special duck bridge, the money is stolen! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are on a quest to find the culprit. But to catch their quarry, the kids have to go wading . . . through quicksand!", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Javoo's plan was to quit the streets, But when a Jamaican clan,led by New York's most brutal drug lord, Victor Strange , follows the leader of a rival group to Houston,tragedy strikes,leaving one of the members of Javoo's immediate circle hospitalized and another dead due to a case of mistaken identity.Bona Fide Street Thug II takes you from Houston all the way into the streets of New York where Javoo's skills are tested. There, he is forced to do some of his best \"Street Work\", using his contacts and genuine street sense to locate and deal with Victor Strange and his clan of Jamaicans." ]

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[ "Books", "Reference", "Dictionaries & Thesauruses" ]

[ "The guide that shows you what other travel books only tell you!", "With more than 400 full-color photographs, DK's Eyewitness Guide: Hawaii takes you to all of Hawaii's sights and attraction, with a special chapter for each island. Find the best beaches that Oahu has to offer, drive along the coastal highway on Molokai, and visit the Haleakala National Park on Maui and Pu'uhonua O Honaunau National Park on Hawaii. Street-by-street maps help ease your travels around Honolulu while 3-D aerial views highlight the world's largest collection of Polynesian artifacts at the Bishop Museum. From Hawaii's remarkable volcanoes to its world-class surfing and from learning its history to finding the most secluded beaches, experience all the wonders of Hawaii in this enlightening and enjoyable guide." ]

[ "Review", "...You feel, looking at them, as if you could close the book and step into the street. --", "Contra Costa Times", "...considered to be the world's best travel resource to over 30 destinations around the world, make it easier to plan a splendid vacation. --", "North American Press Syndication", "Both novice and experienced travelers will be captivated. --", "US News & World Report", "Each book is a visual as well as informational feast about a particular place. --", "The New York Times", "Encyclopedic in scope, it's meant to be used before, during, and after your stay. --", "Travel & Leisure", "The Best Guidebooks Ever --", "SKY MAGAZINE", "The best travel guides ever. --", "Sky Magazine -Delta In flight Magazine", "The most graphically exciting and visually pleasing series on the market. --", "Chicago Tribune", "Want to know where to get a great espresso on your way to the Uffizi? Or how much to tip a hotel maid in New York City? Try these travel guides, each an intricate trove of 3-D aerial views, landmark floor plans, color photos and essential eating, shopping and entertainment info. With titles covering Paris, Prague, and London, these pocket-sized guides are like a Michelangelo fresco: deliriously rich in detail. --", "People Magazine" ]

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[ "Like stage magic, service magic is made up of more than tricks, hocus-pocus, and bravado. Service magic is an art and depends on developing customer rapport, excellent timing, and many hours of practice. Customer service wizards Chip Bell and Ron Zemke have decades of experience advising and coaching the world's biggest businesses in the fine art of providing excellent service. In their new book, Service Magic, the authors use examples from diverse industries to reveal inventive-and fun-approaches to customer service. Using new models for creating customer delight, they share a conjurer's trunk of ideas for sweeping away the mundane and creating customer experiences that will leave customers delighted, charmed, and wanting to come back for more. Readers will learn about the magic-building customer service strategies at play in industries such as: • Hospitality-How Marriott, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Hotel Monaco, Old Faithful Inn, Berns Steak House, and Radisson have performed service magic for retaining guests, especially during a downturn in the travel and leisure market. • Financial services-How do USAA and American Express keep their customers happy when so many financial services companies are churning accounts faster than the Fed can drop interest rates? • Health care-See how some of the biggest health care providers, including Mayo, Aurora Health, Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago, Grace Presbyterian Village, and Wayzata Dental, have created caring, nurturing, and helpful environments for patients and families. • Retail-Byerly's, SuperQuinn, Mary Jane's Farm, Macaroni Grill, Victoria's Secret, and Sewell Village Cadillac are vastly different retailers. Nevertheless, they share some common approaches to service and customer care. • Entertainment-Universal Studios, Disney World Resorts, All Outdoor White Water Rafting, and the St. Paul Saints have all captured the hearts and souls of customers through the magic of service." ]

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[ "Una selección de textos para cada día del año, tomados de su vida y espiritualidad." ]

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

[ "Traces d'usages, qq peu défraîchi mais sinon bel ouvrage.Expédition rapide de votre commande avec protection soignée de vos articles.Professionnel de la vente à distance.Professional on e-business.Fast delivery of your order.Item very well packed(réf 32 btel)" ]

[ "From the Back Cover", "Aujourd'hui, maman est partie. Martine et Jean décident de s'occuper de la maison, pour lui faire une belle surprise. Nettoyage des sols, cirage des chaussures et préparation du repas, les deux enfants sont de vrais petits maîtres de maison. Et en plus, ils s'amusent comme des fous !", "About the Author", "Né en 1923, Gilbert Delahaye fait ses études à Tournai et entre, en 1944, chez Casterman comme ouvrier typographe. Connu par ailleurs pour ses écrits poétiques (il obtiendra le prix Prévert en 1985), il se voit confier par la maison d'édition la mission de donner vie à une fillette, dont les aventures pourraient être déclinées en une série d'albums. C'est ainsi qu'en 1953 naît le personnage de Martine, avec la complicité du dessinateur Marcel Marlier. Martine à la ferme et Martine en voyage paraissent en 1954. Jusqu'à sa mort, en 1997, Gilbert Delahaye écrira chaque année une nouvelle aventure pour son héroïne.Marcel Marlier naît le 18 novembre 1930, à Herseaux, commune de la Picardie belge, à proximité de la frontière française. À seize ans, il s'inscrit au cours d'arts décoratifs à l'école Saint-Luc de Tournai. En juillet 1951, il termine ses études avec la plus grande distinction. Il retournera à Saint-Luc comme professeur dès 1953. Encore étudiant, Marcel Marlier est primé pour son talent de dessinateur lors d'un concours de dessin organisé par les éditions de La Procure à Namur. Celles-ci l'engagent dans la foulée pour illustrer des ouvrages destinés aux écoliers, tel le Livre unique du français. Deux ouvrages pédagogiques passent entre ses mains, qui vont marquer toute une génération d'élèves par la fraîcheur du dessin : Je lis avec Michel et Nicole et Je calcule avec Michel et Nicole. La collaboration avec La Procure durera plus de vingt-cinq ans. Mais dès 1951, Pierre Servais, un des responsables du département édition chez Casterman, est séduit par l'aisance du trait de Marcel Marlier, et il lui propose d'illustrer des livres destinés à la jeunesse. Il va ainsi illustrer des livres écrits par Alexandre Dumas (Les croisières aventureuses du capitaine Pamphile, 1951), la comtesse de Ségur (Le petit de Crac, 1953; Un jour de bonheur, 1960) ou Madame le Prince de Beaumont (La belle et la bête, 1973). Il va également participer à la collection Farandole, destinée aux enfants. En 1954 débute sa collaboration avec Gilbert Delahaye pour les aventures de Martine, sa série phare (60 albums publiés à ce jour, 100 millions d'exemplaires vendus dans le monde !). En 1969, toujours chez Casterman, il crée la série Jean-Lou et Sophie : douze titres au total, dont il est à la fois l'auteur et l'illustrateur. Marcel Marlier s'est éteint le 18 janvier 2011, à l'âge de 80 ans." ]

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[ "Books", "Foreign Language Books", "French" ]

[ "How to Facilitate the LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) Method ONLINE", "New Facilitation Techniques for Shared Models and #Covidsafe Face-To-Face", "This book was written in response to COVID-19, when we asked, 'How can LEGO(R) Serious Play(R), a tactile face-to-face workshop method, work professionally in the online setting?'", "Our response was to create and now to share new techniques to make Online LEGO(R) Serious Play(R), including shared model building, work brilliantly. Our innovation to split the shared model building into a new sequence including, disaggregate, rebuild, 'Magic-hands(c)\" and 'Build-along(c)' still results in a shared model that people are proud of and feel ownership over.", "There have been (and may still be), voices in our community saying Online LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) is not possible. They are wrong. It is. There are some aspects of Online LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) that work better than face-to-face. Online creates a better record of all the ideas generated in a workshop, more dominant voices share better online, and we experience more participant openness and vulnerability as people communicate from the comfort of their own homes.", "These new techniques enable COVID safe shared model building online AND face-to-face. This is an 'eco friendly' version of LEGO(R) Serious Play(R), with no 'Flygskam' and no travel carbon costs. These new Online LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) techniques will help cut carbon emissions long after the dark days of COVID-19.", "The book includes:", "Participant set-up:", "Harder and more important than it looks. Help your participants set up their online workspace before a workshop.", "Shared model set-up:", "Learn how to set up your 'studio' for online shared model building, from basic to pro set-ups.", "New skills build:", "See the additional digital platform skills build you can take your participants through.", "Develop your 'Magic-hands(c)':", "Learn how to be 'Magic-hands(c)' for online participants, also a COVID safe way to facilitate shared models face-to-face.", "Facilitate 'Build-along(c)':", "Learn how everyone in your workshop can create a shared model together, at the same time, in different locations.", "COVID safe face-to-face:", "See how the online techniques can be used face-to-face to create shared models with just one pair of hands.", "Eight graduate stories:", "See how people trained in these online techniques are using them in online and face-to-face workshops.", "Additional Resources:", "Appendices have further resources including a sample workshop plan and a PDF download for participant set-up.", "This book is intended for trained LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) facilitators. Facilitators who already use LEGO Serious Play know what a 'Windows' kit is, they know the underlying four step process of Challenge> Build> Share> Reflect, and are already clear of the difference between individual model building and shared model building." ]

[ "Review", "Review by Martin Gilbraith, London UK, October 2020", "I am excited to commend to you this book 'How To Facilitate Meetings & Workshops Using The LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) Method Online'. Here are three reasons why.", "I know Sean, and that he is a competent, experienced and accomplished facilitator. Questions are the primary tool of every facilitator, and I know that he asks good questions and that he asks them well. In an early meetup of IAF England & Wales, in London in perhaps 2013, he posed the question: \"Is there such a thing as a universal principle of facilitation?\" It didn't take me long to think and respond that, in my own facilitation at least, there is certainly something approaching that - the 'ORID' model underlies of the ToP Focused Conversation method and the ToP methodology as a whole.", "I know that Sean has since integrated this approach in his practice, and in his previous book 'Mastering The LEGO Serious Play Method'. I was sufficiently inspired by the metaphor of ORID as a universal principle that I blogged about it then and have used it in my training ever since.", "Many facilitators have rapidly developed a speciality in working online this year, as Sean and I have as well. Some have done so more quickly and easily than others, and some with greater enthusiasm. Most, in my experience, have had reservations about some of the very real limitations of online facilitation. Only recently I think more of us are becoming belatedly more aware of some equally real limitations of face-to-face, and some real advantages of working online.", "So, it is not only LEGO Serious Play practitioners that might take heart and find inspiration in the many innovations that Sean shares in this book. There is much here for all of us to learn from - not least, the rigour and creativity with which he has designed 'a digital process that uses bricks' [substitute your preferred tool or method here] 'rather than an analogue process poorly rendered online'.", "I've heard it said that, in online facilitation, every participant brings their share of the meeting room with them. This is a challenge for LEGO Serious Play practitioners perhaps more than most, and one to which this book rises admirably. As Sean makes clear in his Guiding Principles, success in achieving outcomes rather than just engagement through facilitation comes largely from the planning and preparation, and from the capacity to divert nimbly from the plan when the moment requires improvisation.", "Finally, we are in the midst of a climate emergency, as well as a public health emergency. I believe that the two are not unrelated, and that they demand new ways of connecting, communicating and collaborating that are less carbon intensive as well as more COVID-19 secure, and that are more creative, compassionate and empowering as well. I believe that facilitation has a central role to play on the latter, with bricks as well as without, and that designing and delivering facilitation well online must play a part on the former.", "I have witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of creativity and innovation among facilitators in response to the pandemic and lockdown of recent months, and an extraordinary generosity of sharing of it as well - largely, of course, online.", "I am delighted to see this valuable and timely new book enter the fray, and just in time for International Facilitation Week! I am proud to be able to welcome you to it, and grateful to Sean for sharing it.", "About the Author", "First and foremost Sean is a professional facilitator. He founded ProMeet an international facilitation business in 2007 where he works with organisations including HSBC, Google, Cisco, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Denso Automotive, UKTI, the InterAmerican Development Bank and many many more!" ]

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[ "This first and only complete road and street map with a street index of the Turks and Caicos island of Providenciales (Provo), 1 : 25 000 scale, renders roads and streets with their names, and locates diving sites. *** The map is sold folded, measuring 4 7/8\" x 8 7/8\" (12.5 cm x 22.5 cm) and is designed for easy opening and refolding. Its full unfolded format is 26 3/8\" x 38 1/2\" (67 cm x 98 cm). *** Designed for travelers, this excellent map has unsurpassed coverage of the island, and its extensive information and depth of detail fit a broad range of interests. The map has hill shading, three levels of roads (footpaths, secondary roads, and main roads) and symbols representing a large number of physical features." ]

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[ "“Beautifully evokes scenes of two girls adrift in the . . . bohemian beach culture . . . a breathtaking, fiercely feminine take on American magical realism.” —", "Interview Magazine", "Set in Long Beach, California, beginning in the 1970s,", "The Salt God’s Daughter", "follows Ruthie and her older sister Dolly as they struggle for survival in a place governed by an enchanted ocean and exotic folklore. Guided by a mother ruled by magical, elaborately-told stories of the full moons, which she draws from", "The Old Farmer’s Almanac", ", the two girls are often homeless, often on their own, fiercely protective of each other, and unaware of how far they have drifted from traditional society as they carve a real life from their imagined stories.Imbued with a traditional Scottish folktale and hints of Jewish mysticism,", "The Salt God’s Daughter", "examines the tremulous bonds between sisters and the enduring power of maternal love—a magical tale that presents three generations of extraordinary women who fight to transcend a world that is often hostile to those who are different.", "“Indeed, Ruby has written a complicated, multi-layered work that shifts shapes to bridge the relationship between tragedy and redemption.” --", "The Huffington Post", "“Three generations of indelibly original women wrestle with the confines of their lives against a shimmering backdrop of magic, folklore, and deep-buried secrets . . . To say I loved this book is an understatement.” --Caroline Leavitt,", "New York Times", "bestselling author“The selkie myth lies at the heart of Ruby’s second novel . . . This is a bewitching tale of lives entangled in lushly layered fables of the moon and sea.” --", "Kirkus Reviews" ]

[ "Review", "\"A lyrical, luxuriantly mystical meditation on being female.", "The Salt God's Daughter", "is astonishing and unusual because selkies--mythical shape-shifting creatures who are human beings on land and seals in the water--are part of the story. In the otherworldly universe Ruby creates, the existence of selkies do not detract from the authenticity of the characters. Quite the opposite: the myth sharpens the characters' humanity… Ruby's novel comes as close as possible to achieving a deep understanding of the possibilities of being female.” —Leora Tanebaum,", "The Huffington Post", "\"Ruby’s second novel (after", "The Language of Trees", ") imbues the complex relationships between mothers and daughters with legends and feminist mysticism . . . Ruby’s writing is elegant and insightful...” —", "Publishers Weekly", "\"The book beautifully evokes scenes of two girls adrift in the late 70s and early 80s bohemian beach culture...the result is a breathtaking, fiercely feminine take on American magical realism. Ruby spins sweeping mythologies without straying far from the story of a young woman just trying to survive.\" —", "Interview Magazine", "\"Lushly woven with elements of folklore, Ruby’s novel is a captivating inquiry into the generational, wayward bonds of mothers and daughters.\"—", "Booklist", "“This is a bewitching tale of lives entangled in lushly layered fables of the moon and sea.” —", "Kirkus Reviews", "“The characters and the setting hunger for each other …the ocean is everywhere, its saltiness fills the pages, lingers on the characters… Lovely in its complexity, Ruby has written in many layers. Yes, her book is mystical and fanciful, but at the same time it is intensely raw, and often unsettling.” —", "Bookslut", "“Certainly other readers have had this experience: you discover a book that is thrilling in its truth about the world, a book that captures your imagination so completely that you actually feel scared by the thought you might have never held this book in your hands; that you might have missed it completely. Ilie Ruby’s", "The Salt God’s Daughter", "is that kind of book.” —Stacy Bierlein,", "The Rumpus", "“Three generations of indelibly original women wrestle with the confines of their lives against a shimmering backdrop of magic, folklore, and deep-buried secrets. About the bonds of sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the refusal to accept limits, this is a story as heartbreaking, gritty, magical, and real as a waking dream, with a sense of place so immediate, you can feel the ocean’s salt spray. To say I loved this book is an understatement.” —Caroline Leavitt,", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "Pictures of You", "“Open", "The Salt God's Daughter", "and it is as if you are walking through a door, where things are at once utterly recognizable and utterly mysterious, like life, and like an ancient fairy tale, or a myth from a lost continent, another time and place. Ilie Ruby offers up a story that is both exquisitely fantastical at the same time that it maintains the feel of unblinking realism. This one's a story in which to lose one's self in the best possible way.” —Joyce Maynard“Magical and gripping,", "The Salt God's Daughter", "captivated me from the very first sentence and has stayed with me long after I finished reading. A lyrical exploration of the timeless search for belonging and the complicated bonds between mothers, daughters and sisters, I devoured the novel in one sitting and then immediately ordered copies for my own mother and sister.\" —Jillian Cantor, author of", "The Transformation of Things", "“Propulsive, mythic, and rhythmically mastered....a singular, knock-out work of fiction about love and the evolution of identity.\" —James Ragan\"What a rare pleasure this novel is, a kind of embarrassment of riches, Ilie Ruby has given us a work glowing with the emotive illuminations of two sisters, caught in exile, in homelessness, in a parentless subculture which they both survive by the pure transcendent powers of their personal fantasy-life and myth. The bond of sisterhood prevails. I cannot recommend this passionate look at family and society and outcast-ness enough. To be a part of their journey is to look at our own travels through deprivation, rejection, poverty and find their quiet ultimate triumph, to feel their fulfillment, as if it were our own. I look forward to what this talented writer offers us next!\" —Leora Skolkin-Smith author of", "Hysteria", "About the Author", "Ilie Ruby grew up in Rochester, NY and lived in Long Beach, California, where she was a fifth grade teacher. She is the winner of the Edwin L. Moses Award for Fiction, chosen by T.C. Boyle; a Kerr Foundation Fiction Scholarship; and the Phi Kappa Phi Award for Creative Achievement in Fiction. She is also the winner of the Wesleyan Writer's Conference Davidoff Scholarship in Nonfiction and the Kemp Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship. She graduated from the Masters of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California where she held the position of fiction editor of", "The Southern California Anthology", "." ]

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[ "This comprehensive Teacher's Editions includes resources needed to plan, manage and implement the program. Supports all areas of reading and language arts for both whole-group and small-group instruction Includes research-based explicit and systematic instruction. Provides built-in features to support the teacher with classroom management" ]

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[ "The Money Mastery Made Simple Workbook is a must have for anyone that wants some guidance in taking control of their finances. In it you will find tools to help you save and understand money like never before. The knowledge it provides along with the strategies and techniques you will learn from it will assist and propel you along your journey of building and protecting the kind of wealth that will make the things you dream about possible. If your desires include more than just getting by, and you want to develop a game plan that will guide you to not only getting more money, but also getting your money to work for you, then you will definitely benefit from Mr. Darsten's Money Mastery Made Simple!" ]

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[ "A storybook with a CD that features Nickelodeon’s", "PAW Patrol", "! Join Skye and the rest of the team as they try to save a famous stunt pilot in this exciting book-and-CD format! This amazing storybook is perfect for kids ages 3 to 7—and the CD narration brings all the action to life!Get on the case with Nickelodeon's", "PAW Patrol", "! Chase, Marshall, Rubble, Skye, and the rest of the puppy heroes are on a mission to save their friends and protect the community of Adventure Bay using their paw-some vehicles, tools, and teamwork." ]

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[ "Audelay's idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful study beside his better-known contemporaries. Of particular note: MS Douce 302 preserves Audelay's own alliterative Marcolf and Solomon, a poem thought to be descended from Langland's Piers Plowman. The Audelay Manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in Gawain and the Green Knight and The Pistel of Swete Susan. These pieces are Paternoster and Three Dead Kings, both set at the end of the book. Whether or not they are Audelay's own compositions, they seem certain to be his own selections. Audelay also displays a persistent habit of sequencing materials in generic and devotionally affective ways. His is a pious sensibility delicately honed by reverence for the liturgy and by an awe of God. That Audelay's poetry can awaken us to new poetic sensitivities in medieval devotional verse is reason enough to bring him into the ambit of canonical fifteenth-century English poets." ]

[ "About the Author", "Susanna Fein is Professor of English and Coordinator of the A&S Minor in Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (AMRS). She has served terms as English Department Chair, Undergraduate Studies Coordinator, and Chair of the Ph.D. Program in Literature. She was 2010 Bloomfield Fellow in Medieval English Studies at Harvard University and 2014 Visiting Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Fein's research focuses on the literatures, languages, and manuscripts of medieval England, ca. 1100-1500." ]

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[ "In this watershed work, ten years in the writing, the author, who served on a PT boat from Rendova in the Solomons to Morotai Island, recreates the story of PT boats, taking the reader on hair-raising operations on ink-black nights, stalking the vaunted Tokyo Express off Guadalcanal, making high-speed torpedo attacks on massive ships, or exchanging gunfire with heavily armed Japanese motorized supply barges off the New Guinea coast; all actions that made history. Drawing on his experience on a PT boat as well as official reports, the massive volumes, The Japanese Navy in World War II by Samuel Morison, essays by Japanese naval officers with their views of the war in the Pacific, along with varied memoirs of individual officers on both sides, the author reveals both sides of the struggle. Iron Men-Wooden Boats also covers the thoughts and emotions of the individuals, soldiers and sailors, the strategies and conflicts of their commanders, and the strengths and weaknesses thereof. It is a landmark accomplishment that will be recognized for what it is: the definitive narrative of those fascinating and famous PT boats, a work that meets the highest standards of history." ]

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[ "Ila, a Mumbai-based teenager, is going nuts with Veena, her controlling, single mother who prevents her from stalking her pop idol, Ali Zafar. Veena wants her daughter to date real guys in the lead-up to finding a husband. But Ila decides that the only way to get her mom off her back is by finding her a boyfriend instead.👩❤️👨 With the help of her best friend Deepali, her crush Dev and her mother’s best friend Maleeka, they will come up with a plan to make it happen by setting up a profile in dating apps. ❤️👩👧" ]

[ "Review", "From Chanticleer Book Reviews:", "Master storyteller Reenita Malhotra Hora's YA romance Operation Mom: My Plan to Get My Mom a Life and a Man takes us on a charming journey through the life of one teen, Ila Isham.Hora introduces Ila and her best friend Deepali, two boy-crazy teens on a summer quest. Readers will fall in love with the smart, sassy, angst-filled, rebellious Ila. She captures the sometimes-difficult relationship between mother and daughter, friend and friend, husband and wife, and boy and girl. Her exploration of coming of age in a world filled with imperfect people is both humorous and heartfelt, and from beginning to end, we love her for her innocence, stubbornness, and intelligence.This book will have you laughing out loud. It will keep you reading into the night to see what life has in store for these lovable characters who leap off the page and capture your heart and your imagination. Reenita Malhotra Hora's novel, Operation Mom: My Plan to Get My Mom a Life and a Man, is a highly recommended and delightful five-star read.", "--- Chanticleer Book Reviews", "From Online Book Club:", "Operation Mom", "by Reenita Malhotra Hora is a fictional story of the drama that ensued between Ila and Veena, as both fought to have the upper hand in their opinion of the conception of love.The book is professionally edited, as I could only find two grammar errors in it. I loved that the author pours a breeze of romance into the book, and it doesn't go deep. This made me recommend the book to a wide range of readers, including teenagers and adults. The book is set in India, and some terms represent Indian culture. Hence, Indian audiences would resonate more with the book. Though, the general audience with the ability to read in English will also enjoy the book.", "--- Online Book Club (", "OnlineBookClub.org)", "From US Review of Books:", "\"I guess any seventeen-year-old girl who has a crush on a pop idol needs to get her mother off her back.\"", "Hora is a noted storyteller and author of nonfiction in both digital and literary realms. As seen through Ila's star-struck eyes, her engaging tale is artfully styled for a young adult audience. Her setting is India, where it can be difficult for ordinary people to step outside their societally assigned roles, so sending Ila and Veena off the beaten path offers subtle charms for many readers. With a new twist on almost every page, romance on the boil, and constant, clever, zinger-laden dialogue, Hora's latest offering will undoubtedly engage readers in an ever-accelerating, multi-threaded plot thoroughly in the young adult groove.", "--- RECOMMENDED by the", "US Review of Books", "From Readers' Favoroite:", "Reenita Malhotra Hora plots cleverly and introduces a first-person narrative voice that draws readers from the very first page. Ila's voice reveals an intricate inner world as the story explores the world of teenagers growing up in Mumbai, virtual dating, and the complex landscape of contemporary dating. The quirkiness in the narrative voice rubbed off on me from the outset and I was so hooked that I kept looking out for Ila's next move. This plot is twisty and features characters that are complex and elaborate. The setting is vividly drawn and the beautiful prose adds a layer to the entertainment that awaits readers on these pages. Operation Mom is a beautiful story that is heartwarming and exciting. The author captures the hearts of readers in this engaging tale that explores the relationship between a daughter and a single mother, highlighting its complexities while being rooted in realism and humanity.", "From the Author", "I general, I think life would be more fun if we took it down a notch. I am a huge proponent of standup comedy and improv because I think it helps us let go our Type A existence, be spontaneous and have a laugh or two. That goes for the performers as well as the audiences members. So many of us take ourselves way too seriously and really need a whack of our funny bone from time to time. I grew up reading very serious novels, most of them Classic British literature. It wasn't until I moved to the United States many years later that I discovered the American sense of humor - so basic, so subtle and so able to lighten your mood on any given day. It made me think about how I had so material right here in my home. In the Indian life, be it in or outside of India, there is an element of predictability and safety that underscores practically every decision — it's a classic example as to why Indian parents want their kids to go into 'safe' professions like medicine and engineering. There is plenty of comedy in that itself - you just need to dig for it. And when it comes to predictability, you don't typically find an Indian situation in which the daughter is setting up her mom  - usually it happens the other way around. You don't find stories which expose you to a variety of cray cray ethnic situations strewn around Mumbai - all ripe for comedic interpretation. That's what I wanted to do with", "Operation Mom", "— in many ways it is an LOL window into my life and circumstances. As a Mumbaikar I feel like I have many affinities - to the Punjabi way of life, to the Parsi community, to places like Swati Snacks and Worli Seaface...all these are part of my ordinary world that I wanted to share with folks everywhere. I wanted to highlight the contextual comedy that is such a huge part of my people and in these places. And the fun with writing fiction is that through it, you can make the ordinary, extraordinary. My relationship with my own mom has been fairly laid back. She definitely played her role of 'Classic Punjabi Mother' during my younger years but as any Punjabi will tell you, the moment you enter into the institution of marriage, the Punjabi mother becomes completely hands-off. My book actually has nothing to do with my own mother but her ridiculous Punju traits definitely carry through all the humorous set-pieces. For anyone familiar with the quirks of this particular community, the anecdotes will resonate. When I was a kid, she was highly skeptical of anything concerning me  - where I went, who I met and why I pursued the things I wanted to do. Her old-school Punjabi mindset had her believe that if I was too 'interesting' or 'determined', then it would naturally become an impediment to 'marrying me off'. So when I successfully stalked George Michael, my teen pop idol, it truly stressed her out. Who is George Michael, you ask? Well, back in the eighties, he was the lead singer of Wham! Okay that completely gives away my age :) I was one of many teenage girls in the eighties who was completely obsessed with him. Determined to meet him in person, I went through lengths to stalk him one summer holiday in England. It took practically all summer for me to track him down, and mind you this was long before the age of internet or social media, so I really take great pride in my grass roots research skills! I made my way to his father's restaurant in Edgeware, and then followed his cat to his house in Bushy Meads where I had a long chat with his mother, who finally pointed me to his the office of his manager in Central London, where I eventually met him. I was 15 then, obsessive to put it mildly...or perhaps I should say, 'determined.' But this event propelled me to teen stardom...as pathetic as that sounds! And the story has kept listeners marveling and laughing with each re-telling these last 35 years. So I chose to copy-paste the George Michael story from my life and into my novel, almost verbatim.  What's wrong with the Comedy of Obsessiveness? Like I said, life would be so much more fun if we took ourselves a little less seriously.", "From the Back Cover", "This book will have you laughing out loud. It will keep you reading into the night to seewhat life has in store for these lovable characters who leap off the page and capture yourheart and your imagination. Reenita Malhotra Hora's novel, Operation Mom: My Planto Get My Mom a Life and a Man, is a highly recommended and delightful five-starread.", "--- Chanticleer Book Reviews", "About the Author", "Reenita is a prolific storyteller with experience in writing and publishing across young adult fiction, health, finance and culture. Native to Mumbai, Reenita is currently Chief Storyteller at Chapter by episode, a digital publishing platform for immersive chat fiction stories with diverse themes. She is also Creator & Executive Producer of the Shadow Realm podcast series based upon her YA fantasy fiction novel, Shadow Realm (Part 1 of the Arya Chronicles) and the True Fiction Podcast which explores the journey from non-fiction to fiction. Reenita's literary works include YA & MG novels with a focus on promoting diversity and inclusivity, and non-fiction books focusing on Ayurvedic Medicine and personal finance. More information about her backlist titles can be found here:", "Read more" ]

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[ "Long recognized as 'America's theologian', Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is seen as instrumental in the Great Awakening of the 1740s that gripped much of New England and that laid the groundwork for an American Protestant religious identity. This Cambridge Companion offers a general, comprehensive introduction to Jonathan Edwards and examines his life and works from various disciplinary perspectives including history, literature, theology, religious studies, and philosophy. The book consists of seventeen chapters written by leading religious scholars, historians and literary critics on Edwards' life, work, and legacy. The Companion will be an invaluable aid to teachers and scholars and will be imminently accessible to those just encountering Edwards for the first time." ]

[ "Review", "\"[the] collection of authors is first-rate and the work they have produced sterling.\" ―The Christian Century\"… chapters are informative … and give us a truer picture of the man than the popular caricature of a fierce preacher of hellfire sermons …' ―Baptist Quarterly\"These are solid, reliable, and helpful essays―just what a literary companion should be. ...they serve to orient the reader to further reading. Edwards might have found this Cambridge Companion more amiable than its Princeton cousin: more rooted in historical context, more attuned to evangelical themes and less engaged in the intellectual abstractions and technical distractions offered by the theologians. ―Theological Studies", "Book Description", "A general, comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Jonathan Edwards.", "About the Author", "Stephen J. Stein (born March 22, 1940) holds the Ph.D. from Yale University. He has served as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and also as Director of the American Studies Program at Indiana University where he taught for 35 years. He retired in May 2005. He was named Chancellor's Professor in 1995. In 1994 he was the President of the American Society of Church History. In 1995 he was the recipient of the Tracy Sonneborn Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research. He has been the recipient of numerous grants, including two research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the editor of three volumes in the Yale Edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Apocalyptic Writings (1977), Notes on Scripture (1998), and The 'Blank Bible' (forthcoming 2006). His volume, The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers (Yale Press, 1992) was awarded the Philip Schaff Prize by the American Society of Church History. His research interests have focused heavily on eighteenth-century colonial American religious history, but his research publications also span the broad topic of apocalyptic and millennial studies as well as the study of New Religious Movements. He has published articles in such journals as Church History, Harvard Theological Review, William and Mary Quarterly, New England Quarterly, Early American Literature, Filson Club History Quarterly, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Journal of the Early Republic, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Communal Societies, American Quarterly, Religion and American Culture, etc., etc.. Stein's volume on the Shakers is widely regarded as the definitive history of that religious community; it spans more than two centuries of Shaker experience. His editorial work with the Edwards Edition has opened an area of scholarship, namely, Edwards's biblical writings, that had received very little scholarly attention prior to his work. His years", "Read more" ]

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[ "Do you want to take charge of your finance and your life? In this action oriented Financial book, Sezair Julien presents the 10 practical financial concepts to implement in your finance every day to help you manage your money and master your life. Sezair makes these 10 financial concepts simple to understand and to apply for your financial independence.Here is what you will find: • what is required from a mindset perspective to build wealth? • Your cash position or where your is your money come from and where it is going. • who control your money and what you are worth. • what is your financial position and what is your net worth? • How to make money works for you? • what is your buying power? and how to increase what you can afford \"Manage your money, Master your life\" give readers the knowledge and practical confidence to implement 10 simple financial concepts that will change your finance and your life forever. read this book to increase your financial education or to start your journey to financial freedom. “Scroll to the top and click the “buy now” button.”" ]

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[ "Winner of the John E. Weaver Excellent Reads Award: Globally Mindful", "MOM's Choice Award Honoring Excellence", "Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal Recipient -Finalist 2020- Thought-Provoking Title", "In", "Jelly Beans the Cheetah and Hope,", "the unlikely pairing of a sad little girl and a captured cheetah discover how much they share in common when they embark on an adventure in friendship. They've both experienced profound loss, but persevere through sharing empathy, kindness, joy, and love. Together they learn about their connection to the human family and to all, which provides for their self-esteem and a feeling of wholeness.", "Jelly Beans the Cheetah and Hope", "is a vehicle for empowering youth with empathy to spring into compassionate action!", "Compassionate action refers to the positive impact youth can make by caring about the plight of all people. Set in Tanzania, Africa with the Barabaig tribe, the book encourages youth to identify with the characters as they experience difficulty, persevere, model empathy, and then are shown empathy by the tribe. Together, these special friends demonstrate our connection to all, including the endangered cheetah, showing that we all belong." ]

[ "Review", "''Wow! What an emotion-packed message skillfully woven together! It will provide inspiration to people of all ages who can embrace this important message of love. Love is transformational! I am so happy about the wonderful accomplishment of this masterpiece.'' --", "Bob Solheim", ", executive director of N.C. Little Hospice''SissyMarySue is an innovator, and has a passion for education, learning, and young people. She has an excellent understanding of how to positively motivate and challenge teachers to enhance student learning. She is constantly working to improve her skills and maximize her talent. Her children's book is just one example of her success.'' --", "Dr. Ric Dressen,", "Ed.D., superintendent of Edina Public Schools''SissyMarySue's devotion to educating and inspiring youth to develop their empathy skills is positively infectious. SissyMarySue has embodied just the qualities she seeks to encourage in youth through the vehicle of her books--empathy, commitment to community, and largeness of heart.'' --", "Lee Truer", ", M.A., graduate advisor of Human Development at St. Mary's University", "About the Author", "SissyMarySue", "is a lifelong Minnesota educator. She is widely recognized for her innovative Jelly Beans Creative Learning approach that focuses on emotional competence, critical thinking, cultural sensitivity, language learning, and the natural world. After retiring the Jelly Beans Creative Learning brand, she launched SissyMarySue, producing books that focus on literacy, emotional competence, critical thinking, and world themes. Using her books as content, her play/drama approach has been effectively implemented in many classrooms from pre-K to middle school.", "Through speaking and training, SissyMarySue demonstrates her philosophy that empowering youth with empathy and an understanding of our shared humanity results in more tolerance, peacefulness, and harmony. Classroom management is less of an issue when we empower our youth with empathy, equipping them with emotional competence. This empowerment inspires youth to spring into compassionate action in service for their world." ]

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[ "Featuring helpful tips on how to make traveling with knitting fun and easy, these projects offer a variety of travel-friendly designs. This guide is all about the knitting bag—what to put in it, how to organize it, and where to take it. A special addition is the Take & Make Journal, which helps to track progress on the road by allowing knitters to log yarn, needles, and where they last left off in the pattern." ]

[ "About the Author", "Kara Gott Warner is a knitwear designer and an illustrator whose designs have been published in magazines such as", "Family Circle Easy Knitting", "and", "Interweave Knits", ". She is the editor of", "Tops & Toes", ".", "She lives in Treasure Island, Florida." ]

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[ "The Hardcover version comes in FULL COLOR!", "The PERFECT guide for any new Bobtail owner!", "Learn everything you need to know including:", "Preparing your home for a Sheepdog", "Preparing your home for a Sheepdog", "Training during the first few weeks", "Training during the first few weeks", "Proper Nutrition and Diet for a Sheepdog", "Proper Nutrition and Diet for a Sheepdog", "Avoiding the common mistakes most new Old English Sheepdog owners make", "Avoiding the common mistakes most new Old English Sheepdog owners make", "Exercise tips and Socialization ideas", "Exercise tips and Socialization ideas", "See an Old English Sheepdog in the show ring with its immaculately-groomed, flowing coat and it's hard to imagine the hard knock life for which they were originally bred.", "Beneath all that fur and abundant fringe, there lies the heart and soul of a working dog. Big-boned and robust, the Old English Sheepdog is never happier than when at the center of attention or in the middle of the action.", "First appearing in the mid 1700's, this comparative newcomer to the canine world was originally bred for the tough life of a drover in Southwest England. Here, they were responsible for driving sheep and cattle to market.", "It was at this time that they picked up the nickname", "Bob-Tails", "because of their docked tails which identified them as working dogs and allowed their owners to avoid paying pet tax.", "Tasked with guarding and moving sheep and cattle across windswept moors and dales, they are doubly blessed with brain and brawn.", "Their loyalty and companionship are beyond reproach, but it is the breed's sense of fun that is as strongly imprinted in their DNA as their instinct to herd.", "The Old English Sheepdog is often called the clown prince of dogs, which is a great indication of the indelible imprint he leaves on owners and breeders alike.", "A large breed, adult Old English Sheepdogs reach around 21-22'' at the shoulder and weigh as much as 80 pounds. Hugely affectionate and attention seeking, they will never be far from their owner's side. So, if personal space is high on your list of priorities, this may not be the ideal breed for you.", "As long as an OES is part of the family, it doesn't matter if you live in a penthouse or a farmhouse. What does matter, though, is exercise and lots of it. Be aware, this love of human company also means that your new best friend will not make a good yard dog.", "Everything about this breed is larger than life, from their abundant shaggy coat to their outgoing quirky character. They also live to around 12-years of age, so making this affable breed of dog a member of the family is a long-term commitment.", "For all these reasons, knowledge of this large breed is essential before committing to welcoming one into your family.", "Are you intending to go down the puppy route, or maybe offering a loving home to a rescue dog? Then the chapters of this guide will provide you with all the information you need to get the best from your big bouncy bob tail." ]

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[ "En Flores oscuras, cada personaje batalla contra sus propios conflictos y esconde sus propios secretos. A medio camino entre la crónica periodística y el cuento, Sergio Ramírez se asoma a los misterios del alma humana en doce sorprendentes relatos llenos de colores vivos y negras sombras.", "ENGLISH DESCRIPTION", "In The Darkness in Flowers, each character battles his or her own conflicts and hides secrets. Halfway between a news chronicle and a story, Sergio Ramírez takes a look at the human soul in twelve surprising tales full of bright colors and black shadows. \"The best living storyteller in Latin America, and one of the best in Spanish, heir to Cortázar and Monterroso... Each story is a new world.\" -Javier Sancho Más, Babelia" ]

[ "About the Author", "Sergio Ramírez", ", ganador del Premio Cervantes 2017 y del Premio Alfaguara de Novela con", "Margarita, está linda la mar", "en 1998, nació en Masatepe, Nicaragua, en 1942. Es parte de la generación de escritores latinoamericanos que surgió después del Boom, y tras un largo exilio voluntario en Costa Rica y Alemania abandonó por un tiempo su carrera literaria para incorporarse a la revolución sandinista que derrocó a la dictadura del último Somoza. Reemprendió la escritura con la novela", "Castigo divino", "(1988), que obtuvo el Premio Dashiell Hammett en España, y la siguiente,", "Un baile de máscaras", ", ganó el Premio Laure Bataillon a la mejor novela extranjera traducida en Francia en 1998. Alfaguara ha publicado sus", "Cuentos completos", ", con un prólogo de Mario Benedetti (1998);", "Mentiras verdaderas", "(ensayos sobre la creación literaria, 2001); los volúmenes de cuentos", "Catalina y Catalina", "(2001),", "El reino animal", "(2007) y", "Flores oscuras", "(2013); así como las novelas", "Sombras nada más", "(2002),", "Mil y una muertes", "(2005),", "El cielo llora por mí", "(2008),", "La fugitiva", "(2011),", "Flores oscuras", "(2013) y", "Sara", "(2015). También Alfaguara ha publicado sus memorias de la revolución,", "Adiós muchachos", "(1999).", "Margarita, está linda la mar", "ganó, además, el Premio Latinoamericano de novela José María Arguedas, otorgado por Casa de las Américas en Cuba. En 2011 recibió en Chile el Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso por el conjunto de su obra literaria, y en 2014 el Premio Carlos Fuentes." ]

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[ "Somehow I doubt that this is quite how anyone expected Adolf Hitler's death to turn out...", "--", "Squadron Leader Adam Haynes, No. 303 (Polish) Squadron", "August 1942", ". London is in flames. Heinrich Himmler's Germany stands triumphant in the West, its \"Most Dangerous Enemy\" forced to the peace table by a hailstorm of nerve gas and incendiaries. With Adolf Hitler avenged and portions of the Royal Navy seized as war prizes, Nazi Germany casts its baleful gaze across the Atlantic towards an increasingly isolationist United States.", "With no causus belli, President Roosevelt must convince his fellow Americans that it is better to deal with a triumphant Germany now than to curse their children with the problem of a united, fascist Europe later. As Germany and Japan prepare to launch the next phase of the conflict, Fate forces normal men and women to make hard choices in hopes of securing a better future.", "For", "Adam Haynes", ", Londonfall means he must continue an odyssey that began in the skies over Spain. For while fighting Fascism has already cost him dearly, he would sooner perish than see a world where freedom has been snuffed out by a jackboot heel.", "Despite nominally being a noncombatant, American naval officer", "Eric Cobb", "finds that neutrality is a far cry from safety. Forced to choose between the letter of the law and its spirit, Cobb makes a choice that irrevocably changes history.", "In the Pacific,", "Tamon Yamaguchi", "must prepare himself and his men to fight a Pacific War that is far different than what his nation and the IJN had planned.  Forced to call off a meticulously planned surprise attack in December 1941, Japan instead turned north.  Rather than finding resources in Siberia, the Imperial Army found defeat and a tremendous loss of face.  Now, the Imperial Japanese Navy has once more turned its intentions towards Hawaii and the USN's Pacific Fleet.  Although Yamaguchi knows that his force will likely be detected, he intends to strike a heavy blow for his Emperor regardless of cost.", "Acts of War", "is the first novel of the", "Usurper's War", "series, which charts a very different World War II. As young men and women are forced to answer their nation's call, the choices they make and risks they take will write a different song for the Greatest Generation.", "Acts of War [is an] enjoyable read that I can recommend to anyone looking for a good war alternate history", "--", "Matt Mitrovich,", "Amazing Stories, America's First Sci-Fi Magazine (2015)" ]

[ "About the Author", "James Young is a Missouri native who escaped small town life via spending four years at a small, well-known Federal educational institution in upstate New York. After being set free from the Hudson River Valley, Dr. Young spent the next six years of his life in various locations (both foreign and domestic) having the cost of his education repaid one nickel at a time. Along the way he collected a loving, patient, and beautiful spouse...and various animals that did not fit any of those descriptions. After leaving the Republic's employ, James returned to the Midwest where he earned his doctorate in U.S. History. He now spends his time basking in the joy of completing his education while writing fiction and working for the Republic (again). His writing awards include winning the United States Naval Institute's 2016 Cyberwarfare Essay Contest and placing 2nd in the 2011 Adams Cold War Essay Contest. He has been published in the Journal of Military History and Proceedings." ]

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[ "“The Dream that Healed a Heart” is a sequel to my first novel “The Long Road to a Healed Heart” I highly recommend reading this novel to get a full understanding of the characters and the long road I traveled to get to the place I am currently at in my life story. This book will take you through the many life and death struggles, as well as hardships that took over Amy’s life from the early age of sixteen. The story continues over the next forty plus years of sadness. Then only through love and persistence was a family member able to make the sacrifice of time and money to get Amy back into my arms." ]

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[ "The 2018 Academy Award's Best Picture of the Year and", "New York Times", "-bestselling novel,", "The Shape of Water.", "From visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus comes this haunting, heartbreaking love story.", "\"[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments and predicaments and providing more expansive and involving story lines.\" ―", "Booklist", "It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito―mute her whole life, orphaned as a child―is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn’t know how she’d make it through the day.Then, one fateful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center’s most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions…and Elisa can’t keep away. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa’s sole reason to live.But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything to save her beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But Strickland is on to them. And the Russians are, indeed, coming.Developed from the ground up as a bold two-tiered release―one story interpreted by two artists in the independent mediums of literature and film―", "The Shape of Water", "is unlike anything you’ve ever read or seen.“Most movie novelizations do little more than write down what audiences see on the screen. But the novel that’s accompanying Guillermo del Toro’s new movie", "The Shape of Water", "is no mere adaptation. Co-author Daniel Kraus’ book and the film tell the same story, of a mute woman who falls in love with an imprisoned and equally mute creature, in two very different ways.” ―io9", "Praise for", "The Shape of Water", "directed by Guillermo del Toro", "Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best PictureWinner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best DirectorWinner of the 2018 Academy Award for Music (Original Score)Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Production DesignWinner of the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture\"With encouragement from critics and awards voters, discerning viewers should make Fox Searchlight’s December release the season’s classiest date movie―for perhaps the greatest of", "The Shape of Water", "’s many surprises is how extravagantly romantic it is.” ―", "Variety", "\"A visually and emotionally ravishing fantasy that should find a welcome embrace from audiences starved for imaginative escape.” ―", "The Hollywood Reporter", "Awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 74th Annual Venice International Film Festival" ]

[ "Review", "\"[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments and predicaments and providing more expansive and involving story lines. The dynamic between the movie and the novel is vital and fascinating, and people will be eager to talk about what each version has in common and how they diverge.\" --", "Booklist", "About the Author", "Guillermo del Toro", "is the award-winning director of numerous critically acclaimed feature films, such as", "Pan's Labyrinth", ",", "Hellboy", ",", "Pacific Rim", ", and", "The Shape of Water", "(Oscar Award winner, Best Picture). He is also the co-author (with Chuck Hogan) of the bestselling Strain Trilogy. Del Toro lives in California with his wife and two children.", "Daniel Kraus", "is the author of numerous novels, including", "Rotters", ", The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch duology,", "Bent Heavens", ", and the Teddies Saga. With Guillermo del Toro, he wrote the", "New York Times", "-bestselling", "The Shape of Water", "and", "Trollhunters", "(the inspiration for the Netflix series). His novels have been Odyssey Award winners, Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks, Parent’s Choice Gold Award winners, Bram Stoker finalists, and more. He lives with his wife in Chicago." ]

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[ "A complex, haunting novel that explores a schizophrenic young artist’s struggles with her perception of reality… including an intriguing ghostly woman who appears to her in the most mysterious ways.", "India Morgan Phelps—Imp to her friends—is trying to write her memoir, but she struggles with the unreliability of her own mind. Suffering from schizophrenia, as well as comorbid anxiety and OCD, Imp has a difficult time separating fantasy from reality. But for her, it’s most important to tell her “truth.”   And for Imp, that truth comes through a stream-of-consciousness tale of her love story with her transgender girlfriend, as well as Imp’s obsession with a mysterious woman whom she finds naked and mute at the side of the road. Imp must push past her mental illness—or work with it—to piece together her memories and tell her story.   A rich exploration of mental illness, gender identity, and creative process,", "The Drowning Girl", "delivers an eerie and powerful story of a woman’s efforts to discover the truth that’s locked away in her own head.", "“Caitlín R. Kiernan moves firmly into the new vanguard […] of our best and most artful authors of the gothic and fantastic—those capable of writing fiction of deep moral and artistic seriousness.”—Peter Straub" ]

[ "Review", "“Incisive, beautiful and as perfectly crafted as a puzzle-box,", "The Drowning Girl", "took my breath away.”—Holly Black,", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "Red Glove", "“This is a masterpiece. It deserves to be read in and out of genre for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Bear, author of", "Grail", "“A beautifully written, startlingly original novel.”—Elizabeth Hand, author of", "Illyria", "“With", "The Drowning Girl", ", Caitlín R. Kiernan moves firmly into the new vanguard, still being formed, of our best and most artful authors of the gothic and fantastic—those capable of writing fiction of deep moral and artistic seriousness. This subtle dark in-folded novel, through which flickers a weird insistent genius, is like nothing I’ve ever read before.", "The Drowning Girl", "is a stunning work of literature, and if I may be so blunt, Caitlin R. Kiernan’s masterpiece.”—Peter Straub “In this novel, Caitlín R. Kiernan turns the ghost story inside out and transforms it. This is a story about how stories are told, about what they reveal and what they hide, but is no less intense or suspenseful because of that. It’s a tale of real and unreal hauntings that quickly takes you down deep and only slowly brings you up for air.”—Brian Evanson, author of", "Last Days", "“", "The Drowning Girl", "features all those elements of Caitlín R. Kiernan’s writing that readers have come to expect—a prose style of wondrous luminosity, an atmosphere of languorous melancholy, and an inexplicable mixture of aching beauty and clutching terror. It is a ghost story, but also a book about the writing of ghost stories. It is about falling in love, falling out of love, and wondering whether madness is a gift or a curse. It is one of those very few novels that one wishes would never end.”—S. T. Joshi, author of", "I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft", "“Kiernan pins out the traditional memoir on her worktable and metamorphoses it into something wholly different and achingly familiar, more alien, more difficult, more beautiful, and more true.”—Catherynne M. Valente,", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "Deathless", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "1", "“I’m going to write a ghost story now,” she typed.", "“A ghost story with a mermaid and a wolf,” she also typed.", "I also typed.", "My name is India Morgan Phelps, though almost everyone I know calls me Imp. I live in Providence, Rhode Island, and when I was seventeen, my mother died in Butler Hospital, which is located at 345 Blackstone Boulevard, right next to Swan Point Cemetery, where many notable people are buried. The hospital used to be called the Butler Hospital for the Insane, but somewhere along the way the “for the Insane” part was dropped. Maybe it was bad for business. Maybe the doctors or trustees or board of directors or whoever makes decisions about such things felt crazy people would rather not be put away in an insane asylum that dares to admit it’s an insane asylum, that truth in advertising is a detriment. I don’t know, but my mother, Rosemary Anne, was committed to Butler Hospital", "because", "she was insane. She died there, at the age of fifty–six, instead of dying somewhere else, because she was insane. It’s not like she didn’t know she was insane, and it’s not like I didn’t know, too, and if anyone were to ask me, dropping “for the Insane” is like dropping “burger” from Burger King, because hamburgers aren’t as healthy as salads. Or dropping “donuts” from Dunkin’ Donuts because donuts cause cavities and make you fat.", "My grandmother Caroline—my mother’s mother, who was born in 1914, and lost her husband in World War II—she was also a crazy woman, but she died in her own bed in her own house down in Wakefield. No one put her away in a hospital, or tried to pretend she wasn’t crazy. Maybe people don’t notice it so much, once you get old, or only older. Caroline turned on the gas and shut all the windows and doors and went to sleep, and in her suicide note she thanked my mother and my aunts for not sending her away to a hospital for the mentally insane, where she’d have been forced to live even after she couldn’t stand it anymore. Being alive, I mean. Or being crazy. Whichever, or both.", "It’s sort of ironic that my aunts are the ones who had my mother committed. I suppose my father would have done it, but he left when I was ten, and no one’s sure where he went. He left my mother because she was insane, so I like to think he didn’t live very long after he left us. When I was a girl, I used to lie awake in bed at night, imagining awful ways my father might have met his demise, all manner of just desserts for having dumped us and run away because he was too much of a coward to stick around for me and my mother. At one point, I even made a list of various unpleasant ends that may have befallen my father. I kept it in a stenographer’s pad, and I kept the pad in an old suitcase under my bed, because I didn’t want my mother to see it. “I hope my father died of venereal disease, after his dick rotted off” was at the top of the list, and was followed by lots of obvious stuff—car accidents, food poisoning, cancer—but I grew more imaginative as time went by, and the very last thing I put on the list (#316), was “I hope my father lost his mind and died alone and frightened.” I still have that notebook, but now it’s on a shelf, not hidden away in an old suitcase.", "So, yeah. My mother, Rosemary Anne, died in Butler Hospital. She committed suicide in Butler Hospital, though she was on suicide watch at the time. She was in bed, in restraints, and there was a video camera in her room. But she still pulled it off. She was able to swallow her tongue and choke to death before any of the nurses or orderlies noticed what was happening. The death certificate says she died of a seizure, but I know that’s not what happened. Too many times when I visited her, she’d tell me she wanted to die, and usually I told her I’d rather she lived and get better and come home, but that I wouldn’t be angry if that’s really what she had to do, if she had to die. If there came a day or night when she just couldn’t stand it any longer. She said she was sorry, but that she was glad I understood, that she was grateful that I understood. I’d take her candy and cigarettes and books, and we’d have conversations about Anne Sexton and Diane Arbus and about Virginia Woolf filling her pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse. I never told Rosemary’s doctors about any of these conversations. I also didn’t tell them about the day, a month before she choked on her tongue, that she gave me a letter quoting Virginia Woolf’s suicide note: “What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that—everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.” I keep that thumbtacked to the wall in the room where I paint, which I guess is my studio, though I usually just think of it as the room where I paint.", "I didn’t realize I was also insane, and that I’d probably always been insane, until a couple of years after Rosemary died. It’s a myth that crazy people don’t know they’re crazy. Many of use are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as anyone else, maybe more so. I suspect we spend far more time thinking about our thoughts than do sane people. Still, it simply hadn’t occurred to me, that the way I saw the world meant that I had inherited “the Phelps Family Curse” (to quote my Aunt Elaine, who has a penchant for melodramatic turns of phrase). Anyway, when it finally occurred to me that I wasn’t sane, I went to see a therapist at Rhode Island Hospital. I paid her a lot of money, and we talked (mostly I talked while she listened), and the hospital did some tests. When all was said and done, the psychiatrist told me I suffered from disorganized schizophrenia, which is also called hebephrenia, for Hebe, the Greek goddess of youth. She—the psychiatrist—didn’t tell me that last part; I looked it up myself. Hebephrenia is named after the Greek goddess of youth because it tends to manifest at puberty. I didn’t bother to point out that, if the way I thought and saw the world meant that I was schizophrenic, the crazy had started well before puberty. Anyway, later, after more tests, the diagnosis was changed to paranoid schizophrenia, which isn’t named after a Greek god, or any god that I’m aware of.", "The psychiatrist, a women from Boston named Magdalene Ogilvy—a name that always puts me in mind of Edward Gorey or a P. G. Wodehouse novel—found the Phelps Family Curse very interesting, because, she said, there’s evidence to suggest that schizophrenia may be hereditary, at least in some cases. So, there you go. I’m crazy because Rosemary was crazy and had a kid, and Rosemary was crazy because my grandmother was crazy and had a kid (well, several, but only Rosemary lucked out and got the curse). I told Dr. Ogilvy the stories my grandmother used to tell about her mother’s sister, whose name was also Caroline. According to my grandmother, Caroline kept dead birds and mice in stoppered glass jars lined up on all her windowsills. She labeled each jar with a passage from the Bible. I told the psychiatrist I’d suspect that my Great Aunt Caroline might have only suffered from a keen interest in natural history, if not for the thing with the Bible verses. Then again, I said, it might have been she was trying to create a sort of concordance, correlating specific species with scripture, but Dr. Ogilvy said, no, she was likely also schizophrenic. I didn’t argue. Rarely do I feel like arguing with anyone.", "So, I have my amber bottles of pills, my mostly reliable pharmacopeia of antipsychotics and sedatives, which are not half so interesting as my great aunt’s bottles of mice and sparrows. I have Risperdol, Depakene, and Valium, and so far I’ve stayed out of Butler Hospital, and I’ve only", "tried", "to kill myself. And only once. Or twice. Maybe I have the drugs to thank for this, or maybe I have my painting to thank, or maybe it’s my paintings and the fact that my girlfriend puts up with my weird shit and makes sure I take the pills and is great in the sack. Maybe my mother would have stuck around a little longer if she’d gotten laid now and then. As far as I know, no one has ever proposed sex therapy as a treatment for schizophrenia. But at least fucking doesn’t make me constipated or make my hands shake—thank you, Mr. Risperdol—or cause weight gain, fatigue, and acne—thank you so much, Mr. Depakene. I think of all my pills as male, a fact I have not yet disclosed to my psychiatrist. I have a feeling she might feel compelled to make something troublesome of it, especially since she already knows about my “how daddy should die” list.", "My family’s lunacy lines up tidy as boxcars: grandmother, daughter, the daughter’s daughter, and, thrown in for good measure, the great aunt. Maybe the Curse goes even farther back than that, but I’m not much for genealogy. Whatever secrets my great–grandmothers and great–great–grandmothers might have harbored and taken to their graves, I’ll let them be. I’m already sort of sorry I haven’t done the same for Rosemary Anne and Caroline. But they’re too much a part of", "my", "story, and I need them to tell it. Probably, I could be writing fabricated versions of them, fictional avatars to stand in for the women they actually were, but I knew both well enough to know neither would have wanted that. I can’t tell my story, or the parts of my story that I’m going to try to tell, without also telling parts of their stories. There’s too much overlap, too many occurrences one or the other of them set in motion, intentionally or unintentionally, and there’s no point doing this thing if all I can manage is a lie.", "Which is not to say every word will be factual. Only that every word will be true. Or as true as I can manage.", "Here’s something I scribbled on both sides of a coffeehouse napkin a few days back: “No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary and transient intent, but they are, in their fundamental nature, arbitrary and exist solely as a convenient construct in the mind of man. Lives are messy, and when we set out to relate them, or parts of them, we cannot ever discern precise and objective moments when any given event began. All beginnings are arbitrary.”", "Before I wrote that and decided it was true, I would come into this room (which isn’t the room where I paint, but the room with too many bookshelves) and sit down in front of the manual typewriter that used to be Grandmother Caroline’s. The walls of this room are a shade of blue so pale that sometimes, in bright sunlight, they seem almost white. I would sit here and stare at the blue–white walls, or out the window at the other old houses lined up neatly along Willow Street, the Victorian homes and the autumn trees and the gray sidewalks and the occasional passing automobile. I would sit here and try to settle on a place to begin this story. I would sit here in this chair for hours, and never write a single word. But now I’ve made my beginning, arbitrary though it may be, and it feels about as right as I think any beginning ever will. It only seemed fair to get the part about being crazy out up front, like a disclaimer, so if anyone ever reads this they’ll know to take it with a grain of salt.", "Now, also arbitrarily, I’m going to write about the first time I saw", "The Drowning Girl.", "For my eleventh birthday, my mother took me to the museum at the Rhode Island School of Design. I’d told her I wanted to be a painter, so that year for my birthday she bought me a set of acrylics, brushes, a wooden palette, and a couple of canvases, and she took me to the RISD Museum. And, like I said, that day was the first time I saw the painting. Today,", "The Drowning Girl", "hangs much nearer the Benefit Street entrance than it did when I was a kid. The canvas is held within an ornately cared, gilded frame—same as all the others in that part of the Museum, a small gallery devoted to 19th–Century American painters.", "The Drowning Girl", "is small, measuring only about 8”x8” square. It hangs between William Bradford’s", "Arctic Sunset", "(1874) and Winslow Homer’s", "On a Lee Shore", "(1900). The gallery’s walls are a uniform loden green, which, I think, makes the antique golden frames seem somewhat less garish than they might otherwise.", "The Drowning Girl", "was painted in 1898 by a Boston artist named Phillip George Saltonstall. Hardly anyone’s written about Saltonstall. He tends to get lumped in with the Symbolists, though one article called him a “late American disciple of the Pre–Raphaelite Brotherhood.” He rarely sold, or even showed, his paintings, and in the last year of his life burned as many as fifty in a single night. Most of the few that survive can be found scattered about New England, in private collections and art museums. Also, one hangs in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and another in Atlanta’s High Museum. Saltonstall suffered from seizures, insomnia, and chronic depression, and he died in 1907, at the age of thirty–nine, after falling from a horse. No one I’ve read says whether or not it was an accident, that fall, but probably it was. I could say he was a suicide, but I’m biased, and it would only be speculation.", "As for the painting itself,", "The Drowning Girl", "was done mostly in somber shades of green and gray (and so seems right at home hanging on those loden walls), but with a few contrasting counterpoints—muted yellows, dirty–white shimmers, regions where the greens and grays sink into blackness. It depicts a young girl, entirely naked, possibly in her early twenties, but maybe younger. She’s standing ankle deep in a forest pool almost as smooth as glass. The trees press in close behind her, and her head is turned away from us, as she glances back over her right shoulder, into the forest, towards the shadows gathered below and between those trees. Her long hair is almost the same shade of green as the water, and her skin has been rendered so that it seems paradoxically jaundiced and imbued with some inner light. She’s very near the shore, and there are ripples in the water at her feet, which I take to mean she’s only just stepped into the pool.", "I typed", "pool", ", but, as it turns out, the painting was inspired by a visit Saltonstall made to the Blackstone River in southern Massachusetts during the late summer of 1894. He had family in nearby Uxbridge, including a paternal first cousin, Mary Farnum, with whom he appears to have been in love (there’s no evidence the feelings were reciprocal). There’s been some conjecture that the girl in the painting is meant to be Mary, but if that’s the case, the artist never said so, or if he did, we have no record of it. But he did say the painting began as a series of landscape studies he made at Rolling Damn (also known as Roaring Dam, built in 1886). Above the dam, the river forms a reservoir that once served the mills of the Blackstone Manufacturing Company. The water is calm and deep, in sharp contrast to the rapids below the dam, flowing between the steep granite walls of the Blackstone Gorge, which are more than eighty–feet high in some places.", "The title of the painting has often seemed strange to me. After all, the girl doesn’t appear to be drowning, but merely wading a little ways into the water. Still, Saltonstall has invested the painting with an undeniable sense of threat or dread. This may arise from the shadowy forest looming up behind the girl, and/or from the suggestion that something there has drawn her attention back to the trees. The snapping of a twig, maybe, or footsteps crunching in fallen leaves. Or a voice. Or almost anything else at all.", "More and more, I’ve come to understand how the story of Saltonstall and", "The Drowning Girl", "is an integral part of my story—same as Rosemary Anne and Caroline are integral to my story—even if I won’t claim that it’s truly the beginning of the things that have happened. Not in any objective sense. If I did, I’d only be begging the question. Would the start be my first sight of the painting on my eleventh birthday, or Saltonstall’s creation of it in 1898? Or might it be better to start with the dam’s construction in 1886? Instinctively, I keep looking for that sort of beginning, even though I know better. Even though I know full well I can only arrive at useless and essentially infinite regressions.", "That day in August, all those years ago,", "The Drowning Girl", "was hanging in another gallery, a room devoted to local painters and sculptors, mostly—but not exclusively—artists from Rhode Island. My mother’s feet were sore, and we were sitting on a bench at the center of the room when I noticed the painting. I can recall this all very clearly, though most of that day has faded away. While Rosemary sat on the bench, resting her aching feet, I stood gazing at Saltonstall’s canvas. Only, it seemed like I was staring into the canvas, almost the same as if it were a tiny window looking out on a soft–focus gray–green world. I’m pretty sure that was the first time a painting (or any other sort of two–dimensional image) struck me that way. The illusion of depth was so strong that I raised my right hand and pressed my fingers against the canvas. I believe I honestly expected them to pass right on through, to the day and the place in the painting. Then Rosemary saw me touching it and told me to stop, that what I was doing was against the museum’s rules, so I pulled my hand back.", "“Why?” I asked her, and she said there were corrosive oils and acids on human hands that could damage an old painting. She said that whenever the people who worked in the museum needed to handle them, they wore white cotton gloves to protect the canvases. I looked at my fingers, wondering what else I could hurt just by touching it, wondering if the acids and oils seeping from my skin had done all sorts of harm to all sort of things without my knowing.", "“Anyway, Imp, what were you doing, touching it like that?”", "I told her how it had seemed like a window, and she laughed and wanted to know the name of the painting, the name of the artist, and the year it was done. All those things were printed on a card mounted on the wall beside the frame, and I read them off to her. She made notes on an envelope she pulled out of her bag. Rosemary always carried huge, shapeless cloth bags she’d sewn herself, and they bulged with everything from paperbacks to cosmetics to utility bills to grocery–store receipts (which she never threw away). When she died, I kept a couple of those bags, and I still use them, though I don’t think I kept the one she was carrying that particular day. It was made from denim, and I’ve never much liked denim. I hardly even wear blue jeans.", "“Why are you writing that stuff down?”", "“You might want to remember it some day,” she replied. “When something makes a strong impression on us, we should do our best not to forget about it. So, it’s a good idea to make notes.”", "“But how am I supposed to know what I might want to remember and what I won’t ever want to remember?”", "“Ah, now, that’s the hard part,” Rosemary told me and chewed her thumbnail a moment. “That’s the most difficult part of all. Because, obviously, we can’t waste all our time making notes about everything, can we?”", "“Of course not,” I said, stepping back from the painting, but not taking my eyes off it. It was no less beautiful or remarkable for having turned out not to be a window. “That would be silly, wouldn’t it.”", "“That would be very silly, Imp. We’d waste so much time trying not to forget anything that nothing worth remembering would ever happen to us.”", "“So you have to be careful,” I said.", "“Exactly,” she agreed.", "I don’t recall much else about that birthday. Just my gifts and the trip to RISD, Rosemary saying I should write down what might turn out to be important to me someday. After the museum, we must have gone home. There would have been a cake with ice cream, because there always was, right up to the year she was committed. There wouldn’t have been a party, because I never got a birthday party. I never wanted one. We left the Museum, and the day rolled on, and midnight came, and it wasn’t my birthday again until I turned twelve. Yesterday, I checked a calendar online, and it informed me that the", "next", "day, the third of August, would have been a Sunday, but that doesn’t tell me much. We never went to church, because my mother was a lapsed Roman Catholic, and always said I’d be better off steering clear of Catholicism, if only because it meant I’d never have to go to the trouble of eventually lapsing.", "“We don’t believe in god?” I might have asked her at some point.", "“", "I", "don’t believe in god, Imp. What", "you’re", "going to believe, that’s up to you. You have to pay attention and figure these things out for yourself. I won’t do it for you.”", "That is, if this exchange ever actually occurred. It almost seems that it did, almost, but a lot of my memories are false memories, so I can’t ever be certain, one way or the other. A lot of my most interesting memories seem never to have taken place. I began keeping diaries after they locked Rosemary up at Butler and I went to live with Aunt Elaine in Cranston until I was eighteen, but even the diaries can’t be trusted. For instance, there’s a series of entries describing a trip to New Brunswick that I’m pretty sure I never took. It used to scare me, those recollections of things that never took place, but I’ve gotten used to it. And it doesn’t happen as much as it once did.", "“I’m going to write a ghost story now,” she typed, and that’s what I’m writing. I’ve already written about the ghosts of my grandmother, my mother, and my great–grandmother’s sister, the one who kept dead animals in jars labeled with scripture. Those women are all only ghosts now, and they haunt me, just the same as the other ghosts I’m going to write about. Same as I’m haunted by the specter of Butler Hospital, there beside Swan Point Cemetery. Same as my vanished father haunts me. But, more than any of these, I’m haunted by Phillip George Saltonstall’s", "The Drowning Girl", ", which I’d have eventually remembered even if my mother hadn’t taken the time that day to make notes on an envelope.", "Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time. I don’t imagine that when Saltonstall painted", "The Drowning Girl", ", almost a hundred years before I saw it for the first time, he paused to consider all the people it might haunt. That’s another thing about ghosts, a very important thing—you have to be careful, because hauntings are contagious. Hauntings are", "memes", ", especially pernicious thought contagions,", "social", "contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother’s suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.", "Or a painting hanging on a wall.", "I’m pretty sure that Saltonstall was, in fact, only trying to exorcise his own ghosts when he painted the nude woman standing in the water with the forest at her back. Too often, people make the mistake of trying to use their art to capture a ghost, but only end up spreading their haunting to countless other people. So, Saltonstall went to the Blackstone River, and he saw something there, something happened there, and it haunted him. Then, later on, he tried to make it go away the only way he knew how, by painting it. It wasn’t a malicious act, the propagation of that meme. It was an act of desperation. Sometimes, haunted people reach a point where they either manage to drive away the ghosts or the ghosts destroy them. What makes all this even worse is that it usually doesn’t work, trying to drag the ghosts out and seal them up tight where they can’t hurt us anymore. I think, mostly, we only spread them, when we try to do that. You make a copy, or transmit some infinitesimal part of the phantom, but most of it stays dug so deeply into your mind it’s never going anywhere.", "Rosemary never tried to teach me to believe in a god or sin, in Heaven or Hell, and my own experiences have never led me there. I don’t think I even believe in souls. But that doesn’t matter. I", "do", "believe in ghosts. I do, I do, I do, I do believe in ghosts, just like the Cowardly Lion said. Sure, I’m a crazy woman, and I have to take pills I can’t really afford to stay out of hospitals, but I still see ghosts everywhere I look, when I look, because once you start seeing them, you can’t ever", "stop", "seeing them. But the worst part is, you accidentally or on purpose start seeing them, you make that gestalt shift that permits you to recognize them for what they are, and they start to see you, too. You look at a painting hanging on a wall, and all at once it seems like a window. It seems so much like a window that an eleven–year–old girl tries to reach through it to the other side. But the unfortunate thing about windows is most of them work both ways. They allow you look", "out", ", but they also allow anything else that happens past to look", "in", ".", "I’ve gotten ahead of myself. Which means I need to stop, and go back, and set aside all this folderol about memes and ghosts and windows, at least for now. I need to go back to that night in July, driving alongside the Blackstone River not far from the spot that inspired Saltonstall to paint", "The Drowning Girl", ". Back to the night I met the mermaid named Eva Canning. But, also, back to that", "other", "night, the snowy night in November, in Connecticut, when I was driving through the woods on a narrow chip–and–tar road, and I came across the girl who was actually a wolf, and who may have been the same ghost as Eva Canning, and who’d inspired another artist, another dead man, a dead man whose name was Albert Perrault, to try and capture her likeness in his work.", "And what I said earlier about the girlfriend who puts up with all my weird shit . . . that was sort of a lie, because she left me not long after Eva Canning showed up. Because, finally, the weird shit just got too weird. I don’t blame her for leaving, though I miss her and wish she were still here. Regardless, the point is, it was a lie, pretending she’s still with me. I said there’s no reason doing this thing if all I can manage is a lie.", "So I have to watch for that.", "And I have to choose my words carefully.", "In fact, I find that I’m quickly, unexpectedly coming to realize that I’m trying to tell myself a story in a language that I’m having to invent as I go along. If I’m lazy, if I rely too heavily on the way anyone else would tell this story—anyone else at all—it’ll look ridiculous. I’ll be horrified or embarrassed by the sight of it, the sound of it. Or I’ll be horrified", "and", "embarrassed, and I’ll give it up. I’ll stash it away in a disused suitcase beneath my bed and never reach the place that will, arbitrarily, turn out to be the end. No, not even the end, but just the last page that I’ll write before I can stop telling this story.", "I have to be careful, just like Rosemary said. I have to stop, and take a step back.", "--This text refers to the", "paperback", "edition.", "About the Author", "Caitlin R. Kiernan is the author of nine novels, including", "Silk, Threshold, Low Red Moon, Murder of Angels, Daughter of Hounds", ", and", "The Red Tree", ". Her award-winning short fiction has been collected in six volumes, including", "Tales of Pain and Wonder; To Charles Fort, With Love; Alabaster;", "and, most recently,", "A is for Alien", ". She has also published two volumes of erotica,", "Frog Toes and Tentacles", "and", "Tales from the Woeful Platypus", ". Trained as a vertebrate paleontologist, she currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.", "--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Maxwell Eaton III's", "The Truth About Butterflies", "is another hilarious addition to this fan favorite series. A funny, informational book to what butterflies are really like.", "This guide to the majestic butterfly walks you through its unique life cycle and offers anything you ever wanted to know about the colorful insect... perfect for bug lovers and insect enthusiasts!" ]

[ "From School Library Journal", "Gr 1–2—Informational text about butterflies and caterpillars details their anatomy, camouflage, defensive colors, and variety. Illustrations of their complex metamorphosis are accompanied by the cartoon characters' commentary. The butterflies and caterpillars provide humorous comments. Other illustrations depict a cat that is looking forward to eating one of the butterflies, a few smart-alecky birds, and a particular caterpillar that looks like bird poop. Large blocks of facts appear in text boxes and may challenge the attention spans of some young readers. The more extensive text is essential, though, for the breadth of the subject matter. Colorful illustrations of butterflies are inconsistently labeled with the butterflies' common names and home continents. The differences between butterflies and moths are offered in parallel illustrations that identify their unique antennae, wings, and body types. The text concludes with information about environmental threats to butterflies and how readers can help their survival. VERDICT A worthy addition to collections where the \"The Truth About Your Favorite Animals\" titles or the author's \"Flying Beaver Brothers\" graphic novels are already enjoyed.—Elaine Fultz, Oakwood City Sch., Dayton, OH", "About the Author", "Maxwell Eaton III", "is a highly tolerated author and illustrator of numerous books for children, including his The Truth About Your Favorite Animals series, which includes entries on dolphins, elephants, crocodiles, and more. When he isn't drawing talking animals, Eaton can be found in a canoe with his wife and daughter in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Science, Nature & How It Works" ]

[ "In the eleventh century, Cnute, the Viking king of Engla-lond and Scandinavia, sails with his son, Harald, and his shield brothers to Rome. Thrown off course by a storm, they follow the route up the Rhine.When Harald hangs back to assist Selia, a beautiful Frisian woman, his path turns perilous. Newfound enemies, retainers of Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy, pursue them. Harald, Selia, and their companions fail to rendezvous with King Cnute, and are forced to travel cross-country on horseback. If Duke Robert's plan to assassinate Cnute succeeds, an invasion of Engla-lond will follow.Can Harald and Selia reach Rome in time to warn the King?" ]

[ "Review", "\"So tell me, how does a son of the illustrious King Cnute come to be in Friedland rescuing my niece from Norman abductors?All roads lead to Rome, especially when your father, who so happens to be King Cnute, has made an alliance with Conrad, the Holy Roman Emperor. However, what was meant to be a long but worthwhile journey takes a sinister turn.\"Stay out of trouble,\" that had been King Cnute's warning to his son, Harold. Harold tried, he really did, but when he met the beautiful Selia, he feared there was more to her story than what the eyes saw. And he was right. Robert, Duke of Normandy, plans to make Selia his wife, whether she likes it or not. Taken by force, Selia is determined to escape the clutches of the vile Bertrand deZouche, Captain of Arms to the Duke of Normandy, before she is forced to wed Robert. Perhaps, this young Anglo-Dane would help her escape before it is too late.From the dangers of a storm out at sea to the perilous streets of Rome, The Swan's Road: The Atheling Chronicles Book #1 by Garth Pettersen is the enthralling story of Harold Harefoot as he battles to save his father from assassination and the woman he loves from marriage to a man she despised.Having already read The Dane Law: The Atheling Chronicles Book #2 I was looking forward to going back and reading book #1 in the series. I was immediately transferred back to the world of Harold and his family. Filled with non-stop action and with a narrative that threatens to mesmerise, The Swan's Road was impossible to put down -- in fact, I read it in one sitting! The historical detail of this has book has to be commended. Pettersen writes with a keen eye for historical accuracies of the time this book is set in, although he does use a little poetic license to make his historical characters fall in line with the direction he wanted his story to go in. Pettersen certainly has a visceral understanding of what makes historical fiction worth reading. His descriptive prose brought this era back to life, and his ability to flesh his characters and make them breathe only demonstrates what a great writer he is.As before, I adored the characterisation of Harold. He is a very noble yet humble man, who is honourable and above everything else, kind. It is no wonder that Selia falls in love with him. The love story between Harold and Selia is a slow simmering build, which gave this story a sense of depth and realism. The journey the two them go on is fraught with danger and adventure, which propelled the story forward and kept me turning those pages.Pettersen's masterful style pulls the reader into the story immediately. The Swan's Road is told in the first and third person, which really worked for this book. I enjoyed reading about Cnute and The Duke of Normandy. Their perspectives gave this story its background and depth. Although I have to admit, it was Harold's story, told in the first person which made this book an enthralling epic.If you are looking for an absorbing, yet heartwarming historical fiction novel, then The Swan's Road: The Atheling Chronicles Book #1 is the book for you.I Highly Recommend.Review by Mary Anne Yarde.The Coffee Pot Book Club." ]

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

[ "Does Unkie Munkie live at the zoo? Explore the story as told by two year old Lu, who went to visit her uncle who she believes lives at the zoo . He knows a lot about the zoo, he knows the best place to eat, he even knows the best seat! You'll have to decide if it's false or if it's true. Could he really live at the zoo? Is he a zookeeper? Or is he just a pretty smart fellow? And the answer to that and the ending of the story are left up to you. Read the story through and look for the clues. Parents should engage in open ended questions and conversation with the reader to discuss why they think the story may or may not be true. Teachers love the critical thinking skills that this story provides. This book was named Amazon's #1 New Release in its genre when it was first released!" ]

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

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[ "Rocking, rolling, and smoking down in the Maritimes.", "Fast-talking back-bencher Dan Clark has one thing on his mind—get reelected. Until, that is, a very upset landowner blackmails the politician into outlawing the very lucrative practice of fracking.Dan has no choice but to take on his own party and premier. He must also stop the gas company's CEO—the same ruthless, shameless, and murderous CEO—from allowing the natural gas to flow!Will Dan, the man who talks his way out of everything, be able talk his way out of this 'fracking' mess?", "What reviewers say:\"Frack Off combines the best of Maritime humour with biting political satire.\" — Amazon reviewer\"...well written and the characters were fun and enjoyable.\" — Amazon reviewer" ]

[ "About the Author", "Jason Lawson lives and writes in New Brunswick Canada. He is an outdoorsman, who has a wonderful family, horses and a couple of dogs who love to accompany him on his treks into the wild. Jason fell into writing quite by accident when he was informed that the curriculum for his high school English class had changed to creative writing. After winning an award for the best written composition, he never looked back. Jason has freelanced for numerous publications, written commentaries for CBC radio Canada and has three previous novels to his credit. \"The Vision\", \"Rum Runners\"and \"Frozen Blood.\"In 2013, Grana Productions bought the movie rights to \"The Vision\"and it is currently in development with Telefilm Canada. A short story by Jason called \"The date\" won an award at the Writer's Federation of New Brunswick's literary com-petition. Jason has also worked at SEO writing and has over 200 websites to his credit. He has his own blog that is flush with fiction and non-fiction @www.jasonlawsonrants.wordpress.com and has numerous stories published online at an e-zine called www.commuterlit. com.", "--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title." ]

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

[ "Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN! (or dwarves or trolls or gargoyles or ...) The City Watch is a bumper volume in which those noble defenders of Ankh-Morpork, the greatest city of the Discworld*, come face to face with some of the most heinous crimes in history. GUARDS! GUARDS! Sees some night-time prowler turning (mostly) honest citizens into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. In MEN AT ARMS, there's a murder to be solves so that the world-weary Captain Vimes can be married at noon and retire happily ever after. And in the Discworld Howdunnit FEET OF CLAY, someone is murdering harmless old men and poisoning the Patrician ...and the golems are committing suicide ...*Which is flat and rides through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the shell of an enormous turtle, as everyone knows." ]

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

[ "Valentine's Day is the season to show your appreciation and love for your other half. Instead of buying something this time, why not make something to show the time and effort you have put into it? DIY Valentine's teaches you how to create great presents with simple materials found in the house. It is affordable, unique, stylish and one of a kind! It also takes limited time to make and does not cost much! These quick and easy ideas are going to put a smile on your loved ones face. There are also many interesting ideas in this book that cannot be found anywhere else! From making something specialized for decoration to something they can eat, this book has it all! With over 30 ideas, there is bound to be something for everyone in this book. Why spend lavishly when you can make something that is much more meaningful? Not only does it show them that you've put a lot of effort and thought into the gift, you are also telling them that they are worth it. DIY Valentines can help you have a wonderful Valentine's Day without breaking the bank! Below are just a few ideas to get cleaning today! - DIY Abstract Heart Mittens - Heart Shaped Churro Recipe - DIY Tool Organizer - DIY Love Clock - DIY Valentine's Cacti - DIY Love Tree - DIY Story in a Box - Coffee French Toast Recipe - DIY Bow & Arrow Wreath Making something can be quick, easy, and affordable! Craft something from your hands and it will surely touch their heart! BUY IT BEFORE THE SALE ENDS! “The love tree is the cutest thing ever! What a great idea!\" - Sandy Malak “My husband loved the Coffee French Toast, he asks for it all the time!\" - Ashley Bowen \"The Story in a Box is such a great idea! It's a beautiful piece to add to my home\" - Cassie Drew" ]

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[ "Books", "Crafts, Hobbies & Home", "Crafts & Hobbies" ]

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[ "Books", "Romance", "Contemporary" ]

[ "Provence, 1970", "is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in America, the meaning of taste, and the limits of snobbery. Without quite realizing it, they were shaping today’s tastes and culture, the way we eat now. The conversations among this group were chronicled by M.F.K. Fisher in journals and letters—some of which were later discovered by Luke Barr, her great-nephew. In", "Provence, 1970,", "he captures this seminal season, set against a stunning backdrop in cinematic scope—complete with gossip, drama, and contemporary relevance." ]

[ "Review", "“The book’s real success is in transporting the reader back to a pivotal time, in bringing it to life again. It is a nostalgic, lovely read.” —", "Boston Globe", "“A fascinating narrative.” —", "New York Times", "“Required reading for anyone who fears a little life-upending change—even if they know change will bring happiness and", "relief", ".” —", "Oprah.com", "“An enjoyable and perceptive group biography that reads as fluently as a novel.” —", "The New", "Yorker", "“Barr’s careful presentation of his characters’ trajectories reveal[s]", "Provence", "as an important work of cultural history in the guise of a foodie treat.” —", "Slate", "“The interplay of these four fiercely independent personalities makes this book a guilty pleasure.” —", "Wall Street Journal", "“Delightful fodder for foodies.” —", "Publishers Weekly", "“Luke Barr has inherited the clear and inimitable voice of his great-aunt M.F.K. Fisher, and deftly portrays a crucial turning point in the history of food in America with humor, intimacy and deep perception. This book is beautifully written and totally fascinating to me, because these were my mentors—they inspired a generation of cooks in this country.” —Alice Waters   “Luke Barr conjures the past and pries open the window on a little known moment in time that had profound implications on how we live today. With an insider’s access, a detective’s curiosity, and a poet’s sensitivity, he illuminates a culinary clique that not only changed the way we eat, but how we think about food.", "Provence, 1970", "is as much a meditation on the nature of transition and the role of friendship, as it is on the power of food to unite, divide, and ultimately nourish the soul. For this a ‘non-foodie’ it was a revelation—for the connoisseur among us, it may well be orgiastic.” —Andrew McCarthy, author of", "The Longest Way Home: One Man’s Quest for the Courage to Settle Down", "“Luke Barr has brought the icons of the food world vibrantly to life and captured the moment when their passion for what's on the plate sparked a cultural breakthrough.  His graceful prose provides a thorough, affecting account of their talents and reveals how their disparate personalities defined the very essence of French cuisine.” —Bob Spitz, author of", "Dearie", "“Brilliant conversation, dimmed lights, culinary intrigue, urchin mousse, a glass of Sauternes . . . Luke Barr has written one of the most delicious and sensuous books of all time. It brims with love of food and wine.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of", "The Russian Debutante’s Handbook", "and", "Super Sad True Love Story", "“Luke Barr has written a lovely, shimmering, immersive secret history of an important moment that nobody knew was important at the time.” —Kurt Andersen   “Luke Barr has written a wonderful, sun-dappled account of the pleasures of cooking and eating in good company. With the deftest of touches, he describes a gathering of celebrated chefs—including Julia Child, his great-aunt M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, and Richard Olney—and the way their American palates transformed French culinary rules for a homegrown audience. Both a meditation on the power of friendship and the uses of nostalgia,", "Provence, 1970", "is the kind of book you want to linger with as long as possible.” —Daphne Merkin“Luke Barr paints an intimate portrait of the ambitious, quarrelsome, funny, hungry pioneers who brought about a great culinary shift—the ending of the classical era, and the beginning of a newly experimental, wide-ranging, ambitious cuisine, one that was inspired by France but was quintessentially American in style and flavor.", "Provence, 1970", "gives a front-row seat to the creation of modern American cooking.”—Alex Prud'homme, co-author with Julia Child of", "My Life in France", "About the Author", "Luke Barr is an editor at", "Travel + Leisure", "magazine. A great-nephew of M.F.K. Fisher, he was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Switzerland, and graduated from Harvard. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two daughters.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "1All AloneDecember 20, 1970m. f. k. fisher walked into the lobby at the Hotel Nord-Pinus in Arles trailed by a bellhop.Famously beautiful in her youth—she’d been photographed by Man Ray, and peered out glamorously from her book jackets—M.F. was still a striking woman. Her long gray hair was pinned up in an elegant twist at the back of her head, her eyebrows were pencil thin, and she was dressed in a tailored Marchesa di Grésy suit and a wool overcoat. She made her way to the front desk to check in. The decor was Provençal rustic, almost cliché, with tiled floors and wrought-iron chandeliers. She’d been here years ago, and it hadn’t changed a bit. Her heels made echoing noises in the empty lobby. It was the week before Christmas 1970, and the weather was unusually cold. She had the distinct impression of being the only guest at the hotel. The place was a tomb.The tall man at the front desk was vaguely hostile. He was sullen, but, then, that seemed to be the default posture of French service personnel in general, at least when it came to Americans during the off season. Veiled contempt. He explained that the room she had written ahead to request—one facing the Place du Forum—would be too cold at this time of year. He did not apologize for the lack of heat, he simply stated it as a fact.She asked to see for herself, and he was right: the heat was off in that part of the hotel, which was noticeably colder. And so she chose a room at the back of the building, on the first floor. It was named for Jean Cocteau (there was a small brass nameplate on the door), and inside was the largest armoire she’d ever seen. It must have been twelve feet tall. It was grotesque, she decided, but she liked it for the audacity of its scale.The bed was comfortable, so there was that.She unpacked her things, three suitcases’ worth, clothes for every occasion and weather, multiple pairs of shoes, books, and assorted papers, all of which fit easily in the enormous armoire. There was a writing table and a chair, and a photograph of Cocteau on the wall. She sat for a moment in the silence of the suddenly foreign room, looking at the quaint toile de Jouy wallpaper, and then withdrew from her purse a new notebook—small, pale green, spiral-bound. On the inside cover, she inscribed the wordsWHERE WAS I?in underlined capital letters. Where was she indeed? And why? She’d spent the previous weeks in the mostly pleasant company of family and friends, having traveled from Northern California to southern France with her sister Norah Barr, and then finding herself swept up in an epic social and culinary maelstrom, which seemed to involve everyone who was anyone in the American food world. Julia Child and her husband, Paul. James Beard. Simone Beck and her husband, Jean Fischbacher. Richard Olney. Judith Jones and her husband, Evan. Together they had cooked and eaten, talked and gossiped, and driven around the countryside to restaurants and museums and to the incredibly beautiful chapel that Matisse designed in the late 1940s.She had left all that behind at the crack of dawn this morning. Raymond Gatti, the local chauffeur she knew well from a previous trip, had picked her up in his Mercedes and delivered her to the Cannes train station, telling her repeatedly that they would be far too early for the ten o’clock train. But she didn’t care. She preferred to be early: she had a great fondness for leisurely hours in train station cafés. And most of all, she was eager to get away and be on her own. She needed to write, think, and figure out what she wanted.In her new journal, underneath WHERE WAS I?, she wrote:I am in southern France, and it is December, 1970 and I am 62½ years old, white, female, and apparently determined to erect new altars to old gods, no matter how unimportant all of us may be.The “old gods” were French, of course. They were the gods of food and pleasure, of style and good living, of love, taste, and even decadence. M.F. had spent the last thirty-odd years writing a kind of personal intellectual history of these ideals in her books, memoirs, and essays. These works were her “altars,” so to speak, and she was now embarked on a new one. This notebook would serve as the site of her daily communion with France.France had long been at the center of her philosophy. She had made France a touchstone of her writing, in which she alchemized life, love, and food in a literary genre of her own invention. But she was suddenly keenly aware of the need to make new sense of the old mythologies. The events of the previous weeks had shown her the limitations of her own sentimental attachments—to the past, to la belle France—and confronted her with the too-easy seductions of nostalgia, the treacheries of snobbery.She was alone in Arles for a reason. It was a reason she was still in the process of formulating.•••The next day, M.F. wandered the cold streets, pushing against the wind, looking for a place to eat. The town was closed for the season. fermeture annuelle, read the signs on every restaurant, including, most unforgivably, the restaurant and bar in her own hotel.The tall and less-than-friendly front desk clerk told her this without looking up. “Rat bastard,” she thought. This occurred with some frequency: she would swear to herself, fuming at an irritation while outwardly maintaining an air of dignified, steely calm. There was the man at the American Express ticket office in Cannes this morning, for example, who had issued her a ticket for a nonexistent train to Arles. She’d returned to the office, and he had impassively explained that she was surely wrong, then looked at the schedule and discovered he was wrong, and blandly handed her back the ticket and said she could take the next train, in a few hours. “Too bad,” he said, diffidently. “You rat bastard,” she thought. “You damned rat bastard.”And now the hotel clerk and his closed-for-the-season restaurant and distinctly unsympathetic attitude. She asked where she might find something to eat. She spoke excellent French, but had an American accent; he replied in French.“Oh, a dozen places,” he said idly. “Jean will indicate them whenever you wish.”“I am hungry now,” she replied.“Jean!” he said. Jean turned out to be a teenager in a thin, dirty white jacket whose long blond hair whipped in his eyes as he stepped outside and pointed the way.“Go down to the big boulevard. Turn to the right. They’re all there, quantities of them!” He ran back into the warm hotel.The sidewalks were icy. M.F. passed by a couple of gypsies playing intense, dramatic guitar music, and eventually made her way to a brasserie on the other side of town, after a half-hour walk. She ordered mussels, followed by pieds et paquets—long-cooked stuffed and rolled lamb tripes—and sat reading Le Provençal and drinking a gin and red vermouth. She watched the room, mostly young men in groups or older men reading the local paper and eating alone. None of them seemed to notice her presence. She felt perfectly invisible.That night, she wrote in her journal, describing the Provençal locals:They have a haughty toughness about them, with possible anger and suspicion not far back of their outward courtesy. When I go into a restaurant or a bar, I am given a table when I ask for it, and I am brought what I order to eat and drink, and when I ask for the bill, I am given it, but there is never even a pretense of interest in whether or not I like my table, my meal, whether or not I want to drop dead right there. Good evening, yes, no, goodbye.M.F. herself had a haughty toughness about her. Indeed, she had embarked on this solo expedition to Arles as a kind of challenge to herself. To travel alone, to see Provence as it really was rather than as she imagined it to be, to compare her fond, nostalgic recollections of the place with its immediate, cold reality. And more than that: to make sense of her life, and what the future held. Her children were grown. She could feel the past slipping away. She wasn’t quite sure what she wanted of the future.She lay in bed unable to fall asleep, too aware for comfort—her mind racing, her perception over-keen, every distant sound amplified tenfold in the dark. The bells from St. Trophime; the sudden roar of a car engine on the road outside.She watched the light and shadows on the ceiling plasterwork. There were no spiders or large insects to be seen in the half-light, thankfully. Only the other night, in the apartment she’d rented in La Roquette sur Siagne, near Cannes, a many-legged creature had dropped from the ceiling and landed on her forehead. Without missing a beat, she’d flicked it onto the floor, then lit the lamp and watched it cautiously unwind itself and cross the tiles to the safety under the couch. Even as her heart beat in her chest, she felt strangely sympathetic toward the thing—it must have been as shocked as she’d been to find itself stranded on her forehead. She was reminded of another night not so long ago at her friend David Bouverie’s ranch in California. She’d been put in a little-used guest room, and one of the cats, accustomed to sneaking through the open window and onto the bed, leapt onto her, the unexpected human lying there under a sheet. She kicked intuitively in the pitch dark, and just as intuitively, the cat sank all its claws into her like wires and then leapt with a horrified moan out the window. She went back to sleep. In the morning, the sheets were streaked with blood from more than a dozen neat little pricks in her skin.•••Days went by.M.F. took long baths and drank cafés au lait and set off into town through the pre-Christmas crowds and past shutters closed tight, behind them warmth and family life. She found herself carrying on interminable interior monologues, all in the form of sentences and paragraphs, and often in the third person. “She looked into the glass-thickened air of the café,” for example. Or she would give herself practical instructions: “Mary Frances, go to the toilet while you know where it is.” She was detached: a ghost, observing the town, its people, herself. There but not there. She was hungry all the time, always in search of a decent, open restaurant, and never quite satisfied. She recorded it all in her notebook.It was ironic. Here she was, the great chronicler of food and love, of appetite and longing, hungry and alone. And furthermore: hungry and alone in France, of all places. It made no sense. This was, after all, the place that had reliably inspired her to eat, and to love.Again and again, M.F.’s thoughts returned to the lunches and dinners with the Childs, Beard, and Olney, and her friends Eda Lord and Sybille Bedford, whom she had been visiting at La Roquette: one feast after another, the wines, terrines, roasted chickens and jambon persillé, leek and potato soups, and apple tartes tatins. And the gossip, talk, and more talk, comings and goings, trips to town to mail letters and pick up baguettes and groceries, country excursions and impromptu lunches. In the background, all the while, had been a growing sense that they were all on the cusp of something new—a new decade, a new era. It was a moment of flux, of new ideas. But what that meant for each of them was less clear. For M.F., the very meaning of taste and sophistication was in question—as was the viability of the literary voice and persona she had cultivated for nearly four decades.It was the arrival of Richard Olney, just before Christmas, that had crystallized the contradictions of the moment; he had spurred her sudden departure.Now, in Arles, it seemed to M.F. almost comical, the sudden change in circumstances. From feast to famine, so to speak. And it had been entirely her own doing! There she had been, in the hills above Cannes, surrounded by warmth, friends, and sustenance, and here she was in Arles, cold and alone.Why had she left?2Ten Weeks Earlier . . . late in the afternoon on thursday, october 8, 1970, M.F.K. Fisher and her sister Norah Barr boarded the SS France in New York City, bound for Le Havre, on the Atlantic coast of France. It was a hot day for this time of year, an Indian summer-like eighty degrees, and hazy. Just before five o’clock, the ship’s horn blasted, echoing across the Hudson River and signaling imminent departure.The France was one of the last of the great ocean liners—a fantastically elegant ship with nearly one thousand staterooms. M.F. and Norah were in tourist class, sharing cabin number 304. The room was tiny, but they were delighted. There was a view of the water through the porthole; they were on their way.The ship had inherited the mantle of the legendary Normandie, the Art Deco flagship of the French Line (which had caught fire and sunk in this very spot at the New York passenger terminal in 1942, as it was being refitted as a battleship for the war effort). Built in 1961, the France was the longest ship in the world, and fast—it would make the crossing in six days. But this was the end of an era: jet travel had now supplanted ships on the transatlantic route. (The France, in fact, spent much of the winter as a cruise ship in the Caribbean, to make money during the off-season.)It was a deliberate and nostalgic choice, to travel by ship. M.F. and Norah had been planning this trip since the spring, and hoped to relive some of the glories of previous grand European voyages.They were sisters of a certain age, and they were women of a certain class and generation. Of independent means. Unattached, husband-wise, at the moment, their children all more or less grown up, or out of the house, anyway—enrolled in grad school and starting to have kids of their own. The two women had been to France countless times over the years. M.F. had studied French literature in Dijon in the late 1920s and early 1930s, while her first husband, Al Fisher, worked on his doctorate. It was during this period that she offered to take charge of her then-fourteen-year-old sister for a year. Norah was far ahead of her class at her local California public school and “too dreamily sensitive to be put into any distant and probably hockey-mad private school,” as M.F. later explained in The Gastronomical Me. So M.F. had brought her sister to France and enrolled her in a convent school. It was the beginning of their love affair with France. Years later, in the 1950s, M.F. and Norah raised their children for a time in Le Tholonet, a small town outside Aix. They were by then both divorced, single mothers. Like M.F., Norah had been strikingly beautiful and strong-willed in her youth, and the two women remained so in late middle age.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Travel", "Europe" ]

[ "The Outcast Prophet of Bensonhurst, a darkly humorous and gritty coming-of-age novel set in the period 1952 to 1971, is about much more than Anacleto Roosevelt, the reclusive young man who is its main character. It also eloquently and hauntingly paints a picture of a time and way of life that are long past. His odd name, eccentric family, and a minor physical deformity cause Anacleto, from a young age, to be an outcast in his Brooklyn neighborhood. He spends a great deal of time observing life from the outside. In his isolation, he experiences periodic episodes of detachment from reality which allow him to view people and events from a very different perspective from that of everyone else. He sometimes thinks that he is able to foresee future events that involve those around him. He does not disclose this “gift” or “curse” to anyone. As the story progresses and Anacleto matures, he reaches out for acceptance. This turns out to be a dramatically life-altering decision. Although The Outcast Prophet of Bensonhurst begins as a quirky, ironically humorous story, as the plot unfolds and as Anacleto tentatively develops friendships, he is drawn into a series of heart-wrenching calamities and dramatically violent situations. He attempts to counsel an eccentric acquaintance who is at war with society. Later in the story, he finds himself caught up in the turmoil caused by the dark family secret of his best, and only friend. Anacleto experiences the ecstasy of first love and plunges headlong into a series of rapturously heady sexual encounters. At the same time, he wrestles with his own family problems and with questions having to do with religious belief, free speech, and the war in Vietnam (two of his older brothers serve in the armed forces, one of whom returns home badly scarred, physically and emotionally).And then, there’s the gun...the one that is lost and which leads to so much misfortune. The powerful and ironic climax of The Outcast Prophet of Bensonhurst leaves all of the main characters damaged. It will leave you breathless." ]

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[ "From California to Colorado, the Old World is filled with complicated women, volatile creatures, and nulls with attitude. This unmissable collection includes the stories that run in between and alongside the Old World novels, allowing readers to catch up with favorite characters and find clues about the future of this bestselling series.In the never-before-published \"Boundary Blood,\" Allison \"Lex\" Luther has to accompany her injured aunt on a road trip across the country-but Katia has secrets that could prove lethal even to boundary witches. In the original short story \"The Lost Girls,\" Corry Tanger-college freshman, null and sometimes assistant to Scarlett Bernard-has to contend with a new vampire who wants to push all the limits.It's just another day for Las Vegas healing witch Sashi Brighton (protagonist of", "Bloodsick", "), until she gets an urgent call from Los Angeles, kicking off a chain of events that will turn her life upside down in the all-new story \"Powerless.\" Finally, \"Nativity\" takes us into the delivery room with series lead Scarlett Bernard, who has to juggle her null abilities, new motherhood and a very powerful surprise visitor.Featuring original bonus materials from Olson's other two series, plus fan favorites \"Malediction\" and \"Sell-By Date,\" this must-have collection will cast a spell over every admirer of the Old World." ]

[ "About the Author", "Melissa F. Olson is the author of numerous Old World novels and stories, as well as the novella", "Nightshades", "and its two sequels. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, two kids, two dogs, and two jittery chinchillas. Read more about her work and life at www.MelissaFOlson.com.", "--This text refers to the", "audioCD", "edition." ]

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

[ "On May 19, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the appointment of Arthur Morgan (1878–1975), a water-control engineer and college president from Ohio, as the chairman of the newly created Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). With the eyes of the nation focused on the reform and recovery promised by the New Deal, Morgan remained in the national spotlight for much of the 1930s, as his visionary plans for the TVA drew both support and criticism. In this thoughtful biography, Aaron D. Purcell re-assesses Morgan’s long life and career and provides the first detailed account of his post-TVA activities and fascination with utopian writer Edward Bellamy. As Purcell demonstrates, Morgan embraced an alternative type of Progressive Era reform throughout his life which was rooted in nineteenth-century socialism, an overlooked, but important, strain in American political thought.             Purcell pinpoints Morgan’s reading of Edward Bellamy’s", "Looking Backward", "while a teenager as a watershed moment in the development of his vision for building modern American society. He recounts Morgan’s early successes as an engineer, budding Progressive leader, and educational reformer; his presidency of Antioch College; and his revolutionary but contentious tenure at the TVA. After his dismissal from the TVA, Morgan wrote extensively, eventually publishing over a dozen books, including a biography of Edward Bellamy, and countless articles. He also raised money to support an experimental community in Kerala, India, sharing Mahatma Gandhi’s belief in small, self-sustaining communities cooperatively supported by persons of strong moral character. At the same time, however, Morgan retained many of his late-nineteenth century beliefs, including eugenics, as part of his societal vision. His authoritarian administrative style and moral rigidity limited his ability to attract large numbers to his community-based vision.             As Purcell demonstrates, Morgan remained an active reformer well into the second half of the twentieth century, carrying forward a vision for American reform decades after his Progressive Era contemporaries had faded into obscurity. By presenting Morgan’s life and career within the context of the larger social and cultural events of his day, this revealing biographical study offers new insight into the achievements and motivations of an important but historically neglected American reformer." ]

[ "About the Author", "Aaron D. Purcell", "is director of special collections at Virginia Tech. He is the author of", "White Collar Radicals: TVA’s Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy Era", "and", "Academic Archives: Managing the Next Generation of College and University Archives, Records, and Special Collections.", "His articles have appeared in the", "The American Archivist, The Journal of East Tennessee History, The Historian,", "and the", "Tennessee Historical Quarterly." ]

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[ "Books", "Biographies & Memoirs", "Professionals & Academics" ]

[ "2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by the author, Malachy McCourt\"[Malachy McCourt] here makes his vivid, whimsical, raucous, murderous joy and voice available to the rest of us in tales of riot and glory which build on the story of the McCourts' early life so dazzlingly told in", "Angela's Ashes", "by his brother Frank.\"--Thomas Keneally, author of", "Shindler's List", "In 1952, Malachy McCourt left a childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, heading for the promise of America.  This is the story of what he brought with him, and what he thought he left behind.Larger than life, a world-class drinker, McCourt carved out a place for himself in New York City: in the saloons, as the first celebrity bartender, mixing with socialites, writers, and movie stars, on stage and on television, where the tales he spun made him a", "Tonight Show", "regular.He had money and women and, eventually, children of his own; and that's when he found he had not left his memories as far behind as he had thought.  He had no choice but to stop and turn and face his past.Darkly funny, shockingly raw, and everywhere making the English language do tricks the British never intended, Malachy McCourt, a true original, tells this story with passion, wit, irreverence, and charm." ]

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[ "Books", "Politics & Social Sciences", "Anthropology" ]

[ "Man is moving into a bright, new future with an updated Alternative Medicine, improved knowledge of Genetics, and an updated Spirituality to become what is called a Noetic being. Man is evolving again to a smarter, more capable human who is more compassionate and respectful of others and the planet. He is in the process of transforming himself and his civilization via the science of space travel, genetic correction of defects, a more enlightened view of God and the Afterlife, and healing himself with the physics of Energy Healing. This book examines the different aspects of transformation... See Back Cover for more about: Timelines, Nutrition that supports Transformation, the InterLife and the Heavenly Quantum Computer, Religion vs Spirituality and what a New World Religion could look like, Man's Transformation via Near Death Experiences and the Greys' Abductions -- how BOTH are a very positive experience and deliver a better world, ET-Human Hybrids (pix), Strange versions of hominids on Earth, past and present (pix), and 2 Chapters (11-12) on Energy healing -- the what and how based on recent discoveries in Physics: ZPE Field, thoughts and consciousness as torsion waves in the Matrix, the Heart's Torus, Dark Matter/Energy as AEther, Subquantum Kinetics, and an examination of Energy Healing modalities, including Matrix Reimprinting, FasterEFT, Qigong and Pranic healing techniques. All at the layman level. Also added is how the brain, DNA and higher consciousness are related; all exist within the Matrix (ZPE Field) and particular care is needed to support the brain with special nutrition such that the mind can function well. Additionally, brain games and exercises are suggested to facilitate the quest for higher consciousness. This is further developed in Book5: The Science in Metaphysics. A new Appendix D was added (due to several requests) as a major way to connect the dots with reference to Soul, Karma, Reincarnation, Scripts and OPs." ]

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[ "Books", "Religion & Spirituality", "Occult & Paranormal" ]

[ "NOTE: This is the standalone Access Card, if you want the book/access card order the ISBN below:", "0205989462 / 9780205989461 Gente: Nivel Basico Plus MySpanishLab with eText Multi Semester -- Access Card Package", "Package consists of", "020520919X / 9780205209194 Gente: Nivel básico", "0205978738 / 9780205978731 MySpanishLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Gente: Nivel básico (multi semester access)" ]

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[ "Books", "New, Used & Rental Textbooks", "Humanities" ]

[ "“It will be a dangerous mission. I don’t expect that any of us will survive. But it’s a chance to save mankind, to save our world. Maybe the last chance.”", "By the end of the twenty-third century, Earth is a plague-ridden, war-ravaged cesspool dominated by megacorporations whose ruthless armies fight one another for power and for the very scarce resources there are left. Capitol fighters Mitch Hunter and Nathan Rooker are battling the opposing forces of the Bauhaus corporation when a cannon blast exposes and destroys an ancient stone seal in the ground. From the bowels of the Earth crawl hordes of necromutants with razorlike boneblades for arms, hideous humanoids that thrive and multiply by commandeering the bodies of dying soldiers. Mitch barely escapes– only to discover that both the rise of the mutants and the “Deliverer” who will save humanity have been prophesied. Unless Mitch and a group of warriors from each of the megacorporations succeed in reaching the hidden horrors and wiping out the mutant scourge, ouir world will literally become a hell on Earth.", "Now a major motion picture" ]

[ "About the Author", "Since 1989, Matt Forbeck has been writing stories and designing games, for which he has garnered more than a dozen awards. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife, Ann, and their five children, Martin, Patrick, Nicholas, Kenneth, and Helen.For more details, visit www.forbeck.com", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "1The skies had been pissing rain for so long that Captain Nathan Rooker was sure God—if there was such a thing—meant the place to be used as His personal toilet. Nathan knew that he’d been warm and dry at one point in his life but couldn’t remember when that had been or what it had felt like. All he knew now was the slick cold of the never-ending rain and the horrors of the everlasting war.Nathan glanced both ways along the sodden trench. Every one of his soldiers stared up at him, their eyes devoid of anger or hope. Curiosity showed only in the fact that they’d raised their heads at all.“Heads up, lads,” he said as he trudged through the mud. “Put a smile on it.”The soldiers went back to huddling under their gear, trying to preserve the tiny bits of warmth that would stave off a trip to the infirmary or the grave. The rain sluiced off their helmets and coats as if they were little more than statues, frozen in place until the call went up for them to defend this sodden stretch of earth once more or, worse, to charge across it.Finding a thin ladder of wet iron propped up against one wall, Nathan climbed it and peeked out over the edge. “Bloody bastards,” he said. “Let’s see what’s on today’s menu of shit.”Tracer fire zipped over his head as he peered out over the no-man’s-land that separated his Capitol forces from their Bauhaus foes. Gray smoke crawling with tendrils of a foul yellow drifted across the battlefield, curling around the miles of barbed wire and into the countless trenches that crisscrossed the muddy landscape like the distant canals of ruddy Mars. For a moment, Nathan considered donning his gas mask, but he couldn’t stomach the stench of the filter again—at least not until the gas came too close to ignore.Artillery fire flashed in the distance, silhouetting the battered edges of the horizon with a flash bright enough to burn through the rain and haze. A dull report crumped from the same direction just before the shell whistled overhead.Something would happen soon, Nathan knew. He could smell it in the air. The Bauhausers would tire of trying to shell them out of their holes and would come storming across that battered patch of land to give it a shot by hand. The only question was when.Nathan slogged off to his left, through a ditch that seemed more sewer than trench. The sky flashed above him, then stayed lit. He looked up to watch a flare scudding beneath the clouds like a trapped sun hunting for a way out. Then a blast from one of Capitol’s own big guns snuffed it out like a match in a hurricane.Nathan heard the big Bauhaus 880 let loose another of its nearly yard-wide shells. He knew it took four men just to lift one of those loads, much less slam it into the breech of one of those building-size guns. The fact that Bauhaus’s Ducal Militia could manage it so quickly spoke loudly of their dedication and training.Nathan worked his way through the maze of trenches, glancing up at the well-worn handmade signs that marked each intersection: Marilyn, Betty, Alison.The irony of naming wartime trenches after women didn’t escape Nathan. Did the names come from girlfriends or mothers? he wondered. Perhaps both. He didn’t have the energy to explore the metaphors.He turned up Alison to find a squad of soldiers scraping a meal of cold meat out of dented tins. They stood at his approach. One soldier kicked a resting buddy with his soggy boot, but the sleeping soldier didn’t move.Nathan waved the kicker off. “Let him sleep.” Soon enough the order might come for them to go over the top of the trenches, and the soldier’s rest would become permanent.Nathan looked the kicker in the eyes. When the trooper had been fresh out of boot camp, he might have shivered at the sight of Nathan’s bars. He’d been here too long now, seen too much. His eyes showed nothing at all.Nathan fished out a tin of food and handed it to the soldier, who accepted it without a word. Then he pulled out a pack of cigarettes, lit one, and handed it to a soldier who looked like he might freeze to death without it. “Enjoy.”He gazed at the others: soaked, miserable, and ready to die. At least they were still alive for now, a better fate than that which had befallen many of their friends. “All the fun at the fair, eh?”There was little Nathan could do to improve his soldiers’ lot, but he was determined to do it. Some of them would die under his command, maybe even today, and offering them a cold bit of kindness was the least he could do.“Hunter back?” Nathan said.The men shook their heads. There had been no news.Nathan wondered what was taking the sergeant so long. He’d expected Mitch to report in an hour ago. He wondered if the patrol had wandered too close to the enemy lines, but he knew—hoped, at least—Mitch was too smart for that.Nathan slogged past the men. He patted one on the shoulder and gave the kicker an understanding nod.He couldn’t say much to raise their spirits. They’d heard all the hollow platitudes before and long since learned to despise them or treat them with the blackest humor.Nathan headed for the nearest medical tent. He hoped he wouldn’t find the patrol there, but there weren’t many good reasons for Mitch to be this late. Most of those causes would have sent the survivors to seek a doctor’s help.One of the soldiers farther down the trench scratched his scalp with both hands as if he meant to scrape it off. As Nathan neared, he spotted the captain’s bars and forced himself to stop.“Sorry, sir,” the kid said. He wrapped his fingers around the rim of his helmet to keep them from reaching for his hair again. “Bugs in the rug, sir.”Nathan gave the young man a mirthless smile. “Scratching makes it worse.”A soldier standing guard over a triage alcove behind the scratcher snorted softly at that. From his gray face, Nathan knew he’d seen enough of this war to crush his soul. There was nothing Nathan could do for him that wouldn’t be met with derision, whether displayed or not.“Is Hunter’s patrol back?”The sentry nodded. “What’s left of it.” He jerked his head toward the alcove behind him.Nathan grimaced as he ducked around the corner and parted the grimy curtain that separated the alcove from the main trench. Inside, bare incandescent lights burned from a canvas ceiling that kept out the worst of the rain. Wounded and dying soldiers—impossible to tell which was which—lay racked along the walls in gore-caked cots that lifted them above the filth.Many of the men groaned in pain. Some tried to scream, but they’d long since blown out their voices on the battlefield, shouting for help that always took too long to come. Now they could only rasp about their agony instead.The brightest lights in the place hung from a cord over a stainless-steel operating table set up in the middle of the widest part of the trench. Someone had slapped it up there years ago as a temporary measure, and there it had stayed. Nathan couldn’t imagine how much blood had run off the table’s edges since then. Rivers, for sure.“Put pressure on the exit wound!” a medic named Winter said. His desperate tone told Nathan the soldier was a lost cause.Despite that, the second medic—Talamini—kept working at the soldier’s wounds, packing them with gauze while Winter pulled out a bone saw and started an impromptu amputation.It was like trying to keep a riptide from taking a sand castle down. There was no hope for the soldier, Nathan knew. Even if the man lived, chances were that infection would take him within days. But the medics didn’t stop trying, not until it was over.Finally, the blood stopped running. The soldier’s hacking breaths halted. The medics stepped away from the table, leaving the soldier lying there, still.In a proper hospital, even one just behind the battle lines, one of the medics might have called out a time of death. Here, such details didn’t matter. The man was dead, and that was the only fact that counted. One less soul to be fed into the Capitol war machine.Nathan stared at the fallen soldier’s face: Slade. He’d been one of Mitch’s men. The captain sucked air through his teeth.The medic in charge of the operation reached for Slade’s dog tags. He had no time for niceties, and they needed the table for the other damaged souls lining the trench around them.A hand snaked in from behind Talamini and snatched Winter’s blood-spattered wrist. The medic let go of the tags as if they’d burned his fingers.The man who’d grabbed Winter’s arm reached out and held Slade’s dog tags, then gave them a sharp yank. The chain around the dead man’s neck snapped.Nathan stepped up and closed Slade’s unblinking eyes. He looked across the man’s body at Sergeant Mitch Hunter as the man threaded Slade’s dog tags onto a chain heavy with a dozen other sets.Mitch looked like shit. Mud and blood caked his skin and clothes. The only things clean on him were his eyes, and they were bloodshot and dead, focused on something a thousand yards away.“What happened?” Nathan had to ask, even if the answer was clear. The patrol had had its collective ass handed to it.Nathan hadn’t wanted to send those soldiers out into that meat grinder, but he’d had no choice. Better to send a single patrol out to trigger a trap than the entire platoon.He hadn’t asked Mitch to go. The man hadn’t even bothered to volunteer. When Nathan had asked for someone to take on the suicide mission, Mitch had just stood up, and his men had fallen in line behind him, then marched off to their doom.“Ran into Cog armor five klicks out.” The Bauhaus military’s emblem looked like an eagle with its wings stretched wide. Instead of feathers, though, its wings showed the teeth of Bauhaus’s corporate cog.“How strong?”Mitch stuffed the chain of dog tags back into a pouch on his belt before answering. The tags inspired loyalty in some of the men, Nathan knew, who took heart in knowing that their sergeant would carry on in memory of them. For others, though, the sheer number of tags Hunter carried spooked them. No one wanted his to be the next on that chain.“Five ATCs.”Nathan blinked. Five armored troop carriers. “A full platoon.”This must be the offensive he’d heard rumors about for weeks. He’d almost started to think that it would never come, that it had all been part of a Bauhaus strategy to psych the Capitol infantry up for a nonexistent foe, a feint before the true attack. Or maybe it had been a ploy of Capitol’s own morale department. Nothing bound soldiers together like impending doom.Now here it was.The medics started to stuff Slade’s body in a bag. They’d long ago taken to putting one of the black sacks down on the table before laying a soldier on it. Then, when they had to use it, they could get the corpse packed up and lugged off in seconds.“We left them bogged down in the wire, but they called in our position and walked eight-eighties up our ass.”Mitch’s voice betrayed no hint of emotion. He showed neither fear of the oncoming attack nor grief for his fallen men. Such things were luxuries he denied himself, as Nathan knew he must too.“Once they clear the wire, they’ll be right fucking on top of us.” Nathan grimaced. Bauhaus was finally coming at them, and there wasn’t a damn thing they could do to stop it. Even with Capitol’s big guns slamming away at the line of invaders, the Cogs’ armored troop carriers could just roll right in.“Just another day,” Mitch said.As if to punctuate Mitch’s words, the lead medic zipped Slade’s body bag closed." ]

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[ "Dear friends, I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE being the classroom hamster in Room 26, Longfellow School. I've learned a lot about reading, writing, maths and making friends . . . and I've had amazing adventures in and out of my cage, too. But I also love solving puzzles and riddles in the tiny notebook I keep hidden in my cage. They're not always easy but if I wiggle my whiskers and scratch my furry head for a while, I usually can solve them. To keep you busy on your summer holidays, I'm sharing some of my favourites in this fun-filled book so you can find out if you're as smart as a hamster! (I'll bet you are.) Your puzzle-loving pal, Humphrey" ]

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

[ "This award winning book tells a mother's story of raising her son Michael, who was born missing a submicroscopic piece of chromosome 22. That tiny missing fragment of DNA affected every aspect of his life physically, mentally, and spiritually. Michael's mother describes her adventures and misadventures with the medical system, educational system, and legal system during his growing up years. While Michael and his mother were both yearning for normal through their struggles, they were also learning acceptance of life as it is with all its glory and imperfections." ]

[ "About the Author", "Susan Ellison Busch works as a Nurse Practitioner with kidney patients, and is the mother of three grown sons. She has spoken at national conferences on topics related to kidney disease and also about raising a son with Deletion 22q.11 syndrome. When she isn't working or trying to write, she enjoys the trees and the sky, horseback riding, playing tennis, and eating onion rings with her son Mike. She is currently working on a novel that takes place in a dialysis unit." ]

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[ "Books", "Parenting & Relationships", "Disabilities & Hyperactivity" ]

[ "This is a new edition of No Mama, I Didn't Die-The Complete Story. I am Devy Bruch, born Nell Howell in Tennessee, 1937. As an infant, I was stolen from my mother, Lena Mae Howell, just eight hours after she gave birth. I was then sold to a wealthy family through an illegal 'adoption' by Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Children's Home Society. Lena Mae was a very young woman at the time and was told she had given birth to a boy, who had died during delivery. My mother never saw me, nor held me. Many decades later, she went to her grave still suspecting that her baby may have survived. She had heard me cry. She knew in her heart that I could be alive, but she had nowhere to turn. One cold December day, just before Christmas, a chauffeur driven limousine with a nurse and Georgia Tann delivered me to my new home. The year was 1937 and I was a sickly, five-pound weakling, six weeks of age. I had been delivered to my adoptive parents totally sight unseen, until that knock on the door - “Here is your baby.” The years between my illegal adoption and finding my true origins were many faceted, as one climbing up a totem pole, falling down and getting back up to the top over and over and over again. At 71 years of age, I learned the truth of my life. I learned about my natural mother, Lena Mae Howell and my natural father, Gaston Gann. I learned I had 2 sisters and a brother (deceased) and a real, caring, loving family. Nothing in my life has affected me so deeply. It has turned my life around. I now realize that I spent many years craving a big family. I always opened up my home to everyone, and provided a warm, cozy place for people to enjoy good food and drink. This was my way of creating family. I reached out to my confidants, my friends, and invited them into my heart, but all in their own way, drifted apart from me. The feat of abandonment was present in my life, but no more. The Howells of Tennessee are my people, my blood, my family. The love they have given me and the knowledge that we are one has brought me a joy and fulfillment I never imagined was possible. There is no denying my roots; the resemblance to them is unmistakable.M. Brown, Broward County Court Judge, says, \"The crisis of human trafficing is worldwide. Our group of laywers and judges were extremely moved by your story...we are grateful that you were brave enough to share your story. We know you will continue to spak out against such atrocities...the world will become a better place because of you.\"" ]

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[ "Books", "Biographies & Memoirs", "Memoirs" ]

[ "A whitefoot mouse makes a home for the winter in a jack-o'-lantern discarded after Halloween." ]

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[ "Learn & Play Guitar Book with CD" ]

[ "Amazon.com Review", "Great for young beginners! The package includes a 32 page instruction book and an audio CD. The book features easy learn to play melodies and chords to over 15 well known songs." ]

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[ "Actor/composer Tom Mitchell is a modern-day misfit — a lovable rogue — often able to laugh at his own misfortunes. He has difficulty accepting authority, claiming he is allergic to big shots and phonies. Tom drinks a little, swears a lot and has a genuine knack for getting into trouble. His actions do not enhance his already fading movie career. He is also tormented from loving two women at the same time — Mildred, the kind, wealthy widow, and Sally, the passionate, caring actress. JoBaby, beautiful but sexually manipulative, is another conflict looming in Tom’s troubled life. Ida, a retired psychologist, helps Tom through the dark spots. She realizes Tom is a man without direction, without purpose. Will he face up to his own weaknesses and indecision or wander through life aimlessly, jeopardizing his chance for happiness?" ]

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[ "Let's learn the different names of Sea Animals from A-Z.", "Under The Sea Activity Book For Kids - 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 Year Old Girls & Boys.", "A Children's Ocean Animal Spy book with clear pictures and child-friendly colors to boost the children's habit to explore and find. In this book children will learn to observe multiple ocean animal pictures and discover the correct one, and the next page provides the proper answer !", "This Amazing Book is for every kid who loves the sea, ocean, beautiful water creatures, amazing water plants, and mysterious underwater lifeThis seek-and-find activity book will help your child build working memory, reading skills, and learn more about sea animals, all while having so much joy.", "These ocean theme activities features:", "Over 100 ocean animals.", "Over 100 ocean animals.", "Letters arranged alphabetically.", "Letters arranged alphabetically.", "Glossy Cover.", "Glossy Cover.", "A cute kid book that teaches the ABC with animals.", "A cute kid book that teaches the ABC with animals.", "52 pages.", "52 pages.", "Fun game to keep your child entertained.", "Fun game to keep your child entertained.", "Large 8.5 x 8.5 colorful pages", "Large 8.5 x 8.5 colorful pages" ]

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[ "Pasadena is a pioneer in tree protection and community arts. This book blends the two forces together and shares the community stories about the significant oaks of Pasadena. Learn about the oaks still growing in the middle of the street where citizens have protected them from execution. Like John Muir who first came to Pasadena, learn about the Engelmann Oak or Pasadena Oak as it is often called. The artwork of Jennifer Bentson is full of the splendor of the limbs and settings of the oaks. She like no other artist is very involved in the oak paintings and collaborated with many groups to bring this book to you." ]

[ "About the Author", "Jennifer Bentson has an ongoing series of Oak Tree paintings. These paintings are her journey through painting and sketching the oaks of California, which she considers everyday treasures. She has used various techniques to portray the oaks. Her training in art began in college at the University of Arizona and has continued to this day. She has won many awards and has exhibited all over California, as well as in Asia and Europe. www.jenniferbentson.com" ]

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

[ "This fictionalized autobiography of the ambitious, intelligent mistress of Louis XIV presents a historical portrait of life in the brilliance of the royal court of the French king" ]

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[ "Fun Easter Coloring Book for Toddlers and up! Jesus is Risen. Guide your little ones celebrate the real reason we celebrate Easter with this big coloring book that is perfect for little hands. Easy to color designs help to build fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Adorable designs including bunnies, chicks, Easter baskets, Easter eggs, lambs, and more! Features: Large 8 1/2 x 11 inch pages. Simple yet fun designs for kids to color. Fun Easter gift for your 4-7 year old." ]

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[ "Amidst North America’s crumbling infrastructure lies The Forces; a ruthless group of attackers rapidly dominating countries all around the world. Sixteen years prior to the attacks, the President of the United States was notified that the day would eventually come when America too would fall to the power of The Forces. In a desperate attempt to protect his nation, Operation New Awakening was born. The lives of five unsuspecting teenagers are suddenly twisted when they are identified as Awakened. On a search for identity and a hunt for survival, these five teens must do everything they can to uncover the truth behind the government’s actions; no matter how deadly the outcome may be." ]

[ "About the Author", "Jillian Dunlay is an aspiring teen author from Kansas who dreams of writing a best seller. She's hoping her debut novel, \"Untamed,\" helps her achieve that goal. You can follow her on Facebook and Instagram @AuthorJillianDunlay and on Twitter @JillianDunlay. Visit her website at www.jilliandunlay.com" ]

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

[ "Addressing cultural diversity in schools through the application of cultural proficiency theory to educational settings, this book will be an excellent resource for principals, staff administrators and developers." ]

[ "Review", "\"A first-rate guide for making the changes in schools that ensure education for each and every student. Provides the concepts, history, theories, strategies, and activities to build cultural proficiency.\"", "-- Ken Kearney", "\"An asset for any participant in a learning community. However, it is critically important for it to be read and used by principals and other educational leaders in our K-12 schools. The activities and processes are excellent.\"", "-- Kieran Vaughan, Coordinator", "\"Helps us understand why educational equity is everyone’s responsibility. I recommend this book to all educators in the public school system.\"", "-- Phyllis J. Hart, Executive Director", "\"Breaks new ground in the effort to provide contextually appropriate environments for all students. The authors have issued a challenge to the educational community to make quality education available to all students.\"", "-- Allen A. Mori, Dean", "\"A sensitive, thoughtful, provocative exploration of perhaps the most significant issue facing today’s urban educator.\"", "-- Carmella S. Franco, Superintendent", "About the Author", "Randall B. Lindsey", "is Emeritus Professor at California State University, Los Angeles. He has served as a teacher, an administrator, executive director of a non-profit corporation, as Interim Dean at California Lutheran University, as Distinguished Educator in Residence at Pepperdine University, and as Chair of the Education Department at the University of Redlands. All of Randy’s experiences have been in working with diverse populations and his area of study is the behavior of white people in multicultural settings. His Ph.D. is in Educational Leadership from Georgia State University, his Master of Arts in Teaching is in History Education from the University of Illinois, and his B.S. in Social Science Education is from Western Illinois University. He has served as a junior high school and high school teacher and as an administrator in charge of school desegregation efforts. At Cal State, L.A. he served as Chair of the Division of Administration and Counseling and as Director of the Regional Assistance Centers for Educational Equity, a regional race desegregation assistance center. With co-authors he has written several books and articles on applying the Cultural Proficiency Framework in various contexts.Email – randallblindsey@gmail.comWebsite - CCPEP.orgTwitter - @RBLindsey41", "Kikanza Nuri-Robins", "helps people to close the gap between what they say they are and what they actually do.  Whether she is in a corporate boardroom, the fireside room of a retreat center, or a convention center auditorium, Kikanza uses her skills and insights to help people and organizations that are in transition – or ought to be.  She shares her observations and recommendations with clarity and candor, while gently encouraging them to face the difficult situations that challenge their skill sets and their values.  She leads people to this growing edge with unswerving focus, an understanding heart, and laughter that rises from the seat of her soul.", "Since 1978, Kikanza has worked as an organizational development consultant in a variety of settings includ­ing education, health care, criminal justice, and religion, focusing on leadership development, change management, and cultural proficiency. Her clients range from school districts, to university faculty, to government offices and non-profit organizations.  The connecting thread is her passion for working with people who want to making a difference for others.", "Kikanza studied at Occidental College, the University of Southern California, and the San Francisco Theological Seminary.  She is the author of many articles and five books, including:", "Cultural Proficiency", "and", "Culturally Proficient Responses to the LGBT Communities", ". Kikanza lives in Los Angeles where she spends her discretionary time as a textile artist.", "Raymond Terrell, EdD. retired as Associate Dean for Research and Diversity and member of he department of Educational Leadership at Miami University, Oxford" ]

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[ "Books", "New, Used & Rental Textbooks", "Education" ]

[ "Death - A Survival Guide offers a unique insight into the biggest threats to life and limb in the industrialized world. Sarah Brewer's comprehensive and thorough survey of the most likely ways to die in the industrialized world looks at 100 causes of death from the most common such as heart disease, smoking related deaths and domestic accidents to the unusual and downright bizarre lightning strikes and animal attacks. This fascinating - and occasionally sideways - look at death and dying will help you understand the most common causes of death and how each one affects the human body. View at a glance statistics reveal who dies where, when and how often; lists of warning signs, symptoms and risk factors allow you to determine the chances of it happening to you; and finally case studies on prevention, treatment and cures describe the best steps you can take to avoid meeting your maker in this way. Aeroplane crash; Anaphylactic shock; Aortic aneurysm; Brain tumour; Breast cancer; Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease; Dehydration; Dementia; Domestic accidents; Heart attack; Influenza; Malaria; Occupational hazards at work; Over-exertion; Pulmonary Embolism; Respiratory failure." ]

[ "Review", "'Morbidly fascinating' Good Book Guide.―", "Good Book Guide", "About the Author", "Dr Sarah Brewer qualified as a doctor from Cambridge University, specializing in general practice and sexual health. She is the author of over 40 popular self-help books and writes regularly for a variety of newspapers and magazines. Sarah was voted Health Journalist of the Year 2002 and is currently completing a masters degree in nutritional medicine." ]

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[ "Books", "Science & Math", "Mathematics" ]

[ "Christmas is coming to Nice Little Town! Welcome new Christmas book of Nice Little Town series! More holiday winter scenes, more fun!Nice Little Town welcomes you.Our small community will be happy to welcome you and guide you through our cozy streets. We will visit our residents, get acquainted with their way of life, habits and character. Getting into a fairy tale, you should be ready to be surprised, return to childhood, smile like a child, be happy and sad. On the tip of your pencil is not just a coloring, it is a little life that you create and fill yourself. Be prepared for the unexpected as the plot unfolds. Indeed, in the process of creativity, everything can change a lot. Your mood, the taste of your dinner, the weather, and even your neighbours all affect the little life of your new book. So be happy and smile when coloring Nice Little Town.Color with pleasure!", "Single-sided coloring pages.", "26 unique images!Each image printed on one side. It helps so much for markers, gel pens, and watercolor pencils. So you can use more different instruments for coloring without bleeding through! Also you can color each picture individually without choosing which one to color.", "Stress relief", "Coloring is the best way to stress relieving. Just dive in world of Nice Little Town with its cute habitats.", "Great gift", "This book could be great gift for your family members or friends. Give loved ones some fairy with this book. Just add to card and fairy will happen...", "Be social", "Please, join our group on facebook (Tatiana Stolova (Bogema)) and share your colored images with the community. Also you can find us in Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube and Twitter. Look for more books on author's page on Amazon." ]

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

[ "A metal guitarist is gifted with a guitar grimoire, which he inherited from his late father's library. With careful reading, practice, and commitment, this strange occult book could make him the greatest musician in the world... if the magic works in his favor." ]

[ "About the Author", "Brian Barr is an American author. Brian has been published in various short story anthologies and magazines, including New Realm, Nebula Rift, Under the Bed, Queer Sci Fi's Discovery, NonBinary Review, Dark Chapter Press's Kill for a Copy, and Mantid Magazine. Brian collaborates with another writer, Chuck Amadori, on the supernatural dark fantasy noir comic book series Empress, along with Sullivan Suad and Geraldo Filho. His first novel, Carolina Daemonic, Book 1: Confederate Shadows, was published by J. Ellington Ashton Press in 2015. His second novel is Psychological Revenge: The First Super Inc. Novel. His short story collection, Daemensions, is also available on Amazon, along. www.brianbarrbooks.com", "--This text refers to the", "paperback", "edition." ]

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

[ "CHRISTMAS & TRAVEL MOSAICS COLOR BY NUMBER VERSION.", "An adult Color by Number book with relaxing pages of Christmas scenes around the world.", "Magic Christmas...", "We are waiting for this particular time every year, preparing gifts for our family and friends. Some of us celebrate it at home; the others plan their particular vacations somewhere very far away...", "Christmas travels around the world.", "For both cases we prepare", "the SAME Christmas book in two versions", "according to your choice:", "1) CHRISTMAS & TRAVEL", "color by number book", "version", "2) CHRISTMAS & TRAVEL", "coloring book", "version.", "There are scenes from traditional Christmas and scenes from Christmas celebration around the world. Do you know about the Chinese New Year’s dragon?! Or what kind of postcards do people donate in Japan? Maybe you dream of surfing in Australia or spending your Christmas vacation somewhere in the Islands?", "The palette of 22 colors (18 classics and 4 additional color shades) is easy. Each color suits a particular number on the picture. The color palette is located at the backside of the cover and the samples are inside on each picture. You can use 18 colors, changing 4 additional shades into the similar in the palette.", "These two books could be a nice present for you or for your friends.", "Color and travel!", "Try the other book series by the Belba Family:", "The MOSAIC color by number ART activity book series includes:", "•TRAVEL MOSAIC Color by Number ART activity book•ANIMAL MOSAIC Color by number ART activity book", "Color by number & Coloring version books:", "CHRISTMAS & TRAVEL MOSAICS. An adult book with relaxing pages of Christmas scenes around the world.THE MONEY BOOK. AN ADULT MAGIC BOOK WITH MONEY & RICHNESS SYMBOLS TO COLOR.FAIRIES AROUND US. Stained Glass & Magic Mosaics. An Adult Book for Relaxation and Stress Relief.", "MYSTERY MOSAICS BOOKS SERIES WITH 3*3MM. SECTIONS:", "• MYSTERY MOSAIC. PASSION• MYSTERY MOSAICS. DOGS• MYSTERY MOSAICS. WOMAN• SQUARE MANDALAS• MYSTERY MOSAICS. GALLERY• MYSTERY MOSAICS. WOW, CATS! • SQUARE MANDALAS. ANIMALS IN PATTERNS. • MYSTERY MOSAICS. CINEMA• LISA’S GARDEN. SQUARE MANDALAS, PATTERNS, AND MORE• MYSTERY MOSAICS. WOW, ANIMALS! • MYSTERY MOSAIC. FLOWERS• MYSTERY MOSAIC. ARIANE’S VINTAGE COLLECTION• PARTY PATTERNS• ALL ABOUT CHRISTMAS", "PUZZLE COLOR BY NUMBER CLEVER BOOK SERIES:", "BEGINNER level (no background): •SIMPLE BEAUTY•HUMAN FACESADVANCED level (with background): •EXOTIC LIFE•SECRET PATTERNS", "STONE MOSAIC color by number book series", "And more…" ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Holidays & Celebrations" ]

[ "Undelivered letters and a man who refuses to explain his wife’s absence – small wonder Constance Lazarus fears something sinister has happened to her oldest friend, Elspeth Foxcroft.She confides in her husband, but Inspector Lazarus is busy chasing a daring jewel thief and has no time to worry about unfounded accusations levelled at Clement Foxcroft, no matter how odious he is.He is forced to reconsider when he discovers that Elspeth has apparently left behind her new born baby son without a second thought. When his superior also orders him to stay away from the family, his suspicions are roused – if there is nothing to hide, why are the two men so determined to keep him at bay?He and Sergeant Stonier are about to defy them both and begin a search for the missing Elspeth when a brutal murder intrudes and Lazarus suddenly finds himself caring for a soon-to-be-orphaned young family.Will he and Stonier ever untangle all the threads and reunite the missing woman with her son? Or is it already too late to save her?" ]

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

[ "We've put you on the guest list. Don't be late! This is one night you'll never forget! The second series of Phonogram separates itself from the frenzied mob of adoring critics just long enough to transform into this handsome collected volume, which features seven individual-yet-interconnected stories set in a single night in a single club, each starring a young phonomancer, and each exploring a different mystery of music and magic.", "We've put you on the guest list. Don't be late! This is one night you'll never forget! The second series of", "Phonogram", "separates itself from the frenzied mob of adoring critics just long enough to transform into this handsome collected volume, which features seven individual-yet-interconnected stories set in a single night in a single club, each starring a young phonomancer, and each exploring a different mystery of music and magic.", "Collects Phonogram: The Singles Club #1-7, including a cover gallery and \"Making Of\" extras.", "Collects", "Phonogram: The Singles Club", "#1-7, including a cover gallery and \"Making Of\" extras." ]

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

[ "Hello, my name is", "Walela", "and I am a Native American girl wanting to let everybody know the real incredible powers of Medical Herbalism that my grandfather, a Cherokee descendant, has passed down to me during the years.", "First of all, you need to know that", "Medical Herbalism", "has been used for a huge number of years like conventional medicine, and different studies have found that it actually works, and it’s", "extremely good to eradicate common ailments", ", just like modern medicine but in a", "100% natural", "and healthier way", ".", "There are more than 2800 different plant species", "that are used to heal diseases and promote wellbeing every day by Native American communities, and with this book, you will know everything about this subject, so", "y", "ou will be able to heal your body naturally", ", just like the Native Americans did, in fact, in this book you’ll discover:", "Precious informations about Native American Culture, to fully understand how Native American medicine can actually help you solve your disease easily", "Precious informations about Native American Culture", ", to fully understand how Native American medicine can actually help you solve your disease easily", "A list of the Most Powerful Herbs, like the Ashwagandha or the Comfrey, to make sure that you know everything about the incredible world of herbs and their special properties and beneficial effects", "A list of the Most Powerful Herbs", ", like the Ashwagandha or the Comfrey, to make sure that you know everything about the incredible world of herbs and their special properties and beneficial effects", "The Best Herbal Remedies for your Child subdivided into age categories ranging from 0 to 12 years old, so you will be able to help your kid feel better and get rid of his ailments in a 100% natural way", "The Best Herbal Remedies for your Child", "subdivided into age categories ranging from 0 to 12 years old, so you will be able to help your kid feel better and get rid of his ailments in a 100% natural way", "How to Get Rid of Common Ailments like Anxiety, Asthma, Depression, Insomnia, Diarrhea, Menopausal Problems, and much more, so you will be able to feel immediately better and never take chemical drugs again", "How to Get Rid of Common Ailments", "like Anxiety, Asthma, Depression, Insomnia, Diarrhea, Menopausal Problems, and much more, so you will be able to feel immediately better and never take chemical drugs again", "How to prepare the Most Common DIY Herbal Recipes, so you can have a midday snack or even a healthy breakfast while you enjoy easy-to-make Teas, Decoctions, Popsicles, Infusions, and many more different tasty recipes", "How to prepare the Most Common DIY Herbal Recipes", ", so you can have a midday snack or even a healthy breakfast while you enjoy easy-to-make Teas, Decoctions, Popsicles, Infusions, and many more different tasty recipes", "What are the Medicinal Plants used Daily by Native Americans, to know every different way in which you can heal your body daily, to protect yourself from infections, and to prevent diseases", "What are the Medicinal Plants used Daily by Native Americans", ", to know every different way in which you can heal your body daily, to protect yourself from infections, and to prevent diseases", "…& Many More Useful Informations!", "…& Many More Useful Informations!", "This incredibly valuable book", "and the informations written inside will guide you into the almost magical world of Herbalism, teaching you how to", "improve the quality of your life and your wellbeing using only easy-to-find, natural ingredients", ", so…What are you waiting for?", "The Exclusive Winter Offer is Here!", "Scroll to the top of the page and click the", "“BUY NOW”", "button to learn everything about the wonderful art of Medical Herbalism!", "[ This is the black and white version, but we have also created a premium color version. Click on \"look inside\" in the Kindle version for more information ]" ]

[ "Review", "★★★★★", "Inside this treasured collection you'll discover all the sacred medicinal plants that also grow in your backyard, natural herbal remedies, and recipes for common ailments. You'll discover the medical and herbal expertise of Native American tribes that have been forgotten for too long by history.", "- Robin J. Edwards", "★★★★★", "A rich cultural heritage of herbal art and tradition is now at your fingertips! Absolutely a must-have to take with you on your nature walks. Plus, this guide helps during the process of classifying widely seen but ignored wild herbs.", "- Selma R. Burton", "★★★★★", "This book has taught me so much about herbs and their many uses. I learned that many herbs have multiple uses and can work just as well as, if not better, than certain medications. I am so intrigued by the history of Native American herbalism, and recommend this book to anyone who shares the same interest.", "- Stephenie", "★★★★★", "This guide has some wonderful medications for different ailments. In my case, I bought it because I have suffered from allergies all my life and using prescription allergy medications, no matter how well they worked, soon became resistant to medications and I had to try others. In this book I found the best remedy for all my allergies; I still can't believe how fantastic it has been.", "- Dakota Olson", "★★★★★", "Love all the technical background of the herbs but would like a recipe for each. Whether a tea recipe or another type, would like suggestions.", "- Jenifer W.", "From the Author", "I have traveled throughout the United States, giving seminars and lectures where I teach people how to make medical remedies with most medicinal plants and rebuild a healthy relationship with nature.", "I have traveled throughout the United States", ", giving", "seminars", "and", "lectures", "where I", "teach people", "how to make", "medical remedies", "with most", "medicinal plants", "and rebuild a", "healthy relationship", "with nature.", "My mission is to convert as many people as possible in regaining their balance through the wise use of the means that nature makes available to us.", "My mission", "is to", "convert", "as many", "people", "as possible in", "regaining their balance through the wise use of the means that nature makes available to us.", "About the Author", "Walela Mantooth was born in 1985 in Rio Grande County (Colorado).", "Walela Mantooth", "was born in 1985 in Rio Grande County (Colorado).", "Originally from a Native American family, she spent her childhood in the beautiful valleys of her area. In those years, she established a deep relationship with nature.", "Originally from a Native American family", ", she spent her childhood in the beautiful valleys of her area. In those years, she established a deep relationship with nature.", "Since childhood, she absorbed the deep culture of the Navajo and learned to use plants to create effective natural remedies.", "Since childhood, she absorbed the deep", "culture of the", "Navajo", "and learned to", "use plants", "to create effective", "natural remedies.", "Walela has a brilliant educational background; she has a degree in Herbology with a Botany specialization and a Doctorate in Chinese Medicine.", "Walela has a brilliant educational background;", "she has a degree in", "Herbology", "with a", "Botany", "specialization and a Doctorate in", "Chinese Medicine.", "Thanks to her academic background and extensive experience in the field, she is considered one of the most experienced and influential herbalists.", "Thanks to her academic background and extensive experience in the field,", "she is considered one of the most experienced and influential herbalists.", "Walela currently lives with her family in a beautiful home surrounded by nature by the Rio Grande banks.", "Walela", "currently lives with her family in a beautiful home surrounded by nature by the Rio Grande banks.", "Read more" ]

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

[ "Adult mandala coloring book featuring animal and floral designs. There are intricate and simple designs for anyone to let the artist in themselves free! This is travel-sized, about the size of a daily planner." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Activities, Crafts & Games" ]

[ "The Happiest Summer of Her Life", "Her whole life, Jane had believed her father was dead. It was, therefore, quite a shock to receive an invitation to stay with him for the summer on Prince Edward Island. From their very first meeting, Jane falls in love with her charming father and his whimsical cottage on Lantern Hill. A whole summer of fun and adventure, meeting neighbors, and making friends―far away from her grandmother's dreary house in the city. If only she could get her mother to come too.", "As Jane juggles her love and loyalty for both parents, she dares to dream...a dream that she and her parents could live together without Grandmother directing their lives―of a house where they could all find home.", "What Readers are Saying:", "\"Out of the fantastic books Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote,", "Jane of Lantern Hill", "is my absolute favorite.\"", "\"", "Jane of Lantern Hill", "is what one comes to expect from a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery―charming, gentle, and most decidedly hopeful.\"", "\"This book is among L.M. Montgomery's best.\"", "\"Spellbinding...I don't recommend picking it up unless you have time to read the entire book.\"" ]

[ "About the Author", "L.M. Montgomery achieved international fame in her lifetime that endures well over a century later. A prolific writer, she published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels. Most recognized for Anne of Green Gables, her work has been hailed by Mark Twain, Margaret Atwood, Madeleine L’Engle and Princess Kate, to name a few. Today, Montgomery's novels, journals, letters, short stories, and poems are read and studied by general readers and scholars from around the world. Her writing appeals to people who love beauty and to those who struggle against oppression.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "CHAPTER 1", "Gay Street, so Jane always thought, did not live up to its name. It was, she felt certain, the most melancholy street in Toronto...though, to be sure, she had not seen a great many of the Toronto streets in her circumscribed comings and goings of eleven years.", "Gay Street should be a gay street, thought Jane, with gay, friendly houses, set amid flowers, that cried out, \"How do you do?\" to you as you passed them, with trees that waved hands at you and windows that winked at you in the twilights. Instead of that, Gay Street was dark and dingy, lined with forbidding, old-fashioned brick houses, grimy with age, whose tall, shuttered, blinded windows could never have thought of winking at anybody. The trees that lined Gay Street were so old and huge and stately that it was difficult to think of them as trees at all, any more than those forlorn little things in the green pails by the doors of the filling station on the opposite corner. Grandmother had been furious when the old Adams house on that corner had been torn down and the new white-and-red filling station built in its place. She would never let Frank get gas there. But at that, Jane thought, it was the only gay place on the street.", "Jane lived at 60 Gay. It was a huge, castellated structure of brick, with a pillared entrance porch, high, arched Georgian windows, and towers and turrets wherever a tower or turret could be wedged in. It was surrounded by a high iron fence with wrought-iron gates...those gates had been famous in the Toronto of an earlier day...that were always closed and locked by Frank at night, thus giving Jane a very nasty feeling that she was a prisoner being locked in.", "There was more space around 60 Gay than around most of the houses on the street. It had quite a bit of lawn in front, though the grass never grew well because of the row of old trees just inside the fence...and quite a respectable space between the side of the house and Bloor Street; but it was not nearly wide enough to dim the unceasing clatter and clang of Bloor, which was especially noisy and busy where Gay Street joined it. People wondered why old Mrs. Robert Kennedy continued to live there when she had oodles of money and could buy one of those lovely new houses in Forest Hill or in the Kingsway. The taxes on a lot as big as 60 Gay must be ruinous, and the house was hopelessly out of date. Mrs. Kennedy merely smiled contemptuously when things like this were said to her, even by her son, William Anderson, the only one of her first family whom she respected, because he had been successful in business and was rich in his own right. She had never loved him, but he had compelled her to respect him.", "Mrs. Kennedy was perfectly satisfied with 60 Gay. She had come there as the bride of Robert Kennedy when Gay Street was the last word in streets and 60 Gay, built by Robert's father, one of the finest \"mansions\" in Toronto. It had never ceased to be so in her eyes. She had lived there for forty-five years and she would live there the rest of her life. Those who did not like it need not stay there. This, with a satirically amused glance at Jane, who had never said she didn't like Gay Street. But grandmother, as Jane had long ago discovered, had an uncanny knack of reading your mind.", "Once, when Jane had been sitting in the Cadillac, one dark, dingy morning in a snowy world, waiting for Frank to take her to St. Agatha's, as he did every day, she had heard two women, who were standing on the street-corner, talking about it.", "\"Did you ever see such a dead house?\" said the younger. \"It looks as if it had been dead for years.\"", "\"That house died thirty years ago, when Robert Kennedy died,\" said the older woman. \"Before that it was a lively place. Nobody in Toronto entertained more. Robert Kennedy liked social life. He was a very handsome, friendly man. People could never understand how he came to marry Mrs. James Anderson...a widow with three children. She was Victoria Moore to begin with, you know, old Colonel Moore's daughter...a very aristocratic family. But she was pretty as a picture then and was she crazy about him! My dear, she worshipped him. People said she was never willing to let him out of her sight for a moment. And they said she hadn't cared for her first husband at all. Robert Kennedy died when they had been married about fifteen years...died just after his first baby was born, I've heard.\"", "\"Does she live all alone in that castle?\"", "\"Oh, no. Her two daughters live with her. One of them is a widow or something...and there's a granddaughter, I believe. They say old Mrs. Kennedy is a terrible tyrant, but the younger daughter...the widow...is gay enough and goes to everything you see reported in Saturday Evening. Very pretty...and can she dress! She was the Kennedy one and took after her father. She must hate having all her fine friends coming to Gay Street. It's worse than dead...it's decayed. But I can remember when Gay Street was one of the most fashionable residential streets in town. Look at it now.\"", "\"Shabby genteel.\"", "\"Hardly even that. Why, 58 Gay is a boarding-house. But old Mrs. Kennedy keeps 60 up very well, though the paint is beginning to peel off the balconies, you notice.\"", "\"Well, I'm glad I don't live on Gay Street,\" giggled the other, as they ran to catch the car.", "\"You may well be,\" thought Jane. Though, if she had been put to it, she could hardly have told you where she would have liked to live if not at 60 Gay. Most of the streets through which she drove to St. Agatha's were mean and uninviting, for St. Agatha's, that very expensive and exclusive private school to which grandmother sent Jane, now found itself in an unfashionable and outgrown locality also. But St. Agatha's didn't mind that...St. Agatha's would have been St. Agatha's, you must understand, in the desert of Sahara.", "Uncle William Anderson's house in Forest Hill was very handsome, with landscaped lawns and rock gardens, but she wouldn't like to live there. One was almost terrified to walk over the lawn lest one do something to Uncle William's cherished velvet. You had to keep to the flat stepping-stones path. And Jane wanted to run. You couldn't run at St. Agatha's either, except when you were playing games. And Jane was not very good at games. She always felt awkward in them. At eleven she was as tall as most girls of thirteen. She towered above the girls of her class. They did not like it and it made Jane feel that she fitted in nowhere.", "As for running at 60 Gay...had anybody ever run at 60 Gay? Jane felt as if mother must have...mother stepped so lightly and gaily yet that you thought her feet had wings. But once, when Jane had dared to run from the front door to the back door, straight through the long house that was almost half the length of the city block, singing at the top of her voice, grandmother, who she had thought was out, had emerged from the breakfast-room and looked at her with the smile on her dead-white face that Jane hated.", "\"What,\" she said in the silky voice that Jane hated still more, \"is responsible for this outburst, Victoria?\"", "\"I was running just for the fun of it,\" explained Jane. It seemed so very simple. But grandmother had just smiled and said, as only grandmother could say things,", "\"I wouldn't do it again if I were you, Victoria.\"", "Jane never did it again. That was the effect grandmother had on you, though she was so tiny and wrinkled...so tiny that lanky, long-legged Jane was almost as tall as she was.", "Jane hated to be called Victoria. Yet everybody called her that, except mother, who called her Jane Victoria. Jane knew somehow that grandmother resented that...knew that for some reason unknown to her, grandmother hated the name of Jane. Jane liked it...always had liked it...always thought of herself as Jane. She understood that she had been named Victoria after grandmother, but she did not know where the Jane had come from. There were no Janes in the Kennedys or Andersons. In her eleventh year she had begun to suspect that it might have come from the Stuart side. And Jane was sorry for that, because she did not want to think she owed her favorite name to her father. Jane hated her father in so far as hatred could find place in a little heart that was not made for hating anybody, even grandmother. There were times Jane was afraid she did hate grandmother, which was dreadful, because grandmother was feeding and clothing and educating her. Jane knew she ought to love grandmother, but it seemed a very hard thing to do. Apparently mother found it easy; but, then, grandmother loved mother, which made a difference. Loved her as she loved nobody else in the world. And grandmother did not love Jane. Jane had always known that. And Jane felt, if she did not yet know, that grandmother did not like mother loving her so much.", "\"You fuss entirely too much about her,\" grandmother had once said contemptuously, when mother was worried about Jane's sore throat.", "\"She's all I have,\" said mother.", "And then grandmother's old white face had flushed.", "\"I am nothing, I suppose,\" she said.", "\"Oh, mother, you know I didn't mean that,\" mother had said piteously, fluttering her hands in a way she had which always made Jane think of two little white butterflies. \"I meant...I meant...she's my only child...\"", "\"And you love that child...his child...better than you love me!\"", "\"Not better...only differently,\" said mother pleadingly.", "\"Ingrate!\" said grandmother. It was only one word, but what venom she could put into a word. Then she had gone out of the room, still with that flush on her face and her pale blue eyes smoldering under her frosty hair." ]

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[ "That's Just Me is a children's book that celebrates the unique qualities of children from all cultures. The main character is an African American girl who is proud of the skin she is in. She loves the texture of her hair, the color of her skin, the shape of her nose, and the color of her eyes. No one person is the same, every person is unique. That's Just Me helps children recognize that everyone is different but that is what makes them special." ]

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[ "Robotobet is an alphabet book with a science spin. Each letter of the alphabet is presented by a robot in a different terrain. In addition to sharing a letter, there is a science term that begins with that letter, a simple definition, and an image. Robotobet is a whimsical and simplistic introduction to 26 vocabulary words suitable for grades K-3." ]

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[ "For Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the Illuminati, it all ends here! After two years of carefully crafting his cataclysmic saga, writer Jonathan Hickman jumps ahead eight months to the grand finale, the honest-to-goodness immediate future of the Marvel Universe...and the day of the Final Incursion! The Illuminati's desperate, world-destroying actions have fragmented the Avengers, turning lifelong friends into sworn foes! But as the final incursion looms, will the Avengers, Illuminati and Cabal band together to save what they can, or destroy one another? And have all the battles they've endured, and the sacrifices they've made, prepared either group for the inevitable moment where time runs out...and the Secret Wars begin? The final act of the astonishing climax to Jonathan Hickman's legendary run is here!", "COLLECTING:", "Avengers 43-44, New Avengers 31-33" ]

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

[ "Ferdinant Ossendowski, a scientist and writer, chronicled his experiences during the Russian Revolution of the 1920's. He was caught up in the bloody overthrow by the Bolsheviks as they rampaged their way across Russia. He was a man of culture and perception, but he confesses that his scholarship and sophistication could not protect him from the solitude and dissociation from human society he was forced to endure on his flights from danger. Because of his scrupulous observations, the reader is not only able to understand the accuracy of his political assessments but the truth of his extraordinary trials. He admits that people of highly civilized status cannot give enough consideration to the situational instruction that men in primitive states find useful in the struggle for existence. Even memories of the events he faced throw him back into the fear and uncertainty he felt when he encountered them. In his expeditions he is sometimes a warrior and sometimes a doctor. To get where he is going he trades anything: horses for guns, maps for food, silken cords for bullets, rosaries for saddles. He witnesses the mutilated and half-burnt remains of military skirmishes. He documents his passages by caravan with fortune tellers, peasants, drunken soldiers, and priests. He beholds a land of sun-burnt prairies, diseased cattle and people, the pestilence of anthrax and smallpox, wild ponies, predatory birds feasting on dead bodies. This is a journey the reader will breathlessly undertake to feel the strength of personal accomplishment. Ossendowski writes, \"Nature destroys the weak but helps the strong, awakening in the soul emotions which remain dormant under the urban conditions of modern life.\"" ]

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[ "Books", "Biographies & Memoirs", "Historical" ]

[ "Financial Markets, Instruments and Institutions, 2/e offers a perspective that centers on the function, pricing and institutional structure of the financial markets. It focuses on these areas because financial markets, instruments and institutions have undergone substantial change over the last decade. Santomero/Babbel covers the wide range of financial instruments and the structure of financial markets and institutions, issues not addressed by traditional “Money and Banking” books. Santomero/Babbel also includes valuation and pricing methodologies, issues avoided by lower level “Money and Capital Markets” books." ]

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[ "Competition for church members in Mount Oak has reached a furious peak. When tragedy strikes one of their hometown sons, the church women are drawn together through compassion. The Church Ladies is a contemporary tale illustrating how women can have a major impact on the church. Through friendships that reach beneath surface level -- and trials more severe than simple -- they unite with common purpose: to pray, share, and comfort. Slowly, the community of believers learns that the church grows when it is rooted in love. Characters you'll laugh and cry with, in situations every woman will instantly relate to, light up this page-turner about a miracle that could happen anywhere." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "A Thousand Acres meets Friendship Cake in this engaging novel by Christian romance writer Samson. Readers in search of a fast-paced plot will want to look elsewhere, but those interested in a complex, compelling protagonist will enjoy this book. Narrator Poppy Fraser leads readers through the novel's two plot lines. The central story concerns Poppy's best friend, Chris, whose son tragically dies in a college hazing stunt. Poppy, a pastor's wife, begins to meet regularly with other local \"church ladies\" to pray for Chris and her family. The second story line concerns Poppy's own family: although she is a devout Christian, Poppy struggles with her role as a pastor's wife, and with her eldest daughter, who has rejected Jesus and Mom in favor of multiple body-piercings and premarital sex. Furthermore, in a startling plot twist for evangelical fiction, Poppy also wrestles with the guilt of an affair she had several years before. She works to hold her own strained family together, even as she tries to help her best friend's family heal. Samson's fans will love the feisty, honest Poppy; she's down to earth, occasionally sarcastic and always tempted by sweets and expensive coffee. She loves her kids, but doesn't romanticize parenthood. The book is distinguished by Samson's polished prose, especially her striking metaphors and similes (\"the darkened sky still hovers over me like a Reformer's cloak\"). Samson combines finely grained family drama with quirky Christian women's domestic fiction. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From Library Journal", "The ministry makes no concessions for ministers' wives, Poppy Fraser thinks, when her husband of 20 years decides to chuck his fast-paced, high-paying career and answer the call from God. Poppy is unprepared for the demands the church makes on her time and, since she doesn't get paid as her husband does, isn't sure this is the life she wants. Add the fact that the town of Mount Oak is a tourist stop, with each church attempting to outdo the others, and Poppy is ready to pull her hair out. Gradually, she begins to meet with Mildred LaRue, the wife of a former pastor from another church, to gain advice. Their meetings expand to include most of the other ministers' wives in the area in a support group that crosses denominational lines. With their help, Poppy finally faces the failings in her marriage and her devotion to the Lord and becomes strong enough to help others when an unexpected death occurs. Samson (Fields of Gold) departs from historical romance to focus light on an aspect of ministry usually kept in the dark. Recommended for fans of Lynn Hinton's Friendship Cake (LJ 6/1/00). Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "About the Author", "The author of eight novels, Lisa Samson writes for the children's radio program Karen and Kids. Married with three children, she enjoys reading, drawing, the Internet, playing the piano, and book collecting, and makes her home in Maryland.", "Read more" ]

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

[ "Scarred both physically and mentally from the horrors of WWI, specifically Passchendaele, the third battle of Ypres, Captain Williamson decides to make a new life for himself in Cornwall and 'escape the real world'. On his first viewing of Morgwel Hall manor house he sees a young girl dancing on the battlements of the adjacent ruined castle but she simply disappears. Is she real, a spirit, or a figment of his tormented mind? His quest to find her, and unravel the tragic story behind the wall, twists and turns before reaching a thought provoking conclusion. Using the stunning Cornish coast and county, as a backdrop, Morgwel Hall will keep you guessing to the very end and stretch your imagination to the full." ]

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

[ "He tried to make things better...and failed. Miserably. Ex-cop Frank Harper is battling his addictions and wondering if his missteps in a recent case caused the horrific death of an innocent family. Meanwhile, a Dayton drug task force is struggling to contain hostile street gangs engaged in a surging drug trade that is spinning out of control. When Frank steps in to investigate the family's deaths, can he avoid a desperate standoff between warring factions that may cost him his life?", "Interview with the Author", "Q - So, why should I read about this Frank Harper dude?", "A - Ex-cop Frank Harper's got a lot of problems. He's battling his addictions and trying to connect with his estranged daughter and a grandson he's never met. When he's sober, his investigative skills are second to none, but he's currently stuck behind a desk in the Cold Case section at the Alabama Bureau of Investigation. Frank is tenacious and headstrong and good at solving crimes; just don't bring up Hurricane Katrina around him, or hide his bourbon.", "Q - What order should I read the books in?", "A - I've written the series in order, so the best way would be to read them in order. And I have several more books and other short pieces of fiction planned for the series. I'd suggest the following sequence:", "A Field of Red (released in 2013)", "A Field of Red (released in 2013)", "Black Ice (released in 2015)", "Black Ice (released in 2015)", "White Lines (released in 2017)", "White Lines (released in 2017)", "Q - I see you've written several other fiction titles. Are they connected to the Frank Harper Mysteries series?", "A - I have written three other fiction titles, and yes, some of the characters and items that reappear. Keep an eye out for Doris the waitress--she's all over the place. I'm working on a new fiction title now that involves Lisa Stevens' red Tercel from \"Black Bird.\"", "Q - Where can I get paperback versions of the books?", "A - the best place to order books would be here on Amazon. Just visit the kindle page for the title, then select paperback. If you would like signed copies, please visit my website at gregenslen.com and click on the Store link. The paperbacks are also available in select stores in the Dayton Area, but call ahead to verify stock levels." ]

[ "About the Author", "Greg Enslenis an Ohio author of twenty-four books, including three novels in the\"Frank Harper Mysteries\" series and three other novels. He alsowrites guides for popular TV shows such as \"Game of Thrones\" and\"Mr. Robot.\" His books are available on Amazon and via Kindle." ]

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

[ "Native Peoples of North America.", "An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the native peoples of North America, including both the United States and Canada.", "It covers the history of research, basic prehistory, the European invasion and the impact of Europeans on Native cultures.  Additionally, much of the book is written from the perspective of the ethnographic present, and the various cultures are described as they were at the specific times noted in the text.", "Teaching and Learning Experiences", "Personalize Learning", "- MySearchLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.", "Improve Critical Thinking", "- An Introduction to Native North America provides internet resources for students to supplement reading material, and contains an extensive bibliography to aid in their research.", "Engage Students", "— An Introduction to Native North America highlights important individuals in “VIP Profile” mini-biographies, and contains “Sidelights” throughout the text which provides short explanations of interesting aspects of native culture.", "Support Instructors", "- Teaching your course just got easier!  You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor’s Manual, Electronic “MyTest” Test Bank or PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Plus, An Introduction to Native North America’s organization was designed to be used in conjunction with the Handbook of North American Indians, published by the Smithsonian Institution.", "Note", ": MySearchLab does no come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visitwww.MySearchLab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MySearchLab (VP ISBN-10: 0205245196, VP ISBN-13: 9780205245192)" ]

[ "From the Back Cover", "AN INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE NORTH AMERICA, Second Edition", "Mark Q. Sutton,", "California State University, Bakersfield", "The Second Edition of", "An Introduction to Native North America", "provides a basic introduction to the native peoples of North America, including both Eskimos and Indians. Beginning with a discussion of the geography of North America, this excellent text delves into the history of research, basic prehistory, the European invasion, and the impact of Europeans on native cultures. A final chapter covers contemporary Native Americans, including issues of religion, health, and politics.", "Highlights of the Second Edition", "Presents “Sidelights” throughout the text that provide short explanations of interesting aspects of native culture.", "Presents “Sidelights” throughout the text that provide short explanations of interesting aspects of native culture.", "Highlights important individuals in the “ VIP Profile” mini-biographies.", "Highlights important individuals in the “ VIP Profile” mini-biographies.", "Includes examples of Native American views on several important current issues.", "Includes examples of Native American views on several important current issues.", "Additional photographs and a map of language families add even more visual appeal.", "Additional photographs and a map of language families add even more visual appeal.", "New sections at the end of each regional chapter (Chs. 3 -12) guide students to explore more contemporary issues and peoples.", "New sections at the end of each regional chapter (Chs. 3 -12) guide students to explore more contemporary issues and peoples." ]

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[ "Books", "New, Used & Rental Textbooks", "Social Sciences" ]

[ "Badger got up one morning feeling very grumpy. \"\"Humph!\"\" Badger said to himself. What was the point of being in a bad mood if nobody noticed? he thought. So Badger headed out, slamming the door behind him. Badger spreads his bad mood far and wide, greeting all his friends with angry, rude remarks that put them in bad moods, too. A comical, cautionary tale for anyone who has ever gotten up on the wrong side of the bed." ]

[ "About the Author", "Moritz Petz was born in Munich, Germany. Upon completion of his studies, he traveled through Italy, Denmark, and Sweden, working at various jobs along the way. His interests include street and puppet theater, chess, music, and writing. He now lives in souAmelie Jackowski was born in Toulon, France. She studied illustration at the Ecole des Artes Decoratifs in Strasbourg and at the Aix-en-Provence University. Her work has been exhibited at numerous group shows, including the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy." ]

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

[ "Magic. Mayhem. Mythology. A short collection of ancient myths reimagined! With adventure and mischief laced with humor, this little collection of tales will find you rapt. Rhiannon Lotze brings you four entertaining shorts: \"King Adrian and the Golden Hydra\" -- To win Princess Andromache's hand in marriage, the successful suitor must present her with three hydra heads. When King Adrian confronts the hydra to win the maiden, things don't go according to plan. \"Cosmic Games\" -- Zeus, Odin, and Ra love relaxing with a game of \"cosmic\" golf in the Milky Way. But when Hera orders Zeus home after discovering the birth of yet another of his illegitimate children, their game ends rather abruptly. \"The Glass Market\" -- Sunk by Pandora thousands of years ago, the city of Atlantis is home to the gods. Every time a god dies in the city, a willing human disciple is sacrificed to regenerate them. Although Adrasteia is a disciple, she's far from willing. When the time of her sacrifice approaches, she unexpectedly finds that the only way to save herself is by teaming up with the now-imprisoned Pandora...who has a bone to pick with the gods! \"The Messenger\" -- The gods of Ancient Egypt are on the hunt for the perfect messenger to deliver instruction and wisdom to humankind. After several failed candidates, they finally find the purrfect creature. \"Of Gods & Myth\" by Rhiannon Lotze is a Mannison Minibook published by Mannison Press, LLC." ]

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

[ "Improve the accuracy of project estimates and make better in-progress modifications by following the discipline-independent approach mapped out in this book. Learn the best ways to apply new tools, including a breakdown structure for both work and resources and proven estimating models. In addition, you'll gain insights into best practices for progress monitoring and cost management, as well as for dealing effectively with external projects." ]

[ "About the Author", "Parviz F. Rad, Ph.D. is the Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Graduate Project Management Program at the Stevens Institute of Technology. A noted author and lecturer, he is the editor of The Project Management Journal®." ]

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[ "An instant", "New York Times", "bestsellerFrom the bestselling author of", "The Cost of These Dreams", "The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply.", "As a journalist said of Pappy Van Winkle, \"You could call it bourbon, or you could call it a $5,000 bottle of liquified, barrel-aged unobtanium.\" Julian Van Winkle, the third-generation head of his family's business, is now thought of as something like the Buddha of Bourbon - Booze Yoda, as Wright Thompson calls him. He is swarmed wherever he goes, and people stand in long lines to get him to sign their bottles of Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve, the whiskey he created to honor his grandfather, the founder of the family concern. A bottle of the 23-year-old Pappy starts at $3000 on the internet. As Julian is the first to say, things have gone completely nuts.Forty years ago, Julian would have laughed in astonishment if you'd told him what lay ahead. He'd just stepped in to try to save the business after his father had died, partly of heartbreak, having been forced to sell the old distillery in a brutal downturn in the market for whiskey. Julian's grandfather had presided over a magical kingdom of craft and connoisseurship, a genteel outfit whose family ethos generated good will throughout Kentucky and far beyond. There's always a certain amount of romance to the marketing of spirits, but Pappy's mission statement captured something real: \"We make fine bourbon - at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always fine bourbon.\" But now the business had hit the wilderness years, and Julian could only hang on for dear life, stubbornly committed to preserving his namesake's legacy or going down with the ship. Then something like a miracle happened: it turned out that hundreds of very special barrels of whiskey from the Van Winkle family distillery had been saved by the multinational conglomerate that bought it. With no idea what they had, they offered to sell it to Julian, who scrambled to beg and borrow the funds. Now he could bottle a whiskey whose taste captured his family's legacy. The result would immediately be hailed as the greatest whiskey in the world - and would soon be the hardest to find.But now, those old barrels were used up, and Julian Van Winkle faced the challenge of his lifetime: how to preserve the taste of Pappy, the taste of his family's heritage, in a new age? The amazing Wright Thompson was invited to be his wingman as he set about to try. The result is an extraordinary testimony to the challenge of living up to your legacy and the rewards that come from knowing and honoring your people and your craft. Wright learned those lessons from Julian as they applied to the honest work of making a great bourbon whiskey in Kentucky, but he couldn't help applying them to his own craft, writing, and his upbringing in Mississippi, as he and his wife contemplated the birth of their first child. May we all be lucky enough to find some of ourselves, as Wright Thompson did, in Julian Van Winkle, and in Pappyland." ]

[ "Amazon.com Review", "An Amazon Best Book of November 2020:", "Pappyland", "goes inside the cult of Pappy Van Winkle whiskey to meet its charismatic creator, Julian Van Winkle III, and learn the fascinating story of a legacy lost and reclaimed. A delicious tale of perseverance and craftsmanship, of Kentucky, and of family that is as smooth and satisfying as a glass of the rare Pappy itself.", "—Seira Wilson, Amazon Book Review", "Review", "“Bourbon is for sharing, and so is", "Pappyland", ".”", "—Wall Street Journal", "“A soulful journey that blends together biography, autobiography, philosophy, Kentucky history, the story of bourbon’s origins and an insider’s look at how the Van Winkle whiskey is made and marketed . . . Thompson, an ESPN senior writer by way of Mississippi, comes off as the Boswell of bourbon country here—a keen literary observer and respectful fanboy with an obvious affection for his subject . . .", "Pappyland", "moves smoothly through the family lore with the subtle nuances of a well-aged bourbon; it has top notes of stoicism and melancholy and a lingering finish of pride, even when recounting the hard times.”", "—", "New York Times Book Review", "“A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand the test of time.”", "—Eric Asimov,", "The New York Times", "“", "Pappyland", "is as invigorating as the smell of freshly cut Kentucky bluegrass, and goes down as smoothly as a glass of Pappy's beloved bourbon.”", "—Shelf Awareness", "“An amiable journey, courtesy of ESPN sportswriter Thompson, into the arcana of American whiskey [. . .] If you’re a fan of the magic that is an artful bourbon, this is just the book for you.”", "—", "Kirkus", "“A fast-paced and colorful history of 20th-century Southern culture, told through the story of charismatic cult-bourbon maker Julian P. Van Winkle III. . . . ‘Being Southern,’ Thompson writes, ‘means carrying a responsibility to shake off the comforting blanket of myth and see ourselves clearly.’ Thompson more than fulfills that burden with insight and eloquence.”", "—", "Publishers Weekly", "(starred)", "“One of Wright Thompson’s many gifts is his ability to give language to those intangibles of life that are, to the rest of us, indescribable. So his account of the Van Winkle family and its elusive, masterful bourbon is justly rendered in profound, utterly compelling fashion. Success and failure; legacy and sacrifice; the commitments to family and the fight to reclaim something lost to time—", "Pappyland", "fits neatly alongside the traditions and scope of great Southern literature and, like the bourbon at the center of the story, captures a special kind of lightning in a bottle.”", "—Ashley Christensen, James Beard Award–Winning chef, fan of brown water on ice with a lemon twist", "“In Wright Thompson’s beautifully written and delightful book, Julian Van Winkle’s odyssey to make whiskey in the spirit of his beloved Pappy becomes a story about how we keep faith with the past—with our ancestors and with the legacy of a great craft—and how we move on from it.", "Pappyland", "is a beautiful antidote to false sentiment; I cherished it.”", "—Walter Isaacson", "“A bourbon-laced Book of Hours heady with history, soul-searching, southern shrines, and meditations on fatherhood. Thompson goes in search of Kentucky’s most potent heritage and slowly circles round to his own. It’s a story meant for sipping, rough and sweet on the tongue.”", "—Burkhard Bilger", "“Frankly I don’t give a damn about bourbon. But I do care greatly about family and children, about fathers and sons, and about tradition and legacy, and it’s out of these ingredients that Wright Thompson distills this beautiful and life-loving book.", "Pappyland", "is the story of bourbon master Julian Van Winkle, told by a master writer reaching across generations for meaning. Which means it is nothing less than the story of mastery itself.”", "—Tom Junod", "“Only Wright Thompson could tell the story of something as beloved as Pappy and make me admire it more. This is a profound book that is every bit as nuanced and lasting as the whiskey it’s about. It made me reconsider the power of mythology, history, family legacy, and the stories we tell ourselves. I also learned a lot about fine bourbon.”", "—Eli Saslow, winner of the Pulitzer Prize winner and author of", "Rising out of Hatred", "“In", "Pappyland", "Wright Thompson takes his reader on a journey, indeed a pilgrimage, across times, places, and generations all deeply rooted in the bluegrass country of Kentucky in search of the almost mythical Pappy Van Winkle. In elegant prose Thompson embarks on an odyssey which, like all such endeavors, ultimately returns the hero to home, both for his subject, Julian Van Winkle III, and for the author.”", "—Dr. Paul M. Pearson, Director of the Thomas Merton Center", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "On the afternoon of the Kentucky Oaks, I searched the grandstand at Churchill Downs for Julian P. Van Winkle III. It was Friday, the day before the Derby, and it looked like it might just stay beautiful and clear, a miracle this time of year in the humid South. As I made my way through a crowd of people with a sheen on their faces and seersucker stuck to their thighs, I thought of an old friend who once said that existing at our latitude felt like living inside someone's mouth. The breath of racehorses, summer humidity, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey-the South has many forms of heat, by-products of a place perched delicately on the edge between romance and hypocrisy. The Ole Miss band used to play a slow version of \"Dixie\" before the game, and even as I winced at the Confederate nostalgia, I also teared up because the song reminded me of my father. That's what Patterson Hood called the \"Duality of the Southern Thing.\" The Derby distills those feelings. When horses turn for home, we are all wild and free, sweating and cheering, the dream on our breath and clutched in our fists. I admit I love that blood-sport rush.", "The pageant of the big race swirled around me. The old Louisville families gathered in boxes along the stretch, gripping drinks and pari-mutuel tickets. I was at the track to write racing columns for my magazine and Julian was here, living another day in what seemed to be the endless spring break of his life. I didn't know him yet. We had met several times before to discuss a book about bourbon we wanted to write together. I was to help him tell the story of his bourbon, the mythical and rare Pappy Van Winkle, but it became clear that there was no way to separate the bourbon's mythology from his personal history. But that clarity lay before me. At the moment, I just needed to find the man in the madness at Churchill Downs.", "I finally found him holding court in a box about halfway up the grandstand surrounded by old friends, a well-tailored blue-and-white-striped sport coat draped across his shoulders and reading glasses dangling from his neck beneath a peach-colored, whiskey barrel-patterned bow tie. Julian kept on-brand with his Pappy ball cap, and a lifetime of May afternoons in Kentucky had taught him to put on duck boots before heading to the track. He smiled when he saw me and handed me his flask of Weller 12. The whiskey went down smooth, with enough burn to let you know it was working, which was what my father used to say when he'd disinfect my cuts with hydrogen peroxide. Julian loves the 12-year-old Weller. He's got a storage facility full of it-and a bourbon club's fantasy of other rare bourbons. If you ask him where he keeps it, he'll wink and laugh and dissemble, but he won't give out the coordinates. \"I went to the shed,\" he said. \"My whiskey shed, the storage shed, whose location will remain anonymous. I'll show you a picture of it.\"", "His wife, Sissy, saw me and waved. I think I might be in love with her. She's pretty, with a great laugh. Her smile is an invitation to pull up a seat. I had stepped into a party that had been raging for a generation or two. They had a bag of chocolates and a Seven Seas salad dressing bottle filled with bourbon. Julian often travels with his own booze. Wouldn't you? He is famous among friends for showing up at parties with half-pints of Pappy-used for tasting and testing barrels-and passing them around. They're called blue caps. I love the blue caps. Once, before I was about to give a speech, his son, Preston, handed me one to take onstage. I have  this memory of Julian at a food and wine festival after-party-it was at a local Indian restaurant that had been turned into a Bollywood dance club-and he was floating around the dance floor, hands in the air, pausing only to give anyone who wanted a pull of the Pappy he kept in his pocket. In that moment, I wanted to know how someone got to be so free and if that freedom created his perfect whiskey, or the other way around. That night exists as a kind of psychedelic dream to me, the feeling of being whisked away in a black Suburban and ending up with streaky images of dancing and music and Pappy.", "Julian looks more and more like Pappy every day. He's got a silver cuff of hair around his bald head and is quick with a joke, usually on himself. On his right hand, he wears a family ring just like the one his grandfather and father wore. The Van Winkles have a large number of traditions, the most famous of which is their whiskey. That fame doesn't make it any more or less important than the others. They are all just the things this old Southern family does in the course of being itself.", "Among Julian's many quirks: wearing fake rotten teeth, which he and Sissy sported each time they first met a set of future in-laws of one of their three daughters; searching for records to fit his old-timey jukebox in the basement; listening to music while cleaning out the big silver pots after frying Thanksgiving turkeys; setting mole traps for going on forty years now, without ever successfully catching a mole; and firing a paintball gun at the deer on his property that want to tear up his plants. One night, deep into two open bottles of bourbon, he grabbed a flashlight and I grabbed the paintball assault rifle and we went out into the neighborhood. I kept the weapon up like they do in the war movies and he swung the light through the trees. We didn't see anything. I was bummed. He was stoic, as usual.", "Julian almost never complains-few people know, for instance, that he's just on the other side of cancer treatment that could have ended very differently. Normally a private man, he allowed his closest friends to see the fear in his eyes; to share in his vulnerability. His illness made him newly reflective, which would have a cascade of repercussions in his life. He'd reached the point when he had to take dying seriously. Everyone passes through that valley and everyone emerges changed. His bourbon is passing through a valley, too. In the coming months, he will taste the new liquor that will fill his bottles. The whiskey that built his success had run out, and the \"new whiskey,\" distilled and laid up many years ago, is now finally ready to be tasted and, with luck, bottled. I would come to appreciate the challenge of dealing with market trends when your product gets made as many as twenty-five years in the past. When I met Julian this is what loomed largest; soon it would be time for him to test the first ever Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve made from whiskey distilled by his partner Buffalo Trace. Whiskey is marketed as an antidote to change, so the spell is especially vulnerable during times of transition. That tension ran through my mind during this otherwise carefree day at the nation's most famous racetrack. Julian was looking far into the future, to see how this brand and whiskey would be passed from one generation to the next. The Van Winkles have done most things very well, except for that: the last time the baton pass got seriously fucked up.", "But on this afternoon Julian was in good humor: passing around whiskey, cracking jokes, waiting on the bugle to blow, being Julian Van Winkle. From our box seats, the crowd around us kept an eye on the infield scoreboard, counting down the minutes until post for the next race. People killed time with liquor and stories. A local doctor juggled apples, taking the occasional bite without missing a rotation as we cheered him on.", "Finally the next race began with a thunder of hooves. There's a word that describes that sound, rataplan, which evokes the incredible noise a dozen running horses can make and the way you feel that noise in your chest, loud-not like something in nature but like standing next to a tower of speakers at an Allman Brothers show. The sound takes on physical form and lives on as psychic echo. The crowd roared and leaned in. We stopped to look down at the track as the horses left the gate and came bounding past. It took less than two minutes, the crowd swaying, clutching the white betting slips, matching numbers to silks, standing and screaming beneath the roof of the grandstand. Oh, glorious afternoon!", "Churchill Downs has been expanded over the years, the luxury suites rising high above the spires-an unintentional and dark metaphor about the change that has come to this track. This new-money Derby attracts people who seem desperate for the lifestyle. The day-trippers wear gangster suits and outlandish patterns and hats inappropriate to the latitude, temperature, or setting. It's amateur hour. They hold liquor like ninth graders. The homogenization of America has left people wandering the land in search of a place to belong. We are a tribeless nation hungry for tribes. That longing and loneliness are especially on display in early May in Kentucky.", "From these seats, it felt possible to ignore all that change. Ignoring can be intoxicating. The view before us was the view people saw one hundred years ago. We couldn't make out the big battleship bridge behind us that dwarfed the spires. We only saw the flash of the silks and the splashes of dirt and the blur of whip hands banging away for one more burst of speed. The race ended, and Julian pulled a Cohiba out of his pocket and lit it. \"My victory cigar,\" he said. A grin flashed across his face. \"I didn't bet on the race,\" he said. \"So I won.\"", "--This text refers to the", "paperback", "edition.", "About the Author", "Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN and the bestselling author of", "The Cost of These Dream", "s. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his family.", "--This text refers to the", "paperback", "edition.", "Read more" ]

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[ "This book explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including: the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more." ]

[ "Review", "From the reviews:", "\"Here's a gem of a book...all peppered with delightful notes from science fiction films, novels, and comics. I can turn a page without finding a jewel.\" Clifford Stoll, University of California, Berkeley, author of The Cuckoos Egg", "\"The first edition a ] was the most thorough compendium ever written on time travel in science fictiona ]scientifically accurate and at the same time largely accessible to a broad audience of non-specialistsa ]I have been struck by the richness and complexity of the tapestry of ideas that Nahin presents a ]\" Kip Thorne", "\"The research that has gone into this book is impressive. The author has a made a good selection of ideas from the scientific literature on spacetime, causality violation and time-travel paradoxes, and they are presented at a popular level with science-fiction plots running in parallel.\" Nature", "FROM THE REVIEWS:", "SFRA REVIEW\"Dr. Nahin has done a fine job with this book. [This book] is an excellent synthesis of the current state of the philosophical and physical discussion on time travel. His use of science fiction to illustrate the possibilities of this research make his work very readable for the layperson as well as the scientist. His explanation why H.G. Wellsa (TM)s time machine wouldna (TM)t work (it does not move in space) is particularly engaginga ][it] is an excellent addition to the discussion of time travel.a", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "From the foreword to the Second Edition, by Kip S. Thorne- \"It is now not only the most complete documentation of time travel in science fiction; it is also the most thorough review of serious scientific literature on the subject - a review that, remarkably is scientifically accurate and at the same time largely accessible to a broad audience of nonspecialists .... In browsing this revised edition, I have been struck by the richness and complexity of the tapestry of ideas that Nahin presents.... Nahin simply reports what he sees in the physics and science fiction literature, commenting lucidly and often pointedly on the interconnections, contradictions, and controversies, but leaving it to his readers to form their own final judgments.... Nahin's book, with its complex tapestry of ideas and possibilities, may well remain the most readable and complete treatise on time travel in science and science fiction.\"" ]

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[ "The epic tale of Odysseus’s journey home – one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature", "If the", "Iliad", "is the world's greatest war epic, the", "Odyssey", "is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. E. V. Rieu’s translation has long been beloved and celebrated by scholars and readers alike, and for this Penguin Classics edition, classicist D. C. H. Rieu has revised the work of his father. This edition also includes an introduction by Peter V. Jones.      For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators." ]

[ "Review", "“[Robert Fitzgerald’s translation is] a masterpiece . . . An", "Odyssey", "worthy of the original.” –", "The Nation", "“[Fitzgerald’s", "Odyssey", "and", "Iliad", "] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer’s art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase.” –", "The Yale Review", "“[In] Robert Fitzgerald’s translation . . . there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand, and this line-by-line vigilance builds up into a completely credible imagined world.” –from the Introduction by Seamus Heaney", "About the Author", "Homer", "was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives.He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer – the", "Iliad", "and the", "Odyssey", "– are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The", "Odyssey", "is the original collection of tall traveller’s tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope.We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact ‘Homer’ may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps ‘the hostage’ or ‘the blind one’. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years’ time.", "E. V. Rieu", "was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964. His son, D. C. H. Rieu has revised his work.", "D. C. H. Rieu", "is the son of E. V. Rieu, celebrated translator from Latin and Greek and Editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964.", "Peter Jones", "is former lecturer in classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "‘”Strangers!” he cried. “And who are you? Where do you come from over the watery ways? Is yours a trading venture; or are you cruising the main on chance, like roving pirates, who risk their lives to ruin other people?”", "‘Our hearts sank. The booming voice and the very sight of the monster filled us with panic. Still, I managed to find words to answer him. “We are Achaeans,” I said, “on our way back from Troy – driven astray by contrary winds across a vast expanse of sea – we’re making our way home but took the wrong way – the wrong route – as Zeus, I suppose, intended that we should. We are proud to say that we belong to the forces of Agamemnon, Atreus’ son, who by sacking the great city of Ilium and destroying all its armies has made himself the most famous man in the world today. We find ourselves here as suppliants at your knees, in the hope that you may give us hospitality, or even give us the kind of gifts that hosts customarily give their guests. Good sir, remember your duty to the gods; we are your suppliants, and Zeus is the champion of suppliants and guests. He is the god of guests: guests are sacred to him, and he goes alongside them.”", "‘That is what I said, and he answered me promptly out of his pitiless heart: “Stranger, you must be a fool, or must have come from very far afield, to order me to fear or reverence the gods. We Cyclopes care nothing for Zeus with his aegis, nor for the rest of the blessed gods, since we are much stronger than they are. I would never spare you or your men for fear of incurring Zeus’ enmity, unless I felt like it. But tell me where you moored your good ship when you came. Was it somewhere along the coast, or nearby? I’d like to know.”", "‘His words were designed to get the better of me, but he could not outwit someone with my knowledge of the world. I answered with plausible words: “As for my ship, it was wrecked by the Earthshaker Poseidon on the borders of your land. The wind had carried us on to a lee shore. He drove the ship up to a headland and hurled it on the rocks. But I and my friends here managed t o escape with our lives.”", "‘T this the gruel brute made no reply. Instead, he jumped up, and reaching out towards my men, seized a couple and dashed their heads against the floor as though they had been puppies. Their brains ran out on the ground and soaked the earth. Limb by limb he tore them to pieces to make his meal, which he devoured like a mountain lion, leaving nothing, neither entrails nor flesh, marrow nor bones, while we, weeping, lifted up our hands to Zeus in horror at the ghastly sight. We felt completely helpless. When the Cyclopes had filled his great belly with this meal of human flesh, which he washed down with unwatered milk, he stretched himself out for sleep among his flocks inside his cave.", "Read more" ]

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[ "From early myths to the latest LEDs, light has been \"the magician of the cosmos.\"  But what is light?  Is it God?  Truth?  Particle or wave?  This \"radiant history\" sees light through the eyes of mystics, sages, artists, poets, and scientists.  Like the Nobel-winning physicist who studied light \"because it's so much fun,\" Bruce Watson enjoys taking readers along in search of this eternal force of nature.", "Light", "explores ancient observatories and Gothic cathedrals, Galileo's workshop and Isaac Newton's \"darken'd chamber.\"  Readers will visit Rembrandt's studio and watch stunning sunrises at Stonehenge and at Newgrange in Ireland.  The story follows light as it is captured by cameras, framed by Impressionists, and electrified by Edison.  Finally, Light brings us to a world remade by lasers, making ours truly the Age of Light." ]

[ "Review", "\"Finalist for the", "Los Angeles Times Book Prizes in Science & Technology\"", "-", "the Los Angeles Times", "\". . . A sweeping cultural and scientific history of our understanding of light . . . With his trademark good storytelling and wide reading, Watson takes us on a delightful journey.\" - Alan Lightman,", "The Washington Post", "\"Watson’s touch is lyrical and deft . . . . [Light] is an eye-catching display, reflecting and refracting like a gemstone.\" -", "Nature", "\"[J.M.W.] Turner established himself as a true ‘painter of light’ with his extraordinary seascapes and sunsets . . . [And] you’ll appreciate Watson’s nuanced explanations of exactly how the artist achieved his goals.\" - Alexandra Witze,", "The Dallas Morning News", "\"An ingenious combination of science and art history.\" - starred revew,", "Kirkus Reviews", "\"Bruce Watson's new book . . . has the buoyant tone of a writer who is having fun--and who is able to convey that sense of excitement and discovery to the reader. Light, the phenomenon, has fascinated people for millennia.", "Light", ", the book, will fascinate them now.\" - Charles C. Mann, author of the New York Times bestsellers 1491 and 1493\"", "Light", "takes us on a lyrical and illuminating journey from myth to scripture, canvas to cathedrals, prisms to fiber optic networks, all part of our attempt to understand--and to capture--the very essence of the radiance around us.\" - Laura J. Snyder, author of EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: JOHANNES VERMEER, ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK, AND THE REINVENTION OF SEEING\"Maybe this is why Watson’s book is so important, why it can be such a boon to preachers and teachers: he reminds us just how magical and mysterious light really is.\" -", "Christian Century", "\"Bruce Watson has written a great mystery narrative that chronicles how architecture, art, religion, and mythology dovetail with science to provide our modern understanding of light.\" - Dick Teresi, coauthor of THE GOD PARTICLE and author of LOST DISCOVERIES\"This is a story and a book chock-full of great and fascinating figures, each of whose personality and doings Watson deftly presents without detracting from the impetus of his millennia-spanning narrative. A dazzling book, as seems completely appropriate.\" - starred review,", "Booklist", "\"Luminous, enlightening, informative, and wide-ranging. Watson has dared to take on the subject of light in all its magnitude and majesty.\" - Paul Mariani, author of EPITAPHS FOR THE JOURNEY and GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS: A LIFE", "About the Author", "Bruce Watson", "is a frequent contributor to", "Smithsonian", "magazine, writing on topics ranging from eels to pi to profiles of artists and writers. His work has also appeared in the", "Wall Street Journal", ", the", "Washington Post", ",", "Los Angeles Times", ", and other publications. Watson is the author of four books, including", "Bread and Roses", ",", "Sacco and Vanzetti", "(nominated for an Edgar Award), and", "Freedom Summer", ". He lives in western Massachusetts and writes the weekly online magazine The Attic -- theattic.space" ]

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[ "Young Simba just can’t wait to be king—and with the help of his friends Timon and Pumbaa, the cub grows into a brave lion. Get set for action, adventure, and lots of fun with this full-color retelling of Disney’s blockbuster", "The Lion King", "!", "From the Trade Paperback edition." ]

[ "From the Inside Flap", "Young Simba just can’t wait to be king—and with the help of his friends Timon and Pumbaa, the cub grows into a brave lion. Get set for action, adventure, and lots of fun with this full-color retelling of Disney’s blockbuster", "The Lion King", "!", "From the Trade Paperback edition.", "From the Back Cover", "Young Simba just can’t wait to be king—and with the help of his friends Timon and Pumbaa, the cub grows into a brave lion. Get set for action, adventure, and lots of fun with this full-color retelling of Disney’s blockbuster", "The Lion King", "!", "From the Trade Paperback edition." ]

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[ "Stink is back and ready to implement his rule. However, the game has changed and so have the players. Without Cross at his side, Stink is set to go at it by himself. Strapped with an abundance of cash and the brains to make it work for him without the muscle, Stink finds himself facing more adversity than he has ever seen. His relationship with his child s mother, Bonni, seems to be over with the emergence of Melody. With a whole new focus, Stink is ready to live his life as he sees fit and in the process looks out for the Double Cross." ]

[ "Review", "Deceived II is a strong build up for the finale in this trilogy series. --Richard Jeanty, bestselling author of Hoodfellas.", "About the Author", "The Phantom hopes to remain a mystery while the readers enjoy his work." ]

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