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[ "The North Carolina Piedmont counties of Gaston and Lincoln are places of deep history, diverse natural environment, and remarkable culture. Beginning with the Native American original inhabitants and continuing through the Revolutionary and antebellum periods, the first five essays in", "Gaston & Lincoln Sketches", "focus on particular historical episodes. The collection concludes with a description of molasses making and the survival of a rural folkway, and a short biography of Ralph Ray, Gastonia native and renowned illustrator and bird painter." ]

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[ "Dog College Ruled Composition Notebook", "Composition notebook with cute dog designs. Perfect to use as a diary or journal to take notes, draw, make to-do lists, and more.", "120 college ruled pages", "120 college ruled pages", "white paper", "white paper", "soft matte cover", "soft matte cover", "7.5x9.25 inch dimensions", "7.5x9.25 inch dimensions" ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Essays & Correspondence" ]

[ "The Best Crossword Dictionary Just Got Better!", "With more than 50,000 new words added-now over 225,000 entries-the world's most extensive, up-to-the-minute and easy-to-use crossword puzzle dictionary is bigger and better than ever! Arranged alphabetically from start to finish, THE NEW COMPREHENSIVE A-Z CROSSWORD DICTIONARY is a boon for puzzle fans young and old-with thousands of updated references from the worlds of art, literature, sports, politics, and pop culture; geographical and technical terms; famous and not-so-famous figures from the past and present; biblical references; computer terminology; new and old words; variant spellings; idioms, slogans, slang, abbreviations ... and much more!", "Containing nearly", "twice", "as much information as competing crossword dictionaries, this handy volume not only provides indispensable help to anyone occasionally stumped by the subtle and sophisticated clues employed by today's master puzzle constructors, it is also a treasure trove of fascinating facts and trivia. And if you're looking for the right word to fill those little white boxes, the solution is here ... at your fingertips." ]

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

[ "Referred to in his time as “the Pretender” and “the sphinx of the Tuileries,” Louis Napoléon Bonaparte―the nephew of Emperor Napoleon I of France and himself ruler of the Second Empire (1852–1870)―so managed the manufacture of his public image and the masking of his private self that he is, ultimately, unknowable to this day. From the mysterious circumstances of his conception in 1807 to the strange events of his downfall in 1870 and death in 1873, he lived, loved, and reigned in an extraordinary aura of myth and fantasy under the shadow of his more famous uncle. Taking a highly innovative approach to this intriguing historical figure, David Baguley entertains sources in a mélange of media and forms―pictures, performances, spectacles, rituals, music, fiction, poems, plays, architecture, fashion, as well as Louis Napoléon’s own writings―to explore how the ruler was represented, invented, and interpreted by detractors and defenders alike. The dynamic process by which the legend of Napoleon III was elaborately fabricated and then vigorously dismantled unfolds under Baguley’s hand not chronologically but by generic categories, reflecting the author’s underlying conviction that history and literary depictments are not as incompatible as is often assumed. Baguley examines works by, among many others, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Émile Zola, Honoré Daumier, Jacques Offenbach, Gustave Flaubert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning that range from history and biography to romanticized versions of the Emperor’s feats to parody, caricature, and satire. With its conspiratorial origins, its rising and dramatically falling action, its schemes, scandals, and tragic denouement, the Second Empire appears designed to inspire writers and artists. Napoleon III, Baguley observes, could well have been the central character, or temperament, in a naturalist novel.While most historians consider Louis Napoléon’s coup d’état of December 1851 to be his boldest endeavor, Baguley shows in this expansive and eloquent work that his most extravagant venture was to found a second Napoleonic empire, and he illustrates not only the power of the name and the image but also the precariousness of the Emperor’s reliance upon them. For Napoleon III, dissimulation was his natural state; opportunist or utopian reformer, or something in between, he must remain one of history’s most elusive and controversial figures, ever resisting final assessment." ]

[ "From", "Booklist", "Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was the nephew of Napoleon I, and he was quite conscious that he reigned in the shadow of his uncle. History has not judged him favorably. In domestic affairs, he presided over the cultural brilliance of France, but the Second Empire, which he founded, was politically corrupt and authoritarian in an era that cried out for an enlightened liberalism. In foreign affairs, his immense ego led to meddlesome blunders and a humiliating defeat by Germany. Of course, there is more to the man and to his career. Baguley, a French specialist at the University of Durham, England, uses a variety of sources, including substantial accounts by Louis Napoleon's contemporaries, to provide an interesting portrait of both the man and his times. Although Baguley does not view him as an admirable or even a sympathetic figure, Louis Napoleon was certainly an important one^B, because his two-decade reign encompassed some of the most critical developments in modern European history. This work will be a necessary and valuable addition to a European history collection.", "Jay Freeman", "Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved", "About the Author", "David Baguley", "holds the Chair of French at the University of Durham, England, and is the author of six books on Émile Zola and the naturalist movement. He taught previously at the University of Western Ontario for more than twenty years and has published numerous articles on nineteenth-century French literature." ]

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

[ "Call girls are meant to fuck the client then go home, not fuck them up, but I never minded getting my hands just a little dirty.", "Homeless teen turned prostitute turned elite call girl with some… unusual extracurricular activities was not what I’d set out to become, but survivors can’t be choosers. Now, I’ve got a life for myself, and I even like it most of the time, but a favor owed to my boss/ex-lover is about to mess all of that up.Her husband’s become a problem, and when the team of men she’s hired can’t seal the deal, I’m brought in for some assistance. What a fucking mess. Especially since the team consists of my favorite client, his brother, my roommate, and my roommate’s boyfriend.When the shitstorm of my present starts to collide a bit too much with my past, I’ve got to hope my skills are sharp enough to keep me in one piece.", "There’s an unexpected danger that’s found me once again, but lucky for me, I’ve always thrived in the darkness.", "Trigger warning: non con, dub con, BDSM scenes, a torture scene, and other adult material that people could find triggering." ]

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

[ "This Adults coloring book is a wonderful way to show your love of Butterfly & Unicorn while your stress fades away.This book contains Ninety single sided coloring pages, With High Resolution And beautiful Butterfly also Unicorn. Its has a wonderful way for new colorists to venture into the exciting world of adult coloring. Forget about highly intricate designs and challenging patterns. This book is full of easy, enjoyable, and simple patterns that anyone can enjoy. Giving you varying levels of difficulty to choose from!Simple & Beautiful designs for busy days. And more detailed patterns for moments when you have more time.Beautiful and relaxing Included Designs arrangements.Why You Will Love this Book:Relaxing Coloring Pages : Every page you color will pull you into a relaxing world where your responsibilities will seem to fade away.Beautiful Illustrations : We’ve included Ninety unique illustration for you to express your creativity and make masterpieces. Which colors will you choose for this book?Single-sided Pages : Every image is placed on its own black-backed page to reduce the bleed-through problem found in other coloring books.Great for All Skill Levels : You can color every page however you want and there is no wrong way to color (even if you are a beginner)." ]

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

[ "BarCharts, Inc was founded on our law guides created by the owner. They were designed to understand the significant details within the larger scheme of the law, as a daily refresher, and to review before the Bar Exam. Twenty five years later we keep those guides up to date for students, paralegals, and practicing lawyers to have the most handy legal reference to the most important points of the law possible in 6 laminated pages. Suggested uses: o Check list in contracting situations o To understand proportion and relevance o Quick and constant refreshers before classes and exams o As the last review before taking the Bar Exam" ]

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[ "Books", "Law", "Business" ]

[ "This biography is of a town in NW Oregon with the Indian name of Yamhill, pop. 970, with tales of prunes, pigs, markets, mines, trains and trails in a portion in the county of Yamhill, in Northwest Oregon. Recorded by a descendent of two of the founding families in 1863." ]

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[ "Book by Ruhlmann, William" ]

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[ "Drama / 4m, 3f Set in the 1970s on the Texas border separating the United States and Mexico, Lydia is an intense, lyrical, and magical new play. The Flores family welcomes Lydia, an undocumented maid, into their El Paso home to care for their daughter Ceci, who was tragically disabled in a car accident on the eve of her quinceañera, her fifteenth birthday. Lydia's immediate and seemingly miraculous bond with the girl sets the entire family on a mysterious and shocking journey of discovery. Lyd" ]

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

[ "\"Many children anticipate and even long for a summer vacation to an exciting destination that they have never visited. This book takes children on a journey across Mississippi, while addressing still-to-common misconceptions about the state in an age-appropriate manner. This book entertains the reader while showing Mississippi is a wonderful state with wonderful people. I believe this book will instill pride in Mississippi's children, as well as help the children outside of our state gain an appreciation for Mississippi.\" - Marcus L. Thompson, Chief Administrative Officer at the Mississippi Institute of Higher Learning" ]

[ "About the Author", "Katina Rankin is an Emmy-nominated television news anchor. Katina is a native of Magee, Mississippi. She received her Bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from Alcorn State University and her Master's degree in Broadcast Journalism from Jackson State University. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the National Association of Black Journalists. She has been recognized for her reporting by the Associated Press, multiple times. Rankin is the recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award, the Athletes for Progress Award and has been honored by many other prestigious organizations. Rankin has also been named Mississippi's Woman of the Year." ]

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[ "Books", "Parenting & Relationships", "Family Relationships" ]

[ "For most people, coming of age and findings one's place in the world is a fairly tame passage. You leave high school and either continue with an academic or technical education or make that leap into adulthood with a first full-time job close to home. However, in postwar England there was another option. Max wood left an abusive and trouble household at age 16 to sign on as an apprentice aboard one of the last of the cargo sailing ships. He recounts his coming of age adventure in Sailing Tall: Around the World on the Square-rigged Passat, a memoir of the journey that led to his life's work as a mariner for the next 46 years.Wood writes is book in an easy, approachable style, almost as if the reader is sitting across from him while he talks of his memories of that early life. Some of the details are very intimate, such as those recounting the author's sexual exploits at a variety of ports around the world. But mostly his tale serves as a reminder that sailing a tall ship isn't anything like sailing a yacht. As Wood says, \"The reality of life aboard these old vessels was far removed from the romantic image conveyed by most novels and films. It was grueling at times.\"Targeting a wider audience than just sailors, Wood goes to great lengths to describe the Erikson-built Passat, the crew and their jobs, the living conditions and day-to-day workings of a large sailing vessel. And he gives equal time to vivid descriptions of the places they visit.There are moments in his memoir when Wood gives us a glimpse at the boyish enthusiasm he had during his adventure. One night, as he sleepily makes his way onto the after well deck to relieve himself, something huge rises alongside Passat. At first frightened, Wood soon realizes it's a whale. \"After rubbing itself on the hull in an affectionate manner and spouting a cloud of water vapor, it sank out of sight again. Once more it surfaced and blew, a ship's length off, as if to bid us farewell, and was not seen again. There was of course no more sleep for me that free watch after such excitement.\"Upon returning to Europe at the end of the two year passage, Wood made the transition to steam vessels and to a life in Australia. Although he acknowledges that choosing a naval career today can still make young mariners proud of their achievements, Wood muses, \"I wonder if they can have the same sense of belonging to the sea as we had on Old Erikson's square-riggers.\" Maybe not, but in Sailing Tall, Wood gives readers a chance to be part of \"a chapter of human history that closed in the span of one lifetime. ―", "Sailing" ]

[ "Review", "For most people, coming of age and findings one's place in the world is a fairly tame passage. You leave high school and either continue with an academic or technical education or make that leap into adulthood with a first full-time job close to home. However, in postwar England there was another option. Max wood left an abusive and trouble household at age 16 to sign on as an apprentice aboard one of the last of the cargo sailing ships. He recounts his coming of age adventure in Sailing Tall: Around the World on the Square-rigged Passat, a memoir of the journey that led to his life's work as a mariner for the next 46 years.Wood writes is book in an easy, approachable style, almost as if the reader is sitting across from him while he talks of his memories of that early life. Some of the details are very intimate, such as those recounting the author's sexual exploits at a variety of ports around the world. But mostly his tale serves as a reminder that sailing a tall ship isn't anything like sailing a yacht. As Wood says, \"The reality of life aboard these old vessels was far removed from the romantic image conveyed by most novels and films. It was grueling at times.\"Targeting a wider audience than just sailors, Wood goes to great lengths to describe the Erikson-built Passat, the crew and their jobs, the living conditions and day-to-day workings of a large sailing vessel. And he gives equal time to vivid descriptions of the places they visit.There are moments in his memoir when Wood gives us a glimpse at the boyish enthusiasm he had during his adventure. One night, as he sleepily makes his way onto the after well deck to relieve himself, something huge rises alongside Passat. At first frightened, Wood soon realizes it's a whale. \"After rubbing itself on the hull in an affectionate manner and spouting a cloud of water vapor, it sank out of sight again. Once more it surfaced and blew, a ship's length off, as if to bid us farewell, and was not seen again. There was of course no more sleep for me that free watch after such excitement.\"Upon returning to Europe at the end of the two year passage, Wood made the transition to steam vessels and to a life in Australia. Although he acknowledges that choosing a naval career today can still make young mariners proud of their achievements, Wood muses, \"I wonder if they can have the same sense of belonging to the sea as we had on Old Erikson's square-riggers.\" Maybe not, but in Sailing Tall, Wood gives readers a chance to be part of \"a chapter of human history that closed in the span of one lifetime. --Sailing magazine, April 2006:", "About the Author", "Max Wood served his nautical apprenticeship on one of the very last commercial voyages of any cargo square-rigger." ]

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

[ "This is a memoir of 14 summers of going to Rainbow Gatherings, and some of the winters in between. It provides detailed descriptions of day-to-day living at them, and shows the ways the gatherers fail and succeed at actually attaining the ideals I hear expressed at them." ]

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

[ "Love! Lust! Passion!", "Inspired by spicy pulp romances of the ‘50s, this sinful blank journal will become a sin-filled tale of your life’s antics and adventures. With authentic pulp fiction cover art and quotes by the incomparable Mae West, this sassy, softcover notebook is just waiting for you to spill your most shocking confessions between the covers.", "COLLECT ALL SIX COVERS!", "Visit", "www.JournalsOnAmazon.com", "(or click the blue ‘Journals for Women’ link at the top of this listing) to discover our other offerings, including weekly planners, food and exercise journals, Christmas card list trackers, and more." ]

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[ "The world of Sieah is on the brink of war. Not just within the native populations, but with the outer planes and the gulrond, the ancient dragons.", "Arcane evil is slowly spreading through the land, led by Faldron the Evil Lich, who is turning Sieah into his own personal graveyard in a search for immortality. The only chance Sieah has lies with a set of twin boys born under very magical circumstances.", "With the use of the Arcanosphere, the layer of magic above everything, the young twins must accept the immense responsibility thrust on them and overcome the mistrust of the gulrond, the might of the deities, and the evil of Faldron to save Sieah." ]

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

[ "A clear, concise, current, and authoritative explanation of all of the most important U.S. tort law doctrines, including those covered in first-year torts courses in law schools. Coverage includes tort law origins and objectives; causation; strict liability; negligence liability and defenses; intentional tort liability and defenses; special liability rules (premises liability, products liability, employers, etc.); damages; tort and contract; immunities; wrongful death and survival; defamation; privacy; misrepresentation." ]

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[ "Books", "Law", "Business" ]

[ "Fall in love all over again...deeper...healthier...sexier. Marriage and intimacy were designed by God. Everything God does is perfect, spectacular and joyfilled. He created our bodies to ignite and unite. Bring a sense of wonder and fulfillment back into the sacred union with your spouse. After all Sensational Sex was God's Idea!" ]

[ "About the Author", "Jamilee McQuivey is an author, workshop leader and transformational coach. Jami was raised by parents who actively taught about the Savior and His teachings in a home where scripture and prayer were woven into daily life. To this day, she continues to emphasize the importance of a God-centered life in all that she writes and teaches. As a certified Jack Canfield trainer, Jami shares her contagious passion, compassion and wisdom in workshops around the country and on cruise ships. She offers her experience and insights to assist others in realizing their God- given potential to live lives of passion and commitment, and to create God-centered relationships that are joy-filled and satisfying. Jami's own life reflects her quest for a more expansive life. In 2014, she and her husband moved with their three young sons to China to teach English for a year. Upon returning to the US, the family decided to continue the adventure by becoming fulltime RV'ers, traveling around the country. A mother, wife, avid traveler and active volunteer in church and community, Jami also has chosen to home school her children. When not giving workshops, she attends community markets with her family to sell her homemade all-natural tooth cleanser and face cream. To find out how you can book Jami for a workshop or work one on one with her, please go to http: //www.jamileemcquivey.com/" ]

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[ "Books", "Religion & Spirituality", "Worship & Devotion" ]

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[ "Books", "Calendars" ]

[ "Nothing ever goes according to plan! The holidays have arrived and Alexa Boswell has planned to surprise her mother in Oregon. But upon arriving in Portland with her teenage daughter, they find the house is empty with a For Sale sign hanging outside. Although her mom has vanished without a trace, Alexa’s high school sweetheart welcomes her with open arms. To her complete shock, the brawny lumberjack is still in love with her. But with a steady boyfriend back in Florida, her well-ordered world quickly turns into a hot mess. As emotions ramp up, the missing mother reappears and turns everything upside down with a shocking family secret she’s hidden for decades. This unpredictable page-turning sequel to REWRITING ROMANCE is heartfelt and well-paced. Be sure to take a sneak peek at the third book in this series: I DO, I DON’T." ]

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

[ "A country divided. A newly crowned, desperately vulnerable young queen.  Can one man uncover the secret that will save her throne?", "It is 1560, and Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a year.  Dr. John Dee, at 32 already acclaimed throughout Europe, is her astrologer and consultant in the hidden arts… a controversial appointment in these days of superstition and religious strife.", "When dangerous questions of Elizabeth’s legitimacy arise, the mild, bookish Dee finds himself summoned before William Cecil, who tasks him with an important mission. Along with Robert Dudley, Dee’s daring friend and former student who is also rumored to be the Queen’s secret lover, Dee must travel to the famously mystical town of Glastonbury to find the missing bones of King Arthur.  Once these long-lost relics, the embodiment of a legacy vitally important to the Tudor line, are ensconced in London, doubts as to the Queen’s supremacy as the rightful Tudor heir will be dispelled.", "But the quest quickly turns deadly—Dee and Dudley arrive in Glastonbury to discover the town mourning the gruesome execution of its abbot, and more death soon follows at the old abbey.  Racing to uncover the secrets buried there, Dee finds himself caught in the tangled roots of English magic, unexpected violence, the breathless stirring of first love… and the cold heart of a complex plot against Elizabeth." ]

[ "Review", "Praise for", "The Bones of Avalon", "\"Phil Rickman is one of my all-time favorites…. He's done it again, with his usual sense of permeating atmosphere, with vivid characters in a complex plot that grows through the bones of history like a deadly nightshade.\"", "--", "Diana Gabaldon, #1", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "An Echo in the Bone", "\"With his supernatural touch, a terrifying plot involving a necromancer, Glastonbury, King Arthur’s bones, and superb research, Phil Rickman takes us back brilliantly into the dark world of the first Elizabethans.\" --Ariana Franklin, national bestselling author of", "A Murderous Procession", "“Shadowed with his hallmark eeriness and full of richly drawn landscapes and fascinating characters,", "The Bones of Avalon", "is just the sort of uncanny, page-turning wonder that I’ve come to expect from Phil Rickman. What’s new is the magnificent sweep of Elizabethan England and tantalizing legends of King Arthur. A glorious read.” --Jennifer Lee Carrell, international bestselling author of", "Interred with Their Bones", "“For those of us waiting with bated breath for the next installment in C.J. Sansom's marvelous Matthew Shardlake murder mysteries set in Tudor England, heed my words: Phil Rickman and his John Dee have arrived! … The novel chills, thrills and satisfies, providing good history, great plot, and fascinating characters. Pull up a chair, turn off the phone, and settle in for a most delectable read…", "The Bones of Avalon", "is a fabulous read and John Dee is a marvelous addition to the world of Tudor intrigue.” –HuffingtonPost.com", "“A historical thriller with a touch of romance and more than a hint of necromancy… Brilliantly imagined and grippingly executed.” --", "The Times", "(London)", "“In this compelling and historically convincing novel, [Rickman] recreates a world of religious and political uncertainty where one man’s science is another man’s witchcraft, and where the mundane and the mystical rub shoulders… An assured and compelling opening to a new historical series.” –", "The Spectator", "\"Rickman, who’s wending his way through Welsh history, myth and mores (the Merrily Watkins series), revisits many of the real-life characters he wrote of in", "The Chalice", "(1997, etc.) with admirable scholarship and verve, making a John Dee sequel something to look forward to.\" --", "Kirkus", "“This wonderful stand alone immediately draws the reader into danger and mystery, focused on Dr. John Dee, astrologer to Elizabeth I.  If readers are lucky, this will turn into a series featuring one of the most fascinating historical figures of the period.” –", "RT Book Reviews", ", 4 ½ stars, Top Pick", "“An immaculate Elizabethan mystery, beautifully written, cunningly contrived. John Dee himself could not have conjured up anything finer.” –Michael Gregorio, author of", "Critique of Criminal Reason", "“Phil Rickman's", "The Bones of Avalon", "is a treasure chest that, once opened, transports the reader back in time to one of our planet's most perilous eras… With its numerous descriptions of Medieval barbarism, savagery and hardship,", "The Bones of Avalon", "is a most enthralling read that engrossed me from cover to cover. It was as though a spell had been cast over me, forcing me to keep reading…. An epic journey of Medieval adventure and horror. Every fan of historical mysteries needs to embark on it. It has a twisting, suspenseful plot with numerous shocks.” --gumshoereview.com", "About the Author", "PHIL RICKMAN lives on the Welsh border with his wife Carol. He has worked as a BBC radio and TV reporter, and he currently writes and presents the book program “Phil the Shelf’ on BBC Radio Wales. He is also the author of the internationally bestselling crime series featuring Merrily Watkins.  Visit him online at PhilRickman.co.uk.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "THE BONES OF AVALON (I: Lest Graves Be Open)", "Mortlake, February, 1560.", "MY MOTHER'S ONLY servant disappeared on the night we needed it least. The eve of the Queen's visit. And of Candlemas.", "Catherine Meadows had been a quiet maid. Efficient, demure and, more important, discreet. The first servant I'd let dust, or even enter, my library. Given the afternoon for herself, she'd left the house shortly before noon.", "Less than an hour, this was, before the Queen's messenger had come to alert us of her arrival here on the morrow. The Queen! God, my poor mother had gone wild: so much to do, and no servant to do it!", "No more peace for me this day, then. By six, the moon was over the river, cold-haloed, and then came the first wash of stars, and still no sign of Catherine Meadows. Although I work best at night, when all is quiet, by half past eight I was obliged to close my books, douse my candles, unhook my long brown coat and venture into the bone-raw February night to inquire after her.", "Maybe, in some inner vessel of my being, I had the inkling of an approaching menace. Who can truly say? I've oft-times wished such occult portents were more clear and direct, but - nature's bitter irony - it's rarely been that way for me.", "A well-lit night - on the edge of a thaw, I felt, yet still hard as crystal. Hoar frost swelling the twigs and branches of our orchard as I walked out, without a lantern. Out towards the edge of the village and London town, calling first at a smoky old tavern, where I knew the man I sought spent an hour or so most evenings. But he was not amongst the drinkers this night, and hard-faced men were staring at me, so I slipped away and went further along the road to his cottage and found him there.", "'Ah, now, as it happened, Dr John, she come to me mid-afternoon. About her gran, Goodwife Carter - took bad.'", "Jack Simm, once an apothecary, now my mother's occasional gardener. His cottage, on the edge of a copse of oak and thorn, was strong-built and snug and far warmer than our house - unwise, therefore, to go in, lest I end up passing the whole night before his fire.", "'Bad how?'", "We always fear the worst. Smallpox, usually.", "'Back trouble,' Jack Simm said. 'Bits of her spine took a walk, I reckon. Not my field, really. I left some wintergreen balm and give Cath a message to take to Gerald. The bone-twister?'", "'Who's that, Jack?' A woman's voice from the firelit, herb-smelling interior. 'Who's out there?'", "'Dr John, Sarah. No problem.' White-bearded Jack stepping out of the doorway, stained sacking belted around his waist, no boots. 'You want me to ride out to their farm for you, Dr John? Won't take--'", "'No, no. Too many robbers about. She'll be back at first light, I'm sure. Go to your fire, Jack, and your wife. I'm sorry to have bothered you.'", "But Jack Simm was pulling the door shut behind him and shambling out to join me at the roadside. Rubbing his hands together and wincing as he shifted from one unshod foot to the other on the frozen mud.", "'God's bones, I'll be bleedin' glad to see some sign of a warming.'", "'Candlemas tomorrow,' I said. 'The first gleaming of spring in the olden days.'", "'Yeah, well, the sun was kinder in the olden days. Dr John--' Clearing rough phlegm from his throat, lowering his voice. 'There's things I wouldn't say in front of Sarah, a good woman but she gossips. Don't mean to but she does. Here's the truth of it. The Meadowses...A religious family, now. If you understand me.'", "For the past two years, at summer's close, Jack Simm had harvested herbs for me, including the small mushrooms which, when brewed, can bring on visions. We understood one another well.", "'The father,' he said. 'Always the bleedin' father, innit?'", "'Hot gospel?'", "'Of an extreme kind.'", "'Is there another kind?'", "Used to be only priests; now any man might think himself chosen by God as a device. Jack talked, in some dismay, of Abel Meadows - built like a chimney stack, Bible brandished as a weapon.", "'You mean he's finally realised who his daughter's working for,' I said. 'That's what this is about?'", "'Comes here day 'fore yesterday, blethering about the end of time, like we got maybe weeks. Then he's asking about the habits of Mistress Dee.'", "'Mistress Dee? The bastard!'", "'I says, Master Meadows, I says, you'll find that woman in church four times on Sundays and a good hour every weekday.'", "'True. Thank you. And, um...the son of Mistress Dee?'", "Both of us knowing with what pious delight a religious extremist would delve amongst ill-informed rumour.", "'He never spoke your name,' Jack Simm said.", "It felt very cold now, the woods all acrackle with the movement of some night creature. I opened my hands to the freezing air.", "'All right. What are they saying?'", "'They're just ignorant folk, Dr John.' Jack Simm took a step back, blew out a steam of breath. 'Spells?'", "'And divination?'", "'Yea, yea. And conjuring of spirits from out the darkness - the nights, naturally, being a whole lot darker around your ma's house when you're there. 'Tis said that no man who fears for his immortal soul oughta go past your place beyond sunset, nor walk in Mortlake churchyard lest graves be open. Tell me when you've heard enough.'", "God. Slowly shaking my head. You come home at Christmas, applause from the lecture halls of Europe still resounding in your ears, to find you've become a figure of fear and opprobrium in your own neighbourhood.", "'You know what didn't help?' Jack said. 'The owl.'", "'It's a toy.'", "'Go to! Twice the size of a real owl and its eyes all lit up? And it's making...wooh...wooh...?' Jack flapping his arms as the owl would with his wings.", "'The village children liked him.'", "'Yeah, whilst their parents thought demons lived in him.'", "'All that's in him-' I sighed '- is a cunning system of small pulleys and hidden hinges, and the eyes are an arrangement of shards of mirror-glass and--'", "'That don't bleedin' matter! It's what they see, innit? Sometimes you don't help yourself is all I'm saying. Rumour and gossip, Dr John, rumour and gossip.'", "The real demons. Jack Simm had given up his shop in the city because of fears of persecution during Mary's reign by Bishop Bonner who was now - God help us all - my friend.", "'Oh, and Meadows...he says he's heard as how you're building a temple to worship the moon?'", "'Observatory.'", "'Temple.'", "'To watch the paths of the stars.' I sighed. 'Or at least...one day. When I raise the money.'", "Both of us standing there, dismayed. Much shaking of heads. Star temple, worship of the moon. Jesu. At length, Jack Simm clapped me reassuringly upon the shoulder.", "'Nah, listen, she'll be back.'", "'Catherine?'", "'The goodwife finks of the money. Meadows buggered that up, he'd get some real stick. What you reckon: wrath of God or a vengeful wife?'", "I nodded. A close call, even for a Bible man.", "'Anyhow, what I told him.... I said you was working on secret navigation devices for the navy. Reminding him how highly you was rated by the--'", "'Jack...'", "'What?'", "An icicle cracked above the doorway.", "'She comes here tomorrow.'", "'Who?'", "I said nothing. Jack let go a thin whistle. Might've been admiration but pity seemed more likely.", "'Again? It was me, I tell you, I'd be spending the rest of the night shivering in me privy. But I suppose when you've known her since she was young...'", "'Young still, Jack.'", "'Nah, they grows up fast under a crown. All fresh and dewy on the outside; underneath, skin like a lizard. What's the occasion?'", "It was over a month now since the incident of the effigy and not a word, so it seemed unlikely to be that.", "'I don't truly know,' I said. 'She has an interest in my work...'", "'The navigation, this would be?' He may have winked. 'Well, best be going in. Can't seem to feel me toes no more. Good luck to you, Dr John.'", "For some reason, Jack Simm found me amusing.", "Walking away, my left boot slid across a frozen wheel-rut, and I stumbled. An old man had broken his leg not far from here just a fortnight ago and was not found until morning. Dead by then of the cold.", "No use hurrying, anyway; there'd be time for no more work this night. I'd need to help my mother prepare our house for the visit of the Queen...even though I knew the Queen would not enter it.", "Hobbled into Mortlake High Street, past the school run by nuns for poor children - well intentioned, but a poor child with a little education would often simply be sold by its parents at the first opportunity. Candles still aglow far back in the school chapel, but the nearby Church of St Mary was black. A big modern church only slightly more interesting amid night shadow than it was by daylight. I should have liked to see a proper steeple - some symbol of a soaring spiritual ambition.", "Not that anyone in recent years has dared soar. Not since I was a child. Nowadays, only a fool kneels before God without first glancing over his shoulder, or prays too long with eyes closed. All is confusion. Vision and spirit are fled. How quickly can rational thought progress now in England, with zealots like Abel Meadows on the march, warning of a fast-approaching apocalypse? For which, of course, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever.", "Candlemas tomorrow. Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, when the candles were blessed. And no-one knows what to do about it any more. In some churches the blessing of candles is a secret ritual.", "Pausing now, by the coffin gate. In the icy night, the stars - the energy of stars - felt real and close. Bright orbs, each one familiar, dancing in a formal complexity as satisfying to me as a well-wrought knot garden in the heavens. My garden.", "A familiar wild excitement arose in me, like to a moon-drawn tide. Closing my eyes, holding out my hands into the palpitating air, open to the nudging, flittering interplay of invisible vibrations...", "Read more" ]

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

[ "According to the publisher, \"this book has been designed to stimulate student vocabulary learning throught continued use in a variety of practical situations.\" It \"is adapted for use on any level of the secondary-school English course.\"" ]

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[ "Chef Kirsten Dixon has successfully built her culinary reputation on the coupling of two themes: world-class cuisine and America's Last Frontier. Hailed by Bon Appetit, the James Beard House, Food Illustrated, the House of Blues, and Esquire, among many reviewers, Kirsten Dixon's elegant regional cuisine continues to excite international enthusiasm. Winterlake is one of three remote Alaska lodges operated by Kirsten and her husband; Carl. Nestled along the Iditarod Trail in the Alaska Range, Winterlake is accessible only by small plane, dog team, or snowmobile. Visitors are invariably gratified to sample her stylish fare along with log-cabin hospitality. In THE WINTERLAKE LODGE COOKBOOK, Kirsten divides the year into seasons, then commingles memoir and cooking lessons, inviting readers into this adventurous life. Lavishly illustrated with images of food, wildlife, and unsurpassable landscapes, this long-awaited sequel to Kirsten's RIVERSONG LODGE COOKBOOK (page 54) is as visually" ]

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[ "Books", "Cookbooks, Food & Wine", "Regional & International" ]

[ "For fans of", "Little Women", ",", "The Chronicles of Narnia", ",", "A Christmas Carol", ",", "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", ", and more, a literature-inspired cookbook for voracious readers during the festive holiday season.", "Some of the most famous instances of fictional fare have become synonymous with the holidays. Who can forget the plentiful food surrounding the Ghost of Christmas Present in", "A Christmas Carol", "? The simple but generous and joy-filled Christmas gatherings at the Marchs' in", "Little Women", "? Or the Van Tassel’s autumnal feast in", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", "? Finally, these literary meals can become a reality on your table with", "A Literary Holiday Feast.", "From Christmas and Thanksgiving to Halloween and New Year's, this seasonal cookbook offers 17 full four-course holiday meals from 25 classic books—each including an appetizer, entrée, side dish, and dessert. Additionally, whip up festive sips and delectable edible gifts to share with loved ones. As you curl up by the fireplace to reread one of your favorite literary classics, learn to make:", "Mouse King Cheese Bites and Sugar Plums from The Nutcracker for Christmas", "Mouse King Cheese Bites and Sugar Plums from", "The Nutcracker", "for Christmas", "Turkey Roulade and Jo's Gingerbread from Little Women for Christmas", "Turkey Roulade and Jo's Gingerbread from", "Little Women", "for Christmas", "Skillet Cornbread with Homemade Butter and Venison Pot Roast from The Little House on the Prairie for Thanksgiving", "Skillet Cornbread with Homemade Butter and Venison Pot Roast from", "The Little House on the Prairie", "for Thanksgiving", "Deviled Raven Eggs and Coffin Pizza Pockets from Edgar Allen Poe for Halloween", "Deviled Raven Eggs and Coffin Pizza Pockets from Edgar Allen Poe for Halloween", "The Queen of Hearts Tomato Tart and Eat Me Cakes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the New Year", "The Queen of Hearts Tomato Tart and Eat Me Cakes from", "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "for the New Year", "and many more!", "and many more!", "Finally—whether you love", "Dracula", ",", "Phantom of the Opera", ",", "Redwall", ", or", "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", "—book lovers can enjoy full menus of literary delicacies from their favorite books for all of their favorite holidays!" ]

[ "Review", "\"A feast for the eyes and the soul! Alison has put together a beautiful collection of accessible recipes for every taste—in food and books.\"", "—", "Ann Love, Reader and Eater at the Cooking the Book Podcast", "\"Alison Walsh's", "Literary Holiday Feast", "entices readers to curl up by the fire and read delicious treats while nibbling on a good book. Walsh not only blends culinary history with character analysis in dishes inspired by", "Little Women", "and", "Little Houses", ", but she also peppers in dashes of Wonderland and One Hundred Acre-style whimsy when creating edible decorations for your holiday spread. With recipes ranging from the simple to the deceptively simple-to-make, cooks of all levels can enjoy every genre during the holiday season. As a nerdy cook and party host, I also love how this book's arsenal of tips and substitution charts answer every inevitable, last-minute 'what if' I don't have time to look up myself.\"", "—", "Catherine Barson Eastis, blogger at The Gluttonous Geek", "Praise for", "A Literary Tea Party", ", finalist in the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards", "\"Alison sets the table with comfort and nostalgia and a side of insight into why food is important in our fiction. The recipes are perfect for teatime with friends or curled up with a good book, sneaking bites between turning the pages.\"", "—Diane Ault,", "Fiction-Food Cafe", "\"I love books and I love to cook. This cookbook is a dream come true with all of its recipes based on so many of my favorite stories. I've made many of the recipes and I can attest that they are delicious! This cookbook has so many tips and tricks, so a novice cook can learn to take her skills to the next level and impress her geeky friends at her next literary gathering. The Big Apple Hand Pies are a must-make!\"", "—Victoria Grace Howell, staff writer at", "Area of Effect Magazine", "“I finished reading it in a rush, compelled to read every single page. . . . If you’re looking for an amazing recipe book full of literary referrals, . . . this is the book for you.”", "—", "Books Daily News", "“", "A Literary Tea Party", "is a delight for both of the reader and the foodie. Picking up inspiration from classical literary works as diverse as", "Romeo and Juliet", ",", "White Fang", ", or the", "Wizard of Oz", ", it set up the table for a lengthy discussion about life, works, words, and, obviously, taste buds.”", "—", "Boiled Words", "\"An amazing, deliciously sweet book that will brighten the tea time of every book lover. . . . A must-have in any book lovers’ collection right between the classics and the cookbooks.\"", "—", "Book Traveller", "“A cute and fun collection of mostly simple and familiar recipes. . . . The Queen of Hearts painted rose cupcakes offer a big impression with a simple technique, and many of the savories, while simple in execution, are fun.”", "—", "Food Book Feast", "“Have you ever yearned to eat what the characters in your current book are eating? Or gotten hungry from the descriptions of food in books? . . . This was a lovely book to read and even better to cook from.”", "—", "Bibliomnivorous", "“Thanks to this unique book, I can fulfil my literary foodie fantasies! . . .", "A Literary Tea Party", "is charming and well-thought out. . . . Perfect for the tea, food, and book lovers in your life.”", "—", "Rebecca Reviews", "\"I absolutely love the concept behind this book – a literary tea party. Reading the blurb of this book made me seriously consider throwing a themed tea party just so I could show off all these great recipes!\"", "—", "Ally's Appraisals", "“Reading and cooking from this book will evoke memories from books read in the past and inspire readers to not only pick up those books again, but to have a nice tea party at the same time.”", "—", "Bella Online", "“The perfect gift for the special bookworm in your life, or something you should treat yourself to if you are a whimsy literature lover.”", "—", "Macarons and Paperbacks", "\"[This] lovely book will be a delightful companion for those who love children’s books and teatime . . . a fun way to get kids cooking.\"", "—", "A Magical Homeschool", "About the Author", "Alison Walsh", "first began cooking as a way to stretch her post-college paycheck, and her love of cooking grew. In 2014, she combined her love of food and books into", "Alison’s Wonderland Recipes", "(WonderlandRecipes.com), a food blog dedicated to book-inspired recipes. Her recipes have been featured on the Good Morning America website and MuggleNet, the number one Harry Potter fan website. She is the author of", "A Literary Tea Party", ", which placed fourth in the cookbook category of the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. She lives in northern Illinois with her husband and two little hobbits." ]

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[ "Books", "Cookbooks, Food & Wine", "Cooking Education & Reference" ]

[ "Chief Inspector Alan Banks pairs up with newly promoted detective Susan Gay to investigate a picture-perfect Yuletide murder of a victim with a secret, violent past" ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "The inhabitants of Robinson's Yorkshire are a far cry from James Herriot's sturdy farmers. In this literate mystery, Chief Inspector Alan Banks must deal with the vicious stabbing death of a young lesbian in a room illuminated by the light of a crackling fire and a Christmas tree, the murder by starvation of an incestuous old lecher, the slashing to ribbons of a Twelfth Night cast's costumes and the near-fatal strangulation of his newest detective constable, Susan Gay. Banks, seen last in The Hanging Valley, subjects all potential suspects--including past and present spouses and lovers, a group of amateur thespians and members of the police force--to an extended (perhaps too extended) psychological investigation. The puzzle's grip is weakened by some unconvincing red herrings and the detectives' lengthy musings; nevertheless, Robinson, a Toronto resident and winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novel award, creates an appealing Yorkshire setting with evocative descriptions of the wintry town, dales and seaside. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From Library Journal", "The Canadian author of A Dedicated Man ( LJ 7/91) continues the Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire, England. Banks and the female first-officer-on-the-scene delve into a viciously murdered woman's past.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From Kirkus Reviews", "Brand-new Detective Constant Susan Gay rousts Yorkshire Chief Inspector Alan Banks (The Hanging Valley, etc.) from a wedding party for departing Sgt. Jim Hatchley to examine the body of Caroline Hartley, a woman whose disastrous family life--she ran away from home as soon as she could and ended up working the streets of Soho--and open sexuality--despite her lesbianism, she continued to flirt with men--multiply potential motives for her murder. But all the while he's questioning Caroline's present and former lovers, her fellow-actors in an amateur production of Twelfth Night, and the brother she left behind to take care of her bedridden father, Banks feels certain that the key to her death is a Vivaldi choral work left playing on her phonograph. The final revelation, unfortunately, isn't up to what comes before: a steady, cleareyed revelation of Caroline's personality, combined with piercing insight into an unusually generous circle of suspects. --", "Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.", "Read more" ]

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

[ "Explore the history of Ellis Island, one of the most recognized landmarks in American history. Kids will learn about its early history as a Mohegan island and rest spot for fishermen through its time as a famous immigration station to today's museum. The level 3 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for independent readers." ]

[ "From School Library Journal", "Gr 1–3—This slim volume about Ellis Island fills a need for basic, early-elementary materials. The introduction, which tells the story of Annie Moore and her two little brothers—the first immigrants to pass through Ellis Island—serves to personalize the material and draw in its intended audience of newly fluent readers, while an abundance of primary source photographs and a \"Cool Facts\" spread spark further interest. Divided into short, easy-to-digest mini-chapters, the text packs a large amount of high-interest information into a small space without being overwhelming. Sentences are mostly short and declarative, and the narrative flows evenly, with no disruptive sentence or paragraph breaks across pages. An illustrated glossary further aids comprehension. Where the book falters, however, is in its design. There is an overabundance of visual elements (changing background colors, text boxes, insets, and photos all within a single spread). These are distracting and tend to overwhelm the more subtle black-and-white photos that are this book's strength. Another negative for the library market is the inclusion of a multiple-choice quiz; many young patrons will be inclined to circle their answers. Finally, while the lack of sources in what is ultimately meant as an easy reader is perhaps understandable, the overall package would nonetheless have been stronger with their inclusion. VERDICT Despite its design flaws, this Ellis Island primer's easy readability and high-interest treatment of its subject matter make it a welcome entry in a relatively uncrowded field.—Eileen Makoff, P.S. 90 Edna Cohen School, NY", "About the Author", "ELIZABETH CARNEY is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. She specializes in nonfiction children's books and science, math, and STEM-related magazines. Her author credits include Everything Big Cats, Everything Dolphins, Great Migrations: Whales, Wildebeests, Butterflies, Elephants, and Other Amazing Animals on the Move, and several titles in the Face to Face and National Geographic Readers series. Carney received the 2005 AAAS Science Journalism Award for science reporting for children. Her titles Face to Face With Cheetahs, Face to Face With Gorillas, and Great Migrations: Whales, Wildebeests, Butterflies, Elephants, and Other Amazing Animals on the Move appeared on the National Science Teachers Association's Outstanding Science Trade Book list for 2008, 2009, and 2010 respectively." ]

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

[ "Take a Nationally Syndicated Cartoonist, Playwright, and Songwriter", "And you get Lawrence Brenner's \"FEELINGS\"", "A walk through good times And not so good times", "As long as we can remember Happy Beginnings And dream of Happy Endings We can handle the In-Between", "Cry softly! Laugh loudly! Enjoy!" ]

[ "About the Author", "Lawrence Brenner", "Nationally Syndicated Cartoonist, Playwright and Songwriter", "Takes you for a walk through life with Poetry, Cartoons and Lyrics", "Three books in one!", "Enjoy!" ]

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

[ "The Spy Game Eddie would love to have a puppy to play with.  A puppy would pull on a rope. Catch a ball and lick your face. But his Uncle brings Eddie an older dog named about a famous spy. What can you do with an old dog? It probably couldn't learn new tricks, and the only thing this dog did was stare.  It's what they find to do together that makes them the best of friends!" ]

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[ "Books", "Holiday Books" ]

[ "In a profession where many people will shy away from working in remote and depriveddistricts of the country, Dr Ofosu has provided very useful insights through hispioneering work in a remote district, for young and upcoming medical and otherpractitioners to emulate. The ingredients for such a successful transition from an urban toa rural setting have been highlighted, including overall vision of his profession,commitment to his God, openness to suggestions, supportive superiors and above allunderstanding family support." ]

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[ "Books", "Parenting & Relationships" ]

[ "Herbert is a gentle, friendly lion cub who lives in the city with his owner, a young girl named Sally. Herbert is playful and loves to chase and jump on people. He grows very quickly and as a full-sized lion, these behaviors begin to scare everyone---the postman, the butcher boy, the milkman, and the grocer, as well as Sally's friends, grandparents, and other…" ]

[ "Amazon.com Review", "Herbert the Lion, originally published in 1931, was Caldecott Honor author/illustrator Clare Turlay Newberry's first book. Newberry's simple, now nostalgic illustrations provide a delightful background to this very sweet story of a little girl named Sally, and her insatiable desire for a real, live lion.", "One day, Sally's mother indeed brings home a real lion cub. Sally and Herbert are inseparable. Faster than you can flip the pages, Herbert is a full-grown lion--a friendly creature, but fearsome just the same. So the postman stops bringing letters, the milkman stops bringing milk, and Sally's friends and relations stop coming to visit. Clearly something has to be done, but the thought of sending Herbert to the zoo is intolerable. How will Sally's family solve the problem of Herbert the friendly lion?" ]

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

[ "TIME For Kids", "The Book of How: All About Sports", "presents kids 8-12 years old with answers to the kinds of intriguing questions that appeal to their sense of curiosity. Colorful graphics, spectacular photos and clear, engaging diagrams will help answer questions such as: How are baseball bats made? How do ice skaters spin so fast? How can you stay upright on a surfboard? And many more.TIME For Kids goes beyond just answering the question, and engages kids with hands-on activities at the end of each chapter that bring life to a topic or idea they just read about.", "The Book of How: All About Sports", "is a must-have book to satisfy the most curious of kids." ]

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[ "We’ve both been on a trip of some sort when a shoelace breaks, your phone dies, you’re cold, a blister develops, you get soaking wet from rain, and any number of other random inconveniences happen. All of which cause your daily schedule to be thrown off resulting in aggravation and discomfort. The scenarios above can be prevented or fixed by carrying a few highly useful items along with you on a daily basis These items will be discussed and explained in this guide. Remember, if your gear isn’t on your person or very close then it’s useless." ]

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[ "Books", "Computers & Technology", "Computer Science" ]

[ "This is a new release of the original 1948 edition." ]

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[ "Spirited new Piece O' Cake designs created just for kids." ]

[ "About the Author", "Linda Jenkins and Becky Goldsmith, the founders of Piece O’ Cake Designs, have combined book and pattern sales of more than 100,000 copies. Their titles include", "Amish-Inspired Quilts", "and", "Quilts with a Spin", ". They live in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Sherman, Texas." ]

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

[ "\"Friedman has captured the excitement of the artist at work--the tortuous groping towards an idea and the sense of fulfillment in its ultimate creation. It is, indeed, a definitive biography. It is documented. It is solid. But best of all, it is lively.\"--", "Chicago Tribune", "Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in the art world, shows him to be a brilliant man tormented by his relationship to his family; an artist who worked hard through years of poverty to achieve his controversial painting technique; the first American painter to gain an international reputation for himself and for what has been variously called Action Painting or Abstract Expressionism; and a man who struggled with alcohol and the tension between gentleness and violence.Newly illustrated with seminal Pollock paintings, this book takes the reader inside the art world of New York during the '40s and '50s, when Action Painting first emerged. Friedman reveals what it meant to Pollock to experience the invasion of his studio and of the very act of painting by the external pressures of shows, reviews, films, dealers, critics, hostile publicity; and how, despite it all, Pollock created many of the most graceful and powerful paintings ever made in America." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Friedman's 1972 illustrated biography of the tormented and controversial Abstract Expressionist includes a new foreword by the author.", "Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.", "From the Back Cover", "Newly illustrated with seminal Pollock paintings, this book takes the reader inside the art world of New York during the '40s and '50s, when Action Painting first emerged.", "About the Author", "Novelist, biographer, playwright, and art critic,", "B. H. Friedman", "has written monographs on the artists Lee Krasner, Alfonso Ossorio, and Robert Goodnough, among others.", "Whispers", ", one of his six novels, was recommended for a National Book Award.", "Read more" ]

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[ "For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family—and the convictions that just may pull it apart.", "Before You Know Kindness", "is a family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love.As he did with his earlier masterpiece,", "Midwives", ", Chris Bohjalian has written a novel that is rich with unforgettable characters—and absolutely riveting in its page-turning intensity.“Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian’s grace and power.”—The", "New York Times Book Review", "“Chris Bohjalian’s many fans will be glad to know he’s back on the high wire, expertly balancing topical issues with the more timeless concerns of the human heart. His well-drawn, sympathetic characters deepen and intensify the novel’s gripping plot rather than simply serving it.", "Before You Know Kindness", "is smart, first-rate storytelling.”—Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for", "Empire Falls", "“Once again, Chris Bohjalian dares to tackle the complexities—and complacencies—of modern society at its most vulnerable spot, where the personal clashes with the political, where the private is forced to go public. And once again, he forges a drama that will keep his readers on the edge of their seats...perhaps their conscience as well.”—Julia Glass, winner of the National Book Award for", "Three Junes", "“Chris Bohjalian’s magnificent new novel,", "Before You Know Kindness", ", is the best work of fiction I’ve read about an American family since Amy Tan’s", "The Joy Luck Club", ". It is one of the funniest, best-written, most compassionate, most engaging, and flat-out most enjoyable novels I’ve ever read.”—Howard Frank Mosher, winner of the New England Book Award for", "A Stranger in the Kingdom", "“Elegant, refined...a triumph.” —", "Booklist", "(starred review)Also available as a Random House AudioBook, a Large Print edition, and an eBook." ]

[ "Amazon.com Review", "If you imagine most writer's bathrooms (and this is probably a mistake) you'd picture damp towels in a clump on the floor, hair in the soap, a few mildewed paperbacks stacked on the counter. But it's impossible to picture Chris Bohjalian's bathroom as anything but an", "Architectural Digest", "centerfold: polished counters, not a stray thread on the plush towels, the modulated colors sparked to life by fresh flowers from a neighbor's garden.", "Bohjalian's eighth novel,", "Before You Know Kindness", ", is a beautifully observed, delicately balanced portrait of a family that could only come from the hands of a tireless craftsman who keeps reaching into his story to straighten the tulips or tuck in a shirttail. It begins with two EMTs leaning over animal rights' activist Spencer McCullough's gushing shotgun wound and winds back through the ordinary days leading up to the extraordinary accident, and then forward again as Spencer and his family come to terms with what has happened. As ambitious as other Bohjalian novels,", "Before You Know Kindness", "spirals out to encompass the larger issues of Spencer's political loyalties and the heartless, passionate world of political spin. Some readers may find Bohjalian's style too smooth. Others will relish the completeness of his vision and his obvious tenderness for even the most difficult of his characters.", "--Regina Marler", "From Publishers Weekly", "Bohjalian's new novel begins with a literal bang: a bullet from a hunting rifle accidentally strikes Spencer McCullough, an extreme advocate for animal rights, leaving him seriously wounded. The weapon—owned by his brother-in-law, John, and shot by his 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte—becomes the center of a lawsuit and media circus led by Spencer's employer, FERAL (Federation for Animal Liberation), a dead ringer for PETA. The many-faceted satire Bohjalian (", "Midwives", ", etc.) crafts out of these events revolves around Spencer and Jon's families, but also involves a host of secondary figures. Bohjalian excels at getting inside each character's head with shifts of diction and perspective, though he makes it difficult for readers to connect with any one in particular. This is in part because his portraits are often unsympathetic; the characters are allowed to hoist themselves on their own petards. While some are credibly flawed—Spencer is both a loving father and an obnoxious activist—others are cartoonishly mocked with their own thoughts, like high-powered attorney Paige, who mourns the loss of her leather chairs and briefcases, hidden away for as long as FERAL is a lucrative client. If there is a grounded center to this work, it is 10-year-old Willow, Spencer's niece, who distinguishes herself from this baggy ensemble by always trying to do the right thing. She alone is spared the narrator's irony, and it is Willow, years after the accident, who has the last word. Bohjalian's skewering of the animal rights movement gets the better of his domestic drama, but his skillful storytelling will engage readers. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "From", "Bookmarks Magazine", "Bohjalian, bestselling author of nine novels, knows how to ask the hard questions.", "Before You Know Kindness", "touches on family tension and ties, marriage, disillusionment, betrayal, animals’ rights, hunting, and gun control. Yet, Bohjalian provides no easy answers to these difficult, controversial issues. Nor do his characters—sharply drawn, intimate, and piercing. While the novel is not a polemic, Bohjalian does climb up on the soapbox every now and then to share his views. That, combined with the pat ending, diminishes the story’s power. Yet, overall, it’s a courageous tale about redemption, kindness, and the ability to leave the past behind.", "Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.", "From", "Booklist", "*Starred Review* Bohjalian's novel is a focused look at how a family copes with a tragic accident and how their own deeply held beliefs and desires affect their relationships with each other. Every summer, Nan Seton has her daughter and son and their respective families up to her New Hampshire summer home. Her daughter, Catherine, is married to Spencer, an animal rights activist, and the two have a precocious 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte. Her son, John, has two children, quiet 10-year-old Willow and baby Patrick, with his wife, Sara. John also has a secret; he's taken up hunting. When Charlotte, under the influence of stolen beer and pot from a teenage party, finds John's gun, she fires it at what she thinks is a deer in the distance but is actually her father. Though Spencer lives, the damage caused by the gun leaves him crippled, and the company he works for, FERAL, wants to use his injury to rail against guns and hunters, which creates significant rifts in the extended family. Bohjalian's elegant, refined writing makes even the most ordinary details of family life fascinating, and his characters leap off the pages as very real, flawed, but completely sympathetic human beings. Bohjalian manages to examine some very weighty issues without ever coming off as preachy or pedantic. A triumph.", "Kristine Huntley", "Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved", "Review", "\"", "Before You Know Kindness", "may very well be his best. . . . Masterly . . . timely [and] well-wrought.\" –", "The Boston Globe", "\"An irresistible read. Moving from quiet domestic drama to legal thriller.\" –", "The Washington Post", "\"A dark psychological dance of family estrangements, lies and self-righteousness . . . plenty of finely wrought characters and thought-provoking personal and political drama.\" –", "The Seattle Times", "\"Extraordinary. . . . Bohjalian has had much success in the past, including a selection as an Oprah Book Club author.", "Before You Know Kindness", "is better than anything he's written before.\" –", "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel", "From the Trade Paperback edition.", "From the Inside Flap", "For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family—and the convictions that just may pull it apart.", "Before You Know Kindness", "is a family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love.As he did with his earlier masterpiece,", "Midwives", ", Chris Bohjalian has written a novel that is rich with unforgettable characters—and absolutely riveting in its page-turning intensity.\"Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian's grace and power.\"—The", "New York Times Book Review", "\"Chris Bohjalian's many fans will be glad to know he's back on the high wire, expertly balancing topical issues with the more timeless concerns of the human heart. His well-drawn, sympathetic characters deepen and intensify the novel's gripping plot rather than simply serving it.", "Before You Know Kindness", "is smart, first-rate storytelling.\"—Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for", "Empire Falls", "\"Once again, Chris Bohjalian dares to tackle the complexities—and complacencies—of modern society at its most vulnerable spot, where the personal clashes with the political, where the private is forced to go public. And once again, he forges a drama that will keep his readers on the edge of their seats...perhaps their conscience as well.\"—Julia Glass, winner of the National Book Award for", "Three Junes", "\"Chris Bohjalian's magnificent new novel,", "Before You Know Kindness", ", is the best work of fiction I've read about an American family since Amy Tan's", "The Joy Luck Club", ". It is one of the funniest, best-written, most compassionate, most engaging, and flat-out most enjoyable novels I've ever read.\"—Howard Frank Mosher, winner of the New England Book Award for", "A Stranger in the Kingdom", "\"Elegant, refined...a triumph.\" —", "Booklist", "(starred review)Also available as a Random House AudioBook, a Large Print edition, and an eBook.", "About the Author", "CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the bestselling author of nine novels, including", "Midwives", "(a", "Publishers Weekly", "Best Book and an Oprah’s Book Club selection),", "The Buffalo Soldier", ", and", "Trans-Sister Radio", ", as well as", "Idyll Banter", ", a collection of his magazine essays and newspaper columns. His work has been translated into seventeen languages and published in twenty countries. He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "The sun was up over Washington, Lafayette, and the trio of nearby cannonball-shaped mountains that were called the Three Graces, and Nan Seton—elderly but far from frail—sat sipping her morning coffee on a chaise lounge on the Victorian house's wraparound porch. She noted how the sun was rising much later now than it had even two or three weeks ago: It was already the twenty-eighth or twenty-ninth of July (it disturbed her that she couldn't grab the precise date right now from the air), and her children would be arriving tomorrow. Friday. A golden retriever—old like her but not nearly so energetic—lolled near her feet on the outdoor rug. She had been on the porch close to half an hour and even the coffee in the stovetop percolator she had brought outside with her was cold, when she heard her granddaughters pound their way down the stairs. The older girl, Charlotte, was twelve; the younger one, Willow (a name that drove Grandmother crazy both for its absolute lack of any family resonance and its complete New Age inanity), was ten. The girls collapsed into the two wicker chairs near the outdoor table, opposite their grandmother and her chaise. She saw they both had sleep in their eyes and their hair wasn't brushed. They were still in their nightgowns, their feet were bare, and Charlotte was sitting in such a fashion—the sole of one foot wedged against her other leg's thigh—that her nightgown had bunched up near her waist and she was offering anyone who cared to see an altogether indelicate and (in Nan's opinion) appalling show of flesh. \"Good morning,\" she said to them, trying hard to resist the urge to put down her cup and saucer and pull Charlotte's nightgown back down over her knee. \"How are my two little wildflowers?\" \"Sleepy,\" Charlotte said, her voice already the uninterested drawl of an urban teenager. \"You girls are up early. Any special reason?\" \"There's a bird on the roof,\" Charlotte said. \"A woodpecker,\" Willow added, and she reached down to pet the drowsing dog. Nan nodded. She decided the bird must have been on the roof over the kitchen porch on the other side of the house, because otherwise she, too, would have heard him just now. \"They don't normally drum this late in the season,\" she said to her granddaughters. \"They—\" \"Trust me, we are not making this up,\" Charlotte said. \"It sounds like there's some guy up there and he's trying to open a tin of Altoids with a machine gun.\" The girl had two tiny hillocks starting to emerge on her chest. Not yet breasts and not visible in this particular nightgown. But they were evident in bathing suits and T-shirts. Her eyes were the shape of perfectly symmetrical almonds, her nose was small, and her mouth was a luscious pucker at once waiflike and impudent. She lacked her mother's paralyzingly sensual red hair, but her mane was thick and dark with natural hints of henna, and it fell on her shoulders like a cape. In a few years, Charlotte would be gorgeous, an absolute knockout. For the moment, however, she was in that murky world between childhood and serious adolescence. In one light she might pass for ten; in another she might be mistaken for fourteen. \"She didn't say we were making anything up,\" Willow murmured, and then she did exactly what her grandmother wanted most in the world that very moment: She reached over to her cousin from Manhattan and pulled the older girl's nightgown down over her knee so that taut and tanned twelve-year-old thigh once again was decently covered. \"If I had a gun, I would have shot it,\" Charlotte grumbled, widening her eyes as she spoke because she understood her remark was so gloriously inflammatory. But then—and here was that child—she still lacked the anarchic courage of a truly angry adolescent, and so she allowed herself a retraction of sorts. \"Well, not", "it", ", of course. Dad would completely disown me if I ever did something like that. But maybe I would have shot near it. Scared it. Scared its beak off.\" \"Do you know why a woodpecker might drum in July?\" Nan asked them. \"Because it's an idiot.\" \"Charlotte—\" Willow began, but her cousin cut her off. \"It is! Why do you think we have the expression", "birdbrain", "? \" The woman watched Willow's round face carefully. The girl was two years younger than Charlotte, and she lived in northern Vermont—barely two hours from this house, actually. She had worried this whole month that Charlotte would (and the word had come to her the moment she had spoken to her own adult children that spring when they had begun planning the girls' annual summer stay in New Hampshire)", "corrupt", "young Willow. So far that hadn't happened, but she knew there was still plenty of time. She saw now that Willow was more hurt by Charlotte's tone than impressed by her attitude. The girl was gazing down at her toenails, and the salmon-colored polish that she had layered on them the night before. Her feet were elegant and small. The soles were smooth, the skin was soft. \"It's not likely the bird is stupid, Charlotte,\" Nan said. \"He's either boasting of his responsibility for a second clutch of eggs or he's lonely and still trying to find a mate.\" \"I wish I spoke woodpecker, then. I'd tell him to go write a personal ad. It would be a lot quieter.\" \"Have you seen the crow?\" Willow asked her grandmother. \"Yes, why?\" \"It's so big. I never think of crows as big. But twice yesterday near the garden—by the apple trees—I saw it.\" Charlotte rolled her eyes. \"It's probably a raven then. Ravens are much huger. Right, Grandmother?\" \"No, it is indeed a crow. There's a family with a nest at the top of one of the white pines near the strawberry patch. Try an experiment later today, if you feel like it. Before we leave for the club, place a dime in the driveway near the trees. Maybe even tilt it on its side so it catches the sun. When we return, there's a good chance the dime will be gone.\" \"Oh, good,\" Charlotte said, and she smiled. \"A woodpecker so dim he thinks bashing on the roof will get him a girlfriend and a crow who's a petty thief. What nice birds you have, Grandmother.\" \"He wants the dime because it's shiny,\" Nan said simply, as she carefully placed the wicker tray that held her coffee on the table beside the chaise and stood up. \"Now, what would you two like for breakfast? I actually have some pancake batter in the refrigerator from yesterday and, of course, sausages—\" \"Dad would freak if he knew how much meat you were trying to feed us,\" Charlotte told her. \"Yes, your father probably would. You don't have to eat it. But Willow and I still eat—\" \"Dead things.\" \"Yes, we do.\" Willow's hair was the color of a sand dollar that has not yet been bleached by the sun. She looked up now, brushed her bangs away from her eyes, and said to her grandmother, \"Maybe I'll just have pancakes this morning, too, please.\" \"What? No sausages?\" Nan asked, unable to hide the surprise in her voice. \"No, thank you. Not today.\" \"Hallelujah,\" Charlotte said happily, and then she climbed off the chair and ran up the stairs to get dressed. The dog lifted his head, the vibrations from the human on the stairs causing his spot on the porch to shudder beneath his snout. Willow paused for a moment, and it seemed to her grandmother that there was something more she wanted to say. But then she stood, too, shrugged her shoulders and raced up the steps after her cousin. AS SHE DROPPED the pancake batter—after nearly twenty-four hours in the refrigerator, it was thicker than pudding—onto the electric skillet, the phone rang. Nan Seton had never bothered to purchase a cordless phone, and so she made a mental note as she scooted in her slippers across the long kitchen to keep the call brief: She did not want the pancakes—which, because the batter was substantial and heavy, reminded her of small loofah sponges on the griddle—to wind up looking like charcoal briquettes. \"Hello?\" \"Hi, Nan. It's Marguerite.\" \"I'm making the girls breakfast.\" \"Oh, I'll just be a minute. Do you remember how you noticed at the club yesterday that Walter Durnip's color wasn't very good?\" \"Vaguely. He looked a little gray.\" \"He did, he did. Well, he died.\" She sat on the wooden stool by the phone, and nodded to herself. \"How?\" \"In his sleep.\" \"That's how I want to go. What was it? A heart attack? A stroke?\" \"I don't know. But when he went to bed, he didn't say anything to Elizabeth about how he felt. He just went to sleep, and when Elizabeth woke up this morning she knew right away he was dead.\" \"He was eighty-four, wasn't he?\" \"Something like that.\" \"He wasn't even ill.\" \"At least not visibly.\" \"Oh, we would have known if Walter was ill. He wasn't particularly stoic.\" Nan heard her friend laugh, but she hadn't meant this as a joke. It was, in her mind, a simple reiteration of an obvious fact: Walter Durnip was a man, and men were notoriously unwilling to keep pain to themselves—which was where, more times than not, it belonged. As a general rule, old people who talked about their ailments made Nan Seton uncomfortable. Too much... body. \"Elizabeth doesn't know for sure when she's going to have the funeral yet, but it will probably be the day after tomorrow. S...", "Read more" ]

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[ "Little Lost Kitten" ]

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[ "Big animals pose a big problem in “This Book is Too Small!” A promising safari quickly turns disastrous when the huge animals cannot be contained in the pages of the book. Frustrated with their undersized habitats, they go on strike, leaving the reader (and author) stranded. But when all seems lost, a learning opportunity arrives. “This Book is Too Small!” shows us that anything is possible when we look at problems from a different angle. In fact, maybe something that seems like a problem is nothing more than a puzzle waiting to be solved. After all, just because something doesn’t turn out as planned, doesn’t mean it’s a failure." ]

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[ "In 1886 Onofre Bouvila arrives in Barcelona to begin his career as anarchist, salesman, burglar, filmmaker, and commercial-political deal maker, a career that parallels Barcelona's growth into a World's Fair city" ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Barcelona, chief city of Catalonia (historically a hotbed of anarchist and separatist activity) plays the role of a magical, protean character in this sprightly novel, a bestseller in Spain. The action spans the years between Barcelona's two economically disastrous World's Fairs of 1888 and 1929. Young Onofre Bouvila ventures from his parents' provincial farm to work in the city, where he begins his political involvement by distributing revolutionary pamphlets on the fairgrounds. Aided by the giant Efren, he becomes a con-man who sells hair oil, serves underworld boss Don Humbert, arranges for rivals to be bumped off, and marries the Don's lovely daughter, Margarita. But Onofre, a driven tycoon who becomes an arms smuggler, cannot forget his first love, an adoring, wretchedly skinny anarchist named Delfina. Nor can he resolve his feelings for his fathercalled the americano since his return from a trip to Cuba with a white suit, a monkey and fraudulent schemes. Unfortunately, the characterization remains opaque, though the novel entertains and informs with its panorama of Catalan politics and social life, the advent of cinema and flying machines, and amusing cameos of Rasputin and Mata Hari. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From Library Journal", "A modern picaresque tale that traces the meteoric rise of unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila from two-bit charlatan to movie mogul, culminating in his \"marvelous\" demise, Mendoza's novel appears for the first time in a well-translated English version. This fanciful mesh of fantasy and history adroitly weaves its characters into the life of the titular city of Barcelona at the turn of the century between two world's fairs. Though recently published in Spain (1986), where it was a best seller, the text resorts to the traditional narrative techniques of the chronicle, allowing the straightforward development of events to overshadow the cardboard delineation of characters. Despite the lack of surprises, general readers should enjoy. Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC, Inc., Dublin, OhioCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc." ]

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[ "Captain America, the super-soldier patriot of World War II...is gone! Left in his place is Jet Black, daughter of criminal mastermind Arnim Zola! As beauti ful as she is powerful, Jet Black must learn the laws of mortal men in New York City. But when the Nazi soldiers known as the S Men lure Black into evil, will she follow in her nefarious father's footsteps? Meanwhile, the Weapon Minus Program has been reopened...and Captain America is unhinged! When the Iron Nail begins assassinating the heads of the five largest corporations, Falcon and Jet Black are forced to make a terrible choice! Can Captain America put a lid on Dr. Mindbubble, or will the villain shatter Captain America's already fragile psyche? And what happens when S.H.I.E.L.D.'s greatest secrets are revealed to the world's most dangerous man?", "COLLECTING:", "CAPTAIN AMERICA 16-21" ]

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[ "Sweet, humble, soft-spoken Daniel always tried to be a good person, despite the hell his family put him through every Christmas. But when he meets the hot and cocky bad boy Cass who crashes his holiday weekend with the family Daniel learns what it's like to break all the rules, live dangerously, and proudly make Santa's \"naughty list\".", "Includes: Steamy situations, a \"fake boyfriend\" dilemma, tiptoeing around an uptight family, soul searching, and an unexpected touch of holiday magic." ]

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[ "We look to the Lord as our source of light and truth, and as we learn to truly love him and conscientiously seek to develop our spirituality our \"light within\" burns ever more brightly.", "Bring Forth Your Light is based on the Savior's challenging statement, \"I give unto you to be the light of the world.\" Thus we come to experience the thrill of being \"channels of glory,\" conduits by which God's power and love can flow into the lives of others. It is particularly important that we teach our children these principles and bring them up in light and truth." ]

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[ "Detailing more than one hundred classic cars built between the 1950s and early 1990s with close-up gallery photographs, a comprehensive history highlights each model's production figures, competition successes, mechanical and body modifications, and more. Reprint." ]

[ "About the Author", "Quentin Willson is a well-known TV commentator and best-selling author of", "Cars: A Celebration and Classic American Cars", "." ]

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[ "You know what's even better than playing games? Programming your own! Make your own online games, even if you're an absolute beginner. Let your imagination come to 3D life as you learn real-world programming skills with the JavaScript programming language - the language used everywhere on the web. This new edition is completely revised, and takes advantage of new programming features to make game programming even easier to learn. Plus, new effects make your games even cooler. When you're done, you're going to be amazed at what you can create.", "Jump right in! Start programming cool stuff on page 1. Keep building new and different things until the very last page. This book wants you to play. Not just play games, but play with code. Play with programming. Because the best way to learn something is to have fun with it!", "This second edition is updated from start to finish to make it even easier to get started programming in JavaScript. Every example has been updated to make it easier, with new example games to explore and new 3D effects that make your games even more fun! Want a red donut? You can make hundreds of them, spinning around like mad. Want to create a star field? Make a hundred or a thousand stars. Make them red, green, or blue. Explosions? Fireworks? Planets? It's up to you. And, using a code editor created especially for this book, you'll program right in your web browser. You'll see the results of your work and imagination right away - right next to the code that you just typed! Along the way, you'll pick up a ton of programming knowledge, and dive in even deeper with some more advanced chapters.", "Whatever you want to do, this book has your back. Best of all, you get to create awesome games and say, \"I made this!\"", "What You Need:", "You need the latest version of the Google Chrome Web browser, available for free from https://chrome.google.com. You also need an Internet connection to access the ICE Code Editor the first time. ICE Code Editor will be loaded onto your computer, so you won't need Internet access for later projects." ]

[ "About the Author", "Chris Strom is a relentless public learner, with more than 1,000 blog posts serving as research notes for his writing. His books include", "Dart for Hipsters", ",", "The SPDY Book", ", and", "Recipes with Backbone", ". He has more than ten years of experience programming in Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, and whatever his current obsession happens to be. Chris lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, three children, and a goldfish named Martin Tanner." ]

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[ "ELEGANT AND EASY LIVING ROOMS is the guide to creating design magazine magic in any home--a living room that's a personal haven for family and a magnetic gathering spot for friends. Whether readers want a design overhaul or just a few beautiful upgrades, this compendium is packed with designer-tested (and budget-conscious) tips, including: the best specific paint colors for living rooms; restful, romantic ways to brighten a room starved for sun; and simple ways to make a ceiling look higher (or lower)." ]

[ "From Library Journal", "Landis, contributing editor to Metropolitan Home, expands on her previous book, Elegant and Easy Rooms (LJ 1/98), dividing its information into separate books and giving more tips she has assembled from interior designers over the years. While in her previous book she gave unaccredited tips, here she identifies the designers and even mentions specific products, such as which Benjamin Moore color a designer recommends for hallways, making the information even more helpful to amateur decorators. In each book, she discusses furniture, windows, ceilings, and walls, concluding with a list of resources for home furnishings, paint, and accessories. An excellent purchase for public libraries. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "Review", "Praise for Elegant and Easy Rooms:\"If the choicest thing in your apartment is the rattan blinds, don't call in the wrecking ball just yet. Instead, follow these tips from Dylan Landis.\"--Cosmopolitan\"The secrets are short, real, and very good . . . Wonderfully easy to understand, and fast to read.\"--Victorian Homes Magazine\"Truly helpful hints for spaces large and small.\"--The Washington Post\"What it promises . . . this paperback delivers . . . writer Dylan Landis  . . . has an inside track to the best professional advice.\"--Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Magazine", "From the Inside Flap", "EASY LIVING ROOMS is the guide to creating design magazine magic in any home--a living room that's a personal haven for family and a magnetic gathering spot for friends. Whether readers want a design overhaul or just a few beautiful upgrades, this compendium is packed with designer-tested (and budget-conscious) tips, including: the best specific paint colors for living rooms; restful, romantic ways to brighten a room starved for sun; and simple ways to make a ceiling look higher (or lower).", "From the Back Cover", "Praise for Elegant and Easy Rooms:\"If the choicest thing in your apartment is the rattan blinds, don't call in the wrecking ball just yet. Instead, follow these tips from Dylan Landis.\"--Cosmopolitan\"The secrets are short, real, and very good . . . Wonderfully easy to understand, and fast to read.\"--Victorian Homes Magazine\"Truly helpful hints for spaces large and small.\"--The Washington Post\"What it promises . . . this paperback delivers . . . writer Dylan Landis . . . has an inside track to the best professional advice.\"--Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Magazine", "Read more" ]

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[ "\"Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet.\"—", "The New York Times Book Review", "\"Ilan Pappé is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.\"—John Pilger", "Described by a UN fact-finding mission as \"a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate, and terrorize a civilian population,\" Israel's Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict.", "In", "Gaza in Crisis", ", Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, two of the issue's most insightful and prominent critical voices, survey the fallout from Israel's conduct in Gaza and place it into the context of Israel's longstanding occupation of Palestine.", "Noam Chomsky", "is one of the world's foremost social critics, and one of its most prolific. He is author of", "Failed States", "and", "Hegemony or Survival", ", both", "New York Times", "bestsellers. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is institute professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.", "Ilan Pappé", "is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies, director of the Palestine Studies Centre, and a longtime political activist. He is the author of", "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine", "." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Although much of the material collected here precedes Israel's recent military attack on a Gaza-bound international flotilla of embargo-breaking humanitarian aid, this succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays from the renowned linguist and activist Chomsky (Hopes and Prospects) and prominent Israeli historian Pappé (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine) gives essential context to the crisis. The reader will find Chomsky's consistent positions on everything from the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the issue of a one- versus two-state settlement. Pappé adds vital and unexpected historical background, including a chapter on the deep American evangelical roots in the support of Zionism and the birth of modern Arab nationalism in Palestine. Pappé and Chomsky are not perfectly in synch on every point: Chomsky remains skeptical of an academic boycott of Israel, for instance, called for in the past by Pappé and others. But the fundamentals of the crisis--and its scale in humanitarian, moral and political terms--are clear, as well as clearly expressed, between them. This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region. (Nov.) (c) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "About the Author", "Noam Chomsky", "is widely regarded to be one of the foremost critics of US foreign policy in the world. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. Among his recent books are the bestsellers", "Hegemony or Survival", ", recommended by Hugo Chavez in the United Nations, and", "Failed States", ". He is Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.", "Ilan Pappe´", "is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the UK, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies, and director of the Palestine Studies Centre. He is author of the bestselling", "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine", "(Oneworld),", "A History of Modern Palestine", "(Cambridge),", "The Israel/Palestine Question", "(Routledge), and is a long time political activist." ]

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

[ "Choose one or all three of these original patterns from Rami Kim and whip up tote bags that reflect your creativity. Make a Two Fat Quarter tote, a Lotus Blossom tote, or a Doo Roo Mah Gey tote and learn how to embellish with delicate but easy-to-do fabric folding. You'll be surprised at how quickly these lovely bags come together. 3 Embellished Fabric Bags is the perfect solution for taking the class without having a computer, it makes a wonderful gift, and it is great to have on hand as a hard copy-even if you have taken or plan to take the online class. Run Time: 169 minutes" ]

[ "About the Author", "Rami Kim is best known for her innovative art-to wear pieces that have gained her numerous Best of Show accolades. She is a DNA scientist-turned fabric artist who is known internationally as a speaker and author. Her first book, Folded Fabric Elegance is a project book about 3-D texturing techniques. Quilted Elegance focuses on reversible wearable arts, bags, and two-sided quilts. Her third book, Elegant Cotton, Wool, Silk Quilts was published in 2012. Her most recent book is Friendship Dolls to Sew & Quilt. All of her books are published through AQS. Rami's passion is in contemporary art to wear, quilts, cloth dolls, and bags with special interest in 3-D textures." ]

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[ "Innocence is his only currency. The gilded cage of propriety where Nathan grew up as a member of the Deilian aristocracy became a true prison when, at fifteen, his homosexuality came to light and created a terrible scandal. His parents see only one way to preserve their reputation amongst the other noble families: fit Nathan with a chastity belt to increase his value to a potential partner and marry him off as soon as possible. The recipient of that prize is Lord Rother Marsh Delaga III. After a hasty wedding, Rother whisks Nathan away to the strange and seductive land of Marisol, where Nathan will begin a new life, free to explore the pleasures of the marriage bed, though his life is still not his own. But Rother’s Delaga House is a place of secrets, dangers, and depravity Nathan can scarcely comprehend. Where friends are few and peril waits around every corner, Nathan must employ all the manipulation he learned from high society, along with his talent for clockwork. Most of all, Nathan must adapt, compromise to survive, and cast off the preconceptions of his homeland. Because only he can orchestrate his freedom, and it’ll come at a cost." ]

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

[ "In silence, ask the questions. Who am I? Why am I here?Yoga: The Secret of Lifeis a photo-documentary about the spiritual and physical journey of yoga. Through photographs and text this fine art book explores the personal experiences of 108 of today's leading practitioners and how this ancient practice has transformed their mind, body, and spirit. The photographs are taken on glass plates using the wet collodion process, a photographic technique dating back to the 1850s. With the use of a large format wooden camera and antique brass lens, glass plates are hand coated to produce one of a kind ambrotype images. The collodion process transcends us to another place, another time. When light and chemistry collide we enter a mysterious world where art and science meet and the alchemy reveals itself.The photographs take on another dimension with the spoken words that accompany them. The text provides an intimate and enlightening account of each person's personal journey.Beyond the physical posturesYoga: The Secret of Lifedelves deep into the purpose of our existence and how to live a happy and fulfilled life. It explores understanding who we truly are, why we are here, and what our ultimate purpose is on this planet.Included are world renowned yogis Radhanath Swami, Sharon Gannon, David Life, Gurmukh Kaur Khasla, Sri Dharma Mittra, Krishna Das, Tao-Porchon Lynch, Shiva Rea, Rod Stryker, Seane Corn and Rodney Yee." ]

[ "Review", "As Seen In: CBS Los Angeles, Downtown, LAPALME, Olympic & Bundy, elephant Journal", "About the Author", "Francesco Mastalia has traveled the world photographing tribal, religious, spiritual, and indigenous people. His first book Dreads, published by Workman Artisan, is a photo documentary on the history of dreadlocks. The book is now in its eighth printing, and includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. His recent book Organic: Farmers & Chefs of the Hudson Valley published by powerHouse Books is a photo documentary of the Hudson Valley's organic sustainable food movement. The portraits of the farmers and chefs were photographed using the wet plate collodion process, a photographic technique developed in the mid-19th century. Works from Organic are included in the Permanent Collection of the Library of Congress." ]

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

[ "Demonstrates updated features while reviewing Fireworks fundamentals, including installation, configuration, path tools, color palettes, text manipulation, special effects, animations, slices, links, and behaviors." ]

[ "From School Library Journal", "Fireworks 4, a tool for creating graphics and interactive elements for web pages, works well with other Macromedia tools like Dreamweaver and Flash. Like other authors in the \"Visual QuickStart\" series, Cohen does an excellent job of distilling topics. Whether discussing optimizing graphics or creating rollover effects, her book addresses the issues in a concise manner, which makes it useful for even experienced users. How To Use provides a very graphical reference for the newer user. Both of these titles are recommended, given the popularity of web animation tools, but Cohen's book will probably have a longer shelf life. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From the Back Cover", "One of our best-selling Visual QuickStart Guides now includes the latest features of Fireworks 4, with updated coverage of animation, scripting Fireworks and Dreamweaver, writing JavaScript commands, and exporting graphics to Macromedia Director. A new chapter compares Fireworks with Adobe Photoshop as a Web graphics tool.", "With Fireworks 4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, you'll learn how to design, create, optimize, and output Web graphics from Fireworks in no time, thanks to the signature Visual QuickStart approach: clear, step-by-step instructions with plenty of helpful screenshots. The book thoroughly explores Fireworks' omnibus graphic tool set, which combines vector drawing, bitmap tools, text editing, special effects, color management, animation, and HTML linking in one interface.", "About the Author", "Sandee Cohen, a former advertising creative supervisor, has been teaching and training on the Macintosh for the past seven years. She teaches at the New School for Social Research Computer Instruction Center in New York City. She is also a contributing writer for several desktop publishing magazines. Her artwork has been used for book jacket covers, interior illustrations, maps, and technical illustrations.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Computers & Technology", "Web Development & Design" ]

[ "העיר תל אביב לובשת היום חג. תיכף יתמלאו רחובותיה באלפי אנשים מכל סוג, שיצעדו יחדיו במצעד הגאווה הססגוני. קשת כבר מוכנה לצבוע את העיר בשלל צבעיה ולמלא כל פינה באהבה וגאווה. אך דווקא ביום השמח מופיעה מכשפת הבושה, המאיימת להרוס את החגיגה הגדולה.\"יום של גאווה\" חוגג את נפלאות המגוון והשוני הקיימים בעולמנו, ומעודד את הילדים לקבל את עצמם ואחרים – בדיוק כפי שהם. הצטרפו למסע מעצים ומרגש ביום קסום בו לכולם יש מקום.רועי יולדוס-רייס הוא בעל תואר שני בתקשורת ובמנהל עסקים; מקים ערוץ הגאווה באתר mako וסמנכ\"ל השיווק של תמוז פונדקאות. בן זוג של אור ואב גאה לאליה ולירי." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Growing Up & Facts of Life" ]

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

[ "This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book." ]

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[ "Books", "History" ]

[ "\"These stories say something meaningful, as well as relate an anecdote. They are not only examples of narrative skill, but exhibitions of social truth.\" - Saturday Review \"Priestley is one of the finest and most popular storytellers of the last hundred years. We are now aware many of his stories have a prophetic quality.\" - Dame Margaret Drabble \"[H]ighly readable and provocative.\" - Sunday Herald (Sydney) J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) was a versatile and prolific novelist and playwright, but in The Other Place (1953), he shows an unexpected talent, proving himself a master of the weird tale. In \"The Grey Ones,\" Mr. Patson visits a psychiatrist after he becomes convinced that a race of demons masquerading as men are plotting the overthrow of the human race . . . but what if he's not insane? In \"Guest of Honour,\" a banquet speech becomes a horrifying affair when the keynote speaker realizes his audience is made up of monstrous and menacing creatures. \"The Leadington Incident\" recounts the disturbing experience of a Cabinet minister who suddenly perceives that though the people around him move and talk as though alive, they are all actually just animated corpses or sleepwalking zombies. The nine tales in this collection are strange, fantastic, and often unsettling, and they represent Priestley at his best. This 60th anniversary edition, the first reprinting of The Other Place in more than forty years, includes a new introduction by Priestley scholar John Baxendale. Priestley's classic novel of psychological terror, Benighted (1927), is also available from Valancourt Books." ]

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[ "A wolf is a heavy sleeper after a feast. A hunter would have said that this wolf had gorged itself the night before. Still, something had alarmed it. Faintly there came to this wilderness outlaw that most thrilling of all things to the denizens of the forest—the scent of man." ]

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

[ "Discusses the history, culture, material artifacts, and society of six ancient Chinese dynasties from about 2000 B.C. to 221 A.D." ]

[ "From School Library Journal", "Gr 6 Up-In clear and understandable language, Hall dispels myths and carefully sorts reality from fiction concerning the earliest of the myriad Chinese dynasties. An introductory time line, beginning with 2000 B.C. and progressing to A.D. 618, serves as a valuable reference point in support of the succeeding chapters. The text delves into various aspects of everyday life during the specific eras, as well as that of culture and customs. In the chapter on the Shang Dynasty, the narrative reveals that \"life was cheap-\" including the fact of human sacrifices that were commonly made. Yet, in the midst of such brutality, students will find that beautiful artwork was created, and that the form of writing still in use today was developed during this period. Black-and-white photos and reproductions appear throughout. Suggested further reading is appended and includes two supporting videos. An informative starting point for reports.-Alida F. Given, Fairhope Intermediate School, AL", "Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information, Inc." ]

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[ "Books", "Teen & Young Adult", "Education & Reference" ]

[ "Con unas ilustraciones maravillosas y un mensaje que llegará directo al corazón de los más pequeños.", "Un cuento infantil de Jorge Bucay.", "Desde pequeño me ronda por la cabeza una pregunta: ¿Por qué un animal tan fuerte como el elefante del circo permite que lo mantenganatado a la estaca?" ]

[ "About the Author", "Jorge Bucay", "nació en Buenos Aires donde se licenció en Medicina. Posteriormente se especializó en Salud Mental, trabajando en la asistencia de adultos y parejas como psicoterapeuta gestáltico. Su enorme éxito como comunicador le transformó en una figura conocida, siendo invitado con frecuencia a programas de radio y de televisión en todos los países de habla hispana.", "Sus libros, verdaderos manuales de superación personal llenos de cuentos y de más preguntas que respuestas, se han convertido en best sellers en más de treinta países del mundo y se han traducido ya a veinticuatro idiomas.", "En 2006 presentó a concurso su primera novela, un", "thriller", "político titulado", "El candidato,", "que ganó el V Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja editada ese mismo año en Plaza & Janés. Y en el año 2008, junto con el dibujante Gusti, publicó su primer", "libro para niños, una versión ilustrada del cuento", "El elefante encadenado", "nominada por la OBLI como uno de los diez mejores libros infantiles de ese año.", "Alejado por decisión propia de la tarea asistencial y docente, divide su tiempo entre su labor como editor en la revista", "Mentesana,", "su colaboración periódica con diversos programas de radio o medios escritos y la tarea de escribir y promocionar sus libros." ]

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

[ "Practicing Gratitude Daily Makes Happiness a Habit in Your Life and Then Everything is Possible!", "Can you transform your life in less than 5 minutes a day?", "Is happiness really easily achievable?", "Scientific research shows gratitude and mindfulness are the best and fastest instruments that can help us feel happy and content instantly. To enjoy a happier and peaceful life we need to strengthen the gratefulness mechanism into a concrete habit.", "Nowadays life can be stressful, fast paced and we might experience overwhelming feelings such as depression and anxiety. But life can also be Wonderful, Magical, filled with Joy, Peace and Fulfillment. Just focus on this side instead. Everytime the mind returns to the negative thinking bring it back by recalling anything that makes you thankful. Anything. This way you will shift your perception and enhance your well-being straight away.", "Change Your Attitude, Change your Life!", "The 3 Minutes Gratitude Journal will be the instrument that will help you build a strong and consistent every day practice that over time will become automatic and natural. By starting and ending the day with positive organic gratefulness you will create a new mental pattern that will make you experience a fulfilled happy life.", "Shift Your Perspective, Choose Happiness!", "You truly have the power, You can decide and be happy, starting from this moment onwards, so what do you choose?", "What you will love about your 3 Minutes Gratitude Journal:", "the inspiring quotes", "at the top of each page", "the beautiful design", "– easy, neat and simple to use", "the morning and evening sections", "– so you practice twice daily", "format and cover (6” x 9”)", "– perfect to carry around and big enough to allow your expression to flow freely", "the blank date", "– you will have flexibility to miss a day and not feel guilty", "it really takes just 3 minutes a day or less", "Take time for yourself and be thankful, let awareness help you fulfill your dreams.", "Count your blessings daily, get your copy now, you might even gift one to someone you love and start your journey to happiness together!" ]

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

[ "“Here’s the truth, sister: Mary Magdalene has been knocking at the door of my heart for three years. “She got squeezed out of", "Bad Girls of the Bible", "when I realized I needed more time to research her complex story. Then she was dropped from the roster for", "Really Bad Girls of the Bible", "because Tamar and Bathsheba took up more than their allotted pages. (Pushy, huh?) Now I know the real reason why Mary M waited so patiently in the wings: She deserves a book all her own!“Come meet the genuine Mary Magdalene of the Bible–not the scarlet-draped legend–and follow her one-of-a-kind story of deliverance and dedication, despair and declaration. Like my previous", "Bad Girls", "books,", "Mad Mary", "begins with the fictional journey of Mary Margaret Delaney, a bad woman–or was it madwoman?–adrift in contemporary Chicago, desperate for someone to save her from herself. “Once Mary Delaney’s story has prepared our hearts for learning, we’ll leave the Windy City and go verse by verse through Mary of Magdala’s ancient biblical tale, tossing aside modern misconceptions as we embrace the real Mary M. “Prepare to be amazed by this eye-opening sister who was transformed", "twice", "when You-Know-Who showed up and spoke her name.", "Oh, Mary!”– Liz Curtis Higgs", "From the Hardcover edition." ]

[ "From the Inside Flap", "“Here’s the truth, sister: Mary Magdalene has been knocking at the door of my heart for three years. “She got squeezed out of", "Bad Girls of the Bible", "when I realized I needed more time to research her complex story. Then she was dropped from the roster for", "Really Bad Girls of the Bible", "because Tamar and Bathsheba took up more than their allotted pages. (Pushy, huh?) Now I know the real reason why Mary M waited so patiently in the wings: She deserves a book all her own!“Come meet the genuine Mary Magdalene of the Bible–not the scarlet-draped legend–and follow her one-of-a-kind story of deliverance and dedication, despair and declaration. Like my previous", "Bad Girls", "books,", "Mad Mary", "begins with the fictional journey of Mary Margaret Delaney, a bad woman–or was it madwoman?–adrift in contemporary Chicago, desperate for someone to save her from herself. “Once Mary Delaney’s story has prepared our hearts for learning, we’ll leave the Windy City and go verse by verse through Mary of Magdala’s ancient biblical tale, tossing aside modern misconceptions as we embrace the real Mary M. “Prepare to be amazed by this eye-opening sister who was transformed", "twice", "when You-Know-Who showed up and spoke her name.", "Oh, Mary!”– Liz Curtis Higgs", "From the Hardcover edition.", "About the Author", "An award-winning speaker,", "Liz Curtis Higgs", "has addressed audiences from more than 1400 platforms in all fiftystates, Germany, Ecuador, France, Canada, and Scotland, encouraging women to celebrate the joy of knowing Christ. She is the author of seventeen books, including two contemporary novels,", "Mixed Signals", "and", "Bookends,", "and her best-selling nonfiction titles,", "Bad Girls of the Bible", "and", "Really Bad Girls of the Bible.", "Whether applying her storytelling talents to fiction or her unique style of “girlfriend theology” nonfiction, Liz touches the hearts of her readers with honest self-disclosure, real-life humor, and grace-filled encouragement. Liz and her husband, Bill, live with their two children in Louisville, Kentucky.", "From the Hardcover edition." ]

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

[ "A special edition of one of the greatest masterpieces of the environmental movement—plus original photographs and other writings on environmental ethics", "Since his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold has been increasingly recognized as one of the indispensable figures of American environmentalism. A pioneering forester, sportsman, wildlife manager, and ecologist, he was also a gifted writer whose farsighted land ethic is proving increasingly relevant in our own time. Now, Leopold’s essential contributions to our literature—some hard-to-find or previously unpublished—are gathered in a single volume for the first time. Here is his classic", "A", "Sand County Almanac", ", hailed—along with Thoreau’s", "Walden", "and Carson’s", "Silent Spring—", "as one of the main literary influences on the modern environmental movement. Published in 1949, it remains a vivid, firsthand, philosophical tour de force. Along with", "Sand", "County", "are more than fifty articles, essays, and lectures exploring the new complexities of ecological science and what we would now call environmental ethics. Leopold’s sharp-eyed, often humorous journals are illustrated here for the first time with his original photographs, drawings, and maps. Also unique to this collection is a selection of over 100 letters, most of them never before published, tracing his personal and professional evolution and his efforts to foster in others the love and sense of responsibility he felt for the land.", "LIBRARY OF AMERICA", "is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries." ]

[ "About the Author", "CURT MEINE,", "editor, serves as Director of Conservation Biology and History for the Center for Humans and Nature and Senior Fellow of the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He is the author of", "Aldo", "Leopold: His Life and Work", "––the definitive biography of Leopold––and", "Correction Lines: Essays on Land,", "Leopold, and Conservation.", "He lives in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin." ]

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

[ "Peppa and her friends play a lively game of soccer--but will both teams play fair?", "Peppa, George, and their friends get together to play a game of soccer: the boys against the girls! But what happens when the two teams can't agree on what's fair?La Cerdita Peppa, su hermano George y sus amigos juegan al fútbol: ¡los chicos contra las chicas! Pero, ¿qué sucede cuando los equipos no se ponen de acuerdo sobre las reglas del juego?" ]

[ "About the Author", "Scholastic Inc. is a global publishing and education company whose mission is to encourage the intellectual and personal growth of all children, beginning with literacy." ]

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

[ "Brave men in exceptional aircraft risked overflights of \"denied territory\" to bring back rolls of aerial imagery, but that was only half their task. The personnel of the 67th Recon Tech Squadron finished the work, flawlessly processing the film to preserve its content, and expertly analyzing every inch to extract intelligence on changes to known targets and to discover new threats. Then we had to get that information to strike units and decision-makers quickly and in a form they could use efficiently. This book relies on newly declassified documents and accounts of more than forty people who were there to tell the history of those technicians and that process during critical days in a critical theater of operations." ]

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

[ "A cheap collection of many of Adams' famous photos. Printing this bad obscures the great photographer's artistry. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or." ]

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

[ "Featuring a foreword by the National Autism Association, this extraordinary picture book shows readers the world through the eyes of a boy with autism.", "Through the eyes of 10-year-old Benjamin Giroux, being odd is different, and different is a good thing. This is what the then fifth-grader hoped to convey in his poem, beginning every few sentences with \"I am,” about what it is like to live with autism.", "Inspired by a school assignment, Benjamin’s raw and emotional words poured out onto the page, but when he feared they were not any good, his parents shared the poem with friends and family.", "Inspired by a school assignment, Benjamin’s raw and emotional words poured out onto the page, but when he feared they were not any good, his parents shared the poem with friends and family.", "Little did they know that it would go viral and end up inspiring thousands of strangers who identified with him to share their support.", "Little did they know that it would go viral and end up inspiring thousands of strangers who identified with him to share their support.", "Now for the first time, Benjamin’s iconic poem \"I Am Odd, I Am New,\" comes to life in this lovingly illustrated picture book with a foreword written by the National Autism Association.", "Now for the first time, Benjamin’s iconic poem \"I Am Odd, I Am New,\" comes to life in this lovingly illustrated picture book with a foreword written by the National Autism Association.", "So whether you know the poem, or it is new to you, discover how Benjamin's honesty will reassure children of all ages that it's okay to be different." ]

[ "Review", "\"Written when the autistic author was 10, Giroux’s poetic exploration of being/feeling different from the perspective of living on the spectrum brings to light that being neurodivergent is not the same as being broken or “less.” Being different is not an insurmountable obstacle to experiencing life but rather a gift to experience more.\"  -- Kirkus Starred Review\"Benjamin Giroux's goal when writing his poem was to have society understand that being odd is different, and different is a good thing.\" -- Today\"A 10-year-old New York boy who was given a school assignment ended up touching the hearts of thousands after writing a moving poem that gives an inside look into his life with autism.\" -- The Daily Mail\"Later, paper airplanes soar with the suggestion that different shouldn’t mean separate, providing an answer to the poem’s hopeful concluding sentiments about finding where one belongs.\" -- Publisher's Weekly“this illustrated book and its powerful message will be an invaluable resource for creative writing teachers. With unique clarity, it provides a child’s perspective of the world that will inspire genuine empathy in KS2 children reading this independently, or discussing it as a class in PSHE lessons.” -- School Reading List", "About the Author", "Benjamin Giroux is the author of the poem “I Am Odd, I Am New.” The poem, now also a picture book (", "I Am Odd, I Am New", "), has received a", "Kirkus Reviews", "starred review and was named a", "Kirkus Reviews", "Best Book of the Year. Benjamin is also an award-winning songwriter, was named poet laureate of Plattsburgh, New York, and has been the face of the National Autism Association’s antibullying campaign. He has been featured in the", "Huffington Post", "and on the", "Today Show", "and", "Good Morning America", ". His poem has been translated into several languages and made into a critically acclaimed music video, releasing in April 2022. Benjamin lives in upstate New York with his parents and pet snake, Monty.Roz MacLean is an award-winning Canadian illustrator and children's writer. She especially loves making art about themes that are important to her, like exploring emotions and diverse ways of being in the world. She has written and illustrated two books,", "The Body Book", "and", "Violet's Cloudy Day", "." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Growing Up & Facts of Life" ]

[ "Cath Kidston's cheerful approach to interior design has earned her international acclaim. Mixing the whimsical, the classic, and the nostalgic, she s created a completely fresh, signature style using vintage fabrics and prints. In this lavishly illustrated book, she shows just how easy and invigorating it is to use colorful patterns throughout the home. Grouped by fabric type, each chapter showcases Cath's own choice of vintage and modern fabrics from painterly florals and faded chintzes to cool abstracts and cozy patchworks. To help the reader achieve the look, she s included sixty simple do-it-yourself projects such as curtains, cushion covers, pillowcases, laundry bags, and more. Throughout, Cath shares practical tips on how to incorporate vibrant patterns into existing interiors along with brilliant ways to bring vintage prints up-to-date. Separate sections outline where to find vintage fabrics, how to spot quality, and how to master basic sewing techniques. With page after colorful page of inspiration,", "Cath Kidston's In Print", "brims with bright ideas to create an inviting home positively blooming with color." ]

[ "About the Author", "Cath Kidston began her career as an interior designer and opened her first shop in London, where she lives, in 1993, featuring vintage furniture and fabrics. Since then, her brand has expanded to include stores in Manhattan and Los Angeles. She sells herPia Tryde's photographs appear regularly in magazines such as House and Garden , Living Etc. , Martha Stewart Living , and Cond Nast Traveler . She has also photographed many books, including Cath Kidston's Vintage Style . Tryde lives in Paris and the sou" ]

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

[ "Join Amsterdam local Audrey Sykes on an unforgettable adventure. With her unique perspective and advice you can trust,", "Moon Amsterdam", "has everything you need to know to explore like a local.", "Moon Amsterdam", "shows travelers the best way to experience all Amsterdam has to offer—from the true stereotypes of tulips blossoming between the ancient cobblestones and a frosty beer around every corner, to the secret attractions that are just a bike or boat ride away. Sykes includes unique trip ideas, including The Best of Amsterdam, Bruges, and Brussels, Amsterdam by Bicycle, and Beer for Connoisseurs.", "Moon Amsterdam", "gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.With expertly crafted maps and gorgeous photos, this full-color guidebook gives you the tools you need to have an immersive and unique experience.", "Moon Amsterdam", "includes areas such as:The CenterRed Light District and NieuwmarktCanal BeltMuseumplein and VondelparkDe PijpJordaanPlantageAlong the Ij RiverGreater AmsterdamBrusselsBruges", "Find the Moon guide that best suits your trip!", "Exploring more of Europe? Try", "Moon Prague and Budapest, Moon MapGuide Paris", ", or", "Moon Istanbul and the Turkish Coast!" ]

[ "About the Author", "Audrey Sykes", "hopped across the Atlantic pond in 2005 for a double master’s degree in international journalism and never returned. She has been a sportswriter in the Alps, a music critic in England, a nightlife reporter in Berlin, a adventure journalist in the South Caucasus, a beer blogger in Belgium, and above all, an author on Amsterdam. Her love affair with Amsterdam began as a broke grad student giving walking tours for tips. Her first writing gig on the city was for", "EuroCheapo", ", revealing all thinkable ways to live on a shoestring in the Dutch capital. Then came", "SPIN", "magazine and", "PartyEarth", ", writing about the city’s sultry nightlife and endless music scene. Sykes worked as a features journalist and editor for expat news sites, bleeds and magazine guides. In the summers Sykes still gives walking tours in Amsterdam, but prefers putting people around by boat when she can commandeer one." ]

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

[ "A", "New York Times", "bestseller people can believe in—by \"a pioneer of the new urban Christians\" (", "Christianity Today", ") and the \"", "C.S. Lewis for the 21st century\" (", "Newsweek", ").", "Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion. Using literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, and potent reasoning, Keller explains how the belief in a Christian God is, in fact, a sound and rational one. To true believers he offers a solid platform on which to stand their ground against the backlash to religion created by the Age of Skepticism. And to skeptics, atheists, and agnostics, he provides a challenging argument for pursuing the reason for God." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "In this apologia for Christian faith, Keller mines material from literary classics, philosophy, anthropology and a multitude of other disciplines to make an intellectually compelling case for God. Written for skeptics and the believers who love them, the book draws on the author's encounters as founding pastor of New York's booming Redeemer Presbyterian Church. One of Keller's most provocative arguments is that all doubts, however skeptical and cynical they may seem, are really a set of alternate beliefs. Drawing on sources as diverse as 19th-century author Robert Louis Stevenson and contemporary New Testament theologian N.T. Wright, Keller attempts to deconstruct everyone he finds in his way, from the evolutionary psychologist Richard Dawkins to popular author Dan Brown. The first, shorter part of the book looks at popular arguments against God's existence, while the second builds on general arguments for God to culminate in a sharp focus on the redemptive work of God in Christ. Keller's condensed summaries of arguments for and against theism make the scope of the book overwhelming at times. Nonetheless, it should serve both as testimony to the author's encyclopedic learning and as a compelling overview of the current debate on faith for those who doubt and for those who want to re-evaluate what they believe, and why.", "(Feb. 14)", "Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "From", "Booklist", "*Starred Review* Keller has just made life harder for preaching atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens. For with this tightly reasoned defense of faith, he challenges the evangelists of doubt on their own ground. One by one, the arguments for unbelief fall before Keller’s unrelenting logic. The claim that science has disproved religion comes in for particular scrutiny, as Keller deflects the antireligious syllogism that converts evolutionary theory into an obituary for orthodoxy. Keller even turns the tables on rationalists, adducing compelling evidence for scriptural doctrines, including the physical resurrection of Christ. And although Keller frankly acknowledges that inquisitors have justified atrocities as religious duties, he nonetheless traces the modern concept of human rights back to religious roots and exposes the fragility of such rights when shorn from those roots. We start down the road to Hitler’s death camps and Stalin’s gulag, he warns, whenever we refuse to recognize in fellow humans the divine image of God. But by recognizing that image, Keller affirms, we open sacred possibilities not only for redemption in the hereafter but also for social justice here and now. Readers expecting Keller to deliver the usual pious bromides may experience a profound shock to their spiritual and social complacency. --Bryce Christensen", "Review", "\"It is easy to understand [Timothy Keller's] appeal.\" -", "The New York Times", "\"In a flood of bestsellers by skeptics and atheists...Keller stands out as an effective counterpoint and defender of the faith.", "The Reason for God", "makes a tight, accessible case for reasoned religious belief.\" -", "The Washington Post", "\"It's a provocative premise, in pursuit of which Keller...takes on nonbelievers from evolutionary biologists to the recent rash of atheist authors.\" -", "The Boston Globe", "\"Reverend Tim Keller [is] a Manhattan institution, one of those open urban secrets, like your favorite dim sum place, with a following so ardent and so fast-growing that he has never thought to advertise.\" -", "New York", "magazine \"An intellectually compelling case for God.\" -", "Publishers Weekly", "\"I thank God for him.\" -Billy Graham", "About the Author", "Timothy Keller was born and raised in Pennsylvania and educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. His first pastorate was in Hopewell, Virginia. In 1989 he started Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City with his wife, Kathy, and their three sons. Today, Redeemer has nearly six thousand regular Sunday attendees and has helped to start more than three hundred new churches around the world. He is the author of", "The Songs of Jesus", ",", "Prayer", ",", "Encounters with Jesus", ",", "Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering", ",", "Every Good Endeavor,", "and", "The Meaning of Marriage", ", among others, including the perennial bestsellers", "The Reason for God", "and", "The Prodigal God", ".", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "THE REASON FOR GOD", "THE REASON FOR GOD", "CONTENTS", "Introduction", "PART 1: THE LEAP OF DOUBT", "ONE", "There Can’t Be Just One True Religion", "TWO", "How Could a Good God Allow Suffering?", "THREE", "Christianity Is a Straitjacket", "FOUR", "The Church Is Responsible for So Much Injustice", "FIVE", "How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?", "SIX", "Science Has Disproved Christianity", "SEVEN", "You Can’t Take the Bible Literally", "[Intermission 115]", "PART 2: THE REASONS FOR FAITH", "EIGHT", "The Clues of God", "NINE", "The Knowledge of God", "TEN", "The Problem of Sin", "ELEVEN", "Religion and the Gospel", "TWELVE", "The (True) Story of the Cross", "THIRTEEN", "The Reality of the Resurrection", "FOURTEEN", "The Dance of God", "Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here?", "Acknowledgments", "Notes", "Index", "About the Author", "INTRODUCTION", "I find your lack of faith—disturbing.", "—Darth Vader", "The Enemies Are Both Right", "There is a great gulf today between what is popularly known as liberalism and conservatism. Each side demands that you not only disagree with but disdain the other as (at best) crazy or (at worst) evil. This is particularly true when religion is the point at issue. Progressives cry out that fundamentalism is growing rapidly and nonbelief is stigmatized. They point out that politics has turned toward the right, supported by mega-churches and mobilized orthodox believers. Conservatives endlessly denounce what they see as an increasingly skeptical and relativistic society. Major universities, media companies, and elite institutions are heavily secular, they say, and they control the culture.", "Which is it? Is skepticism or faith on the ascendancy in the world today? The answer is Yes. The enemies are both right. Skepticism, fear, and anger toward traditional religion are growing in power and influence. But at the same time, robust, orthodox belief in the traditional faiths is growing as well.", "The non-churchgoing population in the United States and Europe is steadily increasing.1 The number of Americans answering “no religious preference” to poll questions has skyrocketed, having doubled or even tripled in the last decade.2 A century ago most U.S. universities shifted from a formally Christian foundation to an overtly secular one.3 As a result, those with traditional religious beliefs have little foothold in any of the institutions of cultural power. But even as more and more people identify themselves as having “no religious preference,” certain churches with supposedly obsolete beliefs in an infallible Bible and miracles are growing in the United States and exploding in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Even in much of Europe, there is some growth in church attendance.4 And despite the secularism of most universities and colleges, religious faith is growing in some corners of academia. It is estimated that 10 to 25 percent of all the teachers and professors of philosophy in the country are orthodox Christians, up from less than 1 percent just thirty years ago.5 Prominent academic Stanley Fish may have had an eye on that trend when he reported, “When Jacques Derrida died [in November 2004] I was called by a reporter who wanted to know what would succeed high theory and the triumvirate of race, gender, and class as the center of intellectual energy in the academy. I answered like a shot: religion.”6", "In short, the world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time. There was once a confident belief that secular European countries were the harbingers for the rest of the world. Religion, it was thought, would thin out from its more robust, supernaturalist forms or die out altogether. But the theory that technological advancement brings inevitable secularization is now being scrapped or radically rethought.7 Even Europe may not face a secular future, with Christianity growing modestly and Islam growing exponentially.", "The Two Camps", "I speak from an unusual vantage point on this two-edged phenomenon. I was raised in a mainline Lutheran church in eastern Pennsylvania. When I reached my teens in the early 1960s, the time came for me to attend confirmation class, a two-year course that covered Christian beliefs, practices, and history. Its aim was to bring young people into a fuller understanding of the faith, so they could publicly commit to it. My teacher for the first year was a retired minister. He was quite traditional and conservative, speaking often of the danger of hell and the need for great faith. In the second year of the course, however, the instructor was a new, young cleric just out of seminary. He was a social activist and was filled with deep doubts about traditional Christian doctrine. It was almost like being instructed in two different religions. In the first year, we stood before a holy, just God whose wrath could only be turned aside at great effort and cost. In the second year, we heard of a spirit of love in the universe, who mainly required that we work for human rights and the liberation of the oppressed. The main question I wanted to ask our instructors was, “Which one of you is lying?” But fourteen-year-olds are not so bold, and I just kept my mouth shut.", "My family later found its way to a more conservative church in a small Methodist denomination. For several years this strengthened what could be called the “Hellfire Layer” of my religious formation, although the pastor and people there were personally as gentle as could be. Then I went off to one of those fine, liberal, smaller universities in the Northeast, which quickly began to throw water on the hellfire in my imagination.", "The history and philosophy departments were socially radicalized and were heavily influenced by the neo-Marxist critical theory of the Frankfurt School. In 1968, this was heady stuff. The social activism was particularly attractive, and the critique of American bourgeoisie society was compelling, but its philosophical underpinnings were confusing to me. I seemed to see two camps before me, and there was something radically wrong with both of them. The people most passionate about social justice were moral relativists, while the morally upright didn’t seem to care about the oppression going on all over the world. I was emotionally drawn to the former path—what young person wouldn’t be? Liberate the oppressed and sleep with who you wanted! But I kept asking the question, “If morality is relative, why isn’t social justice as well?” This seemed to be a blatant inconsistency in my professors and their followers. Yet now I saw the stark contradiction in the traditional churches. How could I turn back to the kind of orthodox Christianity that supported segregation in the South and apartheid in South Africa? Christianity began to seem very unreal to me, though I was unable to discern a viable alternative way of life and thought.", "I didn’t know it at the time, but this spiritual “unreality” stemmed from three barriers that lay across my path. During my college years, these three barriers eroded and my faith became vital and life-affecting. The first barrier was an intellectual one. I was confronted with a host of tough questions about Christianity: “What about other religions? What about evil and suffering? How could a loving God judge and punish? Why believe anything at all?” I began to read books and arguments on both sides of these issues and slowly but surely, Christianity began to make more and more sense. The rest of this book lays out why I still think so.", "The second barrier was an interior, personal one. As a child, the plausibility of a faith can rest on the authority of others, but when we reach adulthood there is a need for personal, firsthand experience as well. While I had “said my prayers” for years, and while I sometimes had that inspirational, aesthetic sense of wonder at the sight of a sea or mountain, I had never experienced God’s presence personally. This required not so much knowledge of techniques for prayer, but a process in which I came to grips with my own needs, flaws, and problems. It was painful, and was, as is typical, triggered by disappointments and failures. It would take another, different kind of book to go into them. But it needs to be said that faith-journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.", "The third barrier was a social one. I desperately needed to find a “third camp,” a group of Christians who had a concern for justice in the world but who grounded it in the nature of God rather than in their own subjective feelings. When I found that “band of brothers”—and sisters ( just as important!)—things began to change for me. These three barriers did not come down quickly or in any set order. Rather they were intertwined and dependent on one another. I did not work through them in any methodical way. It’s only in hindsight that I see how the three factors worked together. Because I was always looking for that third camp, I became interested in shaping and initiating new Christian communities. That meant the ministry, so I entered it just a few years after college.", "The View from Manhattan", "In the late 1980s, my wife, Kathy, and I moved to Manhattan with our three young sons to begin a new church for a largely non-churchgoing population. During the research phase I was told by almost everyone that it was a fool’s errand. Church meant moderate or conservative; the city was liberal and edgy. Church meant families; New York City was filled with young singles and “nontraditional” households. Church most of all meant belief, but Manhattan was the land of skeptics, critics, and cynics. The middle class, the conventional market for a church, was fleeing the city because of crime and rising costs. That left the sophisticated and hip, the wealthy and the poor. Most of these people just laugh at the idea of church, I was told. Congregations in the city were dwindling, most struggling to even maintain their buildings.", "Many of my early contacts said that the few congregations that had maintained a following had done so by adapting traditional Christian teaching to the more pluralistic ethos of the city. “Don’t tell people they have to believe in Jesus—that’s considered narrow-minded here.” They were incredulous when I explained that the beliefs of the new church would be the orthodox, historic tenets of Christianity—the infallibility of the Bible, the deity of Christ, the necessity of spiritual regeneration (the new birth)—all doctrines considered hopelessly dated by the majority of New Yorkers. Nobody ever said “fuggedaboutit” out loud, but it always hung in the air.", "Nevertheless, we launched Redeemer Presbyterian Church, and by the end of 2007 it had grown to more than 5,000 attendees and had spawned more than a dozen daughter congregations in the immediate metropolitan area. The church is quite multiethnic and young (average age about thirty) and is more than two-thirds single. Meanwhile, dozens of other similarly orthodox-believing congregations have sprung up in Manhattan and hundreds of others throughout the four other boroughs. One survey showed that in the last several years more than a hundred churches had been started in New York City by Christians from Africa alone. We were as stunned by this as anyone.", "New York isn’t alone. In the fall of 2006 The Economist ran a story with the subtitle “Christianity is collapsing everywhere but London.” The crux of the article was that despite the fact that church attendance and profession of the Christian faith was plummeting across Britain and Europe, many young professionals (and new immigrants) in London were flocking to evangelical churches.8 That is exactly what I’ve seen here.", "This leads to a strange conclusion. We have come to a cultural moment in which both skeptics and believers feel their existence is threatened because both secular skepticism and religious faith are on the rise in significant, powerful ways. We have neither the Western Christendom of the past nor the secular, religionless society that was predicted for the future. We have something else entirely.", "A Divided Culture", "Three generations ago, most people inherited rather than chose their religious faith. The great majority of people belonged to one of the historic, mainline Protestant churches or the Roman Catholic Church. Today, however, the now-dubbed “old-line” Protestant churches of cultural, inherited faith are aging and losing members rapidly. People are opting instead for a nonreligious life, for a non-institutional, personally constructed spirituality, or for orthodox, high-commitment religious groups that expect members to have a conversion experience. Therefore the population is paradoxically growing both more religious and less religious at once.", "Because doubt and belief are each on the rise, our political and public discourse on matters of faith and morality has become deadlocked and deeply divided. The culture wars are taking a toll. Emotions and rhetoric are intense, even hysterical. Those who believe in God and Christianity are out to “impose their beliefs on the rest of us” and “turn back the clock” to a less enlightened time. Those who don’t believe are “enemies of truth” and “purveyors of relativism and permissiveness.” We don’t reason with the other side; we only denounce.", "We have an impasse between the strengthening forces of doubt and belief, and this won’t be solved simply by calling for more civility and dialogue. Arguments depend on having commonly held reference points that both sides can hold each other to. When fundamental understandings of reality conflict, it is hard to find anything to which to appeal. The title of Alasdair MacIntyre’s book, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? says it all. Our problems are not going away soon.", "How can we find a way forward?", "First, each side should accept that both religious belief and skepticism are on the rise. Atheist author Sam Harris and Religious Right leader Pat Robertson should each admit the fact that his particular tribe is strong and increasing in influence. This would eliminate the self-talk that is rampant in each camp, namely that it will soon be extinct, overrun by the opposition. Nothing like that is imminently possible. If we stopped saying such things to ourselves it might make everyone more civil and generous toward opposing views.", "Such an admission is not only reassuring, but also humbling. There are still many of a secular turn of mind who confidently say orthodox faith is vainly trying to “resist the tide of history,” though there is no historical evidence that religion is dying out at all. Religious believers should also be much less dismissive of secular skepticism. Christians should reflect on the fact that such large sectors of our formerly largely Christian societies have turned their backs on faith. Surely that should lead to self-examination. The time for making elegant dismissive gestures toward the other side is past. Something more is now required. But what?", "A Second Look at Doubt", "I want to make a proposal that I have seen bear much fruit in the lives of young New Yorkers over the years. I recommend that each side look at doubt in a radically new way.", "Let’s begin with believers. A faith without some doubts is like a human body without any antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person’s faith can collapse almost overnight if she has failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.", "Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts—not only their own but their friends’ and neighbors’. It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them. Only if you struggle long and hard with objections to your faith will you be able to provide grounds for your beliefs to skeptics, including yourself, that are plausible rather than ridiculous or offensive. And, just as important for our current situation, such a process will lead you, even after you come to a position of strong faith, to respect and understand those who doubt.", "But even as believers should learn to look for reasons behind their faith, skeptics must learn to look for a type of faith hidden within their reasoning. All doubts, however skeptical and cynical they may seem, are really a set of alternate beliefs.9 You cannot doubt Belief A except from a position of faith in Belief B. For example, if you doubt Christianity because “There can’t be just one true religion,” you must recognize that this statement is itself an act of faith. No one can prove it empirically, and it is not a universal truth that everyone accepts. If you went to the Middle East and said, “There can’t be just one true religion,” nearly everyone would say, “Why not?” The reason you doubt Christianity’s Belief A is because you hold unprovable Belief B. Every doubt, therefore, is based on a leap of faith.", "Some people say, “I don’t believe in Christianity because I can’t accept the existence of moral absolutes. Everyone should determine moral truth for him-or herself.” Is that a statement they can prove to someone who doesn’t share it? No, it is a leap of faith, a deep belief that individual rights operate not only in the political sphere but also in the moral. There is no empirical proof for such a position. So the doubt (of moral absolutes) is a leap.", "Some will respond to all this, “My doubts are not based on a leap of faith. I have no beliefs about God one way or another. I simply feel no need for God and I am not interested in thinking about it.” But hidden beneath this feeling is the very modern American belief that the existence of God is a matter of indifference unless it intersects with my emotional needs. The speaker is betting his or her life that no God exists who would hold you accountable for your beliefs and behavior if you didn’t feel the need for him. That may be true or it may not be true, but, again, it is quite a leap of faith.10", "The only way to doubt Christianity rightly and fairly is to discern the alternate belief under each of your doubts and then to ask yourself what reasons you have for believing it. How do you know your belief is true? It would be inconsistent to require more justification for Christian belief than you do for your own, but that is frequently what happens. In fairness you must doubt your doubts. My thesis is that if you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs—you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.", "I commend two processes to my readers. I urge skeptics to wrestle with the unexamined “blind faith” on which skepticism is based, and to see how hard it is to justify those beliefs to those who do not share them. I also urge believers to wrestle with their personal and culture’s objections to the faith. At the end of each process, even if you remain the skeptic or believer you have been, you will hold your own position with both greater clarity and greater humility. Then there will be an understanding, sympathy, and respect for the other side that did not exist before. Believers and nonbelievers will rise to the level of disagreement rather than simply denouncing one another. This happens when each side has learned to represent the other’s argument in its strongest and most positive form. Only then is it safe and fair to disagree with it. That achieves civility in a pluralistic society, which is no small thing.", "A Spiritual Third Way?", "The rest of this book is a distillation of the many conversations I’ve had with doubters over the years. In both my preaching and personal interactions I’ve tried to respectfully help skeptics look at their own faith-foundations while at the same time laying bare my own to their strongest criticisms. In the first half of this volume we will review the seven biggest objections and doubts about Christianity I’ve heard from people over the years. I will respectfully discern the alternate beliefs beneath each of them. Then in the second half of the book we will examine the reasons underlying Christian beliefs.", "Respectful dialogue between entrenched traditional conservative and secular liberal people is a great good, and I hope this book will promote it. But my experience as a pastor in New York has given me another incentive to write this volume. As soon as I arrived in New York I realized that the faith and doubt situation was not what the experts thought it was. Older white people who ran the cultural business of the city definitely were quite secular. But among the increasingly multiethnic younger professionals and the working-class immigrants there was a lush, category-defying variety of strong religious beliefs. And Christianity, in particular, was growing rapidly among them.", "I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn’t fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican. Many see both sides in the “culture war” making individual freedom and personal happiness the ultimate value rather than God and the common good. Liberals’ individualism comes out in their views of abortion, sex, and marriage. Conservatives’ individualism comes out in their deep distrust of the public sector and in their understanding of poverty as simply a failure of personal responsibility. The new, fast-spreading multiethnic orthodox Christianity in the cities is much more concerned about the poor and social justice than Republicans have been, and at the same time much more concerned about upholding classic Christian moral and sexual ethics than Democrats have been.", "While the first half of the book lays out a pathway that many of these Christians have taken through doubt, the second half of the book is a more positive exposition of the faith they are living out in the world. Here are three people at the church now.", "June was a graduate of an Ivy League university, living and working in Manhattan. She became so obsessed with her physical image that she developed eating disorders and substance addictions. She came to see that she was heading for self-destruction, but she also realized that she had no particular reason to stop being reckless with her life. After all, what did her life mean? Why not be self-destructive? She turned to church and sought an understanding of God’s mercy and an experience of his reality. She saw a counselor at the church who helped her draw a connection between the mercy of God and her seemingly inexhaustible need for acceptance. Finally she had the confidence to seek an encounter with God himself. Though she can’t pinpoint one moment, she came to feel, for the first time, “unconditionally loved as a true daughter of God.” Gradually she received freedom from her self-destructive behavior.", "Jeffrey was a New York City musician, raised in a conservative Jewish home. Both his father and mother suffered terribly with cancer, his mother succumbing to it. Because of a variety of physical ailments from his youth, he took up the practice of Chinese healing arts, along with Taoist and Buddhist meditation, and became extremely focused on physical wellness. He was in no state of “spiritual need” when a friend began taking him to Redeemer. He liked the sermons “until that Jesus business came around at the end” at which point he’d stop listening. Soon, however, he became somewhat jealous of his Christian friends’ joy and hope for the future that he had not encountered before. Then he began listening to the ends of the sermons and realizing they posed an intellectual challenge that he had not wanted to face. Finally, to his surprise, during his times of meditation he discovered his “moments of normally pure quiet and stillness were constantly interrupted by visions of Jesus on the cross.” He began to pray to the Christian God, and soon he realized that his dominant life narrative had been the escape and total avoidance of suffering. Now he saw how futile such a life goal was. When he understood that Jesus had surrendered his physical health and life to save the world—and him—it moved him deeply. He saw a way to get the courage to face the inevitable suffering of the future, and to know there would be a path through it. He embraced the gospel of Jesus Christ.", "Kelly was an Ivy League atheist. As a twelve-year-old, Kelly watched her grandfather die of cancer and her two-year-old sister undergo surgery, chemo, and radiation therapy for a brain tumor. By the time she was an undergraduate at Columbia University, she had lost hope that life had any meaning to it. Several of her Christian friends at college spoke to her of their faith, but she was “rocky soil for the seeds” of their testimonies. However, when her sister had a stroke and was paralyzed at the age of fourteen, it moved her not to give up on God but to begin more deliberate searching. By then she was living and working in the city. She met her future husband, Kevin, also a Columbia grad and an atheist, who was working on Wall Street with J. P. Morgan. Their doubts about God were very stubborn, and yet they had doubts about their doubts, and so they began attending Redeemer. Their pilgrimage toward faith was slow and painstaking. One of the things that kept them on the trail, however, was the large number of believing Christians they met that were every bit as sophisticated and smart as anyone else they’d met in the city. Finally they were not only convinced of Christianity’s intellectual credibility, but were attracted by its vision for life. Kelly wrote, “As an atheist I thought I lived a moral, community-oriented, concerned-with-social-justice kind of life, but Christianity had an even higher standard—down to our thoughts and the state of our hearts. I accepted God’s forgiveness and invited him into my life.” Kevin wrote, “While sitting in a coffee shop reading C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, I put down the book and wrote in my notebook ‘the evidence surrounding the claims of Christianity is simply overwhelming.’ I realized that my achievements were ultimately unsatisfying, the approval of man is fleeting, that a carpe diem life lived solely for adventure is just a form of narcissism and idolatry. And so I became a believer in Christ.”11", "Jesus and Our Doubts", "Kelly’s account recalls how, as a struggler with doubt and faith, the passage about Thomas in the New Testament was a comfort to her. There Jesus modeled a view of doubt more nuanced than those of either modern skeptics or modern believers. When Jesus confronted “doubting Thomas” he challenged him not to acquiesce in doubt (“believe!”) and yet responded to his request for more evidence. In another incident, Jesus meets a man who confesses that he is filled with doubts (Mark 9:24), who says to Jesus, “Help thou my unbelief”—help me with my doubts! In response to this honest admission, Jesus blesses him and heals his son. Whether you consider yourself a believer or a skeptic, I invite you to seek the same kind of honesty and to grow in an understanding of the nature of your own doubts. The result will exceed anything you can imagine.", "PART 1", "THE LEAP OF DOUBT", "ONE", "THERE CAN’T BE JUST ONETRUE RELIGION", "“How could there be just one true faith?” asked Blair, a twenty-four-year-old woman living in Manhattan. “It’s arrogant to say your religion is superior and try to convert everyone else to it. Surely all the religions are equally good and valid for meeting the needs of their particular followers.”", "“Religious exclusivity is not just narrow—it’s dangerous,” added Geoff, a twentysomething British man also living in New York City. “Religion has led to untold strife, division, and conflict. It may be the greatest enemy of peace in the world. If Christians continue to insist that they have ‘the truth’—and if other religions do this as well—the world will never know peace.”1", "DURING my nearly two decades in New York City, I’ve had numerous opportunities to ask people, “What is your biggest problem with Christianity? What troubles you the most about its beliefs or how it is practiced?” One of the most frequent answers I have heard over the years can be summed up in one word: exclusivity.", "I was once invited to be the Christian representative in a panel discussion at a local college along with a Jewish rabbi and a Muslim imam. The panelists were asked to discuss the differences among religions. The conversation was courteous, intelligent, and respectful in tone. Each speaker affirmed that there were significant, irreconcilable differences between the major faiths. A case in point was the person of Jesus. We all agreed on the statement: “If Christians are right about Jesus being God, then Muslims and Jews fail in a serious way to love God as God really is, but if Muslims and Jews are right that Jesus is not God but rather a teacher or prophet, then Christians fail in a serious way to love God as God really is.” The bottom line was—we couldn’t all be equally right about the nature of God.", "Several of the students were quite disturbed by this. One student insisted that what mattered was to believe in God and to be a loving person yourself. To insist that one faith has a better grasp of the truth than others was intolerant. Another student looked at us clerics and said in his frustration, “We will never come to know peace on earth if religious leaders keep on making such exclusive claims!”", "It is widely believed that one of the main barriers to world peace is religion, and especially the major traditional religions with their exclusive claims to superiority. It may surprise you that though I am a Christian minister I agree with this. Religion, generally speaking, tends to create a slippery slope in the heart. Each religion informs its followers that they have “the truth,” and this naturally leads them to feel superior to those with differing beliefs. Also, a religion tells its followers that they are saved and connected to God by devotedly performing that truth. This moves them to separate from those who are less devoted and pure in life. Therefore, it is easy for one religious group to stereotype and caricature other ones. Once this situation exists it can easily spiral down into the marginalization of others or even to active oppression, abuse, or violence against them.", "Once we recognize how religion erodes peace on earth, what can we do about it? There are three approaches that civic and cultural leaders around the world are using to address the divisiveness of religion. There are calls to outlaw religion, condemn religion, or at least to radically privatize it.2 Many people are investing great hope in them. Unfortunately, I don’t believe any of them will be effective. Indeed, I’m afraid they will only aggravate the situation.", "1. Outlaw religion", "One way to deal with the divisiveness of religion has been to control or even forbid it with a heavy hand. There have been several massive efforts to do this in the twentieth century. Soviet Russia, Communist China, the Khmer Rouge, and (in a different way) Nazi Germany were all determined to tightly control religious practice in an effort to stop it from dividing society or eroding the power of the state. The result, however, was not more peace and harmony, but more oppression. The tragic irony of the situation is brought out by Alister McGrath in his history of atheism:", "The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.3", "Going hand in hand with such efforts was a widespread belief in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that religion would weaken and die out as the human race became more technologically advanced. This view saw religion as playing a role in human evolution. We once needed religion to help us cope with a very frightening, incomprehensible world. But as we become more scientifically sophisticated and more able to understand and control our own environment, our need for religion would diminish, it was thought.4", "But this has not happened, and this “secularization thesis” is now largely discredited.5 Virtually all major religions are growing in number of adherents. Christianity’s growth, especially in the developing world, has been explosive. There are now six times more Anglicans in Nigeria alone than there are in all of the United States. There are more Presbyterians in Ghana than in the United States and Scotland combined. Korea has gone from 1 percent to 40 percent Christian in a hundred years, and experts believe the same thing is going to happen in China. If there are half a billion Chinese Christians fifty years from now, that will change the course of human history.6 In most cases, the Christianity that is growing is not the more secularized, belief-thin versions predicted by the sociologists. Rather, it is a robust supernaturalist kind of faith, with belief in miracles, Scriptural authority, and personal conversion.", "Because of the vitality of religious faith in the world, efforts to suppress or control it often serve only to make it stronger. When the Chinese Communists expelled Western missionaries after World War II, they thought they were killing off Christianity in China. Instead, this move only served to make the leadership of the Chinese church more indigenous and therefore to strengthen it.", "Religion is not just a temporary thing that helped us adapt to our environment. Rather it is a permanent and central aspect of the human condition. This is a bitter pill for secular, nonreligious people to swallow. Everyone wants to think that they are in the mainstream, that they are not extremists. But robust religious beliefs dominate the world. There is no reason to expect that to change.", "2. Condemn religion", "Religion is not going away and its power cannot be diminished by government control. But can’t we—via education and argument—find ways to socially discourage religions that claim to have “the truth” and that try to convert others to their beliefs? Couldn’t we find ways to urge all of our citizens, whatever their religious beliefs, to admit that each religion or faith is just one of many equally valid paths to God and ways to live in the world?", "This approach creates an environment in which it is considered unenlightened and outrageous to make exclusive religious claims, even in personal conversations. It does so by stating and restating certain axioms that eventually achieve the status of common sense. Those who deviate from them are stigmatized as foolish or dangerous. Unlike the first strategy, this approach to the divisiveness of religion is having some effect. It cannot ultimately succeed, however, because at its heart is a fatal inconsistency, even perhaps a hypocrisy, that will eventually lead to the collapse of this way of thinking. What follows are several of these axioms and the problems with each.", "“All major religions are equally valid and basically teach the same thing.”", "This assertion is so common that one journalist recently wrote that anyone who believed that “there are inferior religions” is a right-wing extremist.7 Do we really want to say that the Branch Davidians or religions requiring child sacrifice are not inferior to any other faith? The great majority of people would almost certainly agree that they are.", "Most people who assert the equality of religions have in mind the major world faiths, not splinter sects. This was the form of the objection I got from the student the night I was on the panel. He contended that doctrinal differences between Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism were superficial and insignificant, that they all believed in the same God. But when I asked him who that God was, he described him as an all-loving Spirit in the universe. The problem with this position is its inconsistency. It insists that doctrine is unimportant, but at the same time assumes doctrinal beliefs about the nature of God that are at loggerheads with those of the all the major faiths. Buddhism doesn’t believe in a personal God at all. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam believe in a God who holds people accountable for their beliefs and practices and whose attributes could not be all reduced to love. Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is touted as superior and more enlightened than the beliefs of most major religions. So the proponents of this view do the very thing they forbid in others.", "Read more" ]

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[ "If you a huge fan of “It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia” sitcom, this will be a good new for you. We have created a new version of this film, this is a coloring book. Through this coloring book, you will immerse into a bunch of flawless images of your favorite characters, which gives you a sense of relaxation and excitement after work and study. Moreover, this book features countless coloring activities that help young learners develop fine motor skills and get as much practice as they need to master their coloring skills. After all, many awesome things for you to discover and you can choose the book as a gift to give to beloved ones.", "About the book:", "Exclusive Illustrations", "Exclusive Illustrations", "Each Image is printed on a separate page to prevent bleed-though", "Each Image is printed on a separate page to prevent bleed-though", "You can display your artwork with a standard frame", "You can display your artwork with a standard frame", "You will be offered a lovely, high-quality illustrations in black and white with a color option for its coloring", "You will be offered a lovely, high-quality illustrations in black and white with a color option for its coloring", "Making a gift never easy like that", "Making a gift never easy like that" ]

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[ "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐", "\"Since the moment I finished Empyrean Born, I was eagerly awaiting the release of Empyrean Queen, counting down the days until I could read more about Val and Gabe! Let me tell you, this book was well worth the wait! From page one, I was immediately hooked!\"", "~ Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐", "\"Exceptional conclusion to the Origins series! The characters, scenery, and battles are so well written I can visualize them playing out like a movie. I enjoy trying to figure out where a story is going and I was pleasantly surprised when the twists and turns were so much better than I could imagine.\"", "~ Reader ReviewSome say you can never go home. I assure you, you can.", "And I did.", "But upon my return to the Empyrean realm, I’m met with even more danger lurking in the deepest, darkest shadows threatening to destroy us all. Everywhere I turn, betrayal isn’t far behind. Trust has become a precious commodity.", "With demons of all kinds on the loose, the looming threat of war with Purgatory, and Gabe’s eternal damnation hanging in the balance, will I ever learn who I really am and where I came from?", "Or will deeply buried secrets be my undoing?", "Empyrean Queen", "is the final book in the Origins duology." ]

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[ "James D ‘Jim’ Jordan was the elected District Attorney for Okmulgee and McIntosh Counties in Eastern Oklahoma.", "When a politically active court reporter was murdered, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation snapped up Jim’s only witness. They hypnotized her without Jim's knowledge when he was already a certified forensic hypnotist.", "Steven W. Taylor was the Defense Attorney and later served as Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Attorney Taylor wanted the deposition of Dr. Bernard L. Diamond. Dr. Diamond had had some influence getting courts not to allow a previously hypnotized witness to testify. We took his deposition and the deposition of Martin Reiser, Ed.D with the Law Enforcement Hypnosis Institute which worked with the LAPD solving serious real crimes." ]

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[ "Jack Avery is at a critical point in his life. He's successful, newly engaged, and seems to have it all together. Yet a sense of detachment from his surroundings forces him to question his direction. In amoment of intense pain and desperation, his world is suddenly turned inside out as he begins a journey of spiritual discovery, piercing truth, and inner wholeness. Travel along with Jack as he discovers the way of the thorn and the secret of the rose." ]

[ "From Library Journal", "Drawing on the biblical imagery of the thorn in the flesh, this is an obvious and unimaginative allegory. Jack Avery, a floundering Christian, must walk the supernatural \"Path of Faith\" with an angelic guide on a \"Journey of Honest Reckoning.\" Of the myriad trials and tribulations assaulting him while en route, none is surprising, but some of the metaphors are cute. For example, Jack is hindered by four elflike creatures who are physical manifestations of his misguided thoughts and beliefs. Still, the cleverness can't compensate for a lack of tension that results in a tedious read. Too many rookie mistakes by debut novelist Trementozzi (Finding Hope in Desperate Times: Devotional Poems and Prayers) prevents this from succeeding as a helpful guide to spiritual development and growth. Not recommended. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "Review", "\"In brilliant fashion, reminiscent of", "Pilgrim's Progress", ", David Trementozzi squarely faces one of life's central dilemmas - suffering. Drawing on the imagery of Paul's 'thorn in the flesh,' he masterfully weaves a tale that not only brings understanding, but elicits hope.\" Steve FryPresident of", "Messenger Fellowship", ", Pastor, Author, Composer, Recording Artist\"David Trementozzi's passion in", "The Way of the Thorn", "is to reveal that much of spiritual transformation comes from a godly response to the painful times in our lives, not the 'polished' times in our programs or on our platforms. With creativity and insight, David hits the mark on a Kingdom definition of success: growth and change into Christ-likeness.\"Dr. Joseph UmidiProfessor of Practical Theology, Regent University\"In", "The Way of the Thorn", ", David reveals many of the obstacles and faulty mindsets prevalent among Christians today that keep them from achieving greater levels of spiritual maturity and ultimately their destinies in God. The truths in this story will help to bring clarity to your journey in God and rekindle a fresh fire of increased consecration and passion for God.\"Larry KreiderDirector of", "Dove Christian Fellowship Int'l", "\"", "The Way of the Thorn", "gives the reader a new way of understanding the Christian journey of spiritual brokenness. Trementozzi takes us through a thought provoking journey of pain and grace and of trial and faith. It is a stimulating resource for those who hunger for a deeper grasp of the Lord's ways in bringing us to a place of inner wholeness.\"Dotty SchmittTeacher, Author", "From the Author", "Our hearts ache for a higher quality of life; our souls hunger to know and experience the Lord of all life. Where has He gone? Why don't we see Him?     God tries to get our attention but we are perpetually restrained from His persistent beckoning by the distractions of life. When He speaks, we are often deaf because we are more in touch with other voices around us. He comes to us, but we are often blind because we are preoccupied with our busyness and the urgency of our perceived needs and oblivious to the reality of His unrelenting presence. We will never come to experience the reality of God's presence until we first face the root cause of the restlessness and distractions in our lives.     Each of us is innately born with the awareness of two divine realities. The first is the wonderful reality of God's presence and love for us. The second is the terrifying reality of life apart from the presence and love of God. Yet we are hindered in the application of both these realities. Why is this? Because we have been born with a deadly spiritual disease called sin. Sin blinds us to the reality of God's presence and love for us. And sin also blinds us to the terribly agonizing reality of estrangement from our Creator. The pain that comes when we finally understand our separation from God is so piercing that most of us have learned to ignore, deny, or downplay its reality.     So God, in the severest of mercy, has given humanity the gift of the thorn. Every day, in a multitude of ways, He allows us to know and feel the reality of our aloneness, estrangement, and isolation from Him - of such is the substance of our thorns. His desire is that the prodding and poking of this painful thorn would break through every distraction, expose every false hope, and dismantle every lie to point us towards that only which is true and secure - Himself. Without such thorns, we would remain locked in our mindsets of deceptions. We would settle into a false but comfortable sense of security that comes from the matrix of sin - a false sense of reality leading one into true peril and loss.     Are you afraid to see a glimpse of the agonizing sin nature you know is inside you? Are you afraid to gaze upon the hope of Christ for fear that it might not be real? Jesus made provision for us so that we don't have to live in bondage to fear. When we experience the honest awareness of the dismal state of our own isolated existence apart from God, we are then led to a place of desperate faith where we can truly meet God.     If we desire to live the quality of life that our hearts yearn for, then we must learn to lay hold of the virtues of ruthless honesty and fearless courage. Honesty to finally look upon our lives as they really are, no longer as we wish them to be. And courage to not only admit our human weakness and need, but to actually embrace this painful reality as truly our own. It is only at this terribly glorious place that we discover the treasure of His presence. The terrible pain of honesty and truth releases the glorious gift of His goodness and grace so that we can experience life to the full. There we finally come to see that the agony we have always feared to face has itself paved the way for the greatest joy we could ever know.     David Trementozzi     May 2002", "About the Author", "David Trementozzi graduated from Messiah College with a BA in Psychology (1990) and Regent University with an M.Div. in Practical Theology (1996) and a Ph.D. in Theology (2013). He has spoken at church services, conferences, retreats, college seminars, and academic societies across the United States. Above all, David is passionate about helping individuals grow deeper in their faith and gain a greater experience of the love of God. He is also the author of", "Light for the Dark Night: Embracing a Heart of Holy Desperation", ". David works as an adjunct professor at Drury University and in curriculum development at Global University. He presently resides in Springfield, Missouri with his wife Emily and their three children, Judah, Kaleb, and Halle.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Now thoroughly updated and extensively revised for use in today’s history classrooms, this time-honored classic has never been more important than right now. The new edition,", "Reasoning with Democratic Values", "2.0,", "presents an engaging approach to teaching U.S. history that promotes critical thinking and social responsibility. In Volume 1 students investigate 20 significant historical episodes, arranged chronologically, beginning with the colonial era and ending with Reconstruction. Each carefully researched story examines an ethical decision made by an individual or group from the American past, and is guaranteed to excite students’ imaginations and spark lively classroom discussions involving core values of American democracy—liberty, equality, life, property, truth, and diversity. The discussions aim to develop more mature moral reasoning by students while deepening their knowledge of American history. Each chapter contains five types of learning activities: Facts of the Case, Historical Understanding, Expressing Your Reasoning, Key Concepts from History, and Historical Inquiry.", "In Volume 1, students can grapple with such ethical dilemmas as:", "Should the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have granted reparation to the enslaved woman, Belinda Royall?", "Should the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have granted reparation to the enslaved woman, Belinda Royall?", "Should Thomas Jefferson have freed his slaves?", "Should Thomas Jefferson have freed his slaves?", "Should Juan Seguín have fought against the United States in the Mexican–American War?", "Should Juan Seguín have fought against the United States in the Mexican–American War?", "Should Robert E. Lee have accepted command of the Union Army?", "Should Robert E. Lee have accepted command of the Union Army?", "You can also purchase a comprehensive", "Instructor’s Manual", "that includes the rationale for the teaching approach, guidance for selecting chapters, direction for leading classroom discussions of ethical issues, suggestions for assessment and grading, answers for the learning activities, and more!", "PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: The authors are available, at no fee, to conduct professional development programs for teachers and/or administrators regarding teaching with RDV 2.0. Visit", "www.rdv2.org", "for more details, including author contact information.", "The authors have committed their royalties to teacher education.", "ALSO AVAILABLE—", "Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0, Volume 2: Ethical Issues in American History, 1866 to the Present", "by David E. Harris, Anne-Lise Halvorsen, and Paul F. Dain", "Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0: Ethical Issues in American History Instructor's Manual", "by David E. Harris, Anne-Lise Halvorsen, and Paul F. Dain" ]

[ "Review", "\"Reflection upon the sources of our ethical views is imperative in our present moment. At a time marked by polarization and incommensurate moral disagreement, citizens must practice a rather heroic form of civility and sober examination of opposing views.", "Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0", "provides both the raw material and appropriate structure for students to develop these habits, and it will undoubtedly earn a place in many American history classrooms.\"", "—", "The Journal of Social Studies Research", "(for second edition)", "\"These volumes are engaging, clearly and imaginatively written, and frequently invite sophisticated thinking about difficult ethical issues within U.S. History. Through the well-selected stories, students will indeed recognize that history is replete with ethical issues that intricately intertwine with democratic values. Students will also find a refreshing departure in these books from the staid historical writing that sometimes plagues other history texts. Through well-designed readings and learning activities, these new editions accomplish what the authors’ intended—to promote social responsibility through informed and ethical use of democratic values.\"", "—", "Theory & Research in Social Education", "“Among the best supplementary materials for U.S. history known to this reviewer. The cases are provocative; they stimulate student interest, they promote a depth of historical understanding often absent from history instructional materials, and they promote important student skills. The curriculum is a fine blend of historical content and thoughtful pedagogy, systematically structured to promote social responsibility among students—one of the enduring instructional goals of social studies education.”", "—", "Social Education", "(for first edition)", "\"", "Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0", "is a powerful approach to learning history that is highly engaging for young people. The lively writing of exciting and true stories provides ample background to engage students in discussions of well-framed questions that are perennial and important.” —", "Diana Hess", ", dean, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison", "\"I cannot imagine a more valuable or timely resource for teachers of U.S. history. Ethical reasoning is joined with historical reasoning—values with inquiry—in an array of well selected cases. This curriculum belongs in every U.S. history classroom.\"—", "Walter C. Parker", ", professor, College of Education, University of Washington", "“How can American citizens learn to converse across their differences? Part of the answer surely lies in history instruction, which can teach us about divisions that have wracked the nation and--most of all--about how we have bridged them. These superb books will help do exactly that. Clearly organized and eminently balanced, these volumes are suffused with the same democratic spirit they aim to promote.”—", "Jonathan Zimmerman", ", professor of history of education, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania", "“These volumes will help build a deeper understanding of significant historical concepts and present wonderful opportunities to engage in critical thinking around complex ethical issues.”—", "Amy Bloom,", "social studies education consultant, Oakland Schools, Oakland County, Michigan", "\"", "Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0", "enriches learning in social studies classrooms. The chapters not only provide thorough historical accounts, the narratives enhance teachers' and students' understanding of the complexities of decision-making in an imperfect democracy. These books are a useful resource not only in U.S. history classrooms, but also for government, sociology, ethnic studies, and ethics classes.\"—", "LaGarrett King", ", assistant professor, College of Education, University of Missouri", "\"", "Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0", "serves as an important contribution to help students think—and act—as ethical, prosocial members of a democratic society, which is certainly needed in this age of reactive and polarizing political discourse and action. I'm fully behind educators' efforts to inject discussions about ethical issues in the classroom as a way to help students better understand who and what is affected by their decision-making.\"—", "Paul Barnwell", ", education consultant and former teacher, Jefferson County, Kentucky Schools", "Review", "\"", "Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0", "serves as an important contribution to help students think―and act―as ethical, prosocial members of a democratic society, which is certainly needed in this age of reactive and polarizing political discourse and action. I'm fully behind educators' efforts to inject discussions about ethical issues in the classroom as a way to help students better understand who and what is affected by their decision-making.\"―", "Paul Barnwell", ", education consultant and former teacher, Jefferson County, Kentucky Schools", "About the Author", "David E. Harris", "is a retired professor of teacher education at the University of Michigan.", "Anne-Lise Halvorsen", "is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, College of Education.", "Paul F. Dain", "is a retired government teacher and social studies department chair at Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.", "Read more" ]

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[ "In Providence, Rhode Island, a dangerous inmate disappears from a hospital for the insane. At Miskatonic University, a professor slumps into a five-year reverie. In a mysterious and vivid dreamworld, a melancholy man seeks the home of the gods. And in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, polar explorers unearth secrets that reveal a past almost beyond comprehension—and a future too terrible to imagine. Graphic novelist I.N.J. Culbard gives terrifying form to four classic tales by H.P. Lovecraft: “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,” “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward,” “At The Mountains of Madness,” and “The Shadow Out of Time.” Expertly adapted and beautifully drawn, Culbard’s lean and thrilling adaptations breathe new life into four stories that helped to reinvent the horror genre." ]

[ "Review", "“Culbard, a graphic novelist, offers his take on four stories from H. P. Lovecraft… These stories of madness and surreal worlds are rendered here with the crispness and energy of a comic book.”―", "The New York Times Book Review", "“I. N. J. Culbard’s H. P. Lovecraft adaptations… are the rare visualizations of the Cthulhu creator’s work that capture the unknowable essence of cosmic horror without sacrificing the dense, archaic style that makes Lovecraft so frustratingly singular.”―", "Paste Magazine", "About the Author", "I.N.J. Culbard", "is an award-winning artist widely known for his graphic novel adaptations of classics. He collaborated on a critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes series with Ian Edginton, as well as adapted Robert W. Chambers’s", "The King in Yellow", "for SelfMadeHero. His first original graphic novel,", "Celeste", ", was nominated for the British Comic Award." ]

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[ "A unique study aid to help you hone your problem-solving techniques for the", "Professional Engineering Exam", "in Civil Engineering.", "Here are 89 flowcharts to help you solve typical problems found on the", "Civil Engineering/Professional Engineering Examination", ". The flowcharts combine theory and formulas to show the logical steps in the solution of the problem. Flowcharts are provided for problems in areas such as: * Fluid Statics and Dynamics * Hydraulic Machines * Open Channel Flow * Hydrology * Water Supply and Waste Water Engineering * Solid Waste * Soils * Foundations and Retaining Walls * Mechanics of Materials * Steel and Reinforced Concrete Design * Traffic and Transportation * Surveying * Earthquake Design", "Each flowchart is accompanied by an example problem to illustrate the flowchart's step-by-step solution procedure." ]

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[ "Escoger los cuentos más representativos de Hans Christian Andersen ha supuesto un verdadero reto, ya que escribió cerca de doscientos: este libro incluye una maravillosa selección de los más memorables en sus versiones originales. Sus orígenes humildes y la pobreza extrema que padeció en su infancia, digna de un personaje de alguno de sus relatos, imprime a sus historias un carácter serio, duro, melancólico y, a diferencia de los de Perrault o los hermanos Grimm, exento de moraleja. Raros son sus cuentos con final feliz y, sin embargo, acaso sea el más popular, leído y querido de los autores del género.", "While few among Hans Christian Andersen’s characters know a truly happy ending, generations of readers across the centuries have crowned him as perhaps the most popular and beloved author in his genre. Andersen’s own humble origins and the extreme poverty in which he grew up are echoed in the often harsh fictional worlds he created, and this wonderful collection compiles 200 of his most memorable stories—all in their original versions." ]

[ "About the Author", "Hans Christian Andersen", "was a Danish playwright, poet, and writer whose children’s stories are considered the best in the genre. Born into a very poor family, he moved to Copenhagen to try his luck as a dancer and opera singer." ]

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[ "The Second World War changed Glendale in the same way that it overhauled many cities in Southern California, with new war-related industries requiring more workers in bigger facilities. Many men and women of the armed forces decided to make Glendale their home after the war. Thepopulation stabilized in the 1960s, but a new wave of development swept through Glendale as it became surrounded by freeways, as the Galleria mall was built, and as Brand Boulevard became a center of commerce. The city's cultural composition also changed when more Latinos, Armenians, Asians, and other distinct peoples began to make Glendale home, boosting Los Angeles County's third most populous city over the 200,000 brink. The year 2006 marked the city's centennial and the bicentennial of Jose Maria Verdugo's Rancho San Rafael, from which the city grew." ]

[ "About the Author", "This collection of vintage photographs is author Juliet M. Arroyo's second volume on local history following Images of America: Early Glendale. A resident of Glendale throughout the 1990s, she is the former historic preservation planner for the city and produced documentaries about Glendale's history for local television. Arroyo gathered the superb photographs in this retrospective from the Glendale Public Library, Glendale Historical Society, city archives, and private collections." ]

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[ "This book includes more than 300 primal beasts from the flying Dimorphodon to the duck-billed Anatotitan, the carnivorous Tyrannosaurus to the herbivorous Diplodocus, and the chicken-sized Compsognathus to the enormous Argentinosaurus – all kinds of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are featured in this collection of incredible animals that roamed the earth millions of years ago. It includes over 450 color illustrations and photographs; a timeline throughout showing how dinosaurs evolved from the Permian through to the Quaternary period; fact boxes containing information on diet, weight, length, height, and meaning of their name; along with locator maps showing where fossils have been discovered" ]

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[ "CONSUMER BEHAVIOR, 10th Edition offers a practical, business approach, designed to help students apply consumer behavior principles to their studies in business and marketing, to their future business careers, and also to their private lives, as consumers. This multi-disciplinary field can tempt both students and instructors to stray from the basic business principles they should take away from the course. Blackwell keeps students focused on consumer decision making as it applies specifically to an overall understanding of business theory and practices through the CDP (Consumer Decision Process) model. CONSUMER BEHAVIOR 10e focuses on why as well as how consumers make specific decisions and behave in certain ways - what motivates them, what captures their attention, and what retains their loyalty, turning \"customers\" into \"fans\" of an organization." ]

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[ "Both scholarly and practical, this text with readings provides a clear, well-organized overview of theoretical ethics. With a contemporary tone and framework, it aims to significantly improve students' ability to make real-life moral decisions. Multicultural coverage and attention to college students' moral development help readers relate the material to their own experience and their own moral growth." ]

[ "About the Author", "Judith A. Boss earned her PhD in 1990 from Boston University, her MA from Dalhousie University in Canada in 1971, and her BA from the University of Western Australia in 1969. Prior to pursing a career in academia, she worked as a writer/researcher for the Nova Scotia Museum. She was on the faculty of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1995 and worked as Assistant Director of Curriculum Affairs at Brown University School of Medicine until 2004, when she \"retired\" to return to full-time writing. She remained at Brown University as a visiting scholar with the philosophy department for several years while working on her textbooks. In addition to her philosophical interests, she completed a MS in Human Development at URI in 1991 and has led faculty workshops and written extensively on the topic of college student development. She was recipient of a URI Foundation Grant to study the effects of community service learning on students' moral development and has served as a grant application reviewer for the Corporation for National Service. The author of nine books, her publications include ANALYZING MORAL ISSUES and ETHICS FOR LIFE, both with McGraw-Hill. Her textbook THiNK, also with McGraw-Hill, just came out in 2009. She is published in, among other, The Journal of Moral Education, Public Affairs Quarterly, The Journal of Medical Ethics, Academic Medicine, Educational Theory, Free Inquiry, and The Journal of Experiential Education. During her spare time she volunteers with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and is active in the Appalachian Mountain Club. An avid traveler, she has traveled with students from the University of Rhode Island and Brown Medical School to work with underserved, indigenous people in Guatemala and Mexico. Her favorite travel destination, however, is Antarctica, and Blue Ice, a suspense/thriller she wrote that is set in Antarctica, is coming out in print next year. She lives in Rhode Island with her daughter, son-in-law and twin granddaughters." ]

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[ "Cy Twombly€™s distinctive artworks merge drawing, painting, and symbolic gesture in the pursuit of a direct, intuitive form of expression. Much of the artist€™s recent output interprets the natural world, often through references to garden and landscape. Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works, 2000-2007 features more than 30 paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures. Published in full cooperation with the artist, this handsome book speaks to both continuity and innovation in Twombly€™s work, underscoring the ongoing creative vitality of one of the greatest American artists of our time." ]

[ "About the Author", "James Rondeau is the Frances and Thomas Dittmer Chair of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago." ]

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[ "A rich collection of classic and lesser known myths from all around the world. Illustrations: Full colour throughout" ]

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[ "LAPD cop Michael Gideon and his police dog partner Sirius became reluctant celebrities after capturing a notorious serial killer in the midst of an inferno. For their heroism, they were chosen to head up the newly formed Special Cases Unit. Now the duo tackles out-of-the- ordinary cases, anything deemed unusual or bizarre even by Hollyweird standards.", "When a teenager is found crucified in a city park, Gideon and Sirius are handed the bizarre case. Confronting the gruesome tableau and having to work the case worsens Detective Gideon’s PTSD, a condition he has tried to hide from others. Gideon’s burns may have healed, but the fire haunts him still...in more ways than one.", "Eerily prescient since that terrible night of the fire, Gideon has unusual insights into the crimes he investigates, a skill he and Sirius must learn to trust as much as they do each other if they are to solve —and survive—this case." ]

[ "Review", "“One of the best writers in the mystery field today.”", "―", "Publishers Weekly" ]

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[ "Updated CASAS Reading GOALS Student textbook for Level C Forms 905R/906R with Exercise Answer Keys", "This test prep student book is designed to successfully develop adult learners’ academic reading skills, preparing them for", "CASAS Reading GOALS Level C Forms 905R/906R tests and for vocational training and college reading.", "In other words, this student textbook presents academic reading activities that help adult education programs and workforce programs, and their learners meet the", "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)", "reading expectations.", "The reading exercises and the two practice tests of this test prep student book cover CASAS", "Reading GOALS Level C standards and College and Career Readiness (CCR) reading standards", "and content.", "For example, each lesson focuses on three main areas: vocabulary, reading comprehension skills, and higher order reading skills. This reading textbook covers and teaches the following reading strategies:", "Using Background Knowledge", "Using Background Knowledge", "Making Inferences and Predictions", "Making Inferences and Predictions", "Constructing Visual Imagery", "Constructing Visual Imagery", "Identifying Text Structures And Cohesive Devices", "Identifying Text Structures And Cohesive Devices", "Understanding Unfamiliar Vocabulary", "Understanding Unfamiliar Vocabulary", "Reading Long Passages", "Reading Long Passages", "Learning Nonfiction Text Features", "Learning Nonfiction Text Features", "Understanding Figurative Language", "Understanding Figurative Language", "Reading for Main IdeasUnderstanding Main Ideas and Finding Evidence", "Reading for Main IdeasUnderstanding Main Ideas and Finding Evidence", "Understanding What You Read", "Understanding What You Read", "Analyzing Narrator And Point Of View (POV)", "Analyzing Narrator And Point Of View (POV)", "This consumable student book provides practice exercises for using the reading strategies to access", "different types of texts (science, social studies, and technical texts, literary texts).", "The lessons put emphasis", "on text complexity, evidence, and knowledge." ]

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[ "This uniquely shaped board book celebrates the cycle of the year with a tree that blossoms in spring, bears fruit in summer, sheds its leaves in fall, and cradles snow in winter. Young readers follow the passage of seasons in a succession of spreads, each filled with simple text and intriguing lift-the-flaps that reveal the many creatures—from owls to bumblebees—who all find shelter in the tree's boughs." ]

[ "Review", "\"A sculpture itself with stepped layers that joyfully trace the year's cycle.\"--Redbook Magazine's Mamarama Blog\"Readers can explore the changes to the tree and its foliage as the seasons progress.\"-Publishers Weekly\"The youngest of readers will appreciate this gorgeous tree-shaped board book.--WorkingMother.com", "About the Author", "Maryse Guittet studied graphic design at college in Paris, where she now doodles and dreams." ]

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[ "[This] book is a testament to America's crusade to protect, preserve, and perpetuate the values of democracy. From the foreword by Major General John H. Admire, USMC", "This is the most all-encompassing chronology and fact book yet to be published about Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. This detailed history consolidates official U.S. records and coalition sources from around the world and provides the most complete information available about day-to-day movements and events, units, missions, equipment, and personnel. Fifty pages of biographies provide information, most of which is published in the West for the first time. Appendices include a glossary, list coalition prisoners of war and service people killed in action, and provide data about coalition ground, naval, and air forces, Iraqi forces, and key personnel. Maps, charts, and photographs clarify the text and identify key targets and bases. A bibliography and a general index further enhance this comprehensive guide for researchers in military studies, international relations, and world history." ]

[ "From", "Booklist", "To many, the war waged against Iraq by the United Nations Coalition was a most successful operation, serving to liberate Kuwait and, in the U.S., engendering \"a gift of pride\" in ourselves and in our military leaders. Desert Storm helped heal the horrors of Vietnam, just as the one-sided Spanish American War helped unite the nation after the Civil War; or so the story goes. A review of this detailed chronology will serve to darken this picture for many users. The random deaths caused by accidents on board ships and from friendly fire and the listing of service people killed in action are part of the sobering record of this war presented by a noted military historian and author of", "World War II in the North Pacific: Chronology and Fact Book", "(Greenwood, 1994). Daily accounts follow this general plan: (a) activities of major figures, crucial events, grand strategy; (b) U.S. ground forces activity (c) U.S. naval and air force activity; (d) other coalition forces; and (e) activities of Iraq's armed forces.", "The work includes a list of coalition prisoners of war, a complete list of all named or numbered military units engaged in the war, and biographical information for key U.S. and British personnel; biographical information for key figures from other countries is often limited to name, rank, and military unit. A carefully selected and constructed bibliography identifies official documents (mostly U.S.) and regimental and general historical accounts of the war. The effort made to make the glossary as complete as possible will be appreciated by users. Careful name and subject indexing makes it possible for users to locate information on total troop strength as of a certain day, tanks and aircraft destroyed, economic costs, and the death dates for individuals killed in action. Charts group statistical information. Two of three line-drawn maps show troop deployments for February 21 and 24. More detailed maps would be useful in enabling readers to follow order-of-battle details given in the text.", "Order of battle for the coalition is made clear in the text; Iraq's plans cannot be outlined for lack of information. The chronology does not include coalition diplomatic efforts, U.S. congressional activities, or comments of President Bush or other world leaders. Researchers on the war will be encouraged by the complexity of the work, taking time to consult the glossary, study maps, and read background material. Laypersons wishing to find a quick understanding of events will find it too detailed for their purposes. Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries.", "Review", ".,.\"this is an invaluable reference tool. One looks foward to whatever subject Hutchinson next turns his energies.\"-The Northern Mariner?...this is an invaluable reference tool. One looks foward to whatever subject Hutchinson next turns his energies.?- The Northern Mariner?If one wants to know any factual information about the Persian Gulf War of 1991, this is the reference work to consult. It is valuable for all libraries that maintain these types of reference sources on u.S. wars.?- ARBA?Researchers on the war will be encouraged by the complexity of the work, taking time to consult the glossary, study maps, and read background material. Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries.?- Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin...\"this is an invaluable reference tool. One looks foward to whatever subject Hutchinson next turns his energies.\"-The Northern Mariner\"If one wants to know any factual information about the Persian Gulf War of 1991, this is the reference work to consult. It is valuable for all libraries that maintain these types of reference sources on u.S. wars.\"-ARBA\"Researchers on the war will be encouraged by the complexity of the work, taking time to consult the glossary, study maps, and read background material. Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries.\"-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin", "About the Author", "KEVIN DON HUTCHISON is an information specialist and lifelong student of military history. An authority on World War II in the North Pacific, Hutchison has pursued the complete history of Operation Desert Storm worldwide and continues his study of the war. A member of several military and historical associations, he has written numerous articles for military journals and magazines. His earlier book,", "World War II in the North Pacific: Chronology and Fact Book", ", was published by Greenwood Press in 1994 and has been recommended by the U.S. Commission on Military History.", "Read more" ]

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[ "A guide to the cars that have commanded a fanatical following and created a huge collection of flourishing owners' clubs. From the pioneering three-wheelers through the 4/4, Plus 4 to the blistering Plus 8, with supporting technical and performance data." ]

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[ "For four decades writer-photographer Francis (Frank) Caldwell has fished the Pacific Coast from Alaska to California. In this always readable book unfolds a clear, close-up view of the fisherman's day-to-day life. The author shares the excitement of a school of fish biting furiously at dusk, the frustrations and humor of the radiotelephone, the many characters he has known, the close shaves, the storms, the too-frequent tragedies of friends lost at sea, the frightening experience of seeing a UFO off the Oregon Coast one spooky night. Included is a vivid description of the terrible giant wave that occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958." ]

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[ "Books", "Science & Math", "Nature & Ecology" ]

[ "A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know―and what we don't.", "On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see the early universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology, on the other, it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct.", "The map contains anomalies that challenge our understanding of the universe. It will force us to revisit what is known and what is unknown, to construct a new model of our universe. This is the first book to address what will be an epoch-defining scientific paradigm shift. Stuart Clark will ask if Newton's famous laws of gravity need to be rewritten; if dark matter and dark energy are just celestial phantoms? Can we ever know what happened before the Big Bang? What’s at the bottom of a black hole? Are there universes beyond our own? Does time exist? Are the once immutable laws of physics changing?" ]

[ "Review", "“The author brings the subject up to 2015 with the obligatory new discovery combined with a fine history of cosmology, and he makes it clear that our knowledge and ignorance seem to be expanding in parallel. Since satisfying results have yet to turn up, Clark's book ends on a cliffhanger, but readers will be entirely pleased with the experience.” -", "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)", "“Herein lies the tale of intrepid astronomers, across time and cultures, who were the first to observe, identify, and document our misbehaving Sun. A delightful, informative read.” -", "Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, author of 'Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries?'", "“The balance of brief biographies, technical exposition, intriguing trivia, and big-picture thinking is just right for the context. There’s plenty of fresh and fascinating information to learn. The exciting recent discovery of gravitational waves will make this title all the more relevant for the cosmologically curious.” -", "Library Journal", "“In this well-researched and very well-written book, Clark tells the embattled, little-known history of modern astronomy, a spry tale full of intrigue, jealousy, spite, dedication and perseverance.” -", "Publishers Weekly", "“Clark is writing for a popular science audience who will enjoy his lively and eminently readable account of the lives and scientific careers of those whose work furthered the understanding of the Sun-Earth connection.” -", "Richard C. Canfield,", "Physics Today", "“Strikes a new chord in American cosmological thinking. Clark has taken a comprehensive perspective to discover nuances in the meaning of well-known theories from the most celebrated theorists.” -", "San Francisco Book Review", "“Accessible to any reader with basic mathematical understanding, but also enriching for specialists, providing ample references to technical papers for further reading. The Unknown Universe reminds us that the quest for knowledge demands uncompromising skepticism and abundant humility alongside the insatiable curiosity that has always characterized the human heart.” -", "Science", "“A sprightly and spirited narrative. I found myself captivated by the characters, the colossal problems they tackled, and the stunning conclusions they finally reached. I commend Clark for combining so many interesting ideas into a single, fast-paced, beautifully crafted story.” -", "Dava Sobel, author of 'Longitude,' 'Galileo's Daughter,' and 'The Planets?'", "“Clark's easily absorbed prose places readers deep in the middle of exciting new models, ideas and analysis that are requiring scientists to rethink what they had thought they knew about outer space.” -", "Shelf Awareness", "“Stuart Clark illuminates the dawn of astrophysics. No faceless automatons, the scientists in this tale blend a passion for their work with the more worldly passions of pride, jealousy, greed, and lust.” -", "Robert P. Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University", "About the Author", "Stuart Clark, Ph.D.", ", is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and is the astrology correspondent for", "The New Scientist", ". Stuart holds a first-class honors degree and a Ph.D. in astrophysics.", "The Sun Kings,", "which established him as a popular science writer of the highest level, was shortlisted for the Royal Society science book prize and won the Association of American Publishers 2007 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for Excellence in the Cosmology and Astronomy category. Stuart lives in England." ]

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[ "If zombies are what you crave, open the pages of this book for a wild ride!The 12 zombie short stories within (equaling over 64,000 words) will make you cringe, delight your imagination, and possibly even warm your heart . . . so the undead can feast upon it!Be brave and see if you can survive the Zombies Inside!" ]

[ "About the Author", "Rebecca Besser resides in Ohio with her wonderful husband and amazing son. They've come to accept her quirks as normal while she writes anything and everything that makes her inner demons squeal with delight. She's best known for her work in adult horror, but has been published in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for a variety of age groups and genres. She's entirely too cute to be scary in person, so she turns to the page to instill fear into the hearts of the masses.", "--This text refers to the", "paperback", "edition." ]

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[ "Somebody's Hero is a story about everyday heroes. This story helps families and educators to have conversations, with their children, about random acts of kindness, and how they make the people feel giving or receiving those efforts. These people are heroes in the eyes of those receiving the smallest act of kindness." ]

[ "About the Author", "Melissa Lautigar, who has been teaching at the elementary level for twenty-five years and has a Master's Degree in Teaching and Learning, would search books in stores that would help her to teach character building within her classroom. Now it's her turn to produce a book that focuses on little acts of kindness." ]

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[ "(Play Today Instructional Series). This complete guide to the basics contains everything you need to get started on the uke: in-depth instruction, terrific songs, two professional-quality CDs with full-demo tracks, and a helpful DVD! Perfect for students who want to teach themselves, or for teachers giving private or group lessons. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the CDs and DVD. Covers: songs, chords and melodies; picking, fingerpicking and strumming; playing tips and techniques; standard notation and tablature; and much more. Over 150 songs and examples! Have fun as you open the door to the fun world of ukulele! DVD running time: 1 hr. 15 min." ]

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[ "Cable & Deadpool, #29 (Comic Book): The Domino Principle, Part 2 - The Po" ]

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[ "NEW YORK TIMES", "BESTSELLER • A sweeping historical novel that tells the dramatic story of Sisi, the empress of Austria-Hungary who fought for her family, her people, and her empire in a changing world", "“Irresistible—completely impossible to put down . . . Allison Pataki reimagines the reign of the nineteenth-century Princess Diana in this stunning book.”—Michelle Moran, bestselling author of", "Rebel Queen", "Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth—fondly known as Sisi—captures the hearts of her people as their “fairy queen,” but beneath that dazzling persona lives a far more complex figure. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, the halls of the Hofburg Palace buzz not only with imperial waltzes and champagne but with temptations, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue. Feeling stifled by strict protocols and a turbulent marriage, Sisi finds solace at her estate outside Budapest, where she rides her beloved horses and enjoys visits from a man with whom she’s unwittingly become enamored. But tragic news brings the empressout of her fragile seclusion, forcing her to return to her capital and a world of gossip, envy, and sorrow where a dangerous fate lurks in the shadows. Through love affairs and loss, dedication and defiance, Sisi struggles against conflicting desires: to keep her family together, or to flee amid the collapse of her suffocating marriage and the gathering tumult of the First World War. In an age of crumbling monarchies, the empress fights to assert her right to the throne beside her husband, to win the love of her people and the world, and to save an empire. But in the end, can she save herself?Featuring larger-than-life historic figures such as Bavaria’s “Mad King Ludwig” and the tragic Crown Prince Rudolf, and set against many of Europe’s grandest sites—from Germany’s storied Neuschwanstein Castle to England’s lush shires—", "Sisi", "brings to life an extraordinary woman and the romantic, volatile era over which she presided." ]

[ "Review", "“[Allison] Pataki successfully juggles numerous political and personal plot lines while maintaining her focus on a fascinating central character. Extensive notes reveal the author’s attention to detail and explain where the novel diverges from the historical record. . . . Readers of Pataki’s first book will want to know the rest of Sisi’s story, but this novel stands on its own for historical fiction fans.”", "—", "Library Journal", "“", "Sisi", "is a deeply moving book about a complex character.”", "—", "BookPage", "“A satisfying saga of the late Habsburg period.”", "—", "Kirkus Reviews", "“Pataki’s extensive historical research is evident as she deftly explores the complex life of a woman who was both loved and hated by those whom she ruled. . . . Pataki brings richness and relevance to the story of the woman who worked tirelessly to protect the face of an empire.”", "—", "Publishers Weekly", "“Allison Pataki simply stuns me with each new book. I savor each page.", "Sisi", "is her best yet!”", "—Kathie Lee Gifford", "“Readers will enjoy the glorious dilemma of whether to turn the pages swiftly, breathlessly following Empress Sisi from one astonishing, heartbreaking adventure to the next, or to linger and luxuriate in Allison Pataki’s vivid, sumptuous descriptions of the Habsburg court.”", "—Jennifer Chiaverini,", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker", "“This entire novel is irresistible—completely impossible to put down! Pataki reimagines the reign of the nineteenth-century Princess Diana in this stunning book.”", "—Michelle Moran, internationally bestselling author of", "Rebel Queen", "“Emotional, exuberant, masterly,", "Sisi", "swept me into the glittering, treacherous world of the waning Habsburg empire. Allison Pataki’s understanding of the Empress Elisabeth is nothing short of miraculous. A must-read.”", "—Lynn Cullen, bestselling author of", "Mrs. Poe", "“", "Sisi", "delivers on all fronts: intrigue, love triangles, deception, heartbreak, and triumph. This is a wonderful read.”", "—Deeanne Gist, international bestselling author of", "Tiffany Girl", "“The tumultuous world of mid-nineteenth-century royalty comes to stunning life in this sweeping novel about the courageous, defiant empress who sought her own survival amid rivalry, betrayal, and tragedy.”", "—C. W. Gortner, internationally bestselling author of", "The Vatican Princess", "“From luscious moonlit gardens to sumptuous castles, the settings of", "Sisi", "are as dazzling as those of Vienna’s Imperial Court. Pataki resurrects the unforgettable Empress Elisabeth in a rich and exquisite tragedy of passion and heartbreak—a true tour de force.”", "—Erika Robuck, bestselling author of", "Hemingway’s Girl", "“Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and powerfully evocative,", "Sisi", "humanizes one of the great female figures of history.”", "—Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie, authors of", "America’s First Daughter", "“Allison Pataki has written a nuanced and compelling account of that ever-glamorous heroine, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, immortalized as ‘Sisi.’ Pataki’s sublimely readable prose is the perfect vehicle for a tale that spans thirty years and settings from Corfu to Hungary to Ireland. The glamour and the heartache of Sisi’s life will keep you riveted.”", "—Carol Wallace, author of", "Leaving Van Gogh", "About the Author", "Allison Pataki", "is the", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "The Traitor’s Wife", "and", "The Accidental Empress", ". The daughter of former New York State governor George E. Pataki, she was inspired to write about Sisi by her family’s deep roots in the former Habsburg empire of Austria-Hungary. She graduated cum laude from Yale University with a major in English. Pataki is the co-founder of the nonprofit organization ReConnect Hungary, regularly contributes to", "The Huffington Post", "and FoxNews.com, and is a member of the Historical Novel Society. She lives in Chicago with her husband and their daughter.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Chapter 1Gödöllő Palace, HungarySummer 1868Sisi could have offered any number of explanations as to why it was so different. Had someone asked her, it would have been simple enough for her to provide an answer. But what was the truth? she wondered. Why was it that twilight here in Gödöllő, her country estate just outside of Budapest, felt so different from twilight in Vienna?She might have said that it was the view: the unruly, wild, perfectly inviting view. Here, in the soft light of the coming evening, the grounds rolled open before her, unfurling in waves of gentle green before meeting thousands of acres of virgin woodlands. Clusters of wildflowers dotted the meadows, so different from Vienna’s imperial grounds and gardens, where sensible, stately tulips intersected lawns so symmetrical and tight clipped that it looked as though mankind had heeled nature into complete submission. Which of course, in Vienna, it had.Or was it the sound of Gödöllő at dusk? Evenings out here echoed with the bark of her sheepdogs; the carefree laughter of the Hungarian stable boys as they scrubbed down her horses; the first stirrings of the crickets and frogs as they welcomed dusk from the overgrown fields, nature’s unrivaled orchestra tuning up for its nightly symphony. It was a collection of sounds so entirely unlike those to be had in Vienna, where Sisi might hear the one-­two of polished boots as the imperial guards paraded across the courtyards; the clatter of coaches rolling past the Hofburg gates; the cries of the Viennese mob gathered outside the palace at all hours, begging for her to give them a florin coin or a glimpse of her celebrated silhouette, her legendary hairstyles.Perhaps it was the aroma in the air. Here a medley of sweet scents traveled across the breeze: the faint trace of wild rose and acacia, the earthy musk of the stables, the heady perfume of overgrown grass and straw and mud. It was a lush bouquet of smells so natural and pleasing, entirely different from what she might breathe in back in Vienna, where she inhaled the cloying eau de parfum of obsequious courtiers; the stink of so many bodies and chamber pots jammed into the Hofburg Palace; the fear of the noble men and women who were always watching, calculating as to how they might raise their own status or knock down a rival’s. Yes, fear was something one could smell. Sisi knew that, after all of her years in Vienna.But no, it was not the view, or the sound, or the scent that made twilight in Hungary so different from twilight in Austria. It was not anything outside of her or around her; it was a sensation entirely inside of her. It was how she felt each evening at dusk that made Gödöllő so different from the Hofburg.In Vienna, by this hour of the day, Sisi would feel withered. Her head would ache from the unpleasantness of an argument with her husband or his iron-­willed mother. Sisi’s stomach would be coiled into a gnarled mess, her chest tight with anxiety from a day of sorting gossip and rumors from truth, of watching for and trying to address the judgment or disapproval that seemed to pass across every courtier’s face. She would be looking drearily ahead to a night spent with the Imperial Court—­a tedious evening ensconced in the damask and gold gilt of the staterooms, the sound of the violins overpowered by the chatter about trivial scandals. Hours spent watching women fawn before her husband, forcing a weary smile while men paid her the same trite compliments they used night after night. Days in Vienna were long, but the nights were interminable—­and Sisi would limp back to her room each evening feeling spent, depleted. So fatigued that she already dreaded the next day before that day even came.Here in Gödöllő she felt spent, too, but in the best way possible. Like a vessel poured out, light and free of burdens. Today, like all days at her Hungarian estate, she’d been free. She’d been outdoors since five in the morning, having risen at four. In keeping with her daily routine, she’d ridden hard and returned to the palace just briefly for a light broth at midday. The afternoon found her atop her horse once more and back in the fields and woodlands, where she practiced jumps, galloped to the point of breathlessness, and joined her charming neighbor, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, in chasing foxes and racing across the untamed landscape.That was why twilight in Gödöllő was always so different. By the time the sun began to sink over the western fields in the direction of Budapest, Sisi’s body would ache with a pleasant, well-­earned fatigue. Her cheeks, brightened by the clean country air and the physical exertion, would glow a deep rose. Her heart would feel light, her spirits buoyant, and her body strong.And that was precisely how Sisi felt on this sultry late-­summer evening, as she handed her horse off at the stables and thanked the Hungarian groom with an easy smile. She turned toward the palace, its red-­domed roof cutting a fanciful outline against the fading sky. Even this structure, so whimsical and unpretentious, stood in contrast to the stately, solid form of Vienna’s imperial residence, the Hofburg. As Sisi looked now over the strawberry-­pink and cream façade, her eyes moved to the second floor, finding the window on the eastern wing of the house. She smiled, picking up her pace. She had almost expected to see the tiny cherubic face peeking back at her from within a glow of early-­evening candlelight; and suddenly she couldn’t wait to be back inside the palace, this place where she had made a home for herself, carving out a safe corner of domesticity and freedom away from the crushing hold of Vienna and the Imperial Court.“Hello, Shadow.” Sisi’s favorite dog, an oversized mound of wagging white fur, trotted up, lapping a sloppy greeting on her as she reached the front door. “You miss me today?” She stroked the massive hound a moment before nodding at the nearby footman and walking into the front hall, her dog trailing behind her in accordance with his name.“Empress Elisabeth.” Ida Ferenczy, Sisi’s attendant and longtime friend, curtsied as the empress entered. Beside her snored the empress’s other dog, a heavy Saint Bernard named Brave. Her mother-­in-­law despised oversized dogs—­the Archduchess Sophie only ever kept dogs small enough to sit in her lap. Perhaps that was why here, in Gödöllő, Sisi surrounded herself with the enormous, lovable beasts.“Hello, Ida.” Sisi tossed her riding gloves onto a nearby chair as she crossed the spacious, high-­ceilinged front hall toward her attendant. “I will change quickly out of these riding clothes. I miss my little one. Is everything as it should be in the nursery?”“The Archduchess Valerie is in perfectly good health this evening, thanks be to God.”“Has she cried today?”“Only the normal fretting of any small baby. But the nurse reports that the little archduchess has had her milk without incident, and she should be in good spirits for Your Majesty’s visit to the nursery.”“Good. I’ll change and then go straight to her.”“Of course. And was Your Majesty’s ride pleasing today?”“Yes.” Sisi nodded, making her way to the broad, curving staircase that led upstairs toward her suite of private rooms. “It was a wonderful day. The fox thought he had found a safe haven in the southern woodlands, but Nicky rooted him out, and we nearly—­” Sisi paused on the steps, her mind pulled in several directions at once. “That reminds me, Ida, we shall be four for dinner tonight instead of three. Nicky—­rather, Prince Esterházy—­practically begged me for an invitation, and I hadn’t the heart to refuse him. He’ll join the two of us and Countess Marie.”“In that case, Madame, I believe that we shall be five instead of four.” Ida’s lips curled upward in a sheepish smile, but she offered nothing more by way of explanation.“Who?” Sisi asked, her hand bracing on the stairway’s carved balustrade. “Who else is coming?” Had Franz decided to plan a last-­minute visit? Sisi’s stomach coiled—­the emperor’s presence, as rare as it was out here, had a way of disrupting the fragile, carefree peace she fought so hard to cultivate in this household.As an answer, Ida held forth the small golden mail dish, piled with papers. “Your Imperial Majesty’s personal correspondences.”“Thank you.” Sisi took the dish, riffling through the pile. “You’ve forwarded all of the official petitions and letters on to my secretary in Vienna?”Ida nodded.Sisi’s eyes landed on the one calling card, its lettering long and graceful—­and familiar. No, this was not news of the emperor. This was a sight so longed for that Sisi felt her heart lurch in her breast, aching now with the first kindling of hope. Andrássy! But could it be? Was Andrássy back in Hungary? Sisi fixed a questioning gaze on her attendant, aware of how her eager tone betrayed her as she asked: “Did he . . . did Count Andrássy come by today?”Leaning forward, her voice low, Ida whispered: “Count Andrássy came calling while you were riding. He said he’d return for dinner.”Sisi clutched the banister, her heart feeling like it might trip down the carpeted stairs even as she stood frozen in place. “Well, that’s a surprise. A most pleasant surprise. Come, I must dress at once.”As she dressed for the evening, Sisi made her way through the remaining pile of letters, her mind wandering every few moments back to Andrássy. Had he missed her these past months as she had missed him? How long would he stay? Would all be the same between them? She blinked, forcing herself to focus on the news from her family; she had only so much time to read these letters and visit the nursery before dinner. Before he arrived.There were several letters from Bavaria, where Sisi’s beloved older sister, Helene, had recently returned to the family home at Possenhofen to live with their parents. “Poor Néné.” Sisi could almost see the tears that had fallen as her widowed sister penned this note. Helene, the eldest sister and the only one of the five Wittelsbach girls to be happily married, had found her groom—­a kindly prince of Thurn and Taxis—­later in life. She hadn’t married until her twenties, and yet she’d lost her husband just a few precious years after the wedding. Helene wrote of her own deteriorating health, of her daily sadness, but also of her deepening faith. She, who had once longed for a life in a nunnery, wrote Sisi now that daily prayer provided “the one balm against grief in the otherwise chaotic environment of our childhood household.”Sisi sighed, her heart heavy for Helene as she turned to her next letter from home. This one came from her darling younger sister Sophie-­Charlotte.My dearest Sisi,I am to be married! You cannot possibly know how happy my heart is. Or perhaps you can, and do, understand my bliss; I was too young to witness it when you yourself fell in love with your husband and accepted his hand.Sisi looked away for a moment, blinking as she absorbed the startling news. If Néné’s letter had seeped sad resignation, a contemplative widow’s acceptance that her life’s dreams would never be realized, then Sophie-­Charlotte’s note burst with youthful cheer, raw and naïve exuberance, an as yet unshaken optimism that felt as fragile and ill-­fated as a bowl of blown glass in a child’s hands. Sisi turned back to her sister’s words.Oh, my darling sister, you know our cousin Ludwig as well as I do. Perhaps even better, as he always tells me that you alone of the sisters (other than me, of course!) truly know him and love him. And how he returns that love to you! How he admires you! And how happy it makes me when he tells me that I, of all our sisters, most resemble you in beauty and sensitivity.Oh, Sisi, mine is a blissful, giddy state of happiness. Ludwig, King of Bavaria, to be my husband!He is a man without equal. Why, look at his palaces. He has taste and elegance enough to make me feel like quite the simpleton. And not to mention how beautiful he is to look on. I know that every girl in Bavaria is sick with envy, as they should be. I have won for myself the best husband in our country! Perhaps the world! (Your beloved Franz Joseph excluded, of course.)You will come home to Bavaria for the wedding, won’t you? I shall tell Ludwig that you will—­the promise of seeing you will induce him to name a wedding date!I am now and shall remain your most loving and devoted sister,Sophie-­CharlotteSisi put Sophie-­Charlotte’s letter down and folded it twice, an inexplicable sense of uneasiness settling over her. She was taken aback that the happy news filled her with such misgivings. Her sister was correct: Sisi did love Ludwig. He was her cousin and—­other than Néné—­her most cherished childhood playmate. She and Ludwig had spent so much of their youths together in Bavaria, the two of them running wild through the fields around Possenhofen and sharing their fantastic daydreams for both the present and the future. Perhaps Ludwig had even been a bit in love with the young Sisi. He had hinted at it enough. But Ludwig—­now to be Sophie-­Charlotte’s husband? The idea did not fill Sisi with the joy that such news ought to have aroused. Were they well suited? Certainly her mother, Duchess Ludovika, would be elated at such a match, thrilled by the fact that her youngest daughter would remain so close to her home in “Possi.” And Sophie-­Charlotte was euphoric, evidently. Sisi tucked her sister’s note into her escritoire, determined to revisit the topic later. She did not wish to rob her darling baby sister of any of her bridal joy, but neither did she herself have the most optimistic view of matrimony these days. She’d need to think before crafting her reply.Only two letters remained, and Sisi stared at them now. The top one bore the seal of archduchess gisela, imperial princess of austria and hungary. Gisela, Sisi’s twelve-­year-­old daughter, writing from the Imperial Court in Vienna. Gisela rarely wrote. She and Sisi were not close; they had never been given a chance at closeness. Gisela, from her earliest days as an infant, had preferred her grandmother, the Archduchess Sophie, the woman who could somehow be as soft and maternal with her grandchildren as she was cold and domineering with her daughter-­in-­law.", "Read more" ]

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[ "When the prize is death, some games are better lost than won.", "If she loses, she becomes his queen, and he unleashes war across Earth and Tir n’Aill alike. If she wins, he dies. The answer seems clear. But then why can’t she bring herself to want victory?The longer Abigail wanders through his Maze of Shadows, the less sure she becomes of anything—allies, enemies, wrong, right, evil, good, hate…and love. With every twist and turn, her heart is more fully trapped in his snare.Facing the choice of whether to win—and kill the Bloody Prince—or lose and become his queen, Abigail can’t decide which is worse. In fact, she is starting to think that she might no longer want to win at all.No matter the cost." ]

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[ "The new edition of the Listening and Notetaking Skills series incorporates engaging National Geographic content and video featuring authentic interviews and videos with National Geographic Explorers! This unique approach engages learners while enhancing listening comprehension and developing notetaking and study skills." ]

[ "About the Author", "Patricia A. Dunkel is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University. Her research includes a focus on the utility and techniques of note-taking on second/foreign language (L2) listening comprehension. She has published a number of research articles and instructional books on the topic. She also has done cutting edge work in computer-adaptive testing of L2 listening proficiency. She has given numerous research and teacher-training presentations on the topics in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Her teaching experience includes positions at The Pennsylvania State University, the University of Arizona, Georgetown University, and Harvard University where she taught numerous graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as pre-university students of English as a second/foreign language.Frank Pialorsi, Ph.D., directed the first self-supporting intensive English program at the University of Arizona in the summer of 1968. Before that, he was with the Fulbright Foundation in Greece for three years and Japan for another year. He later directed the UA's Center for English as a Second Language from 1978 to 2002. During that period he traveled to many parts of the world designing and implementing English language programs. Most notable were those in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Taiwan. In 1974, he co-authored the first edition of Advanced Listening Comprehension." ]

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[ "Shocked at waking up on board the strange alien craft, bolshie drop dead gorgeous London journalist Claire finds herself leading an international group of females through various escapades on their journey through space towards alien planet Gammov. The 12 perfect looking human-like crew led by Captain Zargo and equally hunky brother Tav, though morally conflicted about abducting the not always very co-operative group of women, had good reason to do what they have done … but what's their secret and can they win their captives over? The women can't deny their attraction to the dark handsome muscular strangers, but fearful of their fate, can love ultimately conquer all? Can the line be crossed from prisoner to partner … ? Mirror Earthmen is the first in a series of alien romance books. It's a sci-fi chick lit romp through space featuring heart-pounding romance, quirky characters, one-liners, and sizzling sexual chemistry." ]

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