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[ "An excellent resource of inspiration for young people all over the world. It is a story about a young man, Saikou Camara, from West Africa, the Gambia, who persevered through some very difficult times in his early life to becoming one of the most influential young leaders of his generation. The author efficiently addressed multitudes of topics ranging from poverty in the African society, child labor, poor educational systems in Africa, brain drain, the dream of travelling abroad (by all means necessary), illegal migration, his experiences with race/racism, poor governance in Africa, and economic discrepancy. Critics described the literature as an inspirational bible for young people everywhere. We have all witnessed the glory and success of the author today, but this literature lead us into the author’s continuous journey, struggles, and painful days of his life that he and many young Africans are facing today. The book is orderly and neatly written. Mr. Camara took his readers on a journey of his life encounters which were filled with obstacles, perseverance, and triumphs, which many young people can relate to. The message throughout the entire book was to follow your dreams and to never give up. This message is relevant to young people all over the world today, especially to young Africans. His message is that without perseverance, commitment, and consistency to your ideas, dreams, and, aspirations you will not succeed in your endeavors. The author never relented or despaired when the going got tough on him, he got tougher instead. In a nutshell the “Testimony of An African Immigrant” is a summary (open letter) of the struggles and plights of young Africans to African and world leaders. Go and pick up your own copy today and be inspired." ]

[ "About the Author", "Saikou Camara is from The Gambia, West Africa. He travelled to the United States in 2004 in pursuit of university education, graduating in 2008 with a BS in Computer Science from Rust College in Holly Springs Mississippi, and two years later with a Master's degree also in Computer Science from Jackson State University in Jackson Mississippi. He works for Union Pacific Rail Road as a Transmission/Networking Engineer. 
 He is the founder and President of Your Change for a Change (YCFaC), a 501C3 non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Nebraska and registered in five different countries (France, Sweden, the Gambia, UK and USA). He is also the President of a non-profit organization, People Making a Difference (PMaD, ) incorporated in the state of Nebraska (2014), comprising mainly young African professionals within the greater Omaha area. Currently, he serves as a board member of the Simple Foundation incorporated in Omaha Nebraska and the Give1 Project, the Gambia chapter. As an activist with a passion for youth empowerment, he co-founded the Global Leadership and Diversity Summit (GLEADS) in 2016, which brings together diverse group of young leaders to discuss innovative ideas and find solutions to the everyday challenges facing our diverse communities.
 True to his roots as an African, Saikou Camara is a storyteller, a talent that has greatly enhanced his profile as a public and motivational speaker. Storytelling is an integral part of his culture and it plays an instrumental part in his life. For him, storytelling is an art form that simultaneously links us to our past and gives us insight into the future. 
 Drawing on his experience as a trained IT professional and president for non-profit organizations, he provides Project Development Consultancy for many start-up businesses and entrepreneurs especially in the field of technology, social enterprises, and not for profit. 
 In 2014, he received the Superior Community Service award from the Black Employee Network (BEN) and for two years in a row (2015-2016), he was honored with the Citizen of the Year award by the Beta Upsilon chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity incorporated." ]

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

[ "Examines the lives of former childhood friends Jay Tasti, a school teacher, and Albert Niklozak, a thug with ties to organized crime, who grew up in a tough section of Long Island, called Duck Alley and how committed they are to sustaining their friendship through adulthood." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "A nostalgic revisiting of childhood shenanigans during the 1950s and '60s in a tough section of Long Island called Duck Alley turns sinister when a murder committed years later, in 1973, divides the narrator, Jay Tasti, whose family is Italian, from his lifelong buddy, Hungarian immigrant Albert Niklozak. The two meet in grade school, and they are so close that when Albert is in basic training, he calls Jay instead of his mother. Later, Jay becomes a high school English teacher, while Albert earns his livelihood as a small-time fence and pimp. Jay meets his future wife, Annetta, while both are working at a warehouse Albert manages. When Jay's troubled student, the aggressively flirtatious Arlynn Svenson, unsuccessfully tries to seduce him, and then claims she's pregnant, Jay asks for Albert's help. Arlynn ends up dead. The actual sequence of events is unclear, and though Albert's guilt seems evident, the observer is left with doubts. Those doubts drive the story forward and the characters apart, as Jay feels obliged to testify against Albert. To Jay, the mystery is only part of the larger story of his conflicted relationship with Albert, in which manifestations of love, trust and honor are not always what they seem. The story is excellently paced and imaginatively told, in a series of flashbacks, imaginary scenarios and straightforward narrative sections, all enlivened with vernacular dialogue. DeFilippi's (Blood Sugar) novel is as much about emotions as it is about actions, and it delivers a jolt of a surprise ending that entirely fits the plot's milieu. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From School Library Journal", "YA-A book that grabs readers quickly and doesn't let go. Jay Tasti was raised in Duck Alley, a working-class suburb on Long Island, in the 1950s. His closest boyhood friend was the daring and dangerous Albert Nikozak, who grows up to be a thug who takes care of his friends. Jay becomes a teacher and runs into problems with a troubled student. Arlynn Svenson often fabricates stories with herself as victim and an unsuspecting male as the perpetrator. She tells Jay that she is pregnant with his child, even though they have never been intimate. Jay worries about losing his job, his reputation, and his wife when Arlynn decides to blare her lies. He turns to Albert for help. When Arlynn is discovered miles away, dead, Jay undergoes a crisis of conscience, for he knows that his friend killed her. Readers are given broad hints throughout that eventually something terrible happens. Jay, the narrator, almost reveals what is going on, then reverts to describing a memory that further illuminates the two men. Albert is a sort of modern-day tragic Greek figure, bound to end in ruin due to his own character flaws, but one with strangely redeeming qualities. Jay has weaknesses of his own. The writing is concise and pithy and rings true. Both the child and adult versions of Jay and Albert have problems and personality quirks that teens will recognize. The story will lead to much stimulating discussion.", "Carol DeAngelo, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA", "Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From", "Booklist", "Two friends grow up in a tough Long Island neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s. One becomes an English teacher, the other a pimp. When a tragic and ultimately meaningless crime is committed, the putative bad guy takes the fall. From this rather cliched premise, DeFilippi creates a surprisingly fresh novel. The story evolves into a meditation on communication (between spouses and between men) and on silence, especially as manifested in the", "Omerata", ", the infamous underworld code of secrecy. At several points in the story, a modicum of honesty could prevent tragedy, but the people involved simply don't have that skill in their repertoires. DeFilippi's schoolteacher, no sanctimonious do-gooder, is full of texture and self-doubt; his thug is a Vietnam veteran from a family of Hungarian refugees. The flashbacks to early television and the vicious nuns in the Catholic school are more cautionary than nostalgic, and the Long Island setting is evoked vividly but with admirable restraint. A sleeper that could find its natural audience among public-library fiction devotees.", "George Needham", "From Kirkus Reviews", "A second from DeFilippi has parallels with his considerably stronger Blood Sugar (1992), but too much in plot flies off with too little in substantive atmosphere or theme to act as ballast. Narrator Jay Tasti opens up with a ramble through plentifully familiar boyhood memories of growing up on Duck Alley, Long Island. Recalling the happy summertime of his youth in the 50s, Tasti summons Coke bottles, friendly drunks, fussy moms, baseball games on the radio and harmless pranks. Back then, see, Tasti was real tight with Albert Niklozak, and, man, did they do some crazy stuff. Well. Then comes the draft. Albert gets sent to Nam (and strangely never speaks of it), while Tasti stays comfy with a stateside role. Tasti muffles his mixed feelings, becomes a high-school teacher, and marries. Albert becomes a small-time hood dealing in fenced goods and prostitutes. As for his life in education, Tasti recalls, oh, if there only hadn't been Arlynn Svenson . . . . Arlynn, the cartoonishly drawn high-school sex siren with a troubled mind, finds teacher Tasti on the beach during a field trip, bares her breasts to him, and actually says ``jiggle, jiggle.'' Though Tasti takes a hundred pages to not touch her breasts, Arlynn, while literally flopping around in the hall and driving everyone nuts, claims Tasti got her pregnant. Blow her off? Advise therapy? Nah, do the sensible thing, and get Albert to silence her. It seems Albert does what hes asked, gets caught, sent to jail, then killed in a knife fight. Only after all that does Tasti discover that Albert never murdered the girlbut held his tongue for the honor of friendship, which Tasti grieves to have forgotten. The depth of Tasti's spiritual agony is doubtless meant to be profound, but the story just doesnt make it real, with the result that the profound and the inane are at loggerheads. --", "Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.", "Review", "\"The story is excellently paced and imaginatively told.  It delivers a jolt of a surprise ending that entirely fits the plot's milieu.\"  --Publishers Weekly\"A wonderful book.\" --George V. Higgins\"DeFilippi creates a surprisingly fresh novel, a meditation on communication and on silence...full of texture.\" --Booklist\"A terrific tale... a superbly crafted novel.\" --Cleveland Plain Dealer", "\"", "Duck Alley", "is the moving, funny, ultimately tragic story of two buddies growing up in the 1950s.\" --Philadelphia Enquirer", "About the Author", "Jim DeFilippi left Duck Alley to serve in the U.S. Air Force from 1969 to 1973. He has been writing and teaching school for twenty-five years in northern Vermont, where he and his wife raised their two children. Duck Alley is his second novel.", "Read more" ]

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[ "A cute composition notebook and journal for children who love firefighting!", "Specifications:", "110 Pages", "110 Pages", "7.5 X 9.25 \"", "7.5 X 9.25 \"", "Durable Cover", "Durable Cover" ]

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[ "Charlotte Goodman has had enough surprises.", "In fact, she reached her life’s quotient when her husband of five months walked out on her, only to abruptly change his mind a few weeks later and move back in. Stung by a whiplash of grief, resentment, and confusion, Charlotte calls a time-out, taking a small apartment where she can figure out what", "she", "wants. Instead, the thought of making even the simplest choices triggers an anxiety attack. In order to get out of bed in the morning, she must concoct a to-do list for each day, The Plan, one with absolutely no surprises.", "“Without The Plan, horrible things can happen. I’m likely to end up sitting on a curb beside a taco truck on Sunset Boulevard, crying over a carne asada burrito, wondering where my marriage went. I can’t handle being the Weeping Burrito Girl.”", "Charlotte knows all this self-absorbed introspection isn’t good for her, but she’s running out of people to turn to, as seemingly everyone in her life is pressuring her to make an immediate decision about her future. Then her new friend Francesca—an impulsive, smartass co-worker—offers Charlotte salvation in the unlikeliest of places: the fast-paced, super-tough, bump-and-bruise-filled world of roller derby.", "Sure, it’s dangerous. Yeah, she could get hurt. But what’s a little physical pain when healing your soul is at stake? The question is: whether she’s on or off the track, will Charlotte be strong enough to stand on her own two feet?" ]

[ "About the Author", "Pamela Ribon", "is a bestselling author, television writer and performer.  A pioneer in the blogging world, her first novel,", "Why Girls Are Weird", ", was loosely based on her extremely successful website pamie.com.  The site has been nominated for a Bloggie in Lifetime Achievement, which makes her feel old. Ribon created the cult sensation and tabloid tidbit", "Call Us Crazy:  The Anne Heche Monologues", ", a satire of fame, fandom and Fresno.  Her two-woman show,", "Letters Never Sent", "(created with four-time Emmy winner and", "Jay Leno Show", "favorite Liz Feldman) was showcased at the 2005 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen.  She has been writing in television for the past seven years, in both cable and network, including on the Emmy-award winning", "Samantha Who?", "starring Christina Applegate.  Using her loyal Internet fan base, Ribon sponsors book drives for libraries in need.  Over the years, pamie.com has sent thousands of books and materials to Oakland and San Diego, sponsored a Tsunami-ravaged village of schoolchildren, and helped restock the shelves of a post-Katrina Harrison County, Mississippi.  Ribon’s book drive can now be found at DeweyDonationSystem.org, which has sponsored libraries from the Negril School in Jamaica to the Children’s Institute in Los Angeles.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "1.", "I", "’ve done the thing where I’m awake but I haven’t yet opened my eyes. I’m in that twilight haze where I know I’m not asleep but I can’t move a muscle. I’ve only got a second or two left before the panic will set in that I’ve somehow slept myself into becoming a paraplegic, that during the night I wrestled in some kind of nightmare that caused me to twist in horror, snapping my own neck, dooming me to an eternity of immobility.", "Naturally, this will then trigger a second wave of fear. If I have separated my head from the rest of my body there’s no real way that I can let anyone know this has happened. I will have to remain useless and numb, stuck in this position until someone figures out I’ve gone missing. I fear that it won’t be a matter of hours, but perhaps days or weeks before anyone truly notices. My office mate, Jonathan, will eventually get bored with this unexpected man-holiday and will finally ask someone if I died.", "But first, there’s this special just-up time, when I can’t move and I can barely think, when everything is perfect. I’m half in the real world but still able to clutch on to whatever dream I’m reluctant to depart. That makes this person I am—this Charlotte Goodman, age thirty, a skinny brunette with absolutely no singing voice and a deep aversion to paper cuts—nothing more than a concept. I’m not a real person and I don’t have to be. Yet.", "The dream I just fell from was gloriously mundane. I was sitting in seat 16A of a Continental flight somehow headed to a Starbucks, where I was to pick up a DVD for Sandra Bullock. This was supposed to be important. I was sitting next to a college frat boy who was singing the words to . . .", "No, wait. I was sitting next to a sorority girl who was talking about her boyfriend who was the lead singer for . . .", "No.", "Damn. Nothing. It’s gone.", "Eyes open.", "Morning, Sunshine.", "Matthew used to say that every morning. It was a sarcastic dig at how terrible I am for the first hour before I get three good cups of coffee into me. It’s not new—back in high school my parents would sometimes find an excuse to leave the house rather than wake me up early. They became avid churchgoers just to avoid my morning wrath. I know it’s not right to hate everything before nine in the morning, but I don’t understand how everybody acts like it’s okay to be up at that hour. If we all got together and took a stand, we could all sleep in and force mornings to become a time for sleep and sleep only.", "An early riser, Matthew would be well into his day, coffee brewed, having sometimes already gone for a run, taken a shower, and eaten breakfast before I waddled into the room, half-asleep, half-dressed, usually with only one eye open.", "“Shh,” he’d say, cradling my face with one hand. “Half of Charlotte is still asleep. Right Eye needs more dreaming.”", "And he’d whisper, pretending to tiptoe around the right side of me, the one that could wake up with a roar. “Shh. Right Eye is such an angel when she’s sleeping.”", "This was before we were married, when there wasn’t a question as to whether we were supposed to be together. Now I hear Matthew say, “Morning, Sunshine,” even though he isn’t here to say the words.", "I’ve had to come to accept the fact that every morning my eyes will eventually open. I will wake up, and then I will have to get out of this bed. I’ll brush my teeth, take a shower, put on clothes, and do all of the things almost everybody else seems to be able to do every single day no matter what is happening to them. I used to be one of those people, the normal ones who would make coffee and go to their jobs and joke with their friends and be productive members of society. Not anymore. At least not now.", "Now I’ve had to develop a few defense mechanisms, tricks to accomplish a real-life calendar day without too many setbacks. Since I began employing these tactics, I have a 75 percent chance of making it to the next time I’m in this glorious bed without a full-on breakdown. Yes, there are still crying jags and the occasional panic attack. And sure, one time I kind of lost my shit at a Ruby Tuesday. But in my defense, that waitress knew what she had done.", "Defense Mechanism Number 1 is crucial and happens every morning without fail, right here in this bed. Before I leave the safety of my crisp, white sheets and the soft, warm comfort of my purple flannel duvet, before I head out into that harsh, cruel society known as Los Angeles, California—home of the beautiful and the clinical—I make a plan.", "This plan is important. It is the plan of the day. It doesn’t take long, but I have found without The Plan, horrible things can happen. I’m likely to end up sitting on a curb beside a taco truck on Sunset Boulevard, crying over a carne asada burrito, wondering where my marriage went. It doesn’t matter how much pain I’m in, I still have an awareness that people can see me, and I couldn’t take knowing that to someone I’d just become the Weeping Burrito Girl.", "The Plan keeps me from tangents. It keeps me from having to just float out there. Ironically, I learned this from Matthew. He liked planning, order.", "Likes.", "I have to stop talking about him as if he’s dead. He’s still here. Just not", "here", ".", "I hope he’s not dead. First of all, that’s going to look really suspicious. And second, I’m not really sure how I would be supposed to act at the funeral of my estranged husband. Would everyone think that I was secretly enjoying myself? Of course they’d think that, deep in the evilest parts of their hearts. Who wouldn’t?", "Look, as far as I know, today, right now, Matthew is alive. And if he’s not, I had nothing to do with it.", "Okay, so I’ve definitely decided I need to figure out what I’m going to do about my marriage before my husband dies.", "I suck in my cheeks and tilt my head back on my pillow, trying to stretch out my face. For the past two weeks, I’ve been waking up with a feeling that someone has slammed a hammer into my skull. It has gotten worse every night, and this morning it hurts to open my mouth even the slightest bit. I wonder how long I can go without talking to anybody. Could I make it through an entire day, even if I left the apartment? That sounds like such a glorious luxury, being a mute. How wonderful not to have to keep answering the worst question on the planet:", "How are you holding up?", "I lurch myself up and over until I’m in a seated position. I make my feet touch the floor as I decide on the plan for today.", "Okay. Leave the bedroom. Make coffee. Write email that you will be late for the office. Do not check your email to see if Matthew wrote. Go to Dr. Benson’s office for this jaw pain. Go to work. Come home and hide.", "Once The Plan is firmly in place, Defense Mechanism Number 2 will often be itching to take over.", "Defense Mechanism Number 2 is a little more complicated. It took a while for me to be comfortable with it, and I’ve pretty much sworn myself to secrecy about it. If anyone else learned about Defense Mechanism Number 2, I would be put in the rather vulnerable position of having said person possibly think I was unhinged. Certifiable. But when I tried suppressing Defense Mechanism Number 2 I learned that it’s not really up to me. I mean, it’s me, but it’s not me.", "Sometimes, for no other reason than to get through This Hour Right Now, I have no choice but to pull myself out and narrate my own life, to myself, in the third person. I know it’s me, but somehow, this way, it can also", "not", "be me, and that makes it so much easier to deal. That’s Defense Mechanism Number 2.", "So, look. I sleep, I drink, and sometimes a male voice in my head tells me what’s happening to me. Perfectly understandable, considering.", "In my head he sounds like a dad. Not my dad, but someone’s dad. Half folksy, half serious, a man who’s already lived a life and knows that this one I’m in is just going through a rough patch, nothing more. He kind of sounds like Craig T. Nelson. Well, really he sounds like John Goodman. This is probably because when I was a kid I told a bunch of my friends at school that I was related to the dad on", "Roseanne", ", and if they didn’t believe me they could just check out our last names, which were", "exactly the same", ".", "So when things get rough, when I don’t know what’s going to happen, when The Plan can’t protect me, I let Uncle John do the talking. I let him go on in his stomach-stuffed voice like I’m tucked into bed waiting for one last story before I close my eyes, and soon everything’s going to be okay.", "Sometimes I even start to believe him.", "© 2010 Pamela Ribon" ]

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

[ "Dakota had to grow up fast!", "Her mother and grandmother both died within a few weeks of each other in Commerce, Texas. She was left, at age of 19, to settle all the legal, personal, and financial matters for the two women who had shaped her life. When she completed getting the estate settled, she had two hundred dollars, no home, no car, and no one to call family.While going through her mother's papers, she found her biological father's name and address in McAlester, Oklahoma. She read the letter he had sent her over 19 years ago telling her mother to 'get rid of it.' Dakota was the 'it' he wanted her mother to get rid of. But where else could she go? She knew she had a sister named Leslie. Maybe she would welcome Dakota even if her father would not.By the time she decided to leave Commerce, Texas, and head for McAlester, Oklahoma, to her only family, she had forty dollars in her pocket. Hitchhiking seemed the only choice. She craved love and belonging. She hoped to find those in her family. Sometimes family is the most dangerous and least loving place to be.Horror and brutality slammed her down to reality when she was kidnapped and brutalized. She was going to die. All her longing for family and belonging was going to end with no one knowing who she was or caring what happened to her. A man who was evil to the core had other ideas.She didn't have a white knight coming to rescue her. She was not in the middle of a fairy tale. This was a brutal reality. Whether she lived or died was up to her.", "Judges review from Writer's Digest Self-Published book contest:", "\"The Dakota Paradigm is a gripping tale, not for the faint of heart. Clemens depicts the violence and brutality at the core of patriarchal thinking and holds a true mirror up to religious hypocrisy. Clemens presents her main characters believably. Dakota is a young woman in search of her heretofore unknown biological sister but finds so much more in this sister, the mentor and mother figure she needs in order to endure late adolescence. Dakota’s trek from Texas to Oklahoma is rife with tension—culminating in her brutal kidnapping. The tension is conveyed artfully by each minor character that assists this young woman on her journey. The old couple, the woman in the bus station, and the young couple all fear for Dakota’s safety, and as a result, so do we. The fact that we understand exactly the impending danger these people feel is a tribute to Clemens’s skill and an indictment of America’s love affair with toxic masculinity and misogyny. This book exposes our systemic brutality with harrowing verisimilitude.\"" ]

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

[ "Internationally renowned Finnish tree expert Professor Olavi Huikari takes us on an unforgettable journey deep into the secrets of Earth's most majestic trees in this essential illustrated pocket guide.", "What is a tree? Why are they so important to life on Earth? How do they eat, breathe, grow, communicate, and regenerate themselves? How many different kinds of trees are there, and where do they live? In this beautiful little book, illustrated with rare old engravings and specially commissioned drawings, internationally renowned Finnish tree expert Professor Olavi Huikari takes us on an unforgettable journey deep into the secrets of these most majestic of Earth's life forms.Wooden Books was founded in 1999 by designer John Martineau near Hay-on-Wye. The aim was to produce a beautiful series of recycled books based on the classical philosophies, arts and sciences. Using the Beatrix Potter formula of text facing picture pages, and old-styles fonts, along with hand-drawn illustrations and 19th century engravings, the books are designed not to date. Small but stuffed with information. Eco friendly and educational. Big ideas in a tiny space. There are over 1,000,000 Wooden Books now in print worldwide and growing." ]

[ "About the Author", "Professor Olavi Huikari", "is one of the world's foremost experts on trees and forestry. He was until recently head of the department of forestry at Helsinki University, Finland." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Graphic Design" ]

[ "A unified nation with a single people, the Philippines is also a highly fragmented, plural society. Divided between uplander and lowlander, rich and poor, Christian and Muslim, between those of one ethnic, linguistic, and geographic region and those of another, the nation is a complex mosaic formed by conflicting forces of consensus and national identity and of division and instability.It is not possible to comprehend the many changes in the Philippines?such as the rise and fall of Ferdinand Marcos or the revolution that toppled him?without an awareness of the religious, cultural, and economic forces that have shaped the history of these islands. These forces formed the focus of the first edition of The Philippines. Of that 1982 edition, the late Benigno Aquino Jr., noted that ?anyone wanting to understand the Philippines and the Filipinos today must include this book in his '`'must' reading list.?The fourth edition has been updated through the final years of the Ramos presidency, and contains a new section on the impact of President Estrada." ]

[ "About the Author", "David Joel Steinberg" ]

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

[ "What role has litigation played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men? In", "Rights at Work,", "Michael W. McCann explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement over the past two decades.", "Rights at Work", "explores the political strategies in more than a dozen pay equity struggles since the late 1970s, including battles of state employees in Washington and Connecticut, as well as city employees in San Jose and Los Angeles. Relying on interviews with over 140 union and feminist activists, McCann shows that, even when the courts failed to correct wage discrimination, litigation and other forms of legal advocacy provided reformers with the legal discourse—the understanding of legal rights and their constraints—for defining and advancing their cause.", "Rights at Work", "offers new insight into the relation between law and social change—the ways in which grass roots social movements work within legal rights traditions to promote progressive reform." ]

[ "About the Author", "Michael W. McCann", "is the Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of eight books, including, most recently,", "Injury and Injustice", "." ]

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

[ "This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works." ]

[ "About the Author", "Lorenzo Carcaterra", "is the author of the novels", "Sleepers", ",", "Apaches", ",", "Gangster", ", and", "Street Boys", ", and a memoir,", "A Safe Place", ". He lives in New York." ]

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

[ "When the season brings a chill, nothing warms the heart or elevates the spirits like a new novel by Anne Perry, whom the Chicago Sun-Times calls “the most adroit sleight-of-hand practitioner since Agatha Christe.” Perry’s gifts are on full display in A Christmas Grace–a hope-filled tale of forgiveness that is rich with mystery and intrigue.With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt’s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, Emily makes the long journey to an all-but-forgotten town in the county of Connemara, on the western coast of Ireland. She soon discovers that a tragic legacy haunts the once closeknit community. Violent storms ravage the coast and keep alive painful memories of an unsolved murder and unsettling fears that a killer may still live among the residents of the lonely Irish town. Determined to lighten her aunt’s heart and help the troubled community, Emily sets out to unmask the culprit. When a lone shipwreck survivor washes up onshore, he brings with him not only the key to solving the terrible crime but the opportunity for the townspeople to make peace with the past–and with one another." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Bestseller Perry's sixth Christmas novel (after 2007's", "A Christmas Beginning", "), one of the stronger entries in the series, explores further mysteries of the soul. A few weeks before Christmas, 1895, Emily Radley, the sister of Charlotte Pitt (last seen with husband, Thomas Pitt, in", "Buckingham Palace Gardens", "), answers a summons from Father Tyndale, spiritual leader of a small Western Ireland community. The Catholic priest is concerned about Emily's dying aunt, Susannah Ross, who's been estranged from her family since marrying outside their Protestant faith. Once in Ireland, Emily finds her aunt's entire village in the grip of fear, haunted by a secret. A shipwreck during a ferocious storm, the rescue of a young man from the sea's clutches and another young man's mysterious murder complicate Emily's mission. Perry effortlessly evokes the region's insularity and isolation while imbuing religious themes into a whodunit without being preachy.", "(Nov.)", "Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "Review", "A Christmas Beginning“Intriguing . . . Perry’s use of period detail is, as always, strong and evocative.”–The Seattle Times A Christmas Secret“A delightful little book . . . Perry’s gift is that she can evoke a sense of place and time while still producing the thrills and chills expected of a modern-day mystery writer.”–The Orlando SentinelA Christmas Guest“[A] satisfying tale.”–The Wall Street Journal", "About the Author", "Anne Perry is the bestselling author of five earlier holiday novels–A Christmas Journey, A Christmas Visitor, A Christmas Guest, A Christmas Secret, and A Christmas Beginning–as well as the William Monk series and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series set in Victorian England, and five World War I novels. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Emily Radley stood in the center of her magnificent drawing room and considered where she should have the Christmas tree placed so that it would show to the best advantage. The decorations were already planned: the bows, the colored balls, the tinsel, the little glass icicles, and the red and green shiny birds. At the foot would be the brightly wrapped presents for her husband and children.All through the house there would be candles, wreaths and garlands of holly and ivy. There would be bowls of crystallized fruit and porcelain dishes of nuts, jugs of mulled wine, plates of mince pies, roasted chestnuts, and, of course, great fires in the hearths with apple logs to burn with a sweet smell.The year of 1895 had not been an easy one, and she was happy enough to see it come to a close. Because they were staying in London, rather than going to the country, there would be parties, and dinners, including the Duchess of Warwick’s; everyone she knew would be at that dinner. And there would be balls where they would dance all night. She had her gown chosen: the palest possible green, embroidered with gold. And, of course, there was the theater. It would not be the same without anything of Oscar Wilde’s, but there would be Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, and that was fun.She was still thinking about it when Jack came in. He looked a little tired, but he had the same easy grace of manner as always. He was holding a letter in his hand.“Post?” she asked in surprise. “At this time in the evening?” Her heart sank. “It’s not some government matter, is it? They can’t want you now. It’s less than three weeks till Christmas.”“It’s for you,” he replied, holding it out for her. “It was just delivered. I think it’s Thomas’s handwriting.”Thomas Pitt was Emily’s brother-in-law, a policeman. Her sister, Charlotte, had married considerably beneath her. She had not regretted it for a day, even if it had cost her the social and financial comforts she had been accustomed to. On the contrary, it was Emily who envied Charlotte the opportunities she had been given to involve herself in some of his cases. It seemed like far too long since Emily had shared an adventure, the danger, the emotion, the anger, and the pity. Somehow she felt less alive for it.She tore open the envelope and read the paper inside.Dear Emily,I am very sorry to tell you that Charlotte received a letter today from a Roman Catholic priest, Father Tyndale, who lives in a small village in the Connemara region of Western Ireland. He is the pastor to Susannah Ross, your father’s younger sister. She is now widowed again, and Father Tyndale says she is very ill. In fact this will certainly be her last Christmas.I know she parted from the family in less than happy circumstances, but we should not allow her to be alone at such a time. Your mother is in Italy, and unfortunately Charlotte has a bad case of bronchitis, which is why I am writing to ask you if you will go to Ireland to be with Susannah. I realize it is a great sacrifice, but there is no one else.Father Tyndale says it cannot be for long, and you would be most welcome in Susannah’s home. If you write back to him at the enclosed address, he will meet you at the Galway station from whichever train you say. Please make it within a day or two. There is little time to hesitate.I thank you in advance, and Charlotte sends her love. She will write to you when she is well enough.Yours with gratitude,ThomasEmily looked up and met Jack’s eyes. “It’s preposterous!” she exclaimed. “He’s lost his wits.”Jack blinked. “Really. What does he say?”Wordlessly she passed the letter to him.He read it, frowning, and then offered it back to her. “I’m sorry. I know you were looking forward to Christmas at home, but there’ll be another one next year.”“I’m not going!” she said incredulously.He said nothing, just looked at her steadily.“It’s ridiculous,” she protested. “I can’t go to Connemara, for heaven’s sake. Especially not at Christmas. It’ll be like the end of the world. In fact it is the end of the world. Jack, it’s nothing but freezing bog.”“Actually I believe the west coast of Ireland is quite temperate,” he corrected her. “But wet, of course,” he added with a smile.She breathed out a sigh of relief. His smile could still charm her more than she wished him to know. If he did, he might be impossible to manage at all. She turned away to put the letter on the table. “I’ll write to Thomas tomorrow and explain to him.”“What will you say?” he asked.She was surprised. “That it’s out of the question, of course. But I’ll put it nicely.”“How nicely can you say that you’ll let your aunt die alone at Christmas because you don’t fancy the Irish climate?” he asked, his voice surprisingly gentle, considering the words.Emily froze. She turned back to look at him, and knew that in spite of the smile, he meant exactly what he had said. “Do you really want me to go away to Ireland for the entire Christmas?” she asked. “Susannah’s only fifty. She might live for ages. He doesn’t even say what’s wrong with her.”“One can die at any age,” Jack pointed out. “And what I would like has nothing to do with what is right.”“What about the children?” Emily played the trump card. “What will they think if I leave them for Christmas? It is a time when families should be together.” She smiled back at him.“Then write and tell your aunt to die alone because you want to be with your family,” he replied. “On second thoughts, you’ll have to tell the priest, and he can tell her.”The appalling realization hit her. “You want me to go!” she accused him.", "Read more" ]

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

[ "A kidnapped baby. A mother's will to find her. A killer targeting them both.", "Three years ago, Tina Alvarez was trapped in a sex-trafficking ring. Three years ago, she bore a daughter who was sold on the black market. But three years didn't erase her tenacity to get her little girl back ... and", "get even with the ones who took her.", "When rookie private investigator Ari Wilburn accepts her first case to find Tina's long-lost daughter, Ari unravels a mystery bigger than a missing child lead. A serial killer is targeting people close to her, and the key to who--and why--is buried deep in her past. As the investigation puts her in the killer's crosshairs, Ari must decide between saving herself...or guarding her family's grisly secrets.But for Ari it's not easy being a savior. Bringing Tina's daughter back means taking the child from the only family she knows. Is reuniting Tina with her little girl worth destroying this child's life, and possibly her own?", "A killer is watching. Plotting. Can Ari stop the death toll before she's next?", "A private investigator crime fiction story for fans of J.D. Robb, Brad Meltzer, and Melinda Leigh.By USA TODAY bestselling author Pamela Crane comes a psychological thriller critics are calling", "\"a literary ride that you'll sink your teeth into and savor until the last chilling page.\"", "Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen and C.J. Box.\"An", "intensifying thriller", "and investigative mystery. Should a mother be reunited with her kidnapped child if the child is better off without her? The story raises interesting questions that will get you thinking. And the twist ending...just wow. You won't see it coming!\" -", "reader review" ]

[ "Review", "\"", "Chilling, thrilling, on-your-toes prose.", "\" -", "reader review", "\"Crane wallows in the victims' blood. It pools, oozes, sloshes, and seeps. Eerie foreshadowing...and", "twisted revelations keep the pages turning", ", but the author's empathy for her characters adds humanity to the macabre proceedings. Crane has two other ongoing series to her credit. A gripping tale of revenge and redemption.\" -", "Kirkus Reviews", "\"Her writing is", "dark, intriguing", "and she is a master of the unexpected twist. Ms. Crane cleverly blends a series of plots and subplots together to produce a satisfactoryending. Not all questions are answered and I'm looking forward to the next bookin the series.\" -", "reader review", "\"Pamela Crane is the master of writing psychological thrillers and has done it again with", "The Death of Life.", "The writing and story are dark and not for the faint-hearted. Ms. Crane cleverly leads us down many garden paths... the author weaves her magic in the final chapters, ensuring we are not left flat and deflated. Highly recommended.\" - Peter Ralph, white-collar crime fiction writer, author of", "Blood Gold in the Congo,", "#1 Amazon best-selling author", "About the Author", "PAMELA CRANE is a USA TODAY best-selling author and professional juggler. Not one who can toss flaming torches in the air, but a juggler of four kids, a writing addiction, and a horse rescuer. She lives on the edge (her Arabian horse can tell you about their wild adventures while trying to train him) and she writes on the edge...where her sanity resides. Her thrillers unravel flawed women who aren't always pretty. In fact, her characters are rarely pretty, which makes them interesting...and perfect for doing crazy things worth writing about. When she's not cleaning horse stalls or changing diapers, she's psychoanalyzing others.  Website: pamelacrane.com. Facebook: facebook.com/Author.Pamela.Crane/Instagram: instagram.com/author.pamela.crane/Join her newsletter to get a FREE book and updates about her new releases and deals: eepurl.com/bcJIXL" ]

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

[ "Very slight curl to top of DJ at spine. No other damage. Words to songs, photos and some musical scores." ]

[ "From the Author", "A popular and characteristic feature of every war is its literature - in poetry and song. \"The Marseillaise Hymn\" stirred the heart of France as never before; Cromwell, with his Puritans, went forth to battle singing their halleluahs of praise; who that lived amid the days of '61 does not remember the little Irishman, Henry McCarty, who sent forth throughout the Southern states singing to the assembled multitudes \"The Bonnie Blue Flag\" until they went wild with excitement? What soldier in the Southern states has has not had every nerve thrilled as the band would strike up \"Dixie\"? It is true that we cannot find much evidence of genius at such times, nor the production of nature and thoughtful study. Such poems and songs are sparks and flames from the fires of war, and high literary merit must not be expected. But if you wish to find the hearts of the people you will hear it in their songs. It has been a delightful task to me in the past year to collect from all q! uarters of the South these songs and poems, and so to rescue from oblivion the productions which are dear to every Southern heart and home. Nor is it confined alone to the South, for in the North, and even in some other lands, people listen with glad interest to the war songs of those days.", "These songs and poems belong to the Nation. Although our friends in the North will smile at some, wince at others, and even have their blood warmed by one here and there, they must not forget that they were written by their brothers and sisters during a family quarrel when feeling was intense and the fight hot and fast.", "It is over now; we are more united than ever and shall never fall out with each other again. No North, no South, no East, no West, but one and inseparable, now and forever.", "H.M. Wharton D.D. (former) private in General Lee's Army Philadelphia, 1904" ]

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

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Action & Adventure", "Fantasy" ]

[ "Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emulate her appearance, lovers even kill themselves for her. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. \"Nana\" provoked outrage on its publication in 1880, with its heroine damned as 'the most crude and bestial sort of whore', yes the language of the novel makes Nana almost a mythical figure: a destructive force preying on a corrupt society." ]

[ "Review", "\"The translation...is fluid and true to the text. The A.G. Stevens cover print is an excellent choice.\" --Roy Arthur Swanson, Univ. of Wisconsin", "About the Author", "Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years. George Holden is a known translator." ]

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

[ "In the second book of the", "In Her Name: Redemption", "trilogy, Reza Gard has been banished from the Kreelan Empire and is once again a stranger in a strange land as he returns to the human Confederation. Befriended by a marooned Confederation naval officer leading a desperate fight against the Kreelans on a distant colony world, she reunites Reza with Nicole Carré. With their help, he fulfills his childhood dream of becoming a Confederation Marine.Reza will need all the help he can get, for dark forces are at work at the heart of the Confederation, and Reza becomes a pawn in a lethal power struggle that leads him back to the planet Erlang. There, a heartbreaking reunion awaits him, along with the discovery of an ages-old power that the Kreelan Empire will stop at nothing to control.If you're new to the", "In Her Name", "series, here is the author's recommended reading order:1. The Last War Trilogy", "First Contact", "First Contact", "Legend Of The Sword", "Legend Of The Sword", "Dead Soul", "Dead Soul", "2. The Redemption Trilogy", "Empire", "Empire", "Confederation", "Confederation", "Final Battle", "Final Battle", "3. The First Empress Trilogy", "From Chaos Born", "From Chaos Born", "Forged In Flame", "Forged In Flame", "Mistress Of The Ages", "Mistress Of The Ages", "Note that", "The Last War", "and", "Redemption", "have also been published as trilogy collections." ]

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

[ "Founded in 1869, the Chicago Cubs are a charter member of the National League and the last remaining of the eight original league clubs still playing in the city in which the franchise started. Drawing on newspaper articles, books and archival records, the author chronicles the team's early years. He describes the club's planning stages of 1868; covers the decades when the ballplayers were variously called White Stockings, Colts, and Orphans; and relates how a sportswriter first referred to the young players as Cubs in the March 27, 1902, issue of the", "Chicago Daily News", ". Reprinted selections from firsthand accounts provide a colorful narrative of baseball in 19th-century America, as well as a documentary history of the Chicago team and its members before they were the Cubs." ]

[ "Review", "\"Jack Bales' meticulously researched and documented book on the Cubs of the 19th century--and their glorious dynasty in the first decade of the 20th century--is also a compelling read about one of baseball's most beloved franchises. The writing and the subject matter are first rate, and the illustrations are well-chosen and extremely well reproduced, making the book a visual as well as a textual pleasure. Not just for Cubs fans, any reader who enjoys--or wants to learn more about--19th century baseball will find this book fascinating.\"--Tim Wiles, former research director at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, and lifelong Cubs fan.", "\"One great thing about baseball is that its key issues repeat every generation: labor vs. management, values vs. market realities, fans vs. opponents. Jack Bales' wonderful", "Before They Were the Cubs", "shows these issues emerging at the very beginnings of professional baseball and how the people who ran, played, watched, and wrote about the game dealt with its severe growing pains. As a Chicagoan, I found it especially fascinating!\"-- Stuart Shea, author,", "Wrigley Field: The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines", ".", ".", "From the Inside Flap", "Founded in 1869, the Chicago Cubs are a charter member of the National League and the last remaining of the eight original league clubs still playing in the city in which the franchise started. Drawing on newspaper articles, books and archival records, the author chronicles the team's early years. He describes the club's planning stages of 1868; covers the decades when the ballplayers were variously called White Stockings, Colts, and Orphans; and relates how a sportswriter first referred to the young players as Cubs in the March 27, 1902, issue of the", "Chicago Daily News", ". Reprinted selections from firsthand accounts provide a colorful narrative of baseball in 19th-century America, as well as a documentary history of the Chicago team and its members before they were the Cubs.", "From the Back Cover", "Founded in 1869, the Chicago Cubs are a charter member of the National League and the last remaining of the eight original league clubs still playing in the city in which the franchise started. Drawing on newspaper articles, books and archival records, the author chronicles the team's early years. He describes the club's planning stages of 1868; covers the decades when the ballplayers were variously called White Stockings, Colts, and Orphans; and relates how a sportswriter first referred to the young players as Cubs in the March 27, 1902, issue of the", "Chicago Daily News", ".Reprinted selections from firsthand accounts provide a colorful narrative of baseball in 19th-century America, as well as a documentary history of the Chicago team and its members before they were the Cubs.", "About the Author", "Jack Bales is the Reference and Humanities Librarian at the University of Mary Washington Library in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The author of numerous books and articles, he lives in Fredericksburg.", "Read more" ]

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

[ "Sixteen new stories to delight and horrify you from a mixture of critically-acclaimed writers and new-bloods. This will be a voyage of discovery for all concerned as successive teams of hapless explorers fall foul of the elements and monstrosities lurking in shadowy caves, hidden temples, icy tombs and even alien planets. From steamy jungles and back waters to unexplored islands and mysterious woodlands, researchers investigate alien artifacts and mysterious creatures, while others probe interdimensional portals, oblivious to the dangers. Some are motivated by the romance of discovery, others by the heady intoxication of greed, but all are doomed when their forays into the unknown world become terrifying tales of Ill-considered Expeditions!" ]

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

[ "Is there life after death? Is there a rhyme or reason to the events of our life? Although many think that we cannot find the answers in our lifetime, Dr. Richard G. Shear believes that the secrets of the universe have been revealed to us. The Secrets of Life and Death provides the answers to such questions as: What is our purpose on Earth? Why does God allow evil to exist? And what can we do to make our lives better? Additionally, The Secrets of Life and Death provides evidence that establishes what truly happens to us when we die. The author is the father of a miracle son who fought back from a low birth weight of 1 lb. 1 oz. to become an incredible young man. He is also the father who lost one of his twin sons. As a high school principal, Shear has supervised the education of thousands of young people, but nothing changed his life like the unexplained, momentous events in 1995, when on more than one occasion, the child who passed away sent him messages of love and comfort, proving that consciousness survives death. “Death is wrongly defined as an end,” argues Shear. “It is a doorway transitioning our soul to another vibrational state that we live in.” Knowledge that we never die and that our lives have an understandable purpose is comforting, but the information in this book that is designed to make our everyday lives more joyful and rewarding, is invaluable. Written in three parts for clarity, each focusing on one of the three crucial questions, it is important to understand that our existence is aligned with a single thread. What happens when we die, why we are here, and tips on living our lives are all parts of the greater whole. “Everything that appears to be senseless is actually happening as a result of the laws of the universe,” says Shear. “Laws that are simple and elegant.” We were put on Earth at this time to learn, and the lessons unfold, page by page in Secrets of Life and Death, where the creative force is defined as pure love." ]

[ "About the Author", "Dr. Richard G. Shear Ed. D was the first educator to be recognized by Long Island University as Nassau County Teacher of The Year and has won many awards. He served as principal of three separate high schools as an assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, and has been listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Dr. Shear has presented at numerous educational conferences and institutions, including Teachers College at Columbia University, the Doctoral Seminar at Fordham University, the national convention of Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, and on multiple occasions to the New York State School Boards Association. Holding a doctorate in educational administration from Fordham University, he has devoted over three decades to helping children in public education, and currently serves as the CEO of ShearAdvantage, an educational consulting and motivational speaking company." ]

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

[ "Bare, stark swimming pools - those rectangular concrete holes in the ground surrounded by a chain-link fence - are going the way of the dinosaurs. Pool owners (and there are 7 million of them across North America) have begun to see the pool and the area around it as an outdoor living space, a place for entertaining a crowd or relaxing alone. In response to this hot, new trend, gardener and landscape designer Catriona Tudor Erler has written POOLSCAPING, a one-of-a-kind handbook overflowing with inspiring ideas and practical advice on how to make your swimming pool the lovely, welcoming centerpiece of your property.", "Erler takes readers step by step through the poolscaping process, whether starting from scratch or renovating an existing pool. She begins with choosing the best location for the pool and designing (or refurbishing) the deck and edging that will surround it. She presents a host of ideas for dramatic pool lighting, including underwater options. The fencing chapter addresses choosing styles as well as safety issues and even how to disguise a fence with plantings.", "Erler explores design options for building or renovating a spa adjacent to the pool, as well as how to incorporate furnishings, pergolas, and pool houses into the poolscape. A plant directory features the best poolside plants, with a focus on varieties of flowers, vines, and shrubs that are low maintenance and look attractive throughout the pool season. Erler also offers ideas for outstanding poolside planters and containers for bringing greenery and color right up to the pool.", "Illustrated with beautiful full-color photographs of outstanding poolscapes, this unique guide demonstrates how any pool owner can transform the pool area into the showpiece of the neighborhood." ]

[ "Review", "“Diving into Catriona Tudor Erler’s book on dressing up your pool is cool.”", "—", "Arizona Republic", "“A swimming pool can be more than a big blue hole …", "Poolscaping", "helps readers turn it into a retreat.”", "—", "Atlanta Journal-Constitution", "“ … a wealth of ideas on how to make the swimming pool a backyard showpiece.”", "— Phoenix Home & Garden", "“… encourages an appealing integration of water and land.”", "—", "Publishers Weekly", "“Excellent photographs give the book a can’t-put-it-down quality.”", "—", "Washington Post", "“… rich with photos for inspiration, but there are plenty of specifics, such as plant recommendations, how-to instructions and tips for dealing with challenges.”", "— Milwaukee", "Journal Sentinel", "“[T]his book will inspire you to create a design that meets your needs for both practicality and beauty.” —", "The American Gardener", "“From the latest trends to advice on plantings, waterfalls and fountains,", "Poolscaping", "will help add some splash to your summer.”", "—", "Maryland Washington Virginia Home & Design", "About the Author", "An internationally recognized garden writer, photographer, and speaker, Catriona Tudor Erler is the author of eight garden books and numerous articles that have appeared in such publications as Architectural Digest and Southern Accents. She gardens with her husband and twin sons at their home in Vienna, Virginia." ]

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

[ "When Ann Leary and her husband, then unknown actor-comedian Denis Leary, flew to London in the early nineties for a brief getaway during Ann's second trimester of pregnancy, neither anticipated the adventure that was in store for them. The morning after their arrival, Ann's water broke as they strolled through London's streets. A week later their son, Jack, was born weighing only two pounds, six ounces, and it would be five long months before mother and son could return to the States.", "In the meantime, Ann became an unwitting yet grateful hostage to Britain's National Health Service -- a stranger in a strange land plunged abruptly into a world of breast pumps and midwives, blood oxygen levels, mad cow disease, and poll tax riots. Desperately worried about the health of her baby, Ann struggled to adapt to motherhood and make sense of a very different culture. At once an intimate family memoir, a lively travelogue, and a touching love story,", "An Innocent, a Broad", "is utterly engaging and unforgettable." ]

[ "Review", "“Witty, engaging ...a poignant story with sprinklings of good old American neuroticism.” (Elle )“Fresh, heartfelt and hilarious...What a broad, what a mom--what a writer. I loved this book.” (Michael J. Fox )“Funny, irreverent, witty and wise…compulsively readable.” (Dani Shapiro )“Sharp and funny and snide and soulful… I’d hate her guts except that I want to be her best friend.” (Cynthia Kaplan, author of Why I'm Like This )“Uplifting, heart-cheering, and-in the most warm and human way-very, very funny….” (Christina Bartolomeo, author of Cupid and Diana )“Belongs next to David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day and even Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” (Ben Sherwood, author of The Man Who Ate The 747 )", "About the Author", "Ann Lembeck Leary has written for television and film. She is married to actor Denis Leary. They have two children, including a now healthy and hearty teenaged Jack, and live on a farm in Connecticut." ]

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

[ "The epic adventure of a ferret who defied her cage continues! It's an exciting day of show-and-tell, and Amanda unveils Peach--to rounds of applause and sky-rocketing approval. But the reaction gives Amanda a twinge of jealousy toward Peach - the kids are only interested in her ferret and not her!" ]

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[ "Books", "Teen & Young Adult", "Literature & Fiction" ]

[ "Guides readers in the making of unique wedding crafts and accessories, such as invitations and thank-you cards, picture frames, and ceremony and reception decorations." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Freelance art director McFadden and how-to writer Paffrath combine their design talents in this lighthearted, useful guide to creating wedding paraphernalia at home. \"Handmade wedding elements are fun to make,\" they declare in the book’s preface; \"they give you greater control over the feel of your wedding, and they even provide you with some quality downtime during the preparation for the big day.\" Not to mention that they can save couples loads money that might otherwise go to printers, decorators and jewelers. The authors cover all aspects of wedding design, from invitations and thank you notes to party gifts and ceremony details. Some of their ideas, like their paper and moonstone picture frame, are elegant and professional looking. Others, like their wind-up monkey and penguin name cards, are deliberately humorous—and, some might argue, a bit corny. Large color photographs help readers evaluate each project before they decide to start it, and allow them to separate the few duds from the winners. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "About the Author", "April L. Paffrath is a freelance editor and writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to book and magazine editing, she has written architecture profiles, travel pieces, cooking articles, and craft how-to's, for magazines such as", "Scientific American Explorations", "and", "Martha Stewart Living", ". She is coauthor with Laura McFadden of", "The Artful Bride: Simple, Handmade Wedding Projects", "(Rockport, 2003).Laura McFadden is a freelance art director living in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is a former design director for Inc. magazine. She currently runs her own graphic design studio, called Laura McFadden Design, Inc., and has contributed to various craft books and magazines for publishers such as Rockport Publishers, Martingale & Company, and Handcraft Illustrated" ]

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

[ "On a snowy November day in 1997, in Flint, Michigan, police found the body of 45-year-old waitress Nancy Billiter. Her corpse had survived a botched attempt to burn it. An autopsy revealed that she'd been bound, beaten, sexually violated, and then injected with a lethal mixture of battery acid and heroin. Police suspected Nancy's friend Carol Giles, 26, and Giles' boyfriend, Tim Collier, who had often boasted of a murderous gangland past. As the law's noose tightened around Giles and Collier, each fingered the other for the murder. Collier tried to hang another crime on Giles - the murder of her 500-pound, diabetic husband. But investigators soon learned the shocking truth: that the cold-blooded couple had killed Jessie Giles with a heroin-laced insulin 'hot shot', and that Nancy, who had been in the wrong place at the wrong time, became the next to die. Convicted of the twisted murders, both killers are spending the rest of their lives behind bars." ]

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

[ "In", "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", ", the film critics of the", "Times", "have gathered the original reviews of their list of the best.  Covering every conceivable genre, from comedies, dramas, and science-fiction to foreign films, musicals, and others, this book provides the student with an essential resource.  How were", "Psycho", "or", "Fantasia", "originally received?  For movies that are often subsumed in their own legends,  the original review is a corrective lens for a hindsight that is often anything but 20/20.  This volume also includes and introductory essay by Janet Maslin and modern postscripts to movies that survived their original trashing to become classics." ]

[ "Amazon.com Review", "Everyone knows that a good canon debate doesn't get interesting until you reach the realm of the top 100. But by listing the top 1,000 movies, as the editors of", "The New York Times", "have done with this fat, readable collection of reviews, you get to skip all that huffing and puffing about quality and head straight for the fun. With a little elbow room, there's space for ineffable stuff like", "Mr. Hulot's Holiday", "and", "The Match Factory Girl", ". Room, too, for the nuance-free", "Mrs. Doubtfire", "and the free-falling", "Die Hard", "(which makes it, yep, right next to", "Diner", ").", "Pillow Talk", "squeezes in just one down from", "The Piano", ". What's really new about this book, though, is that the reviews have been culled from the", "Times", "'s archive--reaching back to 1931. So you can read Vincent Canby reacting to", "Taxi Driver", "in 1976, just days after first seeing it: \"The steam billowing up around the manhole cover in the street is a dead giveaway. Manhattan is a thin cement lid over the entrance to hell, and the lid is full of cracks.\" Not bad for a guy on deadline. Bosley Crowther, who preceded Canby, fares less well, waving off", "Rear Window", "as Hitchcock's \"new melodrama, \" and", "Psycho", "with, \"It does seem slowly paced.\" By contrast, Janet Maslin's more recent reviews hum and gush, unraveling the merits of", "Pulp Fiction", "and", "Lone Star", ". At collected-Shakespeare size (999 pages), the title is probably too vast for schlepping around, but go ahead, try reading just one. With plenty of international selections, including usual suspects from France (Truffaut), Italy (Fellini), and Japan (Itami), as well as some unusual ones from Brazil, Mexico, India, and Czechoslovakia, there's enough canon fodder here for at least five \"Top 100\" books.", "--Lyall Bush", "From Library Journal", "This volume compiles alphabetically the original reviews of the 1000 \"best\" films as selected by New York Times critics from 1927 to 1998. The selections come largely from the \"Ten Best Films\" chosen at the end of each year. Not all \"best\" films have a review in this book, though, because many films have been re-evaluated over time; other films, deemed more worthy from today's critical perspective, have been retrofitted. The result is fascinating in two respects. First, the book provides easy access to historical criticism: What did the Times say about Les Enfants du Paradis in 1947 or A Clockwork Orange in 1971? Second, it encourages reflection on the politics of taste. Thoughtful readers will delight in scanning the original \"Ten Best Films\" lists at the end of the book and comparing them to what has since been deemed meritorious. Recommended for all libraries.ANeal Baker, Earlham Coll., Richmond, IN Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From the Inside Flap", "New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, the film critics of the", "Times", "have gathered the original reviews of their list of the best.  Covering every conceivable genre, from comedies, dramas, and science-fiction to foreign films, musicals, and others, this book provides the student with an essential resource.  How were", "Psycho", "or", "Fantasia", "originally received?  For movies that are often subsumed in their own legends,  the original review is a corrective lens for a hindsight that is often anything but 20/20.  This volume also includes and introductory essay by Janet Maslin and modern postscripts to movies that survived their original trashing to become classics.", "About the Author", "Vincent Canby was film critic for the", "New York Times", "from 1969 to 1993.  He now writes the \"Stage View\" column for the", "Times", ".  Janet Maslin has been a", "Times", "film critic since 1982.", "Read more" ]

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

[ "این داستان خاطرات یک دختر از خود گذشته و ایثار گر بنام گوهر است . او در سن بیست و دوسالگی برای کمک به خانواده اش مجبور به پرستاری از یک مرد جوان که ام.اس دارد میشود .ولی رفته رفته او با گذشت ها و ایثار هایش دل از آرمین می ربوید و خودش هم عاشق او میشود ، داستان سراسر از لحظات بیم و امید است و نگرانی های گوهر برای آرمین . بالاخره با ازدواجش با آرمین که با مخالفت های بسیاری شکل میگیرد او ثابت میکند که هنوز هم دنیا پر لز انسانهای خوب ، مهربان و ایثارگر است . داستان گوهر را بخوانید مطمئن باشید که از خواندن آن لذت می برید.", "این داستان خاطرات یک دختر از خود گذشته و ایثار گر بنام گوهر است . او در سن بیست و دوسالگی برای کمک به خانواده اش مجبور به پرستاری از یک مرد جوان که ام.اس دارد میشود .ولی رفته رفته او با گذشت ها و ایثار هایش دل از آرمین می ربوید و خودش هم عاشق او میشود ، داستان سراسر از لحظات بیم و امید است و نگرانی های گوهر برای آرمین . بالاخره با ازدواجش با آرمین که با مخالفت های بسیاری شکل میگیرد او ثابت میکند که هنوز هم دنیا پر لز انسانهای خوب ، مهربان و ایثارگر است . داستان گوهر را بخوانید مطمئن باشید که از خواندن آن لذت می برید.", "این داستان خاطرات یک دختر از خود گذشته و ایثار گر بنام گوهر است . او در سن بیست و دوسالگی برای کمک به خانواده اش مجبور به پرستاری از یک مرد جوان که ام.اس دارد میشود .ولی رفته رفته او با گذشت ها و ایثار هایش دل از آرمین می ربوید و خودش هم عاشق او میشود ، داستان سراسر از لحظات بیم و امید است و نگرانی های گوهر برای آرمین . بالاخره با ازدواجش با آرمین که با مخالفت های بسیاری شکل میگیرد او ثابت میکند که هنوز هم دنیا پر لز انسانهای خوب ، مهربان و ایثارگر است . داستان گوهر را بخوانید مطمئن باشید که از خواندن آن لذت می برید.", "این داستان خاطرات یک دختر از خود گذشته و ایثار گر بنام گوهر است . او در سن بیست و دوسالگی برای کمک به خانواده اش مجبور به پرستاری از یک مرد جوان که ام.اس دارد میشود .ولی رفته رفته او با گذشت ها و ایثار هایش دل از آرمین می ربوید و خودش هم عاشق او میشود ، داستان سراسر از لحظات بیم و امید است و نگرانی های گوهر برای آرمین . بالاخره با ازدواجش با آرمین که با مخالفت های بسیاری شکل میگیرد او ثابت میکند که هنوز هم دنیا پر لز انسانهای خوب ، مهربان و ایثارگر است . داستان گوهر را بخوانید مطمئن باشید که از خواندن آن لذت می برید." ]

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[ "Books", "Foreign Language Books", "More Languages" ]

[ "Shiksa lifts the veil from what has been called Germany’s “shameful family secret that cannot be acknowledged, not even privately” (see W.G. Sebald, The New Yorker November 4, 2002). The generation of Germans who experienced the apocalyptic times of World War II is passing away, and with them their secrets. Most interested observers must rely on a posteriori histories that lack the emotion and power of the eye-witness account provided by Shiksa. This book presents a view of World War II from the perspective of a young German girl coming of age during the horrors of the Hitler Regime." ]

[ "About the Author", "I was born in Cologne, Germany shortly before Adolph Hitler became the Chancellor in 1933. The bombings attacks on Cologne by the Allies forced my family to relocate several times. In spite of the devastation, I completed high school at the age of fifteen and entered the Art Academy of the University of Cologne where I became skilled at painting and sculpting. World War II had a great influence on my adolescence and the rest of my life. As refugees, our family was relocated to Erlangen where I became a driver for German military officers during the final stages of the war. Shortly thereafter, I was employed as an artist by the United States Army, working in the same building that had housed my German employers. After falling in love with a young American officer, I became a war bride and left Germany in 1947 to immigrate to the United States. My life in the United States included fashion modeling and assisting my husband with his Ph.D. dissertation. While in Paris, doing research at the Bibliothèque Nationale for my husband's thesis, I continued my modeling career and we enjoyed the rich cultural life of Paris. After my husband's education was completed, I earned a BA and an MA in art history from the California State University at Los Angeles with minors in psychology and philosophy. I taught at a Los Angeles high school where I created their curriculum in normal and abnormal psychology; Because of my wartime experiences, I had a natural antipathy against biases which made my classes very popular in that school. In June of 1973 I received a Certificate of Recognition from the NAACP. Art in one form or another is the driving force in my life. Writing \"Shiksa\" has fulfilled a life-long ambition. There is very little written about WWII from the point of view of a child of \"the enemy.\" Readers of the manuscript wanted to know, \"What happened after you left Germany?\" So, I am now busy writing a sequel." ]

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[ "Books", "History", "World" ]

[ "Are you looking for a refreshingly different children's Christmas musical? Twelve Days of Christmas is certain to delight you with its ingenious story that combines the captivating images of a popular carol with religious symbols for each day, adapted in rhyme and riddle from an ancient poem. By Jean Anne Shafferman and Anna Laura Page and approximately 30 minutes long, it features nine unison arrangements of traditional carols and hymns (some opt. 2-part), 13 short rhymed speaking parts, and narration for a Storyteller. Fully orchestrated recordings are also available. Grades K-8." ]

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

[ "This book contains an extensive collection of exercises and problems that address relevant topics in linear algebra. Topics that the author finds missing or inadequately covered in most existing books are also included. The exercises will be both interesting and helpful to an average student. Some are fairly routine calculations, while others require serious thought. The format of the questions makes them suitable for teachers to use in quizzes and assigned homework. Some of the problems may provide excellent topics for presentation and discussions. Furthermore, answers are given for all odd-numbered exercises which will be extremely useful for self-directed learners. In each chapter, there is a short background section which includes important definitions and statements of theorems to provide context for the following exercises and problems." ]

[ "From the Back Cover", "This book contains an extensive collection of exercises and problems that address relevant topics in linear algebra. Topics that the author finds missing or inadequately covered in most existing books are also included. The exercises will be both interesting and helpful to an average student. Some are fairly routine calculations, while others require serious thought.", "The format of the questions makes them suitable for teachers to use in quizzes and assigned homework. Some of the problems may provide excellent topics for presentation and discussions. Furthermore, answers are given for all odd-numbered exercises which will be extremely useful for self-directed learners. In each chapter, there is a short background section which includes important definitions and statements of theorems to provide context for the following exercises and problems." ]

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

[ "Deals. Deception. Duplicity.They changed everything.Just when I thought things were going to be okay. I thought my secrets were out and my Crows were finally flocking to my side. But my Master came back and I’m once again crowned in a cage where there is no escape, only pain and punishment.But I've played this game before. It's a game where the master rules and the players perish, only this time I won't go down without a fight.A man in power will never back down, and with me on his arm he thinks his reign is unbeatable. But he doesn't know how strong my arsenal is.I have three men who know the truth now, and they will come for me, but what they don’t know is I’m no longer alone.The Mayor wants me to forever be his perfect little Rose.But he forgot the most important thing about Roses…They have thorns.*** WARINING. Disloyal is book three in a dark why choose motorcycle club series. It features themes that some readers may find triggering and cannot be read as a standalone. Please read the trigger warning before proceeding. \"\"\"" ]

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[ "Books", "Romance", "Romantic Suspense" ]

[ "Have you noticed you are no longer satisfied with your current job? Are you looking to start your journey toward a more independent career? Would you like to work from home, but don't know where to start? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you! The traditional nine to five workplace is not for everyone and it doesn't need to be your reality either. This book offers helpful suggestions, motivational stories, useful information, and exercises to help you successfully navigate your own path to a fulfilling non-traditional position." ]

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[ "Books", "Self-Help" ]

[ "Montana Harvest is an Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE) 2017 Book Award Winner in the Mystery/Suspense categoryMurder for profit meets Native American justiceThe FBI contacts Cedar County Montana, Sheriff Jim Buchanan concerning several missing person investigations. As the case consumes him and threatens the safety of his family, Jim is forced to own up to a clan secret and experience the mystical nature of his Native American heritage. Readers of Montana Harvest, the first novel in the Jim Buchanan Series will experience a clandestine, international crime syndicate operating in plain sight in the western Montana Rockies. It will take all the resources of Sheriff Buchanan’s Native Ways to bring them down but is that enough and what will be the physical and mental toll on himself and his family?Montana Harvest is an Independent Publishers of New England 2016 Book Awards finalist and runner-up in the Mystery Book category" ]

[ "Review", "From Alan Caruba, Editor and FoundingMember of the National Book Critics Circle¹ Felix F. Giordano has created agreat character in Sheriff Jim Buchanan who is patterned after his real-lifeuncle, Carl \"Buck\" Buchanan, who had a twenty-year career with the Maine StatePolice. Told mostly with excellent dialogue, it's one of thestories whose characters immediately intrigue the reader and you will bepleased when you read this. ¹ The National Book CriticsCircle honors outstanding writing and is partly funded by an awardfrom the National Endowment for the Arts.Judge, 25th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book AwardsEntry Title: Montana Harvest Author: Felix F. Giordano Judge Number: 25 Entry Category: Genre FictionBooks are evaluated on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 meaning\"needs improvement\" and 5 meaning \"outstanding\". The 1-5 scale is strictly to provide a point of reference; the scores are meant only to be a gauge, and are not a cumulative score, no rare they tallied or used in ranking.Structure, Organization, and Pacing: 3 Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar: 4 Production Quality and Cover Design: 5 Plot and Story Appeal: 3 Character Appeal and Development: 4 Voice and Writing Style: 4Judge's Commentary:I enjoyed the setting of this novel and I especially enjoyed the Native American shamanism and language sprinkled throughout. The writing was very good, the characters are so likeable that, as a murder mystery series,it could really take off if there are more 'red herrings' to throw off the reader.", "From the Author", "The son of a Scottish immigrant and a Native American woman, Jim Buchanan found his glory on the gridiron. After a star-studded college career and three years with the Chicago Bears, Jim Buchanan retired from football. A deeper hunger within his soul compelled him to yearn for something more.A hitch in the United States Air Force as a military policeman piqued his interest in law enforcement and upon returning to the states he joined the Montana Highway Patrol. Three years later he was elected county sheriff.", "Montana Harvest", "begins in the spring of Jim Buchanan's first year as sheriff of Cedar County, Montana.", "About the Author", "Felix F. Giordano is a member of the Association of Publishers forSpecial Sales (APSS), the Connecticut Authors &PublishersAssociation (CAPA), the Western Writers of America (WWA), and theScience Fiction Writers of America (SFWA). Mr. Giordano has publishedthe mystery/suspense/thriller novels Montana Harvest, Mystery at LittleBitterroot, and the Killing Zone. His novels' protagonist, Jim Buchananis a Native American sheriff from western Montana. MontanaHarvest and Mystery at Little Bitterroot have been top ten bestsellersin the Native American Literature category on Amazon.com with Mystery at Little Bitterroot achieving the#1 Hot New Release in that category formore than two weeks during April, 2016. Montana Harvest is anIndependent Publishers of New England (IPNE) book award finalist for two consecutive years and winner in the Mystery/Suspense category for 2017. His characters in the Jim Buchanan Novels are reflective of his many life experiences in Montana. From the grandeur of Glacier Park tothe cedar forests near the Kootenai River to the vastness of the Madison Valley, from the cliffs of the Rimrocks to the haunting secrets of theCrazy Mountains and the bleakness of the Missouri Breaks, Mr. Giordanocaptures the varied landscapes,wildlife,people, and customs indigenousto this beautiful and enduring land.The mystery and hauntingsecrets of the western mountainous terrain contrasting with the vast and bleak eastern plains formed the natural backdrop for the divergencebetween two very different cultures inhabiting that landscape providingthe inspiration for his Native American themed mystery/suspense/thriller series - The Jim Buchanan Novels.", "Read more" ]

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

[ "This is a book that give one the opportunity to see how beautiful and loving Jesus is to all of us and that we are not alone when it comes to struggling with our selfish deisres and pride, that keeps us from beign with God fully" ]

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

[ "It's been a wild ride, but we made it to this loony limited's FINAL ISSUE! You wouldn't want to be the only one on the block who doesn't know how the story ends, wouldja? A BOMBASTIC conclusion to an EXPLOSIVE adventure of the DYNAMITE team of Hawkeye (Barton), Hawkeye (Bishop), and Deadpool (not Hawkeye). Explosions." ]

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[ "FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY THRILLER PICK", "NO ONE HOME", "**LONG-LISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD**", "Lynda drives to a secluded beauty spot on the Somerset coast.", "CCTV watches her arrive, but never sees her leave.", "She is never seen again.", "Why would a woman with no reason to run leave her entire life behind? Missing and presumed dead, only Lynda knows the truth . . .", "Was it her decision? Or did someone make it for her?", "'I can't remember a thriller containing so many twists and surprises. It grips from the start'", "The Times,", "Book of the Month" ]

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

[ "As a U.S. Homeland Security investigator becomes ensnared in a thicket of terrorist puzzles and codes unraveling his troubled past, his counterpart in a parallel Earth without Christianity experiences strange visions of our world after meeting a charismatic preacher with a new message of peace and forgiveness. The two men wade through intolerance, hatred and terrorism while struggling with their own skepticism as a growing connection between them unwittingly leads toward destruction, redemption, or both.", "In our world, Chris Huxley, a former Catholic altar boy who has lost his faith, must decipher a series of clever codes hidden as contacts in a dead Islamic terrorist’s cell phone. The puzzles toy with his past and take him through an odyssey of religious and historical sites as he hunts for the Ghost Leopard, a terrorist who may have a Vatican connection. As one of the terrorists vacillates over the dictates of his Islamic faith, Huxley is also forced to confront his own beliefs in the midst of troubling echoes from the parallel world.", "In the parallel world dominated by Muslim empires, Tomadus, a prominent Romani technologist and merchant, experiences an intense flash of light when he meets the charismatic preacher, Isa, who has attracted both Islamic and Jewish followers. Trying to follow his inner “creature” and further confused by his ongoing visions, Tomadus befriends a downtrodden and disillusioned democratic terrorist, begins following Isa despite his ongoing disbelief, and seeks help from First Consul of Roma, a powerful mediator of emperors, who encourages him to keep tabs on the new preacher. As Tomadus tries to understand the source and nature of his visions and the world they represent, he becomes increasingly bent on saving his new friends and his world. But in the end, it may be Tomadus who needs saving." ]

[ "About the Author", "Ken Hansen is now a writer, pilot, biker, woodworker and occasional scuba diver but never again attorney. Though he majored in political science at the University of Wisconsin and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law, his early political naiveté took him to a lobbying law firm in Washington, DC, where he discovered a few too many ugly truths. Turning his ambitions toward more productive endeavors, he ultimately served as VP & General Counsel of Epic Systems Corporation, a health care software company that grew much larger than he ever thought possible. He retired in 2013 to once again explore that seemingly simple question posed so many years ago in a philosophy class: Why? Luckily, his incredibly patient wife of thirty years, who helped him raise three great kids, keeps asking him, Why not?" ]

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[ "After years of running from those who had falsely branded him an outlaw, Gordon Hawkes and his family find sanctuary in the Colorado Rockies, but their new lives are threatened by a Gold Rush that could destroy everything. Original." ]

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[ "Celebrate the mirth of a nation with Archie Comics and Dark Horse Comics in this latest addition to the Archie Archives line! 1940s America instantly fell in love with Archie Andrews, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, and the whole gang from Riverdale, so much so that within just a few short years publisher MLJ Magazines became Archie Comics, beginning with some of the stories in this volume! Learn why Archie and friends became comics icons in these 200-plus pages of hilarious high-school high jinx from Archie's Golden Age!" ]

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[ "Abandoned in a bucket…to new adventures in Greece", "The delightfully comic account of a British couple and their imported cats starting over in a new country continues in Bucket to Greece Volume 3. Victor and Marigold really feel the heat of May when the ever precarious water supply runs dry, and Victor suffers self-doubt over his burgeoning mastery of the Greek language. No longer cheffing at the local taverna, Victor keeps busy by taking over the kitchen at home, experimenting with the glut of garden courgettes.Landing himself a part-time job as a tour guide to Ancient Olympia offers a golden opportunity to pontificate to a captive audience. Victor is forced to put his foot down when Marigold demands a swimming pool and air conditioning, convincing her they pose dire hygiene risks. Fortunately the arrival of an unexpected visitor delights and distracts Marigold, until catastrophe strikes when a moron takes a pot shot at her beloved feline, Catastrophe.With marriage on his mind, Barry plans a permanent move to Greece and joins Victor in an early-morning snail hunt, leading to the great bucket breakout. A now sober Guzim secures employment on the coast with a crew that rumour soon has it are homicidal bandits. Spiros, smitten with the fragrant Filipino carer he employs to live-in with his infirm uncle, persuades Victor to help him poach some potential house buyers from under the despised Harold’s nose.The Bucket to Greek series is a must for fans of Greek travel and culture, with a bucket of laughs along the way." ]

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

[ "A testament to the beauty of disorder. This is a journey through the uncanny mind and heart of an eighteen-year-old. The desire to express has brought me to you, from divinity to bloom. Each chapter is a gift of poetry, a gift of words waiting for you to be unwrapped, to be felt, to be read. This is my serenity, in ink." ]

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[ "This newly-released 2020 edition features:", "◆ A beautiful cover with new fresh design◆ Additional detailed biography of the author◆ Additional unique word search puzzle with 20 words from \"Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes\" to bring deeper connection and more enjoyable experience to the readers◆ Additional unique word scramble puzzle with 10 words from \"Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes\" to bring deeper connection and more enjoyable experience to the readers", "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes revealed Robert Louis Stevenson's romantic temperament and his interest in picturesque history, people, and places during his 12-day, 200-kilometre (120 mi) solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Geography & Cultures" ]

[ "There’s no such thing as too much yarn.   As renowned knitwear designer Melissa Leapman knows all too well, every knitter has a stash of yarn that they just can’t bear to part with: the one or two extra balls of yarn bought “just in case,” or the bits and pieces leftover from completed projects.", "Stashbuster Knits", "gives you the absolute best way to use—and enjoy—your treasured yarn collection guilt free. Leapman offers valuable step-by-step guidance on organizing and shopping your stash to inspire creative new knitting ideas and color combinations. Then she gives you 21 ingenious projects for men, women, children, and home that are designed so no one will ever guess they were made from odds and ends. Included are projects both large and small, from a glorious Fair Isle sweater for your favorite guy to a chic little scarf made with a Magic Ball. Each yarn weight has its own chapter, from super fine to super bulky, ensuring that knitters will find a way to use every piece of stored-up yarn. Filled with tips and hints on customizing projects and ideas to use even the tiniest bits of yarn, Leapman’s", "Stashbuster Knits", "will help transform your beloved stash into projects you’ll love even more.   So dive into your closets, dig into your bins, rifle through your drawers, and bring your precious yarn out of hiding. Let’s begin putting that stash to good use!" ]

[ "Review", "\"With 11 published books, Melissa is a very well-known and respected designer in the knitting world.\" -", "-Love of Knitting", "Magazine", "About the Author", "Melissa Leapman is a widely published sweater designer whose patterns have appeared in", "Vogue Knitting", ",", "Knitter’s", ",", "McCall’s", ",", "Family Circle", ",", "Better Homes and Gardens", ",", "Knit It!", ", and", "Interweave Knits", "magazines. Leapman has worked as a freelance designer for many leading ready-to-wear manufacturers, noted design houses, and major yarn companies. In addition, her knitting, crochet, and design workshops are extremely popular with crafters at all skill levels. She lives in New York City." ]

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[ "About the Author", "J. A. Jance is the \"\"New York Times\"\" bestselling author of the J. P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, the Ali Reynolds series, and three stand-alone thrillers. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, she lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and Tucson, Arizona." ]

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

[ "In 1927 a young girl was murdered in Manhattan New York. What appeared to be a random killing, in reality, is systematic. J.P. Fox, a private investigator, is called upon by the police to investigate the crime. At every turn, Fox discovers clue after clue – creating a chain of despair. Something lurks in the shadows; something dark and sinister. The killer acts alone but isn’t alone. His motivations run deep. Time is running out. Fox must muster all his skills and experiences to find the killer and expose the eugenics movement, and flush out a deadly cult." ]

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[ "From Dust Jacket: A pretty, courageous young widow, faced with the task of bringing up three children and making her way alone in the world, is the appealing heroine of this touching love story executed with D.E. Stevenson's characteristic freshness and charm. The thirty-ninth novel from the beloved author of The Blue Sapphire, Bel Lamington, and Fletcher's Eng -- this new work centers around Katherine Wentworth, married at the age of nineteen to a man with whom she was very much in love. Widowed after only four years of happiness with Gerald, Katherine is left to bring up her stepson, Simon, as well as her own twins, Daisy and Denis. Katherine's struggle to raise her children wisely is one which will move every reader deeply. Told in first person, the story sensitively evokes the personality of Katherine's husband, whose many outstanding qualities are now perpetuated in his children. When Simon, growing to manhood, suddenly becomes heir to the family fortunes, he faces the difficult decision of either moving to the estate of his domineering grandfather or giving up the inheritance to remain free, as his father did before him. While Simon wrestles with his problem, Katherine finds romance entering her life in the person of Alec Maclaren, the brother of an old friend. Thrown together on a vacation in the Scottish Highlands, the two realize in each other's company a new zest for living, and soon Katherine is faced with a future that promises she will no longer be alone. As in her many other works, D.E. Stevenson has again created a realistic world of warm, believable people whose company brings delight to the reader." ]

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[ "Did you know the Bible mentions only two talking animals? Each of these creatures had a different message. The first to speak out was the serpent. This character certainly wasn’t a model. If God was using this snake for a test drive, I can see why he kept the mouths of the other animals closed. This snake in the grass spoke words meant for evil. About two millennium later another animal spoke—the lowly donkey. The beast of burden. This time the animal had words of wisdom.", "Susan K. Stewart expected dogs, cats, and the occasional goldfish would be all the pets she’d need. Until the day she met donkeys at a rescue center. A few years after that fateful visit, three donkeys became part of the Stewart family. Susan soon learned these humble creatures are still messengers of wisdom.", "Donkey Devos", "is a collection of forty pearls Susan has learned from spending time learning about her equine friends and chatting with them. She uses her experiences, donkey facts, and Biblical donkey details to share the truths God has taught. The whole family will delight in the donkey tales with a message from God." ]

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

[ "Argues for a more valid and democratic approach to assessment and accountability." ]

[ "Review", "\"U.S. schools have been engaged in a gigantic effort to impose Texas-style test-driven reform on all U.S. schools. This book reports things are very different than they seem in Texas and helps explain the major problems in implementing President Bush's No Child Left Behind law. The richness of the contributions by major Latino scholars to this analysis should help us understand the tremendous need to diversity our faculties if we are to understand our changing society and its schools.\"", "About the Author", "Angela Valenzuela is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin." ]

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[ "Books", "Education & Teaching", "Schools & Teaching" ]

[ "This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.", "This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.", "Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.", "We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant." ]

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[ "The enthralling memoir of a 1930s couple whose passion for nature led them on a winter’s-long hunting trek through one of the most remote regions of Canada", "While many people dream of abandoning civilization and heading into the wilderness, few manage to actually do it. One exception was twenty-four-year-old Elliott Merrick, who in 1929 left his advertising job in New Jersey and moved to Labrador, one of Canada’s most remote regions.", "True North", "tells the captivating story of one of the high points of Merrick’s years there: a hunting trip he and his wife, Kay, made with trapper John Michelin in 1930. Covering 300 miles over a harsh winter, they experienced an unexplored realm of nature at its most intense and faced numerous challenges. Merrick accidentally shot himself in the thigh and almost cut off his toe. Freezing cold and hunger were constant. Nonetheless, the group found beauty and even magic in the stark landscape. The couple and the trappers bonded with each other and their environment through such surprisingly daunting tasks as fabricating sunglasses to avoid snow blindness and learning to wash underwear without it freezing.   Merrick’s intimate style, rich with narrative detail, brings readers into a dramatic story of survival and shares the lesson the Merricks learned: that the greatest satisfaction in life can come from the simplest things." ]

[ "Review", "“A tale of real hardship, of a running fight against the forces of nature, of the joys of wild life; rich in anecdote, humorous, dramatic, vigorous, and direct.”—", "Kirkus Reviews", "“A fascinating, at times magical, chronicle.”", "—Publishers Weekly", "“Merrick's writing is full of detail on how to survive in the grueling cold of a Canadian winter. The book is more ‘Walden’ than wild, as the author is often contemplative, reveling in the joy of being out of the city and plunged into nature.”—", "The Record-Courier", "“", "True North", "is a wonderful memoir, recounting the author's travels in the wild and wonderful Canadian wilderness. I was riveted throughout the book. Whether the author was, quite seriously, discussing methods of underwear washing (hilarious) or describing the instances when everyone wanted to break camp but wouldn't admit to it, you are kept thoroughly entertained.… I thoroughly enjoyed this book, filled with beautiful narrative.”—", "The Book Buff", "“[", "True North", "] is the kind of book one will pick up like a Bible or a book of poetry, to re-envision the moment. Merrick expands the small details of the journey into a metaphor for living life. Like Thoreau, he urges us to live a simpler life, a life of appreciation… When 'the world is too much with [you],' as Wordsworth said,", "True North", "will take you to a place of great beauty and simplicity.”", "—Read, Write, Laugh, Rewrite with Eileen Granfors", "“This book should be considered a classic in nonfiction, especially among Thoreau and Emerson inspired nonfiction.”", "—Wilson Knut's Witticisms", "About the Author", "Elliott Merrick", "was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the son of a New York-commuting executive. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, Merrick took a job as a reporter with the Passaic Daily News. In 1928 he became assistant advertising manager for the National Lead Company, his father’s company, but Merrick seemed to have nature in his blood and, in 1929, he left the business world behind and joined the Grenfell Mission in Labrador, Canada, as a summer WOP (Worker without Pay). He loved Labrador and its people and was able to stay in the region by taking a teaching assignment for the Mission in Northwest River. It was there that he met and fell in love with the Mission’s resident nurse, Australian-born", "Kate (Kay) Austen", ", whom he married in 1930. They lived for a brief time in a small cabin near the current site of the huge Goose Bay Airport. After a number of adventures in Labrador, the Merricks returned to the United States, living in New Jersey and Vermont during the middle of the depression. Elliott Merrick later taught English at the University of Vermont. He is the author of seven other books, including the best-selling", "Northern Nurse.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "January 6", "In those books of Arctic exploration that Stefansson describes as mere catalogs of hardships, there are seldom any accounts of the inconvenience of a nose, particularly a runny nose. Perhaps a nose is hardly suited to tales of Arctic feats. One wonders how Inuit manage their noses so well, how it is in the long years of evolution that they have not contrived to grow fur on them or lose them entirely. The greatest hardship of the trip to me is a raw, red nose that drips like some damp rock in a cave, simply from the cold, not from a cold. No one ever has a cold on trips like this. Colds grow only in places where every known means of science is organized to prevent them.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Winner:", "2013 National Health Information Award, Silver; 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Award, Children's Picture Book; 2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Award, Bronze, Mind/Body/Spirit, Self-Esteem; 2012 Mom's Choice Award, Gold, Juvenile Level 2 Books 9-12, Mind/Body/Spirit; 2012 USA Best Book Award, Parenting/Family: General; 2012 Association Trends All-Media Contest Finalist ——— Responding to the fact that coping with a parent’s death can be especially hard on young children, this beautifully written and illustrated book is a valuable resource for parents and counselors. Ten-year-old Emily and seven-year-old Ben must deal with the loss of their mother to cancer. Guided by conversations with their father, they embark on a journey of grief and healing, each searching for a path to acceptance. Along the way, both children realize that their mother will always be with them in their hearts. And just as their mother’s flowers had bloomed in the garden, Emily and Ben emerge from the darkness of grief to bloom once more. Using nature as a backdrop for the cycles of life, this moving story emphasizes hope and healing and will connect with all readers who have lost a loved one." ]

[ "Review", "\"Amy Rovere beautifully portrays the emotions, reactions, and questions children have as they struggle with loss. This is a 'must read' for parents and children coping with loss.\"  —Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, professor, The Graduate School of the College of New Rochelle and Senior Consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America\"This book is a gift to anyone hoping to provide comfort, understanding, and hope to grieving parents and children.\"  —Phyllis Kosminsky, PhD, FT, author,", "Getting Back to Life When Grief Won't Heal", "\"The honest sharing of difficult feelings, the loving guidance of a parent, and the useful suggestions for commemoration present a wonderful resource to help young people during challenging times. I highly recommend it!\"  —Linda Goldman, LCPC, MS, FT, author,", "Life and Loss: A Guide to Help Grieving Children", "About the Author", "Amy Rovere", "serves on the editorial staff of the American Cancer Society’s Books Division, helping create books for patients and families who are coping with cancer. When she was just nine years old, Amy lost her mother to cancer, and her work is inspired by her personal loss and her desire to help children who are going through a similar experience. She lives in Atlanta.", "Joel Spector", "is an illustrator whose art has been featured in books, magazines, and advertising and has been shown at the New Britain Museum of American Art, among other galleries. His numerous awards include the Gold Medal from the Pastel Society of America, a Society of Illustrators award, and Best in Show at the Kent Art Association. He lives in New Milford, Connecticut.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "And Still They Bloom", "A Family's Journey of Loss and Healing", "By Amy Rovere, Joel Spector", "American Cancer Society", "Copyright © 2012 American Cancer SocietyAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-60443-036-3", "CHAPTER 1", "Emily", "sat down on the back porch steps and took a deep breath. She wrapped her arms around her knees and gently rocked back and forth. She felt relieved to be alone. It was almost warm, unusual for early spring. It was Emily's tenth birthday. Looking out at the garden, her mother's garden, she noticed some signs of life starting to break through the damp earth. Emily hadn't spent much time in the backyard — not since her mother had gotten sick. She hadn't noticed until now that the bulbs they planted together were starting to poke up and out of the ground. Tears streamed down Emily's cheeks as she realized that her mother would never see them bloom.", "Emily quickly wiped away her tears when she heard the screen door open and shut with a bang. Her seven-year-old brother, Ben, came bounding onto the porch. \"Are you ready to play with me?\" he asked as he sat down beside her. \"I want to try your new game.\"", "\"Go away, Ben. I want to be alone,\" she said quietly.", "\"But you said you'd play with me after the party,\" he whined.", "\"I said, GO AWAY!\" Emily shouted as she hugged her knees even tighter. Ben didn't move. He just sat there sulking, which made her even angrier.", "The screen door opened again, and the floorboards creaked as their father crossed the porch. Emily waited for him to speak, but he was silent as he sat down beside them on the steps. They sat together quietly looking out at the garden.", "Her father was the first to break the silence. \"I'm sorry she wasn't here to help us celebrate, Emily. But I'm glad that Grace and Anna could come to the party.\"", "\"I don't feel much like celebrating.\" Emily looked down at her feet. She was quiet for a moment. \"I just don't understand. Why did Mom have to die? It's not fair!\"", "Her father placed his hand in hers. \"I know it's not fair, Emily. I wish Mom was here, too.\" He paused briefly. \"Life's not always fair. Some people can have cancer, get better, and live a very long life. Other people get so sick that they die.\"", "Emily noticed a few tears start to form in his eyes. \"But why doesn't everyone get better? Sarah's mom had cancer, but she didn't die. Her mom still makes her favorite foods, and drives her to dance class, and tucks her into bed at night.\"", "\"That's not an easy question to answer, Em. As hard as they try, sometimes the doctors can't make cancer go away.\"", "\"And that's what happened to Mom?\" Ben asked. \"Her cancer wouldn't go away?\"", "He answered softly, \"Yes.\"", "Emily was quiet, debating whether to ask her next question.", "She wasn't sure that she really wanted to know the answer. Before she could make up her mind, Ben beat her to it.", "\"What if you get cancer?\" he asked.", "\"I know you're both worried that you could lose me, too,\" their father said gently. \"But I'm healthy. And I'll do my best to stay well, so we can be together for a long time. If I ever get sick, the doctors will do everything possible to help me get well. Aunt Paula and Uncle Neil would take care of you if I couldn't. I know you're both scared, but just because Mom died doesn't mean the same thing will happen with me.\"", "Ben looked relieved. More than anything, Emily wanted to believe what her father had said was true, but she wasn't so sure. The sun hung low in the sky and cast shadows across the yard. They sat together on the steps for a long time.", "* * *", "A few weeks", "later, Emily and Ben were putting the groceries away after a trip to the store. As Ben reached for the box of his favorite snacks, Emily snatched them out of his hands.", "\"Back off, squirt,\" she declared. \"These are mine.\"", "\"No fair!\" Ben shouted, as he tried to grab the box.", "\"Quit it, you two!\" their father piped in. \"There's enough for everybody.\"", "Emily threw the box on the floor and sat down on a stool next to the counter. She knew her father would be mad but she didn't care. She was angry and annoyed, and it didn't matter if he scolded her.", "At the grocery store, they had run into some women from her mother's garden club. Emily had felt awkward standing there waiting for her father to finish being polite so they could leave. She had grown to hate these moments. She knew people meant well when they said things like, \"She's in a better place now,\" or \"At least she's at peace.\" But these words were not comforting to Emily. And when she heard them she wanted to scream! There was no better place for her mother than home. Nothing anyone could say would make her believe anything else. No one could make her pain go away. People could say all kinds of things, but what was the point? She wished they'd all just go away and leave them alone.", "Her father reached down and picked up the box of snacks. He took out two small pouches, tossed one to Ben, and handed one to Emily. \"Hey, Ben,\" her father began. \"Can you give me and your sister some time to talk? Why don't you go play in your room, and I'll come talk to you in a few minutes.\"", "\"Why do people say those things?\" Emily shouted angrily after Ben had left the room. \"Mom's not at peace. She's dead, and she's never coming back! They make it sound like she's happier now that she's away from us. Why would they say something so mean? Did Mom want to die? Did she want to leave us behind?\"", "Her father answered. \"I know you're angry, Emily. You've got a lot to be angry about. No, Mom didn't want to die. She wanted more than anything to be here with us right now.\" He pulled a stool up next to her and sat down.", "\"Those women today meant well. They're sad about Mom, too. She was their friend, and they're just trying to say something nice. People deal with sadness in different ways. Sometimes people say those things because it makes them feel better. Many people loved Mom and miss her a lot. It's hard to know the right thing to say to someone who feels sad, and people just do the best they can.\"", "\"Some kids at school don't say anything at all to me. They just look at me funny or whisper when I walk by,\" Emily admitted. \"At least Anna and Grace are still my friends. They still play with me.\"", "\"I'm sorry that some kids have acted that way, Emily. That must be really hard for you. I'm sure those kids feel sad about Mom, too. They might also feel embarrassed because they want to help but don't always know what to say. Often, when people don't know what to say, they don't say anything at all. I know that can be hurtful. Some kids also might be scared and confused. They might worry that what happened to Mom will happen to someone they love. I hope that with time, the other kids will follow Anna's and Grace's example and not treat you any differently.\"", "Emily hung her head down, unable to meet her father's eyes. In a whisper, she said, \"Sometimes I'm so angry at her for leaving us. Does that make me a bad person?\"", "Her father brushed back a stray piece of hair that had fallen in her eyes. \"You're not a bad person for feeling angry. It's very hard to lose someone you love. It's okay to feel sad and scared, and even angry, too. We have so many feelings inside of us. They're all okay. Talking about it can help you feel better. I'm always here to listen. Don't be afraid to tell me how you feel.\"", "Emily hugged her father, and the warmth of his arms comforted her. She felt so many things, and her feelings were all jumbled up inside her. It was hard to know how to sort them all out. But now, she just felt tired and didn't want to talk anymore. She rested her head on his chest. \"I love you, Emily,\" he said. \"We'll get through this together.\"", "* * *", "Ben", "had wrapped himself tightly in his favorite blanket, the one his mother had made. He was sitting on the floor next to his bed when he heard a knock on the door. His father stepped into the room and joined Ben on the floor.", "\"Hey buddy,\" his father said quietly.", "Ben clutched his blanket even tighter and scowled.", "\"You want to talk about it?\" his father asked.", "Ben nodded. \"Why is Emily so mean to me? She's mad all the time and doesn't want to play with me.\" As a single tear ran down his cheek, he whispered, \"Did I do something wrong? Was it my fault that Mom died? Is that why Emily's so mad at me?\"", "His father put his arm around Ben and said, \"No, Ben. It's no one's fault — not yours, not mine, not Emily's.\"", "Ben didn't realize he'd been holding his breath waiting for an answer. He breathed out, and soon his cheeks were wet with tears.", "His father paused, searching for the right words. \"Sometimes, people get sick. Most of the time, they get better. But, in some cases, no matter what anyone does to help, they still die.\" He continued, \"Emily is not mad at you, Ben. She's angry and upset that Mom died. Sometimes when people are hurting, they take it out on those around them — even the people they love.\"", "Ben sucked in his breath to try to stop crying as he wiped his wet face. He listened as his father continued.", "\"We're all upset that Mom died, though sometimes we have different ways of showing it. The important thing, Ben, is to let your feelings out and not keep them inside.\"", "He looked directly at Ben. \"It's okay to cry when sad things happen.\"", "\"Even for boys?\" Ben asked.", "\"Even for boys,\" his father said with certainty. \"Even I cry sometimes. It's much better to let your feelings out than to keep them locked up inside. You can always talk to me about how you feel. Nana and Papa, too. We're always here for you.\"", "His father held Ben close before he stood up and said, \"I'll be right back; I have something for you.\"", "He was only gone a moment before he returned with a cloth bag. He sat back down on the floor. He reached inside the bag and retrieved a small narrow box and handed it to Ben.", "The leather box was smooth to the touch. As his father opened it, Ben recognized the slender, shiny object inside. It was his mother's fountain pen. Ben picked up the pen; it felt cool in his hand.", "\"It's Mom's special pen,\" Ben said.", "\"That's right. She'd use it to write down all her thoughts and feelings when she was happy or sad. I brought you a notebook, too, just like the one she used. You can draw pictures or write down your feelings whenever you want.\"", "Ben opened the notebook and ran his fingers along the crisp white pages. He pictured his mother at her small writing desk in front of the window. He remembered how the sunlight would make her hair shine. She was so pretty. He closed his hand tightly around the pen. Ben thanked his father and clutched him hard around the middle.", "\"Why can't she come back?\" Ben asked as he buried his face into his father's chest.", "\"I wish she could, Ben. But that's not the way life works. Sometimes we don't have as much time as we'd like with the people we love,\" he said as he hugged Ben tighter.", "Ben was quiet, not knowing what to say.", "After a moment, his father said, \"I'm going to start dinner. Want to help?\"", "Ben shook his head, and his father slowly got to his feet. \"I'm making mac and cheese — your favorite.\"", "\"Thanks, Dad.\" Ben said. He looked at the notebook, wondering what to write.", "* * *", "A little", "while later, Emily gently knocked on the door to her brother's room. When she opened it a crack, she could see him curled up on his bed clutching his blanket and looking at the notebook. He had been crying.", "\"What do you want?\" he sniffled.", "\"I'm sorry, Ben,\" Emily said as she sat on the bed next to her brother. \"I feel so angry at times, but I'm not mad at you. I'm sorry I took it out on you today.\"", "Ben sat up and wiped his nose on his sleeve. \"You're not the only one, Emily!\"", "Emily rested her hand on her brother's shoulder and tried to comfort him.", "\"I think about Mom all the time,\" he said. \"I want her to come back.\"", "\"Me too, Ben, but, it's just you and me and Dad from now on. We'll be okay — you'll see.\" Emily tried to sound convincing for Ben's sake, but she wasn't sure she really believed it.", "\"Want to play the game I got for my birthday?\" she asked. \"You beat me the last time, and I want a rematch.\"", "\"Okay,\" he said. \"But only if I get to be the blue guy this time.\"", "\"Only if you get there first!\" she shouted as she started toward the door. She paused for a moment, giving him a chance to leap from the bed and out the door ahead of her.", "* * *", "Later", "in her room, Emily sat on her bed and listened to the heavy spring rain pouring down. She thought about her mother as she looked at the small wooden box beside her. She remembered the times they'd played with the shiny necklaces and sparkling earrings tucked away in the tiny drawers of her mother's jewelry box. Emily picked up one simple strand of pearly white beads. On special occasions, her mother would let her wear this necklace. Although it was not made of real pearls, it was special because it had been hand beaded by her mother. Emily had felt such pride when wearing her mother's favorite necklace. Now when she looked at it, she only wanted to cry. She carefully put the necklace away in the top drawer of the jewelry box. She was wiping the tears from her eyes when she heard a knock at the door.", "\"Come in,\" she said softly.", "As he entered her room, her father could see her red eyes and tear-stained cheeks. \"You okay, Em? Do you want to talk?\" he asked.", "Emily nodded. \"I miss her so much.\"", "He sat down on the bed and gave her a tender, bittersweet smile. \"I know you do, sweetie. I really miss Mom, too.\"", "\"I can't believe she's really gone. How can we live without her, Dad?\" Emily cried.", "\"One day at a time, Emily. I know it's hard to believe that it's possible to live without Mom. You and Ben might feel lost right now. Sometimes I feel that way, too — like I'm out in the ocean, barely managing to keep my head above the water and trying to find steady ground. But sweetheart, it's within our reach. It may take some time, but we'll get there. And as long as we've got each other — you, me, and Ben — we're not alone. And remember, Mom will always be with us.\"", "\"I don't understand,\" Emily said through her tears.", "\"Mom will always be with you — in your heart, your mind, and your spirit. She's a part of you, and nothing can ever change that. You carry her with you wherever you go. Mom loved you so very much. Her love will stay with you always.\"", "Emily looked at her father, and he saw the pain and sadness in her wide round eyes. \"Will I always feel this way? Will it always hurt so much?\"", "He paused and said, \"I know you're hurting; I'm hurting, too. I know it might be hard to understand this right now, Emily, but it will get easier over time. We'll always miss Mom, and some days you will feel more sad than others. Your grief will come and go, but you won't always feel this way.\"", "Emily had a hard time believing that the pain inside her would ever go away. How could it if her mother was never coming back? She looked out the window. Who would take care of her mother's garden now that she was gone? How would the plants survive if her mother wasn't there to take care of them? How would she?", "* * *", "One night", ", Ben couldn't sleep and wandered downstairs. He found his father sitting alone in the living room holding a golden picture frame. There were tears in his eyes.", "Seeing Ben, his father put the picture down on the table beside the couch. \"Can't sleep, buddy?\" he asked.", "Ben climbed up on the couch beside his father and shook his head.", "\"Are you okay, Dad?\" Ben asked.", "\"I'm just sad. Everything reminds me of Mom,\" his father said as he looked at her picture on the table.", "\"You can borrow Mom's pen anytime you want,\" Ben said as he looked up at his father. \"It makes me feel better when I use it.\"", "His father smiled tenderly and pulled Ben closer to him. \"Thanks, bud.\"", "\"Will you sing to me?\" Ben asked. \"The way she did?\"", "They snuggled up together on the couch. As his father softly sang, Ben fell asleep in his arms.", "* * *", "One sunday", "afternoon, Emily relaxed on the porch swing while she watched her father and brother out in the yard. Their father dipped a large wand in a shallow pan of suds and waved it slowly through the air, making large soap bubbles. Emily liked to watch the beautiful bubbles gently float in the breeze. The sunlight made colorful rings on the edges of the bubbles. Emily wished that she could stop time and make them last forever.", "\"Emily, look. Aren't these the flowers you and Mom planted together?\" her father asked from across the yard.", "(Continues...)", "Excerpted from", "And Still They Bloom", "by", "Amy Rovere, Joel Spector", ". Copyright © 2012 American Cancer Society. Excerpted by permission of American Cancer Society. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.", "Read more" ]

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[ "It is safe to say that the prevailing mood of the United States is anger. This anger is directed at a government that has shed any pretense of acting in the interests of the American people. It is a government incapable of control or restraint, consumed by runaway spending. It is a government ruled not by the will of the majority of Americans but by lobbyists, lawyers, and a media-controlled agenda calling for greater amounts of progressive reform, regulation, and limits on individual freedom. Author Michael LeGault proposes all is not lost. There is still a small window of opportunity for the American people to summon a force of national will and reverse the direction we're headinga course that will see us become another declining, European-like social welfare state. The key to avoiding this self-destructive path is to understand the underlying causes of the dysfunction.", "The Next American Revolution", "clearly identifies the root causes of the demise of the American Dream and how we can get it back. The message of this book is intended for all Americans in all regions of the country, from sea to shining sea." ]

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[ "Botanica is the universal standard work for garden enthusiasts and botanists alike. The collaboration of a team of international experts has resulted in a reference work that illustrates the rich diversity of our flora with a myriad of indigenous and exotic plants. More than 10,000 genera and species - from Abelia to Zygopetalum - are clearly presented in a well organized manner." ]

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[ "NOW ON NETFLIX! Starring Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan", "“Matthew Quirk moves into David Baldacci and John Grisham territory with", "The Night Agent", ", a paranoid, pulse-pounding thriller that could not be more prescient. If you’re wondering where the best of the next generation of suspense talent is headed, look no further.” — Joseph Finder", "To find a Russian mole in the White House, an FBI agent must question everything. . . and trust no one.", "No one is more surprised than FBI Agent Peter Sutherland when he’s tapped to work in the White House Situation Room. When Peter was a boy, his father was suspected of selling secrets to the Russians—a breach that cost him his career, his reputation, and eventually his life. Now Peter’s job is monitoring an emergency line for a call that has not—and might never—come.", "Until tonight.", "At 1:05 A.M. the phone rings. A terrified young woman named Rose tells Peter that two people have just been murdered and that the killer might still be in the house with her. One of the victims gave her this phone number with urgent instructions: “Tell them OSPREY was right. It’s happening...”", "The call thrusts Peter into the heart of a conspiracy years in the making, involving a Russian mole at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Anyone in the White House could be the traitor. Anyone could be corrupted. To save the nation, Peter must take the rules into his own hands, question everything, and trust no one.", "The Night Agent", "marks the return of the classic conspiracy thriller, a", "Three Days of the Condor", "for today’s chaotic world. With incredible twists and heart-stopping action, this electrifying novel pulls back the curtain on Washington power and confirms Matthew Quirk as a new master of suspense.", "Don't miss Matthew Quirk's twisty new thriller,", "Inside Threat!", "Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by Matthew Quirk:", "Red Warning", "Red Warning", "Hour of the Assassin", "Hour of the Assassin", "Dead Man Switch", "Dead Man Switch", "Cold Barrel Zero", "Cold Barrel Zero", "The Directive", "The Directive", "The 500", "The 500" ]

[ "Review", "“", "The Night Agent", "is a whirlwind of a book, a captivating narrative that takes us inside the White House’s inner sanctum and the shadowy machinations surrounding it. A powerful and taut thriller.”   —", "Mark Greaney #1 bestselling author of", "Mission Critical", "“This story is impossible to put out of mind.... Relevant and revealing, this is one of the best thrillers to come along in years.” —", "Michael Connelly", "“Strap in for one hell of a ride.", "The Night Agent", "is full of twists and surprises you’ll never see coming.” —", "Ben Coes,", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "Bloody Sunday", "“Matthew Quirk moves into David Baldacci and John Grisham territory with", "The Night Agent", ", a paranoid, pulse-pounding thriller that could not be more prescient. If you’re wondering where the best of the next generation of suspense talent is headed, look no further.” —", "Joseph Finder", "“Matthew Quirk is rapidly proving himself to be among our finest thriller writers, and", "The Night Agent", "is the latest undeniable evidence. Quirk writes rapid-fire, page-turning action with unusual grace and intelligence, and his latest American nightmare is guaranteed to keep readers up late.” —", "Michael Koryta,", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "How It Happened", "“Baldacci’s debut [", "Absolute Power", "] kept me awake half the night. I’m still a fan… I had the same reaction when I picked up", "The Night Agent", "… Best to start this at the beginning of a weekend, as you’ll be burning the midnight oil ‘til you’re finished.” —", "Newark Star Ledger", "“Plenty of breathless one-more-chapter, stay-up-late suspense wrapped around a meaty and timely story ... irresistible.” —", "Lee Child", "“Quirk’s chilling and modern scenario of foreign influence reaching into the highest reaches of government will be thoroughly enjoyed by political thriller junkies.” —", "Library Journal", "(starred review)", "“Quirk returns to the thriller scene with a thundering bang… Quirk’s latest feels like he’s been churning out political thrillers for decades, hitting on a timely plot that starts out fast and only speeds up as the story unfolds… [A] high-stakes, nail-biting political thriller.” —", "TheRealBookSpy.com", "“Lots of good, tense plotting… A real pleasure of espionage fiction is tradecraft secrets, and Quirk doesn’t disappoint.” —", "Booklist", "“", "The Night Agent", "is a compelling high-stakes thriller, lightning fast, relentlessly suspenseful and unsettlingly realistic.” —", "Hank Phillippi Ryan, bestselling author of", "Trust Me", "Praise for the earlier novels:", "“A thundering David-and-Goliath tale of corruption… A real page turner, with high stakes action that doesn’t stop.” —", "Booklist (starred review) on", "The 500", "“The Firm goes to Washington, only with a whole lot more action.” —", "James Patterson on", "The 500", "“Sophisticated storytelling [and] whiplash pacing . . . Clever twists and startling surprises.” —", "Washington Post on", "Cold Barrel Zero", "“The action dazzles. The characters feel authentic and fully fleshed. The threats seem all too real.” —", "Los Angeles Review of Books on", "Cold Barrel Zero", "“The story is expertly stripped down, the action relentless, and the characters multilayered. A lethal game of cat and mouse.” —", "Kirkus Reviews on Cold Barrel Zero", "“A tour de force. Dead Man Switch turns the intelligence community’s ‘wilderness of mirrors’ into a high-speed racetrack, delivering twist after twist toward a literally explosive conclusion… Quirk shows us the human cost of living—and dying—on the gray edges of national security.” —", "Joseph Finder", "“This is a nonstop, heart-pounding ride in which moral blacks and whites turn gray in “the efficient alignment of power and interests” that is big-time politics. Quirk has another high-powered hit on his hands.” —", "Booklist (starred review) on The Directive", "“The Directive does for the Fed what… Aaron Sorkin did for the White House in “The West Wing”, and what Beau Willimon is doing with “House of Cards”… Drips with the kind of eye for the telling detail that only a canny reporter, detective or spy possesses.” —", "Forbes", "“A plot that twists like a cobra in a sack, a whip-crack pace and engaging characters make", "The Night Agent", "a very classy thriller.” —", "Financial Times", "\"This is David Baldacci territory, but done with a refreshing vigour by… Quirk who is making a name for himself as a thriller writer to watch.\" —", "Daily Mail", "(London)", "--This text refers to the", "mass_market", "edition.", "From the Back Cover", "To save America from a catastrophic betrayal, an FBI agent must stop a Russian mole in the White House in this exhilarating political thriller reminiscent of the early novels of John Grisham and David Baldacci.", "No one is more surprised than FBI Agent Peter Sutherland when he’s tapped to work in the White House Situation Room. When Peter was a boy, his father was suspected of selling secrets to the Russians—a breach that cost him his career, his reputation, and eventually his life. Peter knows intimately how one broken rule can have devastating consequences, and he has always done everything strictly by the book. Nowhere is he more vigilant than in this room, the sanctum of America’s most closely guarded military and intelligence secrets. His job is monitoring an emergency line for a call that has not—and might never—come.", "Until tonight.", "At 1:05 A.M. the phone rings. A terrified young woman named Rose tells Peter that two people have just been murdered and that the killer might still be in the house with her. One of the victims gave her this phone number with urgent instructions: “Tell them OSPREY was right. It’s happening . . .” The call thrusts Peter into the heart of a conspiracy years in the making, involving a Russian mole at the highest levels of the US government. Anyone in the White House could be the traitor. Anyone could be corrupted. To save the nation, Peter must take the rules into his own hands, question everything, and trust no one. He plunges into a desperate hunt for the traitor—an odyssey that pits him and Rose against Russia’s most skilled and ruthless operatives and the full force of the FBI itself.", "With the fate of the country on the line, Peter and Rose must evade seasoned assassins to find the shocking truth—and stop the threat from inside before it’s too late.", "The Night Agent", "marks the return of the classic conspiracy thriller, a", "Three Days of the Condor", "for today’s chaotic world. With incredible twists and heart-stopping action, this electrifying novel pulls back the curtain on Washington power and confirms Matthew Quirk as a new master of suspense.", "--This text refers to the", "mass_market", "edition.", "About the Author", "Matthew Quirk is the", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "Red Warning", ",", "Hour of the Assassin, The Night Agent, The 500, The Directive, Cold Barrel Zero,", "and", "Dead Man Switch.", "He spent five years at", "The Atlantic", "reporting on crime, private military contractors, terrorism prosecutions, and international gangs. He lives in San Diego, California.", "--This text refers to the", "mass_market", "edition.", "From the Inside Flap", "To save America from a catastrophic betrayal, an FBI agent must stop a Russian mole in the White House in this exhilarating political thriller reminiscent of the early novels of John Grisham and David Baldacci.", "No one is more surprised than FBI Agent Peter Sutherland when he's tapped to work in the White House Situation Room. When Peter was a boy, his father was suspected of selling secrets to the Russians--a breach that cost him his career, his reputation, and eventually his life. Peter knows intimately how one broken rule can have devastating consequences, and he has always done everything strictly by the book. Nowhere is he more vigilant than in this room, the sanctum of America's most closely guarded military and intelligence secrets. His job is monitoring an emergency line for a call that has not--and might never--come.", "Until tonight.", "At 1:05 A.M. the phone rings. A terrified young woman named Rose tells Peter that two people have just been murdered and that the killer might still be in the house with her. One of the victims gave her this phone number with urgent instructions: \"Tell them OSPREY was right. It's happening . . .\" The call thrusts Peter into the heart of a conspiracy years in the making, involving a Russian mole at the highest levels of the US government. Anyone in the White House could be the traitor. Anyone could be corrupted. To save the nation, Peter must take the rules into his own hands, question everything, and trust no one. He plunges into a desperate hunt for the traitor--an odyssey that pits him and Rose against Russia's most skilled and ruthless operatives and the full force of the FBI itself.", "With the fate of the country on the line, Peter and Rose must evade seasoned assassins to find the shocking truth--and stop the threat from inside before it's too late.", "The Night Agent", "marks the return of the classic conspiracy thriller, a", "Three Days of the Condor", "for today's chaotic world. With incredible twists and heart-stopping action, this electrifying novel pulls back the curtain on Washington power and confirms Matthew Quirk as a new master of suspense.", "--Kirkus Reviews on Cold Barrel Zero", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Angelo works the late shift at a local gas station, where he meets a couple caught in a thunderstorm on their honeymoon, a busload of musicians, an elephant on the way to the circus, and some visitors who take Angelo out to breakfast." ]

[ "From School Library Journal", "Grade 1-3?This period piece takes readers through the night shift at Lucky's 24-Hour Garage in 1939. Angelo is a true service-station professional who takes pride in his work and always has a smile and a friendly word for his customers?even the short-tempered and grumpy ones. The poetic text gives the details of the parade of people who enrich Angelo's world. \"Cars rolled through the station on their way to anywhere. Michigan, Texas, Delaware, Ohio?the plates told where they had come from but not where they were going.\" Careful research is reflected in the stylized art-deco oil paintings: bright colors and sleek lines bring out the details of a variety of cars and trucks and the gas-station decor of the era. At the end of the book, when Angelo's wife and son greet him warmly and take him out to breakfast, readers may realize that the night has passed with neither dirt nor danger. Younger children who like vehicles and gas stations may enjoy this as a simple story; older readers can find both answers and questions about the differences in daily life between then and now.?Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, MECopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc." ]

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[ "Have you ever had a dream that came to life? How about losing the one you love and not being able to save them? What about a gift that you were cursed with? Well image having all three like Sicily \"Sissy\" Monroe. \"Some might say what I have is a gift. I say, I want to return it.\" Sissy declares. Sicily \"Sissy\" Monroe has all the qualities of a perfect young lady. She is almost where she wants to be in life. But lying deep in the pupil of her eyes hold something that she cannot get rid of which interferes with her plans. She fights everyday with no one but herself. After having her first vision at age six of her sister's (Misty) disappearance and the dreams of failing to save her, Sissy wants no part in another person's fate. For years Sissy tried hard to avoid contact with people because she feared foreseeing their death. In keeping with this, she tries to stay away from her family. Little did Sissy know she could not run from her past, or her gift. She hopes someone will put her out of her misery, but she will soon discover that her visions and dreams were just a mere image of herself." ]

[ "Review", "Review- Loved it!! Could not put it down until i finished it. first in a long time since i felt that way about a book. --Read For Your FutureWe read this selection for our book club in June. Our book club rated this book a 5! WE BE BOOK'N BOOK CLUB really discussed this book. Ms Dorsey has done a wonderful job with her first book. She keeps you reading and not wanting to put the book down! At the beginning, you might say \"Oh this is an teenager read\", but after getting into the book, it's definitely a page turner. It has many twists and turns that will keep you wondering what is really going on, and at the very end you will be very much surprised. The Unsacred Gift will still keep you thinking long after you have finished the book. All our club can say is a JOB WELL DONE, MS. DORSEY!!!! Waiting and anticipating the next exciting book from Ms. Dorsey. --We Be Book'N Book Club", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "About the Author", "C. S. Dorsey currently lives in Northern California. She graduated from the University of Phoenix with an Associate’s Degree in Financial Services, and is currently working for a financial institution. She never thought about writing until one day this girl started talking to her in her head and never stop.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition." ]

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[ "Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective and relatively ineffectual compared to their counterparts of two hundred years ago. From the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, newspapers were the republic's central political institutions, working components of the party system rather than commentators on it.", "The Tyranny of Printers", "narrates the rise of this newspaper-based politics, in which editors became the chief party spokesmen and newspaper offices often served as local party headquarters. Beginning when Thomas Jefferson enlisted a Philadelphia editor to carry out his battle with Alexander Hamilton for the soul of the new republic (and got caught trying to cover it up), the centrality of newspapers in political life gained momentum after Jefferson's victory in 1800, which was widely credited to a superior network of papers. Jeffrey L. Pasley tells the rich story of this political culture and its culmination in Jacksonian democracy, enlivening his narrative with accounts of the colorful but often tragic careers of individual editors." ]

[ "Review", "The Tyranny of Printers", "is...an essential journey for those who care about the history of our nation's early years, and the emergence of ordinary artisans as extraordinary leaders, sounding and heeding the call to freedom. --author of Washington Post Book World", "Pasley's book is the best ever written about journalism in the early republic and one of the best about the broader political culture of that era.... For the first time, we can see, brightly and clearly, the vital importance of that era in the history of journalism. --author of American Historical Review", "The most comprehensive and important work on the partisan printer-editors of the early republic.... [I]t is the first work students and general readers should consult on the subject. --author of Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography", "This is a tremendously valuable work.... Anyone interested in journalism, the rise of political parties, or early America should read", "The Tyranny of Printers", "at least twice. --author of Southern Historian", "This is an important book not just for historians of the press, but for students of the early republic generally. Highly recommended. --author of CHOICE", "This liberal critique should be read by many of the great number who are now exposed to the conservative biography of Adams by David McCullough....", "[The Tyranny of Printers]", "is a sprightly and provocative history, written with far more flair than the usual scholarly treatise. --author of St. Louis Post-Dispatch", "Review", "\"", "The Tyranny of Printers", "is...an essential journey for those who care about the history of our nation's early years, and the emergence of ordinary artisans as extraordinary leaders, sounding and heeding the call to freedom. \"―author of Washington Post Book World", "\"This liberal critique should be read by many of the great number who are now exposed to the conservative biography of Adams by David McCullough....", "[The Tyranny of Printers]", "is a sprightly and provocative history, written with far more flair than the usual scholarly treatise. \"―author of St. Louis Post-Dispatch", "\"Pasley's book is the best ever written about journalism in the early republic and one of the best about the broader political culture of that era.... For the first time, we can see, brightly and clearly, the vital importance of that era in the history of journalism. \"―author of American Historical Review", "\"The most comprehensive and important work on the partisan printer-editors of the early republic.... [I]t is the first work students and general readers should consult on the subject. \"―author of Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography", "\"This is a tremendously valuable work.... Anyone interested in journalism, the rise of political parties, or early America should read", "The Tyranny of Printers", "at least twice. \"―author of Southern Historian", "\"This is an important book not just for historians of the press, but for students of the early republic generally. Highly recommended. \"―author of CHOICE", "About the Author", "Jeffrey L. Pasley, a former staff writer for the", "New Republic,", "is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri.", "Read more" ]

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

[ "Brand-new for beginning readers: An I Spy Reader with picture clue riddles!", "All-new, easy-to-read riddles by Jean Marzollo are paired with fun photographs culled from previously published I Spy books to create an I Spy easy reader. With rhythm, rhyme, and picture clues, this book is written to support the newest reader." ]

[ "About the Author", "Award-winning author Jean Marzollo was the author of over 100 books, including the bestselling I Spy series;", "Help Me Learn Numbers 0-20", ";", "Help Me Learn Addition", ";", "Help Me Learn Subtraction", ";", "Pierre the Penguin", ";", "Soccer Sam", ";", "Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King", ";", "The Little Plant Doctor", ";", "In 1776", ";", "Mama Mama/Papa Papa", "; and", "I Am Water", "; as well as books for parents and teachers, such as", "The New Kindergarten", ". Walter Wick is the photographer of the international bestselling I Spy series as well as the author and photographer of the acclaimed Can You See What I See? series. He lives with his wife, Linda, in Miami Beach, Florida." ]

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

[ "Contains the epic \"JUSTICE LORDS BEYOND\" crossover! Wonder Woman is back, but it seems like she's hiding something. Meanwhile, Batman's journey through the dystopian world of the Justice Lords takes an unexpected and deadly turn as he must face Lord Superman!  Can an exhausted Justice League and Terry McGinnis against this deadly foe?Collects BATMAN BEYOND print issues #9-12." ]

[ "Review", "\"Adding a fresh coat of storytelling to a popular character.\"--CBR\"Very much like the classic TV series but moves the characters appreciably forward.\"--IGN", "About the Author", "Kyle Higgins is an American comic book writer best known for his work with DC Comics. Higgins' knack for dynamic action scenes and pacing make him one of the best up and coming talents in the industry. His previous works include the fan favorite DC Comics - The New 52's NIGHTWING, the limited series BATMAN: GATES OF GOTHAM along with best-selling writer Scott Snyder, as well as BATMAN and DETECTIVE COMICS." ]

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

[ "Katie Mah was your average Asian American kid living an average life, going to an average school, getting average grades in an average town in the dull suburbs of Southern California. Katie was subjected to all kinds of average unpleasant experiences of growing up. During a fateful 6th grade science camp trip to the mountains, her average life was so unbearable, she ran away and landed herself into a lot of trouble, not on Earth, but on Alpha Centauri. There she befriends the centaurs who desperately need her help." ]

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

[ "This pocket-sized hardcover book contains nearly one hundred quotations from one of America's most important Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton. Among his many accolades, Hamilton was senior aide to General Washington in the Revolutionary War, founded the Bank of New York, was a major contributor to The Federalist Papers, was the country’s first Secretary of the Treasury, and advocated for a strong central government. Famous for fatally losing a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804 and, most recently, being the subject of a hit Broadway play, Hamilton’s ideas and words remain thought-provoking and influential today." ]

[ "About the Author", "U-inspire has amassed the largest database of inspirational and motivational quotes in the world. The uinspire.com website is home to their efforts. The company operates out of Boston, Massachusetts." ]

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[ "It is the year 132 after The Crossing. Survivors of Earth now inhabit a new planet known as Caelum. A supernatural cataclysmic event at the end of Earth ensured that mages now make up a majority of the new population. Humans cohabitate with them in peace during this decade. Vampires and dormant werewolves also share this tidally locked planet. How long will the shaky peace last between the factions under the rule of a negligible royal family? Join young mages Ruby and Robin as their fates intertwine with the Castles, a family that is a target of the royals." ]

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[ "They run in packs, stalk their prey, and howl at the moon. And no matter where you are—they're always lurking somewhere nearby. Wolves, the predatory puppy dogs of the wild, are feared and loved by people everywhere. But are they misunderstood? In this fascinating level 2 reader, you'll learn that there's much more to being a wolf than most people could ever believe. Did you know that each pack has a pecking order? That wolves can \"talk\" to each other using body language? Or that they're actually not out to attack humans, they usually leave people well enough alone? Full of incredible photographs and interesting information,", "Wolves", "will appeal to all kids." ]

[ "About the Author", "LAURA MARSH is a long time contributor to National Geographic Children Books. She has written a large number of books in National Geographic Readers series and also in Mama Mirabelle and Toot and Puddle series." ]

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

[ "Enjoy six exciting electronic game adventures in one handy book! Buss the bee and Flutter the butterfly have lots planned in Bug Town. Just press the little ladybug’s nose and you’re ready to play! Join Buzz and Flutter and all their insect pals for:", "- Ice cream in Bug Town - Lily pad tag on Bug Pond - Underground exploration in Bug Mine - And more!", "Unlimited fast-flying fun for ages 3 and up." ]

[ "Review", "\"Excellent gift idea.\" --", "Reviews from Parent Council" ]

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[ "The conclusion of the Crew Series!", "Always Crew is the third and final book to find out how Bren and her crew are doing.", "Stay tuned for a final blurb and cover coming soon." ]

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

[ "A sparkling new tale from the author of", "A Breath of Fresh Air", ", for anyone who has ever dreamt of starting over", "Alice Shoemaker habitually goes to great lengths to avoid telling the truth about herself and her past. After agreeing to help out a friend by shopping and cleaning for the unknown man staying at Cuckoo House, she soon becomes suspicious that her strange and obnoxiously rude client has something to hide. Clayton Miller's life is a mess. His career as one of the country's best comedy scriptwriters has stalled, and his long-term girlfriend has left him for his ex-best friend and ex-writing partner. Just when he thinks his life couldn't get any worse, he commits a spectacularly public fall from grace, and with the press hounding him, his agent banishes him to the middle of nowhere until the dust has settled. When Alice and Clayton discover the truth about each other they form an unlikely friendship—until Alice discovers Clayton has betrayed her in the worst possible way." ]

[ "About the Author", "Erica James", "is the author of numerous novels, including 2006 Romantic Novel of the Year", "Gardens of Delight", ",", "A Breath of Fresh Air", ",", "The Holiday", ", and", "A Sense of Belonging." ]

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

[ "\"Like Daddy Used To Say\" tells the story of the Author Niki Cross's painful journey from abuse, kidnapping, assault and personal health battles to healing, but with the humor of her wise and very down to earth father's anecdotes. Cross takes you through the dark days of abuse and personal tragedy, but never leaves you without hope. This is the very personal memoir of STAAR Ministry's founder and president, the organization that helps hundreds of women yearly that have been victims of abuse, exploitation and sex trafficking. While the hardships are undeniable, it is told in such a down home, matter of fact demeanor, you will find yourself smiling at the author's joy in the midst of multiple tragedies. A bold combination of healing, truth and laughter that is rarely told with such optimism. A must read to check perspective. Proceeds from book sales will help to continue the work of STAAR Ministry and Chrissie's House, the residential home for survivors." ]

[ "About the Author", "Niki Cross is Founder and President of S.T.A.A.R. Ministry Corporation, (Stop The Abuse And Rescue). She's a speaker, writer, and survivor of abduction. Niki was held against her will and repeatedly assaulted by her abductor and others, until escaping. Realizing how self-destructive her anger and silence had been, it became apparent healing was necessary and the journey began. Her first rescue was over twenty years ago, before it was a popular cause, and often faced ridicule for ministering to women that had been exploited and trafficked. \"Survivors have a responsibility to encourage others going through the same trials. To let them know there is life beyond abuse. It's never too late for the hurt to heal. Once a victim, now victorious.\" Niki mentors several women including many that have been referred through law enforcement and was able to open the first and only safe house in Pinellas County, Florida in 2014. Recognized by Governor Rick Scott in July 2014 for her work with victims, Niki was able to share her story in Tallahassee as new bills were signed on the behalf of victims and survivors. Niki was a Finalist in the 2014 WEDU Be More Outspoken Award, and currently sits on the board of the F.R.E.E. Slavery Survival Network." ]

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

[ "A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris, through central and southern Europe." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Action & Adventure" ]

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

[ "For the twenty-second time since the great wave had washed him from the steamer's deck and hurled him, choking and sputtering, upon this inhospitable shore, Waldo Emerson saw the sun sinking rapidly toward the western horizon. Suddenly Waldo became conscious from the corner of his eye that something was creeping upon him from behind out of the dark cave before which he had fought. Simultaneously with the realization of it he swung his cudgel in a wicked blow at this new enemy as he turned to meet it. The creature dodged back and the blow that would have crushed its skull grazed a hairbreadth from its face. Waldo struck no second blow and the cold sweat sprang to his forehead when he realized how nearly he had come to murdering a young girl. She crouched now in the mouth of the cave, eying him fearfully. Waldo removed his tattered cap, bowing low. \"I crave your pardon,\" he said. \"I had no idea that there was a lady here. I am very glad that I did not injure you.\" But now his attention was required by more pressing affairs -- the cave men were returning to the attack. They carried stones this time, and, while some of them threw the missiles at Waldo, the others attempted to rush his position. It was then that the girl hurried back into the cave, only to reappear a moment later carrying some stone utensils in her arms." ]

[ "About the Author", "Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950) was an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres. Burroughs was in his late 60s and was in Honolulu at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Despite his age, he applied for and received permission to become a war correspondent, becoming one of the oldest U.S. war correspondents during World War II. This period of his life is mentioned in William Brinkley's bestselling novel Don't Go Near the Water." ]

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

[ "Whether you want to be awed by iconic landmarks, lose yourself in the Louvre, or stroll along the Seine, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Paris has to offer.", "Paris is a treasure trove of things to see and do. Packed full of world-famous palaces, museums and galleries, the city shines with opulence and elegance. But Parisians know that there is more to life than glitz and glamour. Simpler pleasures, such as tiny windy streets, quirky old bookshops and centuries-old cafés, are offered in abundance.", "Our updated guide brings Paris to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations which place you inside the city's iconic buildings and neighborhoods.", "DK Eyewitness Paris", "is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime.", "Inside", "DK Eyewitness Paris", "you will find: - A fully-illustrated top experiences guide:", "our expert pick of Paris’ must-sees and hidden gems", "- Accessible itineraries", "to make the most out of each and every day", "- Expert advice:", "honest recommendations for getting around safely, when to visit each sight, what to do before you visit, and how to save time and money", "- Color-coded chapters", "to every part of Paris, from Champs-Élysées to Belleville, Montmartre to Montparnasse", "- Practical tips:", "the best places to eat, drink, shop and stay-", "Detailed maps and walks", "to help you navigate the region country easily and confidently -", "Covers: Île de la cité and Île St-Louis, The Marais, Bastille and Oberkampf, République and Canal St-Martin, Belleville and Ménilmontant, La Villette, Montmartre and Pigalle, Opéra and Grands Boulevards, Louvre and Les Halles, Eiffel Tower and Invalides, Champs-Élysées and Chaillot, St-Germain-des-Près, Latin Quarter, Jardin des Plantes and Place d’Italie, Montparnasse and Jardin de Luxembourg, Beyond the Centre", "Touring the country? Don’t forget to check out DK Eyewitness France. Want the best of Paris in your pocket? Try our", "DK Eyewitness Top 10 Paris.", "About DK Eyewitness:", "At DK Eyewitness, we believe in the power of discovery. We make it easy for you to explore your dream destinations. DK Eyewitness travel guides have been helping travelers to make the most of their breaks since 1993. Filled with expert advice, striking photography and detailed illustrations, our highly visual DK Eyewitness guides will get you closer to your next adventure. We publish guides to more than 200 destinations, from pocket-sized city guides to comprehensive country guides. Named Top Guidebook Series at the 2020 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, we know that wherever you go next, your DK Eyewitness travel guides are the perfect companion." ]

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

[ "Her Troubled Past Hayden Wells deals with plenty of ghosts, but she's never met one who was terrified. Not until now. And the only way to help the dead is to find the living. Unfortunately, the man she seeks is a killer, so she must go to the only ones who can help her, the ones she fears most. His Ominous Future Detective Trevor Roch knows Savannah, its streets, its people, and its secrets. At least he thought he did. When a homicide case unlike any he's ever encountered brings him face to face with unfathomable evil, he doesn't know what or whom he can trust. And the golden-eyed woman who's turned his world around is the absolute last person he would put faith in. An Unexpected Love When innocent women are endangered, Hayden and Trevor will be forced to work together. She's a witch and he's a cop, yet passion rages between them. Opposing worlds clash as they race to save human lives. And the souls that are already damned." ]

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[ "Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) was one of Russia's most influential and renowned filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in twenty years. Revered by such filmmaking giants as Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa, Tarkovsky is famous for his use of long takes, languid pacing, dreamlike metaphorical imagery, and meditations on spirituality and the human soul. His", "Andrei Roublev", ",", "Solaris", ", and", "The Mirror", "are considered landmarks of postwar Russian cinema.", "Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews", "is the first English-language collection of interviews with and profiles of the filmmaker. It includes conversations originally published in French, Italian, Russian, and British periodicals. With pieces from 1962 through 1986, the collection spans the breadth of Tarkovsky's career. In the volume, Tarkovsky candidly and articulately discusses the difficulties of making films under the censors of the Soviet Union. He explores his aesthetic ideology, filmmakers he admires, and his eventual self-exile from Russia. He talks about recurring images in his movies―water, horses, fire, snow―but adamantly refuses to divulge what they mean, as he feels that would impose his own meaning onto the audience. At times cagey and resistant to interviewers, Tarkovsky nevertheless reveals his vision and his rigorous devotion to his art." ]

[ "Book Description", "A collection of interviews with the Russian filmmaker who directed", "Andrei Roublev", ",", "Solaris", ", and", "The Mirror", "From the Inside Flap", "A collection of interviews with the Russian filmmaker who directed", "Andrei Roublev", ",", "Solaris", ", and", "The Mirror", "From the Back Cover", "A collection of interviews with the Russian filmmaker who directed", "Andrei Roublev", ",", "Solaris", ", and", "The Mirror", "About the Author", "John Gianvito", "is assistant professor of visual and media arts at Emerson College as well as a filmmaker and film critic. His feature films include", "The Flower of Pain", ",", "Address Unknown", ", and", "The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein", ". In 2001 Gianvito was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.", "Read more" ]

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

[ "Science, Medicine, and Animals", "explains the role that animals play in biomedical research and the ways in which scientists, governments, and citizens have tried to balance the experimental use of animals with a concern for all living creatures. An accompanying Teacher's Guide is available to help teachers of middle and high school students use Science, Medicine, and Animals in the classroom. As students examine the issues in Science, Medicine, and Animals, they will gain a greater understanding of the goals of biomedical research and the real-world practice of the scientific method in general.", "Science, Medicine, and Animals", "and the", "Teacher's Guide", "were written by the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research and published by the National Research Council of the National Academies. The report was reviewed by a committee made up of experts and scholars with diverse perspectives, including members of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, the Humane Society of the United States, and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The Teacher's Guide was reviewed by members of the National Academies' Teacher Associates Network.", "Science, Medicine, and Animals", "is recommended by the", "National Science Teacher's Association", "." ]

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

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

[ "Book by Smith, Bart, Friend, Sandra" ]

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[ "A Writer's Reference Sixth Edition ... Writing exercises, Research & Documentation Online. Grammar exercises, Model ... ESL help, Resources for writers & tutors ..." ]

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[ "Palmer was convicted of poisoning and suspected in the murders of dozens of others, including his best friend, his wife, and his mother-in-law―and cashing in on their insurance to fuel his worsening gambling addiction. Highlighting his gruesome penchant for strychnine, the trial made news across both the Old World and the New. Palmer gripped readers not only in Britain―Queen Victoria wrote of “that horrible Palmer” in her journal―but also was a different sort of murderer than the public had come to fear―respectable, middle class, personable―and consequently more terrifying. But as the gallows door dropped, one question still gnawed at many who knew the case: Was Palmer truly guilty? The first major retelling of William Palmer’s story in over sixty years, The Poisoner takes a fresh look at the infamous doctor’s life and disputed crimes. Using previously undiscovered letters from Palmer and new forensic examination of his victims, journalist Stephen Bates presents not only an astonishing and controversial revision of Palmer’s life but takes the reader into the very psyche of a killer." ]

[ "Review", "\"Sprightly look at the parochial mid-19th-century England that produced an infamous serial poisoner.\" —", "Kirkus Reviews", "\"", "The Poisoner", "is meticulously researched, cleverly written, and, even better, a wonderfully entertaining read.\" —Judith Flanders, author of", "The Invention of Murder: How Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime", "“A remarkable achievement . . . Vivid, eloquent, and vital.” —", "Observer", "“I could not wait for this book to come out, and it doesn’t disappoint.” —", "The Times", "“An essential read.” —", "Guardian", "\"A fascinating retelling. Stephen Bates returns to a crime that shocked the VIctorian nation and created the blackest of myths.\" —Peter Moore, author of", "Damn His Blood", "\"One of the most insightful accounts of murder I have ever read.\" —Rupert Matthews, author of", "Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror", "About the Author", "Stephen Bates is a journalist who has written for the BBC, Daily Telegraph, and Daily Mail for the last twenty years, the Guardian. He lives in Kent, England." ]

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[ "(Vocal Selections). Presented by \"The Messrs Schubert\" in Heidelberg. Songs include: Deep in My Heart * Serenade * Drinking Song and much more." ]

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[ "A planned summer sex romp in an abandoned cemetery turns into a night of terror for Alex and Linda. The dead do not always rest in peace. A chilling tale of horror and mystery!" ]

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[ "A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination! Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man's gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about 'Number Four'." ]

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

[ "Discover the amazingly creative things you can do with your glue gun!", "• Imaginative Ideas for Kids• Fun and Artistic Hacks• Seasonal Decorations • Holiday-Themed Crafts• Creative Decor• Cute Party IdeasFilled with color photos and easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions,", "Hot Glue Hacks and Crafts", "shows how to create unique and fun projects from a wide variety of stylish glues." ]

[ "About the Author", "Angie Holden", "was drawn to crafting with a hot glue gun from the start. She is the creative mind behind the popular craft blog \"The Country Chic Cottage\" (www.thecountrychiccottage.net) as well as a busy wife and mom of three. Angie blogs daily about creative crafts of all types and has worked with some of the top brands in the industry. When her glue gun is not plugged in, you might find her on the sidelines of a football game or relaxing on their farm in rural Tennessee.", "Carolina Moore", "is never found far from her glue gun. As a quick crafts guru and author of 30 Minute Crafts (www.30MinuteCrafts.com) she spends her days creating original craft projects to share with her readers as well as working with some of the most popular craft brands in the industry. When she’s not wielding her glue gun, you’ll find her playing board games with her two young boys or teaching art in their classes. Carolina lives in San Diego, CA." ]

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

[ "Michelin keeps its extensive European regional map series current with fresh updates to six German regional maps. Renowned for over 100 years for clear, accurate and easy-to-read mapping, Michelin maps give travelers an overall picture of their route, along with practical road and travel information, to orient them quickly so they can find their way to their destination. The six maps sport a smart, new sturdy cardboard cover for extended durability during travels-- still in Michelin's traditional orange for the regional map collection. The mini-map on the cover aids in selecting the correct map or maps for the journey. Travelers will appreciate the map legend in English, as well as the large-scale city maps and extensive place name index. Michelin's signature map-fold pattern makes it easy to unobtrusively fold back the map to the desired area for easy consulting, and to refold it neatly when finished – it reads like a book. For effective trip planning and navigation on the road, turn to Michelin maps." ]

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

[ "Spiritualist Daisy Gumm Majesty reluctantly agrees to teach a cooking class to disadvantaged women, but when one of her students vanishes before the class is over, Daisy finds herself in the middle of an unwanted mystery." ]

[ "From", "Booklist", "This enjoyable series deserves to be much better known. It takes place in Pasadena in the early 1920s. WWI has had an immense impact on the Gumm-Majesty family. Billy Majesty returned from the war with wounds related to being both shot and exposed to mustard gas. As a result, he cannot walk or work and has become addicted to morphine. Daisy, his wife, supports the family working as a spiritualist. Billy doesn’t approve, but Daisy and the Gumm family are much more pragmatic. In this adventure, Daisy is asked to teach a cooking class for disadvantaged immigrant ladies at the Salvation Army. That sounds innocent enough, but Daisy can’t cook. She manages to stay one step ahead of the class, but she lands right in the middle of an anarchist plot, forcing her to turn sleuth and, along the way, confront her prejudices against Germans, whom she blames for her husband’s disability. Daisy’s upbeat attitude in the face of serious problems gives her great appeal, as does Duncan’s grasp of the period. Recommend Daisy to fans of Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs. --Judy Coon" ]

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

[ "What is the relationship between literature and morality? Theater and ethics? Film and moral values? It has become unfashionable for today's critics to make even fleeting references to the moral issues raised by novels, stories, plays, and films. The renowned Israeli novelist and critic Abraham B. Yehoshua considers these crucial questions and illuminates his reading of nine texts—from the story of Cain and Abel to Camus, from Dostoyevsky to Raymond Carver-by admitting the moral dimension into his critical appraisals. How is the aesthetic value of a piece of writing to be established? In addition to traditional criteria, such as psychological complexity, originality of subject matter, and use of language, Yehoshua demonstrates how characters, who undergo moral as well as intellectual development and discover a capacity to transform themselves, embody literature's greatest achievements." ]

[ "From Library Journal", "Yehoshua, one of Israel's major novelists (Five Seasons; Mr. Mani), believes that the moral component of literature demands more attention in the current literary climate. Yehoshua writes that in this time of cultural relativism, literature has the power to show moral development and character change. This leads to the growth of the reader's self-knowledge, which Yehoshua maintains is sometimes available only through literary art. The complex social situations of marriage and guilt are discussed by using the works of Euripedes, Joseph Brenner (\"The Way Out,\" \"Nerves\"), Fyodor Dostoevsky (\"The Eternal Husband\"), William Faulkner, and Shmuel Yosef Agnon (\"In the Prime of Life\"). Other artists discussed are the authors of the Old Testament (Adam and Eve), Albert Camus, and Raymond Carver. Murder, the absurd, and unconscious desire are other moral questions he raises. Yehoshua's close reading and moral commitment makes this an invaluable work. Recommended for literature collections.DGene Shaw NYPL, New York Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "Book Description", "Celebrated novelist A B, Yehoshua discusses nine literary works—from the early classics, stories from Hebrew literature, and world literature—to show how the \"moral issue\" renders new readings and understandings of the texts,", "About the Author", "Abraham B. Yehoshua is Israel's greatest living writer. His literary achievements have long been recognized throughout the world, and he has been awarded literary prizes in both Israel and the United States. He is the author of several novels and collections of short stories, including The Continuing Silence of a Poet: Collected Stories, also published by Syracuse University Press.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Four letters written in blood by a dying woman spark an international chain of events that no-one could have predicted.Like a corroded battery, corruption seeps from the Marxstone company and its acidic influence is spreading quickly.Valentin has dealt with the impossible before, but this situation's going to take a miracle, and miracles take a little longer." ]

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

[ "It’s 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in betweenRaybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him.When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities—a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present—Marsh is the man who has to face them. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss would be.Alan Furst meets Alan Moore in the opening of an epic of supernatural alternate history, the tale of a twentieth century like ours and also profoundly different." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Debut novelist Tregillis breathes new life into alternate military history with this fun take on WWII. In this version of 1939 Germany, the insane Dr. von Westarp has given WWI orphans superpowers, such as fire-starting, intangibility, and invisibility. As they use their abilities to aid German expansion, young mutant Klaus starts to suspect that he and the other soldiers are being manipulated by his precognitive sister, Gretel. Meanwhile, British secret agent Raybould Marsh recruits his old college buddy, magic-wielding aristocrat Will Beauclerk, to the British cause. Tregillis has trouble fleshing out characters and is overly fond of worn-out plot devices—a disastrous raid survived only by the protagonists, an urchin destined for greatness—but the action sequences are exciting and intense, and the clash of magic and (mad) science meshes perfectly with the tumultuous setting.", "(Apr.)", "Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "From", "Booklist", "In the Spanish Civil War, British secret agent Raybould Marsh thinks he saw a German woman with wires growing out of her head. Once WWII erupts, he learns that his eyes weren’t fooling him. The Germans have developed various kinds of real live supermen, such as the wired-up lady, with the ability to foretell and influence the future. The British have their own, equally secret occult arsenal, including warlocks to conjure “friendly” demons and fight the other kind. A member of the Wild Cards group, Tregillis begins a saga in his first novel, one that may rival Naomi Novik’s Tales of Temeraire as a sustained historical fantasy. --Roland Green", "Review", "“A major talent.”  —George R. R. Martin", "“Exciting and intense… The clash of magic and (mad) science meshes perfectly with the tumultuous setting.”  —", "Publishers Weekly", "“A white-knuckle plot, beautiful descriptions, and complex characters—an unstoppable Vickers of a novel.”  —Cory Doctorow", "“", "Bitter Seeds", "may rival Naomi Novik’s Tales of Temeraire as a sustained historical fantasy.”  —", "Booklist", "About the Author", "IAN TREGILLIS lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he works as a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a member of the Wild Cards writing collective, directed by George R. R. Martin.", "Bitter Seeds", "is his first novel.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Saturn Drive was where I skinned my knees, searched for ghosts, and became a teenager. Now raising my own two boys, alongside my husband, in the same house, I realize while many things have changed some things never do. Life on Saturn is about grace. Searching for God over and over again and finding Him through daily life with my family right here on Saturn Drive." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Literature & Fiction" ]

[ "This Is Volume 2 of The Prophetic Book Series, I AM COMING. This Series Contains Urgent Messages From God The Lord Jesus, God The Father, and God The Holy Spirit, about the soon Rapture and Tribulation.", "Some prophetic words from Jesus in I Am Coming, Volume 2 :", "“MY children, money will not save you; your work will not save you; your governments will not save you. You can follow after all forms of ideas and beliefs seeking truth, but it is all false and there is only one road to truth and life everlasting. The narrow road is JESUS, your LORD and SAVIOR, I am that Truth. Unless you follow hard after ME, your LORD and SAVIOR, you will be forever lost.", "“Very few are embracing MY Ways, MY Holy Ways. Ways that I, GOD require to be prepared to come into MY Kingdom. This is who will be exiting the planet with ME when I come to take MY bride out to safety: lovers of truth; lovers of MY Word; lovers of holiness; lovers of GOD and all those around. These are MY bride, MY people who are prepared to depart with ME.", "“Very few are ready. MY Book is clear in directions and signs to look for when MY coming is near... I am coming very soon to pull MY bride out to safety. You may cling to your false beliefs. You can argue your point all you care to. When I come and leave you behind, you can still argue that I never came, but that doesn’t change or alter MY Truth. I am GOD, JEHOVAH, and what I say is indisputable, undeniable Truth.", "“Study MY Word and show yourself approved. You may look for GOD through all sorts of worldly ideas, but when you come face to face with MY Word in the Bible after MY SPIRIT fills your life, you will recognize truth and not before.", "“I am the narrow road, the One Way to safety. Don’t be deceived by the worldly talk around you that these aren’t the last days, they are. You do not have the luxury of time, many years into the future as the world wants you to believe. The world speaks of plans way into the distant future, these people are not MY followers. They do not read MY Word. They do not possess MY SPIRIT. You will be lured into believing you have all the time in the world to relax and enjoy many years ahead. It’s a trap of deception by the enemy of mankind and the people will fall into this deception and their loss will be great. Seek MY Face, surrender wholly to ME, and come after MY Truth. I will save you, I am willing. The hour is close. I do not want to lose you. Consider these words. I wait yet a little bit longer. Do not wait too long. One day it will be too late.", "“This is JESUS, your personal SAVIOR.”", "* * * * *", "Comments from some readers:", "“I am so very grateful for the messages you have sent. Nothing in this world is more important than to make spiritual preparations for the rapture. Thus your letters from Jesus is really a big help for me.” - Reader 1", "“You just don’t know how much you and Susan have blessed me with the letters from our dear, sweet Lord Jesus! Not only have they given me renewed hope of the rapture, but they have also made me examine myself for unconfessed sin, and how much time I am spending with our Lord in prayer, how much time I am spending reading His word, if I am putting anything before the Lord and how I much I am doing or not doing for His kingdom. The letters have made me start looking at myself and what I can do to improve my relationship with my dear Lord Jesus so that He will count me worthy to escape the wrath to come.” - Reader2", "“I want you to know how much I appreciate your much-needed messages from the Lord Jesus. I have carefully read every one of them and can find no fault... What you are saying sounds exactly like what I would expect the Lord to be saying at this exact time.” - Reader3", "“I have been following the letters you have written and the more I read the more I feel the Lord talking to me directly. I am a born again, Spirit-filled Christian who has longed for years for the return of the Lord.” - Reader4" ]

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[ "Each month, millions of readers turn to", "Family Circle", "for recipes they can count on to fetch rave reviews at the dinner table. Since “Busy Woman Cooks” is one of the magazine’s most popular features,", "Family Circle’", "s editors have now created an indispensable cookbook with a wide range of dishes to make in a hurry–all in an engaging, clever format. At a glance, readers of", "Family Circle Quick & Easy Recipes", "can use icons to choose the right recipe for any given night; the seven choices range from “Five Ingredients or Less” to “One Pot,” “Quick Cook,” and even “No Cook.” The flavors in each selection are just as fresh as the book’s concept. While it offers a hearty helping of old-time favorites, flavorful international choices are included, too, with great ideas for every course: Sesame Shrimp Salad, Chicken Enchiladas, Pork Marsala, Ratatouille and Polenta, and dozens of innovative pasta dishes can all be on the table in a jiffy. Even dessert is a snap, with quick-and-easy techniques for unheard-of weeknight treats such as Chocolate Mocha Cake and Key Lime Pie. Nutrition information is included with every recipe as well.Designed for hectic nights when both the kids and the stove need attention at the same time, this is the ultimate rescue manual for tasty, tried-and-true meals the whole family will love." ]

[ "From the Inside Flap", "Each month, millions of readers turn to", "Family Circle", "for recipes they can count on to fetch rave reviews at the dinner table. Since “Busy Woman Cooks” is one of the magazine’s most popular features,", "Family Circle’", "s editors have now created an indispensable cookbook with a wide range of dishes to make in a hurry–all in an engaging, clever format. At a glance, readers of", "Family Circle Quick & Easy Recipes", "can use icons to choose the right recipe for any given night; the seven choices range from “Five Ingredients or Less” to “One Pot,” “Quick Cook,” and even “No Cook.” The flavors in each selection are just as fresh as the book’s concept. While it offers a hearty helping of old-time favorites, flavorful international choices are included, too, with great ideas for every course: Sesame Shrimp Salad, Chicken Enchiladas, Pork Marsala, Ratatouille and Polenta, and dozens of innovative pasta dishes can all be on the table in a jiffy. Even dessert is a snap, with quick-and-easy techniques for unheard-of weeknight treats such as Chocolate Mocha Cake and Key Lime Pie. Nutrition information is included with every recipe as well.Designed for hectic nights when both the kids and the stove need attention at the same time, this is the ultimate rescue manual for tasty, tried-and-true meals the whole family will love." ]

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[ "Special Forces soldiers are daring, seasoned troops from America's heartland, selected in a tough competition and trained in an extraordinary range of skills. They know foreign languages and cultures and unconventional warfare better than any U.S. fighters, and while they prefer to stay out of the limelight, veteran war correspondent Linda Robinson gained access to their closed world. She traveled with them on the frontlines, interviewed them at length on their home bases, and studied their doctrine, methods and history. In", "Masters of Chaos", "she tells their story through a select group of senior sergeants and field-grade officers, a band of unforgettable characters like Rawhide, Killer, Michael T, and Alan -- led by the unflappable Lt. Col. Chris Conner and Col. Charlie Cleveland, a brilliant but self-effacing West Pointer who led the largest unconventional war campaign since Vietnam in northern Iraq. Robinson follows the Special Forces from their first post-Vietnam combat in Panama, El Salvador, Desert Storm, Somalia, and the Balkans to their recent trials and triumphs in Afghanistan and Iraq. She witnessed their secret sleuthing and unsung successes in southern Iraq, and recounts here for the first time the dramatic firefights of the western desert. Her blow-by-blow story of the attack on Ansar al-Islam's international terrorist training camp has never been told before. The most comprehensive account ever of the modern-day Special Forces in action,", "Masters of Chaos", "is filled with riveting, intimate detail in the words of a close-knit band of soldiers who have done it all." ]

[ "Review", "\"An intimate, valuable history of the Special Forces' last two decades.\" --", "The New York Times", "\"[A] rare glimpse inside the secretive world of the Green Berets and their recent adventures.\" --", "Washington Monthly", "Riveting. --", "US News & World Report", ", October 24, 2005", "About the Author", "Linda Robinson", "is a senior international policy analyst at RAND. She has been an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center. Her book about the U.S. Army Special Forces,", "Masters of Chaos", ", was a", "New York Times", "bestseller;", "Tell Me How This Ends", ", which is about the Iraq War, was a", "Foreign Affairs", "bestseller and a", "New York Times", "notable book. Robinson received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defense in 2005. She has conducted field research on special operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Latin America, and elsewhere over the past twelve years.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Masters of Chaos", "The Secret History of the Special Forces", "By Linda Robinson", "PublicAffairs", "Copyright ©2005", "Linda RobinsonAll right reserved.", "ISBN: 9781586483524", "Chapter One", "LEAVING HOME", "Humans are more important than hardware. -FIRST SOF THRUTH", "The wind howled up through the limestone caves of western Tennessee to meet the icy blasts coursing through the Cumberland Valley and the Land between the Lakes. Fort Campbell was not a pleasant place in the wintertime. At least Fort Carson in Colorado had mountains right out the back door. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Randall Wurst clapped his hands to warm them, which was impossible because the doors of the vehicle bay stood wide open to the frigid gusts. Raised in the west, Randy would never get used to the dampness of the eastern United States. The rest of the company and battalion officers were in their offices packing up maps and personal equipment. Randy should have been inside with them, but he wanted to see how the rear gun mounts had turned out. He and the sergeants had spent hours tinkering to come up with the best way to rig an M240 machine gun on the back of a Humvee. In Afghanistan they had built a prototype, and an outfit down the road in Nashville was now turning out custom mounts to rig guns on every position of their trucks. The Taliban had called them \"the boxes with thorns.\" The Afghans had learned to fear the \"bearded ones\" who drove the boxes and fought with such tenacity and ferocity.", "One of the privileges of the Special Forces was the freedom to modify the army's standard-issue equipment or buy off-the-shelf products that would help get the job done. They were always seeking to improve their basic kit, whether gloves or guns or sights or vehicles. Randy gave thanks every time he saw a pair of German-made Hanwag boots. Perhaps their best find ever, those boots had carried him through long days of trekking in Afghanistan. Their rough-cut leather uppers had molded instantly to his feet with no painful breaking-in period and, best of all, their rubber soles had stuck like glue to the sheer mountains and screestrewn crevasses of Tora Bora where the Special Forces had searched for the caves of Al Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden.", "Randy climbed into the rear bed of the nearest Humvee and sat down on the bench by the M240 to check out the handiwork. The official army mount had been by the passenger side door, which limited the field of fire. So the team had soldered a new mount and put it on the rear corner. They had stripped the Humvees' rear gates and mounted racks for additional fuel and water cans. The M240 was the critical backup weapon for disengaging from a larger force or a tank. When the big .50-caliber gun in the turret (the one Randy manned) stopped to change ammunition cans, this one kept firing. Randy swung the gun toward him, crouching over it to aim in the same movement, swiveled with it in an arc, then snaked it back. It was much better, but it wasn't perfect-the mount could still stick in the stowed position. On the battlefield, that could make you a dead man. The square can that fed the belt of 7.62-mm rounds into the gun had to be placed at just the right angle or it would not feed properly. They would keep tinkering over in the desert. Humans are more important than hardware, as the special operations saying goes, but the humans need their hardware to fight.", "Special Forces teams were heavily armed for their small size: they had either a .50-caliber gun or an Mk 19 grenade launcher in the Humvee turret and an M240 machine gun on the back. They had AT-4 anti-tank weapons strapped to the roof edges, and each man had his M4 rifle, 9-mm pistol, and grenades. At least one team member also had an M203 grenade launcher attached under the barrel of his M4. This was a formidable amount of weaponry for twelve men.", "The ritual of preparing for war was a familiar one for Randy, but this time it had a special poignance. This was likely to be the last war he would fight, at least on the frontlines, and he was having a hard time assimilating that fact.", "Being a Special Forces soldier was the pinnacle of his life, and it seemed that everything had led him inexorably down this path. The blood of warriors ran in his veins. His grandfather was a Blackfoot, born on a reservation, who had founded an outfitting business in . Randy grew up on a ranch, learning to ride his buckskin pony, Sugarfoot, at the age of three. He became a cowboy, adept at riding and breaking horses, and learned the arts of survival from his family of ranchers, trappers, hunters, and outfitters. His nickname, \"Rawhide,\" would later become his call sign. When he left home, his beloved grandfather gave him his medicine bag containing the talismans of long-ago battles and places sacred to his people.", "After some detours Randy joined the military, following his father and brother who had served in wartime. For him it became a career when he earned a coveted place in the Special Forces. Twenty years and five wars later, he knew that he would have to hang up his soldier's spurs soon.", "Many of the senior Special Forces soldiers who would play a pivotal role in the war in Iraq had begun their SF careers in Desert Storm or a couple of years earlier in Just Cause in Panama-the first time Special Forces had seen combat since Vietnam, officially anyway. The soldiers now formed a seasoned group whose members had worn their green berets through numerous wars, backwater conflicts, and secret operations. They were not only the backbone and institutional memory of the Special Forces but often were the most experienced of any soldiers on the frontlines.", "Randy had lost track of how many countries he'd been deployed to and how many Christmases and birthdays he'd spent away from home, but he did not lose count of the comrades he had lost over those years-their names and faces were etched in his heart. Some of them were remembered in a small grove of trees planted on the east side of their grassy parade ground at Fort Campbell. A plaque listed each man's name and unit.", "The earth was still fresh around trees that had been planted for the men who had died in Afghanistan, the largest group of casualties since an entire team crashed in a Black Hawk helicopter during a training exercise in Yuma, Arizona, in 1989. There was a tree for J.D. Davis and those who had died with him. There was one for Nathan Chapman, who had pulled every string to get transferred from Asia to the fight in Afghanistan; Stanley Harriman, a chief warrant officer like himself, who had died trying to save his men; and, in the corner, Bobby Deeks, killed in Somalia in 1993. Randy said a quick prayer for them all as the sun lowered through the leafless branches of the slender trees, and then walked quickly from the bay toward the dun-colored three-story barracks.", "He bounded up the cement steps and yanked hard on the barracks' door. Built in 1952, the buildings were as old as the Special Forces. The door vents were rusted through, the cinderblock was crumbling, hinges were rusted, and insulation hung out of the ceilings. The Special Forces' low-rise complex, clustered around the parade ground just off Bastogne Avenue, was the oldest on the entire base. One ground-floor office had a finger-sized crack that went through to the outside. The Special Forces were proud of their make-do philosophy, but they carped just the same about being the unloved stepchild at Fort Campbell, which was wholly and completely dominated by the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division. The largest tenant unit of any army base always ruled the roost, and the famous 101st did so with particular zeal. Additionally, its commanders did not like the fact that some of their best and brightest noncommissioned officers tried out for the Special Forces, attracted by the idea of roaming the world in twelve-man teams on secret missions. Special Forces had to become high-altitude parachutists, so soldiers with wings, like those in the 101st, had an advantage.", "Cruising down the hallway, Randy saw Master Sergeant Alan Johnson disappear into the company commander's office. Alan was like a brother to him, but these days he also was a reminder of loss. Randy had left the twelve-man team that they together had led through Kosovo and Afghanistan, and Alan knew that Randy was bereft. Randy had served for fourteen years on Operational Detachments Alpha (ODAs), as the twelve-man teams are officially called. That was about as long as anyone had managed to stay in the ground-level units. He had been kicked upstairs to the company staff.", "Alan was one of the most popular team sergeants around. He was a force of nature, as audacious and intelligent an operator as ever produced, with an irrepressible sense of humor. A handsome light-skinned African American, he had a thousand-megawatt smile and a deep rumbling laugh. Men loved serving with him. Randy and he had been on the same team, 563, for three years. They greeted their company commander, Jonathan Burns, a major who had just transferred that summer from Fort Bragg. He had the pale skin and red-brown hair of the Irish, a group well represented in Special Forces' ranks, and a subversive wit. He'd stenciled his call sign, Wildman, on the back of his armored Humvee. Alan went off to discuss his mission with the battalion commander, and Randy sat down to review his duties with Burns. Randy feared that he would not even get close to the frontlines now that his job was to oversee intelligence and operations for the whole company, but he vowed not to complain. He suspected Burns was a frustrated gunslinger too-it came with the seniority.", "Alan headed to the end of the second building on the southern flank of the complex to see the battalion commander. The unlucky bachelors slept on the third floor of the dilapidated barracks. He was spared that fate. He had a wife, and if all went well, they would have a baby soon. He knocked on the open door and Lt. Col. Conner's aide waved him in. Conner was bent over a canvas duel spread out on the floor, on top of a small Afghan carpet and a rug embroidered with the Special Forces' crossed-arrow insignia and motto \"De Oppresso Liber\" (to free the oppressed).", "\"Have a seat, Al,\" Conner said. \"Let's talk while I get this last stuff stowed.\"", "Alan squeezed his frame onto the small couch. Special Forces soldiers tended to fall into one of two categories: the big and burly or the compact and wiry. The big ones had to have the stamina to make it through the Special Forces' selection process. Willpower, not size, was the common denominator. Alan was a big man, pounds of solid muscle, but his geniality tended to soften his size into a less intimidating package, until he put on his game face.", "Lieutenant Colonel Chris Conner was also a big fellow, six feet two and pounds, but his temperament was so placid that his size did not dominate the conversation. Conner had assumed command of the battalion over the summer, though he was no stranger to Fort Campbell. He had spent his early Special Forces career here and had returned from serving in Washington on the Joint Staff, where one of his colleagues called him the finest action officer he'd ever seen. It was a happy homecoming for a low-key, well-liked officer. He knew many of the older sergeants from his previous posting here, and he had known Randy from his first days in the Special Forces tryout. The sergeants tend to stay put in the same battalion, or at least the same group, for the bulk of their careers, which makes them the institutional memory of the organization. This is important for any organization, but it is especially valuable given the mandate of the Special Forces.", "Each Special Forces group is organized into three battalions: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Each battalion has three companies, called Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie. Each company, in turn, is composed of six teams, the twelveman Operational Detachments Alpha which are known by number. The group, battalion, and company echelons all have headquarters and support staffs. Some groups only field five teams per company because there are not enough Special Forces to fill all the authorized slots. The deep cuts in army personnel in the mid-1990s made it even more difficult to find qualified personnel.", "Alan had gone to talk to Colonel Conner because the battalion commander was intimately familiar with the area in Iraq to which his team had been assigned. To prepare for their mission, Alan and his team had read the after-action reports of the earlier war. \"Hey, the old man was here!\" one of them exclaimed upon seeing that the report was signed by (then Captain) Chris Conner. Conner had been on a secret reconnaissance mission in exactly the same spot twelve years before, in Operation Desert Storm, when a handful of U.S. and British special operations forces were inserted clandestinely deep within Iraqi territory.", "The team plied the \"old man\" with questions as they planned their operation. Not many Americans had set foot in Iraq, and nothing could prepare them better than the firsthand \"ground truth\" of one who had. Conner and his team had learned that lesson the hard way.", "Conner and his fellow commanders had carefully chosen which teams would be assigned to which missions in Iraq. Many of his senior sergeants were veterans of Desert Storm. One of them, Master Sergeant Steve Rainey, had helped train and fight with the Saudis, working side by side with Conner's team until Conner was tapped for the reconnaissance mission. Rainey was a perfectionist, cynical and hard-bitten. He drove his men hard but drove himself harder. Few could outshoot him, even though he had a few fingers missing on his right hand. The Saudi army had not been much of a fighting machine, but in a few short weeks Rainey's team had managed to drill soldier skills into it.", "Rainey had since become the team sergeant of ODA 544; he and two other senior NCOs brought more than a half-century of Special Forces' experience to their team. That experience was the real secret of the Army Special Forces. No other ground-level unit anywhere in the U.S. military could claim such a store of military knowledge and capability. The captains, who command the teams, come straight from the schoolhouse to an eighteen-month stint in charge of the twelve-man operational detachments. After that, the captains move to higher echelons while the ten sergeants and the chief warrant officers continue to serve on teams for years. Colonel Conner knew what he was doing when he and the company commander, Major Andy Lohman, decided to make ODA 544 the \"pilot team\" that would enter the critical southern city of Najaf first.", "The Special Forces are not a rapid deployment force; the secret of their success is intensive preparation. The men studied the area they were assigned as thoroughly as any Ph.D. student.", "Continues...", "Excerpted from", "Masters of Chaos", "by", "Linda Robinson", "Copyright ©2005 by Linda Robinson. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.", "Read more" ]

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[ "ASSOULINE [Published Date: 2009]. Hardcover, 102 pp. Fourth edition, 2009. Contents include: A Portrayal Van Cleef & Arpels; Memory; an Imaginative World; Milestones; The History of a Great Name; The History of a Style; Notes on photos; Black and white and color photos throughout." ]

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[ "This forty-first issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of four sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories—each from a different featured master of speculative fiction.The Slow Apocalypse by Liviu SurugiuThe Dead Lake by Steve OdenThe Broken Sleeper by Steven Van PattenSerene in the Light of the Moon by Daniel Arthur SmithTales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a literary Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, or Outer Limits, it's Netflix's Black Mirror and Amazon's Electric Dreams in the short story format. And it's a bargain. Each monthly issue has three-to-five sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales from today's top speculative fiction writers.These are Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you've never read before." ]

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