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If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People | There are currently more than six billion people on the planet! This enormous number can be difficult to grasp, especially for a child. But what if we imagine the whole world as a village of just 100 people? In a time when parents and educators are looking to help children gain a better understanding of the world's peoples and their ways of life, If the World Were a Village offers a unique and objective resource. By exploring the lives of the 100 villagers, children will discover that life in other nations is often very different from their own. The shrunk-down statistics some surprising, some shocking and David Smith's tips on building "world-mindedness" will encourage readers to embrace the bigger picture and help them to establish their own place in the global village. If the World Were a Village is part of CitizenKid: A collection of books that inform children about the world and inspire them to be better global citizens. |
Miserable Matrimony | Chandra was fresh out of high school, when she met Malik. Despite their twenty year age difference, she quickly fell for the older, charismatic gentleman, who swept her off her feet with money, lavish trips and promises for the future.
After dating for only a few months, he proposed. Against her parent's wishes, Chandra accepted, believing that her Prince Charming could do no wrong. Directly after their honeymoon, Malik changed, and not for the better. He became more aggressive, controlling and abusive...nothing like he was before. Taking everything in stride, Chandra did everything she could to make their marriage work, but nothing seemed good enough. He continued to abuse her, sometimes to the point where she was fearful for her life.
Will Chandra wise up and leave her violent husband, or will she become another fatality in the world of domestic violence? |
I Hate My Book Club | Valerie needs to save her rapidly shrinking book club. So when one member recruits a flamboyant, mysterious local waitress named Cinnamon, it's a mixed blessing. Valerie knows she needs more members, but Cinnamon rubs her the wrong way. And when she starts proposing changes to Valerie's book club, Valerie wants her out. With Cinnamon growing in popularity, Valerie is pushed outside her comfort zone and her well-ordered life begins to spiral, starting with the arrival of Wyatt Pettibone, the first man to ever be in the book club. Next comes the news that a former member, another Valerie nemesis, wants to come back. But when Valerie learns a dark secret about Cinnamon's past, she realizes that having her in the book club may be just the thing to save it. |
Catch (Angler, #2) | Connie Bence is blood bound to her vampire lover, Rurik, and it makes her craves his blood but recently she seems to need more everyday. The hunger is driving her insane. Desperate to find help, Rurik brings her to Rio De Janeiro where his king rules the vampire nation. The back-stabbing vampire almost killed her and Rurik when they'd first met, using them to obtain his crown. She would rather stake him, but the small drop of his powerful blood he'd forced her to drink in Budapest had saved her once.
Their timing to seek Tane, their king, couldn't be worse. The betrayer finds himself betrayed. Tane's rule is in upheaval and he's forced to place his trust in two people who owe him no allegiance--her and Rurik. As she works at his side to keep his kingdom, Connie discovers Tane still desires Rurik. Caught in a love triangle, Connie fights to keep her lover and discover a cure to her growing blood lust. |
The Time Machine: Audio CD | The Time Traveller embarks on an astonishing journey into the future. His Time Machine transports him to a far-distant buy dying world where humanity is divided into two classes: the graceful , idle Eloi who inhabit the idyllic surface of the world, and the Morlocks, ugly nocturnal creatures who live and work underground. In The Time Machine, Wells created one of the first and finest science fiction stories: a social allegory that is both vivid and perturbing. |
Slashback (Cal Leandros, #8) | I stopped and let them circle me, first because it was intriguing and, second, because, honestly, what could they do? Only knives, but all armed, and that made them even more interesting. Interesting. Fun.
Playtime...
Taking on bloodthirsty supernatural monsters is how Caliban and Niko Leandros make a living. But years ago--before they became a force to be reckoned with--the brothers were almost victims of a very human serial killer.
Almost.
Unfortunately for them, that particular depraved killer was working as apprentice to a creature far more malevolent--the legendary Spring-heeled Jack. He's just hit town. He hasn't forgotten what the Leandros brothers did to his murderous protege. He hasn't forgotten what they owe him.
And now they are going to pay...and pay...and pay.... |
How I Got Him To Marry Me: 50 True Stories | Boyfriends make excuses like "Living together is just as good as being married." Many women who value the commitment of marriage or the stability it affords for raising children have a hard time getting him to marry us in this environment. This book is for the woman whose boyfriend has proposed not marriage, but living together.
You don't have to interview 50 married women to find out how they managed to get that ring on their finger. The author has done that for you. All 50 were married after 1990, so this is modern information for our changing times. Read and find out how you can get him to marry you and not just live together!
Sandy's boyfriend Jack wouldn't even bring up the 'm' word. She started leaving her things in his apartment, including some tampons in his bathroom. It worked! Too off guard to make excuses like "Living together is just as good as being married," Jack said, "People will start to think you're my wife!" "Well, how about it?" Sandy asked Jack.
Crystal got Paul to skip just living together by refusing to move across the country until she had a marriage license, signed and dated.
Read these full stories plus 48 more, ranging from the heartwarming to the hilarious! |
The Dog Particle (The Burdened Air, #2) | Dinged in signs on the road to nirvanic buggery--life had never felt so much like this before.
Tricked through a Bridge into Sanat by Zephyr and a splinter group of the Eventyr, Alexandru 'Sandu' Barr is left no choice but to complete his search for the weapon and what is supposed to be a final confrontation with Loehr.
In a confused, surprising, phantastic, and bloody run across the heartland of the Nexus--then back on Earth--Sandu is forced to confront the fundamental nature of his rage; the intentions of the cabal known as the Rada; the confusing, duplicitous love of a transmogrifying woman; the existential nature of the weapon and his relationship to this; lastly, the fundamental nature and appearance of redemption--behind the drum and bugle.
In 'The Dog Particle', Book II and conclusion of 'The Burdened Air', Sandu's skip across dimensional frontiers, and then back, takes its toll on man, planet, and metaverse in ways unexpected and troubling for all. Hope, of sorts, remains, because in this is the only way forward--even if ludicrous, debilitating, and--finally--another episode in the Eternal Return, unless Sandu can break the cycle of violation and violence. |
Dissonance | He had everything.
She had nothing.
All they wanted was each other.
Greer Madsen had a rough childhood. With an absent father and a careless mother, she was alone in the world from the moment she was born. But when her mom left for good, she wasn't just alone. She was homeless. Penniless. But never hopeless. Greer has clung to hope like a lifeline, letting it pull her through the darkest moments of her life until here she stands; under the bright lights of Broadway. Filled with raw, natural talent, she's making her mark on enraptured audiences. On famous directors.
On notorious rock stars.
Jace Ryker is one scandal away from losing everything. Terminally late with his newest album and floundering to find his sound, he's feeling frustrated and lost. When an onstage mishap brings his entire tour to a staggering halt, he's forced to stop and take stock of his life and career, asking himself what he really wants in life. It's a simple question without an easy answer.
Until he meets Greer. |
Dussie | Dussie always knew puberty was going to be confusing, but she never realized it was going to be catastrophic - until she wakes up one morning to find that her hair has turned into a writhing mass of slithering snakes and discovers the real truth about her family: her mother is a Gorgon--right out of Greek mythology--and she was named after her mother's younger sister, Medusa. Her mother had hoped that Dussie's being half-mortal would protect her from inheriting the family curse. Still reeling from this revelation, Dussie tries to keep her snakes under wraps. But after a boy she likes in school almost exposes her, she discovers another family secret--just one look from Dussie's snakes has the power to send someone right into his own personal Stone Age. Talk about "if looks could kill"! Dussie better figure out how to control her snakes and her rage, and find a way to get her life back--before anything else disastrous happens. |
Cuffed to the Future Tied to the Past (Cuffed and Tied, #1) | David realizes that he's finally in a position to put himself first.
David is a man of routine. Married to Thomas, a powerful businessman in New York City, David goes through his days in a haze of boredom. He's a house husband with nothing to do. The worst part is his marriage is crumbling, and Thomas doesn't seem to want to help repair it. This becomes apparent when David finds evidence of Thoma's affair.
Needing a break, David accepts an old friend's invitation to the snowy slopes of Colorado. The vacation is just what he needs: Fun on the slopes drinks with friends, handcuffs, and spankings.
You see, David meets Remy while on vacation, and the two men share a hot and wild two weeks, where Remy turns David on to a world he never knew existed. He is dominated in ways his overbearing husband never managed. He's cuffed and whipped and ruined, and David loves every minute of it.
When he returns home, David is emboldened, a new man willing to make tough decisions and to take what he wants. Now David just has to decide what he wants, while two men vie for his affections.
DISCLAIMER: This is 50k words M/M (gay) ebook is FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE ONLY. Does not end on a cliffhanger. |
Celestina | The racy and irreverent Spanish tragicomedy that is considered the first European novel-in a spirited new translation
A Spanish Romeo and Juliet, Celestinawas published in 1499 and became Spain's first-ever bestseller. Readers thrilled to the salty character of Celestina and her world of prostitutes and black magic even as they mourned the fate of Calisto and Melibea, the young lovers she unites using her wiles as a seller of perfumes and potions. Fernando de Rojas's exhilarating mix of street wit, obscenity, and cultured rhetoric mark Celestinaas a masterpiece: an original, explosive, genre-defying work that paved the way for the picaresque novel and for Cervantes. |
The Bear That Wasn't | "Once upon a time, in fact it was Tuesday," the Bear went into the woods to settle in for his long winter nap. But when he awoke what had happened? The trees were gone, the grass was gone, the flowers were gone, and in their place were buildings, cars, a fenced-off courtyard. The Bear had no idea that he was in the middle of a factory. "Get back to work!" a man yelled out of the blue.
"I don't work here," said the Bear, "I'm a bear." The man laughed and laughed. "Fine excuse for a man to keep from doing any work--saying he's a bear." And so it began and so it went, with the Bear protesting his bearness all the way from the Third Vice President to the First, and no one willing to believe that he wasn't just a silly man in a fur coat who needed a shave.
How the bear endured and how he finally prevailed are the subject of this
delightful modern fairy tale--beautifully illustrated with the author's inventive line drawings--about sticking up for yourself, no matter how many Foremen, General Managers, Vice Presidents, or even Company Presidents stand in your way. |
The Crown of the Blood (Crown of the Blood, #1) | He had brought his master's Empire to the furthest reaches of the world. All had fallen before him. Now he longs for home.
But home isn't what it was. Could it be that everything he's fought for all those years has been a lie?
A sweeping fantasy of immense battles, demonic magic and dark politics. |
Zoo City | Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job--missing persons.
Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell's undertow.
Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives--including her own. |
Once Upon Wing Lake | "Scarpino's poems courageously lay bare the nerves and heart of violence and loss in order to uncover exquisite truths about human resilience. These remarkable poems haunt and reverberate across time, even when the speaker's notion of family becomes "...a distant planet, [a] solar system we knew we couldn't reach." In vivid, multi-layered poems, Scarpino unbuttons language reminiscent of the most memorable fairytales, and pins it to the wall."
--Aimee Nezhukumatathil
"What do you know for sure?" is a question raised again and again in Once Upon Wing Lake. This gorgeous and unsettling collection, heavily influenced by fairy tales, is an exploration of childhood trauma, family narrative, and memory. But it is also a love poem from a sister to her brother. Through imaginative leaps, metaphorical and formal shapeshifting, and a fearless use of white space, Andrea Scarpino speaks to the bonds that keep us alive. I'm in awe of what she's achieved here."
--Maggie Smith
"The poems in Andrea Scarpino's Once Upon Wing Lake are as unlike the Romantics as are we--and yet, (yet!) they are notes passed between siblings in a woods which later (much later!) we'll learn to call experience. Not since Anne Sexton's Transformations have I seen poems this wise, unsentimental, and true about the inner lives of tested children. "
--Stephen Kuusisto |
Devil's Claw | In the remote Wichita Mountains of Southwest Oklahoma, a young girl shattered by the death of her father and pushed away by her mother's descent into addiction starts going for walks along a creek to escape. The walks help her cope but cause her to stray into a cycle of ancient evil and grief that comes from Cut Throat Gap, an area of the mountains infamous for its violent history. She is befriended by Jack, a man with a shadowy and dangerous past who has come back to Oklahoma to start over after being gone for almost twenty years, and by Joseph, a young Kiowa Indian who goes to the same small-town school. Together, they start piecing together the events and patterns that weave through the history of the Wichita Mountains and the Great Plains, like poisonous threads through time, all leading back to a terrifying truth. This is a short introduction to the Devil's Claw series. |
Animals, Gods, and Humans: Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Thought | Consulting a wide range of key texts and source material, Animals, Gods and Humans covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought.
Both the pagan and Christian conceptions of animals are rich and multilayered, and Ingvild Saelid Gilhus expertly examines the dominant themes and developments in the conception of animals.
Including study of: biographies of figures such as Apollonus of Tyana; natural history; the New Testament via Gnostic texts; the church fathers; and from pagan and Christian criticism of animal sacrifice, to the acts of martyrs, the source material and detailed analysis included in this volume make it a veritable feast of information for all classicists. |
Superstition | What happens when your childhood nightmares of being bitten by strange creatures in a dark wood aren't just dreams?
Sixteen-year-old Arden St. John's life takes a strange turn when she finds an unusual animal injured near her new house on the south east coast of Australia. When she takes it to the local vet, a terrible truth is inadvertently exposed to her.
She discovers a secret underworld, where witches are commonplace and trolls masquerade as queen bees, terrorising the other students with impunity. A world where vampires traffic in the lives of children, draining their bodies once they reach maturity. Where adults auction their own children to extend their lives.
Arden finds out she's one of those kids, her life traded by the mother she never knew. Now she's caught up in this ancient and corrupt economy operating just below the surface of modern society. She's a hot commodity, and it's only a matter of time before the vampire who bought her comes to claim his prize.
But Arden's not going down without a fight. |
Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses | This guide to common and unique plants found in forests of the Southeast thoroughly covers 330 species of forbs (herbaceous plants), grasses, vines, and shrubs, with a special emphasis on the plants' role in wildlife sustenance. Packed with detailed color photographs, the book is a must-have for forest landowners, game and wildlife managers, biologists, outdoors enthusiasts, students--anyone with an interest in the intricate and often unexpected interrelationships between the flora and fauna of our region's forests.Features:
Descriptions of native and nonnative (exotic or invasive) plants, including 330 species of forbs, in 180 genera: grasses, sedges, and rushes; woody vines and semiwoody plants; shrubs; palms and yucca; cane; cactus; ferns; and ground lichen
650 color photos
Map of physiographic provinces
56 simple black-and-white drawings of flower parts, flower types, and inflorescences, leaf arrangements, leaf divisions, shapes, and margins, and parts of a grass plant
Glossary
Index of genera by family, index by wildlife species, and index of scientific and common names |
Flip-a-Word: Snow Bow Board Book | Beet on the street? Learn about long vowel sounds in this new Flip-a-Word book. This bright and bold book uses phonics and die-cut pages to teach word recognition and rhyming patterns. Playful illustrations in a Japanese style will appeal to kids andhelp make learning to read fun! |
Red String Volume 1 | When first-year high school student Miharu Ogawa gets a call from her parents, telling her to come straight home from school, she prepares herself for the worst. After all, the last time her quirky restaurateur parents told her to come straight home she ended up as a contestant on a kiddy game show! But nothing she could ever have imagined could have prepared her for their "great news: " Miharu is getting married! How's a spirited and independent teenager who has never even kissed a boy supposed to deal with suddenly having a fiance she's never even met? And how will her feelings change when she finds out that there are other boys out there vying for her affection, and other girls ready and willing to take away the man she's not even sure she's ready for? With her family, friends (and enemies!) to cope with, will Miharu even have the time to find out if the handsome, devoted Kazuo Fujiwara is really the man she is meant to be with, the man connected to her by the red string of destiny? |
Can You Find It? America: Search and Discover More Than 150 Details in 20 Works of Art | The Can You Find It?books have delighted countless children, inviting them to look more closely at works of art by searching for hidden details. Now comes a new title in the series, featuring paintings, prints, and textiles from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each work is characteristically American, and each is filled with a wealth of details to discover.
Among the works featured are Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emmanuel Leutze; Across the Continent: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way", by Frances Flora Bond Palmer for Currier & Ives; The Last Moments of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden; Thanksgiving Turkey, by Grandma Moses; The Photographer, by Jacob Lawrence; and Street Story Quilt; by Faith Ringgold.
Praise for the Can You Find It?series
Family Fun Our Favorite Things" selection
This is art as entertainment with an educational bent." School Library Journal
It's hard to fault a book that encourages young readers to pore over every square centimeter . . ." Booklist |
Plays 4: The Worlds / The Activists Papers / Restoration / Summer | Edward Bondis "a great playwright--many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright."--Independent
The Worlds: "Will come to be recognized as one of the playwright's most important to date."--Financial Times
Restoration: "Towers like a colossus ... its stylistic wit, moral complexity, and theatrical force are of the kind one associates with classic drama."--Guardian
Summer: "The writing is as strong and clear as sunlight ... the plot is revealed slowly and skillfully."--Spectator
Also included in this volume is The Activists Papers, a commentary on The Worlds. |
In the Labyrinth of Drakes (The Memoirs of Lady Trent #4) | The thrilling new book in the acclaimed fantasy series from Marie Brennan, as the glamorous Lady Trent takes her adventurous explorations to the deserts of Akhia.
Even those who take no interest in the field of dragon naturalism have heard of Lady Trent's expedition to the inhospitable deserts of Akhia. Her discoveries there are the stuff of romantic legend, catapulting her from scholarly obscurity to worldwide fame. The details of her personal life during that time are hardly less private, having provided fodder for gossips in several countries.
As is so often the case in the career of this illustrious woman, the public story is far from complete. In this, the fourth volume of her memoirs, Lady Trent relates how she acquired her position with the Royal Scirling Army; how foreign saboteurs imperiled both her work and her well-being; and how her determined pursuit of knowledge took her into the deepest reaches of the Labyrinth of Drakes, where the chance action of a dragon set the stage for her greatest achievement yet. |
The Tycoon's Vacation (Baby for the Billionaire, #2) | This is the second book in the Baby for the Billionaire series. Drew Titan decides it is time to take a vacation at one of his exotic resorts, and ends up literally running into Trinity Mathews while he is surfing. They end up having a steamy romance over the week long vacation, until she finds out he is the resorts owner, and had lied to her. She has sworn off all business men, since she couldn't seem to find one who knew how to remain faithful to her, which is what landed her at the resort in the first place. She goes back home to discover that her first impulsive thing she has done in her life has left her pregnant and alone, that is until Drew finds her and will not go away until she agrees to marry him. Come enjoy the adventures Drew and Trinity take together in this fun filled story that has love, passion, fighting, and making up. Drew's cousins Derek and Ryan add humor and even more love to the adventure, and will leave you wanting a hunk of your own.Coming in October, the final story in the series, The Tycoon's Proposal. |
Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Two Worlds, One Cop | The second storyline from the Eisner Awardwinning Sex Criminalsfinds the honeymoon to be over for Jon and Suzie. Once the thrill of new lust fades, where do you go? Come along and laff and love with Matt and Chip as they brimp back ceaselessly against the past.
Collecting: Sex Criminals6-10 |
Mediterranean by Cruise Ship: The complete guide to cruising the Mediterranean | The best-selling, compact guide, featuring excellent local maps, hundreds of color photographs, concise background information and recommended excursions for ports-of-call throughout Greece, Italy and the Mediterranean. Useful introductory chapters cover cruising, history, art & architecture and nature of the Mediterranean. With a pull-out map and hundreds of color photographs. |
Pride and Prejudice | In this historic romance, young Elizabeth Bennet strives for love, independence and honesty in the vapid high society of 19th century England. |
Love, Brains, & Tech | Darkness is in all of us. What would bring out yours?
For George, it was love. The death of his wife Milly drove him to obsession. His goal, to solve a puzzle that has eluded humanity since the beginning: death.
How far will he go? How far would you go?
This novel is a page turner by new talent K. R. Cox. It will have you wondering about the future and about technology in ways you'll wish couldn't happen. The truth, we are only steps away from the possible.
Are you ready? |
Treason (Star Trek: New Frontier, #17) | It is a time of political upheaval and uncertainty in the New Thallonian Protectorate. Following the brutal assassination of her husband, Si Cwan, former Starfleet officer-turned-newly-appointed-Prime Minister Robin Lefler must now face the growing danger and intrigue surrounding her newborn son and heir to the noble line of Cwan. Following a harrowing assassination attempt, Robin has no choice but to flee New Thallon with her child...seeking refuge with Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the U.S.S. Excaliburand creating a major diplomatic crisis in Sector 221-G. The political fallout between the Federation and the New Thallonian Protectorate pales, however, in comparison to the threat of an enigmatic alien race determined to seize the infant Cwan for its own mysterious purposes. But nothing could possibly prepare Calhoun for the shocking betrayal from within -- an act of treachery to aid and abet this alien race -- forever altering the lives of the Excaliburcrew.... |
A Book of Nonsense | There was an Old Derry down Derry, who loved to see little folks merry;
So he made them a Book, and with laughter they shook
At the fun of that Derry down Derry. |
Gateway to the Gods (Everworld, #7) | Most of us probably won't get the chance to travel to a parallel universe. Won't have the opportunity to encounter wizards, dragons, aliens, and mythological gods. But if what April, Jalil, David, and Christopher have had to experience is any indication of what another world might be like, perhaps notgoing there isn't such a bad thing.
So, April and her friends are starting to get used to the bizarre. Which is why they weren't surprised when they found themselves on Mount Olympus, fighting with Zeus against an alien army. But that's nothing compared to what they're about to experience. April and the others know the main reason they're still alive is because of their survival instincts and real-world knowledge. But in Everworld, even the things that you trust to keep you safe can be the very things to take your life... |
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes | Don't miss the first and bestselling book in the beloved Pete the Cat series!
Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand-new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes!
But no matter what color his shoes are, Pete keeps movin' and groovin' and singing his song...because it's all good. Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoesasks the reader questions about the colors of different foods and objects--kids love to interact with the story.
The fun neverstops--download the free groovin' song. |
Enter the Enchanted (Everworld, #3) | There is a place that shouldn't exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn't exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real--and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.
Jalil, David, April, and Chris still haven't found Senna. They still haven't found their way out of Everworld. And--though they have managed to stay alive--things are starting to get worse. Because Jalil and the others are about to encounter one of the most powerful of Everworld inhabitants. He is called Merlin.
Merlin is the unseen force behind much of what happens in Everworld. And there is a good chance he knows where to find Senna. But he has his own agenda. And it doesn't necessarily include helping Jalil and the others. Now, they're about to discover what happens when you mess with Merlin... |
Brave the Betrayal (Everworld, #8) | David, Christopher, Jalil and April have a new mission, to get to Egypt to seek out the person who may be able to help fulfill their promise to the Coo-Hatch. But first they need to get through the Hetwan lines surrounding Mount Olympus and survive the African savanna. Except in this Everworld-version of an African savanna, nothing is as it seems, and a sacrifice will be demanded of the group if they want to survive. |
Entertain the End (Everworld, #12) | There is a place that shouldn't exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn't exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real--and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.
April, David, Christopher, and Jalil have come to the end of the line. Senna, their only passage back to the real world, is gone. And she's definitely not coming back. But that doesn't change any of the harm Senna managed to cause in Everworld. And April and the others know it's up to them to help Merlin make things right.
But making things right involves another meeting with Hel. Hel, who before meeting with April and the others, had never been outsmarted. Hel, who would be more than happy to see them dead--or even better, suffering for eternity. And eternity's a mighty long time. |
Mystify the Magician (Everworld, #11) | There is a place that shouldn't exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn't exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real--and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.
Christopher, Jalil, April, David, and Senna thought they'd seen it all. Especially after "visiting" Neptune's watery world and then ultimately finding themselves in Atlantis. Once again, they've managed to find a way to the next land--hoping it will be the passage back to the earth they know. Back to the real world.
But when they wash up on a beautiful beach, they quickly realize that they've still not quite made it back home. That they've arrived in Eire. And it's not the modern-day Ireland they've read about in class. This is a land of giants, leprechauns, and yes, more gods. But Christopher and the others have experience with these beings. The real problem is that Merlin is closing in, and this time he will not be outsmarted. And he will notleave without Senna... |
The Lion in Winter | Insecure siblings fighting for their parents' attention; bickering spouses who can't stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman's classic play The Lion in Winter,domestic turmoil rises to an art form.
Keenly self-aware and motivated as much by spite as by any sense of duty, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine maneuver against each other to position their favorite son in line for succession. By imagining the inner lives of Henry, Eleanor, and their sons, John, Geoffrey, and Richard, Goldman created the quintessential drama of family strife and competing ambitions, a work that gives visceral, modern-day relevance to the intrigues of Angevin England.
Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious, mordant wit, the stage play has become a touchstone of today's theater scene, and Goldman's screenplay for the 1968 film adaptation won him an Academy Award. Told in "marvelously articulate language, with humor that bristles and burns" (Los Angeles Times), The Lion in Winteris the rare play that bursts into life on the printed page. |
Superman: Earth One, Volume 1 | Forget everything you know about The Man of Steel and brace yourself for a staggering new take on the world's most popular Super Hero.
Best-selling, Hugo Award-winning writer J. Michael Straczynski (Thor, Babylon 5) and red-hot rising star artist Shane Davis (Green Lantern, Superman/Batman) team up for this exciting launch of the Earth Onegraphic novel series. Set in an all-new continuity re-imagining DC's top heroes, Earth Oneis a new wave of original, stand-alone graphic novels produced by the top writers and artists in the industry. The groundbreaking new line rockets into effect right here with the Super Hero who started it all - Superman!
What would happen if the origin of The Man of Tomorrow were introduced today for the very first time? Return to Smallville and experience the journey of Earth's favorite adopted son as he grows from boy to Superman like you've never seen before! |
The Lion in Winter | Comedic DramaCharacters: 5 male, 2 female
King Henry II of England has three sons by Eleanor of Aquitaine: Richard, Geoffrey, and John. He wants the kingdom to stay united after his death, but all three sons want to rule and it is likely to be torn apart by revolution. Henry favors the youngest John, while Eleanor favors the eldest, Richard. Middle son Geoffrey hopes to play both ends against each other and come out on top. Henry would like to have another heir by his mistress Alais, but that would only add to the confusion. Uneasy is the head on which the crown lies, and uneasy the truce between a matchless king and queen. Often revived, this play was the basis of the Oscar-winning film which starred Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn.
"A work of intelligence, astringent wit, and much theatrical skill."-The New York Times |
The Shadow of the Bear (A Fairy Tale Retold #1) | New York City. A cry in the street outside begins a mysterious relationship between the Brier family--18-year-old Blanche, her younger sister Rose, and their mother Jean--and the street-wise but educated young man who calls himself Bear. After several months of regular visits, the girls still know little about him, except that there is a strong determination to right a past wrong. Slowly the girls are drawn into the mystery that surrounds their friend, until it overshadows their day-to-day problems of highschool and other relationships. As the action crescendos, Blanche and Rose are confronted with life-threatening dangers and must summon all their courage and faith. |
How to Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge: The Gentle Revolution | Time and again, the work performed at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential has demonstrated that children from birth to age six are capable of learning better and faster than older children. How To Teach Your Baby To Read shows just how easy it is to teach a young child to read, while How To Teach Your Baby Math presents the simple steps for teaching mathematics through the development of thinking and reasoning skills. Both books explain how to begin and expand each program, how to make and organize necessary materials, and how to more fully develop your child's reading and math potential.
How to Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge shows how simple it is to develop a program that cultivates a young child's awareness and understanding of the arts, science, and nature--to recognize the insects in the garden, to learn about the countries of the world, to discover the beauty of a Van Gogh painting, and much more. How To Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence provides a comprehensive program for teaching your young child how to read, to understand mathematics, and to literally multiply his or her overall learning potential in preparation for a lifetime of success.
The Gentle Revolution Series:
The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential has been successfully serving children and teaching parents for five decades. Its goal has been to significantly improve the intellectual, physical, and social development of all children. The groundbreaking methods and techniques of The Institutes have set the standards in early childhood education. As a result, the books written by Glenn Doman, founder of this organization, have become the all-time best-selling parenting series in the United States and the world. |
Abducted | DS Jim Broadbent's marriage was over, his long hours and after hours drinking culminated in his long suffering wife June leaving him; then filing for a divorce.
His investigative skills and demeanour would be tested when he began to investigate two rapes albeit 18 months apart; they were the same MO making him think he was investigating a serial rapist.
His sensitive investigative skills when interviewing victims were put to the test; but with his sympathetic approach and empathy he managed to extract vital information.
The forensic scientist had found similar fibres on each victims clothing which confirmed the same offender. Now the hunt began.
His affair with Jackie was reaching a crescendo they were both using each other to reach sexual heights neither had encountered before.
Then a massive fraud case landed on his desk which Jim didn't need. Jackie's commitment to the job would be tested to the full as Jim used her to test a theory he had.........
Then the Cindy case rose again with another ex-pat in Spain wanting to spill the beans on another UK sex ring; the well to do members were abusing children in their own homes and others. The corridors of power would feature again, how high would it go this time? |
Rose Madder | A grimmer than Grimm fairy tale for our times--from the master of the macabre, Stephen King. Fleeing a nightmare marriage, Rosie Daniels tries to lose herself in a place where Norman can't find her. But Norman is a cop--and very good at finding people. For Rosie to survive, she must enter her own myth--and become someone she never knew she could be. |
How to Teach Your Baby Math | Time and again, the work performed at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential has demonstrated that children from birth to age six are capable of learning better and faster than older children. How To Teach Your Baby To Read shows just how easy it is to teach a young child to read, while How To Teach Your Baby Math presents the simple steps for teaching mathematics through the development of thinking and reasoning skills. Both books explain how to begin and expand each program, how to make and organize necessary materials, and how to more fully develop your child's reading and math potential.
How to Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge shows how simple it is to develop a program that cultivates a young child's awareness and understanding of the arts, science, and nature--to recognize the insects in the garden, to learn about the countries of the world, to discover the beauty of a Van Gogh painting, and much more. How To Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence provides a comprehensive program for teaching your young child how to read, to understand mathematics, and to literally multiply his or her overall learning potential in preparation for a lifetime of success.
The Gentle Revolution Series:
The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential has been successfully serving children and teaching parents for five decades. Its goal has been to significantly improve the intellectual, physical, and social development of all children. The groundbreaking methods and techniques of The Institutes have set the standards in early childhood education. As a result, the books written by Glenn Doman, founder of this organization, have become the all-time best-selling parenting series in the United States and the world. |
Christine | Christine is no lady, but 17-year-old Arnie Cunningham loves her enough to do anything to possess her.
Arnie's best friend Dennis distrusts her at first sight.
Arnie's teen-queen girlfriend Leigh fears her the moment she senses her power.
Arnie's parents, teachers and enemies soon learn what happens when you cross her.
Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King's ultimate, blackl evil vehicle of horror...
--back cover |
How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence: The Gentle Revolution | Time and again, the work performed at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential has demonstrated that children from birth to age six are capable of learning better and faster than older children. How To Teach Your Baby To Read shows just how easy it is to teach a young child to read, while How To Teach Your Baby Math presents the simple steps for teaching mathematics through the development of thinking and reasoning skills. Both books explain how to begin and expand each program, how to make and organize necessary materials, and how to more fully develop your child's reading and math potential.
How to Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge shows how simple it is to develop a program that cultivates a young child's awareness and understanding of the arts, science, and nature--to recognize the insects in the garden, to learn about the countries of the world, to discover the beauty of a Van Gogh painting, and much more. How To Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence provides a comprehensive program for teaching your young child how to read, to understand mathematics, and to literally multiply his or her overall learning potential in preparation for a lifetime of success.
The Gentle Revolution Series:
The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential has been successfully serving children and teaching parents for five decades. Its goal has been to significantly improve the intellectual, physical, and social development of all children. The groundbreaking methods and techniques of The Institutes have set the standards in early childhood education. As a result, the books written by Glenn Doman, founder of this organization, have become the all-time best-selling parenting series in the United States and the world. |
Noa Noa | In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradiseTahiti. It was there that he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings, as well as another masterpiece: this enchanting journal. Complete with sensuous woodblock prints and sketches, this exquisitely designed editionfirst published by Chronicle in 1994 and now reissued with a beautiful new jacketis still the only translation to contain all of Gauguin's richly colored illustrations of the Tahiti diary. Including Tahitian myths and legends, affectionate tales of Gauguin's encounters with the captivating Tahitian people, and fascinating glimpses of the inspiration behind his most famous paintings, Noa Noaassumes its rightful place among the masterworks of an extraordinary artist. |
Ypres Salient and Passchendaele: Battlefield Guide | Covering the important WW1 Battles of Ypres, including the notorious Passchendaele, this guidebook takes readers on a historic trip through some of the well-known and most important sites of the area. This book, part of a new series of guides, is designed conveniently in a small size, for those who have only limited time to visit, or who are simply interested in as an introduction to the historic battlefields, whether on the ground or from an armchair. They contain selections from the Holts' more detailed guides of the most popular and accessible sites plus handy tourist information, capturing the essential features of the Battles. The book contains many full color maps and photographs and detailed instructions on what to see and where to visit. |
The Two Mrs Robinsons | Anna lives with Oliver Robinson and their 3-year-old son, Charlie. They met when she worked as a waitress at his restaurant; he had recently separated and she was a shoulder to cry on, and friendship soon turned to love. Now she juggles motherhood with part-time work and couldn't be happier. But Oliver never divorced his first wife, Eve, who insists on making herself part of their lives. Anna understands that Oliver needs to support his two teenage children, but why should they keep Eve, too? The situation looks set to grumble on indefinitely unless someone or something shakes it up. And something does: Oliver is killed in a car crash, leaving both women shattered. How will they react to this appalling tragedy? Will it drive them further apart, or force them to cut their losses and pull together for the sake of their children and their futures? |
Plant Parts | How many seeds can a tumbleweed scatter? Which plants can force rocks apart? How can bacteria help plants? Are plants all made of the same basic parts? How are a bean sprout and an oak tree different? Do all plants have leaves? 'Plant Parts' provides the answers you want. |
Andersonville | Man's inhumanity to Man--& the redeeming flashes of mercy--this is the theme at the heart of this grim record in fictional form of one of the blots on the nation's history. Andersonville, the prisoner stockade in Georgia, 20 acres hewn out of a pine woods, counted for more dead in 14 months of the Civil War than Bull Run, Antietam & Gettysburg combined. It took a close-up view of Buchenwald when it was opened to war correspondents to bring home the horrors he had read about in Andersonville; MacKinlay Kantor knew he must put into book form the research he'd been doing for 25 years. For Andersonville was a project predating his Long Remember the now-classic novel of Gettysburg. This is a searing book--a reading experience no one will forget. It is carved out of primary sources: reports filed only to be buried & the infamy condoned, the sadist who boasted of his achievement confirmed in his horrifying perfomance; letters, diaries smuggled out, stories written afterwards, contemporary eyewitness accounts, notes left & saved by descendants of prisoners & jailers; interviews with those descendants; historical accounts year after year. The end result reads like a personal experience. The reader agonizes thru every phase of it: the shock of awareness & horror, the stench, the grim struggle for mere survival, the gnawing hunger--& rejection of the lowest depths accepted by men degraded by starvation & disease. But the factors that make this much more than an appallingly realistic panorama are the men themselves-- the prison's officials, callous, cruel, indifferent--or weak; the old men & young boys used as guards; the scarce example of men who served in order to do what little they could accomplish in the primitive, crude hospital; & the prisoners--cross sectioning all sorts & conditions of men, in circumstances that reduced them almost to beasts. There were some 36,000 in all--& 14,000 died. There were criminals & saints & everything in between. & most of the stories, with their flashbacks to boyhood, to families back home, are drawn from fact, & serve to paint a portrait of America a century ago. The war is a backdrop to it all. The civilians on whose doorstep this horror came into being made their feeble efforts to help--& occasionally risked being labelled as traitors to aid in minor ways. This part is fictitious--but as one reads one realizes that so it must have been. It is a superb achievement--long, harrowing, but essential reading not only for students of the Civil War, but for students of mankind..."--Kirkus |
Fierce Kingdom | An electrifying literary thriller introduces an unforgettable mother and son, whose simple trip to the zoo one afternoon is transformed into three hours of terror and survival after gunshots ring out. What would you do to protect the ones you love?
After school on a late October day, Joan has taken her four-year-old son, Lincoln, to one of his favourite places on earth: the zoo. Just before closing time, as they need to go home, she hears some loud pops like firecrackers. Not thinking much of it, they head for the exit...until Joan realizes the eerie human emptiness means danger, then sees the figure of a lone gunman. Without another thought, she scoops up her son and runs back into the zoo. And for the next three hours--the entire scope of the novel--she does anything she can to keep Lincoln safe.
Both pulse-pounding and emotionally satisfying, Fierce Kingdomis a thrill ride, but also an exploration of the very nature of motherhood itself, from its saving graces to its savage power. At heart it asks how you draw the line between survival and the duty to protect one another? Who would you die for? |
The Secret wish List | Does true love really exist or is it just a cliche? Can a single kiss really change your life?
At sixteen, Diksha like any girl her age, finds her life revolving around school, boys and endless hours of fun with her best friend. But one day, all that changes.
What starts as an innocent crush explodes into something far beyond her control. Eighteen years later, she finds herself at the crossroads of life. Urged by a twist of events, a wish list is born. But can a wish list help her piece back her life together? Will she succumb to the tangled mess of an extramarital relationship? Once again, Preeti Shenoy brings an extraordinary story that tugs at the heartstrings, with insight and wisdom, as she explores the delicate matters of the heart. |
Jupitervale: Special Edition | Small towns hold BIG secrets. Four adolescents (Abitha, Kat, Graciela, and Marie) find themselves having to face adult dilemmas over a steamy summer in this captivating coming-of-age novel. This special edition of the 2004 novel celebrates it's 7th year in publication with a personal letter from the author to the readers as well as previews to the sequel, Jupitervale Revisited. |
Murder in Cleveland, Ga | When Greg Garrison the only plain clothes detective with the White County Sheriff's Department arrives on the scene of a double murder he is not prepared for what he finds. |
Casting Bones: A New Voodoo Mystery Series Set in New Orleans | When a New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. But it's only when he encounters a beautiful young voodoo practitioner that he starts to make headway in the investigation - and enters the world of darkness and mysticism which underpins the carefree atmosphere of the Big Easy. |
Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics | Within a group of advanced learners, the variety of abilities, talents, interests, and learning styles can be formidable. For the first time, this book connects the unique learning differences among gifted students to the specific teaching methods used to tailor their educational experiences. Differentiated instruction for gifted and talented students must go beyond adjusting content levels, task complexity, or product choice.
Topics discussed include:
Common Core State Standards
real-world problem solving
abstract thinking
interdisciplinary concepts
authentic products
learning autonomy
accountability
grouping practices
affective curriculum
21st-century skills
Advanced Placement and Honors classes
IB programs
underserved populations
twice-exceptional learners |
Tarnished Gold (Landry, #5) | Tarnished Goldis the captivating prequel to the bestselling V. C. Andrews(c) Landry series that began with Rubyand continued with Pearl in the Mist, All That Glitters, and Hidden Jewel.This thrilling new novel takes us back to the Louisiana bayou in the time before Ruby.In a world of wondrous natural beauty, a world of tantalizing dreams and inescapable sorrow, we meet Gabriel Landry, daughter of Catherine and Jack. Growing up in her beloved swamp, Gabriel is supremely happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Her classmates tease her, calling her "La Femme Au Naturel," the Nature Girl, because she seems more interested in poling her pirogue through the canals than she is in romance. But Gabriel nurtures her own secret dreams. Then, days before her high school graduation, rich cannery owner Octavious Tate surprises her in a secluded pond and shatters her innocence.
Pregnant and desolate, wishing to spare her dear Mama the scandal, Gabriel agrees to a shocking plan that will allow Octavious's frigid wife Gladys to claim the baby as her own and will net Gabriel's furious Daddy a huge payoff. Hiding in a tiny abandoned playroom in the Tate mansion, Gabriel is miserable. Her only visitor is Mama, whose mission as a Traiteur, a Cajun healer, gives her an excuse to treat Gladys Tate's "pregnancy." But nothing is more wrenching than the moment Gladys takes baby Paul away forever.
Returning home to the swamp, Gabriel drifts in a world of twilight gloom, brightened only by chance glimpses of her son. But as Jack Landry's reputation as a swamp guide grows, a hunting party brings handsome, gentle Creole millionaire Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, Gabriel will not heed the voice warning that their joy may bring her more grief than she can bear.... |
Men in Space | Space follows a cast of dissolute Bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent and a stranded astronaut as they chase a stolen icon painting from Sofia to Prague and onwards.
The icon's melancholy orbit is reflected in the various characters' ellipses and near misses as they career vertiginously through all kinds of space: physical, political, emotional and metaphysical. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration.
Following the huge critical success of Remainder, McCarthy's bestselling first novel, Men in Space confirms him as one of the most original and promising voices in contemporary fiction. |
Kiss Me | Dustin Merriweather is the ultimate bad boy. He's rich, spoiled, and too handsome for his own good. He thrives on pleasure, but with his father's death, he's been forced to work, helping to manage the family's vast global empire. Nothing irks him more than having to leave his perfect life in sunny Los Angeles, especially when it's business that drags him up into the snowy, cold Colorado Rockies.
Amy Dane focuses on what matters: work and family. Living in the isolated mountain community of Gold Creek, she's raising her two young sisters while struggling to cope with her crazy mother. She's the only reporter at the weekly, rural newspaper, and she barely earns enough to get by. But when Dustin decides to sell a large portion of her beloved town to a real estate developer, she's in the perfect position to fight him. She just doesn't understand how difficult the battle will turn out to be. Vain, arrogant Dustin would never let himself be bested by a female.
They're on a collision course, and Dustin is quickly intrigued by Amy. But why would he be? She's a pert, sassy, irritating pest and nothing like the slender, extraordinary beauties that typically catch his eye. As attraction flares and lust sizzles, he can't help but be drawn into her world--even if it's against his will. Dustin is an adamant bachelor, while Amy is...Amy.
Dustin may have finally found precisely what he's always needed. |
The King of Plagues (Joe Ledger, #3) | Joe Ledger, ex-cop and now special forces killer, must lead his elite team against a criminal mastermind who threatens to unleash a super plague that could wipe out humanity. |
The Fountains of Paradise | In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.
"An amazing list--genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF." --Iain M. Banks
"Delightfully written and at times almost unbearably exciting." --Kingsley Amis
"His enthusiasm is combined with his considerable literary and myth-making skills...the result is something special." --Sunday Telegraph
"A superbly crafted novel that may be his best." --Tribune |
To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049 | Barbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a period of transition from the Carolingian empire to the regional monarchies of the High Middle Ages. In To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter she explores in rich detail the question of monastic donations, illuminating the human motives, needs, and practices behind gifts of land and churches to the French monastery of Cluny during the 140 years that followed its founding. Donations, Rosenwein shows, were largely the work of neighbors, and they set up and affirmed relationships with Saint Peter, to whom Cluny was dedicated.Cluny was an eminent religious institution and served as a model for other monasteries. It attracted numerous donations and was party to many land transactions. Its charters and cartularies constitute perhaps the single richest collection of information on property for the period 909 1049. Analyzing the evidence found in these records, Rosenwein considers the precise nature of Cluny's ownership of land, the character of its claims to property, and its tutelage over the land of some of the monasteries in its ecclesia." |
Hell's Belle (Hell's Belle, #1) | Half-vampire, half-human, Nina Martinez spent most of her life underground as part of an elite secret team of government agents who quietly take down rogue monsters, the human world none the wiser. She moves back to her hometown of Providence, RI to keep an eye on the recent uptick in supernatural activity, and to help run the bar she co-owns with her aunt.
Her attempt at a "regular" life, not to mention a budding relationship with smoking hot FBI agent Max, is cut short because of a string of ritual murders targeting the city's community of witches.
But Nina's investigation unearths deadly secrets from her long buried parents. Now the target of supernatural assassins, could Nina be the most dangerous vampire hybrid to ever exist? No wonder she can't get a date. |
Amari | This is an old version. The current version is here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Amari Prokop killed her first victim at age eight and had her own star ship at twenty-four. She started smuggling people from Earth to freedom on Europa for a price, but found that blackmail and murder paid even better. All that wealth should have made her happy. But it didn't, nothing could fill that void she felt. She had to get out and start over.
Now on her last job, all she has to do was kidnap Cloee Thompson from a government prison ship and hold her until Amari's employer was ready. The promise of a pardon from the United Nations was too good to pass up.
Colin Ross was an Interplanetary Space Security Force agent handpicked by the United Nations to recapture the mysterious terrorist Cloee and stop Amari, dead or alive.
Amari is an action packed dystopian science fiction novel with political intrigue, love, redemption, and betrayal. |
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation | An extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, incisive portrait of the early days of the republic--and the birth of modern politics hen the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere which would soon enough erupt into another conflict with Britain in 1812, Dolley Madison arrived, alongside her husband James. Within a few years, she had mastered both the social and political intricacies of the city, and, by her death in 1849, was the most celebrated person in Washington. And yet, to most Americans, she's best known for saving a portrait from the burning White House, or as the namesake for a line of ice cream.
Why did the Americans of her time give so much adulation to a lady so little known today? In A Perfect Union, Catherine Allgor reveals that while Dolley's gender prevented her from openly playing politics, those very constraints of womanhood allowed her to construct an American democratic ruling style, and to achieve her husband's political goals. And the way that she did so--by emphasizing cooperation over coercion, building bridges instead of bunkers--has left us with not only an important story about our past but a model for a modern form of politics.
Introducing a major new American historian, A Perfect Union is both an illuminating portrait of an unsung founder of our democracy, and a vivid account of a little-explored time in our history. |
The Death of Stalin | Bortoli has been Moscow correspondent for French radio & TV for only 15 years, so he wasn't there the day of Stalin's death in 1953. His account of the dictator's last year is reconstructed from interviews with citizens, the memoirs of daughter Svetlana & others (Khrushchev, Ehrenburg, Yevtushenko etc.), between-the-lines readings of old issues of Pravda & other official documents.--Kirkus
Illustrated with photographs
Preface
Summer
Autumn
Winter
An Uncertain Spring
Epilogue
App 1 Tass Communique Announcing Joseph Stalin's Illness
App 2 Final Medical Communique on the Illness & Death
App 3 Official Communique Announcing the Death of Stalin
App 4 Pathological & Anatomical Examination of the Body
Notes
Bibliography |
Blood Mother (Flesh and Blood Trilogy #2) | Book 2 in a trilogy following one family over forty years on an East London estate, BLOOD MOTHER goes back to the 70s to tell the next story in the Flesh and Blood series, perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers and Mandasue Heller.
Babs had all the world ahead of her, until she got pregnant and the father did a runner. Salvation comes in the form of a man who'll look after her. Or so she thinks. Stan Miller is really the devil in disguise... and over the next twenty years, Babs will have reason to regret she ever met him.
Starting in the 70s, BLOOD MOTHER is the second thrilling installment in the Flesh and Blood series, capturing a London that was very different from today but where some things still hold true: be careful what you wish for, and watch out for who you trust... |
Head First Python | Ever wished you could learn Python from a book? Head First Pythonis a complete learning experience for Python that helps you learn the language through a unique method that goes beyond syntax and how-to manuals, helping you understand how to be a great Python programmer. You'll quickly learn the language's fundamentals, then move onto persistence, exception handling, web development, SQLite, data wrangling, and Google App Engine. You'll also learn how to write mobile apps for Android, all thanks to the power that Python gives you.
We think your time is too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Python uses a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep. |
Once Bitten (Haven, #1) | Kita Nekai, on the run and the smallest of her shifter clan--a calico cat among lions and tigers--is being hunted. She was expected to accept her role as her father's successor whether or not her cat was up to the task of leading the clan. She disagreed. Now she's less than a step ahead of the hunters, bone-tired, cold, and living hand-to-mouth in the city of Haven. And that's the high point of her day. She's also drugged, "accidently" turned into a vampire, and sentenced to death for recklessly creating a rogue shifter who tortures its human prey. She's got seventy-two hours to find the rogue, evade a city full of hunters, prove she's not responsible for the rogue, and keep the vampire council from killing her. All while sorting out an apprentice mage, a married ex-boyfriend shifter-hunter, and the vampire who made her. |
Black Corner | A free Weather Warden short story. |
The Rusmolovo Diaries | "Never has such a tragic book had so much sex"
This is a lost diary of an 18-year old girl that was found by a cleaning lady in the bar toilet in the small settlement outside St. Petersburg, Russia. Nobody has yet claimed it and it's understandable, the girl is dark, promiscuous and drunk half the time, she has no morals or any desire to have such, she sleeps around and fights with her family. She isn't a typical teenager obsessed with vampires, clothes and gadgets; she doesn't care about this crap instead she is too busy going down the path of self-destruction. And in this diary, that encompasses almost a year of her life, she reveals all the shocking details and dirty little secrets that would make most people uneasy....
But if you keep an open mind you'll find that behind all the sex and cynical observations, there is a vulnerable girl who, like all of us, strives for love but gets none.
This book is degrading, no kidding, and it will depress the hell out of an unprepared mind. So be prepared.
Due to explicit content - the book is for adults only. |
Family Values | Aizat is a married man who lives a hedonistic and comfortable life. But when he sells a plot of land he inherited from his father, this triggers a string of horrifying events. He sees apparitions, hears voices, and gets physically and mentally tortured.
His very rich uncle, Tan Sri Aliyas, suddenly gets in touch with him. Aizat doesn't want to meet Uncle Aliyas because he's bad news. But after being pestered by his wife Sammy (real name Samsiah), he agrees.
After a few meetings, Uncle Aliyas then shares a dark secret about the family legacy... |
Bob Edwards 81 . . . 82 (Volume 11) | Bob Edwards Junior High was built in 1971 and is situated on 7.0 acres in the community of Marlborough in north-east Calgary, Alberta. |
Daughter of the Loom (Bells of Lowell, #1) | The mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, comes to life with intrigue and drama from the creative writing team of Judith Miller and Tracie Peterson. Young women at the end of the 19th century seek employment from driven men intent on transforming America's textile industry. Daughter of the Loomfeatures Lilly Armbruster, who is forced to work in the mills as her only means for survival. But Lilly's resentment runs deep against the "lords of the loom"--the men she believes have stolen her father's farm and caused his premature death. Her animosity happens to include Matthew Cheever, her childhood friend and one-time betrothed. Though separated by their opposing views about the future of the mill and the community that surrounds it, the emotions of their hearts still bind them. Will their dreams for the future allow their fragile love to survive? |
Save Me (Magnolia, #1) | Can a weeping willow grow into a steel magnolia? Ellie Cochran doesn't think so. She is a lost soul if there ever was one. A life filled with unimaginable loss does that to a person. Tired of fighting for one that doesn't seem worth living any more, she knows it's time to make a decision.
A stop for coffee is the last place she expects for that choice to be forced on her. But when the bullets start flying will she choose death-finally crossing over the threshold she's been hovering at for two seemingly endless years, or will she choose the hope she sees in a tall, beautiful stranger's eyes?
Nikolas Jensen didn't know grabbing a coffee before work would turn his world upside down. He didn't plan on making any life-altering decisions when he walked through those doors either. But that's exactly what he has to do. When death is staring you down from the barrel of a gun, do you save yourself, or a woman you just met?
Their paths now stitched together by one traumatic morning, Nik and Ellie must pick up the broken pieces. Can they do it together or will Ellie's demons be too much for them both? |
Angel of Light | A story of loyalty, betrayal, revenge and finally, forgiveness.
It begins when Maurice Halleck, Director of the Commission for the Ministry of Justice is accused of wrongdoing, then dies in a suspicious car accident. A suicide note and confession are found. Kirsten and Owen Halleck believe their father, was killed by their own mother and her lover. The Hallecks are direct descendants of John Brown, who was hanged in 1859, a martyr in the struggle against slavery. "He is an Angel of Light, " Thoreau said of him.
In this novel Oates explores our political heritage, American history and the search for the truth. with a mounting drama that plays like a Greek tragedy. |
The Ants Go Marching! | The ants are marching through the rain, but there is always something to distract Little Ant! Can you find him on each page, even though the column of ants gets bigger? Can you count the ants on each page? Rows of ants help introduce the concept of repeated addition. Bouncy illustrations, innovative die cutting and popular rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Available in three formats, suitable for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and the nursery or classroom. |
Hammerfall (The Gene Wars, #1) | One of the most renowned figures in science fiction, C.J. Cherryh has been enthralling audiences for nearly thirty years with rich and complex novels. Now at the peak of her career, this three-time Hugo Award winner launches her most ambitious work in decades, Hammerfall,part of a far-ranging series, The Gene Wars,set in an entirely new universe scarred by the most vicious of future weaponry, nanotechnology. In this brilliant novel -- possibly Cherryh's masterwork -- the fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet.
"The mad shall be searched out and given to the Ila's messengers. No man shall conceal madness in his wife, or his son, or his daughter, or his father. Every one must be delivered up." -- The Book of the Ila's Au'it
Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of the desert covering his planet. In the service of his father, he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious eternal dictator of his world. For years he has successfully hidden the visions that plague him -- voices pulling him eastward, calling Marak, Marak, Marak, amid mind-twisting visions of a silver tower. But when his secret is discovered, Marak is betrayed by his own father and forced to march in an endless caravan with the rest of his world's madmen to the Ila's city of Oburan.
Instead of death, Marak finds in Oburan his destiny, and the promise of life -- if he can survive what is surely a suicidal mission. The Ila wants him to discover the source of the voices and visions that afflict the mad. Despite the danger sof the hostile desert, tensions within the caravan, and his own excruciating doubts, Marak miraculously reaches his goal -- only to be given another, even more impossible mission by the strange people in the towers.
According to these beings who look like him yet act differently than anyone he has ever known, Marak has a slim chance to save his world's people from the wrath of Ila's enemies. But to do so, he must convince them all -- warring tribes, villagers, priests, young and old, as well as the Ila herself -- to follow him on an epic trek across the burning desert before the hammer of the Ila's foes falls from the heavens above.
Written with deceptive simplicity and lyricism, this riveting, fast-paced epic of war, love, and survival in a brave new world marks a major achievement from the masterful C.J. Cherryh. |
Eiger Dreams | This title describes mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships. This book presents an unusual fraternity of daredevils, athletes, and misfits stretching the limits of the possible - from the paranoid confines of a snowbound tent, to the thunderous, suffocating terror of a white-out on Mount McKinley. |
Brother Demon | Twelve 18-year-old girls get into witchcraft and form a coven, along with a slightly older Red Witch.
Not too long ago, Red Witch somehow got a for real grimoire which allows her to cast magic spells and play black magic.
The Autumnal Equinox sabbat is near. Red Witch tells the girls that the Autumnal Equinox sabat will be conducted skyclad, in the nude.
The girls are both a little excited and a little scared. However, it's a new experience and they're gonna do it.
One girl and her brother go to Red Witch's place and are placed under a real magic spell. They all strip to nude and then walk to the place of the coven circle.
Red Witch then leads the brother into the center of the coven circle. Red Witch has laid out a pentagram on the ground and she leaves the naked brother inside the pentagram.
Red Witch then forms the girls into a coven circle. Red Witch then uses her grimoire to play black magic.
A demon appears in the pentagram and transforms the brother into an impossibly handsome, improbably muscular Horned God that no woman can resist.
The Red Witch wants the Horned God sexually.
The other girls, not so much.
Particularly the sister. |
One Night in the Hill Country | "One Night in the Hill Country"
Approx 30,000 story words.
Approx 120 standard pages.
A novella mystery-thriller featuring Sam (Samantha).
Featuring four of the six cousins in most of my fiction.
A woman is trapped with four children in the hill country of Texas. Jump-cut cinematic technique. Touching humorous suspenseful.
Story Overview
In short swift moving chapters, Sam (Samantha) takes four young cousins out to the Texas Hill Country. The two boys are looking for a lost kitten. The two tween girls are looking. And Sam is, well, isn't sure what she's looking for. But she's going to find it.
Humorous, touching, suspenseful.
Sam is featured in numerous short stories, including the crime mystery, "Dirty Sixth Street, Austin." Four of the young cousins from that story are in this novella. Sam also narrates some of her own early years to the children in several short stories set in Vermont, including the mystery, "Hello, Darling."
In this story, a novella, Sam encounters her first true challenge in Texas. Probably more than she wanted. (smiles)
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Structure
This work also introduces a structure of much shorter chapters that I've been attracted to for quite awhile now, as a reader and now as a writer. A recent post on my site, I'm Experimenting Again : Lunch with Grandma and Grandpa - Short Chapter Shifts, goes into a little background about that process, plus provides links to more posts.
Shorter chapters, I've realized, simply mirrors a preference I've had most of my life. And actually, doesn't mean the finished piece itself has to be short, simply that the components within the story mirror a more cinematic or TV format. Being also an artist most of my life, probably has enhanced that tendency.
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Themes
Though important, even controversial social subjects are in this work, including issues of illegal immigration, child abuse, police force, and mental illness, my goal has been to embed the "discussion" within the story itself. Multiple viewpoint expressions can do exist in society, and I've tried to do some of that here in this story.
Final conclusions are, as best as I've been able, left for each reader to make.
What I've hoped to achieve was to present counter-flowing nuances.
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With all that said, this book has been great fun to write, and exciting for me to see how it developed.
With all the best wishes, in all your reading and creative efforts -
Sincerely -
Adan |
Piece by Piece | Matty and Scotty have been best friends since they were born. They have been there for each other through thick and thin. Now there a life changing situation that may alter them forever. |
A Woman Clothed In Sun | From the pleasures of her sheltered world in the bayous to the treacherous vastness of the great Southwest and beyond forever quenching her thirst for all the passion and adventure life had to offer wildly beautiful Rachel Delys fled the memories of her battle-slain lover and the fury of the Civil War. Across a tempestuous landscape, three men tried to tame her one who seduced her, one who ravaged her, and one who would bring her at last to the peak of sublime rapture and depths of soul-searing love! |
Lear | Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the aggressive tension which must ultimately destroy that society. In a play in which blindness becomes a dramatic metaphor for insight, Bond warns that 'it is so easy to subordinate justice to power, but when this happens power takes on the dynamics and dialectics of aggression, and then nothing is really changed'. |
The Wilderness Survival Guide: The Practical Skills You Need for the Great Outdoors | Untamed, endlessly harsh, and sometimes dangerous: the wilderness might not sound like an ideal holiday destination, but the numbers of survivor men and women is growing every year. And with this guide to every outdoor experience, they'll be ready to face the elements. From finding food to building shelters, assembling a survival kit to avoiding toxic plants, starting fires in any weather to finding water, it is filled with critical skills. |
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Paranormal | On hit TV shows, in best-selling books, blockbuster films, video games, and comics, pop culture has been overrun by hordes of vampires, zombies, werewolves, ghosts, wizards, and other paranormal creatures. Luckily, the authors of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series are back with all-new, expert advice designed to help readers fend off the furry, fanged, freaky, and frightful. This classic handbook format is packed with new illustrated instructions for crucial scenarios ranging from the domestic (How to Host a Cocktail Party When Your House is Haunted) to the scary (How to Survive a Zombie Attack in the First Day, First Week, and Long Term) to the practical (How to Break Up with a Vampire). |
Sin Undone (Demonica #5) | HER TOUCH IS DEADLY
As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved, and now vows she'll die before she'll relinquish her freedom again. Then Sin's innate ability to kill her enemies goes awry: She creates a lethal new werewolf virus that sparks a firestorm of panic and violence.
HIS HUNGER CAN'T BE DENIED
Half-werewolf, half-vampire Conall Dearghul is charged with bringing in Sin to face punishment for the plague. And she's no stranger: He's bound to her by blood, and the one sexual encounter they shared has left him hungering for her raw sensuality. Worse, Sin is the underworld's most wanted and Con soon learns he's the only one who can help her . . . and that saving her life might mean sacrificing his own. |
Império à Deriva - A Corte Portuguesa no Rio de Janeiro 1808-1821 | In 1807 the Portuguese Prince Regent Dom Joao was faced with a dilemma. Napoleon's forces were on the move towards Lisbon, and although he didn't like sea travel - nor the idea of abandoning his people to the invading French - he made the extraordinary decision of transplanting his entire Portuguese Court to its colony in Brazil. In a hasty exit the Portuguese elite suffered a terrible crossing, under British guard, arriving amongst Dom Joao's amazed subjects bedraggled, lice-ridden and in the same clothes they set out in months before. Thus began the unique 13-year rule of colonial power by remote control from its colony - and a period of reversal of the status between the two. Through rapid, showy and frequently violent phases, the embryo of modern Brazil also emerged at this time, an eclectic mix of African, European and indigenous people most visible in the thriving South Atlantic port of Rio de Janeiro, which became Lisbon's colonial clearing house. |
The Arrogant Lord Alistair | *Also published under the title, A Woman Of Little Importance.*
Miss Charity Wynyate had little more than nerve on her side when she appeared at the doorstep of Ashbourne House. Yet she demanded that the haughty Duke of Ashbourne recognize her little nephew and niece as his responsibility and stood up to his rude rebuff.
The duke, however, had a way to deal with her. He told his son, Lord Alistair Ashbourne, to handle this worrisome wench.
Lord Alistair was the most handsome rake in the realm. He had never met a woman he could not bend to his will - one way or another. But then again, he had never met a woman quite like Charity |
Pangalax (Veya Trilogy, #1) | Aveyana's world will never be the same.
After an unexpected attack claims her mom, seventeen-year-old Veya is forced to abandon the only home she's ever known and the only boy she's ever loved to make a new life on Pangalax, a US space station.
Heartbroken, angry, and homesick, she resents her dad's decision to move and his demand to hide her unique abilities. As she suspected, appearing normal proves to be nearly impossible, especially around Kye, a way-too-handsome officer who is determined to break through her walls.
But can he be trusted?
Can anyone be trusted?
As Veya uncovers the deep, dark secrets of Pangalax, her very existence becomes threatened. Only one person can save her.
Is she willing to forget the past and trust him with her life? |
The Art of Survival: A Crime Mystery set in Scarborough | The Art of Survival asks: What will fear push ordinary people to do? What happens when little girls get lost? DS Theo Akande is investigating the disappearance of eight year old Victoria Everidge. Her mother, Yvonne, is a desperate woman. What is she capable of? Eminent journalist and newspaperman, Stan Poole, dies leaving a filing cabinet full of secrets. As these leak out, his daughter, Hannah, begins to question her own girlhood. She is losing her way. Her best friend, Lawrence, newly an item with Theo, finds it hard to remain supportive. Instead Hannah clings to her work as a trainee counsellor and to her client Julia. Julia is apparently no little girl lost, but appearances can be deceptive. Then a body is found. This is Kate Evans' second novel, her first, The Art of the Imperfect, was long-listed for the Crime Writers Association debut dagger. |
A Secret Encounter (Amish Secrets #2) | Shunned in his late teens, Joseph Bender has lived a difficult life the past few years. He's convinced he's finished with the Amish and God, until he meets kindhearted Anna Smucker. Life on the streets is a stark contrast to the comforts of an Amish community. Will Joe be able to overcome the trials set before him to find a new life of love? Can a secret encounter change his life forever? Inspirational Christian Fiction, Approx. 225 pages |
A História de Um Sonho | Amidst a short spat between a married couple, the husband, a doctor, is summoned to the bedside of a dying man. So begins a series of involvements throughout the night in increasingly dangerous and deviant sexual adventures for Fridolin, who taken by a friend to a "secret" party, is forced to make choices that seem beyond his control. The dream-like events are made more frighteningly real by Schnitzler's powerfully detailed descriptions, as little by little Fridolin gives in to the demands of the secret celebrants.Order may be restored, but the desperation, the depravity of the human mind remains just below the surface of the conscious willing of good.
A doctor himself and close friend of Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler was one of the most important playwrights and novelists of early 20th-century Austrian literature. |
Mosaic (Reliquary, #3) | Mattie Carver never thought she'd give up her small-town life to become one half of the best magic-smuggling duo in the business. Until recently, she didn't even know such a business existed. But as an unusually strong reliquary--able to carry vast quantities of magic in her body, undetected--she's been pulled into an underworld of organized crime and addictive enchantments. And although she's determined to keep things professional, her partner, Asa Ward, is a temptation she finds increasingly hard to resist.
Even as their relationship reaches a tipping point, Mattie is wary; Asa already told her he hates cages--literal or otherwise. But when an international black-market magic exchange goes awry, Asa falls into the hands of his enemies. Now, with the man who refuses to be controlled under the command of a ruthless captor, Mattie must decide how far she's willing to go to rescue him--assuming there's anything left to save. |
Dark Persuasion | Charlotte Gray couldn't believe that anyone in high society would care to introduce her to potential suitors. After all, a cruel accident left her blind at the age of eight. However, Lady and Lord Rochester, her aristocratic neighbors, have taken a peculiar interest in her welfare and offer to hold a debutante ball in her honor.
Inexperienced in the ways of men and vulnerable to a fault, Charlotte begins to traverse the unfamiliar world of courtship. To her surprise, two brothers become rivals for her affections. One she favors because of his gregarious and flattering ways. The other she spurns due to his unappealing demeanor and desperate attempt to win her heart.
Pressured by her family and brokenhearted over the risque conduct of her first choice, Charlotte is persuaded to accept Patrick Rochester's proposal of marriage instead. Her surrender introduces her into the world of passion at the artful hands of a mysterious man. When the dark and alluring husband finally conquers her heart, a shocking secret about his true identity unfolds. As a result, Charlotte learns that love can be blind for everyone-even her. |
Darkest (The Dark Side #3) | When his past destroys Eva's trust in her Master, can he win her back?
As their turbulent, complex relationship deepens, Nathan Darke is increasingly aware that Eva Byrne has become much more to him than his submissive. She's in his home, in his family. And in his heart.
Eva hasn't found it easy to trust, to believe in herself and in a relationship that can last. But happiness, once so elusive, is within her grasp. Nathan is her Master, her lover and her soulmate.
However, no sooner do they manage to find a fragile balance between them--a way of entwining both their worlds--and start to build a future, than their past comes crashing back to destroy their emerging love. Jealousy and hate brutally shatter Eva's and Nathan's delicate trust in each other, and their life together crumbles.
Can they overcome the crushing pain of betrayal and deceit to regain some sort of future together, or are some wounds just too deep to heal? Are some risks too great? Some rewards just not enough?
Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of dominance and submission, including sex toys, pain play, anal play, paddling, restraints and steamy phone sex. Warning: involves post-natal depression and mentions of suicide.
Publisher's Note: This book is best read in sequence as part of a serial.
Pre-Order: 8th March 2016
General Release Date: 19th April 2016 |
The Dust Will Answer | 1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and vast swathes of the warehouse district lie nearly abandoned next to the sterile trench of the city's concrete-clad river.
Lenny Strasser, a straight-arrow type with a taste for shady places, plunges into that world to discover that sometimes the only distance between two points is a very crooked line. When Lenny's friend Dave Larrabee nags him into helping him track down a missing girlfriend, Lenny suspects that the girl doesn't want to be found. He knows her all too well: she was his before she was Dave's, and she'd gone gleefully missing from his life one time too many. Worse, he's not entirely sure he's over his feelings for the theatrical and self-centered Kate.
But this time it wasn't one of her ordinary infidelities--she may have fallen, again, into the hands of the charismatic Nighthawk, who could lead her into territories where the danger is real and role-playing no protection from harm.
The quest takes them into hobo jungles and punk squats by the LA River--and into an after-midnight darkness of moral ambiguity that changes Lenny's life in ways he'd never dreamed of. |