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NonFiction
20-Minute Crafts Beading
American Pilgrimage:
Eleven Sacred Journeys and Spiritual Destinations
Katherine Stull
Mark Ogilbee and Jana Riess
B
eading's not only hot with adults--children love it too.
In connection with the PBS Hands on Crafts for Kids
television show comes a collection of simple and attractive
beading projects for youngsters 10 and up. Young beaders
can choose from 60 practical and decorative items, including pretty jewelry (bracelets, chokers), eye-catching room
décor (pillows, a lampshade), and personal accessories
(flip-flops, a sophisticated looking jewelry box). Easy-tofollow diagrams explain how to string the beads, attach
clasps, and tie knots.
102 Minutes: The Untold Story
of the Fight to Survive Inside
the Twin Towers
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
A
lthough America does not have the wealth of ancient
and famous spiritual centers that you'll find in the
Holy Land, Europe, or in some other parts of the world,
the United States does have vital centers of pilgrimage--with a uniquely American flavor. In American Pilgrimage,
readers will learn the ins and outs of these distinctively
American places of spiritual meaning and purpose. Readers will discover everything from a traditional walking pilgrimage to a small adobe chapel in Chimayo, New Mexico, prayers offered at the Shrine of St. Jude in Chicago,
jam-packed football stadiums at a Billy Graham Crusade
(a pilgrimage that travels to you), Benedictine retreat centers, and other, more uniquely American places such as
Graceland and San Juan Capistrano, California. This
unique guide explores where, how, and why Americans set
out to find the holy in the spiritual landscape that is their
own backyard.
Animals in Translation:
Using the Mysteries of Autism
to Decode Animal Behavior
T
he dramatic and moving account of the struggle for
life inside the World Trade Center on the morning
of September 11, when every minute counted. Of the millions of words written about this wrenching day, most were
told from the outside looking in. New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have taken the oppositeand far more revealing-approach. Reported from the perspectives of those inside the towers, 102 Minutes captures
the little-known stories of ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others. Beyond
this stirring panorama stands investigative reporting of the
first rank. An astounding number of people actually survived the plane impacts but were unable to escape, and the
authors raise hard questions about building safety and
tragic flaws in New York's emergency preparedness.
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Temple Grandin
W
hy would a cow lick a tractor? Why are collies
getting dumber? Why do dolphins sometimes kill
for fun? How can a parrot learn to spell? How did wolves
teach man to evolve? Temple Grandin draws upon a long,
distinguished career as an animal scientist and her own
experiences with autism to deliver an extraordinary message about how animals act, think, and feel. She has a perspective like that of no other expert in the field, which allows her to offer unparalleled observations and groundbreaking ideas.
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Apartment Therapy:
The Eight-Step Home Cure
A Beginner’s Guide to Reality
Jim Baggott
Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
F
rom not enough space and too many things to not
knowing what color to paint the living room walls,
many of us struggle with our homes. Now Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, frequent makeover expert on HGTV's Mission: Organization and Small Spaces, Big Style, shares the
do-it-yourself strategies that have enabled his clients and
fans to transform their apartments into well-organized,
beautiful places that suit their style and budget.
Barbecues & Outdoor Kitchens
H
ave you ever wondered if the world is really there
when you're not looking? We tend to take the reality of our world very much for granted. This book will lead
you down the rabbit hole in search of something we can
point to, hang our hats on and say this is real. On the way,
Jim Baggott examines some of the things that have been
said about reality by a few of the world's greatest thinkersfrom the philosophers of ancient Greece to modern scientists and social theorists.
Sunset Books
Bitter is the New Black
Jen Lancaster
E
verything you need to plan and build the barbecue or
outdoor kitchen you've always wanted is here. Includes step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations
for 16 projects, ranging from simple to sublime. One
show-off has a side burner, sink, refrigerator-even a pizza
oven. Whatever your outdoor culinary desires, Sunset
takes you through the entire process.
Before You Say “I Do”:
Important Questions for Couples
to Ask Before Marriage
Todd Outcalt
J
en Lancaster was living the sweet life-until real life
kicked her to the curb. She had the perfect man, the
perfect job-hell, she had the perfect life-and there was no
reason to think it wouldn't last. Or maybe there was, but
Jen Lancaster was too busy being manicured, pedicured,
highlighted, and generally adored to notice. This is the
smart-mouthed, soul-searching story of a woman trying to
figure out what happens next when she's gone from six
figures to unemployment checks and she stops to reconsider some of the less-than-rosy attitudes and values she
thought she'd never have to answer for when times were
good. Filled with caustic wit and unusual insight, it's a rollicking read as speedy and unpredictable as the trajectory
of a burst balloon.
R
elationship counselor Todd Outcalt encourages couples to engage each other with in-depth conversations,
and share life histories and experiences, in order to build a
strong foundation before marriage-and avoid making mistakes.
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers:
Christ's Teachings of Love,
Compassion, and Forgiveness
Body Piercing Saved My Life:
Inside the Phenomenon of
Christian Rock
Wendell Berry
Andrew Beaujon
U
nfortunately, on occasions too frequent and destructive to enumerate, the teachings of Christ have been
either ignored or distorted by the very people calling
themselves Christian. Today, we see a vigorous movement
in America fueled by a politicized and engaged portion of
the electorate involved in just such ignorance and distortion. Whether directed towards social intolerance or attitudes of warlike aggression, these right-wing citizens have
claimed a power of influence that far exceeds their numbers. This small book collects the sayings of Jesus, selected
by Mr. Berry, who has contributed an essay of introduction. Here is a way of peace as described and directed by
the greatest spiritual teacher in the West. This is a book of
inspiration and prayerful compassion, and we may hope a
ringing call to action at a time when our country and the
world it once led stand at a dangerous crossroads.
Bloody Falls of the Coppermine
McKay Jenkins
I
n the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two
Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to reach
a group of Eskimos and convert them. Upon reaching
their destination, the priests were murdered. Over the next
three years, one of the Arctic's most tragic stories became
one of North America's strangest and most memorable
police investigations and trials. A near-perfect parable of
late colonialism, as well as a rich exploration of the differences between European Christianity and Eskimo mysticism, Bloody Falls of the Coppermine possesses the intensity of true crime and the romance of wilderness adventure.
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ody Piercing Saved My Life is the first in-depth journalistic investigation into a subculture so large that it's
erroneous to even call it a subculture: Christian rock.
Christian rock culture is booming, not only with bands but
with extreme teen Bibles, skateboarding ministries, Christian tattoo parlors, paintball parks, coffeehouses, and
nightclubs,encouraging kids to form their own communities apart from the mainstream.
The Book of Ballads
Charles Vess
I
llustrated and presented by one of the leading artists in
modern fantasy, here are the great songs and folktales
of the English, Irish, and Scottish traditions, re-imagined
in sequential-art form, in collaboration with some of today's strongest fantasy writers.
The Book of Exodus:
The Making and Meaning
of Bob Marley and the Wailers'
Album of the Century
Vivien Goldman
Vivien Goldman was the first journalist to introduce mass
white audiences to the Rasta sounds of Bob Marley.
Throughout the late 1970s, Goldman was a fly on the wall
as she watched reggae grow and evolve, and charted the
careers of many of its superstars, especially Bob Marley.
So close was Vivien to Bob and the Wailers that she was a
guest at his Kingston home just days before gunmen came
in a rush to kill "The Skip." Now, in The Book of Exodus,
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Goldman chronicles the making of this album, from its
conception in Jamaica to the raucous but intense all-night
studio sessions in London.
Book Finds:
How to Find, Buy,
and Sell Used and Rare Books
"Brokeback Mountain" is being hailed as equally masterful,
with performances that are "the stuff of Hollywood history" (The New York Times). Brokeback Mountain: Story
to Screenplay offers readers insight into how this classic
short story was turned into an award-winning screenplay
and film.
By Duty Bound:
Survival and Redemption
In Vietnam
Ian C. Ellis
Ezell Ware, Jr.
F
or the experienced collector or someone embarking
on a new hobby, this newly revised and updated edition of Book Finds reveals the secrets of locating rare and
valuable books. Includes information on first editions and
reader's copies, auctions and catalogs, avoiding costly and
common beginner mistakes, strategies of professional
"book scouts," and buying and selling on the Internet.
The Brat Stops Here!:
5 Weeks (or Less) to
No More Tantrums,
Arguing, or Bad Behavior
Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
R
aised in Mississippi, Ezell Ware was determined to
excel. Having grown up without running water, electricity, or sufficient food, he wasn't daunted by the hardships of military life. Eventually he earned a chance to join
the Army's helicopter pilot program, realizing his dream of
flying. It was a role that would change his life, and the life
of an unlikely brother in valor at the height of the Vietnam
War. Downed by enemy fire, Ware and his badly injured
captain endured a three-week trek through hell. But when
his captain revealed his membership in the Ku Klux Klan,
the situation took a turn that surprised them both-and sent
Ezell on the road to becoming a general. A unique memoir of heroism and humanity, By Duty Bound captures a
crucial chapter in American history-through the eyes of
one of its most remarkable witnesses.
I
n her private practice, Mary-Elaine Jacobsen worked
with thousands of parents to help them with their defiant, obnoxious, and challenging children. By following her
program parents have seen their children's arguing, tantrums, and disobedience come to an end.
Brokeback Mountain:
Story to Screenplay
Annie Proulx , Larry McMurtry,
Diana Ossana
A
nnie Proulx has written some of the most original
and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature,
and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain
is her masterpiece. Now the major motion picture
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Calm Birth: New Method for Conscious Childbirth
Robert Bruce Newman
T
he "trauma of childbirth" is a commonly heard
phrase, but one that Calm Birth authoritatively counters. Beginning with a history of the repression of women
as midwives and healers and a look at the lingering legacy
of that time, the book shows how to restore childbirth to
its sacred status. Calm Birth combines three proven practices that together create a powerful new approach. These
practices -- relaxation, meditation, and healing -- combine
with current scientific knowledge to nurture the expectant
mother's natural ability to give birth in true harmony with
her body and with her infant.
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The Captured:
A True Story of Abduction by
Indians on the Texas Frontier
Scott Zesch
sion: anxious depression, agitated depression, and sluggish
depression. The Chemistry of Joy helps you to identify
which type of depression you are experiencing and provides a specific diet and exercise plan to address it, as well
as nutritional supplements and "psychology of mindfulness" exercises that can restore your body's natural balance
and energy.
O
n New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph
Korn's life as the son of a poor German-speaking
farmer ended, and his life as a Comanche began.On that
day, an Indian raiding party kidnapped the boy from his
neighbor's pasture in the Texas Hill Country. With little
hope of finding him alive and no resources - material or
political - his loved ones eventually gave him up for dead.
However, Adolph survived his capture, and soon thrived
in the rough, nomadic life of the Plains Indians. Within a
year, he had become one of the Comanche's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents when the army
"captured" him a second time, Korn held fast to his Native
American ways and never found a place in white society.
He spent his last years living alone in a cave, an eccentric
oddity forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch
stumbled over his relative's barely marked grave in a neglected corner of an old cemetery in Mason, Texas. Determined to know more about his ancestor and understand
how a timid farm boy like Adolph could have become so
thoroughly Indianized in such a short time, Zesch tracked
down surviving relatives, dug for primary sources in archives across the West, talked with Comanche elders, and
expanded his search to include other child captives from
the region, who also became some of the most Indianized
whites in history.
Clara’s Grand Tour:
Travels with a Rhinoceros in
Eighteenth-Century Europe
Glynis Ridley
I
n 1741, an enterprising Dutch sea captain transported a
young, female Indian rhinoceros from Assam to
Europe where she was displayed before everyone from
peasants to princes. In an age before railways and modern
roads, the three-ton Clara traveled in an enormous coach
drawn by eight horses. She journeyed across mainland
Europe and Britain for 17 years, becoming a favorite of
Frederick the Great and Louis XV. She modeled for scientific portraits and etchings; she inspired poems, songs,
and fashions; and she was duly immortalized in everything
from tin coins to the finest porcelain. Awarded the prestigious Institute of Historical Research Prize, Glynis Ridley's
sparkling history brings Clara's tragicomic story vividly to
life. Clara's Grand Tour is also a portrait of an era that saw
the rhinoceros as both an object of marvel and a challenge
to fundamental philosophical and theological beliefs.
The Chemistry of Joy:
A Three-Step Program
For Overcoming Depression
through Western Science
and Eastern Wisdom
Coming to Our Senses:
Healing Ourselves
and the World
through Mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Henry Emmons
T
he Chemistry of Joy presents Dr. Emmons's natural
approach to depression -- supplemented with medication if necessary -- blending the best of Western science
and Eastern philosophy to create your body's own biochemistry of joy. Integrating Western brain chemistry,
natural and Ayurvedic medicine, Buddhist psychology,
and his own joyful heart techniques, Dr. Emmons creates
a practical program for each of the three types of depres-
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T
en years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we
thought about awareness in everyday life with his
now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You
Go, There You Are. Now, with Coming to Our Senses, he
provides the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual
wellbeing.
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Committed:
Men Tell Stories of Love,
Commitment, and Marriage
Chris Knutsen and David Kuhn, ed.
ment; looks at the many ways iPod's users pay homage to
their devices; and investigates the quirkier aspects of iPod
culture, such as iPod-jacking (strangers plugging into each
other’s iPods to discover new music) as well as the growing
legions of MP3Js (regular folks who use their iPods to become DJs).
A
Deadly Mistress:
A True Story of Marriage,
Betrayal and Murder
deeply personal collection of essays and stories that
busts open one of the most enduring mysteries between the sexes-what makes a man commit?-as revealed by
the finest male authors of our time.
Michael Fleeman
Confessions of an Economic
Hit Man
John Perkins
E
conomic hit men," John Perkins writes," are highly
paid professionals who cheat countries around the
globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion,
sex, and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but
one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this
time of globalization." Confessions of an Economic Hit
Man is the story of one man’s experiences inside the intrigue, greed, corruption and little-known government and
corporate activities that America has been involved in
since World War II, and which have dire consequences
for the future of democracy and the world.
W
est Coast doctor Kenneth Stahl would do anything
to free himself from his wife Carolyn. Then Adriana Vasco—Kenneth's former receptionist and mistress of
nine years—obliged by introducing him to ex-con Dennis
Earl Godley. The deal was set. Godley would murder
Carolyn for thirty-thousand dollars. On the day after her
44th birthday, the trusting victim was lured to a lonely
stretch of road. The deadly rendezvous took a shocking
turn. Not only was Carolyn gunned down with a .357 Magnum, but Kenneth would also be killed.
The Death of Innocents:
An Eyewitness Account
of Wrongful Executions
Sister Helen Prejean
The Cult of Ipod
Leander Kahney
S
W
ired News editor Leander Kahney follows up his
bestselling The Cult of Mac with The Cult of iPod,
a comprehensive look at how Apple's hit iPod is changing
music, culture, and listening behavior. The Cult of iPod
includes the exclusive back story of the iPod’s develop-
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ister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic
nun from Louisiana when in 1993 her first book,
Dead Man Walking, challenged the way we look at the
death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York
Times bestseller and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Now in The Death of Innocents, she takes us to the new
moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if
we're killing the wrong man?
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Diabesity
Don’t Wake Me At Doyles:
A Memoir
Francine R. Kaufman, M.D.
Maura Murphy
E
xperts now predict that more than one-third of American children born in 2000 will develop diabetes in
their lifetime. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the link between obesity and diabetes, this
passionate, frightening-but ultimately hopeful-book points
the way to a solution.
Dining With Friends:
The Art of North American
Vegan Cuisine
Priscilla Feral and Lee Hall
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29 innovative recipes as enjoyable to prepare as they
are to eat. Everyday cooking ... raw foods... festive holiday occasions... homemade breads... salads... breakfasts...
sandwiches...soups for all seasons... classic pastas... heirloom recipes... perfect cheesecakes...
L
aura Murphy's memoir of life in Ireland and beyond
resonates with the people, places, and struggles of an
almost forgotten generation. Born "chronically ugly and
cross as a briar" into a poor, rural homestead in 1920s Ireland, Maura faced adversity from birth. She grew up in the
bogs of the Irish countryside and left school at fourteen for
Dublin, working in service there until her marriage to a
hard-working but hard-drinking womanizer. Poverty
stricken and hoping to find a better life for her five young
children, she left Ireland with her family for 1950s Birmingham, England. But life doesn't always change when
places do, and Maura's fear that she'd be "waked" at Doyles
bar upon her death is funny but dead serious. Her voice is
feisty and fearless, and she needed to be all those things to
survive an extraordinary series of privations and abuses.
And now, seventy-six and having survived her childhood,
recovered from cancer, and left her marriage of fifty years,
Maura has finally recorded the story of her life.
Draw Fight Scenes
Like a Pro
Disney on a Dime
Jeff Johnson
Chris and Kristal Carlson
T
Y
ou can afford the Disney World vacation of your
dreams-if you know how to save for it, save on the
way to and from Orlando, and save while you're there.
The Carlsons, parents of four young children, know from
repeated, firsthand experience that you don't have to
spend thousands of dollars to have a Walt Disney World
vacation. they share their money-saving strategies for accumulating the necessary funds and then getting the most for
the least on travel, tickets, food, resort hotels, and souvenirs for the kids.
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he all-important fight scene is key to most comic
books and graphic novels, whether the fight involves
a superhero smashing his archenemy or some poor sap
getting mugged on the street. But many artists are…well,
let’s just say they're more lovers than fighters. Fortunately,
Jeff Johnson, a martial-arts expert and renowned artist, is
ready to show even the puniest weaklings how to draw real
fights. Step-by-step instructions start with an explanation of
different body types. Then the author applies these basics
to actual martial arts and other fighting techniques, including karate, kung fu, aikido, fencing, street fighting, and
more, while explaining how to choreograph.
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Encyclopedia Neurotica
The Fearless Home Buyer
Jon Winokur
Elizabeth Razzi
O
ur modern age of anxiety threatens to overwhelm us
all with angst, ambivalence, and dread. Most of us
manage to cope, but not without displaying some pretty
bizarre behavior. Enter Encyclopedia Neurotica, an irreverent A-to-Z guide to the tics, twitches, and safety-valve
nuttiness of modern life. Learn about such fascinating foibles as retail therapy, "shopping as a means of comfort,
relaxation, or mood elevation," or cell yell, "loud talking on
cell phones in public places by people with a neurotic
need to invade their own privacy." Find out whether you
suffer from cyberchondria, "hypochondria resulting from
seeing one's symptoms on a medical Web site," or
pronoia, "the irrational belief that people like you."
Eyeing the Flash:
The Education of
a Carnival Con Artist
Peter Fenton
A
ll across the country, home ownership rates are at
their highest levels in years. With prices escalating
monthly in the most popular areas, buyers need to look
carefully before they leap. And the best place to find the
information they need to make a wise home purchase is
this superb new guide by award-winning journalist and real
estate expert Elizabeth Razzi, which focuses as much on
lifestyle as on finances. Taking a consumer-advocate approach to buying a home, Razzi tackles all of the important financial issues, and explains what a home buyer
(particularly a first-time buyer) needs to know about selecting brokers, agents, and mortgage bankers. What separates
this book from the pack is that it also addresses important
lifestyle matters: How do you size up a neighborhood?
Tour a house? Anticipate what a home will actually be like
to live in? The first in a projected new series of "Fearless"
real estate titles, this book provides the kind of positive,
authoritative advice that will turn any nervous home buyer
into a fearless home buyer.
A Field Guide to Evangelicals
& Their Habitat
T
he year is 1963, the setting is small-town Michigan.
At age fifteen, Peter Fenton is a gawky math whiz
schoolboy with a dissatisfied mother, a father who drinks
himself to foolishness, and no chance whatsoever with
girls. That's when he meets Jackie Barron. Jackie is the
unlikely progeny of Double-O and Vera, professional grifters running a third-rate traveling carnival, and he's been
part of the family business since he started earning his
keep as the World's Youngest Elephant Trainer. Jackie is
a smooth-talking teenage carnie with his own Thunderbird, and with wisdom beyond his years. Eyeing the Flash
is a fascinating insider's view of the carnival underworld —
the cons, the double-dealing, the quickbanter, and, of
course, the easy money. The story of a shy middle-class
kid turned first-class huckster, Peter Fenton's coming-ofage memoir is highly unorthodox, and utterly compelling.
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Joel Kilpatrick
A
t last, a complete, unsparing guide to evangelical
Christians. This hilarious and highly useful manual,
written by an insider, illuminates this rapidly growing and
unique segment of America and offers a thoroughly entertaining, no-holds-barred, laugh-out-loud survey of evangelical culture.
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The First Poets:
Lives of the
Ancient Greek Poets
The Genius in the Design:
Bernini, Borromini,
and the Rivalry That
Transformed Rome
Michael Schmidt
Jake Morrisey
S
chmidt relates what is known about the lives of 25 poets or groups of poets, but what is known most about
them are the poems that were written and have survived,
and so they consume most of his attention. He begins of
course with Orpheus of Thrace. Others of the better
known include Homer, Hesiod, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Sappho of Eressus, Solon of Athens, Anacreon of Teos, Pindar of Thebes, and Apollonius of Rhodes.
Frommer’s Prague
& Best of the Czech Republic
T
he rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century
Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco
Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and
ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful
buildings in the world, and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched, full of dramatic tension and breathtaking insight, The Genius in the
Design is the remarkable tale of how two extraordinary
visionaries schemed and maneuvered to get the better of
each other and, in the process, created the spectacular
Roman cityscape of today.
Hana Mastrini
Get a Freelance Life:
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W
ritten by longtime residents, Frommer's Prague has
all the practical details and candid advice you need
to explore one of Europe's loveliest and most exciting cities. We've reviewed the very best places to stay and dine,
from historic art noveau hotels to intimate Castle District
guesthouses, from grand cafes to ethnic restaurants and
local pubs. With Frommer's in hand, it's easy to explore
the all the sights, whether you want to stroll the cobbled
streets of the Old Town and take in its architectural masterpieces, wander the old Jewish neighborhood, tour the
Castle complex, or check out the city's cutting-edge galleries and nightclubs. The guide also includes side trips that
explore the best of the nearby countryside.
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C
onsidering a career in freelance writing? Already a
freelancer but seeking practical, solid advice on the
basics of the business? Get a Freelance Life is the complete guide to all aspects of a freelance writing career,
straight from the creators of mediabistro.com-the nation's
most connected, authoritative source for media professionals.
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Gift From the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
what? For every one knitter in the world there are three
crocheters--which translates into millions of hip, crafty, 18to 35-year-olds ready to be happy hookers with Stitch 'n
Bitch attitude, sexiness, ingenuity, and cool.
House: A Memoir
Michael Ruhlman
I
n time for the holiday season--in an appropriate and
enticing new format, and with a striking new jacket--a
spectacular hardcover reissue of one of the most beloved
books of our time. Since it was first published in 1955,
Gift from the Sea has enlightened and offered solace to
readers on subjects from love and marriage to peace and
contentment.
The Gift of Life 2:
Surviving the Waiting List
and Liver Transplantation
Parichehr Yomtoob, Laura Yomtoob, Deborah Weppler
T
he co-author of The Gift of Life offers an inspiring
account of son David’s three transplants, depicting
how liver disease and the wait for transplant can brutalize
its victims, and how patient attitude coupled with medical
expertise can make the difference between life and death.
Post-chapter reference sections offer a comprehensive
guide for patient, family, and living organ donors in which
an experienced transplant coordinator explains medical
information in lay terms.
The Happy Hooker:
Stitch and Bitch Crochet
Debbie Stoller
D
ebbie does crochet! Debbie Stoller, the "knitting superstar,"* has been leading an entire movement of
hip young knitters with her New York Times bestseller
Stitch 'n Bitch and its follow-up, Stitch 'n Bitch Nation,
together with over 521,000 copies in print. But guess
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n acclaimed journalist who has written about everything from chefs to pediatric surgeons now turns hisattention to the subject of home. In 2001 Michael and
Donna Ruhlman purchased a 100-year-old house in suburban Cleveland. Then they set about making it their own.
In relating this story - whose details he invests with novelistic drama - Ruhlman moves readers to consider what
"home" means in a nation of vagabonds: why Americans
long for a home of their own even as they feel compelled
to move on. Here, too, is a deft unraveling of the relationship between a physical structure and the family life that
transpires inside it. Thoughtful, elegant, and provocative,
House is a must for prospective homebuyers and lovers of
bravura journalism.
I Hate Other People’s Kids
Adrianne Frost
From the dawn of time, other people's kids have found
ways to spoil things for the rest of us. Movie theaters,
parks, restaurants -- every venue that should be a place of
refuge and relaxation has instead become a freewheeling
playground complete with shrieks, wails, and ill-timed excretions. Now, I Hate Other People's Kids delivers a complete handbook for navigating a world filled with tiny terrors -- and their parents. It boldly explores how children's
less- endearing traits have disrupted life throughout history
and classifies important subspecies of tyke, from "Little
Monsters" to the "So Good It Hurts" variety .
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I’m With Stupid:
One Man. One Woman.
10,000 Years of
Misunderstanding between
the Sexes Cleared Right Up
Irreverent Guide to San Francisco
Matthew Richard Poole
Gene Weingarten & Gina Barreca
I
s God male or female? Why do women, but not men,
flush public toilets with their feet? Why are men, but
not women, obsessed with parallel parking? Why do
women, but not men, leave eleven-minute messages on
answering machines? Why do men feel guilty about nothing, and women feel guilty about everything? Was Marilyn
Monroe...fat? These philosophical quandaries, and more,
are finally debated in I'm with Stupid, an uproariously
funny dialogue between Gene Weingarten, the gleefully
misogynistic Washington Post humor columnist, and Gina
Barreca, the gleefully feminist University of Connecticut
professor.
I
t's easy to leave your heart in one of America's most
beautiful and visited cities, but you don't have to follow
the crowds to do it. Go behind the scenes with Frommer's
Irreverent Guide to San Francisco and experience the city
as the local do. You'll discover how to get into the open
morning rehearsals at the San Francisco Symphony, how
to hop a cable car without waiting in line, and how to
wrangle a seat at some of the city's best restaurants without
reservations. You'll learn that uttering the word "Frisco"
can actually make a local loco, and how to endear yourself
to San Francisco cabbies. Frommer's Irreverent Guide to
San Francisco give you all that, plus the inside scoop on
the tastiest meals, the smartest clubs, and the coziest love
nests.
The Jews:
Story of a People
Irreverent Guide to London
Donald Olson
Howard Fast
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ondon swings once again in the smart, savvy Frommer's Irreverent Guide to London, a deliciously honest insider's look at Great Britain's Gotham. Want to know
where the royals kick back? What the locals really think of
Tony Blair's Millennium Dome? The biggest shocker
about tony London hotels? The neighborhood that's the
capital of cool? You'll discover the best spots to savor
curry, England's new national cuisine, how to find designer
clothes at rock-bottom prices, and how to get theater tickets when the shows are sold out.
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eginning in the ancient world, this colorful, fast-paced
saga enriches our understanding of the Jews and their
impact on the world. With drama no fiction can match,
master storyteller Howard Fast traces the evolution of a
tradition powerful enough to give lasting identity to a scattered, wandering people. Bringing to life the extraordinary
men and women who have shaped history—Moses, Hillel,
Jesus (and many more)—this compelling book explores the
customs and philosophies that have endured persecution,
emigration, and the Holocaust. Fast also probes the towering achievements of this unique and fascinating people,
illustrating their important role in the origins of Western
culture, Christianity and modern Europe.
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NonFiction
Jobs for Travel Lovers
Ron and Caryl Krannich, Ph.d.s
T
his book identifies numerous jobs that enable individuals to travel both at home and abroad. Dispelling
54 myths, exploring key motivation, and outlining effective
job search strategies.
John Constantine, Hellblazer:
Staring at the Wall
U
nforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a
haunting memoir of WorldWar II that “won't let
you go until you've finished reading the last page” (The
Washington Post Book World). In 1941, in Berlin, Helga
Schneider's mother abandoned her along with her father
and younger brother. Let Me Go recounts Helga's final
meeting with her ailing mother in a Vienna nursing home
some sixty years after World War II, in which Helga confronts a nightmare: her mother's lack of repentance about
her past as a Nazi SS guard at concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was responsible for untold
acts of torture. With spellbinding detail, Schneider recalls
their conversation, evoking her own struggle between a
daughter's sense of obligation and the inescapable horror
of her mother's deeds.
Mike Carey, Marcelo Frusin, Doug Alexander
Gregory
Making an Exit:
A Mother-Daughter Drama
with Alzheimer's, Machine Tools,
and Laughter
Kovels’ Bottles Price List
Elinor Fuchs
Ralph and Terry Kovel
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K
ovels' Bottles Price List, 13th edition, is a newly re-
vised edition of the most reliable guide available for
anyone who buys, sells, or collects bottles. Written by
Ralph and Terry Kovel, America's foremost authorities on
antiques and collectibles, this indispensable, best-selling
handbook includes the most accurate current prices and
histories of more than 90 categories from the 1700s to the
2000s, from flasks and fruit jars to miniature pottery bottles, and from medicine and perfume bottles to Avon,
Coca-Cola, and Jim Beam and Ezra Brooks.
Let Me Go
Helga Schneider
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t a time when such things were rare, Elinor Fuchs's
mother, Lil, escaped a miserable marriage, reclaimed
her maiden name, left young Elinor to be raised by grandparents, and launched a career that sprung her from the
Midwest to travel the world selling automotive parts and
military gear. With her stunning looks and drive for success, Lil was less a mother to love than a figure to admireand someone from whom, once in college, Elinor determined to keep her distance. Making an Exit is the moving
account of what happens afterward, following Lil's diagnosis with Alzheimer's. As the disease progresses, both
women are transformed: Elinor, with growing compassion,
becomes her mother's mother; Lil, filled with new warmth,
regularly uses the word "love," connecting with her daughter as never before through the poetry of her disintegrating
language. With wit, wisdom, and theatrical flair, Making an
Exit tells an uncommon story of a parent's decline-and a
rekindled relationship. "The last ten years," writes Fuchs,
"they were our best."
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The Making of a Graphic Novel
Men of the West:
Life on the American Frontier
Prentis Rollins
Cathy Luchetti
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raphic novels are changing the face of media. Now
The Making of a Graphic Novel is here to explain
the creation of a graphic novel in a way that springs organically from the very concept: It includes an entire new 86page graphic novel by master of the genre Prentis Rollins.
The novel is preceded by Rollins’s own clear, straightforward text explaining how to conceive, write, and finally
draw, ink, and letter a graphic novel. Tasks are broken
down into manageable pieces that can be understood even
by beginners. The unique process allows readers to look
over the shoulder of an artist as he creates—and then read
the final masterwork. The Making of a Graphic Novel is
sure to make a sensation among the many admirers of
graphic novels, as well as everyone who appreciates fine
storytelling and fine art.
W
ith over 135 photographs, this breathtaking work
portrays the men who explored and staked claim
to the frontier.The lure of adventure and riches brought
men west. Some had dreams of a quick gold strike and an
easy retirement. Some were explorers drawn to this vast
land. Still others were homesteaders eager to put down
new roots. Many would return back east, worn out by
hardship. But some found places for themselves as cowboys, ranchers, or townsmen. Cathy Luchetti, author of
Women of the West (over 100,000 copies sold), captures
the great upheaval of being a pioneer as well as the process
of settling in. She uses the words of the men themselves,
taken from letters, diaries, and memoirs—not only the
iconic cowboys of our imagination but also the doctors,
teachers, and ministers. She captures the frontiersmen
from the East and the Native Americans whose lives were
changed forever by their arrival.
The Meaning of Wife
Naturally Delicious Meals for
Baby
Anne Kingston
Gerrie Hawes
D
elving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes
humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of
contemporary wifehood, this book takes the reader on a
journey into the wedding industrial complex. Anne Kingston looks at "wife backlash," and the new wave of neotraditionalism that urges women to marry young; explores
the apotheosis of abused wives and the strange celebration
of wives who kill; and muses on the fact that Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, two of the world's wealthiest and
most influential women, are both unmarried. The result is
an entertaining mix of social, sexual, historical, and economic commentary that is bound to stir debate even as it
reframes our view of both women and marriage.
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earning to eat well and educating the palate are as
important for kids as learning their abc’s. In Naturally
Delicious Meals for Baby, author Gerrie Hawes has created over 150 fabulous organic, easy-to-prepare recipes—
ranging from the first taste of puree to tempting toddler
meals—that will help parents give their babies the best possible nutritional start in life. Hawes also includes vital information on weaning babies and toddlers, such as: how to
spot the signs that show babies are ready to wean; when to
introduce certain foods; allergy indicators; ways to encourage good eating habits, and much more.
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NonFiction
The Non-Designer’s Web Book
Overworld:
The Life and Times
of a Reluctant Spy
Robin Williams & John Tollet
Larry Kolb
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t's a part of almost everyone's life now: surfing the web
is everywhere! But if you think web site design is beyond your reach or if you want your existing web site to
look fresher and more professional, this is the book you
need! Robin and John explain the basics in a friendly and
easy-to-follow format, offering tips, techniques, design examples, and a wealth of inspiration, topped with a good
sense of humor. This new edition is updated to include
current web technology, like CSS style sheets and CSS
layers, new software tips, and design ideas for both novices
and those who need a little refresher.
On the Wild Edge:
In Search of a Natural Life
David Petersen
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arry Kolb was born into a house of spies. Raised all
over the world as the son of a high-ranking American
spymaster, Kolb was taught by his father to think, look,
and listen like a spy. But when Kolb himself was recruited
to join the CIA, he declined, choosing instead to pursue a
career in business. He became, among other things, Muhammad Ali's agent, a role that turned out to be a circuitous route back to the world of espionage. At Ali's side,
Kolb had invitations to the parties, palaces, boardrooms,
and bedrooms-especially in the Middle East-of many of
the world's wealthiest and most powerful people: political
leaders, arms dealers, global opinion-makers. Kolb's extraordinary access made him irresistible to legendary spymaster and CIA cofounder Miles Copeland. Beginning
with secret negotiations with the Ayatollah Khomeini and a
covert mission to Beirut to negotiate the release of an
American hostage, Kolb found his way back to the family
business, becoming Miles Copeland's eyes and ears and
sometimes mouth in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, and Pakistan.
T
wenty-five years ago David Petersen and his wife,
Caroline, pulled up stakes, trading Laguna Beach,
California, for a snug hand-built cabin in the wilderness.
Today he knows that mountain land as intimately as anyone has ever known his family, his lover, or his own true
self. He has become so attuned to his environment, as this
memoir demonstrates, that when a dead twig snaps, he
knows what stepped on it, how much it weighs, and what
its intentions are. The author conflates a quarter century
into the adventures of four high-country seasons, tracking
the rigors of survival from the snowmelt that announces
the arrival of spring to the decline and death of autumn
and winter that will establish the fertile ground needed for
next spring's rebirth. Throughout each instance of personal history and story, Petersen illustrates the complete
reciprocity of nature where the same impulse that governs
the flight of elk or bear also governs the predator's impulse
of pursuit.
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Part Asian: 100% Hapa
Kip Fulbeck
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riginally a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for half, Hapa is now being embraced as a
term of pride by many people of Asian or Pacific Rim
mixed-race heritage. Award-winning film producer and
artist Kip Fulbeck has created a forum in word and image
for Hapas to answer the question they're nearly always
asked: "What are you?" Fulbeck's frank, head-on portraits
are paired with the sitters' own statements of identity. A
work of intimacy, beauty, and powerful self-expression,
Part Asian, 100% Hapa is the book Fulbeck says he wishes
he had growing up.
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NonFiction
Quick & Easy Vietnamese:
75 Everyday Recipes
River Town:
Two Years on the Yangtze
Nancie McDermott
Peter Hessler
F
rom the author of the popular Quick & Easy Thai
come these 75 oh-so-delicious recipes for every level
of cook. Though it shares certain culinary traditions with
its Asian neighbors, Vietnamese cuisine is entirely distinct,
focusing on a bounty of fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs
for signature clear, bright flavors with contrasting notes of
salty, sweet, sour, and spicy. Creamy chicken curry is
paired with the zesty tang of lime juice and the heat from
ground pepper and chilies. Crisp, fried fish is served with a
puree of pineapple-chili sauce. Delicate, rice paper–
wrapped summer rolls merit a rich and savory soybean
dipping sauce. From snacks and soups to grilled meats and
seafood to the essential noodle dishes and desserts, Quick
& Easy Vietnamese presents the full spectrum of Vietnamese cooking at its most simply delicious.
W
hen Peter Hessler joined the Peace Corps, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling along the Yangtze River.
But what he experienced—the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes
place when one is thrust into a radically different society—
surpassed anything he could have imagined. Hessler observes firsthand how major events like the death of Deng
Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland, and
the controversial construction of the Three Gorges Dam
have sent tremors large enough to sweep through China
and reach the people of Fuling.
The Road to Whatever:
Middle-Class Culture
and the Crisis of Adolescence
Real Mosquitos Don’t Eat Meat:
This and Other Inquiries into
the Oddities of Nature
Elliot Currie
Brad Wetzler
T
hese and many other quirky questions about the
natural world are answered in this all-new collection
from Outside magazine's wildly popular "Wild File" column-a space where readers' questions about natural science and outdoor lore are answered with the help of scientists, expert outdoors-men, and professors. Both fun and
thorough, these essays probe the curiosities that we never
even knew we wanted to know, such as: When does a hill
become a mountain? What makes the moon look bigger
at moonrise? Why don't woodpeckers get brain damage?
To answer these and many more questions, the author
tracks down and interviews the experts behind each question posed: authorities in camelid biology, elephant psychology, leech behavior, ball lightening, and the biochemistry of "gamy" meat, to name a few.
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n this groundbreaking book, acclaimed sociologist and
Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie draws on years of
interviews to offer a profound investigation of what has
gone wrong for so many "mainstream" American adolescents. Rejecting such predictable answers as TV violence,
permissiveness, and inherent evil, Currie links this crisis to
a pervasive "culture of exclusion" fostered by a society in
which medications trump guidance and a punitive "zero
tolerance" approach to adolescent misbehavior has become the norm. Broadening his inquiry, he dissects the
changes in middle-class life that stratify the world into
"winners" and "losers," imposing an extraordinarily harsh
culture—and not just on kids. Vivid, compelling, and
deeply empathetic, The Road to Whatever is a stark indictment of a society that has lost the will—or the capacity—
to care.
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The Rose Man of Sing Sing:
A True Tale of Life, Murder,
and Redemption in the Age of
Yellow Journalism
The Six O’Clock Scramble:
Quick, Healthy, and
Delicious Dinner Recipes
for Busy Families
James McGrath Morris
Aviva Goldfarb
N
otorious city editor-tyrant of Pulitzer's New York
Evening World, Charles E. Chapin was the greatest
newspaperman of his day. In 1918, at the pinnacle of
fame, Chapin, sunk in depression, took not his own life,
but shot and killed his beloved wife. After his trial—and
one hell of a story for the World's—competitors—he was
sentenced to life in Sing Sing Prison. Set in the most thrilling epoch of American journalism, this story tracks Chapin's rise from legendary street reporter to celebrity powerbroker in media-mad New York, a human tragedy played
out in sensational stories of tabloids and broadsheets. The
first portrait of a founding figure of modern American
journalism and a vibrant chronicle of scoops and scandals,
The Rose Man of Sing Sing is also a hidden history of
New York at its most colorful.
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ix o'clock looms, and dinner has to be on the table
pronto -- the kids don't care if you've just come home
from work exhausted and out of ideas or spent the afternoon ferrying them from school to playdate to tae kwon
do practice. The Scramble to the rescue! Each week's
worth of recipes is utterly organized, easy-to-prepare and
designed to please both adult tastes and finicky children's
palates. Everything is homemade, with a clever reliance on
just enough prepared or packaged -- but never fake -foods.
The Soul of a Doctor:
Harvard Medical Students
Face Life and Death
Sailing With Noah:
Stories From the World of Zoos
Susan Pories, M.D., Sachin H. Jain, Gordon
Harper, M.D.
Jeffrey P. Bonner
W
ritten by the president of the nation’s number-one
zoo, Sailing with Noah is an intensely personal,
behind-the-scenes look at modern zoos. Jeffrey P. Bonner,
who was trained as an anthropologist and came to the zoo
world quite by accident, shares some of the most compelling stories ever told about contemporary zoos. The stories
jump between zoos in different cities and between countries on different continents. Some are fun and funny.
Others are sad, even tragic. Written in a lively, accessible
style, Sailing with Noah explores the role of zoos in today’s
society and their future as institutions of education, conservation, and research.
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y the time most of us meet our doctors, they've been
in practice for a number of years. Often they seem
aloof, uncaring, and hurried. Of course, they're not all like
that, and most didn't start out that way. Here are voices of
third-year students just as they begin to take on clinical
responsibilities. Their words focus on the odd transition
students face when they must deal with real people in real
time and in real crises and when they must learn to put
aside their emotions to make quick, accurate, and sensitive
decisions. Their decisions aren't always right, and the consequences can be life-altering--for all involved. Moving,
disturbing, and candid, their true stories show us a side of
the profession that few ever see, or could even imagine.
They show, often painfully, how medical students grow up,
right at the bedside.
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Suburban Safari: A Year on the
Lawn
The Spies Who Never Were:
The True Story of the Nazi Spies
Who Were Actually
Allied Double Agents
Hannah Holmes
Hervie Haufler
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n 1940, Hitler infiltrated England with spies to gather
intelligence and disrupt Allied plans. But unbeknownst
to the Germans, the entire network had been captured
and "turned" into double agents who reported to the British while sending misinformation to the Germans about
Allied defenses and strategy. Now, after decades of secrecy, comes the first complete account of the British network that ran this "phony war."
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quipped with a lawn chair and her infectious curiosity, science writer Hannah Holmes spends a year on
her lawn hoping to discover exactly what's going on out
there. Under her examination, the lawn teems with life,
populated by a bewilderment of birds, a mess of mammals, and a range of plants that record the history of this
little piece of ground.
Sufi Cuisine
Nevin Halici
The Spirit of Indian Women
Judith Fitzgerald & Michael Oren Fitzgerald
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W
hat was the role of women in the world of nomadic
American Indians in the 19th century? The Spirit
of Indian Women provides a unique glimpse into a world
that is almost inaccessible in our time. The Spirit of Indian
Women is another addition to the Sacred Worlds series
following the recent, World Wisdom best-selling quotebook Indian Spirit in its approach, but is much more focused on women in Native American civilization. Through
the combined power of photos, art, and the wisdom of
traditional voices, modern readers can come to feel something of the timeless spirit of Indian women.
ufi Cuisine features over one hundred sumptuous
recipes inspired by the teachings of Sufism, alongside
lavish illustrations and charming anecdotes surrounding
the preparation of each dish.
Sunday Money:
A Hot Lap Around America with
Nascar
Jeff MacGregor
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mart, funny, and profane, Sunday Money is the kaleidoscopic account of a season on the NASCAR circuit.
Driving 48,000 miles in a tiny motor home, Jeff MacGregor and his wife tracked the lives of superstar drivers like
Junior Earnhardt and Tony Stewart, their crews, and their
fans across the grinding reach of a 40-week season.
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Sunset Landscaping with Stone
Jeanne Huber and the Editors of Sunset Books
A
nother always-popular volume in Sunset's line of outdoor building books, Landscaping with Stone is a
fundamental resource for realizing the potential of virtually
any garden. That's because stone is resilient, organic, and
colorful-its versatility is legendary. This essential book
helps gardeners make the most of stone, with design ideas
and step-by-step how-to instructions for everything from
paths to walls to waterfalls.
country from the perspective of 30 expatriates from six
different nations, who established lives in Turkey for
work, love, or adventure. Through narrative essays covering the last four decades, these diverse women unveil the
mystique of the “Orient,” describe religious conflict, embrace cultural discovery, and maneuver familial traditions,
customs, and responsibilities. Poignant, humorous, and
transcendent, the essays take readers to weddings and
workplaces, down cobbled Byzantine streets, into boisterous bazaars along the Silk Road, and deep into the feminine stronghold of Ottoman bathhouses.
The Testosterone Factor:
A Practical Guide to Improving
Vitality and Virility, Naturally
Shafiq Qaadri, MD
Sunset Western Landscaping
Kathleen Norris Brenzel, ed.
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T
his all-new second edition, the companion book to
the much-beloved Western Garden Book, promises
to be just as successful as the first. Packed with expert advice from landscape designers, gardeners, and others, it
addresses climatic, soil, and topographical challenges-and
solutions-for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington,
Wyoming, and southwestern Canada.
n The Testosterone Factor, the first practical all-natural
guide for midlife men, Dr. Shafiq Qaadri offers a
groundbreaking strategy for assessing and overcoming—
without hormonal supplements—the symptoms of male
menopause, including depression, fatigue, explosive anger,
loss of ambition, and, perhaps most widely recognized,
loss of virility.
They Cage the Animals at Night
Jennings Michael Burch
Tales From the Expat Harem:
Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton
Gokmen, ed.
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s the Western world struggles to comprehend the
paradoxes of modern Turkey, a country both European and Asian, forward-looking yet rooted in ancient empire, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This anthology provides a window into the
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ne rainy day in Brooklyn, Jennings Michael Burch's
mother, too sick to care for him, left him at an orphanage, saying only, "I'll be right back." She never returned. Shuttled through a series of bleak foster homes
and institutions, he never remained in any of them long
enough to make a friend. Instead, Jennings clung to a tattered stuffed animal, his sole source of warmth in a frightening world. This is the poignant story of his lost childhood. But it is also the triumphant tale of a little boy who
finally gained the courage to reach out for love-and found
it waiting for him.
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Thinking in Pictures:
My Life with Autism
Tour Fever:
The Armchair Cyclist's
Guide to the Tour de France
Temple Grandin
J.P. Partland
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emple Grandin is renowned throughout the world as
a designer of livestock holding equipment. Her
unique empathy for animals has her to create systems
which are humane and cruel free, setting the highest standards for the industry the treatment and handling of animals. She also happens to be autistic. Here, in Temple
Grandin's own words, is the story what it is like to live with
autism. Temple is among the few people who have broken
through many the neurological impairments associated
with autism. Throughout her life, she has developed
unique coping strategies, including her famous "squeeze
machine," modeled after seeing the calming effect squeeze
chutes on cattle. She describes her pain isolation growing
up "different" and her discovery visual symbols to interpret
the "ways of the natives".
Three Weeks With My Brother
Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
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s moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas
Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother,
chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound
by memories, both humorous and tragic. In January 2003,
Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a threeweek trip around the world. It was to mark a milestone in
their lives, for at 37 and 38 respectively, they were now the
only surviving members of their family. As Nicholas and
Micah travel the globe, the intimate story of their family
unfolds in the details of the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister. Against the backdrop of the wonders
of the world, the Sparks brothers band together to heal, to
remember, and to learn to live life to the fullest.
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re you coming down with the FEVER? Then look no
further than this comprehensive guide to all things
Tour de France—including history, strategy, stages, scoring,
and stars. Catch a full-blown case of Tour Fever—and
disFever
cover the je ne sais quoi that has made the Tour de France
a cultural phenomenon.
Trawler:
A Journey through
the North Atlantic
Redmond O’ Hanlon
H
aving survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo,
Redmond O'Hanlon now ventures into his own
perfect storm in the wildest waters he could find. His rendezvous with destiny begins aboard a trawler converted for
deep-sea fishing at a cost of $3 million-which is why its
young skipper's setting out from Scotland's northern tip
when the rest of the fleet is running for safe harbor.
Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks
and no seamanship whatsoever, O'Hanlon joins a crew of
five who stock a bottomless hull with the catch, day after
sleepless day, even as the hurricane threatens to wash
them overboard. While he helps inventory the creatures
of the deepest North Atlantic-from jellycats to the wormlike hagfish, unchanged since its evolution more than 500
million years ago-his shipmates exchange manic monologues that range from their woeful longing for loyal
women to trade laws and complex fishing quotas.
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The Undiscovered Self
Unsung Heroines:
Single Mothers and
the American Dream
C.G. Jung
Ruth Sidel
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n his classic, provocative work, Dr. Carl Jung-one of
psychiatry's greatest minds-argues that the future depends on our ability to resist society's mass movements.
Only by understanding our unconscious inner nature-"the
undiscovered self"-can we gain the self-knowledge that is
antithetical to ideological fanaticism. But this requires facing the duality of the human psyche-the existence of good
and evil in us all. In this seminal book, Jung compellingly
argues that only then can we cope and resist the dangers
posed by those in power.
The Unforeseen Wilderness:
Kentucky's Red River Gorge
Wendell Berry
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his compelling book destroys the derogatory images
of single mothers that too often prevail in the media
and in politics by creating a rich, moving, multidimensional picture of who these women really are. Ruth Sidel
interviewed mothers from diverse races, ethnicities, religions, and social classes who became single through divorce, separation, widowhood, or who never married;
none had planned to raise children on their own. Weaving
together these women's voices with an accessible, cuttingedge sociological and political analysis of single motherhood today, Unsung Heroines introduces a resilient, resourceful, and courageous population of women committed to their families, holding fast to quintessential American values, and creating positive new lives for themselves
and their children.
Vegetable Soups From
Deborah Madison's Kitchen
Deborah Madison
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nly someone who values land enough to farm a hillside for more than thirty years could write about a
wild place so lovingly. Wendell Berry just as easily steps
into Kentucky’s Red River Gorge and makes the observations of a poet as he does step away to view his subject with
the keen, unflinching eye of an essayist. The inimitable
voice of Wendell Berry—at once frank and lovely—is our
guide as we explore this unique wilderness. Located in
eastern Kentucky and home to 26,000 acres of untamed
river, rock formations, historical sites, unusual vegetation
and wildlife, the Gorge very nearly fell victim to a manmade lake thirty years ago. “No place is to be learned like
a textbook,” Berry tells us, and so through revealing the
Gorge’s corners and crevices, its ridges and rapids, his
words not only implore us to know more but to venture
there ourselves. Infused with his very personal perspective
and enhanced by the startling photographs of Ralph
Eugene Meatyard, The Unforeseen Wilderness draws the
reader in to celebrate an extraordinary natural beauty and
to better understand what threatens it.
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eborah Madison has shown millions of Americans
how to turn vegetables and other healthful ingredients into culinary triumphs. In her newest collection of
recipes, Madison serves up a selection of soups ranging
from elegant first courses to substantial one-dish meals.
Madison begins with a soup-making primer and streamlined recipes for vegetable stocks--like a simple-to-prepare
Roasted Vegetable stock--which are the foundation for
many of the recipes that follow. Light soups like the Mexican Tomato Broth with Avocado and Lime make for delectable beginnings to a meal. Cooks looking for heartier
choices will find such satisfying dishes as Navy Bean and
Winter Squash Soup with Sage Breadcrumbs or grainbased soups like Quinoa, Corn, and Spinach Chowder.
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While You're Here, Doc:
Farmyard Adventures
of a Maine Veterinarian
Worth More Dead:
And Other True Cases
Ann Rule
Bradford B. Brown, DVM
V
eterinarian Brad Brown never knew what to expect
when he was called out to a farm to deal with a sick
cow or an injured horse. Invariably the cash-strapped
farmer would say, “While you’re here, Doc” and rattle off
a list of surprise medical chores that weren’t part of the
original call. But whether he was trying to geld a spooked
stallion in a blizzard or found himself in the middle of an
all-out fracas involving a monkey’s abscessed tooth and a
shotgun, Dr. Brown took it in stride, with great affection
for his four-legged patients as well as his two-legged clients.
James Herriot, Baxter Black, and E. B. White rolled into
one and wearing rubber boots, Brad Brown gives us a
wonderful set of stories from the life of a country vet.
F
ormer Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland
Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win
back his wife's love — it wasn't supposed to end with her
dead body in the trunk of a car. Nearly twenty years later,
he acknowledged that he had hired someone to kill his
estranged wife in 1988, though his alleged excuse for why
a monstrous "mistake" happened is as shocking and convoluted as the crime itself. Eventually, he was charged with
first-degree murder in the long-unsolved death of Cheryl
Pitre, after a mysterious witness betrayed Pitre to save his
own skin. Tracing back the dark and bloody path of Pitre's
life, two generations of detectives found a chain of brutal
and terrifying crimes by a man who manipulated the
courts and prisons to walk free.
Word Watching:
Field Notes of an Amateur
Philologist
Wrong About Japan
Peter Carey
Julian Burnside
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e live in a torrent of words—from radio and television, books and newspapers, and now from the
Internet. But, as Julian Burnside reminds us in this witty
and erudite collection, words are a source both of pleasure
and power, and can be deployed for good or for ill. Some
of these essays explore curiosities in odd corners of the
language simply to remind us of the extraordinary richness
of the English language. We learn, for example, that the
word "pedigree" refers to the shape of a crane’s foot, and
that "halcyon" recalls an early Greek love story. Other
pieces use small matters of language to illustrate larger
processes of cultural borrowing and change. Burnside’s
musings remind us that we should not be alarmed at the
instability of English; rather, we should be view its borrowings as a source of its strength and vitality.
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hen famously shy Charley Carey becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is
not only delighted for his son, but entranced himself.
Thus, with a father sharing his twelve-year-old's exotic
comic books, begins a journey that will lead them both to
Tokyo, where a strange Japanese boy will become both
their guide and judge. The visitors quickly plunge deep
into the lanes of Shitimachi — into the "weird stuff" of modern Japan — meeting manga artists and anime directors,
"visualists" who painstakingly impersonate cartoons, and
solitary "otakus" who lead a computerized existence. What
emerges from these encounters is a pithy, far-ranging study
of history and culture both high and low — from samurai
to salaryman, from kabuki theatre to the post-war robot
craze. Peter Carey's observations are provocative, even
though his hosts often point out, politely, that he is wrong
about Japan.
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Zlata’s Diary:
A Child's Life in
Wartime Sarajevo
Zlata Filipovic
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hen Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height
of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international
bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank,
both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the
world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the
life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano
lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo,
Zlata Filipovi´c becomes a witness to food shortages and
the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments
in a neighbor’s cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. The result is a book that has the
power to move and instruct readers a world away.
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The Art of Mending
Best New American Voices 2006
Elizabeth Berg
Jane Smiley, ed.
L
aura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in
Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness.
Yet this year's gathering will prove to be much more trying
than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon as she
arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her
sister. Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline
is the family's restless black sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the three have a difficult time
reconciling their varying experiences in the same house.
But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past,
their own culpability, and their common need for love and
forgiveness.
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he best new American voices are heard here first:
Writers like Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William
Gay, David Benioff, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Maile
Meloy, Amanda Davis, Jennifer Vanderbes, and John
Murray are just some of the acclaimed authors whose early
work has appeared in this series since its launch in 2000.
The new volume features a new crop of promising stories
selected by renowned novelist Jane Smiley, who continues
the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the
cusp of their careers. Culled from hundreds of writing programs like the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Johns Hopkins and from summer conferences like Sewanee and
Bread Loaf-and including a complete list of contact information for these programs-this exciting collection showcases tomorrow's literary stars.
Away From You
Melanie Finn
A Boy of Good Breeding
Miriam Toews
E
llie's upbringing in colonial Africa in the 1960s and
70s—stiff whiskies, keeping up appearances and English gardens amidst the African Bush—was marked by a
troubled relationship with a violent father she didn't really
know. So when she returns there after her father's death,
for the first time in twenty-five years, it means facing a past
she thought she had put behind her. But even as childhood memories threaten to paralyze her, Ellie sets out to
discover the dark secret at the heart of her father's life and
her parents' marriage, hoping the truth will allow her to
break free from the past that has haunted her life.
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rom the acclaimed Giller Prize Finalist and Governor
General's Award Winner: a delightfully funny and
charming second novel about Canada's smallest town.Life
in Winnipeg didn't go as planned for Knute and her
daughter. But living back in Algren with her parents and
working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its own
challenges: Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea's attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister
-- even if that means keeping the town's population at an
even 1500. Bringing to life small-town Canada and all its
larger-than-life characters, A Boy of Good Breeding is a
big-hearted, hilarious novel about finding out where you
belong.
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Buddha Baby
Kim Wong Keltner
Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Illusions.
One.
Back-to-back, Richard’s books have been on the New
York Times bestseller list for more than four years. His
last story was told in five separate volumes, a delicious entertainment about lives of action and adventure, but free of
evil or menace, crime or wickedness, or war.
W
ant to learn a thing or two about a young ChineseAmerican woman with a penchant for Hello Kitty
toys, who could be found squeezing into jeans at Old Navy
while being asked for detailed explanations of Yo-Yo Ma's
success? Then get ready for: Lindsey Owyang, raised on
Spaghetti-O's and Aaron Spelling productions As Lindsey
continues her quest for identity, family secrets, and true
love, will she find double happiness, or will she be
tempted by one last lion dance with a stranger? Ultimately,
Lindsey realizes that Chinese girls really wanna have chow
fun.
The Cotton Queen
Pamela Morsi
T
he road away from home always seems to lead back
to our mothers.
Everyone Else’s Girl
Megan Crane
M
eredith McKay has gone to a lot of trouble to create
the picture-perfect life for herself-far away from her
troublesome family, thank you. But when her father's car
accident forces her back to her New Jersey hometown, she
discovers that there's no running away from family issuesthere's only delaying the inevitable. Can anyone sort out a
lifetime of drama in one hot summer? Soon Meredith is
having a blast from the past-the scorched earth kindcomplete with contentious family members, a best friend
turned enemy turned sister-in-law-to-be, and a hot guy
from back in high school. Now, with one revelation after
another coming to light, Meredith must reexamine everything she's ever believed. After living for others for so long,
could it be that she isn't the picture-perfect good girl she
always thought she was?
Curious Lives:
Adventures from
the Ferret Chronicles
Richard Bach
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ichard Bach is kind and gentle and stubborn as rocks
about his writing. His books are visions of why we’re
here and where we’re going, ideas that change lives, and
he hides them behind titles so modest that nobody can tell
what they’re about:
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Ex and the Single Girl
Firmin: Adventures of a
Metropolitan Lowlife
Lani Diane Rich
Sam Savage
D
umped by her boyfriend on Valentine's Day (oh, the
irony!), Portia Fallon has developed an obsession
with Jane Austen movies, Cheez Doodles, and chardonnay...and is four felines and a Reader's Digest subscription
away from turning into a crazy cat lady. When the Miz
Fallons-her meddling mom, her tarot card-dependent
aunt, and her take-no-prisoners grandmother-dupe her
into coming home to Truly, Georgia, Portia finds herself
plied with their medicinal gin and tonics and ordered to
have a no-strings affair. They've even picked out the rebound guy, sexy British spy novelist Ian Beckett. And invited her ex, who arrives in Truly with contrition in his
heart and a diamond that says forever in his pocket.
Forced to follow her heart or break the curse of the Miz
Fallons-the one that sends men packing when things get
serious-Portia decides that maybe she can have it all. But
only if she embraces her inner Miz Fallon…
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
F
irmin the rat, born in a bookstore basement in Boston's Scollay Square during the last days of its famous
bookstores and infamous burlesque houses, understands
this maxim perfectly. Forced to compete for food with his
larger and meaner brothers and sisters, Firmin begins to
devour his surroundings. Absorbing more than pulp and
glue, he miraculously learns to read and soon begins to
identify more with humans than rodents. Alienated from
his family, he seeks the friendship of his hero, the bookseller, and a down-on-his luck science fiction writer who
frequents the shop. Through a series of misadventures and
against a backdrop of urban destruction, Firmin is led
deep into his own imaginative soul - a place where Ginger
Rogers holds him tight and tattered books, storied
neighborhoods, and down-and-out rats alike can find people who adore them. By turns tragic, comic, nostalgic and
subversive, Firmin is a story for everyone who has been
transformed - for better or for worse - by an early diet of
great literature.
Jonathan Safran Foer
The Girls’ Global Guide to Guys:
Around the World in Eighty Dates
Teresa Alan
O
skar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine
player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist. He is
nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search
through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock
that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died
in the attacks on the World Trade Center. An inspired
creation, Oskar is endearing, exasperating, and unforgettable. His search for the lock careens from Central Park to
Coney Island to the Bronx and beyond. But it also travels
into history, to Dresden and Hiroshima, where horrific
bombings once shattered other lives. Along the way, Oskar encounters a motley assortment of humanity—a 103year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the
Empire State Building, lovers enraptured or scorned—all
survivors in their own ways.
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est friends Jadie Peregrine and Tate Moran have had
it with the dating life in Boulder, Colorado. Somewhere in the world there has to be a place where this
whole romance thing is easier—a magical country where
the men aren’t commitment-phobes, cross-dressers, or just
plain psychotic. That thought starts Jadie on an inspired
plan: Why not write a very different sort of travel guide,
one that gives the 411 on what it’s like to date men all over
the world?
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The Honey Well
Invitation to Provence
Gloria Mallette
Elizabeth Adler
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rnell Rayford’s mother, Esther, is where she’s always
wanted to be. Ensconced in the mansion where her
own mother once worked as a housekeeper, she runs a
thriving business that’s surely making the previous owner
turn in her grave. For Esther, money is everything, and no
one will stand in the way of her making it—not even her
only child.While some may call Esther’s live-in employees
prostitutes, she prefers to call them ladies of charm—or
tenants. There are no laws against renting out rooms, after
all. Of course, there are laws against prostituting one’s own
underage daughter. It’s a devastating secret Arnell and
Esther have kept for years. Esther calls the jobs “favors,”
but Arnell recognizes them for what they are: demands
couched in blackmail. Now that Arnell is engaged to a pillar of the community, Esther’s latest request may well send
her over the edge—but she won’t be going alone. Because
while Esther is holding Arnell’s past overhead, her own is
coming back to haunt her—and the lines between love and
hate, parent and child, sex, profit—and even murder—are
about to become dangerously blurred…
F
ranny Marten's life is unraveling--after arranging to
meet her boyfriend Marcus for dinner she finds his
wife waiting for her instead. After the initial shock wears
off, Franny finds she has more in common with Clare
Marks that she could ever have imagined. And, amazingly,
the women become fast friends. But even more surprises
are in store for Franny Marten: she is unexpectedly offered an all-expenses-paid invitation to go to a reunion of
her estranged family in Provence. And Clare decides to
charge the trip to Marcus (for his sins) and come along.
Franny knows very little about the French side of her family, but how stressful can meeting long-lost aunts and cousins be after what she and Clare have just gone through?
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Imaginary Men
Anjali Banerjee
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ina Ray has a knack for pairing up perfect couples as a
professional matchmaker in San Francisco, but her
well-meaning, highly traditional Indian family wants her to
get married. When her Auntie Kiki introduces Lina to the
bachelor from hell at her sister's wedding in India, Lina
panics and blurts out, "I'm engaged!" Because what's the
harm in a little lie? Lina scrambles to find a real fiancé
because Auntie Kiki will be coming to America soon to
approve the match. But date after disastrous date gets her
no closer to her prince -- until an actual prince arrives on
her doorstep.
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his magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain,
and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical
reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either
to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for
his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton
called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like
the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.
Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing
events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike
pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors
soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky.
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Liberating Paris
The Makeup Girl
Linda Bloodworth Thomason
Andrea Semple
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rom renowned producer and writer Linda Bloodworth Thomason, creator of the beloved hit television
series Designing Women, comes Liberating Paris, an audacious, poignant, and endearing debut novel about love,
memories that won't fade, and holding on to your dreams.
Set in small-town Paris, Arkansas, it is the story of six best
friends who have just passed their fortieth birthdays and
now must come to terms with the past in order to move
forward with their lives.
I
n this sharp and sexy new novel, Andrea Semple, one
of fiction’s freshest voices, takes a wickedly funny look
at the ways we reinvent our lives, undoing ourselves along
the way. British cosmetics counter girl Faith Wishart can
make up anything, from faces to whole careers and even
boyfriends. And that's only the beginning...
New Town:
A Fable... Unless You Believe
Harry Blamires
Lust For Life
Adele Parks
Old Boyfriends
Rexanne Becnel
H
ere's what the Evergreen sisters have in common:
jealousy. Eliza longs for the stability of Martha's picture-perfect marriage; Martha craves the spontaneity of
Eliza's life with her sexy musician boyfriend. Now one of
the sisters has dumped her mate, and the other one just
got dumped. Suddenly single-minded, they are about to
get what they think they've always wanted -- a chance to
walk in the other woman's shoes. Here's what the Evergreen sisters found out: trading places can be a complicated affair. With new lovers in their lives, Eliza's partaking in sensible discourse at upscale dinner parties, while
Martha's having great, no-strings-attached sex. But love is
full of surprises...and dream lovers can be full of hot air.
No longer green with envy, can the Evergreen sisters each
find a perfectly imperfect man to make their lives -- their
real lives -- truly satisfying?
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hey were three girlfriends whose love lives had seen
better days, and they were driving to a reunion in
New Orleans, the town they’d left behind. MJ, a gorgeous
younger woman whose older husband died in the bed of -well, let’s just say he died in a compromising position; Bitsey, an overweight housewife who can’t believe that’s all
there is; and Cat, a twice-divorced designer whose pristine
present is small compensation for her past. The trophy
wife, prom queen and trashy girl had a vision: the men of
their present didn’t hold a candle to the boys in their past.
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The People’s Republic of Desire
Pushkin and the Queen of Spades
Annie Wang
Alice Randall
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n uncensored, eye-opening, and laugh-out-loud
funny portrait of modern China as seen through the
lives and loves of four professional women in contemporary Beijing. Divorce, oral sex, plastic surgery. Indulging in
a Starbucks coffee, admitting to the emotional repercussions of a one-night stand, giggling over watching pornography. These once taboo subjects have become the substance of daily conversations and practices among urban
women in contemporary Beijing. It seems that no one remembers what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
A cross between Sex and the City and The Joy Luck Club,
The People's Republic of Desire follows four sassy gals as
they preen and pounce among Beijing's Westernized professional class, exultantly obsessed with brand names, celebrity, and sex.
W
indsor Armstrong has a problem: her brilliant boy,
Pushkin X, has become a football superstar and is
planning to marry a Russian lap dancer. In Windsor's
opinion, Pushkin is throwing away every good thing she
has given him. When she was an unwed teen mother,
Windsor attended Harvard, leaving her shady Detroit
roots behind. She raised her son to be fiercely intelligent,
well-spoken, and proud. Now he lives for pro football and
a white woman of no account. Outraged by her son's decisions but devoted to loving him right, Windsor prepares to
give up her last secret: the identity of Pushkin's father.
Radical Prunings:
Officious Advice
from the Contessa of Compost
Bonnie Thomas Abbott
A Perfect Divorce
Avery Corman
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T
he well-intentioned parents of a teenage son attempt
to lessen the impact of their failed two-career marriage with an intelligent, successful divorce. They are
caught up in the myth that children of divorce can be emotionally protected by careful parenting and that divorce can
be relatively risk-free. But their son goes off the tracks,
staggering under the weight of his parents' expectations
and their divorce and his trouble sends shock waves
through adult relationships on all sides.
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his rather deceptive work purports to be the collected
horticultural columns of one opinionated Mertensia
Corydalis. As Mertensia answers her readers’ innocent
gardening questions, she reveals more than she intends
about her life, her relationships (from her prissy exhusband to questionable interactions with her employees,
Miss Vong and Tran), and her state of mind. Radical
Prunings is a literate, funny, and surprisingly bittersweet
fiction debut from a writer with a sharp wit and a very
green thumb.
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The Red Hat Society’s
Acting Their Age
Scenes From a Holiday
Laurie Graff, Caren Lissner, Melanie Murray
Regina Hale Sutherland
H
ey there y'all, Come on over for some Texas hospitality! We serve generous helpings of it at the coffee
shop I run with my two friends Leanne and Aggie. This
business has been a lifeline since my husband's death, and
finding teenage runaway Rachel Nye hiding in our storeroom has kicked up some dust. Leanne's finally got someone to mother and 68-year-old Aggie is wearing contact
lenses and blue jeans! But Sheriff Cade Sloan has been
getting a suspicious look in his eyes. And there's that other
look he gives me, the one that makes my heart skip a beat!
I hate lying to him, but we have decided not to turn Rachel
in. Only time will tell if we're becoming sisters in crime-or
angels in disguise!
Bunches of hugs and bushels of kisses,
Mia MacAfee
Remember Me
Deborah Bedford
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s a boy growing up in the sixties, Sam Tibbits always
treasured the summer vacations he spent at Piddock
Beach, exploring the sand and sea as only boys can. It was
here he first met Aubrey, a local girl who became his
childhood confidante…and later his first love. Over the
years Aubrey grew from a fearless tomboy into a special
young woman with whom Sam realized he wanted to
spend the rest of his life. So when Sam discovered Aubrey's family had moved away with no forwarding address,
he was crushed. He never heard from Aubrey again. Now,
years later, Sam is still single, pastoring a church and wondering if he misunderstood God's calling on his life. In an
effort to reconnect with his spiritual compass, he returns to
Piddock Beach, looking to regain some of the joy of his
youth. What he finds is unexpected but welcome: Aubrey.
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hree women. Three holidays. Three stories to make
that time of year a lot more fun. It's the perfect time
to make a scene. Join red Dress Ink authors Laurie Graff
(You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs), Caren Lissner (Carrie
Pilby) and Melanie Murray (Miss Bubbles Steals the
Show) for a holiday season to remember!
The Secret Life of Mrs. Claus
Carly Alexander
O
livia Neuman had hoped the worst was behind her
after she broke her ankle, lost her chance to be a
Rockette, and had to come home to Baltimore to live in
the same city as her ex, Bobby. Of course, that was before
she saw her face plastered all over billboards for Bobby’s
wildly popular cable show about an evil, conniving girlfriend named…Olivia. Single mom Cassie Derringer fantasizes about the lives of the wealthy women coming through
the doors of Rossman’s, lives of cashmere , winter white
(practical—not!), well-behaved children (via cattle prods?)
and involved dads (yeah, right). Cassie’s son, Tyler, is a
ball of wild energy, and she’s sure it’s because he has no
contact with his father, a TV star who’s staked his claim on
a whole new level of narcissism. Bah, humbug. As heir to
the Rossman’s dynasty, the only Christmas spirit Meredith
Rossman feels is the kind brought on by ringing cash registers. If she doesn’t get sales up by 50% this holiday, her
jerk cousin Daniel will become CEO. Dressed as Mrs.
Claus, Meredith can keep an eye on operations and on
Nick, the Christmas hire Santa who makes Meredith want
to sit on his lap. For three very different women trying to
get what they want, it’s a Christmas where miracles happen; love is magical; and changing their lives is as close as
changing their outfits.
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Shopaholic and Sister
Sophie Kinsella
S
ophie Kinsella has conquered the hearts of millions
with her New York Times bestselling Shopaholic novels, which feature the irresistible one-woman shopping
phenomenon Becky Bloomwood. Now Becky's back in a
hilarious, heartwarming tale of married life, best friends,
and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply having to own
an Angel handbag!).
always been the consummate good girl---until her thirtieth
birthday, when her best friend, Darcy, throws her a party.
That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed
with Darcy's fiance. Although she wakes up determined to
put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel is horrified to
discover that she has genuine feelings for the one guy she
should run from. As the September wedding date nears,
Rachel knows she has to make a choice. In doing so, she
discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be
blurry, endings aren't always neat, and sometimes you have
to risk all to win true happiness.
Tenderwire
Claire Kilroy
A Short History of
Tractors in Ukranian
Marina Lewycka
E
W
hen an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his
daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him.
For their father’s intended is a voluptuous old-country
gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and
an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities
mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of
Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and
genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.
va Tyne leaves her home in Ireland for New York to
play in the New Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra. She
collapses after her solo debut, checks herself out of the
hospital prematurely, and embarks on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. She falls in love with a mysterious man
and becomes obsessed with a rare violin of dubious provenance, for which she must pay in cash. But consumed by
obsession, her pursuit of the violin becomes a nightmare
of paranoia: Haunted by the ghost of her father, racked
with jealousy, and unsure whom she can trust, Eva is
pitched into a desperate psychological conundrum as her
desires threaten to destroy her.
Something Borrowed
Emily Giffin
S
omething Borrowed tells the story of Rachel, a young
attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has
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A Total Waste of Makeup
Kim Gruenenfelder
C
harlize "Charlie" Edwards certainly knows, in theory,
what it takes to lead a successful and happy life. She
owns a nice house in Silverlake, LA's trendiest neighborhood. She has glamorous and loyal friends who accompany her to the hottest clubs in town. And she works as
the personal assistant to Drew Stanton, Hollywood's sexiest movie star. But she's also turning 30, chronically single,
and faced with serving as maid of honor at her younger
sister's wedding. Charlie finds herself struggling to juggle
the chaos of wedding planning (while wondering if she'll
ever wear the white dress herself), her all-consuming job
for lunatic boss Stanton, and a serious crush on Jordan, a
photographer on the set of Drew's latest feature--a man
who might actually return her feelings.
Trading Up
Candace Bushnell
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he first novel by the iconic author of Sex and the City
and the bestselling Four Blondes, featuring a saucy,
great character a la Bridget Jones.
Wedding Ring
her mother and grandmother clean out the family home in
Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. But the three women have
never been close. Helen, the family matriarch, is domineering and sharp-tongued. Nancy, Tessa's mother, appears to be little more than a social climber. And Tessa
herself is in turmoil following a family tragedy that has affected them all. Now, with the gift of time, Tessa's eyes are
opened, and she begins to see her mother and grandmother for the flawed but courageous women they are. As
she restores a vintage wedding-ring quilt pieced by her
grandmother and quilted by her mother, the secrets that
have shadowed their lives unfold at last. And each woman
discovers that sometimes you have to clean house to find
the things you thought were lost forever.
The Windmill
Stephanie Gertler
O
livia and Carl appear to have the perfect life: a son
and a daughter, weekends on Cape Cod, and satisfying work as professors at Belvedere College in the picturesque town of Willow, Massachusetts. Until, one day, the
seemingly stable, dependable Carl disappears without a
trace— leaving behind only a cryptic note. Alone and terrified, Olivia cannot help but relive the long-buried pain she
felt when she lost her first husband. While Carl travels
back to his childhood hometown to confront the demons
he has always hidden from his wife, Olivia takes a journey
of her own as she tries to make peace with the memories
that have always haunted her. Told with graceful skill and
unflinching honesty, The Windmill is a story of the secrets
we are entitled to keep in a marriage and those we must
share—marking a splendid new level of achievement in this
much- admired author.
Emile Richards
With You Beside Me
Catherine Anderson
N
eeding time to contemplate her troubled marriage,
Tessa MacRae agrees to spend the summer helping
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Historical Fiction
help. But the white pioneers of Hill City face problems,
too. When the lives of these two families intersect, neither
town will ever be the same.
The Greenlanders
Echoes
Jane Smiley
Danielle Steel
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gainst a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells
a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and
acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as
they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an
indomitable devotion that echoes across time. With the
grace of a master storyteller, Danielle Steel breathes life
into history, creating a bold, sweeping tale filled with unforgettable characters and breathtaking images--from the
elegant rituals of Europe's prewar aristocracy to the brutal
desperation of Germany's death camps. Drawing us into a
vanished world, Echoes weaves an intricate tapestry of a
mother's love, a daughter's courage…and the unwavering
faith that sustained them--even in history's darkest hour.
ane Smiley, the Pultizer Prize-winning author of A
J Thousand
Acres, gives us a magnificent novel of fourteenth-century Greenland. Rich with fascinating detail
about the day-to-day joys and innumerable hardships of
remarkable people, The Greenlanders is also the compelling story of one family—proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence
leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son
Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling
center of this unforgettable book. Echoing the simple
power of the old Norse sagas, here is a novel that brings a
remote civilization to life and shows how it was very like
our own.
First Dawn
A Gun for Sale
Judith Miller
Graham Greene
F
reedom's Path Book 1 Lured by the promise of “real”
freedom and a new town to call their own, sharecroppers Ezekial Harban and his three daughters leave behind
remnants of slavery in the war-torn south and set off for
Nicodemus, Kansas. When they arrive, they are shocked
to see that little of what they were promised actually exists.
Many head back home, but Ezekial and his daughters are
determined to build a new life in the stark territory. Dr.
Boyle, a newly arrived doctor in neighboring Hill City, is
called to deliver a baby in Nicodemus. He and his family
are moved by the plight of the settlers there and vow to
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R
aven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His
cold-blooded killing of a EuropeanMinister of War is
an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for
Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money
he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a man
on the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been
double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he
becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of
a strange kind of social justice.
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Hangover Square
Patrick Hamilton
when the city decides to re-grade Denny hill and the fate
of Madison House hangs in the balance. Clyde Hunssler,
Maddie's albino handyman and furtive love interest, James
Colter, a muckraking black journalist who owns and publishes the Seattle Sentry newspaper, and Chiridah Simpson, an aspiring stage actress forced into prostitution and
morphine addiction while working in the city's corrupt
vaudeville theater all call Madison House home.
A
drift in the grimy pubs of London at the outbreak of
World War II, George Harvey Bone is hopelessly
infatuated with Netta, a cold, contemptuous, small-time
actress. George also suffers from occasional blackouts.
During these moments one thing is horribly clear: he must
murder Netta. Patrick Hamilton enjoyed a wide readership in Britain and America during the 1930s. His play
Rope was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock and another, Gaslight, was a great success on the stage before
being made into a film starring Ingrid Bergman. He died
in 1962.
It Can’t Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis
I
t is 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to
the presidency-and his fascist policies turn the U.S. into
a totalitarian state.
People of the Raven
Kathleen O’Neal and W. Michael Gear
A
ward-winning archaeologists Michael and Kathleen
Gear spin a vivid and captivating tale around one of
the most controversial archaeological discoveries in the
world: the Kennewick Man-a Caucasoid male mummy
dating back more than 9,000 years, found in the Pacific
Northwest on the banks of the Columbia River! A white
man in North America more than 9,000 years ago? What
was he doing there? With the terrifying grandeur of melting glaciers as a backdrop, People of the Raven reveals
animals and humans struggling for survival amidst massive
environmental change. Mammoths, mastodons, and giant
lions have become extinct, and Rain Bear, the chief of
Sandy Point Village, knows his struggling Raven People
may be next.
Shoulder the Sky
Madison House
Anne Perry
Peter Donahue
P
eter Donahue's debut novel, Madison House, chronicles turn-of-the-century Seattle's explosive transformation from frontier outpost to major metropolis. Maddie
Ingram, owner of Madison House, and her quirky and
endearing boarders find their lives inextricably linked
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ook Two of Anne Perry's New York Times bestselling World War One series. This installment, set
in 1915 and with action alternating between the trenches
and the home front in England, is both an espionage
thriller and front-lines adventure.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
T
his classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the
author's philosophy of love and death.
Young Will
Bruce Cook
I
t's 1616 and William Shakespeare is back in his native
Stratford-Upon-Avon. His extraordinary career as a
playwright and poet in London seems like another world.
A strange encounter with a witch-like madwoman in his
local churchyard fills Will with dread, and sends him reeling back in memory to those darker days in London along
the filthy, fevered banks of the Thames-a time when politics, plagiarism, sexual passions, and betrayed friendship
conspired to the point of murder.
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Birds of a Feather
needs, Tess has two allies: an online network of women
investigators and Mark's nine-year-old son, who is determined to reunite his family. But even Mark doesn't know
that painful secrets he's concealed about his own family are
about to explode violently.
Jacqueline Winspear
Chamomile Mourning
Laura Childs
Winspear's marvelous and inspired debut,
J acqueline
Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from coast to coast and
raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to
the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather
finds Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London “between the wars.” It is the spring of
1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress.
But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes
increasingly complicated when three of the heiress's old
friends are found dead.
By a Spider’s Thread
Laura Lippman
A
nother tempest in a teapot from the national bestselling author of The Jasmine Moon Murder. At
Charleston's Spoleto festival, tea shop owner Theodosia
Browning is far from festive when the Poet's Tea is forced
indoors by rain. But rain proves to be the least of her
problems after a local auction house owner plummets
from a balcony to his death-and it looks like someone
helped him over the edge. With a full kettle of suspects,
Theodosia investigates and uncovers a criminal enterprise
of art forgery, fraud—and murder—that leads her into the
murky swamps of the South Carolina Lowcountry.
A Cold Treachery
Charles Todd
A
lthough private investigator Tess Monaghan hates
matrimonial cases, she hates the idea of being bankrupt even more, so she agrees to look for Mark Rubin's
missing family. As far as the police are concerned, there is
no sign of foul play. Natalie Rubin simply took her three
children and vanished. At first Tess is inclined to agree.
While Mark can't imagine why Natalie wasn't happy as the
wife of a wealthy furrier, Tess can see plenty of reasons
why the woman might have found her marriage suffocating. As Tess digs deeper into the circumstances surrounding Natalie's disappearance, she discovers that Mark has
concealed many things, including the fact that he met
Natalie while volunteering as a visitor in the prison where
Natalie's father is still serving out a sentence for murder -and that Natalie has been blackmailed by her father in the
past. Battling her client for the information she desperately
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ecember, 1919: Deep in England's frozen Lake District, constables discover a scene of unimaginable
carnage: the bodies of five family members splayed across
a bloodied cottage kitchen. Even as a search is mounted in
the frigid, empty countryside for the youngest boy, apparently missing from the dreadful scene, a call goes out to
Scotland Yard for immediate assistance, and Inspector Ian
Rutledge is pulled from a court case and sent driving north
through the night. But there is no sign of the missing boy-or of any strangers who might have committed such a terrible crime.
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The Color of Death
Doctored Evidence
Elizabeth Lowell
Donna Leon
T
he prospect of acquiring seven exceedingly rare sapphires generates more than enough temptation, danger, and desire to power the complex plot of this new
thriller by New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth
Lowell. The gems, known as the Seven Sins, represent the
opportunity of a lifetime to jewel cutter Kate Chandler, but
when her most trusted courier goes missing, along with the
jewels, it's time to take action. Kate's ploy to recover the
jewels, however, attracts the suspicion of the FBI, which
assigns Special Agent Sam Groves to watch Kate. Soon
this unlikely couple is teaming up in the field and off, but
the closer they get to solving the crime, the greater the
danger for Kate.
Digging Up Otis
T. Dawn Richard
D
onna Leon's riveting new novel, Doctored Evidence,
follows Commissario Guido Brunetti down the
winding streets of contemporary Venice as he throws open
the doors of a case his superiors would rather leave closed.
When a miserly spinster is found brutally murdered in her
Venice apartment, police immediately suspect her Romanian housekeeper. They are certain their job is done after
the immigrant dies while fleeing arrest, but weeks later; a
neighbor comes forward to defend the innocence of the
accused. The only investigator who believes the alibi is
Brunetti, who will have to go behind the backs of his superiors to vindicate the Romanian and find her employer's
actual killer. As always, the indispensable hacking skills of
the ever-loyal Signorina Elettra are the perfect complement to Brunetti's meticulous detective work. She discovers mysterious deposits in the old woman's bank account,
but who made them?
Dragon’s Lair
Sharon Kay Penman
T
he nationally acclaimed author of Death For Dessert
delivers another deliciously hilarious romp to cozy
fans as May List is called back to action at the Waning
Years Estates to solve a murder involving naughty seniors,
swindlers, and grave-robbers. Nobody does humorous
cozies like T. Dawn Richard!
Richard Lionheart, eldest and most favored
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of Dowager Queen Eleanor, languishes in a German dungeon, held for ransom by the Holy Roman Emperor. In England, his brother John, desperate for the
crown, plots with the King of France to make sure Richard
never leaves his prison alive. But the queen has already
begun to meet the ransom demands. It is only a matter of
time before the Emperor turns over his royal prisoner.
And then one of the ransom payments vanishes in the fastnesses of Wales, itself wracked by rebellion and intrigue.
Into this maelstrom, Eleanor sends her trusted man, Justin
de Quincy. Murder soon follows.
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Eye of the Beholder
The Fix
Merline Lovelace
Anthony Lee
I
t's been months since that horrible day USAF captain
Miranda Morgan flew her C-130 Hercules into lethal
cross fire in Afghanistan. But Randi still can't believe Ty,
her best friend -- her anchor when a disastrous marriage
left her a single mother -- is really gone. Now back on her
ancestral land in southeastern Oklahoma, Randi knows
she did all she could to get Ty out safely, but his billionaire
father is convinced there's blood on Randi's hands, and
through his fog of hatred will stop at nothing to punish
her. But when physics professor Pete Engstrom asks permission to study the mysterious rune stones scattered
around her property, Randi is convinced she's found the
one man willing to watch her back. That is, until a buried
secret is revealed. And someone with an eye cast on fortune is lurking, ready to strike a final blow.
R
ich with the language and flavor of the New York City
underground, The Fix explores a young gangster's
anguished journey toward salvation and self-respect. Arrested for the double homicide of his best friend and an
old enemy, Martin Quinn must decide whether to turn
state's evidence and gain protection or keep his mouth
shut and face the wrath of the Russian mob - headed by
his dead best friend's father.The decision should be easy
after the Russians try to rub him out. But Quinn figures
differently, making a choice that earns him the respect of
the Italian gangsters who helped raise him, but one that
may cost him what he treasures most: the woman he loves,
a fortune in drug money he's stashed away, and even his
own life.
Flashback
Fat White Vampire Blues
Jenny Siler
Andrew Fox
V
ampire, nosferatu, creature of the night - whatever
you call him - Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in
New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds
on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood
of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules
is thankful he can't see his reflection in a mirror. When he
turns into a bat, he can't get his big ol' butt off the ground."
"What's worse, after more than a century of being undead,
he's watched his neighborhood truly go to hell - and now, a
new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether.
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iscovered in a ditch by the side of a country road in
France, Eve has only good American dentistry and a
ferry ticket scribbled with Arabic letters to suggest her
identity. That, and a bullet wound in her brain that she
miraculously survives, even as it destroys her memory.
Only a few scattered violent images remain--or are they
dreams?--along with one undeniable physical fact: she has
had a child. When the nuns who have sheltered her for a
year are brutally massacred, Eve realizes that whoever she
was in her past life, she had powerful enemies. Just half a
step ahead of her pursuers, she lights out for Morocco in
an attempt to retrace her steps and discover her past.
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Framed in Guilt
Day Keene
A
s Lang is drawn further into a spiral of lust, lies and
violence, his judgment becomes increasingly irrational. In this dark and sensual tale from modern Helsinki, part love story, part thriller, love, hatred and obsession can override the emotion of intense fear.
Looking for Love
in all the Wrong Places
Deidre Savoy
The Girl Next Door
Patricia MacDonald
The Manolo Matrix
T
he affluent town of Hoffman, Ney Jersey, was shattered when esteemed doctor Duncan Avery stabbed
his wife to death one spring evening. Now, fifteen years
later, struggling actress Nina Avery — who never doubted
her father's innocence — returns to Hoffman when he is
paroled and moves home. Not only does Dr. Avery want
to repair his relationship with Nina and her two brothers,
successful investment banker Patrick and recovering drug
addict Jimmy, he wants to find the real killer. But when
violence overturns the Averys' lives again, Nina no longer
knows who she can trust. Relying only on herself and on
the mysterious prison doctor who treated her father, she
searches frantically for the truth. But she must dig deep
down into the secrets of her family and her town if she
stands the chance of catching the killer who has his sight
set on the new target: her.
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A
spiring actress Jennifer Crane knows all about games
— the games girls play to get a guy; the games actresses play to land a part; and the good old game of
credit-card roulette. (How else is a girl supposed to afford
her shoes?) But she never expected to be playing a game
with life-or-death consequences. Unable to successfully
score an acting gig, she has, instead, been cast in the role
of reluctant bodyguard to a real-life assassin's target — a
dashing FBI agent of all people! — and must embark with
him upon a scavenger hunt across Manhattan in search of
the ultimate prize: survival. Before this, Jenn's definition of
fighting dirty has been elbowing her way to the front of the
line at a Manolo sample sale. Now, if she wants to stay
alive, she's going to have to learn a few new uses for her
stilettos. . . and they ain't pretty.
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even certain who she was when the killing occurred.
Rose Connors
Murder at the Foul Line:
Original Tales of Hoop Dreams
and Deaths from
Today's Great Writers
Otto Penzler, ed.
A
t the request of her law partner and lover, Harry
Madigan, attorney Marty Nickerson agrees to defend
beautiful Louisa Rawlings against the charge of first-degree
murder in the bludgeoning death of her wealthy husband.
Marty is both intrigued and disturbed by Louisa since she
used to be Harry's girlfriend but is her own polar opposite.
The DA believes Louisa was motivated by greed but
Marty's gut tells her the murderer was driven by something
far more personal. As Marty builds her client's defense,
she encounters Louisa's handsome ex-husband, her surly
stepdaughter, and the girl's deadbeat boyfriend. But as the
evidence against Louisa mounts and Marty can't count on
help from her male associates who are dangerously bewitched by Louisa, she must rely on her own well-honed
legal instincts and passion for justice to make sure a brutal
killer doesn't go free.
Y
ou've seen the headlines. On the court they brawl
with opponents, fight with fans, and attack their own
coach. Off the court they get drunk, grope women, and,
sometimes, get tried for murder. Now these all-star bad
boys from the ranks of today's pro basketball provide easy
lay-up material for the fictional imaginations of our finest
contemporary mystery writers. Refereed by prizewinning
editor Otto Penzler, this anthology collects fourteen dazzling, original tales of buzzer-beating suspense and postgame mayhem.
A Murder of Justice
Robert Andrews
Multiple Wounds
Alan Russell
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H
olly Troy is a multiple, one of those damaged souls
with dissociative identity disorder who spins out personalities like spiders spin webs - knock one down and
another will replace it. This daughter of a classics scholar
has other selves that are no mere mortals: they include
Nemesis, Pandora, the Fates, Cronos, Eris, and Eurydice and one frightened five-year-old child. Holly is a beautiful
and talented artist whose only sanctuary is her art. But now
her gallery owner has been murdered and her body left in
a garden surrounded by Holly's sculptures. The horror is
that Holly doesn't know where she was when the killing
occurred. She doesn't know whether she witnessed a murder or even committed one that night. In fact, she's not
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hen Skeeter Hodges is gunned down in a quiet
black Washington, D.C., neighborhood, few
mourn the loss. A vicious drug runner rumored to have
killed twenty or thirty of his competitors, he was never
brought to trial-witnesses simply vanished or conveniently
forgot what they'd seen. To Frank Kearney and José
Phelps, Skeeter finally got what he'd been handing out all
along. Still, it was murder and they were cops. That means
a serious search for his killer . . .
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My Very Own Murder
Josephine Carr
how desperately she'll need to depend on his skills to keep
her alive once the race is under way.
Paradise: The Last Place on Earth
Scott Morgan
F
ree-spirited and freshly divorced, fifty-year-old Anne
Johnson is living the good life. She spends her days in
her luxurious, elegant apartment in Washington, D.C.,
cuddled up with a book in one hand and a martini in the
other. Then, she hears a voice in her head, warning that
there'll be a murder in her building in thirty days-and she
must prevent it. Anne confides in Mary, the building's
large-and-in-charge cleaning woman, and together, they
plan a party to ferret out the would-be killer. But if they
don't act quickly, the swanky soiree might end up being a
goodbye party for both of them.
On Thin Ice
Cherry Adair
Princess Charming
Jane Heller
I
n this hilarious and sparkling new novel, the author of
Infernal Affairs asks (and answers) the intriguing question: What do you get when you put three divorcees and
one desperate hit man on a luxury cruise ship bound for
the Caribbean?
Red Tide
L
ily Munroe thought she had married an honest, dependable man, but she was painfully mistaken. It didn't take long for her once-loving husband to become a secretive stranger-mixing with shady people and even shadier
dealings. Although Lily nursed him through a sudden terminal illness, her marriage was over long before he passed
away. During that difficult time, only her passion for the
exhilarating Iditarod race across Alaska gave her something to look forward to-and she channeled her emotions
into training dogs for the grueling event. Now single again,
she's more determined than ever to win the race, awaken
her sense of self, and leave her past behind.In the competition, the person to beat is two-time winner Derek
Wright, a man Lily dubs Mr. Wrong. Extremely sexy and
devilishly charming, Derek is the consummate playboy.
Or is he? Although Lily can't deny her intense attraction,
she believes he is dangerous to her scarred heart. Little
does she know that Derek is an elite antiterrorism agent-or
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S
omething has been set loose in the city — an airborne
horror that leaves a tunnel full of corpses below the
streets of Seattle just as experts from fifty nations are gathering at a downtown hotel for an international symposium
on chemical and biological weapons. Terror has hit the
West Coast with a vengeance — as a deadly tide sweeps
into Frank Corso's town.
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Scarecrow
Settling Accounts:
Return Engagement
Matthew Reilly
Harry Turtledove
T
here are 15 targets, the finest warriors in the worldcommandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be
dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost
$20 million each. Scarecrow is the third book in the Shane
Schofield series. With new exotic locations and weaponry,
plus a returning cast of old friends from the battlefield,
Scarecrow is set to take the action/adventure world by
storm, and leave readers gasping for air. With his trademark style, Matthew Reilly continues to establish himself
as one of today's top thriller writers.
H
arry Turtledove's remarkable alternative history novels brilliantly remind us of how fragile the thread of
time can be, and offer us a world of "what if." Drawing on a
magnificent cast of characters that includes soldiers, generals, lovers, spies, and demagogues, Turtledove returns to
an epic tale that only he could tell-the story of a North
American continent, separated into two bitterly opposed
nations, that stands on the verge of exploding once again.
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See Jane Die
Joyce Krieg
Erica Spindler
N
early killed as a teenager by a hit-and-run boater,
Jane Killian is a woman with everything to live for. A
series of surgeries restored her lovely face. She's the toast
of the Dallas art community, her sculptures lauded as both
disturbing and beautiful. And Jane and her husband, plastic surgeon Dr. Ian Westbrook, are expecting their first
child. Then a woman with ties to Ian is found brutally slain
and, unbelievably, the police make him their prime suspect. At first determined to prove her husband's innocence, Jane cannot escape her own growing doubts. Then
her nightmare escalates. She begins receiving anonymous
messages and quickly becomes convinced they're from
him — the boater she always believed deliberately hit her
and got away with it. Now Jane must face a terrifying truth.
Her tormentor knows everything about her — her likes,
her dislikes, her daily routine and, most frightening of all,
her deepest fears. And he will use them mercilessly until
he sees Jane dead.
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he was just the sweetest thing... there's no way she
could have done all those horrible things you media
people keep saying she did. Just no way."…... “If she
really didn't do it, why break out of jail? Why not wait for
the verdict and walk away a free woman?" These are some
of the comments that Shauna J. Bogart is getting on her
talk radio show after the news that a television and radio
star known as Jasmine has escaped from custody. After a
long career as an entertainer, Jasmine has been making an
amazing comeback, but now she's just been jailed. Well,
someone who wakes up and finds a dead body beside her
in her hotel bed can't really complain about that…. Shauna
decides to follow her dream - she will find Jasmine herself,
and get a firsthand interview. That, the identity of the dead
man, and a scam connected with the song itself all begins
to come obligingly together. But the tighter the strands are
tied, the more Shauna herself is in real jeopardy.
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The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
Three Act Tragedy
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
I
ndisputably the greatest fiction detective of all time,
Sherlock Holmes lives on-in films, on television, and,
of course, through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inimitable
craft. These 22 stories show Holmes at his brilliant best.
T
he Reverend Stephen Babbington seldom imbibes,
but at a gala thrown by actor Sir Charles Cartwright,
he indulges in a cocktail and falls over dead. Since there is
no trace of poison or foul play, the case is closed . . . until
an identical death at a London party arouses the suspicions of Hercule Poirot. Also published as Murder in
Three Acts. Reissue.
Sugar Cookie Murder
Joanne Fluke
The Wake-Up
Robert Ferrigno
T
he holidays are the icing on the cake for bakery
owner Hannah Swensen. Surrounded by her loved
ones, she has all the ingredients for a perfect Christmas—
until murder is added to the mix...When it comes to holidays, Minnesotans rise to the occasion—and the little town
of Lake Eden is baking up a storm with Hannah leading
the way. The annual Christmas Buffet is the final test of
the recipes Hannah has collected for the Lake Eden Holiday Buffet Cookbook. While Hannah is baking the day’s
goodies at The Cookie Jar, the evening’s plans begin to
jell. Start with the best Lake Eden culinary creations, add
two of Hannah’s “sometime” boyfriends, a pinch of her
ready-to-pop pregnant sister, and a dash of her mother
and new significant other, an actual British lord, and what
do you get? A recipe for disaster, but the juiciest ingredient is yet to come...
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F
rank Thorpe is set to board a plane at LAX for a
much-needed vacation when he sees an obviously
poor young boy knocked out of the way and senseless by
an arrogant businessman rushing to a waiting Porsche.
Frank really needs some R & R. He's just been fired--over
a fatal screw up--from the covert operations "shop" he's
worked at for years. But Douglas Meachum--a hardcharging art dealer--needs to be made to feel something
more than entitlement: nothing extreme, just a little wakeup call. Given Frank's background and his expertise in
good guy/bad guy tactics, it's easy for him to set up a scam
involving some embarrassing revelations about a faked
Mayan sculpture that Meachum sells to one of his clients.
But the client isn't someone who takes kindly to mistakes.
She's a ruthless social-climbing psychopath who, with her
surfer-dude husband (the Thomas Alva Edison of designer
pharmaceuticals), runs a huge drug operation. What
started out as a good (if slightly underhanded) deed
quickly veers out of control. How Frank handles the
chaos--and what he himself hears in the wake-up call--is
the fuel that drives this full-throttle, terrifically entertaining
novel.
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The Wind Dancer
Kim Wozencraft
Iris Johansen
D
iane Wellman was in the wrong place at the wrong
time. On patrol one hot night in Texas, she happened across the scene of a chilling multiple murder. An
idealistic young police officer, Diane questions the nature
of the open-and-shut case. She knows the prosecutor has
put an innocent man in prison for the crime. And Diane
saw someone else that night. Gail Rubin has been in the
wrong place for the past eighteen years. She was sent to
prison because of her peripheral involvement in a robbery--a robbery where someone was killed. And now
someone is determined to make an example of Gail. Both
Diane and Gail have been done wrong. They want revenge. And they are willing to risk everything to find a way
out of the nightmare their lives have become. When the
two of them make a break for it, they delve into the crime
for which Diane has been put away, and they uncover a
bigger conspiracy than they can even imagine. And once
they're on the run, there is no turning back.
I
n Renaissance Italy, intrigue is as intricate as carved cathedral doors, but none is so captivating as that surrounding the prized Wind Dancer, the lost treasure of a
family--and of the man who will stop at nothing to reclaim
it. Lionello Andreas is bound by his vow to guard the exquisite statue. But to recover what is rightfully his, he will
need the help of a thief--one he can control body and soul.
He finds his answer on the treacherous backstreets of
Florence, in a sharp-witted young woman whose poverty
leaves her no choice. But in the end, the allure of the
Wind Dancer, and the ruthlessness of those who would
possess her, will catapult them both into a terrifying realm
where death may be the most merciful escape.
Wings of the Falcon
Barbara Michaels
While I Disappear
Edward Wright
T
C
lea's Moon was the most talked-about mystery debut
of the year.This one's even better.
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he death of her English father left Francesca alone
and unprotected, with nowhere to turn but to the
noble Italian family of her late mother. Adrift in a strange
land, surrounded by cold and suspicious relatives who had
disowned her mother on her wedding day, Francesca is
determined to make the best of a bad situation. But nothing could have prepared her for the nest of dark secrets
and oppressive cruelty she has been cast into. And her fate
now rests in the hands of a mysterious horseman known as
the Falcon, whose appearance will speed her salvation ...
or hasten her doom.
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Witch Hunt
Ian Rankin
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he is Witch, and she makes for alluring prey, teasing
her pursuers as she eludes them, hunting her victims
with breathtaking creativity, beguiling the most powerful
men in the world with her dark beauty and cunning.
Witch is wanted by the world's most elite police agencies,
doggedly pursued by three very different detectives - one
woman and two men. Two are at the beginning of their
careers, one is staking a lifetime's experience on tracking
Witch down, and all three display a professional determination that veers dangerously close to obsession. Working
with and against one another, crossing paths and crossing
swords, the detectives on her trail must stop her before
she pulls off her most daring and ingenious assignment
yet, a killing whose repercussions will reverberate throughout the world.
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Romance
Romance
The Boy Next Door
Meg Cabot
convict uncle on the lamb. A sheriff hot on his heels. A
Christmas pageant decorated like a department store white
sale. A Tony award-winning actor better known for his
Heat-n-Eat Meat Pie ads. A town conspiring on Christmas
Eve to keep Manhattan refugees from escaping back to the
city. What are three nice girls to do? Play naughty!
First Dance:
The Bridesmaid Chronicles
Karen Kendall
W
ho is . . . The Boy Next Door? Is he really Max
Friedlander, notoriously wild, famously selfcentered fashion photographer-nephew of poor old comatose Mrs. Friedlander? Has he come to relieve Mel of the
burden of having to walk (or be walked by) Mrs. F's monster Great Dane, Paco -- so maybe she can start getting to
work on time and maybe keep her job at the New York
Journal?He's not really trying to find out who assaulted his
"aunt" in her own home and why, is he? All by himself?
Isn't that a bit dangerous? And how can one man be this
gorgeous, funny, charming, fearless, sexy and mysterious?
Caroline’s Waterloo
Betty Neels
N
ew Jersey new money meets landed Texas gentry
when Julia Spinelli falls head over heels for RomanSonntag. Their whirlwind courtship has their families in
an uproar. And while their wedding party has their best
interests at heart, they sure have a funny way of showing
it. But Julia is sure that love will win out—for her and her
bridesmaids. Manhattan's top female divorce attorney a
bridesmaid? Stranger things have happened. The bride's
best friend, Vivien Shelton, has seen the ugly side of love—
and alights in Texas with the perfect wedding present: an
iron-clad pre-nup. But the groom's good-ole-boy lawyer is
itching for a fight—especially one with Vivien, a woman he
has tangled with in the past.
First Love
Julie Kenner
Christmas Cards From the Edge
Jennifer Ashley et. Al.
as bride-to-be Julia Spinelli is about to throw the
J ustswankiest
wedding Fredericksburg, Texas, has ever
H
OLIDAY MADNESS: One wannabe dominatrix. A
sexy Scotsman. Twenty-seven relatives. An ex-
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seen, in roll her Jersey parents in all their tacky glory-and
out rolls her hope for happily-ever-after. If she can't convince her father that her fiancè is head-over-heels for her
and not her trust fund, the wedding is off.
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Romance
The Haviland Touch
Joy for Mourning
Kay Hooper
Dorothy Clark
I
t's been ten years since Spencer Wyatt jilted Drew
Haviland for another man. Now she is free--and Drew
will do anything to get vengeance and take what's been
promised to him. But closer inspection tells him that
Spencer is in dire straits--and in desperate need of his
help.
The Jinx
Jennifer Sturman
I
n a move that shocks nineteenth-century Philadelphia
society, wealthy widow Laina Brighton turns her grand
house into an orphanage for homeless children. Staid and
stuffy teas quickly give way to peals of happy laughter
echoing through the stately halls. With the support of
handsome doctor Thaddeous Allen, Laina is determined
to give these waifs a better life, despite the malicious gossip
that surrounds them. As these two crusaders, bound by
honor and courage, create a future for the forgotten, they
change the course of their own futures in ways they never
imagined. Along the way, they make a felicitous discovery:
that sometimes people become a family in their hearts.
Lasso the Moon
Beth Ciotta
R
achel Benjamin's life might look glamorous but she
has worked into the early morning on more nights,
canceled more weekend plans and slept in more Holiday
Inns in small industrial towns than she cares to count.
(Standard practice in the business of mergers and acquisitions.) And that picture of her on the recent cover of Fortune? It inspired a reprise of her grandmother's favorite
lecture, the one titled "You don't want to be one of those
career gals, do you?" (Other popular hits include "Have
you met anyone nice?" and "I just want to go to a wedding
before I die.") But this week Rachel's job is taking her to
Boston, where in between work obligations she plans to
squeeze in quality time with her promising new boyfriend.
They've just hit the six-month mark and things are going so
well, Rachel's not even worried anymore that she'll jinx
it.There are just a few little problems: Her friend's been
attacked and a serial killer is on the loose -- and the two
might actually be related. Oh, and her promising new boyfriend? He seems to be squeezing in quality time with his
new gazelle-like, model-material colleague . .
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otivated by a childhood promise, Paris Garrett travels to the wilds of Arizona Territory (1877) to seek
fame as a stage actress. Never mind that she doesn't possess a lick of experience or that her true passion is songwriting. Before he died, her beloved papa encouraged her
to reach for the stars. She promised to lasso the moon!
She's already slipped free of her over-protective brothers.
Nothing and no one, especially some badge-wearing Romeo, is going to rein her in or stand in her way.
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The Lawman Said “I Do”
Lyon’s Gate
Ana Leigh
Catherine Coulter
W
hen outlaws attack Cassie Braden's stagecoach,
she's grateful to Colt Fraser for saving her. But
she's certainly not attracted to the rugged, handsome
stranger — after all, he's just passing through, and she's
turned down plenty of traveling cowboys before. So why
do sparks fly every time they're together? Colt is on his
way to California to seek his fortune, but his bravery wins
him the post of deputy sheriff in Cassie's sleepy town.
Though he's not interested in settling down, he needs the
cash — and why not indulge a harmless flirtation with the
sheriff's firecracker of a daughter before continuing westward? Yet when new dangers threaten, the forces keeping
Cassie and Colt apart begin to lose their battle against desire too powerful to resist...and a love too big to ignore.
F
ive years after Jason Sherbrooke leaves England for
Baltimore and the Wyndhams (The Valentine Legacy), one of the premiere racing families in the area, he
wakes up early one morning with Horace's ugly pug face
staring him down, and knows it's time for him to go home.
Jason wants to breed and race horses, primarily his own
thoroughbred Dodger, who's faster than a Baltimore pickpocket. When his twin James takes him to Lyon's Gate, a
once-renowned racing stud farm near his family's home,
Jason knows to his soul that this property is what he wants
more than anything. Unfortunately, Hallie Carrick (Night
Storm) wants Lyon's Gate just as badly as Jason, and she's
fully prepared to fight him down and dirty to get it. New
life and fate take a hand, and the two of them end up with
something neither expected.
Love Came Just In Time
Lynn Kurland
More Than Words, Volume 2
Debbie Macomber, et al
F
our classic novellas by USA Today bestselling author
Lynn Kurland. With each of her stunning novels and
novellas, readers have faithfully followed Lynn Kurland's
intertwining characters across time, across the continents,
across the map of the human heart. Now, four of her best
novellas are collected here for the first time in one enchanting anthology. A must for fans of the bestselling author, it includes: The Gift of Christmas Past, The Three
Wise Ghosts, And the Groom Wore Tulle, and The Icing
on the Cake.
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very day, women across North America reach out
and change lives in their communities. Five have
been selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More
Than Words award — and five New York Times and USA
TODAY bestselling authors have generously given their
creative energy, writing original short stories inspired by
these real-life heroines.
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Romance
Night Tales
Nora Roberts
scandal hovers over them-one question remains: will she
be mistress or wife?
Sex, Lies, and Online Dating
Rachel Gibson
T
he hours between dusk and dawn are filled with mystery, danger -- and romance. Here are two dark and
dazzling classic tales of passion and peril by the incomparable mistress of romantic suspense, #1 New York Timesbestselling author Nora Roberts.
The Paid Companion
Amanda Quick
O
nce again, the incomparable Quick has whipped up
a delectable Regency romance" about an ice-cold
business agreement that turns into something far more
heated.
W
hat is it about men anyway? Bad cars, bad jobs,
even bad teeth -- nothing convinces them that they
can't snare a Size Two Babe with a D-cup chest. And after
way too many internet dates with men named "luvstick"
and "bigdaddy182," Lucy Rothschild should know. But
sitting across from her now is "hardluvnman," and he
seems different -- sensitive, honest, and hot! He says he's a
plumber, while Lucy claims she's a nurse! She's really a
mystery writer, dating online while researching her next
book. Hey, everyone lies a little, don't they? But Quinn's
really an undercover cop hunting down a serial killer, and
he sees Lucy as his top suspect. And while he could really
go for this smart, sexy woman with the killer bod -- if that's
the only thing "killer" about her -- he knows he needs to
wine and dine her and discover the truth. Hey, he realizes
the dating scene can be deadly -- but this is ridiculous!
The Secret Pearl
Who Loves Ya, Baby?
Mary Balough
Gemma Bruce
H
e first spies her in the shadows outside a London
theatre, a ravishing creature forced to barter her
body to survive. To the woman known simply as Fleur, the
well-dressed gentleman with the mesmerizing eyes is an
unlikely savior. And when she takes the stranger to her
bed, she never expects to see him again. But then Fleur
accepts a position as governess to a young girl...and is
stunned to discover that her midnight lover is a powerful
nobleman. As two wary hearts ignite-and the threat of
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C
atch and cuff a perp without batting a false eyelash?
No problem for NYPD undercover cop Julie Excelsior. But her big mouth just got her demoted… Time to
say goodbye to the grit and grime of the precinct house,
and hello to the simple life upstate where her Uncle Wes,
that old practical joker, just died and left her a house on
twenty acres. And the little town of Excelsior Falls has a
few other surprises in store…like Julie’s childhood pal Cas
Reynolds, who grew up to be quite a man.
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Science Fiction/Fantasy
of the battle. It may be a War of Flowers, but many people
will die, and blood will flow in the streets.
Numbers Don’t Lie
The Dark Ascent
Terry Bisson
Walter H. Hunt
T
he war with the zor is long over, and Admiral Marais,
the legendary "Dark Wing" is long dead, though
some of his companions on that campaign of xenocide still
remain, and in the alien philosophies of the past their
might exist man's hope for salvation in the very near future. But the same ancient philosophy of the zor race that
prophesized "the Dark Wing" has also foreseen a hero that
will meet the new menace - a hero now mystically embodied in a rebellious space commodore by the name of
Jackie Lappierre.
House of Reeds
Thomas Harlan
F
or the first time, you can get Terry Bisson's three Wilson Wu novelettes in one place, including the Hugonominated "Get Me to the Church on Time." Everybody
should have a friend like Wilson Wu. He's been a rock
musician, an engineer, and a pastry chef; he got halfway
into a medical degree and a math Ph.D.; he graduated law
school and passed the bar on the first try. Combining meteorology and entomology, he helped on a weather-control
project in Quetzalcan. (Don't ask.) And then there's his
scholarship on desert caravans . . . . Of course, he's not the
main character. That would be Irv, another lawyer, who
met him while they were working Legal Aid. Irv's got this
talent for stumbling on strange phenomena. Wilson just
crunches the numbers. A junkyard dedicated to Volvos
conceals a rift in the space-time continuum. A beaded seat
cushion in a vacant lot heralds the premature collapse of
the universe. And when an airport baggage claim runs like
clockwork . . . ? (Shudder.) Check out the math!
The Return of Nightfall
Mickey Zucker Reichert
X
enoarcheologist Gretchen Anderssen had hoped to
enjoy her well-earned vacation. She hadn't seen her
home-world or her children for many months. But the
Company has other plans for her - when she checks in for
her transport, she finds new orders for her team. It looks
like only a small diversion - a quick trip to the Planet
Jagen, to investigate reports of a possible First Sun artifact.
But it smells bad, says Gretchen's Hesht companion, Magdalena. David Parker, the Company pilot assigned to
Anderssen's analysis team agrees. And they are so right.
Gretchen, Magdalena, and Parker find themselves in very
dangerous territory indeed. Because, unbeknownst to anyone at the Company, the Imperial Méxican Priesthood has
decided to wage a war on Jagan - a war not of conquest or
defense, but a "flowery war", planned and fomented for the
purpose of blooding the Emperor's youngest son.
Gretchen and her team are headed right into the middle
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H
e has been known by countless names and terrifying
deeds, but chief among those names is that of Nightfall, a man-or perhaps the legendary demon himself-gifted
with a unique power which any sorcerer would kill to possess. Now, Nightfall is bound by magic and oath to guard
and guide a newly-crowned king. But when his liege disappears, Nightfall must get help from Duke Varsah-the man
who wants nothing more than to see Nightfall destroyed.
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Women of War
Tanya Huff and Alexander Potter, ed.
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n the real world, many women are still struggling for
equality, but science fiction and fantasy provide a stage
for the portrayal of women who have come fully into their
own. Here, a talented group of writers has taken up the
challenge of creating strong, well-rounded female protagonists, more than able to defend themselves and take the
helm-whether in space, on distant worlds, in our own future, or in fantasy realms where a civilization's fate hangs in
the balance.
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Westerns
A Distant Land
Westerns
Matt Braun
Comanche Prairie
Giff Gheshire
T
T
his trio of short novels showcases Giff Cheshire’s
award-winning ability to capture all the drama and
heart-pounding adventure of the West. In “No Man’s
Range,” Bart Tyler must resort to desperate measures
when a big-time cattle rancher refuses to shelter Bart and
his herd during a brutal blizzard. The small Oregon settlement in “River of Gold” is flourishing until struck by a
disease with no cure: gold fever. With all able-bodied men
headed for California, can those left behind survive? And
in the title story, Torp Toynbee has finally achieved his
ambition of becoming a trail boss, only to be falsely accused of murder. He escapes from jail, but will he be able
to catch the real killer while evading the law himself?
hey were family, Clint Brannock, manhunter and
man killer. Elizabeth Brannock, passionate idealist
and courageous freedom fighter. Lon Brannock, icy gambler and lightning gunman, proud of the Indian strain in
his blood. Jennifer Brannock, determined to win respect
as a doctor, yet wondering if she could find happiness as a
woman. Hank Brannock, a teenager at the crossroads between the law and the lawless. Ties of blood bound them
together--but in a New Mexico territory aflame with violence...where two kinds of people, and two ways of life,
moved toward savage showdown...unbending Brannock
pride and iron Brannock will threatened to rip them apart.
Joe Pepper
Elmer Kelton
The Coming of Cassidy
Clarence E. Mulford
is a Texas badman with quite a past. In fact,
J oetherePepper
isn't much that Joe hasn't done in his forty years of
B
uck peters put everything he owned into the Bar-20
and thought eh could make a go of it. It looked pretty
good too, until he feill in with that gang of renegade buffalo hunters. There were after her spread, his cattle, his
life. And they swore to let nothing stand in their way.
Nothing. And then they met a cowhand named Cassidy…
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living on both sides of the Texas law-except face the hangman. Now, convicted of murder, Joe is about to get that
privilege. But before he goes, Joe has a few things he wants
to say-and a few stories that he wants to set straight. With
Joe Pepper, legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton tells a
fine and moving tale of the history of his home state of
Texas.
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Kansas City Chorine
(Spur Series #28)
Dirk Fletcher
River’s West
Louis L’Amour
H
e killed me," the dying man had said. "He stabbed
me." Those words stayed with young Jean Talon as
he journeyed westward, finally reaching the Missouri in
search of a simple and honest life building river boats. But
the stranger died. And that meant unraveling a deadly knot
that tied together a vicious renegade's army, the Louisiana
Purchase, and the missing brother of a beautiful, headstrong woman. Too near the truth to break away, Jean
Talon turns in the tools of his trade for a far more dangerous kind of work—the kind that either gets men killed or
earns them a new home in a violent, untamed land.
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