 | A Dog's Journey
Release Date: May 8, 2012Direct sequel to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron Buddy is a good dog. After searching for his purpose through several eventful lives, Buddy is sure that he has found and fulfilled it. Yet as he watches curious baby Clarity get into dangerous mischief, he is certain that this little girl is very much in need of a dog of her own. When Buddy is reborn, he realizes that he has a new destiny. He's overjoyed when he is adopted by Clarity, now a vibrant but troubled teenager. When they are suddenly separated,...
 |  | The Ender Quartet Box Set: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind
Release Date: November 4, 2008| Series: Ender Quartet This boxed set contains Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Ender's GameWinner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsIn order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-tra...
|  | A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast. George R.R. Martin (Song of Ice & Fire 5 Part 2)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Series: Song of Ice & Fire 5 Part 2 (Book 5) HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the fifth volume in the series. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In King's Landing the Queen Regent, Cersei Lannister, awaits trial, abandoned by all those she trusted; while in the eastern city of Yunkai her brother Tyrion has been sold as a slave. From the Wall, ha...
|  | Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
Release Date: April 25, 2006Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular Jack Reacher series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak ...
|  | Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 11)
Release Date: March 27, 2012| Series: Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood (Book 11) With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses thefirebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotteis now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on theanti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attentionis divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his"child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master.Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicatedthan she knows... ...
|  | Seven Years to Sin
Release Date: August 28, 2012A young man forced to sell his body for money. A young lady who watched him do it. Two tormented souls brought together years later to assuage the hunger of a desperate, irresistible attraction… With lush sensuality and unerring insight, Sylvia Day explores the underpinnings of intimacy and desire. Praise for Sylvia Day and her novels “Bared to You obliterates the competition… unique and unforgettable.” — Joyfully Reviewed “The romance between Alistair and Jessica is truly not to be missed.” - Romance Reader at Hea...
|  | Fear to Tread (Horus Heresy)
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Horus Heresy (Book 21) There is war on Signus Prime; Horus sends the Blood Angels to the Signus system, where an army of Khornate daemons waits for them. The Warmaster’s plan is to use the flaw in the Blood Angels’ gene-seed – which will later be known as the Red Thirst – to turn them to the worship of the Blood God. At the height of the battle, Sanguinius fights with the Bloodthirster Ka’Bandha. The Blood Angels fight for survival of thier minds and bodies ...
|  | Ashes of Honor: An October Daye Novel
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: October Daye It’s been almost a year since October “Toby” Daye averted a war, gave up a county, and suffered personal losses that have left her wishing for a good day’s sleep. She’s tried to focus on her responsibilities—training Quentin, upholding her position as Sylvester’s knight, and paying the bills—but she can’t help feeling like her world is crumbling around her, and her increasingly reckless behavior is beginning to worry even her staunchest supporters. To make matters worse, Toby&rsq...
|  | The Keeper of Lost Causes: The First Department Q Novel (A Department Q)
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: A Department QThe #1 international bestseller from Jussi Adler-Olsen, author of The Absent One—perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So apromotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of Copenhagen’s coldest cases for company. Hi...
|  | Murder of the Cat's Meow: A Scumble River Mystery
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Scumble River Mystery New York Times Bestselling Scumble River Series When ex–Vegas showgirl and local business owner Bunny Reid starts an online dating service called Cupid’s Cat’s Meow, out-of-town visitors flock to her bowling alley for the speed dating and cat show events that she hosts to bring in extra cash. Bunny’s scheme sounds harmless enough, but school psychologist Skye Denison knows all too well that an influx of strangers in Scumble River always spells trouble…. Meanwhile, Skye is convinced that her house is...
|  | In the Woods
Release Date: May 27, 2008As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Dete...
|  | I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)
Release Date: May 8, 2012"The sad thing is, I like it" - Maurice Sendak"The perfect gift to give a child or grandchild for their high school or college graduation.Also Father's Day.Also, other times." - Stephen Colbert ...
|  | The History of the Peloponnesian War
Release Date: September 30, 1954Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the ...
|  | My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays
Release Date: September 4, 2012Davy Rothbart is looking for love in all the wrong places. Constantly. He falls helplessly in love with pretty much every girl he meets—and rarely is the feeling reciprocated. Time after time, he hops in a car and tears across half of America with his heart on his sleeve. He’s continually coming up with outrageous schemes, which he always manages to pull off. Well, almost always. But even when things don’t work out, Rothbart finds meaning and humor in every moment. Whether it’s humiliating a scammer who takes money from aspiring writers ...
|  | Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Release Date: May 22, 2012| Series: Chief Inspector Gamache Named One of the Five Mystery/Crime Novels of the Decade by Deadly Pleasures MagazineWinner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it...
|  | A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Release Date: February 15, 2011| Series: Chief Inspector Gamache (Book 2) CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone in the hamlet of Three Pines, right up to the moment she died. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache begins his investigation, it seems like an impossible murder: CC was electrocuted on a frozen lake, in front of the entire town, during the annual curling tournament. With compassion and courage, Gamache digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find long buried secrets, while his own enemies threaten to bring something even more chilling than the b...
|  | Opening Moves: The Bowers Files (Patrick Bowers)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Patrick Bowers In The Bowers Files novels, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has stopped some of the most vicious serial killers ever imagined. Now, in the fifth exciting installment, author Steven James takes readers back to Bowers’s terrifying beginning. Milwaukee, 1997. In a city reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a series of gruesome kidnappings and mutilations draw authorities into a case like nothing they’ve ever seen. Cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose.But Patrick Bowers, working as a homicide detective, suspects t...
|  | A Foreign Country
Release Date: August 7, 2012From the internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of The Trinity Six, comes a compelling tale of deceit and betrayal, conspiracy and redemption On the vacation of a lifetime in Egypt, an elderly French couple are brutally murdered. Days later, a meticulously-planned kidnapping takes place on the streets of Paris. Amelia Levene, the first female Chief of MI6, has disappeared without a trace, six weeks before she is due to take over as the most influential spy in Europe. It is the gravest crisis MI6 has faced in more than a decade...
|  | Fables Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind (Fables (Graphic Novels))
Release Date: July 10, 2012| Series: Fables (Graphic Novels) (Book 17) A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe tights and capes have been stored away forever, but it remains to be seen if Haven and its refugee inhabitants have survived the onslaught of. Where do the Fables go from here? Bigby and Snow White's cubs try to move forward after learning a hard lesson about life and death. And the loveable, fan-favorite hero Bufkin the Flying Monkey gets into more trouble when he finally reaches his homeland of Oz.This Fables volume includes issues 108-113 of the original series. ...
|  | How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
Publication Date: January 15, 2007| ISBN-10: 1591477433 | ISBN-13: 978-1591477433| Edition: 1 All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this practical, lighthearted and encouraging book, Paul J Silvia explains that writing productively doesnot require innate skills or special traits but specific tactics and actions. Drawing examples from his own field: psychology, he shows readers how to ove...
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