 | Courage: The Backbone of Leadership
Publication Date: March 3, 2006In Courage, Gus Lee captures the essential component of leadership in measurable behaviors. Using actual stories from Whirlpool, Kaiser Permanente, IntegWare, WorldCom and other organizations, Lee shows how highly successful executives face and overcome their fears to develop moral intelligence. These real-world examples offer practical lessons for rooting out unethical practices and behaviors byAssessing them for rightness and integrityAddressing moral failuresFollowing through with dialogue and direct action ...
 |  | Sandstorm
Release Date: April 26, 2011The explosive first adventure in James Rollins' bestselling Sigma Force series!A freak explosion in the British museum in London ignites a perilous race for an earth-shaking power source buried deep beneath the sands of history. Painter Crowe is an agent for Sigma Force, a covert arm of the Defense Department tasked with keeping dangerous scientific discoveries out of enemy hands. When an ancient artifact points the way toward the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands," Painter must travel across the world in search of the lost city-and a destructive power be...
|  | The Tiger's Wife: A Novel
Release Date: March 8, 2011NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Economist • Vogue • Slate • Chicago Tribune • The Seattle Times • Dayton Daily News • Publishers Weekly • Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered SELECTED ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times • Entertainment Weekly • The Christian Science Monitor • The Kansas City Star • Library JournalWea...
|  | Deadly Care
Publication Date: March 1, 1996In a medical thriller, forensic pathologist Joanna Blalockuncovers a widespread conspiracy in a major Los Angeles hospital thatthreatens to kill hundreds of patients. 35,000 first printing. $35,000ad/promo. ...
|  | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel
Release Date: May 1, 2007An American classic resplendent with the charm, grace, and grit of all good southern literature, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is Fannie Flagg’s enduring tale of the beloved folks who live in a small Alabama town. At its center are some truly remarkable women, connected by a place and a generosity of spirit grounded in family, good friends, and good food. The story begins in 1985 with the friendship between shy, middle-aged Evelyn Couch, sadly aware she’s gotten “lost along the way,” and Ninny Threadgoode, an eighty-seven-year-...
|  | The Redbreast: A Harry Hole Novel
Release Date: August 30, 2011 Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he’s been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway’s dark past, when members of the government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. More than sixty years later, this black mark won’t wash away—and disgraced old soldiers who once survived a brutal Russian winter are being murdered, one by one. Now, with only a stained and guilty conscience to guide him, an angr...
|  | Language and Thought in Sophocles (University London Classical Study)
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|  | One Man's Moon: 50 Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, Hakuin, Shiki, Santoka
Publication Date: January 1, 1984| ISBN-10: 0917788265 | ISBN-13: 978-0917788260| Edition: 1st Ed. classic Japanese, tr Corman...
|  | Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties (Contributions in American Studies)
Publication Date: August 9, 1994| ISBN-10: 0313292590 | ISBN-13: 978-0313292590While scholars have begun to study popular women's novels of the 19th century, there has been relatively little attention paid to popular women's fiction of the early 20th century. This is the first study to focus on popular fiction written by, for, and about women in the period between the two world wars. The author examines such well-known best sellers as Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth, as well as dozens of other popular novels that have...
|  | Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (The New historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
Publication Date: July 1, 1992| Series: The New historicism : studies in cultural poetics Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Reading the Ovidian Heroine: "Metamorphoses" Commentaries, 1100-1618 (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (Mnemosyne Supplements)
Publication Date: June 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 9004117962 | ISBN-13: 978-9004117969This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in "Metamorphoses" commentaries written between 1100 and 1618. The Ovidian heroine offers a telling window onto medieval and early modern clerical constructions of gender and selfhood. In the context of classical representations of the feminine, the book examines Ovid's engagement of the heroine to explore problems of intentionality. The second part of the study presents commentaries by such clerics as William of Orleans, the "Vulgate" commentator, Thomas ...
|  | Undoing Gender
Publication Date: August 19, 2004| ISBN-10: 0415969239 | ISBN-13: 978-0415969239Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender...
|  | Lucky Penny
Release Date: January 31, 2012To support her orphaned niece, impoverished Brianna O'Keefe acceptswork with a Colorado rancher. To guard herself from unwanted attention,she resorts to a harmless little lie: that she's married to a Denvergold miner named David Paxton. But when her "husband" shows up, Briannais stunned-not the least by her desire... ...
|  | The Heart
Publication Date: October 18, 2011The heart is the most vital organ a person can use.It is the source of one's being, their flow in life.The heart controls-period. JD and Tracy press forward in their quest to the White House, but is the price too high? Their dreams have come true, even down to the number of children they would have. Now, an assassin is determined to take it all away. Al "Turk" Day was a kingpin who controlled the streets with intelligence and grace. After spending time in prison, he finds himself protecting the family of the man campaigning to become President of The United ...
|  | Desert Heart
Release Date: March 1, 1987New York Times bestselling author Bobbi Smith weaves a powerful tale of desire and greed, as a strong-willed beauty discovers a passion that burns hotter than the Arizona sun...He Vowed To Protect Her. . .As a child, Lorelei Spencer worshipped Rand McAllister until she spied him in an embrace that proved he was an arrogant scoundrel. Seven years in St. Louis have transformed Lorelei into a confident young woman, eager to return to Arizona to run her late father's gold mine. Discovering that Rand is now her legal guardian is an unwelcome surprise for the virile depu...
|  | Write Your Own Mystery Story (Write Your Own series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2006| Series: Write Your Own Series Provides tips on how to write mystery stories, including how to get started, how to create characters, and how to develop plots. Includes suggestions from famous authors. ...
|  | Dog Days(Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4)
Release Date: October 12, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Young Inhumans
Publication Date: September 3, 2008| Grade Level: 4 and up The next generation of Inhumans star in this atmospheric ensemble drama, collected for the first time in one trade paperback!They're just ordinary exchange students from a far-off land, here to learn about our culture - except their home is a mysterious city on the moon, and they each possess fabulous, exotic abilities and appearances. The product of experiments on humanity by an alien culture millennia ago, the Inhumans are a race governed by the laws of genetics. Here as nowhere else, diversity and individuality are prized beyond c...
|  | The Lost Horse: A Chinese Folktale
Publication Date: April 15, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up The Caldecott Medalist’s magnificent illustrations combine paint and paper collage to animate this ancient Chinese story of a wild horse that brings extraordinary reversals of fortune to its trusting owner. Three removable, cut-paper puppets invite young readers to act out the story and to create exciting new tales of their own. ...
|  | Kirsten Mini Doll (American Girls Collection Mini Dolls)
Release Date: August 30, 2011 ...
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