 | Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Release Date: November 2, 2010We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization that brought you Getting to Yes, Difficult Conversations provides a step-by-step approach to having those tough conversations with less stress and more success. you'll learn how to:• Decipher the underlying structure of every difficult conversation• Start a conversation without defensiveness• Listen for the meaning of what is not...
 |  | Unholy Empire (Chronicles of the Host, Book 2)
Publication Date: November 8, 2002The prophetic clock is ticking. Lucifer and his army of 'imps' search frantically for the prophetic "Seed of the woman".The memory of God's promise that this seed would rise up and crush the serpent's head stirs them to shadowy demonic activity. Unholy Empire chronicles the duel between God and the fallen angels as both focus their attention on the Seed. The devils watch for any and every sign of the Seed in an all out effort to stop, delay, compromise, or otherwise destroy this impending prophetic nightmare. If they fail they are all doomed. The second book...
|  | The Road To Key West
Publication Date: April 15, 2010The Road to Key West is an adventurous/humorous sojourn that cavorts its way through the 1970s Caribbean, from Key West and the Bahamas, to Cuba and Central America. In August of 1971, Kansas Stamps and Will Bell set out to become nothing more than commercial divers in the Florida Keys, but adventure, or misadventure, seems to dog them at every turn. They encounter a parade of bizarre characters, from part-time pirates and heartless larcenists, to Voodoo bokors, a wacky Jamaican soothsayer, and a handful of drug smugglers. Adding even more flavor to this Carib...
|  | Buddha's Orphans
Publication Date: July 14, 2010Called “a Buddhist Chekhov” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Samrat Upadhyay’s writing has been praised by Amitav Ghosh and Suketu Mehta, and compared with the work of Akhil Sharma and Jhumpa Lahiri. Upadhyay’s new novel, Buddha’s Orphans, uses Nepal’s political upheavals of the past century as a backdrop to the story of an orphan boy, Raja, and the girl he is fated to love, Nilu, a daughter of privilege.Their love story scandalizes both families and takes readers through time and across the globe, through the loss of and sear...
|  | Stealing Some Time: Vol. 2
Publication Date: April 23, 2003Kallen Deshara has discovered his world’s origin, nature, and destiny; and has fallen madly in love with Aaric Utzman in 1820.His decision to stay with Aaric, knowing full well that his presence might change all of history, brings him to the very edge of reality.But his colleagues who have returned to the 25th century have other plans.They intend to bring him back before he changes anything, even if it means killing him.But first they have to find him.Traveling along the Wilderness Trail with his new companion, Kallen is totally unaware he’s bein...
|  | Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg
Release Date: June 29, 2010• A classic in the making: Seen the Gloryre-creates the Civil War experience as vividly as the classic novel The Killer Angels . The soldiers of the storied 20th Massachusetts regiment, the sullen Southerners they march past, the hopeful freedmen and worried slaves, the terrified residents of Gettysburg, the battle-hardened Confederate soldiers are all rendered with brilliant realism and historical accuracy. • Brilliant characters: Raised by their abolitionist father on Martha’s Vineyard, eighteen-year-old Luke and sixteen-year-old Thomas Chandler...
|  | Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: February 1, 1994| Series: Penguin Classics Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Buchner's letters and philosophical writings. ...
|  | Performing the Sacred: Theology and Theatre in Dialogue (Engaging Culture)
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 080102952X | ISBN-13: 978-0801029523Christian theatre has rich roots, from ancient Hebrew dramas to medieval plays, but where does it fit in today's media-saturated society?Performing the Sacred is a fascinating dialogue between a theologian and theatre artist, offering the first full-scale exploration of theatre and theology. The authors illuminate the importance of live performance in a virtual world, of preserving the ancient art form of storytelling by becoming the story. Theologically, theatre reflects Christianity's central doctrines--inca...
|  | Wild Light: Selected Poems
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|  | The Sandbox
Release Date: March 16, 2010To all my fellow military "family" who are still serving overseas, to the ones who are home and to the ones who didn't make it home ( you are not forgotten)….To all the veterans of past, present and the future. Freedom is not free; we all sacrifice our lives for our country and the people in our country; our loved ones do the same as well when they support us and our decision to do what we do. Thank you all for supporting us! I wrote this book while I was deployed during 2007-2008 with the 708th Medical Company of the ILARNG. It was an experience ...
|  | A Hundred Verses from Old Japan: Bilingual Edition (Tuttle Classics)
Publication Date: September 15, 2007| Series: Tuttle Classics A Hundred Verses from Old Japan was originally collected in the thirteenth century. One of the most popular anthologies of Japanese classical poetry, this collection comprises love poems and "picture poems" describing scenes from nature in tanka form, thumbnail sketches compressed into thirty-one syllables. ...
|  | Clair de Terre (Collection Pobesie) (French Edition)
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|  | Highland Hellcat
Release Date: October 1, 2010"Deeply romantic, scintillating, and absolutely delicious." – Sylvia Day, national bestselling author of The Stranger I Married He wants a wife he can control... Connor Lindsey is a Highland laird, but his clan's loyalty is hard won and he takes nothing for granted. He'll do whatever it takes to find a virtuous wife, even if he has to kidnap her... She has a spirit that can't be tamed... Brina Chattan has always defied convention. She sees no reason to be docile now that she's been captured by a powerful laird and taken to his storm-tossed castle in the High...
|  | Loves Reach Through Time
Publication Date: January 3, 2011Palmer Thomas was in a different place and time. She is no longer in complete control.Jonathan Lowell breath is taken away, by this lovely creature. But, is she a spy or just a nurse with extra-ordinary skills wanting to help. When suspicion is pointed in her direction, he overcomes Heaven and Earth to save her from the hangman's noose. ...
|  | Destiny Kills
Publication Date: April 15, 2012One week before her wedding a young woman strips, takes the time to fold her clothes, then calmly walks into Lake Michigan. When Sam Casey is asked to look into the death of a young mother who left her infant in a high chair, walked down the street and jumped off the overpass, Sam finds a strange similarity-they each received a phone call just prior to committing suicide. Both calls were from disposable phones and both calls lasted four seconds. Were these really suicides or something more sinister? To complicate matters, Sam's husband, Jake Mitchell, is worki...
|  | Salt Water Taffy: The Legend of Old Salty (The Seaside Adventures of Jack & Benny) (Salt Water Taffy: The Seaside Adventures of Jack and Benny)
Publication Date: May 21, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Kit Mini Doll (American Girls Collection Mini Dolls)
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|  | Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade
Release Date: December 6, 2004| Grade Level: 5 and up Like every fifth grader, Esmé Raji Codell spent her days within the small world of school, neighborhood, and family. But this small world provides rich material for the often hilarious, always engrossing stories and vignettes in this book. Esmé tells us about: the night she and her mother became "egg vigilantes" against an illegally parked car; her freewheeling first school, where kids could choose disco dancing instead of math; her dangerous neighborhood, which her father made seem friendly and wondrous; the Passover dinner whe...
|  | Books Children Love (Revised Edition): A Guide to the Best Children's Literature
Publication Date: October 30, 2002A love for reading is one of the most precious gifts that we can give children. It nurtures their imagination and creativity, lets them explore other worlds, and opens their minds to new truths and knowledge in appealing, inspiring ways. But how can we sort through thousands of children's books to discover the really worthwhile ones? Elizabeth Wilson offers us a newly revised, comprehensive guide to the very best in children's literature. Just as in the original volume, she comments on the tone and content of excellently written, captivating books in over tw...
|  | Weedflower
Release Date: March 28, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to.Now, other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies for the emperor and Sumiko and her family find themselves being shipped to an internment camp in one of the hottest deserts...
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