 | The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
Release Date: February 5, 2008With nearly 750,000 copies in print, this instant classic shows that establishing trust is “the one thing that changes everything” (Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths ) in both business and life.Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and constituents—is the essential ingredient for any high–performance, successful organization.For business leaders and public figures in any arena,...
 |  | Charmed Thirds
Release Date: April 24, 2007Jessica Darling’s in college!Things are looking up for Jessica Darling. She has finally left her New Jersey hometown/hellhole for Columbia University in New York City; she’s more into her boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, than ever (so what if he’s at a Buddhist college in California?); and she’s making new friends who just might qualify as stand-ins for her beloved best friend, Hope.But Jessica soon realizes that her bliss might not last. She lands an internship at a snarky Brooklyn-based magazine, but will she fit in with the überhip staff (...
|  | For You I Do (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: May 1, 2009| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 138) Feisty Bianca Beaumont is finally engaged! She's blissful... until longtime family friend London Brown tells her she's marrying the wrong guy. Not that Bianca believes London at first, but the sexy former investigator turned restaurateur has convincing proof. Now Bianca is single, and she's got some secret news of her own....A true gentleman despite his bad boy reputation, London proposes marriage to avoid a Sheraton Beach scandal. (She is a Beaumont after all!) Bianca agrees--in name only. But London knows she's feeling the si...
|  | Azabache. Cien fuegos III (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 24, 2006Tercera entrega de la saga Cienfuegos, esta novela narra las aventuras de su protagonista desde que conoce, por primera vez en su vida y para su sorpresa y estupor, a una mujer negra de carne y hueso ""Negra? -se asombro Cienfuegos, incapaz de aceptar lo que acababa de oir-. Pretender hacerme creer que eres una mujer y ademas negra?"". Pero, naturalmente, el canario no pone objeciones: ""cada cual escoge el color de piel que mas le gusta -sentencia-. Y el tuyo es el mas sufrido; se ensucia menos""... En el indomito Nuevo Mundo ambos se enfrentaran a peripeci...
|  | Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
Publication Date: June 1, 1973Thirteen great stories by foremost British 20th-century supernaturalist: "The Willows," "The Wendigo," "Ancient Sorceries," others. ...
|  | Ride the River (The Sacketts)
Release Date: June 1, 1983| Series: The Sacketts In Ride the River, Louis L’Amour spins the tale of a young woman who has to protect her family fortune from a murderous thief and teach him what it means to be a Sackett. Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett had never been far from her Tennessee home—until she made the long trek to Philadelphia to collect an inheritance. Echo could take care of herself as well as any Sackett man, but James White, a sharp city lawyer, figured that cheating the money from the young girl would be like taking candy from a baby. If he couldn’t hoodwink E...
|  | Family Planning
Publication Date: March 7, 2006A nurse practitioner at El Centro, a not-for-profit women's health center in rural Pennsylvania, Charlotte Hopper has found peace in her carefully constructed life-until her old college friend moves next door, resurrecting a secret so devastating that Charlotte's husband leaves rather than face the past. And after a heartbreaking discovery is made on the grounds behind the clinic, the women of El Centro must contend with being in the media spotlight-and being suspected of a terrible crime. Caught in a whirlwind of tragedies both large and small, Charlotte will ...
|  | Project June Bug
Publication Date: February 14, 2008"Smart, funny, poignant and relevant, it captures the best and worst of a system where no child should be left behind." George Anastasia, columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer Life is good for Jenna Bianchi. She’s just started her second year of teaching English at Morrison High School, a job she loves. She has a pet parrot with attitude. And there’s a handsome math teacher who wants to be more than just friends. But everything changes when a defiant, disruptive tenth grader walks into her classroom. With a smart mouth and a swagger to match, Mi...
|  | The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Release Date: February 12, 1985| ISBN-10: 0394729277 | ISBN-13: 978-0394729275| Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the 18th century version of "Little Red Riding Hood" did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on a...
|  | The Poems of Jesus Christ
Publication Date: April 2, 2012| ISBN-10: 0393083578 | ISBN-13: 978-0393083576| Edition: 1 The words of Jesus Christ are restored to their original poetic form
in this extraordinary volume.Jesus Christ, whose teachings have been on the lips of millions for two millennia, is revealed here as one of the greatest poets of all time. What happened to deafen us to the poetic nature of his words? In migrating from Aramaic speech into written Greek translation, and later into English translation, the lyrics got locked up as prose. In The Poems of Jesus Christ Willis Barnstone unveils the...
|  | Russian Image of Goethe: Goethe in Russian Literature of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
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|  | The Pillar of Salt
Release Date: February 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0807083275 | ISBN-13: 978-0807083277A semi-autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French colonized Tunisia. ...
|  | The Norton Anthology of World Literature (Third Edition)(Vol. F)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0393913341 | ISBN-13: 978-0393913347| Edition: Third Edition A classic, reimagined.Read by millions of students since its first publication, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most-trusted anthology of world literature available. Guided by the advice of more than 500 teachers of world literature and a panel of regional specialists, the editors of the Third Edition—a completely new team of scholar-teachers—have made this respected text brand-new in all the best ways. Dozens of new selections and translations, all-ne...
|  | El acoso moral. El maltrato psicologico en la vida cotidiana (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2001La posibilidad de destruir a alguien solo con palabras, miradas o insinuaciones es lo que se llama violencia perversa o acoso moral. En este libro, que se alimenta de numerosos testimonios, la autora analiza la especificidad de la relacion perversa y nos previene contra cualquier intento de trivializacion. Y no solo eso, sino que tambien analiza el mecanismo de funcionamiento de ese proceso en la pareja, la familia y la empresa: una especie de espiral depresiva, cuando no suicida, que arrastra irrevocablemente a las victimas en su caida mortal. Estas insidiosas ...
|  | Love Me to Death: A Novel of Suspense
Release Date: December 28, 2010Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was attacked and nearly killed by an online predator. She survived. Her attacker did not. Now Lucy’s goal is to join the FBI and fight cyber-crime, but in the meantime, she’s volunteering with a victim’s rights group, surfing the Web undercover to lure sex offenders into the hands of the law. But when the predators she hunts start turning up as murder victims, the FBI takes a whole new interest in Lucy. With her future and possibly even her freedom suddenly in jeopardy, Lucy discovers she’s a pawn in someone&r...
|  | Truly, Madly, Briefly & Tried and True (Duets No. 102)
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|  | The Doctor's Wife
Release Date: November 29, 2005“The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.” So begins The Doctor’s Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives. Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local women’s health clinic. But Annie, his wife, has become tired of her workaholic husband’s absences, and the soccer-mom lifestyle has worn thin. She begins a passionate love affair with bad-boy, fading celebrity painter Simon Haas&md...
|  | Six Metres of Pavement
Release Date: February 17, 2011Ismail Boxwala made the worst mistake of his life one summer morning twenty years ago: he forgot his baby daughter in the back seat of his car. After his daughter's tragic death, he struggles to continue living. A divorce, years of heavy drinking, and sex with strangers only leave him feeling more alone.But Ismail's story begins to change after he reluctantly befriends two women: Fatima, a young queer activist kicked out of her parents' home; and Celia, his grieving Portuguese-Canadian neighbour who lives just six metres away. A slow-simmering romance develops ...
|  | Su-il Vs. Su-il: A Story of Human Cloning Based on a Korean Fable
Publication Date: January 30, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Su-il versus Su-il is a fantasy novel for children based on the text of an old Korean folktale, re-interpreted in the setting of modern Korean society. In the folktale, a lazy boy cuts his nails and throws them away carelessly. A rat happens to eat the nail clippings and turns into that boy. The rat, now the duplicate of the boy, kicks the real boy out of his home. Finally the boy gets the help of a cat to drive the rat from his home.In the novel, Su-il, the main character, is forced to take summer school by his ...
|  | Racing Motorcycles (Torque: World's Fastest) (Torque Books)
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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