 | Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Release Date: March 20, 2012Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired...
 |  | Hidden in a Whisper (Westward Chronicles, Book 2)
Publication Date: August 1, 2005Rachel has secured herself a rare position at the newest Harvey House in New Mexico. She looks forward to a new life there, far from the memories and longings of her heart--only to find that the very man her heart refuses to forget will be working right alongside her! Westward Chronicles Book 2. ...
|  | Love Finds You in Nazareth, Pennsylvania (42)
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Series: Love Finds You They were strangers when they married, but they both long for love. Christian and Susanna had never met when they were chosen by lot to marry in a Moravian community in Germany. But in 1755, they traveled with a dozen other newly married couples to Nazareth, Pennsylvania, to help establish a Moravian borough and share their faith with the surrounding Indian nations. Susanna’s heart warms toward her new husband even after she learns that he had wished to marry another woman in Germany. As war rages between the British and French I...
|  | Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
Release Date: October 1, 1996Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that's where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, lndiana, Tommy (to his (fiends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. But all tha...
|  | Right Side of the Wrong Bed
Release Date: November 27, 2007 Breaking all the rules... At thirty-three, Kenny Kane seems to have it all: good looks, a great career as a university administrator, a silver BMW, a sprawling home in the tony hills of Monterey Park, and a hot firefighter for a boyfriend--that is until he cheats on Kenny with a woman! After devoting the past seven years of his life to his ex, the last thing Kenny needs is to get involved with someone new. So when he meets Jeremy Lopez at a West Hollywood bar, Kenny is content to just buy him a drink and leave it at that.Is the only way to go... But Jeremy w...
|  | The Dangerous Years (Inspector Pel Mystery S.)
Publication Date: August 30, 2001| Series: Inspector Pel Mystery S. There is talk of peace across Europe as the First World War draws to its bloody conclusion and the German naval fleet limps into Scapa Flow for a humiliating surrender. But for Lieutenant Kelly Maguire, new conflicts arise in Russia, the Mediterranean, and the Far East. Maguire faces brutal choices and violent action. Rising through the ranks of the Royal Navy, he is sent on a mission to the killing-ground of China. For Maguire, dangerous years are ahead. ...
|  | TOLKIEN: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia
Publication Date: October 20, 1992This encyclopaedia offers guidance to Tolkien's world of Middle Earth and the Undying Lands. It draws together every important aspect of his vast cosmology in over 500 alphabetic entries covering five subject areas - history, geography, sociology, natural history anad biography. By drawing on Tolkien's works, the entries are intended to offer readers a detailed background to the characters and creatures of his extraordinary imagination. ...
|  | A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
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|  | Stuart Politics in Chapman's Tragedy of Chabot (English Literature Series)
Publication Date: June 1974| ISBN-10: 0838320376 | ISBN-13: 978-0838320372| Edition: New ed of 1928 ed A study in the relationship between politics and literature in England....
|  | Charm (Sun and Moon Classics)
Publication Date: September 1995| Series: Sun and Moon Classics (Book 89) ancient Latin verses wonderfully transl by Katz...
|  | C. M. Wielands s
Release Date: January 17, 2002This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1795 edition by Georg Joachim Göschen, Leipzig. ...
|  | Bittersweet within My Heart: The Love Poems of Mary, Queen of Scots
Publication Date: October 1, 1992This splendid volume offers the first complete collection of the impassioned poetry of Mary, Queen of Scots, one of history's most romantic figures. This important bilingual collection includes verse written by the Queen to her various lovers, to each of her three husbands, and to her rival, Queen Elizabeth I of England. 30 period paintings, 20 in color. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade Or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)
Publication Date: March 16, 2006| Series: S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture Explores the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Vonnegut’s work. ...
|  | The Amen Trail
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|  | The Cutout
Release Date: October 30, 2001CUTOUT: A third person used to conceal the contact between two people. A pawn.They were partners — lovers in a business where betrayal is a heartbeat away. CIA analyst Caroline Carmichael lost her husband Eric when his plane was blown out of the sky by an elite group of terrorists known as 30 April.Now her dead husband has surfaced among those responsible for an explosion that rocks Berlin — and the brutal kidnapping of the U.S. Vice President. Uncertain of Eric’s motives and loyalties, the Agency plays its last, best card: Eric’s wif...
|  | Second Inspector Thanet Omnibus
Publication Date: May 4, 1995| Series: Inspector Thanet CLOSE HER EYES: When Charity Pritchard goes missing Inspector Thanet's concern deepens when the first thought of her strictly relgious family is to leave the matter in God's hands. Of course, no detective can put much faith in appearance, but it is only after Thanet finds Charity's broken body before he realises just how wrong he can be...LAST SEEN ALIVE: It was all of twenty years since Alicia Parnell last saw Sturrenden. While she was still a schoolgirl a jilted boyfriend had killed himself, and her parents had tactfully moved away. N...
|  | Ozma of Oz
Release Date: May 24, 1989| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man.Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who h...
|  | Rumpelstiltskin
Release Date: March 15, 2007Under the disguise of a kind and well-meaning person, Rumpelstiltskin, a cunning dwarf, helps the miller's daughter to spin straw into gold, thus saving her from the king's punishment and offering her the chance to become queen. But he soon reveals his wicked nature, when he tries to take away the queen's child, by means of a strange game. Luckily, he is beaten at his own game and is forced to leave humiliated and ashamed. 'This is a softer and more sympathetic retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, in which the greedy king is humanized by his love for the miller's daughte...
|  | The Miami Dolphins Football Team (Great Sports Teams)
Publication Date: May 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | A book of German dactylic poetry
Publication Date: August 25, 2010This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy ...
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