 | Human Anatomy &Physiology (9th Edition)
Publication Date: January 16, 2012| ISBN-10: 0321743261 | ISBN-13: 978-0321743268| Edition: 9 &>Ninth Edition of the best-selling Human Anatomy & Physiology, trusted authors Elaine N. Marieb and Katja Hoehn have produced the most accessible, comprehensive, up-to-date and visually stunning anatomy & physiology textbook on the market. Marieb draws on her career as an A&P professor and her experience completing her nursing education; Hoehn relies on her medical education and award-winning classroom instruction—together, they explain anatomy & physiology concepts...
 |  | The Milagro Beanfield War
Publication Date: February 1994Joe Mondragon, thirty-six, is a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, who slammed his battered pickup to a stop one day, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into an arid patch of ground. Then, illegally, he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began John Nichols' classic tale of the little guy against the big guy -- THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Playa's Handbook
Release Date: September 28, 2010There’s not a whole lot happening in Gary, Indiana. That is, until nationally renowned relationship expert Lance Montgomery bursts onto the scene. Twice divorced, Montgomery is now on a mission to perfect the art of being single. His tantalizing book The Playa’s Handbook, is causing quite a stir. His rules include:• Never give a woman the key to your apartment.• Playas “have sex”; they don’t “make love.”• Don’t be afraid not to commit, no matter how hot the sex is.• A woman can’t use...
|  | Someone Not Really Her Mother
Release Date: August 19, 2004 The captivating story of a contemporary American family, in which three generations ofwomen confront the intricacies of memory, geography, and motherhood, from the laudedauthor of Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper As Hannah Pearl’s memories of her 1940 escape to England from war-torn France cometo the foreground of her consciousness, her memory of her more recent American life,including her relationships with her daughter and granddaughters, is almost erased. Herdaughter, Miranda, attempts to bring her mother into the present and the daily activitieso...
|  | The Gilded Chamber : A Novel of Queen Esther
Publication Date: July 26, 2005In the Bestselling tradition of The Red Tent, a dazzling novel of the extraordinary biblical heroine who ascended to the position of queen and sacrificed love in exchange for the lives of her people. The story of Esther-- whose mesmerizing beauty was matched only by her clear-eyed wisdom-- has inspired women for centuries. Now her suspenseful tale comes to life through the eyes of a contemporary woman, debut novelist Rebecca Kohn. Capturing the passionate longings and political danger that have made Esther's legacy so timeless, The Gilded Chamber blends meticul...
|  | Crossings (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Publication Date: June 1, 2002| Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Pocket Paperback Numbered) (Book 25) THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMEBuffy and Dawn are having difficulty settling into their new roles, now that their mother is gone. Buffy herself is reluctant to cross over to the role of parent, and the two are bickering more than usual.In fact, Buffy's distraction prevents her from noticing strange behavior among the video-game crowd. One of Xander's friends goes medieval outside the Sunnydale movie theatre, laughing and babbling that he can't be stopped -- he's only in town on a temporary visa. Pu...
|  | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 18th Annual Collection
Release Date: August 22, 2006For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant continue this critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magic realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors’ invaluable overviews o...
|  | The Devil's Elixir
Release Date: December 22, 2011FBI agent Sean Reilly and his girlfriend, archaeologist TessChaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar novels, return inanother edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from present day back to1700s Mexico-and possibly beyond. What if there was a drug, previously lost to history in the jungles ofCentral America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous-and sounsettling-that it might shake the very foundations of Westerncivilization?What if powerful forces on both sides of the law got wind of that drugand launched a vicious, uncompromising purs...
|  | House Call
Publication Date: November 1, 2007As young Dr. Knox Chamblee struggles to establish a medical practice in a southern town, both his social and professional conquests are derailed by a psychotic killer. In House Call no one connects the first victim, an attractive hospital nurse discovered floating in a bloody bathtub, to the near-frozen body of Dr. Cullen Gwinn, Chamblee’s mentor and chief proponent, found at the base of a deer stand. The primary police suspect is Dr. Aslyn Hawes, Chamblee’s female senior partner and overbearing nemesis, whose jealousy of the victims cloaks her...
|  | Dark Shadows The Original Series Story Digest
Publication Date: October 11, 2011| Series: Dark Shadows For the first time in over thirty years read the original, first graphic novelization of Dark Shadows: The Original Series. Conceived by Gold Key editor Wallace I. Green as a novel illustrated by Dark Shadows comic book artist Joe Certa, this book presents a complete extended story with accompanying artwork. This intriguing story finds Angelique casting Barnabas back to 17th Century Salem! ...
|  | Escritores delincuentes / Criminal writers (Spanish Edition) (Hispanica)
Publication Date: January 30, 2012| Series: Hispanica Did Burroughs kill his wife while playing at being William Tell? Was Alvaro Mutis sent to Lecumberri for embezzlement? Was Anne Perry a teenage murderer? I can't claim to be immune to the fascination of outlaws, and maybe this project was initially fueled by a kind of morbid curiosity. These writers were selected not only for their life story but perhaps, more interestingly, for the relationship that exists between it and their work, in the merging of guilt, social injustice, and the possibility of redemption. Spanish Description:Quien es...
|  | Blinded by the Sun
Publication Date: April 12, 2012Scott Ferarra, a manic-depressive musician is struggling to make it in the music industry with his band Dever. Sensing there has to be more to life than just the mind-expanding evenings of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll, he desperately seeks ways to change his complacent routine. It is only after he falls for fellow rock singer Amanda Campbell that he realizes the magnitude of the challenge he has taken on. ...
|  | The Tintern Treasure (Roger the Chapman Mysteries)
Publication Date: July 1, 2012| Series: Roger the Chapman Mysteries An important discovery puts Roger the Chapman’s life in danger . . . - In the autumn of 1483, Roger goes on an errand of mercy to Hereford, where he is caught up in the Duke of Buckingham’s rebellion against the new king, Richard III. Roger takes refuge in Tintern Abbey, but on his return to Bristol, a murder and a series of house robberies lead him to the eventual discovery of the treasure stolen from the abbey on the night he was there. It also means great danger, not only for himself, but a member of his famil...
|  | Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China
Publication Date: September 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0872208494 | ISBN-13: 978-0872208490A collection of epics from the Miao (Hmong) ethnic group of southwest China. The poetic narratives, traditionally performed by two groups of singers, relate the creation of the world and the peoples and creatures in it. One of the major figures in one series of the songs is Butterfly Mother (Mai Bang), a personified butterfly who lays the eggs that eventually lead to the creation of the local peoples. Rich in cultural lore, these mythic narratives are virtual encyclopedias of traditional myths, legends, an...
|  | Bill Cosby: Actor and Comedian (People to Know)
Publication Date: September 1995| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Zane's Chocolate Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology
Release Date: January 6, 2004As a bestselling author and successful publisher of Strebor Books, Zane's name is synonymous with popular fiction -- especially erotica. Her website, Eroticanoir.com, gets over a million hits a year from around the world, and her fans look forward to every one of her publishing ventures with eager anticipation.Chocolate Flava is the first in a series of collections of great erotic fiction edited by Zane, the reigning queen of erotica. Based on the Featured Erotica section of her website, Chocolate Flava gathers twenty-five sizzling tales from some of the most t...
|  | How Beautiful the Beloved
Publication Date: April 1, 2009“[A] confident, mystical, expansive project.”—Publishers Weekly“[D]azzling and timeless . . . focus is so unwaveringly aimed toward the transcendent—not God, but the beloved—that we seem to slip into a less cluttered time.”—The Virginia Quarterly Review, “Editor’s Choice”"Mary Oliver calls him '...a Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman's bunting or oratory.' In these pages, he is more nearly a modern-day Rumi. This is not primarily a poetry of image, but of ideas, perfectly distilled. Orr brin...
|  | Five Medieval Astrologers
Publication Date: April 2, 2008This book contains translations of five astrological treatises by Medieval astrologers: Albumasar: The Book of Flowers, an anthology of rules for Mundane Astrology; Ptolemy: The Centiloquy; Hermes Trismegistus: The Centiloquy; Bethen: The Centiloquy; Almansor: The One Hundred and Fifty Propositions. This is the first comprehensive publication of these treatises, which were translated by James Herschel Holden, Research Director of the American Federation of Astrologers. He is especially interested in Classical and Medieval astrological works. ...
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|  | Clown
Publication Date: September 15, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up One day, Clown is thrown into the trash, but he doesn't stay there long.He tries to find someone to take care of his friends, but no one listens.Then Clown finds someone he can take care of, and together, they make a home for everyone.Follow the fortunes of Clown-- who starts in a garbage can and ends up in a happy family-- in this perfectly pitched picture book.Master illustrator Quentin Blake has created an irrepressible character, an action-filled plot, and an eloquent story that can be read on several level...
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