 | How Will You Measure Your Life?
Release Date: May 15, 2012In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard Business School's graduating class. Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to unhappiness. The speech was memorable not only because it was deeply revealing but also because it came at a time of intense personal reflection: Christensen had just overcome the same type of cancer th...
 |  | The Best of Me
Release Date: August 7, 2012"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.Now, twenty-five years late...
|  | Stranger in Paradise
Release Date: June 25, 2001Caressed by the golden California sun, a perfectly round valley nestled in a ring of hills flecked with orange groves lies thirty miles or so east of Santa Barbara. Settled by the Spaniards four hundred years ago, it remains an idyllic, near-mystical site where the local convent still houses nuns whose prayers mingle with the hum of their famous honey bees. It is here that Eileen Goudge has set her new trilogy-in Carson Springs.Beneath the tranquil surface of Carson Springs disputes flare, feuds simmer, and secrets are guarded. In Stranger in Paradise, the opening ...
|  | Eerie Archives Volume 6
Publication Date: March 8, 2011| Series: Eerie Archives Eerie Archives is back and more beastly than ever with a sixth specter-packed volume! Collecting issues #28-#32 of the legendary horror magazine, Eerie Archives Volume 6 includes work from such legendary artists as Gardner Fox, Vaughn Bode, Richard Corben, Frank Frazetta, and others, illustrating stories by some of comics' most beloved writers, including Archie Goodwin, Nicola Cuti, and Doug Moench. Pick up one of these lovingly produced monsters and see why Eerie Archives has made multiple appearances on the New York Times bestseller l...
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Publication Date: May 15, 2012Savannah May Lovely learned that a satisfying life for a smart, ambitious and beautiful woman-child came with a hefty price. She had perfected the illusion of emotional maturity to pay that price, embracing an oath of silence that stifled her freedom. kept is a journey into a superficial world of tangible pacifiers and monetary gains that cost Savannah agonizing sacrifice. Faced with loneliness and isolation while on the heels of a disgusting self-revelation, Savannah manifests that there would be no one with whom she could confide her most vulnerable, desperate...
|  | Sasameke, Vol. 1
Publication Date: November 30, 2010| Series: Sasameke (Book 1) Elementary school soccer whiz Rakuichi Nagahama drew national attention a few years back with his IMPRESSIVEathletic skills. After disappearing to Italy for three years, Rakuichireluctantly returns to the remote town where he grew up. The local highschool soccer team can't wait to get their hands on the prodigy, despitethe fact that he was obviously a FAILURE in Italy. ButRakuichi's not sure he's ready to get back on the field. Sure, his bestfriend from elementary school (now a hot babe) can't wait to see himplay again...and his ...
|  | The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 7
Publication Date: May 14, 2012This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...come, first serv'd. Well said. Oh equal Heaven, how wisely thou disposest Thy several gifts! one's born a great rich fool, For the subordinate knave to work upon: Anothers poor, with wits addition, Which well or ill-us'd, builds a living up; And that too from the Sire oft descends: Only fair virtue, by traduction Never succeeds, and seldom meets success, Wh...
|  | Ideas and Beliefs in the Book of Psalms (Hebrew) (Hebrew Edition)
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|  | Cicero: The Verrine Orations I: Against Caecilius. Against Verres, Part I; Part II, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library No. 221) (Pt. 1, v. 7)
Publication Date: January 1, 1928Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few ...
|  | Negritude Women
Publication Date: October 11, 2002The Negritude movement, which signaled the awakening of a pan-African consciousness among black French intellectuals, has been understood almost exclusively in terms of the contributions of its male founders: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Léon G. Damas. This masculine genealogy has completely overshadowed the central role played by French-speaking black women in its creation and evolution. In Negritude Women, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting offers a long-overdue corrective, revealing the contributions made by four women-Suzanne...
|  | The Romantics and the May Day Tradition (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Publication Date: November 15, 2007| ISBN-10: 0754657744 | ISBN-13: 978-0754657743This important contribution to both Romantic and cultural studies situates literature by Wordsworth, Southey, Hunt, Clare, and Blake within the context of folklore and popular customs associated with May Day. Romantic responses to May Day bring into focus a range of issues now regarded as central to the writing of the period-the natural world, city life, the pastoral, regional and national identities, popular culture, cultural degeneration, and cultural difference.Essaka Joshua explores new connections betw...
|  | Gerard Manley Hopkins; the poet as Victorian
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|  | Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition (Mark Twain Papers)
Publication Date: March 26, 2012| Series: Mark Twain Papers The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life's work of America's favorite author.This Reader's Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the h...
|  | Dark Elves: Taken
Publication Date: March 2, 2008TAKENEveryone's heard tales of the Dark Forest, tales of entire bands entering the depths of the forest and simply disappearing, then the bones of some of the victims showing up neatly arranged toward the safer outskirts of the forest. Bones of the male victims. The females simply...disappear.After being robbed and left unconscious, Diana is determined to hunt down the thief and recover her money, and sets off after him...through the Dark Forest. She and her friend Gala soon learn the secret of the Dark Forest, home to black-skinned, white-haired, sex-oozing de...
|  | Secret Identity (Harlequin Larger Print Intrigue)
Publication Date: March 6, 2012| Series: Harlequin Larger Print Intrigue (Book 1337) Since leaving the CIA under questionable circumstances, Amanda Caldwell has been living a quiet, uneventful life in a sleepy mountain town. But when Rick Cooper, her former partner—and former lover—makes an unexpected reappearance, she senses things are about to get a lot more interesting.…Rick's mission is to protect Amanda and her identity from an assassin who's picked up her trail. It isn't long before working together stirs up all the passion and energy they'd once shared o...
|  | The Circle of a Promise
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|  | "F" is for Fugitive (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
Release Date: November 29, 2005| Series: Kinsey Millhone Mysteries When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, it’s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlake—a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boys—was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped. After all this time, Bailey’s finally been captured. Believing in his son’s innocence, Bailey’s father wants Kinsey to find Jean...
|  | Mystery for Halloween (Signet)
Release Date: October 3, 1991| Series: Signet This collection of sixteen haunting tales--selected by the editors of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine--calls forth the shivers and suspense that make Halloween a truly blood-red- letter day. Authors include Donald E. Westlake, Lawrence Treat, Dashiell Hammett, George Sumner Albee, and twelve others. Reissue. ...
|  | Murder to Mil-Spec
Publication Date: September 8, 2010Since 2006, Wolfmont has published a yearly anthology to benefit some worthy cause, raising thousands of dollars in donations. This year's anthology, MURDER TO MIL-SPEC, benefits Homes for Our Troops (www.homesforourtroops.org).Dehumanizing? That's how some people think of the military, and of war. But the truth is, life-threatening conflict and being pushed to our utmost can often bring out the very most human parts of us, those parts in which we can take the most pride.Here are twelve authors' stories of the humanity of veterans and active-duty military-s...
|  | May Bird, Warrior Princess: Book Three
Release Date: September 18, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up...
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