 | Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics
Publication Date: December 7, 2010| ISBN-10: 0470495901 | ISBN-13: 978-0470495902| Edition: 7 This leading text in the field maintains its engaging, readable style while presenting a broader range of applications that motivate engineers to learn the core thermodynamics concepts. Two new coauthors help update the material and integrate engaging, new problems. Throughout the chapters, they focus on the relevance of thermodynamics to modern engineering problems. Many relevant engineering based situations are also presented to help engineers model and solve these problems. ...
 |  | Tomcat in Love
Release Date: September 1, 1999In this wildly funny, brilliantly inventive novel, Tim O'Brien has created the ultimate character for our times. Thomas Chippering, a 6'6" professor of linguistics, is a man torn between two obsessions: the desperate need to win back his former wife, the faithless Lorna Sue, and a craving to test his erotic charms on every woman he meets.But there are complications, including Lorna Sue's brother, Herbie, with whom she has an all-too-close relationship, and the considerable charms of Chippering's new love, the attractive, and of course already married, Mrs....
|  | Ellies Haven (River of Hope V2)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Series: River of Hope (Book 2) A courageous young woman seeking refuge... Ellie Booth was never the type to run away. But she'd witnessed her stepfather commit a heartless crime, and, knowing he'll stop at nothing to keep her quiet, she has no choice but to flee. Soon, she finds herself in Wabash, Indiana, scrambling for a cover identity to evade her stepfather. For lack of a better option, she answers an ad for a wife/housekeeper/nanny, praying that her lack of experience won't be obvious. A widowed father with no domestic skills to speak of... Gage Cooper...
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|  | Lasting Impression, A (A Belmont Mansion Novel)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: A Belmont Mansion Novel (Book 1) Blockbuster New Historical Series From Acclaimed Author Tamera AlexanderTo create something that will last is Claire Laurent's most fervent desire as an artist.It's also her greatest weakness.When her fraud of a father deals her an unexpected hand, Claire is forced to flee from New Orleans to Nashville, only a year after the War Between the States has ended.Claire's path collides with that of Sutton Monroe, and she considers him a godsend for not turning her in to the authorities.But when they meet again and he refu...
|  | Haunted Willoughby, Ohio (Haunted America) (The History Press)
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| Series: Haunted America Behind the ghost tales of Willoughby are local folklore, the long memories of residents and even the strange but hard facts of history. This collection of haunted lore will leave skeptics and believers alike shivering with stories of Willoughby Cemetery, where the Girl in Blue's restless spirit lingers near her grave, and rumors of Willoughby Coal and the menacing apparitions that peer from its darkened windows. From ancient Whittlesey legends and echoes of events that have shaped the course of the town to tales of the tragic and biz...
|  | The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, Book Two)
Release Date: June 25, 2002| Series: Earth's Children This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she ...
|  | I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French)
Publication Date: January 29, 2009| Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary ‘Nanny of t...
|  | La sombra del aguila / The Shadow of the Eagle (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 26, 2010During the Russian campaign of 1812, a battalion of former Spanish prisoners recruited to fight for Napoleon's army defects to side with the Russians. The Emperor believes the battalion's actions to be heroic and dispatches a cavalry unit to assist them. Using this historical event as the premise for this story, Arturo Perez-Reverte reveals a caustic and brutal vision of war, patriotism and anonymous acts of heroism in short, an entertainingly tragic outlook of the human condition.<P> Durante la campana de Rusia de 1812, en un combate adverso para las ...
|  | The Yale Companion to Chaucer
Publication Date: December 28, 2007| ISBN-10: 0300125976This new collection of specially commissioned essays on Chaucer’s poetry is a single-volume guide to the best and most inventive work in Chaucerian studies today. The first such book written with American undergraduate and graduate students in mind, The Yale Companion to Chaucer provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer’s work, on the ranges of current critical interpretation, and on the poet’s place in English and European literary history. With close readings of major texts...
|  | AS OF NOW: POETRY & PROSE FROM LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORES CLASS OF 2005
Publication Date: May 30, 2003As of Now is the second book of student poetry and prose from Lexington High School's Student Publishing Program, which has been selected as one of the top high school writing programs in the U.S. by Web del Sol, the largest nonprofit publisher of contemporary periodicals. The pieces range from snapshots of time spent in our own unique locality to ruminations of world events, from reflections on coping with life's pressures to the significance of love and friendship. They offer a colorful glimpse into both the unique and the collective sense of the young men and...
|  | Pushkin's Poetics of the Unexpected: The Nonrhymed Lines in the Rhymed Poetry and the Rhymed Lines in the Nonrhymed Poetry
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|  | Cloud of Sparrows
Release Date: October 1, 2002Once in a great while a new novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, with flawless storytelling and a unique understanding of another place and time. Takashi Matsuoka is just such a writer. His magnificent new novel, set amid the violence and beauty of nineteenth-century Japan, takes us beyond the epic tradition of James Clavell’s Shogun and into a majestic realm of samurai and geishas, ninjas and Zen masters. Brilliantly imagined, gloriously written, Cloud of Sparrows is at once a sweeping historical adventure and a love story ...
|  | The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process
Publication Date: December 4, 1997| Age Level: 0 and up This path-breaking study looks at the nature of contemporary environmental politics, analyzing the emergence and sustenance of institutional perceptions of environmental problems. The book argues that a new perspective-- "ecological modernization", which stresses the opportunities of environmental policy for modernizing the economy and stimulating technological innovation--has come to replace the antagonistic debates of the 1970s. ...
|  | Coleccion de Romances Castellanos Anteriores al Siglo 18, Tomo IV (Large Print Edition) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 20, 2008This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | My Lady Vixen
Publication Date: April 2004Ignorant of Adam Foxworth's hatred for her family, innocent Alexa Ashley finds herself abducted by Foxworth's men and held prisoner aboard his pivrateering ship. Original. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Adobe Castle: A Southwest Gothic Romance
Publication Date: October 1, 1999This is the second printing of The Adobe Castle, a Southwest Gothic Romance. (See the hardcover description.) The small 4x6 format makes it a great airport book for a travel pocket or a gift. A quick read, adventurous, action-packed, yet wholesome. Appropriate for everyone from teens to grandparents. ...
|  | Murder on the Half Shelf (A Booktown Mystery)
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Series: A Booktown Mystery (Book 6) “If anyone has the formula for a frolicking fun mystery down pat, it’s Lorna Barrett” (Roundtable Reviews), the New York Times bestselling author whose latest Booktown Mystery finds amateur sleuth Tricia Miles unexpectedly reunited with a man from a chapter of her life she closed long ago…Stoneham, New Hampshire, is a haven to bookstores, including Tricia’s own mystery shop, Haven’t Got a Clue, but is sadly lacking in bed and breakfasts. Pippa and Jon Comfort’s Sheer Comfort Inn opens...
|  | Bagpipes, Brides and Homicides (Liss Maccrimmon Scottish Mystery)
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Liss Maccrimmon Scottish Mystery Annotation: Dunnett returns to the small town of Moosetookalook, Maine for the sixth Scottish-themed Liss MacCrimmon mystery, in which a historical re-enactment takes a murderous turn. ...
|  | The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House, No. 2)
Release Date: February 16, 1993| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House!A castle with a secret passage!That's what Jack and Annie find when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the Middle Ages for another wild adventure. In the Great Hall of the castle, a feast is under way. But Jack and Annie aren't exactly welcome guests!Visit the Magic Tree House website! MagicTreeHouse.com ...
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