 | First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Release Date: May 5, 1999The greatest managers in the world seem to have little in common. They differ in sex, age, and race. They employ vastly different styles and focus on different goals. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They do not hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They do not believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They do not try to help people overcome their weaknesses. They consistently disregard the golden rule. And, yes, they even play favorites. This amazin...
 |  | When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women
Publication Date: November 1, 2008When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women is the first major collection of its kind in a generation. It features 97 of the most exciting poets in America including Kim Addonizio, Natasha Trethewey, Robin Becker, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Maxine Kumin, Naomi Shihab Nye, Claudia Emerson, Lynn Emanuel, Mary Oliver, Jane Mead, Mary Ruefle, Kay Ryan, and Pattiann Rogers. The collection includes a photograph and a brief biographical sketch of each poet. ...
|  | The Last of the Mohicans (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)
Publication Date: October 31, 1986| ISBN-10: 0684187116 | ISBN-13: 978-0684187112During the French and Indian War, adventure and tragedy befall two sisters as they travel through the wilderness near Lake Champlain trying to join their father, the British commander of Fort William Henry. Full-color illustrations. ...
|  | The Three Day Affair
Publication Date: September 4, 2012The first debut novel from the newly relaunched Mysterious Press introduces a phenomenal new voice in the realm of crime fiction.Will, Jeffrey, and Nolan are lifelong friends. Each have gone their separate ways as adults, living their own lives while forging their own careers. They have no reason to believe anything extraordinary will befall them. Until one shocking moment changes everything…Will is a part-time drummer who spends the rest of his time in recording studios. He has lived a sheltered existence. Then one night Jeffrey attempts to rob a conv...
|  | Fireflies in December
Publication Date: December 22, 20082010 Christy Award winner!Jessilyn Lassiter never knew that hatred could lurk in the human heart until the summer of 1932 when she turned 13. When her best friend, Gemma, loses her parents in a tragic fire, Jessilyn's father vows to care for her as one of his own, despite the fact that Gemma is black and prejudice is prevalent in their southern Virginia town. Violence springs up as a ragtag band of Ku Klux Klan members unite and decide to take matters into their own hands. As tensions mount in the small community, loyalties are tested and Jessilyn is forced...
|  | Nowhere Is a Place
Release Date: February 2, 2006 Bernice L. McFadden, whom the novelist Adriana Trigiani calls "a masterstoryteller," has crafted a touching novel about a young woman uncovering asurprising family history.Her spectacular debut novel, Sugar, established Bernice L. McFadden as a writer to watch inAfrican-American literary fiction. In Nowhere Is a Place, she spins a fully realized and memorableportrait of a young woman on a journey of self-discovery.Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly,why her mother slapped her cheek one summ...
|  | Caught Up In The Storm
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|  | The Find
Publication Date: September 24, 2009Ambitious and beautiful archeologist, Megan Eastwood, embarks on an excavation in the Grand Canyon with her mentor, Dr. Jensen Reinhardt, along with thirteen college students. An ancient map leads them to believe Egyptian artifacts are buried in a remote section of the canyon. What they unearth there instead is far more enigmatic and shocking: four artifacts resemble something from another world. Forty-eight hours later Megan finds the students dead, Dr. Reinhardt missing, and the artifacts gone, as if they had never existed.Even more bizarre, she finds he...
|  | Logan: The Birth Of A Vampire
Publication Date: September 15, 2006This story is about a young Vampire named of Logan who was born in the castle Dorstanton. Logan’s mother is a beautiful, loving mortal with a gentle soul named Victoria. Victoria was raped by Logan’s father Kraiden, who on the same night cold-heartedly committed the blackest of sins as he murdered Victoria’s parent’s before her eyes. Kraiden is one of the most evil vampires to ever walk the lands of Dorstanton. His bloodline reaches back through the millennia, and is not like any other vampire you have ever encountered. Kraiden’s b...
|  | Vassalord Volume 3
Release Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Vassalord (Book 3) Paperback. New book some shelf wear. ...
|  | From the Sands to the Mountain: A Study of Change and Persistence in a Southern Paiute Community
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|  | Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid
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|  | "Paradise Lost" and the Genesis Tradition
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|  | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Illinois)
Release Date: February 11, 2003| Series: Illinois Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hote...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Ravish: The Awakening of Sleeping Beauty (Avon Red)
Release Date: September 23, 2008| Series: Avon RedAn innocent beauty, trapped in sleep . . .Sheltered from society, Aurora Jacquard has yet to feel the sweet release of physical love. Then, on the night she is about to give in to temptation, she inexplicably falls into a deep coma. A handsome prince, determined to discover her secrets . . Jacob White is one of the best neurologists in the world, and he intends to awaken Aurora from her virginal slumber. But when she begins to invade his dreams every night, beckoning him into a sensuous place of lust and danger, Jacob realizes there's...
|  | Christmas Diamonds (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: November 1, 2009| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 164) Ever since she was a little girl, Paula Devine has dreamed of a romantic Christmas Day proposal like the one her grandmother received back in the day. Instead, her list of disappointing exes gets longer each year. But just as she's ready to give up, Paula begins remodeling the home of an irresistibly sexy client--a man who inspires the kind of sinful thoughts that could land her on Santa's "naughty" list permanently.If there's one thing rarer than a flawless diamond, it's true love fused with passion. Jeweler Chase McCord ...
|  | Militia Kill
Release Date: July 5, 2006Battle-fatigued from Iraq, Navy SEAL Ash Roberts is ordered to South Dakota, where an ATF agent has been captured by the Badlands Militia. When the ATF and FBI torch the militia's compound, Ash and a small, rag-tag ROTC unit are forced into the line of fire against lethal paramilitaries who have more firepower than anyone imagined-and nothing standing in their way. ...
|  | THE LONELY DETECTIVE, VOL. I: Four Humorous, Politically Incorrect Mysteries Solved by the Lonely Detective
Publication Date: August 7, 2001Four absolutely funny, culturally outrageous who-done-it stories whose unique detective, a lonely disrespected anti-hero, sees sacred beliefs turned upside down as he solves the mysterious deaths of a rich Tasty Cake deliveryman, a woman supporting the correct causes, a bum exposing the correct causes, and a disillusioned volunteer involved in the correct causes. ...
|  | Trucks (Tonka)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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