 | The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter's 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds
Publication Date: February 25, 2009Lose weight, lower cholesterol, significantly reduce the risk of disease, and become physically fit--in just 4 weeks. Professional athlete-turned-firefighter Rip Esselstyn is used to responding to emergencies. So, when he learned that some of his fellow Engine 2 firefighters in Austin, TX, were in dire physical condition-several had dangerously high cholesterol levels (the highest was 344!)-he sprang into action and created a life-saving plan for the firehouse. By following Rip's program, everyone lost weight (some more than 20 lbs.), lowered their choleste...
 |  | Olivia and the Fairy Princesses
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera
Release Date: August 10, 2010With more than 350,000 copies sold, Understanding Exposure has demystified the complex concepts of exposure for countless photographers. Now updated with current technologies, more than one hundred new images, and an all-new chapter, this new edition will inspire you more than ever to free yourself from “auto” and create the pictures you truly want.In his trademark easy-to-understand style, author Bryan Peterson explains the relationship between aperture and shutter speed, including how to achieve successful exposures in seemingly difficult situatio...
|  | Dog Days (Mystery and the Minister's Wife) (Mystery and the Minister's Wife (Unnumbered))
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Mystery and the Minister's Wife (Unnumbered) When Renee Lambert's prize pooch is dognapped just before the start of the county dog show, Kate Hanlon sets out to find the tiny pup before it's too late.The dog days of summer are anything but boring when the Harrington County Dog Show comes to Copper Mill. Proud pooches and their owners will stop at nothing to take home 'Best in Show.' With only a few weeks until the big event, Renee Lambert is in for a serious shock when her pocket-pup Kisses is dognapped! While Renee mourns the loss of her faithful c...
|  | The Devil's Horse (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: June 1, 1994| Series: Morland Dynasty (Book 16) In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1820, and the landscape of England is undergoing sweeping change as the country pioneers the steam-driven machine age. In Manchester, Sophie and Jasper face violent opposition to their plans for rehousing factory hands; Lucy brings her sons home from their Grand Tour, brimming with ideas for their future; and Rosamund enters a bizarre agreement with her husband, with tra...
|  | The Last of the Menu Girls
Release Date: April 13, 2004Rocío Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister.She defines her neighborhood by its trees—the willow, the apricot and the one they call the marking-off tree.Rocio knows she was born in the closet where she and her sister now take turns looking at the picture of Jesus whose eyes light up in the dark.But at night she enters a magical realm, and in her imaginary Blue Room, she can fly.At first she is a mesmerized observer of the lives of older girls and their boyfriends, but as she finds a job at the local hospi...
|  | The Ballad of Troop Z
Publication Date: October 18, 2011**Samuel is headed down the path of mediocrity and regrets, and his annual summer trip to Cloudland Camp only reinforces this when he finds himself stuck on the newly created Z troop - specifically designed for the boys who: "show apathy in the face of adversity" But when their counselor, David, gets ahold of these boys, Sammy will discover the power that lies in self-belief, the strength that comes from never bending to the establishment, and the courage that is derived from taking the first step.** ...
|  | Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Novel) Volume 3 (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (Novels))
Release Date: May 9, 2006| Series: Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (Novels) (Book 3) After defeating the dreaded "Desert Tiger," the Archangel sets course for Alaska, with Creuset's team in hot pursuit. Tragedy after tragedy rapidly unfolds, as the confrontation between Kira and Athrun intensifies. Finally, their friendship cracks in half, as the war between Coordinators and Naturals escalates in this third novel, based on the sophisticated television series: GUNDAM SEED. ...
|  | Called to Account: The indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair for the crime of aggression against Iraq - a Hearing (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1840027452 | ISBN-13: 978-1840027457Earlier this year two leading barristers tested the evidence of the grounds for an indictment of the British Prime Minister for the crime of aggression against Iraq. They examined a number of distinguished witnesses, including MPs, diplomats, international lawyers, civil servants, UN officials, policy advisors, intelligence experts, and journalists. The arguments and testimony gathered here examine the criminal implications of the British government’s decision to use force against Iraq. ...
|  | A Cynthia Ozick Reader
Release Date: May 22, 1996"[Ozick's] range of influences is obvious in the fine selections of poems and short stories as well as essays from ÂArt & Ardor (1983) and ÂMetaphor and Memory (1989) that Kauvar has so sensitively chosen." —Booklist"[This collection reflects] the imaginative, inventive, and insightful Ozick. Some of the best of Ozick as poet, essayist, and fiction writer is represented in ÂA Cynthia Ozick Reader." —Library Journal"Gathered here are some bristling, incandescent tales and thorny essays that show Ozick at her finest." ...
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|  | Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph)
Publication Date: April 15, 1996| ISBN-10: 067426181X | ISBN-13: 978-0674261815Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth - these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Napier discovers similarities as well as dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations. Napier places Yukio's and Kenzaburo's fiction in the context of postwar Japanese political and social realities and, in a new preface for the paperback edition, reflects on each writer's position in the tradit...
|  | The Semiotic Challenge
Publication Date: September 26, 1994| ISBN-10: 0520087844 | ISBN-13: 978-0520087842Most of these essays were written between 1963 and 1973 and constitute either the elements of the semiotic discipline or the analysis of texts--ranging from the Bible to advertising--in order to determine the site of possible meanings in narratives. Intent on discovering signification's importance in art as well as life, Barthes sets up a rigorous system and puts it to work. ...
|  | Dear Lama Zopa: Radical Solutions for Transforming Problems into Happiness
Publication Date: May 22, 2007Perhaps no other figure of Tibetan Buddhism today is so committed to the contemporary relevance of its traditional views as Lama Zopa. In Dear Lama Zopa, he shares letters from advice-seekers around the globe, each reproduced with his always inspired, often surprising replies. Lama Zopa’s counsel, radical as it may seem, is all about how to handle life’s problems big and small, age-old and modern: from final exams, depression, and eating disorders to jealousy, aging, and loss. The key is to consciously work to perceive our problems differently, and...
|  | The Runaway Jury
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|  | Blindman's Bluff CD (Decker and Lazarus)
Release Date: August 11, 2009| Series: Decker and LazarusLAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, will be blindsided by a brutal multiple murder in this twisting tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. Someone has broken into the exclusive Coyote Ranch compound of billionaire developer Guy Kaffey and viciously gunned him down, along with his wife and four employees. It doesn't take long for Peter and his trusted detectives to figure out that the gruesome killings must be an inside job. But was the job pure murder/robbery or somethin...
|  | Scarlet Riders
Publication Date: January 1, 2010No country has had as many stories written about its national police force as Canada. The sterling image of the scarlet-coated Mountie was almost as familiar a symbol as the ubiquitous cowboy in American fiction. And nowhere was he more popular than in the dynamic pulp fiction magazines. During the '20s, '30s, and '40s, tales featuring rugged Mounties maintaining the law of the untamed North were so popular that a number of authors built careers specializing in their exploits. This is a generous collection of such stories, as flamboyant and red-blooded as the...
| | Crime Fiction: An Introduction (Literary Genres)
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|  | Time to Pee!
Release Date: September 8, 2003| Age Level: 2 and up | Grade Level: P and up Toilet training has never been such an adventure as when it is introduced by popular cartoonist Mo Willems. With his signature humor, the author gently leads children through each step in the process that will finally bring them to their emancipation from diapers. Featuring a crew of funny mice holding up signs with the text, children will be amused and inspired by this hilarious new picture book. ...
|  | The Story of the Atlanta Hawks (NBA: A History of Hoops)
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