 | Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Release Date: September 18, 2012| ISBN-10: 1608198367 | ISBN-13: 978-1608198368| Edition: 1 Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last ten years, neither error rates no...
 |  | The Other Side of Goodness
Release Date: July 31, 2012How far will faith and love go when an ambitious man finds himself in the fight of his life--with a woman who knows the other side of goodness all too well. . . .Fifty-year-old Alabama congressman Lawrence Rudolph Simmons will do whatever it takes to get re-elected--even switch parties from Democrat to Republican. With the political tide turning, Lawrence feels it's his best shot--along with his charisma, solid twenty-nine year marriage, and three great kids. But a buried secret from his past is about to be resurrected. . .It's been eight years since Gabrielle Merc...
|  | The Greats of Cuttercane: The Southern Stories
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|  | Galore
Release Date: March 29, 2011Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset AwardWhen a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scramb...
|  | The World Unseen
Publication Date: April 13, 2010In 1950s South Africa, apartheid is just becoming institutionalised. Free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheid-led government, by running a café with Jacob her ‘coloured’ business partner. When she meets Miriam, a young traditional wife and mother, their unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to question the rules that bind her. When Amina helps Miriam's sister-in-law to hide from the police, a chain of events is set in motion that changes both women forever.In a system that divid...
|  | Germ
Publication Date: April 8, 2008If you breathe...It will find you.The list of 10,000 names was created for maximum devastation. Business leaders, housewives, politicians, celebrities, janitors, children.None of them is aware of what is about to happen--but all will be part of the most frightening brand of warfare the world has ever known.The germ--an advanced form of the Ebola virus--has been genetically engineered to infect only those people whose DNA matches the codes embedded within it.Those whose DNA is not a match simply catch a cold.But those who are a match experience a far worse fate....
|  | Lilith: A Variorum Edition (George MacDonald Original Works)
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|  | The vampire's bedside companion : the amazing world of vampires in fact and fiction
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|  | The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo
Publication Date: September 1, 2011Lizbreath Salamander is young and beautiful. Her scales have an iridescent sheen, her wings arch proudly, her breath has a tang of sulfur. And on her back a tattoo of a mythical creature: a girl. But when Lizbreath is drawn into a dark conspiracy she will have to rely on more than her beauty and her vicious claws the size of sabres ...A dragon has disappeared, one of a secretive clan. As Lizbreath delves deeper into their history she realises that these dragons will do anything todefend their secrets. Welcome to the world of The Dragon With The Girl Tattoo....
|  | Anna Karenina in our time
Publication Date: December 5, 2007| ISBN-10: 0300100701 | ISBN-13: 978-0300100709In this invigorating new assessment of Anna Karenina, Gary Saul Morson overturns traditional interpretations of the classic novel and shows why readers have misunderstood Tolstoy’s characters and intentions. Morson argues that Tolstoy’s ideas are far more radical than has been thought: his masterpiece challenges deeply held conceptions of romantic love, the process of social reform, modernization, and the nature of good and evil. By investigating the ethical, philosophical, and social issues with...
|  | The Encyclopedia of Mythology: Gods, Heroes, and Legends of the Greeks and Romans
Publication Date: December 1993Organized alphabetically, this encyclopedia of mythology contains information about the figures who make up the mythologies of the Greco-Roman world and two hundred full-color photographs and illustrations. ...
| | Chugoku shocho shigaku to shite no shininsetsu no hatten, kokugaku koki no haikei to shite no kinsei Nihon jugaku (Ota Seikyu chosaku senshu) (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction
Publication Date: July 24, 2001| ISBN-10: 0631200711 | ISBN-13: 978-0631200710| Edition: 1 This key new introduction, by one of the leading exponents in the field, explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of post-colonial theory. Acknowledging that post-colonial theory draws on a wide, often contested, range of theory from different fields, Young analyzes the concepts and issues involved, explains the meaning of key terms, and interprets the work of some of the major writers concerned, to provide an ideal introductory guide for those undergraduates...
|  | Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form
Publication Date: July 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0268031061 | ISBN-13: 978-0268031060| Edition: 1st Edition Gregory Heyworth’s Desiring Bodies considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Beginning in the odd contest between body and form in the first sentence of Ovid’s protean Metamorphoses, Heyworth identifies these concepts as structuring principles of civic and poetic unity and pursues their consequences as refracted through a series of romances, some typical of the genre, some problematically so. Bodi...
|  | Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross)
Release Date: September 30, 2002| Series: Alex Cross D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes.But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park - killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans.Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled.Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Los Angeles . . as his nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, stalks him, taunts...
|  | Eyes Wide Open: A Novel
Release Date: July 12, 2011 A horrible family tragedy that may not be what it seems . . . A past encounter with an infamous killer turns deadly today . . . An ordinary man must risk his own family to find the truth. Jay Erlich's nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay. It's all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his hand in this? Years ago, Jay Erlich's older brother, Charlie, a wayward child of the sixties, set out for California, where he fell under the sway of a chari...
|  | Death Match
Release Date: October 31, 2006Everyone’s looking for the perfect match, a life-long partner, and Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe have found theirs, thanks to hi-tech matchmaker Eden Inc. But when the happy couple’s life together ends in what looks like a double suicide, Eden Inc. has some explaining to do. So they hire forensic psychologist Christopher Lash to figure out what went wrong. And then another perfect match ends in death... ...
|  | Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man
Publication Date: September 15, 2010Written by STAN LEE & GERRY CONWAYPenciled by JOHN ROMITA with GIL KANECover by JOHN ROMITAThe tension-torn adventures of comics' most put-upon super hero, the Amazing Spider-Man, continue in another round of Marvel Masterworks classics! Stan Lee kicks it off with one of his craziest creations of all time, the Gibbon. And when that bestial baddy teams up with the vengeful Kraven the Hunter-well, it's enough excitement to give a hero an ulcer-and it does! Then, words between Peter's lovely gal Gwen and Aunt May push his doting aunt out of his life and into ...
|  | Rumpelstiltskin
Publication Date: October 16, 1986Caldecott Honor Book artist Paul O. Zelinsky's remarkable command of color, texture, and light bring to life the loved story of Rumpelstiltskin. Full-color illustrations. ...
|  | Grant Hill (Sports Superstars (Rosen))
Publication Date: September 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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