 | Niceville
Release Date: June 12, 2012Something is wrong in Niceville. . . A boy literally disappears from Main Street. A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An audacious bank robbery goes seriously wrong: four cops are gunned down; a TV news helicopter is shot and spins crazily out of the sky, triggering a disastrous cascade of events that ricochet across twenty different lives over the course of just thirty-six hours. Nick Kavanaugh, a cop with a dark side, investigates. Soon he and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer from an old Niceville family...
 |  | 21 Dicembre 2012
Publication Date: September 2005Il mondo e in scadenza, le profezie ed i profeti si accavallano l'un l'altro in cerca di varie giustificazioni. Il mondo si divide o si aliena. Il mondo si allontana o si avvicina alla fede. Delle fazioni vivono l'avvicinarsi dell'apocalisse a modo loro. Due uomini sanno. E tutti leggerete profezie mai viste. Alessio Adami ci pone davanti un mondo ricco di personaggi sopra le righe, spietati e dannatamente reale. L'ennesima produzione epilettica di Alessio Adami: 21 Dicembre 2012. ...
|  | Blue Hills
Publication Date: January 17, 2012In THE BLUE HILLS, Elizabeth Goudge takes us back to her beloved cathedral town of Torminster in the early years of this century. It is the day of young Hugh Anthony's birthday picnic. A procession of landaus and victorias, plus one motor car, are bound for the Blue Hills and Hugh's picnic. Whatever the reason, each vehicle gets mysteriously lost on its way to the Blue Hills, and by the time the travelers meet again over tea and iced birthday cake, they have had such adventures. Adventures such that none of them is the same person. They are wiser, nicer and ...
|  | Wind Blown Clouds
Release Date: July 12, 2005Clouds, those magical collections of ice crystals that loom above us, bring out the romantic dreamer in everyone. At once universal and breathtakingly unique, clouds are a constant and subtle presence in all of our lives, ever continuing on their mysterious paths, despite the turmoil on the land below. In 1999, Scottish multimedia artist Alec Finlay invited people to submit photographs of clouds to an archive he was compiling called the Wind Blown Cloud. The results have been astounding: Hundreds of people from all over the world―young and old, amateurs and ...
|  | Incarnation of Hope
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|  | History of the Florentine People, Volume 2: Books V-VIII (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: November 30, 2004| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 3)Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's History of the Florentine People in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by...
|  | From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: November 5, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521045797 | ISBN-13: 978-0521045797| Edition: 1 Ranging from the panoramic novels of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines the ways in which the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Victorian Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. Houston shows how banking crises were often linked with ghosts or inexplicable non-human forces and financial panic was figured through Gothic or supernatural means. In Little Dorrit and Villette char...
|  | Highland Lover (Scottish Knights)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Series: Scottish Knights (Book 3) HIGHLAND DANGEREver inquisitive, Lady Alyson MacGillivray embarks on a sea voyage and makes a shocking discovery: The young future king of Scotland is secretly traveling on board. Yet her surprise soon turns to terror when pirates attack the ship, take the boy prince hostage, and leave Lady Alyson to drown. HIGHLAND WOLFKnown to the world as the The Wolf, Captain Jake Maxwell had been commissioned by the King to follow the prince's secret transport. When he spies Alyson struggling against a violent sea, he moves swiftly to sa...
|  | Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms (Picture Puffins)
Release Date: April 3, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | What Is the World Made Of? All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2)
Release Date: August 8, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | One Card At A Time: Stories of Inspiration
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|  | Mapping Penny's World
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Lisa and her dog, Penny, learn the basics of mapmaking in this delightful sequel to Measuring PennyLisa's class is learning how to make maps. The teacher says they can make maps of anyplace, so Lisa starts with her bedroom. She includes all the things that people will need to read the map, such as a scale and a key to the symbols she has used. Her dog, Penny, helps with the map. This gives Lisa an idea: Why not map Penny's world? Making maps is so much fun that Lisa and Penny decide to visit some of the exotic plac...
|  | Let's Look at Iguanas (Lightning Bolt Books Animal Close-Ups)
Publication Date: September 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Love-a-Duck
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up Jane loves her rubber ducky, Love-a-Duck, and he loves her too! But one day the squeak seems to have gone out of him. Will Jane stop loving him if he can't squeak like a good rubber ducky? Then Love-a-Duck accidentally falls out of the window and ends up at the park. He rides in a baby carriage, bobs in the pond with real ducks, and even meets fish swimming below. Love-a-Duck is on the adventure of a lifetime...but will he ever get his squeak back? ...
|  | DK Readers: Big Machines (Level 1: Beginning to Read)
Publication Date: March 1, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Luis Alvarez and the Development of the Bubble Chamber (Unlocking the Secrets of Science)
Publication Date: August 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Nobel prize-winning physicist, Luis Alvarez, invented the bubble chamber to help other physicists track particles. ...
|  | Garth Brooks (Real-Life Reader Biography)
Publication Date: August 1999| Age Level: 8 and up...
| | Transport and Distribution
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|  | Crisis in the Eurozone
Publication Date: September 11, 2012A controversial call to break up the Eurozone and stop the debt crisis.First, there was the credit crunch, and governments around the world stepped in to bail out the banks. The sequel to that debacle is the sovereign debt crisis, which has hit the eurozone hard. The hour has come to pay the piper, and ordinary citizens across Europe are growing to realize that socialism for the wealthy means punching a few new holes in their already-tightened belts.Building on his work as a leading member of the renowned Research on Money and Finance group, Costas Lapavit...
|  | Group Purchasing Organizations: An Undisclosed Scandal in the U.S. Healthcare Industry
Release Date: May 26, 2009Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) are a massive subset of the healthcare industry that negotiate lower costs for healthcare supplies by buying for several hospitals at once. Group Purchasing Organizations provides an analysis and critique of this industry. ...
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