 | Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
Release Date: August 22, 2006"This approach generates some of the most witty showbiz lunacy since This Is Spinal Tap."---Sacramento News & Review What you're reading right now is known as the "flap copy." This is where the 72,444 words of my latest book are cooked down to fit this space. But how does one do that? Do you reveal pivotal plot points like the one at the end of the book where the little girl on crutches points an accusing finger and shouts, "The killer is Mr. Potter"?I have too much respect for you as an attention-deficient consumer to attempt such an obvious ruse....
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 | Chinese (Immigrants in America)
Publication Date: June 29, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Memories of Woolden Hill
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 | Magic of the Heart
Publication Date: January 12, 2010Financial executive Susan Hettinger and wild, impulsive rock star MJ Carson couldn’t be more different if they tried—but opposites attract in ways neither can resist.Rock star Maggie “MJ” Carson has heard a thousand I-Love-You’s. People always want something for nothing from her, and she long ago decided it was better to use than be used. On a plane trip from hell, she’s seated next to an attractive woman and turns on her irresistible charm, expecting the usual weak-kneed compliance. But Susan doesn’t know who her...
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 | The English American: A Novel
Publication Date: April 3, 2012Twenty-eight-year-old Pippa Dunn is a cheerfully awkward fish out of water – an untidy redheaded bundle of energy in a posh, buttoned-up London neighborhood. She has always loved her adoptive English parents and sister, Charlotte, while knowing that she was adopted – or, as her parents tell her, “You were chosen, darling.” But not knowing where she truly comes from, Pippa starts to wonder…who are her birth parents? Are they ebullient and creative, like Pippa? Are they rich and charismatic? Is she a long-lost Kennedy daughter?W...
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 | A Darker Place
Release Date: December 1, 1999Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before....A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping h...
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 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2004
Publication Date: October 14, 2004| Series: Best American Mystery Stories The eighth installment of the best-selling series once again features pulse-quickening stories from all reaches of the genre. ...
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 | Aesop's Fables
Publication Date: April 15, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up Aesop, an ancient Greek poet who was sold into slavery in the early sixth century B.C, relied on animal stories to convey his key points to his masters in court. AESOP'S FABLES are now classic, memorable morality plays in which amusing animal characters drive home thought-provoking morals to generations of listeners and modern day readers. They illustrate what was fundamental to Greek culture yet their appeal lies in logic we still understand. ...
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 | The Fire Children
Publication Date: May 7, 1993Long ago, when two spirit people tumbled down to Earth, they wanted company. So, they made little clay shapes in a rainbow of lovely colors--the "fire children"--the ancestors of everyone now living on Earth. Full color. ...
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 | Natalie's Secret (Camp Confidential)
Publication Date: September 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | The Rainbow Fish Card Game
Publication Date: September 1, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up For 3-5 players, ages 4-up Game includes:-- 32 cards with holographic foil-stamping-- Plastic storage tray-- Instructions ...
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 | Hide and Seek Moon: The Moon Phases (First Graphics: Nature Cycles)
Publication Date: January 2, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Bang!: How We Came to Be
Publication Date: October 25, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up "Bang! And that was it, the beginning of everything."So begins this beautifully illustrated, panoramic story of evolution. Author and illustrator Michael Rubino conveys not only the facts but also the excitement of the scientific explanation of our world, from the origin of the universe in the big bang to the present reality of our planet, teeming with life but threatened by overpopulation and pollution.Parents looking for an easy-to-understand guide to the scientific worldview for their children will fin...
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 | New Jersey (Rookie Read-About Geography)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Thomas Jefferson (First Biographies (Capstone Paperback))
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | What the Aztecs Told Me
Publication Date: August 12, 1997| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up This version of the classic 16th-century story covers the Aztecs' religious rituals, describing their principal gods, the great feasts, and the importance of fire and light. It also deals with the Aztec form of government; the conduct of trade, war, and medicine; and the plants and animals of the New World. Full color. ...
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 | On a Whim (The Katie Weldon Series #2)
Release Date: September 30, 2008What's next? Ever since high school, Katie Weldon has wondered what it would be like to be Rick Doyle's girlfriend. As a college senior she's about to find out. In the swirl of Katie's upgraded dating life, she receives an unexplained bouquet, an unexpected call from her mother, an unprecedented girls' night out with Christy, and an unhappy moment when her beloved car, Baby Hummer, takes its last wheeze. Rick's new roommate, Eli, complicates things by inviting Katie on a midnight jaunt to see a meteor shower. Under a canopy of stars Katie grasps a new view of ...
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 | The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist)
Publication Date: November 21, 2011| Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s.In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards studied the human soul using the sa...
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 | The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
Publication Date: March 25, 2012| Series: Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions b...
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