 | The Real
Publication Date: August 6, 2010When seven hippies burned to death 39 years ago in a tragic fire, a ghost story was spawned. The legend, passed down by students at the local University, centers on Claire Wales, also know as the Hippie Queen. Graduate student Jeremy Spires thinks nothing of the tale until he stops on a deserted road to help a stranded motorist, an odd man named Grady, who retells the ghost story as if it and the Hippie Queen are real. Despite Grady's warnings to stay away, Jeremy and his devoted girlfriend, Jinni Malone, plan a camping trip to the very place - Reefers Woods -...
 |  | Vampire Apocolypes: The Chaotic Brood
Publication Date: October 2002Treaties between the vampires and werewolves fail as a sinister ancient force pulls the strings of their politics. Reality is turned upside down for Devin as he becomes the only existing vampiric werewolf. He must overcome threats of the Apocalypse. ...
|  | A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller
Publication Date: February 24, 2000| ISBN-10: 0195124561 | ISBN-13: 978-0195124569In this marvelous collection of hundreds of fascinating, mysterious, and revealing tales, Harold Scheub captures the immense sweep and diversity of African mythology. Scheub offers an unprecedented collection of 400 stories, arranged alphabetically, that touch on virtually every aspect of religious belief. Here are gods and goddesses, epic heroes and divine tricksters, along with epics of the world's origins, the struggle between the human and the divine, and much more. Scheub covers the entire continent, f...
|  | Cyrano de Bergerac (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
Publication Date: February 11, 2004| ISBN-10: 1593080751 | ISBN-13: 978-1593080754Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footno...
|  | Communicating for Results: A Guide for Business and the Professions
Publication Date: February 16, 2010| ISBN-10: 1439036438 | ISBN-13: 978-1439036433| Edition: 9 This best-selling text will show you the basic concepts and techniques you need to successfully communicate in today's business world, regardless of your current level of business experience. Covering every aspect of the communication process, COMMUNICATING FOR RESULTS: A GUIDE FOR BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS, 9e, will give you a competitive edge in any business situation-from the initial interview to making skilled presentations (complete with professional visual aids) to assuming a leadershi...
|  | The McCall Trilogy
Publication Date: February 23, 2012Journey through generations of adventure and romance as three Marcia Lynn McClure favorites blend perfectly in The McCall Trilogy! The roundup begins with The Foundling (formerly released as Desert Fire). She opened her eyes and beheld, for the first time, the face of Jackson McCall... Posse up with the next generation of McCall heroes inTo Echo the Past. Stripped of her heart's hopes and dreams, she knew true loneliness-until an ordinary day revealed a heavenly oasis in the desert-Michael McCall... And finally, ride away to dreams come true with a modern-d...
|  | Wedded in Scandal (A Bridal Favors Novel)
Release Date: March 6, 2012| Series: A Bridal Favors Novel (Book 1) For his whole life, Robert Percy, Viscount Redhill, has worked hard to maintain a sterling reputation. And while it's socially acceptable to seduce delectable dress designer Mrs. Mortimer, Robert learns too late the heartbreaking truth about who she used to be. No one would fault him for taking Mrs. Mortimer as his lover, but Robert knows that she should be the wife of a peer of the realm, not a mistress in hiding... ...
|  | What Little Boys Are Made Of
Release Date: March 27, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and upWhat are little boys made of? Moons and stars and rockets to Mars Wings and tails and dragons with scales Little boys are . . . as adventuresome and bold and heroic as they imagine they can be! Celebrate the exuberance of little boys in this playful spin on a classic nursery rhyme....
|  | The Tortoise and the Hare Race Again
Publication Date: January 23, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Every since the lazy hare lost the Great Race, he has had trouble getting any kind of respect. He is taunted by Pete R. Rabbit, riducled by Stu Rabbit, and mocked by Hare E. Plodder, the slowest rabbit around. Not even Rabbit Foote, the luckiest rabbit in the world, has a king word to spare for Hare. Meanwhile, the champion tortoise regrets ever beating the hare. He can't stand the amount of press and attention he is getting; he just wants to return to his quiet life at at the shell station. It seems that a secon...
|  | That New Animal
Release Date: February 24, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up A new baby changes everything . . . for two dogsFudgeFudge does not like that new animal. Marshmallow does not like it either. Not even a little bit. So begins this forthright, hilarious, and boldly illustrated story about two dogs that see the arrival of a new baby as a huge problem. They don't like the way that new animal smells or the way the people just sit and stare at it, forgetting all about FudgeFudge and Marshmallow. They have to do something about it, but what? Then one morning a stranger named Grandpa arrives, and he wants to ho...
|  | I Love My Mommy: A Keepsake Storybook Collection
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Big Bangs
Publication Date: May 2001Blow your mind!Explosive facts about the world's biggest bangs.'I would like to think that anyone who read this book would enjoy it as much as I have. To be honest I think this book is great, the author Beverley MacDonald has done a fantastic job, and I also give credit to the cartoonist, Andrew Weldon. I give it a 9 and a half out of 10.'Allan Chan, aged 13 ...
|  | A Northern Alphabet
Publication Date: August 1989| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Introduces through brief text and illustrations, the letters of the alphabet and various aspects of life in the Arctic. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Ecuador (Enchantment of the World, Second)
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|  | Quaker Cavalier: The Story of William Penn (Stories of Faith & Fame)
Publication Date: July 1, 1984| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Perugino's Path: The Journey of a Renaissance Painter
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|  | The Easter Cave
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up Help Children Discover the Glorious Gift of Easter. Rhythm, rhyme, and soft illustrations teach the miraculous Easter story. The Lent and Easter season is a special time for the family to read the Easter story together. Parents of beginning readers look for Easter books that reinforce reading skills while helping children learn about Easter. The Easter Cave from Concordia Publishing House (CPH) draws children ages 4 to 7 into the Easter story. Line by line and rhyme by rhyme, the story builds, covering often-overlooked details. Children ...
|  | Dictionary of Electrical Engineering
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|  | Study Guide to accompany Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 5th Edition
Publication Date: December 2, 2009| ISBN-10: 0470506954 | ISBN-13: 978-0470506950| Edition: 5 Many corporate managers struggle to see the relevance of accounting in their everyday responsibilities. Weygandt shows them how managerial accounting information fits in the larger context of business so they are better able to understand the important concepts. The new Do It! feature reinforces the basics by providing quick-hitting examples of brief exercises. The chapters also incorporate the All About You (AAY) feature as well as the Accounting Across the Organization (AAO) boxes that highlig...
|  | Introduction to Optimization (Texts in Applied Mathematics)
Publication Date: November 3, 2003| Series: Texts in Applied Mathematics (Book 46) This undergraduate textbook introduces students of science and engineering to the fascinating field of optimization. It is a unique book that brings together the subfields of mathematical programming, variational calculus, and optimal control, thus giving students an overall view of all aspects of optimization in a single reference. As a primer on optimization, its main goal is to provide a succinct and accessible introduction to linear programming, nonlinear programming, numerical optimization algorithms, var...
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