 | Postcards from the Edge
Release Date: May 4, 2010Carrie Fisher’s first novel is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood, the all-too-real fantasyland of drug users and deal makers. This stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne Vale’s vivid, excruciatingly funny experiences—from the rehab clinic to life in the outside world. Sparked by Suzanne’s—and Carrie’s—deliciously wry sense of the absurd, Postcards from the Edge is a revealing look at the dangers and delights of all our addictions, from success and money to sex and insecurity. ...
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|  | The Ghosts of Brooklyn: Thrilling Accounts of Souls, Spirits and Ghosts
Publication Date: June 28, 2012What is it about the story of a haunting that appeals to our nature?What is it about Brooklyn-with its history dating back to the mid-17thcentury when this was New Netherland-that offers a rich history from which to draw out the ghosts that live here?There is a natural human fascination with ghost stories. In this collection the author has assembled some of the most captivating accounts of the ghosts, spirits and souls that inhabit Brooklyn.This book offers the contemporary reader a fascinating insight into the lives-and afterlives-of some of the more intriguin...
|  | Griever: An American Monkey King in China
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|  | Dreaming of Cockaigne. Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life
Publication Date: July 15, 2003| ISBN-10: 0231117035 | ISBN-13: 978-0231117036Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth.Such is Cockaigne. Portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times-an earthly paradise that served to counter t...
|  | Harbor Lights (Chesapeake Shores)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Chesapeake Shores Struggling in his role as a newly single father, former army medic Kevin O'Brien moves home to Chesapeake Shores. He wants a haven for himself and his toddler son, surrounded by the family he knows he can count on, and a future that's nothing like his past. But Kevin is suddenly facing a risk he hadn't anticipated, in the form of Main Street bookseller Shanna Carlyle.Shanna immediately recognizes Kevin as a wounded soul—she's had way too much experience with the type. Still, this charming O'Brien man and his son are almost impossible...
|  | Whirlwind Wedding
Release Date: September 12, 2000Austin Randolph Jamison, Ninth Duke of Bradford, met the uncanny beauty at the ball at Bradford Hall. And from that first moment, he was stunned. How could this unsophisticated female, who climbed trees in a ball gown to rescue a kitten, know secrets that could ruin his family and speak of danger that threatened them all? Who was she, this American bluestocking who knew too much, whose innocence shone in her eyes even as her full lips tempted sin? Suddenly the duke knew he could not afford to let her go.Some called it a gift. To Elizabeth Matthews, however, he...
|  | Velvet (Avalon Historical Romance)
Publication Date: December 2003| Series: Avalon Historical Romance Velvet is about to breathe her last and doesn't even know it when Patrick O'Leary lays her on the bed in a very strange house. When she does awake from a fever-induced coma, she finds herself in a cabin with Dr. Hoyt Baxter, who's hateful, mean and spiteful and doesn't care if she lives or dies, so long as she's out of his house and his life as soon as possible. Which is exactly what Velvet wants, but she has to have the strength to walk out the door before she can actually do it.Hoyt had stopped practicing medicine a year be...
|  | The Adventures of Thor the Thunder God
Publication Date: June 18, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up He is the biggest and mightiest of the gods. If he tightens his belt, he doubles his strength. If he swings his hammer, lightning flashes. When he races his billy goats across the sky, their hooves kick up huge thunderclouds. And when the folks below in Middle Earth hear a boom of thunder, they always smile, for they know their loyal Thor, protector and defender of civilization, has once again brought order to the universe. Told and retold often and with great affection, the Thor stories have been around since the d...
|  | Wipe Clean Flash Cards ABC (Wipe Clean: Learn to Write)
Release Date: September 19, 2006| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Knots: A Step-By-Step Guide to Tying Loops, Hitches, Bends, and Dozens of Other Useful Knots
Publication Date: February 1998Think you know your knots? What about the Catspaw Hitch? The Thief Knot? Fisherman's Eye? The Monkey's Fist? This comprehensive, fully-illustrated how-to guide covers everything from the history of knots and what you need to know about rope to ways to make more than 50 types of knots and learn the fine art of lashing. The author, a former Eagle Scout, will show you the ropes in this top-notch handbook. ...
|  | Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet (Mulberry Books)
Release Date: August 24, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | We'll Paint the Octopus Red
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up As six-year-old Emma anticipates the birth of her new baby brother or sister, she vividly imagines all of the things they can do together. Emma feels ready to be a big sister! Then when the baby is born, her dad tells her that it's a boy and he has something called Down syndrome. Finally she asks, "If Isaac has this Down thing, then what can't he do?". Her dad thinks about it, then tells her that as long as they are patient with him, and help him when he needs it, there probably isn't anything Isaac can't do. In t...
|  | Natural Disasters: Atlas In The Round
Publication Date: October 18, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar
Release Date: March 15, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up "Superbly demonstrating the conception of factorials in mathematics, the text and pictures combine to present a lesson in a palatable form as well as the pleasure of looking at pictures that only Mitsumasa Anno could invent."— Publishers Weekly"The book moves logically and elegantly from the concrete to the abstract. Once made clear, the concept is unforgettable, but the book entices the reader to return for further appreciation of the artistry with which it was designed." — The Horn Book"If you want a book t...
|  | Julie Y Los Lobos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 1999Miyax ha huido de su casa hace tres años. A sus trece años, no está dispuesta a convertirse en esposa, como les ocurre a otras niñas esquimales. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Muslim (Beliefs & Cultures Series)
Publication Date: March 1996| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Pharmacists (Community Helpers (Bridgestone Books))
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Identifying the Forces Driving Frequent Change in PMOs
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|  | Lean-Six Sigma for Healthcare: A Senior Leader Guide to Improving Cost and Throughput
Publication Date: January 2005This book explains the powerful techniques of Lean-Six Sigma specifically for healthcare organizations, and focusing on the executive level. Successful Lean-Six Sigma deployment begins and ends with a focus on achieving strategic results. Lean-Six Sigma can aggressively improve throughput and quality while extracting significant costs within the organization. Lean Six Sigma will take leaders down a different path in the exploration and implementation of methods that drive quantum improvement, and this book will serve as the guide.Benefits:The CD-ROM included con...
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