 | The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, Book 3)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up...
 |  | 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology
Publication Date: September 17, 2010| ISBN-10: 0312609655 | ISBN-13: 978-0312609658| Edition: Third Edition 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is the best-selling value-priced reader in the country because its virtues don't stop at the price. Its carefully chosen selections include enough classic essays to reassure instructors, and enough high-interest and high-quality contemporary readings to keep things lively and relevant for students. The editorial apparatus is more extensive than in competing value readers, but still is flexible and unobtrusive enough to support a variety of approaches...
|  | Life After Death
Release Date: September 18, 2012In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three—were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison; while eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the “ringleader,” was sentenced to death. Over the next two decades, the WM3 became known worldwide as a symbol of wrongful conviction and imprisonment, with...
|  | The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier
Release Date: March 13, 2012 I'm Pioneer Woman. And I love to cook. Once upon a time, I fell in love with a cowboy. A strapping, rugged, chaps-wearing cowboy. Then I married him, moved to his ranch, had his babies . . . and wound up loving it. Except the manure. Living in the country for more than fifteen years has taught me a handful of eternal truths: every new day is a blessing, every drop of rain is a gift . . . and nothing tastes more delicious than food you cook yourself. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier is a mouthwatering collection of the simple-but-scrumptious re...
|  | The Language of Flowers: A Novel
Release Date: April 3, 2012NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere to go, Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowe...
|  | A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball
Release Date: September 4, 2012 Dwyane Wade, the eight-time All-Star for the Miami Heat, has miraculously defied the odds throughout his career and his life. In 2006, in just his third season in the NBA, Dwyane was named the Finals' MVP, after leading the Miami Heat to the Championship title, basketball's ultimate prize. Two years later, after possible career-ending injuries, he again rose from the ashes of doubt to help win a gold medal for the United States at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As co-captain, he helped lead the Heat to triumph in the 2012 NBA Championship. Little wonder that legen...
|  | The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
Release Date: August 14, 2012In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in the history of the country. Grunwald’s meticulous reporting shows how the stimulus, though reviled on the right and the left, helped prevent a depression while jump-starting the president’s agenda for lasting change. As ambitious and far-reaching ...
|  | Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health
Release Date: June 28, 2011What if one simple change could save you from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer? For decades, that question has fascinated a small circle of impassioned doctors and researchers—and now, their life-changing research is making headlines in the hit documentary Forks Over Knives. Their answer? Eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet—it could save your life. It may overturn most of the diet advice you’ve heard—but the experts behind Forks Over Knives aren't afraid to make waves. In his book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn ...
|  | Barron's SAT, 26th Edition (Barron's Sat (Book Only))
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1438000197 | ISBN-13: 978-1438000190| Edition: 26 The newly revised edition ofBarron's SATmanual presents:A diagnostic test and five full-length practice tests with all questions answered and explainedTest-taking tactics for the exam as a whole, and special strategies for each part of the testSubject reviews covering critical reading, grammar and usage, and mathDetailed instruction in writing the required SAT essayAn overview of the SAT, an explanation of the test's scoring method, and study advice Year after year, Barron's con...
|  | A History of Western Music (Eighth Edition)
Publication Date: January 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0393931250 | ISBN-13: 978-0393931259| Edition: Eighth Edition The Eighth Edition of A History of WesternMusic is a vivid,accessible, and richly contextual view of music in Western culture.Building on his monumental revision of the Seventh Edition, PeterBurkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a new generation ofstudents, placing people at the center of the story.The narrative of AHistory of Western Music naturally focuseson the musical works, styles, genres, and ideasthat have proven most influential, enduring, and significant—b...
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