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Descrição: "Bury me standing. I must be buried standing."
Powers, the follow-up to John Olson's Shade ("a must-read for those who enjoy Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti" -Publisher's Weekly), introduces a sheltered Gypsy girl named Mariutza. Her grandfather utters a mysterious last request before dying in her arms after being shot by 10 cloaked men. Those same men disappear before her eyes and Mariutza realizes that survival depends on finding Jaazaniah, a Prophet her grandfather often spoke of.

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Descrição: More than a year has passed since Saddam Hussein’s regime was toppled, and Iraq’s health care system is tumbling into crisis. With the war still raging and thousands of Iraqi doctors fleeing the country in fear for their lives, the U.S.’s Balad Air Base is becoming a last refuge for nearby Iraqi families seeking care for their children.

Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq is the fierce, true-life account of Dr. Chris Coppola’s two deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom as an Air Force pediatric surgeon. Dr. Coppola is to Iraq what Tim O’Brien was for Vietnam, revealing the scope of the larger story in the clarity and intimacy of the details. Propelling the reader through nerve-racking scenes inside a military trauma hospital, this exhilarating story reveals how one man’s absolute commitment to U.S. soldiers and uncommon devotion to Iraqi families has made a difference.

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Descrição: Far from the gleaming monuments of Washington D.C., NRI operative, Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the heart of the Amazon, in search of a legendary Mayan city rumored to be hidden within the tangled rain forest. Assisted by a renowned university professor and protected by an ex-CIA mercenary named Hawker, her team sets out with the truth concealed from them—that they are replacements for a group that vanished weeks before and that the treasure they’re seeking is no mere artifact, but a find that could transform the very world. Shadowed by a ruthless billionaire who wants their prize, threatened by a violent indigenous tribe and stalked by an unseen enemy that leaves only battered corpses in its wake, their one hope for survival rests in learning the truth: the connection linking the deadly reality of the Mayan legend; the nomadic tribe that haunts them; and the chilling secret buried deep beneath the ancient ruins.

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Descrição: Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes–only to realize that his letters of introduction and a gift of precious coral specimens, on which his tenure with the legendary Dr. Cuvier depends, have been stolen by the beautiful woman with whom he shared a stagecoach.

In the fervor and tumult of post revolutionary Paris, nothing is quite as it seems. In trying to recover his lost valuables, Daniel discovers that his beautiful adversary is in fact a philosopher-thief who lives in a shadowy world of outlaws and émigrés. Daniel’s fall into this underworld is also a flight, for as he falls in love with the mysterious coral thief and she draws him into an audacious plot that will leave him with a future very different from the one he has envisioned for himself, Daniel discovers a radical theory of evolution and mutability that irrevocably changes his conception of the world in which he lives.

The Coral Thief, as riveting and beautifully rendered as Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stott’s first novel, is a provocative and tantalizing mix of history, philosophy, and suspense. It conjures up vividly both the feats of Napoleon and the accomplishments of those working without fame or glory to change our ideas of who we are and the world in which we live.

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Descrição: Emily Dane doesn’t want to give up city life to move with her aunt to a ranch in barren, uncivilized South Texas. Then she meets ranch foreman Diego Marcelo and finds her resolve slipping. Diego is attracted to pretty, vivacious Emmy, but the boss’s son starts to court her, so Diego grudgingly steps aside. When Emmy’s family and Diego’s boss are overdue returning from a cattle drive, Diego sets out to find them—and Emmy insists on going along. Can Diego overcome his jealousy before he loses Emmy forever? And will Emmy ever be able to give up her frills and petticoats for boots and spurs?

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Descrição: British satirist Will Self spins four interconnected stories into a brilliantly insightful commentary on human foibles and resilience.

Will Self’s remarkable new stories center on the disease and decay that target the largest of human organs: the liver. Set in locales as toxic as a London drinking club and mundane as a clinic in an ultraorderly Swiss city, the stories distill the hard lives of their subjects whether alcoholic, drug addict, or cancer patient. I n “Fois Humane,” set at the Plantation Club, it’s always a Tuesday afternoon in midwinter, and the shivering denizens of this dusty realm spend their days observing its proprietor as he force-feeds the barman vodkaspiked beer. Joyce Beddoes, protagonist of “Leberknödel,” has terminal liver cancer and is on her way to be euthanized in Zurich when, miraculously, her disease goes into remission. In “Prometheus” a young copywriter at London’s most cutting edge ad agency has his liver nibbled by a griffon thrice daily, but he’s always in the pink the following morning and ready to make that killer pitch. If blood and bile flow through liverish London, the two arteries meet in “Birdy Num Num,” where “career junky” Billy Chobham performs little services for the customers who gather to wait for the Man, while in his blood a virus pullulates. A moving portrayal of egos, appetites and addictions, Liver is an extraordinary achievement.

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Descrição: Left at the altar, her old job filled by someone else, all Kristy O’Neal wants is for life to return to normal. But working as a seasonal park ranger at Shiloh National Military Park alongside Ace Kennedy, the man who stole her job, may be more than Kristy can handle—especially when she realizes she’s falling for him. But Kristy doesn’t believe in true love anymore. With the history of her beloved park and his own ancestors in his arsenal, Ace begins the battle to prove to Kristy that true love does exist . . .before he loses her forever.

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Descrição: With Matchless, Gregory Maguire has reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic The Little Match Girl for a new time and new audiences. Originally asked by National Public Radio to write an original story with a Christmas theme, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked and A Lion Among Men was once again inspired by the fairy tales we all loved in childhood—and he composed a poignant and enchanting tale of transcendence. A lovely and beautifully illustrated gift, Matchless places Andersen’s pitiful waif in the august company of Maguire’s previously re-imagined Snow White (Mirror, Mirror), Cinderella (Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister), and, of course, the Wicked Witch and other denizens of Oz.

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Descrição: The odyssey of Eva Perón—the Argentine first lady made famous in the play and the movie Evita— was as remarkable in death as it was in life. A few years after she succumbed to cervical cancer, her specially preserved body was taken by the military dictatorship that succeeded her deposed husband Juan. Hidden for sixteen years in Italy in a crypt under a false name, she was eventually exhumed and returned to Buenos Aires to be buried in an underground tomb said to be secure enough to withstand a nuclear attack.

Or was she?

When San Francisco private eye August Riordan engages in a flirtation with a beautiful university student from Buenos Aires, he witnesses her death in a tragic shooting and is drawn into mad hunt for Evita’s remains. He needs all of his wits, his network of friends and associates, and an unexpected legacy from the dead father he has never known to help him survive the deadly intrigue between powerful Argentine movers and shakers, ex-military men, and a mysterious woman named Isis who is expert in ancient techniques of mummification.

The fifth novel in the August Riordan series, The Big Wake-Up plunges everyman PI Riordan and his sidekick Chris Duckworth into their most terrifying and anguishing case ever.

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Descrição: How far would you go to protect your family?

Ann Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see. In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with the terrifying decisions we are forced to make when ordinary life changes overnight.

A year ago, Ann and Peter Brooks were just another unhappily married couple trying–and failing–to keep their relationship together while they raised two young daughters. Now the world around them is about to be shaken as Peter, a university researcher, comes to a startling realization: A virulent pandemic has made the terrible leap across the ocean to America’s heartland.

And it is killing fifty out of every hundred people it touches.

As their town goes into lockdown, Peter is forced to return home–with his beautiful graduate assistant. But the Brookses’ safe suburban world is no longer the refuge it once was. Food grows scarce, and neighbor turns against neighbor in grocery stores and at gas pumps. And then a winter storm strikes, and the community is left huddling in the dark.

Trapped inside the house she once called home, Ann Brooks must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where opening a door to a neighbor could threaten all the things she holds dear.

Carla Buckley’s poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress.

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Descrição: The first modern biography of the greatest traitor—and one of the most colorful characters—in American history.

Patriot, traitor, general, spy: James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction. Brilliant and precocious, at age twenty he was both the youngest general in the revolutionary Continental Army, and privy to the Conway cabal to oust Washington from command. He was Benedict Arnold’s aide, but the first to reveal Arnold’s infamous treachery. By thirty-eight, he was the senior general in the United States army—and had turned traitor himself.

Wilkinson’s audacious career as Agent 13 in the Spanish secret service while in command of American forces is all the more remarkable because it was anything but hidden. Though he betrayed America’s strategic secrets, sought to keep the new country from expanding beyond the Mississippi, and almost delivered Lewis and Clark’s expedition into Spanish hands, four presidents—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison—turned a blind eye to his treachery. They gambled that Wilkinson—by turns charming and ruthless—would never betray the army itself and use it to overthrow our nascent democracy—a fate every other democracy in the Western hemisphere endured. The crucial test came in 1806, when at the last minute Wilkinson turned the army against Aaron Burr and foiled his conspiracy to break up the U nion.

A superb writer and superlative storyteller, Andro Linklater captures with brio Wilkinson’s charismatic ability to live a double life in public view. His saga shows, more clearly than any other, how fragile the young republic was and how its strength grew from the risks its leaders faced and the challenges they had to overcome.

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Descrição: An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people.

Eponymous, adj. Giving one’s name to a person, place, or thing.

Anonymous, adj. Anonymous.

Anonyponymous, adj. Anonymous and eponymous.

The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found a novel way to eat them all together. Etienne de Silhouette, a former French finance minister, was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for chintzy practices—such as substituting a darkened outline for a proper painted portrait. Both bequeathed their names to the language, but neither man is remembered.

In this clever and funny book, John Bemelmans Marciano illuminates the lives of these anonyponymous persons. A kind of encyclopedia of linguistic biographies, the book is arranged alphabetically, giving the stories of everyone from Abu “algorithm” Al-Khwarizmi to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Along with them you'll find the likes of Harry Shrapnel, Joseph-Ignace Guillotine, and many other people whose vernacular legacies have long outlived their memory.

Accented by amusing line portraits and short etymological essays on subjects like “superhero eponyms,” Anonyponymous is both a compendium of trivia and a window into the fascinating world of etymology. Carefully curated and unfailingly witty, this book is both a fantastic gift for language lovers and a true pleasure to read.

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Descrição: An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City’s cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White.

In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult. Combining the no-holds-barred confession and yearning of A Boy’s Own Story with the easy erudition and sense of place of The Flaneur, this is the story of White’s years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to erotic entanglements downtown to the burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers. It’s a moving, candid, brilliant portrait of a time and place, full of encounters with famous names and cultural icons.

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Descrição: A bold new account of explorer Henry Hudson and the discovery that changed the course of history.

The year 2009 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Just in time for this milestone, Douglas Hunter, sailor, scholar, and storyteller, has written the first book-length history of the 1609 adventure that put New York on the map.

Hudson was commissioned by the mighty Dutch East India Company to find a northeastern passage over Russia to the lucrative ports of China. But the inscrutable Hudson, defying his orders, turned his ship around and instead headed west—far west—to the largely unexplored coastline between Spanish Florida and the Grand Banks.

Once there, Hudson began a seemingly aimless cruise—perhaps to conduct an espionage mission for his native England—but eventually dropped anchor off Coney Island. Hudson and his crew were the first Europeans to visit New York in more than eighty years, and soon went off the map into unexplored waters.

Hudson’s discoveries reshaped the history of the new world, and laid the foundation for New York to become a global capital. Hunter has shed new light on this rogue voyage with unprecedented research. Painstakingly reconstructing the course of the Half Moon from logbooks and diaries, Hunter offers an entirely new timeline of Hudson’s passage based on innovative forensic navigation, as well as original insights into his motivations.

Half Moon offers a rich narrative of adventure and exploration, filled with international intrigue, backstage business drama, and Hudson’s own unstoppable urge to discover. This brisk tale re-creates the espionage, economics, and politics that drove men to the edge of the known world and beyond.

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Descrição: According to Deborah Burnes, body care and eco-consciousness need not be mutually exclusive. In Part I of this timely book, she explains the historical roots of the search for beauty, and how it has led to a $60 billion cosmetics industry that misleads and confuses consumers on everything from product effectiveness to toxicity. In Part II, Burnes details options for buying natural and organic products in a range of budgets, with each graded on a "good," "better," or "best" scale in terms of chemical content and overall health impact. Part III discusses the positive effects chemical-free products have on overall health, and how those effects are expressed in the appearance of our skin. Part IV contains a wealth of facts, tips, and shortcuts to help consumers experience living green and enhancing personal beauty.

Written in an engaging style but based in science, Look Great, Live Green offers a fresh perspective on living an eco-friendly, body-friendly, beauty-friendly lifestyle.

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Descrição: The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial—and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages.

On March 15, 1348, Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the Pope and his court in Avignon. She was twenty-two years old. Her cousin and husband, Prince Andrew of Hungary, had recently been murdered, and Joanna was the chief suspect. Determined to defend herself—Joanna won her acquittal against enormous odds. Returning to Naples, she ruled over one of Europe’s most prestigious courts for more than thirty years—until she was herself murdered.

As courageous as Eleanor of Aquitaine, as astute and determined as Elizabeth I of England, Joanna was the only female monarch in her time to rule in her own name. She was notorious: The taint of her husband’s death never quite left her. But she was also widely admired: Dedicated to the welfare of her subjects and realm, she reduced crime, built hospitals and churches, and encouraged the licensing of women physicians. While a procession of the most important artists and writers of her day found patronage at her glittering court, the turmoil of her times swirled around her: war, plague, intrigue, and the treachery that would, ultimately, bring her down.

As she did in her acclaimed Four Queens, Nancy Goldstone takes us back to the turbulent and colorful Middle Ages, and with skill and passion brings fully to life one of history’s most remarkable women. Her research is impeccable, her eye for detail unerring, and in The Lady Queen she paints a captivating portrait of medieval royalty in all its incandescent complexity.

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Descrição: For language buffs and lexicographers, copy editors and proofreaders, and anyone who appreciates the connection between language and culture—the illuminating story of “proper English.”

In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers—those who have tried to regulate, or otherwise organize, the way we speak. The Lexicographer’s Dilemma offers the first narrative history of these endeavors, showing clearly that what we now regard as the only “correct” way to speak emerged out of specific historical and social conditions over the course of centuries.

As literary historian Jack Lynch has discovered, every rule has a human history, and the characters peopling his narrative are as interesting for their obsession as for their erudition. The struggle between prescriptivists, who prescribe a correct approach, and descriptivists, who analyze how language works, is at the heart of Lynch’s story. From the sharp-tongued satirist Jonathan Swift, who called for a governmentsponsored academy to issue rulings on the language, and the polymath Samuel Johnson, who put dictionaries on a new footing, to John Horne Tooke, the crackpot linguist whose bizarre theories continue to baffle scholars; Joseph Priestley, whose political radicalism prompted riots; and the ever-crotchety Noah Webster, whose goal was to Americanize the English language—Lynch brings to life a varied cast as illuminating as it is entertaining.

Grammatical “rules” or “laws” are not like the law of gravity, or laws against theft or murder—they’re more like rules of etiquette, made by fallible people and subject to change. Charting the evolution of English, Jack Lynch puts today’s debates—whether about Ebonics in the schools or split infinitives in the New York Times—in a rich historical context, and makes us appreciate anew the hard-won standards we now enjoy.

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Descrição: For readers of Beautiful Boy and Hurry Down Sunshine, a deeply personal and moving account of two lost children separated by two centuries.

While researching her next book, Julie Myerson finds herself in a graveyard, looking for traces of a young woman who died nearly two centuries before. As a child in Regency England, Mary Yelloly painted an exquisite album of watercolors that uniquely reflected the world in which she lived. But Mary died at the age of twenty-one, and when Julie comes across this album, she is haunted by the potential never realized. She is also reminded of her own child.

Only days earlier, Julie and her husband locked their eldest son out of the family home. He is just seventeen. After a happy childhood, he had discovered drugs, and it had taken only a matter of months for the boy to completely lose his way and propel his family into daily chaos. Julie—whose emotionally fragile relationship with her own father had left her determined to love her children better—had to accept that she was powerless to bring him back.

Honest, warm, and profoundly moving, this is the parallel story of a girl and a boy separated by centuries. The circumstances are very different, but the questions remain terrifyingly the same. What happens when a child disappears from a family? What will survive of any of us in memory or in history? And how is a mother to cope when love is not enough?

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Descrição: A celebration of the history of small, independent retail and the story of how mom & pop stores across the country still thrive on attentive customer service and renewed community support for local businesses.

Business journalist Robert Spector grew up working in his family’s butcher shop in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he learned invaluable lessons about the independent retail business—and about life. Mom & pop stores have always brought people together, fostering a sense of neighborhood identity and camaraderie, and are the glue that connects people in big cities and small towns alike.

Long fascinated by the “direct connection” people feel as merchants and customers when they do business in neighborhood shops, and responding to the growing “buy local” movement across the country, Spector sets out to discover the state, and the state of mind, of independent retailing in America. From a specialty soda pop shop in Los Angeles to a florist shop in Dayton, Ohio, from a bakery in Chicago to a bookstore in Bellingham, Washington, mom & pop store owners shared their stories with him, revealing the spirit and tenacity of the small business owner, dealing with frustration and defeat as well as triumph and success. Spector also interweaves the history of independent retailing. The Mom & Pop Store reflects the story of this country, for it embraces and cross-references every ethnic group and virtually every element of our society.

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Descrição: After a long absence, novelist CJ Baxter returns to his hometown of Adelia in Upstate New York for his grandfather's funeral. Facing a messy divorce and doubting his talent as a writer, CJ is forced to confront secrets that have tormented him since childhood. To complicate matters, his brother Graham is running for a Senate seat, and the family is intent on keeping their most damaging secret in the family, for fear the truth, were it found out, would ruin Graham's chances at winning. But with CJ airing their dirty laundry in his books, the family is forced to deal with him. They decide on a familiar method for handling the problem: a hunting trip, and just the setting for an accident to happen. CJ must find a way to avoid being killed while exposing their toxic family secret, regardless of Graham's lofty ambitions. More important, CJ must come to terms with the newfound faith that compelled him to return to Adelia in the first place.

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Descrição: At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they come to view themselves as ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton.

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Descrição: Mark Mills’s bestselling novels Amagansett and The Savage Garden have won him widespread acclaim for his singular brand of suspense. Weaving a haunting and atmospheric historical backdrop with a tense plot of murder and an unforgettable love story, he delivers another riveting tale in The Information Officer.

Summer 1942: Malta, a small windswept island in the Mediterranean, has become the most bombed patch of earth on the planet, worse even than London during the Blitz. The Maltese, a fiercely independent people, withstand the relentless Axis air raids.

Max Chadwick is the British officer charged with manipulating the news on Malta to bolster the population’s fragile esprit de corps. This is all, besides a few broken-down fighter planes, that stands in the face of Nazi occupation and perhaps even victory—for Malta is the stepping-stone the Germans need between Europe and North Africa.

When Max learns of the brutal murder of a young island woman—along with evidence that the crime was committed by a British officer—he knows that the Maltese loyalty to the war effort could be instantly shattered. As the clock ticks down toward all-out invasion, Max must investigate the murder—beyond the gaze of his superiors, friends, and even the woman he loves.

Filled with remarkably poignant and atmospheric details of life under siege, and indelible characters who live and breathe, The Information Officer is a taut, transporting thriller—an enthralling novel told with exceptional skill and style.

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Descrição: Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life, they marry young and have two children before Cynthia reaches the age of twenty-five. Adam is a rising star in the world of private equity and becomes his boss’s protégé. With a beautiful home in the upper-class precincts of Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful.
But the Moreys’ standards are not the same as other people’s. The future in which they have always believed for themselves and their children—a life of almost boundless privilege, in which any desire can be acted upon and any ambition made real—is still out there, but it is not arriving fast enough to suit them. As Cynthia, at home with the kids day after identical day, begins to drift, Adam is confronted with a choice that will test how much he is willing to risk to ensure his family’s happiness and to recapture the sense that the only acceptable life is one of infinite possibility.

The Privileges is an odyssey of a couple touched by fortune, changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each other. Lyrical, provocative, and brilliantly imagined, this is a timely meditation on wealth, family, and what it means to leave the world richer than you found it.

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Descrição: A new novel about faith, family, and finding the courage to do the right thing from the author of Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe.

Police officer Jessica Villareal has always played by the book and tried to do the right thing. But now, she finds herself approaching midlife divorced, estranged from her daughter, alone, and unhappy. And she’s wondering if she ever made a right choice in her life.

But then Jess discovers a girl and her father living off the radar in the Oregon woods, avoiding the comforts—and curses—of modern life. Her colleagues on the force are determined to uproot and separate them, but Jess knows the damage of losing those you love. She recognizes her chance to make a difference by doing something she’s never dared. Because even though she’s used to playing by the rules, there are times when they need to be broken…

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Descrição: Singing God's Work tells the story of Choir founder and director, Allen Bailey, and the journey that led to his founding this sensational international singing group. Raised in a rat-infested tenement of Harlem, Allen Bailey grew up learning from and working with legends in the fields of entertainment, sports, politics and social activism, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Percy Sutton, Basil Paterson, Chief Justice Arthur Goldberg, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,

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Descrição: Herman Rosenblat was a two-time Oprah guest. She called his tale of a girl tossing apples to him over the fence of a concentration camp when he was a boy the "greatest love story we've ever told." But when the story was labelled a hoax, a firestorm of criticism erupted and Rosenblat's memoir was cancelled. A new book, "The Apple" takes a look at the story behind the story.

Why was a a Holocaust "hoax" such hight stakes? Is it ever okay for a survivor to recast personal history? What are the perils of fabricating a memoir?

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Descrição: You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in contemporary fiction, and from the very first page of this remarkable novel he will steal your heart.

The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?

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Descrição: George Young never thought of himself as a detective, but that’s pretty much his vocation—an attorney at a top insurance firm, it’s his job to pin down suspicious claims. Mrs. Corbett, the rich, eccentric wife of the firm’s founder, wants to know the true about her son Roger’s violent death. George’s investigation leads him to Roger’s mistress, a cagey Czech hand model named Eliska, whose motives for latching on to Roger may have gotten him killed.

Set against a volatile and vividly drawn Manhattan, Risk is prime Colin Harrison.

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Descrição: Set in Kuwait during the ominous years between the two Gulf Wars, Small Kingdoms traces the intersecting lives of five people—rich and poor, native and foreigner, Muslim, Christian, and non-believer—when they discover that a teenaged Indian housemaid is being brutally abused by her employer.
Tensions are high. Just miles away in Iraq, Saddam Hussein is threatening a second invasion of this tiny desert kingdom, which he destroyed six years before, in 1990. Even without a war on the horizon, rescuing a maid employed in a private home is a sticky matter in this rigid, class-conscious society, where the rich protect their own; and any intervention involves great personal risk.
Emmanuella, an impoverished cook from India, risks losing her job and thus her ability to support her family back home. Kit, the young wife of an American businessman in the Gulf, could face grave damage to her marriage. Mufeeda, an upper-class Kuwaiti woman, must buck the powerful status quo of her family and her class, as well as her own history.
And there’s Hanaan, a rebellious young Arab woman who may have as much to lose as the desperate maid. Having fallen in love with Theo, an American doctor working in the country, she has already faced violent retribution from her family. How much more violence lies ahead she doesn’t know. Stubborn, charismatic, and dismissive of her society’s strict codes of behavior for unmarried women, she will step forward to help the captive maid.
An Upstairs/Downstairs of the Arab world, Small Kingdoms tells the intimate story of ordinary people facing an extraordinary test in the face of another war.

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Descrição: Ron L. Deal, the leading Christian remarriage authority, and David H. Olson, a seasoned marriage and family expert, give couples hope that they can have strong healthy marriages. Their advice grows out of Olson's National Survey of Couples Creating Stepfamilies, the largest study of its kind ever conducted. As couples work through the chapters in The Remarriage Checkup in conjunction with an online Couple Checkup, they'll discover ways to improve all aspects of their marriage and build on its strengths.

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Descrição: Grace Hawkes has not spoken to her previously tight-knit family since her mother's sudden death five years ago. Well, most of the family was tight-knit— her father walked out on them when she was 13 and she and her two brothers and sister bonded together even closer with their mother as a result.

She's been doing her best to live her new life apart from them, but when their estranged father has a stroke and summons them, Grace suddenly realizes she's done the same thing he had done...abandoned those who need her most.

And need her they do, for inside the hospital walls, a strange war is unfolding between the pseudo-kindly woman who is their father's second wife and the rest of the original Hawkes clan. Upon reconnecting with her brother and sisters, Grace will find a part of herself she thought was lost forever. As they unravel the manipulative deception of the second Mrs. Hawkes, Grace will finally be able to stand up for her family— and to remember what a family is, even after all these years.

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Descrição: When 19 year old Jo decides to leave school, her parents’ home, and everything she holds dear, she’s left with nothing to guide her and no way to get where she’s going. But due to the kindness of strangers, finds her way to Cass’s Roadside Café, a side-of-the-road dinner in the middle-of-nowhere.
And on one extraordinary, windy day in 1977, she meets an old woman who, informed she only has a few weeks to live, tells everyone exactly what she thinks of them—and then doesn’t die; a water-witcher who has had to come to terms with his unusual talent; a hippie that travels wherever the wind takes him; a friendly trucker; and a cast of local characters whose pasts’ have taught them invaluable lessons, and whose stories’ give Jo the strength and courage to depart on her own journey, once again.

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Descrição: From the award-winning author of the Blessed Trinity trilogy comes the second in a powerful Series dealing with contemporary themes in a Christian setting.

Gabrielle Mercedes Booker could dance before she learned to walk, it’s what she was put on this earth to do. But when she’s practically orphaned after the death of her mother and her Aunt Cee reluctantly takes her in, she doesn’t get a chance to pursue her dreams to dance professionally. Settling for much less, Gabrielle tried to make a life for herself but can’t get over the feeling that there’s a void in her life.

Everything changes for Gabrielle when she attends Pastor Landis’s church and gives her life to Christ. She joins the church’s dance ministry and her life soars. She also meets Zachary Wayne Morgan, a doctor who becomes romantically interested in her. Soon murmurs of her past life begin to circulate, threatening to derail her status in the dance ministry as well as many of the relationships she’s formed in church. Will Gabrielle have to pay for her sins even after she’s been saved?

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Descrição: Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and studen at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

Three different narrators tell the story, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice.

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Descrição: LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in
the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life.

Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South
L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li,
the store's owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find
the killer.

The world Bosch steps into next is unknown
territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with
translation—not just of languages but also of the cultural norms and
expectations that guided Li's life. He uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad, a
lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new
lives in the U.S.

And instantly his world explodes. The one good
thing in Bosch's life, the person he holds most dear, is taken from him and
Bosch travels to Hong Kong in an all-or-nothing bid to regain what he's lost.
In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns
around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in
a desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity

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Descrição: An international bestseller, Volpi's Season of Ash is a literary thriller that examines the "big ideas" of the latter half of the twentieth century through the lives of three women. It opens with the Chernobyl catastrophe and winds its way through the fall of Communism, the influence of the IMF, and the Genome Project. A bit like Richard Powers's books, Season of Ash is stuffed with ideas, but is also a gripping page-turner.

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Descrição: In the bestselling tradition of Kate Jacobs’ The Friday Night Knitting Club comes a wonderfully assured women’s fiction debut, brimming with warmth and wit, about starting over and crafting the life you really want.

Sydney Webster’s comfortable New England life comes crashing down when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her penniless and evicted. She had no idea about his huge gambling debts, and is getting no sympathy from her hurt and angry twenty-something daughter. With nowhere to turn, Sydney takes shelter at a college friend’s B&B in Cedar Key, Florida, where she begins to form a plan.

As Syd turns her talent at spinning wool and knitting into a retail venture, other doors begin to open. She steps into the embrace of a community rich with love, laughter, friendship… and secrets. Soon she faces a choice: spin a safety net, or spin forward and never look back. Entertaining and heartwarming, this superb debut will win readers over with its real-life challenges and quirky and compelling characters.

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Descrição: When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.
This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. Afterward, these concepts become an obsession for the young scientist. As Victor begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor's purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men—the resurrectionists—whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternity.

Filled with literary lights of the day such as Bysshe Shelley, Godwin, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley herself, and penned in period-perfect prose, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein is sure to become a classic of the twenty-first century.

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Descrição: Patrick Rush is a single father, devoted to his young son but haunted by the loss of his wife, when he joins a local writing group. In the candlelit studio where the circle meets, he finds one writer's work far more powerful than the others—a young woman named Angela, who writes about a girl stalked by a killer named the Sandman. But Angela's stories may be more autobiography than tall tale: soon the members of the group are being hunted by a shadowy figure resembling the Sandman, and the line between fiction and real life beings to dissolve. When his own son is taken, Patrick is forced to chase down the Sandman for himself and to discover the ending to his own terrifying story.

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Descrição: THE RETURN is a captivating novel of family, love, and betrayal set against a backdrop of civil war, flamenco, and fiery Spanish passion. Sonia, a young woman visiting Spain from England, knows nothing of Granada's shocking past, but ordering a simple cup of coffee in a quiet café will lead her into the extraordinary tale of a family's fight to survive the horror of the Spanish Civil War. Seventy years earlier, in the Ramírez family's café, Concha and Pablo's children relish an atmosphere of hope. Antonio is a serious young teacher, Ignacio a flamboyant matador, and Emilio a skilled musician. Their sister, Mercedes, is a spirited girl whose sole passion is dancing, until she meets Javier and an obsessive love affair begins. But Spain is a country in turmoil. In the heat of civil war, everyone must take a side and choose whether to submit, to fight, or to attempt escape.

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Descrição: Deception–the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others –is the subject of The True Deceiver, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate.

All winter long the snow has been falling on the village. The sun rises late in the day, and once it does, there is little to do but trade tales. This year the talk of the town is all about Katri Kling and Anna Aemelin. Katri is a yellow-eyed outcast who lives in a room with her simple teenaged brother and a dog she never bothered to name. She has no use for the daily dishonesties that smooth social life, but she can see to the rational core of any problem. Anna, an elderly children’s book illustrator, is a respected and easygoing, if aloof, member of society. She lives alone in her family mansion, venturing out come springtime to paint exquisitely detailed paintings of the forest floor (to which her young fans insist she add adorable pink bunnies). When Anna needs someone to help around the house, Katri eagerly volunteers. It’s not long before she and her brother have moved into the mansion and taken charge of just about every aspect of Anna’s life and livelihood. As the season becomes increasingly oppressive, the two women find themselves engaged in a confrontation that will gradually strip away their cherished illusions.

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Descrição: The Congo beckons to young Amanda Brown in 1958, as she follows her missionary calling to the mysterious "dark continent" far from her South Carolina home. But her enthusiasm cannot cushion her from the shock of a very foreign culture—where competing missionaries are as plentiful as flies, and oppressive European overlords are busy stripping the land of its most valuable resource: diamonds.

Little by little, Amanda is drawn into the lives of the villagers in tiny Belle Vue—and she is touched by the plight of the local witch doctor, a man known as Their Death, who has been forced to take a second job as a yardman to support his two wives. But when First Wife stumbles upon an impossibly enormous uncut gem, events are set in motion that threaten to devastate the lives of these people Amanda has come to admire and love—events that could lead to nothing less than murder.

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Descrição: When Josh's mother dies in a phobia-induced car crash, she leaves two questions for her grieving family: how did a snake get into her car and how do you mourn with no faith to guide you?



Twelve-year-old Josh is left alone to find the answers. His father is building a time machine. His four-year-old brother's closest friend is a plastic Power Ranger. His psychiatrist offers nothing more than a blank journal and platitudes.



Isolated by grief in a home where every day is pajama day, Josh makes death his research project. He tests the mourning practices of religions he doesn't believe in. He tries to mend his little brother's shattered heart. He observes, records and waits - for his life to feel normal, for his mother's death to make sense, for his father to come out of the basement.



His observations, recorded in a series of journal entries, are funny, smart, insightful - and heartbreaking. His conclusions about the nature of love, loss, grief and the space-time continuum are nothing less than life-changing. (For ages 9-12)

From Kirkus Reviews:
"In this impressive debut novel, Josh keeps a journal to chart his feelings and thoughts, allowing readers to follow his journey from sadness to acceptance and the eventual return of cohesion in his family. Given the subject matter, the story is never maudlin, and Josh's voice rings natural and true. An elegantly crafted volume of lasting power."

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Descrição: Winnie and Wolf is the story of the extraordinary friendship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler in the Years between the First and Second World Wars. The girl who would become Winifred Wagner was raised in an orphanage and married to the gay son of composer Richard Wagner. As heiress to the country's most august cultural legacy, she grew up surrounded by philosophers and composers. In 1923, the Wagners met the man who would be their hero and hope for the future: a wild-eyed Viennese opera fanatic named Adolf Hitler. Almost immediately Winnie and Wolf struck up an intimate friendship.

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Descrição: Despite their isolated location on the edge of the Great Plains, the Black HIlls have become an important tourist destination over the past one hundred years. Suzanne Julin examines the early development of this phenomenon and the influences—political, local, and national—that helped create a prosperous tourist industry in the region between the 1880s and the start of World War II.

Public policy and state and federal government actions promoted the Black Hills as the vanguard of both the mountain West and the Wild West and developed a national park, two national monuments, the largest state park in the country, and the iconic Mount Rushmore as methods to direct tourist traffic to the region. Julin argues that these promotional efforts affected more than just tourism; they helped form or change local trends and issues and established the identity of the region.

A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles addresses the concerted efforts of governmental, quasi-governmental, and private groups to develop the tourist industry in the early twentieth century. While this book is specifically about the Black Hills, its larger themes pertain to the development of tourism as one of the most important industries in the modern United States.

Suzanne Julin is an award-winning author born and raised in South Dakota.

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Descrição: From Josephine Baker to Shonda Rhimes, from Arthur Ashe to President Barack Obama, this completely revised and updated volume explores and celebrates African-American accomplishments in every field.

African Americans have overcome overwhelming odds to become leaders in politics, education, science and medicine, law, military, sports, and business. In compiling this superb resource book, Joan Potter has mined old documents, records, letters, family histories, and government files to showcase 450 incredible accomplishments by African Americans. From colonial times to present day, explore the lives’ of Harriet Tubman, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Alexander Twilight, Doctor Daniel Hale Williams, Condoleezza Rice, Hal Jackson, and many more.

Updated to include a wealth of new and revised information, and illustrated with stunning photographs, this volume is one to cherish and to share for generations. African American Firsts is a testament to African Americans’ talent, ambition, creativity, and courage.

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Descrição: Based on Thompson's popular blog, www.badassoftheweek.com, this book offers a relentless onslaught of the toughest warlords, vikings, samurai, pirates, gunfighters, and military commanders to every live. The badasses populating the pages of Badass are the most savagely awesome historical figures to ever strap on a pair of chain mail gauntlets and run screaming into battle. Author Ben Thompson—considered by many to be the Internet’s foremost expert on badassitude—has gathered together a rogues’ gallery of butt-stomping rogues, from Julius Caesar and Genghis Kahn to Blackbeard, George S. Patton, and Bruce Lee. Their bone-breaking exploits are illustrated by top artist from the fields of gaming, comics, and cards—including World of Warcraft designer James Ryman and Thomas Denmark, illustrator for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. This is not your boring high school history—this is tough, manly, unrelentingly Badass!

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Descrição: What do Tetra aquarium supplies, Elector-Nite sensors, and Nissha touch panels have in common? They are typical "hidden champions," medium-sized, unknown companies (with annual revenues under $4 billion) that have quietly, under the radar, become world market leaders in their respective industries. Hermann Simon has been studying these hidden champions for over 20 years, and in this sequel to his worldwide bestseller, Hidden Champions, he explores the dramatic impact of globalization on these companies and their outstanding international success. Going deep inside more than a thousand hidden champions around the world, Simon reveals the common patterns, behaviors, and approaches that make these companies successful, and, in many cases, able to sustain world market leadership for generations, despite intense competition, financial pressures, and constantly evolving market dynamics. In the tradition of In Search of Excellence, Built to Last, and Good to Great, Simon identifies the factors in business operations, customer service and marketing, innovation, human resources management, organizational design, leadership, and strategy that separate these outstanding performers from the rest of the pack – and from the large corporations of the day.

This book:

Offers best practices of the world’s most successful "hidden" companies as well as lessons that can be applied in any type of organization, large or small.

Showcases unusual companies (from Tetra aquarium supplies to Petzl headlamps) that provide an alternative to the well-known multinationals that are struggling in the current financial crisis.

Considers the impact of globalization and information/communication technologies on the prospects of smaller companies.

In 2005, Simon, the author, was voted Germany’s second most influential management thinker behind the legendary Peter Drucker; he consults and speaks to business audiences around the world.

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Descrição:

This book shows both recent graduates and experienced veterans how to find hidden work opportunities, sell themselves effectively to employers, network, and create effective marketing tools beyond the traditional resume or CV.

Does it seem really hard to find work in the current market? Do you wonder why you get negative or no responses to your job applications? If the answer to any or all of these questions is yes, this book is for you. The book explains how:

• the route to getting work has changed


• you can find hidden work opportunities


• to create effective marketing tools for yourself

• Checklists


• Quizzes (and answers)


• Sample résumés, letters, and more!

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Descrição: Chile peppers are hot — in every sense of the word. They add culinary fire to thousands of dishes from a variety of cuisines and inspire near-fanatical devotion in those who have succumbed to their incendiary charms. In this comprehensive book, world chile experts Dave DeWitt and Paul W. Bosland have assembled all the information that anyone with an interest in chile peppers could ever hope to find. Detailed profiles of the 100 most popular chile varieties include information on how to grow chiles; how to diagnose and remedy problems, pests, and diseases; and post-harvest processing and preservation. The book culminates in 85 mouth-watering recipes that make brilliant use of both the characteristic heat of chile peppers and of their more subtle flavor qualities.

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Descrição: Updated to coincide with the long anticipated release of the Farrelly Brothers’ movie The Three Stooges—the ultimate chronicle of the funniest comedy team in the history of American film.

The Three Stooges were a trio of knock-around comics in vaudeville who went on to become TV and movie legends. The Three Stooges Scrapbook is the most comprehensive account of these adored “knuckleheads.”

Initially the Three Stooges were little more than a trio for humorist Ted Healy, until 1933 when they struck out on their own. They were immediately signed to a contract and became an instant sensation.

Dour-faced Moe Howard with sugar-bowl haircut, his bald, chubby brother Curly, and frizzy-haired Larry poked, slapped, ear-yanked, and nose-twisted their way into the hearts of America… and into film history. The nearly 200 two-reel comedies, made between 1933 and 1958 have been translated into over 25 languages, entertained nearly six generations of fans, and are seen somewhere in the world every single day.

The Three Stooges Scrapbook is a historical overview of their half century in show business, including biographies of every Stooge, a complete listing of each and every short subject, feature, and TV appearance. Originally published in 1982 (now on its 17th printing), the never-out-of-print scrapbook is loaded with over 500 priceless photographs, making it the definitive book about the most admired slapstick team of all time.

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Descrição: The study points to a heavy workload having strong repercussions on the well-being of the family. Modern men are faced with an “invisible dilemma” which emerges when they try to reconcile their work with their family obligations. These men are dissatisfied with how they manage their time. They want more time for themselves, for their partners and for their families, but they are unable to find it in their current circumstances. Work is seen as a continuous pressure which requires their presence and commitment and which makes these men more and more dependent on their jobs. The reality is that these men, and particularly those who occupy management positions, spend a lot of time working and their jobs end up making inroads into their private lives and colonizing the family ambit. It also seems that for many of these men work continues to be their number one priority and is more important than the family.

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Descrição: L’objectiu d’aquest llibre és tractar d’entendre de forma senzilla les raons que han fet possible l’èxit dels vins del Priorat. Les condicions físiques d’aquesta comarca són úniques: la deforestació i l’erosió dels vessants han fet més difícil la vida dels ceps, i com a resultat produeixen un escàs però concentrat most. Malgrat aquestes condicions adverses, el treball de la gent del Priorat i la mateixa història de la comarca han aconseguit que aquests mostos concentrats i ben madurats, conreats en costers amb poc sòl fèrtil, minso i en condicions difícils, es converteixin en uns vins de forta personalitat i qualitat.

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Descrição: El llibre Els estrangerismes del català és un manual que dóna compte de la presència dels manlleus en català (i, indirectament, també en altres llengües). S’hi analitzen diversos aspectes lingüístics, com l’adaptació gràfica, la possible traducció, el plural o els derivats; però també els aspectes socials, com ara per què una llengua té estrangerismes, per quines vies penetren, etc. L’objectiu és donar una visió àmplia del fenomen dels estrangerismes, especialment en el cas català. Encara que el llibre és fonamentalment útil per a estudis universitaris, també és una obra de divulgació referida a un dels camps més controvertits del vocabulari; per tant, també és d’interès per a qualsevol persona que vulgui aprofundir en els seus coneixements sobre la llengua catalana.

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Descrição: Guittone d’Arezzo fou sens dubte un dels autors més rellevants de la generació de poetes italians immediatament anterior a Dante Alighieri, aquella que, a la Toscana dels municipis, recollia amb forta personalitat tant el llegat de la lírica trobadoresca provençal com el de la recent experiència de l’escola siciliana.

Quan Guittone tenia uns trenta-cinc anys d’edat, experimentà una crisi espiritual i s’uní a la congregació dels frati gaudenti. Aquest fet condicionà la seva heterogènia producció, solcada per intenses contradiccions i diversament inspirada per la política, la religió i l’amor.

Al costat de la seva important poesia de tema religiós, la seva etapa «anterior», de tipus amorós, reflecteix, com poques, les esquerdes i tensions, ètiques i estètiques, d’un món líric periclitat, que sovint expressa amb trets irònics i fins i tot sarcàstics.

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Descrição: Double Cross continues the story of Taylor Pasbury, a former Secret Service agent turned security professional in the first novel Forsaken ("highly readable...Taylor is a character worth another visit." BookPage)
In Double Cross, Taylor discovers the body of a former client's top assistant and all the evidence points to embezzlement and suicide. So why doesn't Taylor believe this case is as it seems. Enter her mother who walked out on Taylor and her dad when Taylor was nine and you have family dynamics playing a role in what is increasingly looking like a murder.

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Descrição: Necessary As Blood is the latest entry in Deborah Crombie’s New York Times Notable, Edgar®, Agatha, and Macavity Awards-nominated mystery series featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James. A Texan frequently compared to the masters of British crime fiction—including P.D. James, Martha Grimes, Barbara Vine, and fellow American Elizabeth George—Crombie dazzles once more with Necessary As Blood—a relentlessly suspenseful tale of a vanished mother, a murdered father, and a helpless, endangered child.

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Descrição: “This book is not just beautiful and intelligent, but also painfully — even wincingly — funny. It is rare that I literally laugh out loud while I'm reading, but Rhoda Janzen's voice — singular, deadpan, sharp-witted and honest — slayed me, with audible results. I have a list already of about fourteen friends who need to read this book. I will insist that they read it. Because simply put, this the most delightful memoir I've read in ages.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

A hilarious and moving memoir—in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron—about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis

Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her brilliant husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, but that same week a car accident left her with serious injuries. What was a gal to do? Rhoda packed her bags and went home. This wasn’t just any home, though. This was a Mennonite home. While Rhoda had long ventured out on her own spiritual path, the conservative community welcomed her back with open arms and offbeat advice. (Rhoda’s good-natured mother suggested she date her first cousin—he owned a tractor, see.) It is in this safe place that Rhoda can come to terms with her failed marriage; her desire, as a young woman, to leave her sheltered world behind; and the choices that both freed and entrapped her.

Written with wry humor and huge personality—and tackling faith, love, family, and aging—Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is an immensely moving memoir of healing, certain to touch anyone who has ever had to look homeward in order to move ahead.

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Descrição: After her boyfriend is killed in a van in which she was also a passenger, Katie Miller finds herself suffering from depression and anxiety attacks. What—or who—will deliver Katie from the bondage of her fears? Freeman Bontrager has been attracted to Katie for years. Now that she’s home, can he break through her emotional scars long enough to reach her heart? When a mysterious package brings Katie out of her despair, hope looms, until the “gift” must be returned to its rightful owners. Will Katie find the courage to really live—and love—again?

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Descrição: Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she’s returned, apparently unharmed. Molly’s mother, Chris, is so grateful to have her daughter back that she’s willing to overlook the odd circumstances. A few days later, the brakes go out on Chris’s car. An accident? Maybe. Except that it turns out that Chris, the IT manager at a large Chicago bank, may have misappropriated three million dollars. Not convinced that his daughter is safe, Molly’s father hires PI Georgia Davis to follow the money and investigate Chris’s death.

Doubleback reunites PI Georgia Davis with video producer Ellie Foreman. The two women track leads from Northern Wisconsin to an Arizona border town, where illegal immigrants, smuggled drugs, and an independent contractor called Delton Security come into play. Georgia and Ellie go to great lengths to find the truth, and Georgia discovers that you can cross a line, but sometimes you have to double back.

This is the sequel to the acclaimed EASY INNOCENCE, which introduced PI Georgia Davis. In DOUBLEBACK, Hellmann pairs Davis with Ellie Foreman, the protagonist of her first four novels.

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Descrição: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.

In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River–John Irving’s twelfth novel–depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” From the novel’s taut opening sentence–“The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long”–to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.

What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice–the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: “We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”

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Descrição: One of A merica’s foremost language experts presents an annotated edition of A mbrose Bierce’s classic catalog of correct speech.

In 1893, Ambrose Bierce declared “I am for preserving the ancient, primitive distinction between right and wrong.” In Write it Right, originally published in 1909, Bierce turned this considerable zeal on the English language. The result revealed that the satirical author of The Devil’s Dictionary had a keen ear for the vernacular—and that he hated it. This slim volume of his three hundred or so reviled words and expressions contains many we use today with no hesitation at all. (Of “electrocution” he says, “To one having even an elementary knowledge of Latin grammar this word is no less than disgusting, and the thing meant by it is felt to be altogether too good for the word’s inventor.”) Jan Freeman, acclaimed author of the weekly column “The Word” for the Boston Globe, annotates Bierce’s rulings with style, humor, and in-depth research, revealing what Bierce got right—and what he didn’t—and giving insight into how the language has changed over the past century. Write it Right, with its incisive wit and insight into the history of American English, is the perfect gift for word curmudgeons everywhere.

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Descrição: Bound Galley of CRITTERS with special excerpts from the series' previous six titles. Mayberry meets Mitford in these funny, heartwarming, family-friendly novels set in a fictitious Georgia town. Written by a revolving group of authors including NYT bestseller Smith, Patti Callahan Henry, Sabrina Jeffries, Sharon Sala, Anne Bishop, and others. Coming soon: a spin-off mystery series by Mossy Creek veteran CAROLYN MCSPARREN

Springtime brings thoughts of love to people all over the world, and Creekites are no exception. Although love to Creekites isn’t necessarily romantic. Take, for example, how they feel about their pets. Dogs, cats, birds, and fish take center stage as we once again see how the Southern half lives. Your favorites are back and in just as much trouble as ever. Amos and Ida are still circling each other’s wagons. Sandy Crane has a little Faith. Jayne Reynolds emerges from widowhood to take a long lingering look at Mossy Creek’s Bubba Rice. Ed Bailey and his beloved dog Possum, Lil Ida Hamilton, Peggy Caldwell and others will make you laugh and cry at human and animal antics. Cat heists. Fish ponds. Bird nappings. Don’t miss the fun with Critters of Mossy Creek!

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Descrição: Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home to his cabin one sweltering summer night to find on his answering machine an alarming voice from the past: his father Jack, a volatile, hard-drinking poacher. The next day, Mike learns that police have begun an all-out search for the man who killed a timber company exec and a beloved local cop the night before—and his father is their prime suspect. Jack has escaped from police custody, and only Mike believes that his tormented father might not be guilty.

Now, alienated from the woman he loves, shunned by colleagues who have no sympathy for the suspected cop-killer, Mike must come to terms with his tortured past. He knows firsthand Jack’s brutality, but is the man capable of murder? Desperate and alone, he strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive. But the only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer—which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.

THE POACHER’S SON is a sterling debut of literary suspense. Taut and engrossing, it represents the first in a series featuring Mike Bowditch.

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Descrição: A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism

Americans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity.

In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to “prosper” you. The medical profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health benefits. Academia has made room for new departments of “positive psychology” and the “science of happiness.” Nowhere, though, has bright-siding taken firmer root than within the business community, where, as Ehrenreich shows, the refusal even to consider negative outcomes—like mortgage defaults—contributed directly to the current economic crisis.

With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America’s penchant for positive thinking: On a personal level, it leads to self-blame and a morbid preoccupation with stamping out “negative” thoughts. On a national level, it’s brought us an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best—poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.

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Descrição: THIN THREADS® Stories is a book series that embraces the best of the human spirit - the heart and instinct in each of us that leads us toward becoming who we were meant to be. These Thin Thread stories are a collection of moments, events or decisions told in personal story form, each showing how the course of our lives can be redirected for the better. The stories encapsulate our human desire to tell our own stories and to read and relate to others through their stories.

The Advance reading copy of THIN THREADS: Real Stories of Life Changing Moments (The Classic edition) contains general stories from a variety of categories. The 272 page book contains 50 heart-warming, original stories. www.ThinThreads.com

About the Author:
Stacey Krone Battat is a family education workshop facilitator and former broadcast journalist. She has always loved to hear people’s personal stories. “I love the idea of people connecting to each other in the most fragile times, like now. I want people to be inspired by other’s real life experiences and have something positive come out of that moment,” says Stacey. Stacey lives in Woodbridge, CT, and regularly conducts inspirational workshops.

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Descrição: Three years after the Revolution, Tehran looks like a boneyard. Shahed has returned from California to his homeland to face the ghost of his father, to find out who betrayed him as a child, to recover something that might make him feel alive. Witnessing the brutalities of militant fundamentalists, he wishes his exuberant hustler of a father were alive again to kick the mullahs and their vicious crusade out of Iran.

Shahed conjures up his life as a twelve-year-old, superimposing on the grim streets the bizarre exploits of his lusty father and his crazy cohorts in the days of the Shah. He sees again his long-suffering mother, Uncle E the opium addict, the massive butcher, Taj the idiot . . . and most vividly of all the seductress Houri, tantalizing nymph of his childhood fantasies.

Now he must weigh the past, its dreams and crimes, excitement and betrayal, against the desolation of the present.

Mehrdad Balali combines a gripping father-son rivalry with a stark contrast of Iran under the Shah, and in the troubled years following the Revolution. Islamic culture unfolds through details of family relations, feasts and rites, circumcision, women’s roles and the vibrancy of everyday life for the poor in a country with thousands of years of history.

Houri brings alive an alien milieu few Americans understand—the subjection of an entire country to the horrors of religious fundamentalist rule. Yet it portrays a universal story older than nations: that of the bitter struggle and harsh love between father and son.

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Descrição: Sugarless offers a ruefully entertaining take on the simultaneous struggles of coming out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-Jesus.

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Descrição: Award-winning journalist Susan Marks uses real-life conflicts to show how the battle for water is being fought every day everywhere. She draws on interviews with water experts, research from universities and think tanks, and studies from national and international governmental organizations.Here’s the story about what’s happening to America’s shrinking water supply: the problems, the players, the complexities, and the possible solutions.

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Descrição: Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman—these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared.

In the words of The Washington Post, "With 2666, Roberto Bolaño joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic, summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bolaño has joined the immortals."

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Descrição: From the award-winning, national bestselling author of A Different Kind of Blues, Getting Some of Her Own, and When You Dance With the Devil comes a compelling, unforgettable page-turner of a woman’s journey to believing in herself.

Leticia Langley is used to fighting for what she wants, that’s how she wound up being the first in her family to graduate from college. So what if she’s never had a date? All that’s about to change when she gets herself a job as a food columnist—and treats herself to a makeover that will transform her life.

With her hot weave and a dazzling new wardrobe that shows off her curves, Leticia’s career and her social life are quickly on the rise. Especially when Max Baldwin, a handsome fellow columnist, takes some interest in her. Even as their relationship develops, Leticia realizes that to have the kind of life she wants, she’ll have to let down her guard, and let love in.

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Descrição: Marilyn Brant’s fiction debut is a wonderfully imaginative novel with a sly twist, as one woman finds love—and herself—with a little help from Jane Austen.

It begins in sophomore English class— just as Ellie Barnett’s teacher is assigning Pride and Prejudice— from nowhere comes a quiet “tsk” of displeasure. The target: Sam Blaine, the cute bad boy who’s been teasing Ellie for years. Entirely unbidden, as Jane Austen might say, the author’s ghost has taken up residence in Ellie’s mind.

Jane’s sensible, witty advice guides Ellie through the hell of adolescence and beyond. Years and boyfriends come and go—sometimes a little too quickly, sometimes not nearly fast enough—but Jane’s counsel is constant, and on the subject of Sam, quite insistent. Stay away, Jane demands. He is your Mr. Wickham. But is Jane’s advice foolproof or does even she have a little to learn about love?

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Descrição: From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, a historical novel about Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea, and his intriguing sojourn as a young man in 1820s Paris.

Born in 1805 on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau was the son of the expedition's translators, Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. Across the Endless River compellingly portrays this mixed-blood child's mysterious boyhood along the Missouri among the Mandan tribe and his youth as William Clark's ward in St. Louis. The novel becomes a haunting exploration of identity and passion as eighteen-year-old Baptiste is invited to cross the Atlantic in 1823 with young Duke Paul of Württemberg.

During their travels throughout Europe, Paul introduces Baptiste to a world he never imagined. Gradually, Baptiste senses the limitations of life as an outsider. His passionate affair with Paul's older cousin helps him understand the richness of his heritage and the need to fashion his own future. But it is Maura, the beautiful and independent daughter of a French-Irish wine merchant Baptiste meets in Paris, who most influences his ultimate decision to return to the frontier.

Rich in the details of life in both frontier America and the European court, Across the Endless River is a captivating novel about a man at the intersection of cultures, languages, and customs.

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Descrição: Have you ever wanted to change the world for the better?

In the heartwarming new novel Angel Lane, author Sheila Roberts presents three small-town shop owners and best friends who set their sites on doing just that. But their aspiration to “keep the heart in Heart Lake” by asking their neighbors to commit one random act of kindness every day leads them to some pretty wild situations, and shows one woman that love can grow from the most unexpected places.

Ripe with irresistible humor, friendship, and even recipes inspired by the story, Angel Lane is a story which teaches the important of kindness, friendship, and taking a chance on love.

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Descrição: A laugh out loud look into the lives of one of American family from a truly unique perspective—the family dog, Bo—the #1 doggie blogger, a.k.a. the Tucker Max of dogs.

Bo Hoefinger is not your everyday, run-of-the-mill author; he’s a mixed-bred shelter dog with an attitude. His popular blog, www.boknowsonline.com receives over 1000,000 page views per month, and his unique voice brings this memoir to life.

Bad to the Bone focuses on how he—and two seemingly normal people—wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world while creating a lifelong bond in the process. All the stories are true and will leave dog lovers laughing out loud.

Featuring humorous sidebars, lists, and text boxes from Bo’s diary, Bad to the Bone offers a touching and humorous narrative about the intensely loving and rich relationship between owner and dog.

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Descrição: What do you do when there's a bear in your backyard? A big black bear shows up one moonlit night and creates a ruckus, breaking into the shed where the grain is kept for the geese and then raiding the bird feeders. The bear is causing problems at other homes in the neighborhood, too, getting into the compost and eating dog food that was left out overnight. The neighbors propose all sorts of solutions to get rid of the bear, but the young boy among them knows what is best— a bear belongs in the woods. He and his family come up with a clever solution for keeping the bear safe and happy, away from people. Bear-ly There reminds us that an occasional glimpse of a bear through the trees or at the far side of a meadow is much, much better than having one in the backyard — for us and the bear.

Rebekah Raye is an artist beloved for her bird and animal paintings and sculpture. Her warm, expressive work is derived from her affinity with the natural world around her studio and home in East Blue Hill, Maine, where she had a bear visitor not too long ago...

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Descrição: Covering two periods, from World War II to the establishment of the State of Israel, this historical novel follows the lives of two men – a father, Jochanan, and his son, Benhazar.

Benhazar learns the significance of his father’s presence in the Colony and uncovers a trail of puzzling events with seemingly supernatural overtones. When his father dies under suspicious circumstances in a fire that guts a Jerusalem apartment, the son sets out to piece together
the fragments of his father’s shadowy past.

Many of the events in this fascinating and suspenseful novel are based on actual historical events disclosed for the very first time.

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Descrição: In the second in Peggy Webb’s rollicking mystery series filled with Southern-fried wit and lovably eccentric characters, Callie Valentine and her incomparable Basset hound, Elvis, must uncover a murderer who’s leaving residents of the King’s hometown all shook up…

With her ex-hunk’s burnin’ love tempting her at every turn—and her basset hound (who thinks he’s the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll) plotting to give remedial voice lessons to impersonators descending on Tupelo for the annual Elvis Festival—beauty shop entrepreneur Callie Valentine Jones has her hands full. Taking a breather from hairdos and mayhem, she throws a garden party for the out-of-towners (catered by cousin Lovie of course, with plenty of recipes that feature vodka).

But when one wannabe-Elvis falls dead in Callie’s gardenias and Lovie becomes the prime suspect, the cousins set out to see which sequined jumpsuit hides the heart of a killer.

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Descrição: Everything Flows is the last novel by Vasily Grossman, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his extraordinary epic of besieged Stalingrad, and the besieged modern soul, Life and Fate. The central story is simple yet moving: Ivan Grigoryevich, the hero, is released after thirty years in the Soviet camps and has to struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. This story, however, provides only the bare bones of a work written with prophetic urgency and in the shadow of death. Interspersing Ivan’s story with a variety of other stories and essays and even a miniature play, Grossman writes boldly and uncompromisingly about Russian history and the “Russian soul,” about Lenin and Stalin, about Moscow prisons in 1937, and about the fate of women in the Gulag, and in the play he subtly dramatizes the pressures that force people to compromise with an evil regime. His chapter about the least-known act of genocide of the last century–the Terror Famine that led to the deaths of around five million Ukrainian peasants in 1932—33–is unbearably lucid, comparable in its power only to the last cantos of Dante’s Inferno.

In this last book, Grossman is a man set free–from the silence imposed on him by Soviet censors, from the conventions of fiction. The result is a novel like no other, a testament of unequaled conviction to the horrors of oppression and the elation of liberty.

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Descrição: The prequel to the New York Times bestseller The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

In the heart of Paris, in the posh building made famous in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, the greatest food critic in the world is dying. Revered by some and reviled by many, Monsieur Pierre Arthens has been lording it over the world’s most esteemed chefs for years. But now, during these, his final hours, his mind has turned to simpler things. He is desperately searching for that singular flavor, that sublime something once sampled, never forgotten, the Flavor par excellence.

Thus begins a charming voyage that traces the career of Monsieur Arthens from childhood to maturity across a celebration of all manner of culinary delights. Alternating with the voice of the supercilious Arthens is a chorus belonging to his acquaintances and familiars—relatives, lovers, a would-be protégé, even a cat. Each will have his or her say about Monsieur Arthens, a man who has inspired only extreme emotions in people. Here, as in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery’s story celebrates life’s simple pleasures and sublime moments while condemning the arrogance and vulgarity of power. Read by Norman Dietz, Barbara Caruso, Eliza Foss, Jean Brassard, Pete Larkin, Heather Corrigan, and Paula Parker.

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Descrição: Home is a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as her award-winning earlier novel, Gilead. The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Now an alcoholic, he is perpetually at odds with his traditionalist father, though he remains his most beloved child. Home is a luminous and healing book about families and faith from one of America's most beloved and acclaimed authors.

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Descrição: In Frankly My Dear, I’m Dead, readers first met the unforgettable Delilah Dickinson and her literary travel agency. In the second book of this witty and original series, award-winning writer Livia Washburn takes her incorrigible sleuth to Mark Twain country, where murder is brewing on the mighty Mississippi.

After a lively tour through the Old South of Gone with the Wind, Delilah Dickinson is ready for a leisure steamboat trip down the Mississippi. But when one of her passengers winds up dead, Delilah has to get to the bottom of this downright ornery mystery.

Pretty soon Delilah’s list of suspects is longer than the Mississippi is wide…not to mention she’s taken quite a shine to Mark Twain himself—or rather, to the handsome actor putting on a one-man show aboard the riverboat. But things are never what they seem when Delilah’s at the helm, and pretty soon one murder has turned into two, and the killer’s next step may be truly explosive…

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Descrição: Trussell Jones has a big problem. He is crazy in love with a beautiful girl named Ellen. The problem? He has no car. His stepmother, Loretta, who believes that she is spiritually connected to Queen Victoria, won't let him drive. Furthermore, she is afraid Trussell is trying to kill her and arms herself with a rigid set of rules and a .38. Trussell's problems mount as he is pursued by armed, redneck motorcycle hoods, while his buddies, stumbling through their own lives as well as Trussell's, draw on visions of St. Francis and Jimmy Durante to pull off their best prank of all on Trussell. Meanwhile, Trussell overcomes his fear of contacting the girl of his dreams and begins a budding romance with a walking date to their elementary school playground. Just another heartwarming tale of a boy in love with a girl? Hardly. This quirky, laughable coming-of-age story is set in Columbus, Georgia in the 1950s. It will take you on a road trip of hits, near misses, twists, and sudden turns that will set you on your ear. Its irreverent protagonist discovers that the road to adulthood is paved with gain and loss, humor and heartache.

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Descrição: A Bilingual New York Review Books Original

Vivant Denon’s No Tomorrow is one of the masterpieces of eighteenth-century French libertine literature, a book to set beside Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses, except that where Laclos’s icy novel is one of hellish depravity, Denon’s ravishing novella is a paradisal diversion. This tale of seduction is itself a seduction, with a plot that could be said to slowly unveil itself before arriving at last at an unexpected consummation. Summoned by Madame de T–– to her country house, the young hero of the novella is taken on a tour of the grounds, only the beginning of a night that not only will be full of unanticipated delights but will give rise to unforeseen, perhaps unanswerable, questions. Lydia Davis’s definitive translation of Denon’s slim masterpiece is accompanied by the French text. Peter Brooks, Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, provides an introduction that explores the mysteries of No Tomorrow’s original publication and the subtleties of Denon’s ethics of love.

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Descrição: From the bestselling author of Tuscan Holiday, The Friends We Keep, and The Summer of Us comes a heartfelt novel about family, love, and promises kept and broken—a poignant rewarding read, perfect for the holiday season.

Every year the Rowans gather at their family farmhouse in rural Maine for Christmas holidays. This year, Becca Rowan has driven north from Boston with one thought in mind—reclaiming the daughter she gave up when she was a frightened teenager. Raised by Becca’s older brother and his wife, Rain Rowan has no idea she was adopted.

But Becca is unprepared for the depth of her family’s reaction to her announcement. Her brother is angry and fearful, her sister reveals long-buried resentments, and her parents are torn between concern and guilt. As the family neighbor, Alex, draws her deeper into an unexpected friendship, Becca begins to challenge her own beliefs and preconceptions.

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Descrição: New York Times bestselling author Joanne Fluke gives her readers a special holiday treat—an all-new Hannah Swenson holiday mystery with recipes for a complete Christmas dinner, from soup to nuts!

Hannah Swenson’s bakery in Lake Eden, Minnesota is at its busiest during the holidays. Orders are high, and Hannah’s busy as can be and loving it. She also gets a kick out of “Lunatic Larry Jaeger’s Crazy Elf Christmas Tree Lot,” a kitschy carnival taking place smack-dab in the middle of the village green.

But when Larry is found dead as a doornail in his own office, it turns out that quite a few people had a reason to wish him ill. With so many suspects to investigate and the twelve days of Christmas ticking away, Hannah’s running out of time to nab a murderous Scrooge who doesn’t want her to see the New Year.

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Descrição: Random Magic. It's a lot like our world, only...completely different.

When absent-minded Professor Random misplaces the main character from Alice in Wonderland, young Henry Witherspoon must book-jump to fetch Alice before chaos theory kicks in and the world vanishes.

Along the way he meets Winnie Flapjack, a wit-cracking doodle witch with nothing to her name but a magic feather and a plan. Such as it is.

Henry and Winnie brave the Dark Queen, whatwolves, pirates, Strüths, and fluttersmoths, Priscilla and Charybdis, obnoxiously cheerful vampires, Baron Samedi, a nine-dimensional cat, and one perpetually inebriated Muse to rescue Alice and save the world by tea time.

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Pre-release reviews: Brilliant! Roald Dahl meets Hayao Miyazaki - Alice in Wonderland meets Monty Python! - In [the] line of Pratchett or Adams - A delightful chase to locate Alice - Great dialogue - LOVED it - It's Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl and Monty Python and...it all works!

Quirky escape for children and parents - Extremely creative - Keeps building into funny, twisted nonsense! - An original spin on mythology, folklore, and fairy tales - The right director could have a field day with this - Phenomenal concept, outstanding dialogue - More engaging story than Harry Potter - Thoroughly enchanting - Madly in love with this story.

Zany, off-the-wall laugh riot - Inventive and fun - Vastly entertaining - Tomorrow's classic, today - Sly dialogue...exquisite punning - Fun dialogue banter, constantly turning words on their head to make sense of the non-sensical. And the imagination involved in the scenery and the wild characters strewn throughout Henry's journey are top notch, if perhaps drug induced - Amazing gift for dialogue, especially comedic dialogue - Extremely creative - It would take a master like Hayao Miyazaki to bring it to life properly - Wildly and wonderfully imaginative - Hilarious - Lots of fun!

Recommended for: Anyone with a sweet tooth for the eerily fantastic, book lovers, people who read in the bathtub, snuggled up in a favorite comfy chair, on trains, in tea rooms and under trees.

Other folks who might love this book: Britcom addicts, closet romantics, deep thinkers who need a little light reading, and fun folks who just love a wild story, a philosophical angle or a good laugh.

But also recommended for: Anyone who's had a rough day and longs for the great escape, anyone who's ever read and loved Alice in Wonderland, everyone who believes in everyday magic (or the other kind), smart folks, kind folks, and folks who prefer their — rather offbeat — humor black as coal.

Reader welcome note: Please feel free to visit the author's official site at SashaSoren.com to preview excerpts, take a quick quiz to find out which character is most like you, have a random excerpt read to you, or to have your tarot cards read for free.

Thank you for your visit, and, if you win a book, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts in a review. Good luck to everyone, and happy reading!

Random Magic...do you believe?

August 2009 review:

Random Magic is cute and quirky. I love the 'no guts, no glory' attitude of young Winnie Flapjack.

Winnie is determined to see Henry through on his quest to find Alice — no matter the obstacles. And those obstacles are many — but funny.

Winnie and Henry's adventure is non-stop — they move from one challenge to the next with their goal firmly in mind.

Each challenge is met and overcome by Winnie using a little magic, a little daring and common sense — well, common for the world she lives in.

I really enjoyed this world Ms. Soren created and all of the characters that occupy this world. I think Random Magic would make a wonderful family movie.

I give Random Magic 4 out of 5 stars. :)

- Michelle G., Michelle's Book Blog

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Descrição: Salt is an utterly compelling fantasy adventure, the work of a master storyteller at the peak of his powers.

When his father Tarl is captured and enslaved to work in Deep Salt, Hari vows to rescue him. This is a forbidding task: no one returns from Deep Salt. But Hari was born and raised in Blood Burrow. He's tough and smart—and he has a secret gift: he can communicate with animals.

The beautiful Pearl, born into the privileged world of the ruling class known as Company, has learned forbidden things from her mysteriously gifted maid Tealeaf. Now her father has promised her in marriage to the powerful and ambitious Ottmar. But Pearl will never submit to a subordinate life, so she and Tealeaf must flee.

When their paths cross, Hari and Pearl realize that together they must discover the secrets of Deep Salt. Their long journey through the badlands becomes far more than a quest to save Tarl—their world is on the brink of unspeakable terror.
(Teen fiction)

Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's finest writers, with more than forty books for adults and young adults and a number of prestigious awards to his credit. Salt is the first volume of The Salt Trilogy. Orca will publish Gool in Fall 2010 and Blood Burrow in Spring 2011.

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Descrição: Essence® bestselling author Daaimah S. Poole—one of Dafina’s youngest hottest and strongest talents—burns up the pages with a sizzling story of friendship gone wrong.

Nicole and Kia have been friends since elementary school. Nothing can break up their friendship—until Kia’s new boyfriend convinces her to sue Nicole’s sick mom after a car accident. Now Kia has money, a flashy home in Florida, and one furious ex-friend out to grab some of the good life fot herself. And when wealthy businessman Derrick starts burning up her sheets, she sees a future as sparkling as the engagement ring she’s expecting.

Then Kia turns up broke, with a new baby in tow…and news that Derrick isn’t the man he seems. Between lies, lust and betrayal, Nicole must decide who to trust and what she really wants.

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Descrição: What s the best way for traveling musicians to schlep their instruments to a wedding in a faraway village? Why, in an old baby carriage, of course! But when the mischievous carriage takes off by itself and rolls from village to village, oy vey, oy vey, only a sweet klezmer song can save the day.
Join the Klezmer Bunch on a bumpy journey all the way to the wedding ceremony and sing along with the happy bride and groom. A wedding like this has never been seen
A yidl mit fiddle and violin. The relatives drank vodka Till their beards dropped. And the in-laws gobbled goose and pastrami Till their bellies popped. Amalia Hoffman captures the spirit and soul of klezmer with charming and whimsical illustrations where the music is playfully intertwined with every detail of village life.

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Descrição: Marika Vecera is a young war reporter who hears the news that her hero, famous war correspondent Robert Lewis, has committed suicide. As she begins working on his biography she gets word from a missionary who claims to have seen Lewis alive. Astounded, Marika heads to Papua New Guinea to uncover the truth. Encountering the dangers of the jungle and native mythology, Marika's search for Lewis becomes an unforgettable journey into the depths of the human soul.

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Descrição: Set in a Danish seaside town, the novel tells the story of a powerful bond between a neglected brother and sister and their agonizing separation. The sister fantasizes about escaping to Siberia, but that dream seems ever more remote as her brother becomes a young man and disappears into the Nazi resistence movement. Petterson traces the separate struggles of brother and sister with empathy, insight, and pathos.

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Descrição: Global warming: it's one of the hottest scientific and political issues of today. And yet we've all found ourselves asking . . .

- It's freezing outside—where's global warming now?
- Climate is always changing—how do we know this isn't just a cycle?
- Why should Christians care about global warming when we know the world won't end that way?

For all the talk about climate change, there's still a great deal of debate about what it all means, especially among Christians. A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE offers straightforward answers to these questions, without the spin. This book untangles the complex science and tackles many long-held misconceptions about global warming. Authored by a climate scientist and a pastor, A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE boldly explores the role our Christian faith can play in guiding our opinions on this important global issue.

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Descrição: In the shadow of the fallen Old Man of the Mountain, on a lonely stretch of mountain road, two men lay dead. A spasm of violence that took only a few minutes to play out leaves a community divided and searching for answers.
Bad Blood is the riveting account of the long-standing feud between Franconia, New Hampshire, police officer Bruce McKay, 48, and Liko Kenney, 24. In May 2007, Kenney shot and killed Officer McKay, following a dramatic chase that began with a routine traffic stop. Kenney, cousin of ski legend Bode Miller, was then shot and killed by a shadowy passerby. Almost immediately, the tragic incident revealed deep tensions within this otherwise quiet community in the White Mountains with charges that Kenney was a hell-raiser and mentally unstable and counter-charges that Officer McKay was a rogue cop who dispensed justice as a way to settle personal scores. Striving to get at the truth of the story, the author uncovers a complicated mix of personalities and motivations. Local and statewide interests clash while regional and national media— and even YouTube viewers— supply ready stereotypes to fit their agendas. Amid larger questions of the meaning of individual freedom we are, ultimately, helpless witnesses to an inevitable clash of characters.

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Descrição: “To Be a Mensch addresses a central problem of our times: what is good character, and why should we care about it? We can all see the decline in honest, concern for others, idealism, responsibility for the community and the drive to have a life that makes the world a better place

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Descrição: Father Williams explores the most common obstacles that prevent people from trusting God, including personal betrayals, unfulfilled expectations, and seemingly unanswered prayers. He then explains what is reasonable to expect from God and offers practical tips for ways to grow in trust.

Williams is becoming a revered voice in the Christian community for his insightful writings on issues that really matter to Christians. In this new book, Father Williams will help readers understand, not only how to trust God in spite of doubts and confusion, but to truly know God can be trusted.

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Descrição: In his new book, Chris McNab (co-author of Tools of Violence) tackles the history of law enforcement in America, with particular focus on gun violence. According to McNab, 39 police officers were killed by gunfire in 2008, a 75% reduction from 1973 when 156 officers were shot. McNab shows how increasing professionalism combined with the adaptation of military tactics has helped reduce the police mortality rate.

Deadly Force begins with the colorful history of the Wild West, where law enforcers and outlaws were often indistinguishable. McNab then describes the era of mass immigration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries where the mortality rate for police officers
was even higher than that of the 1970s. He next tackles the era of gangland violence brought on by prohibition and the Great Depression. From there he moves into the era of protests and psychopaths that terrorized urban areas in the 60s and 70s. He then describes the era of turf and drugs marked by the infamous drive-by shootings of the 80s. In a closing chapter, he gives a fair and sane assessment of the Sean Bell shooting, balancing the public outrage at the officers’ use of force against ineffectualness of handguns in deadly force engagements.

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Descrição: For the believing Jew today, no less than for those in the past, the study of the weekly portion is a religious experience. For this reason it is customary to consider the section along with its traditional commentaries. It is important to know not only what the Torah meant when it was written, but also what it has meant within Judaism since then. It is also important for intellectual honesty to distinguish between the two. Moderns also have the advantage of using the results of linguistic studies and comparative studies of other ancient texts as well as archaeological finds to help us understand the text.

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Descrição: Since birth, Holy has entered extraordinary worlds of consciousness through the portal of lucid dreams. While there, she conducts souls to the other side and to the light, teaches, guides, and heals. She enters those non-ordinary realities not just to explore them, but to work on behalf of the human community.

In Fringe Dweller on the Night Shift, she eloquently recounts her psychic and spiritual work with the troubled dead, the newly dead or those about to die – especially children – to provide emergency relief. She also brings back messages from the world beyond this one, by offering each and every one of us inspiration and ideas for honoring our feelings and connecting to the divine expression of all that is.

Fringe Dweller on the Night Shift combines cosmic adventure with down-to-earth practical information – part art, part memoir, part philosophy, part guidance, this book is a work of the heart

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Descrição: Living with debt is an inevitable part of modern life. Just about everyone has debt in one form or another - a mortgage, an outstanding credit card balance, a car financing deal, a student loan - and many other types. So if we can't get rid of debt we need at least to learn how to handle it so that we can control it, before it controls us. In this book we look at a series of case studies and how people got into trouble with debt. They weren't stupid or irresponsible. Their problems arose because circumstances changed. Some changes could have been foreseen, others not - but they were things that could happen to anybody at any time - to you or me. This book will show you: How, if you take the right action at the right time, you can get matters straight. How to borrow in a way that will minimise the risk of getting into difficulties, and how to do it at the lowest cost. How, if the worst happens and you get into a complete financial mess, you can get out of it with the least long term damage.

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Descrição: This riveting, fast-paced biography traces Amihai Paglin’s rise through the ranks of the IZL, and describes in detail the military operations that ultimately led to the British evacuation from Palestine. Packed with first-person interviews with those who made this history, and meticulously researched in the archives of the period, here is the full story of the bombing of the King David Hotel, the conquest of Jaffa, and more, told from the perspective of an insider.

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Descrição: Nicole Williams is the tell-it-like-it-is career expert who you wish could fight your work battles for you. But with her ingenious approach-taking the tactics used to land a man and applying them to your career-you'll be able to handle any work situation and come out on top. Here, Nicole introduces twenty tried-and-true dating rules such as "Don't Give Away the Milk for Free" and "Don't Waste the Pretty" and reveals how they can be applied just as effectively in the office. Other strategies include:

· Keep It Brief

· Don't Bash Your Ex

· Have Others Sing Your Praises

· Play Hard to Get

· Keep the Fire Alive

· Be Willing to Walk Away


Among other topics, Nicole dishes on how much to reveal at work as well as what to put up with from your boss (and, more importantly, what not to). She tackles everything from having the money talk to leaving them wanting more on a job interview. And sprinkled throughout GIRL ON TOP is fashion advice ("Top Ten Commandments of Style") and checklists to determine if you need to get a life.

Nicole's keen insight and candid advice will teach you how to recognize the good guys from the bad, win the kudos of those who matter, and create the career of your dreams.

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Descrição: During the year following his daughter s sudden death as a young adult, Dr. Chaim Licht observed the traditional Jewish mourning practices, yet found that he still had questions about the meaning of his family s experience. As a scholar of Jewish literature, he turned to the literature of the Aggada to explore the responses of the sages to similar situations.He combed the Ma asei Hakhamim, stories of the sages in the aggadic literature, for stories of parental bereavement, and analyzed the responses of the bereaved parents as well as the consolation that was offered to them by others. This collection of stories and Dr. Licht s analyses form a rich and detailed portrait of the traditional views of the Jewish sages on the meaning of and the proper reaction to the death of a child. In the Grip of Bereavement An Analysis of Ten Aggadic legends on Bereavement in The World of The Sages.

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Descrição: The Book of Numbers, the fourth out of five- volume set to be published contains an English translation of Targum Onkelos, Commentary, Appendix, Onkelos Highlights, Beyond the Text and translation of the Haphtarot from the Aramaic Targumim with Introduction

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Descrição: A baby girl is born in the middle of the Second World War, and survives in a miraculous way thanks to the determination of her mother and the good-heartedness of simple people.

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Descrição: This book provides an overview of the broad scope of epidemiological research conducted in a wide range of mental health domains up
to the most recent Israel World Mental Health Survey. Among the many topics, it covers specific disorders; mental health problems of specific populations, such as the Arab sector, immigrants and Holocaust survivors; as well as service delivery.

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Descrição: Uniquely insightful and entertaining tips to a healthy Jewish marriage, sprinkled with humor and Torah anecdotes

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Descrição: Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S. soldier, journalist Christina Asquith explores one of the great untold sagas of the Iraq war: the attempt to bring women’s rights to Iraq, and the consequences for all those involved.

On the heels of the invasion, twenty-two-year-old Zia accepts a job inside the U.S. headquarters in Baghdad, trusting that democracy will shield her burgeoning romance with an American contractor from the disapproval of her fellow Iraqis. But as resistance to the U.S. occupation intensifies, Zia and her sister, Nunu, a university student, are targeted by Islamic insurgents and find themselves trapped between their hopes for a new country and the violent reality of a misguided war.

Asquith sets their struggle against the broader U.S. efforts to bring women’s rights to Iraq, weaving the sisters’ story with those of Manal, a Palestinian American women’s rights activist, and Heather, a U.S. army reservist, who work together to found Iraq’s first women’s center. After one of their female colleagues is gunned down on a highway, Manal and Heather must decide whether they can keep fighting for Iraqi women if it means risking their own lives.

In Sisters in War, Christina Asquith introduces the reader to four women who dare to stand up for their rights in the most desperate circumstances. With compassion and grace, she vividly reveals the plight of women living and serving in Iraq and offers us a vision of how women’s rights and Islam might be reconciled.

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Descrição: In 2006, New York magazine and ABC’s Nightline both featured stories dealing with rabbis who had abused children entrusted to them. Then, at the start of 2007, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency published a five-part series on sexual abuse by rabbis who led congregations, taught religious studies, and ran youth groups. The series soon was picked up by Jewish newspapers nationwide. Despite this spate of media coverage, there has been a dearth of scholarly material investigating sexual abuse within the Jewish clergy.

Bringing together fifteen practicing rabbis, educators, pastoral counselors, sociologists, mental health professionals, and legal advocates for abuse victims, each of whom offer insights into different facets of the problem, Tempest in the Temple offers an open discussion of some of the most deeply rooted fears in the Jewish community.

“Tempest is a testament to how we can protect our children and make our Jewish communities the safe and nurturing places we want them to be.”—Esther Giller, President and Director of the Sidran Institute, Baltimore

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Descrição: It’s a tough economy for job-seekers, and it can be even more nerve-racking for women trying to juggle career and family. Women are used to being told that once we get off the career track, we can’t get back on. In The Comeback, Emma Gilbey Keller proves that this isn’t true: More and more, companies today are looking at the value of hiring returning mothers. In this encouraging book, Keller tells the stories of seven very different women from a variety of professions who sought to strike a balance between demanding careers and budding families. A new afterword looks at the personal balancing act of First Lady Michelle Obama. All of these women have complicated stories, filled with the choices, decisions, and trade-offs that all mothers face.

An absorbing blend of story, insight, advice, and inspiration, The Comeback offers a positive message to mothers overwhelmed by the ever-shifting work-versus-home debate.

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Descrição: Often we find it difficult to concentrate on the prayers we recite, due partly to a lack of understanding of the biblical poetry in the tefillot. This book aims to unlock the mystery of the various psalms which comprise the tefillah.

The book begins with an introduction to prayer, Tehillim, and biblical poetry. Then, after an overview of the structure of the morning service, each chapter examines either a prayer adapted from a psalm or the entire psalm and explains the reason it was chosen as part of the liturgy. “Let the words of my mouth praise God and all mankind will bless the holy name of God for eternity” (Psalm 145:21).

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Descrição: What would you do for the love of a good book? In THE MAN WHO LOVED BOOKS TOO MUCH: The true story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession, journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett shares a story of true book obsession, following John Charles Gilkey, the unrepentant book thief that steals for love of books, and Ken Sanders, the self-appointed “bibliodick” and lifelong rare book collector determined to catch him.

Join Barlett in a world of fanatical book lust that follows both of these eccentric characters with a mixture of suspense, insight, and humor. Amid all the debates about the value and popularity of e-books right now, THE MAN WHO LOVED BOOKS TOO MUCH proves why for some people, you can’t put a price on the love of a physical book. As A.S.W. Rosenbach, a 20th Century book dealer once said, “I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.”

“As a rule I approach unsolicited galleys with the same degree of delight that I reserve for root canals. This book surprised me. I read the first paragraph and was drawn in, not so much by the subject matter as by the author's cozy, quiet style, evocative of the work of Dava Sobel and Janet Malcolm. I found the narrative compelling, and I loved the inside stories about old books.”
–Erik Larson, bestselling author of The Devil and the White City

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Descrição: What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?

In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds—two men, two faiths, two communities—that will inspire readers everywhere.

Albom’s first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom’s old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.

Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he’d left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor—a reformed drug dealer and convict—who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.

As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds—and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.

In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor’s wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi’s last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.

Have a Little Faith is a book about a life’s purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man’s journey, but it is everyone’s story.

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Descrição: An enthralling story, told by the most famous woman no one knows. For the millions in each generation who fall under the spell of Lewis Carroll's beloved heroine comes a novel that explores the life that existed beyond the looking glass.

In this remarkable novel, a feather in the winds of literary history is ensnared as a woman reminisces about a lifetime spent trying to escape Wonderland.

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Descrição: Jack Christie
The year: 1914
The place: Sarajevo
The mission: the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Jack Christie and his best friend, Angus, find themselves at the center of a momentous event that will shape history for decades to come. Their dilemma: Should they intervene? Their problem: Can they survive? Join Jack on a dangerous chase from the dockyards of England to the rain-sodden trenches of the First World War. Will he escape the evil authorities who believe in the mysterious Vigil Imperative?

FIRST IN AN EXCITING NEW SERIES

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Descrição: Guardian of the Flame transports readers back to one of the Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World, where characters struggle to find
meaning in a pagan society and are confronted by the one true God
and His message of redemption.
The year is 48 BC. Sophia, a woman hurt by past loss, guards the
famous lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt, in order to hide herself away
from a world she deems cruel and unloving. But there is no escape.
Political turmoil swells as Roman general Julius Caesar and his legion
storm the city, and Cleopatra, Greek queen of Egypt, fights to retain
her country against both Caesar and bloodthirsty rivals within her
own household. Sophia is caught in the middle between a loyalty to
Cleopatra and her maddening interest in Bellus, the Roman soldier
whom Caesar has instructed to overtake the lighthouse. Christian Fiction.

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Descrição: Birdie Wainwright, 72 isn't concerned about seeing things others can't. Macular degeneration has brought many surprises, not the least of which was a fall that now has her living with her son, grandson and the new wife. Thank goodness for the regular visits from Huckelberry Finn. But can she tell her son and grandson about the visits without compromising her independence even more? It is a story about family, reconciliation and hope.

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Descrição: Chaos is coming, old son.

With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye to summer, a stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets buried in the wilderness.

No one admits to knowing the murdered man, but as secrets are revealed, chaos begins to close in on the beloved bistro owner, Olivier. How did he make such a spectacular success of his business? What past did he leave behind and why has he buried himself in this tiny village? And why does every lead in the investigation find its way back to him?

As Olivier grows more frantic, a trail of clues and treasures— from first editions of Charlotte’s Web and Jane Eyre to a spider web with the word “WOE” woven in it—lead the Chief Inspector deep into the woods and across the continent in search of the truth, and finally back to Three Pines as the little village braces for the truth and the final, brutal telling.

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Descrição: Now in paperback – August 4, 2009

"Burgess’s tender recollections remind us all that we tend to be defined by our great loves well after we’ve lived them." —Elle

"I read Glenda Burgess' poignant and harrowing memoir in one sitting-in one breath-and all I had ever felt about love's ability to vanquish everything, to swallow heartbreak, to correct history, Burgess makes us believe. And in a fashion that reads like a classic novel." -Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean.

When Glenda Burgess and Kenneth Grunzweig met in 1988, Kenneth had already lost two wives—the first in a fatal car crash, and then years later his second wife in a brutal murder for which Kenneth remained for many years the prime suspect.

What possesses a woman to fall in love with a man fourteen years her senior, with a troubled teenage daughter and a past shadowed with so much suspicion and misfortune? And why would a man who has loved and lost in such tragic ways take a chance on opening his heart to another woman, despite the odds?

Beautifully written and heart-wrenchingly honest,The Geography of Love is a poignant and unforgettable chronicle of a relationship that defies convention and survives the unthinkable.

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Descrição: Rumors fly of Napoleon’s planned invasion of England, and British naval commander Thomas Kydd is sent to liaise with American inventor, Robert Fulton. The American has created "infernal machines" that can wreak mass destruction from a distance. Fulton believes that his inventions—the submarine and torpedo—will win the day for the power that possesses them, and Kydd must help him develop the devices. Despite his own scruples, believing that standing man-to-man is the only honorable way to fight, Kydd agrees to take part in the crucial testing of these weapons. In the end, their fire power just may decide the fate of England!

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Descrição: An engrossing suspense novel set in Victorian London—about stolen fortunes, romance, murder, and revenge.

Whitechapel, 1888. Grace Hammer and her children live comfortably in Bell Lane, their home a little oasis in the squalor of London’s East End. They make their living picking the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. But Grace’s history is about to catch up with her. Out in the countryside Mr. Blunt rocks in his chair, vowing furious retribution. He has never forgotten his scarlet treasure, or the coquettish young woman who stole it from him.

Fast-paced, racy, and reminiscent of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, Hammer depicts nineteenth-century London amid corruption and a plague of poverty, peopled by orphans, harlots, and petty thieves. Sara Stockbridge introduces an unlikely heroine in Grace Hammer, a captivating young matriarch in a complicated web of intrigue, deceit, loyalties, and betrayal.

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Descrição: In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself on the wrong side of the Spanish Nationalists, so he flees to Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basque region. In the midst of this idyllic, isolated bastion of democratic values, Miguel finds more than a new life—he finds a love that not even war, tragedy or death can destroy.
The bombing of Guernica was a devastating experiment in total warfare by the German Luftwaffe in the run-up to World War II . For the Basques, it was an attack on the soul of their ancient nation. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this beautiful novel about the resilience of family, love, and tradition in the face of hardship.

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Descrição: Cater to your craving for fabulous fictional fare with Menu for Romance, where a party planner finds herself torn between the contractor and the cook. After eight years of unrequited love, Meredith Guidry makes a New Year's resolution to find someone new and end her single status before the year's over. And when she meets a handsome contractor on New Year's Day, it seems like her prayers have been answered. Executive Chef Major O'Hara has forsworn relationships, knowing he could never saddle the woman he loves with a family situation like his. But when it seems he's about to lose Meredith Guidry to another man, he realizes he must concoct a menu for romance to win her back.

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Descrição: Fire up your love of romance with Montana Rose, where Cassie Griffin, a seemingly spoiled pregnant woman, is widowed one day and wedded the next. Marrying handyman Red Dawson seems the only alternative to Cassie’s being hitched to a brutal rancher. But can this “china doll” bear exchanging smooth silk for coarse calico? Red was reluctant to be yoked to an unbeliever, but sometimes a man has no choice. Will Red change Cassie’s heart by changing her name? Wade Sawyer is obsessed with saving Cassie from a marriage of convenience. How far will he go make her his own?

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Descrição: Odessa, Ukraine, is the humor capital of the former Soviet Union, but in an upside-down world where waiters earn more than doctors and Odessans depend on the Mafia for basics like phone service and medical supplies, no one is laughing. After months of job hunting, Daria, a young engineer, finds a plum position at a foreign firm as a secretary. But every plum has a pit. In this case, it’s Mr. Harmon, who makes it clear that sleeping with him is job one. Daria evades Harmon’s advances by recruiting her neighbor, the slippery Olga, to be his mistress. But soon Olga sets her sights on Daria’s job.

Daria begins to moonlight as an interpreter at Soviet Unions(TM), a matchmaking agency that organizes “socials” where lonely American men can meet desperate Odessan women. Her grandmother wants Daria to leave Ukraine for good and pushes her to marry one of the men she meets, but Daria already has feelings for a local. She must choose between her world and America, between Vlad, a sexy, irresponsible mobster, and Tristan, a teacher nearly twice her age. Daria chooses security and America. Only it’s not exactly what she thought it would be…

A wry, tender, and darkly funny look at marriage, the desires we don’t acknowledge, and the aftermath of communism, Moonlight in Odessa is a novel about the choices and sacrifices that people make in the pursuit of love and stability.

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Descrição: Get swept away in a high-tide of romance and adventure from acclaimed author M. L. Tyndall. Trying to forget about a painful past, Hope Westcott plunges into Charles Towne society trying to find love and acceptance. Captain Nathaniel Mason is determined to build his shipping business and doesn’t need a romantic entanglement—especially with a woman like Hope. When Hope’s adventure-seeking puts her freedom—and her life—in jeopardy, will Nathaniel turn his back or follow God’s voice and sacrifice everything to save her?

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Descrição: From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory.
It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship fills a void for both girls but also sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly affect the course of many lives, including the girls’ young teacher and the school’s matriarch, Mother Suzanne Ravenel.

Fifty years on, the headmistress relives one pivotal night, trying to reconcile past and present, reaching back even further to her own senior year at the school, where the roots of a tragedy are buried.

In Unfinished Desires, a beloved author delivers a gorgeous new novel in which thwarted desires are passed on for generations–and captures the rare moment when a soul breaks free.  

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Descrição: Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance—very likely the first such group to fight back against the occupation. (In fact, their newsletter, Résistance, gave the French Resistance its name.)

In the throes of their struggle for freedom, the members of Humbert’s group were betrayed to the Gestapo; Humbert herself was imprisoned. In immediate, electrifying detail, Humbert describes her resistance against the Nazis, her time in prison, and the horrors she endured in a string of German labor camps, always retaining—in spite of everything—hope for herself, for her friends, and for humanity. Originally published in France in 1946, the book is now translated into English for the first time.

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Descrição: On a mid-summer day in 1937, a car pulled up to the house of the Bibikov family in Chernigov in the heart of the Ukraine. Boris, the father, kissed his two daughters and wife goodbye and disappeared inside the car. His family never saw him again. His wife would later vanish, leaving the young Lyudmila and Lenina alone to drift across the vast Russian landscape as the Wehrmacht advanced in WWII. In the early 1960s Owen Matthews’ father, Mervyn, moved to Moscow to work for the British embassy after a childhood in Wales dreaming of Russia. He fell in with the KGB, and in love with Lyudmila, and before he could disentangle himself from the former he was ordered to leave the country. For the next six years, Mervyn tried desperately to get Lyudmila out of Russia, and when he finally succeeded they married. Decades on from these events, their son, now Newsweek’s bureau chief in Moscow, pieces together the tangled threads of his family’s past and present—the extraordinary files that record the life and death of his grandfather at the hands of Stalin’s secret police; his mother’s and aunt’s perilous journey to adulthood; his parents’ Cold War love affair and the magnet that has drawn him back to the Russia—to present an indelible portrait of the country over the past seven decades and an unforgettable memoir about how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to our ancestry only to find ourselves aligning with it.

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Descrição: While researching her next book, Julie Myerson finds herself in a graveyard, looking for traces of a young woman who died nearly two centuries before. As a child in Regency England, Mary Yelloly painted an exquisite album of watercolors that uniquely reflected the world in which she lived. But Mary died at the age of twenty-one, and when Julie comes across this album, she is haunted by the potential never realized. She is also reminded of her own child.

Only days earlier, Julie and her husband locked their eldest son out of the family home. He is just seventeen. After a happy childhood, he had discovered drugs, and it had taken only a matter of months for the boy to completely lose his way and propel his family into daily chaos. Julie—whose emotionally fragile relationship with her own father had left her determined to love her children better—had to accept that she was powerless to bring him back.
Honest, warm, and profoundly moving, this is the parallel story of a girl and a boy separated by centuries. The circumstances are very different, but the questions remain terrifyingly the same. What happens when a child disappears from a family? What will survive of any of us in memory or in history? And how is a mother to cope when love is not enough?

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Descrição: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE

In this inventive collection of stories, Chris Adrian treads the terrain of human suffering—illness, regret, mourning, sympathy—in the most unusual ways. A bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. A boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. A ne'er-do-well pediatrician returns home to take care of his dying father, all the while under the scrutiny of an easily-disappointed heavenly agent. With A Better Angel's cast of living and dead characters, at once otherworldly and painfully human, Adrian has created a haunting work of spectral beauty and wit.

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Descrição: Breath is a story of risk, of learning one's limits by challenging death. On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking teenage boys fall under the spell of a veteran big-wave surfer named Sando. Their mentor urges them into a regiment of danger and challenge, and the boys test themselves and each other on storm swells and over shark-haunted reefs. The boys give no thought to what they could lose, or to the demons that drive their mentor on into ever-greater danger. Venturing beyond all caution—in sports, relationships, and sex—each character approaches a point from which none of them will return undamaged.

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Descrição: From the critically acclaimed author of Beneath a Marble Sky and Beside a Burning Sea comes the new novel from “master storyteller”* John Shors, set in modern-day Vietnam.

Dragon House tells the tale of Iris and Noah—two Americans who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. In the slums of a city that has known little but war for generations, Iris and Noah befriend children who dream of nothing more than going to school, having a home, and being loved. Learning from the poorest of the poor, Iris and Noah find themselves reborn.

Resounding with powerful themes of suffering, sacrifice, friendship, and love, Dragon House brings together East and West, and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.

*Amy Tan

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Descrição: New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard captured the heart of a nation with The Deep End of the Ocean, her celebrated debut novel about mother Beth Cappadora, a child kidnapped, a family in crisis. Now, in No Time to Wave Goodbye, the unforgettable Cappadoras are in peril once again, forced to confront an unimaginable evil.

It has been twenty-two years since Beth Cappadora’s three-year-old son Ben was abducted. By some miracle, he returned nine years later, and the family began to pick up the pieces of their lives. But their peace has always been fragile: Ben returned from the deep end as another child and has never felt entirely at ease with the family he was born into. Now the Cappadora children are grown: Ben is married with a baby girl, Kerry is studying to be an opera singer, and Vincent has emerged from his troubled adolescence as a fledgling filmmaker.

The subject of Vincent’s new documentary, “No Time to Wave Goodbye,” shakes Vincent’s unsuspecting family to the core; it focuses on five families caught in the tortuous web of never knowing the fate of their abducted children. Though Beth tries to stave off the torrent of buried emotions, she is left wondering if she and her family are fated to relive the past forever.

The film earns tremendous acclaim, but just as the Cappadoras are about to celebrate the culmination of Vincent’s artistic success, what Beth fears the most occurs, and the Cappadoras are cast back into the past, revisiting the worst moment of their lives–with only hours to find the truth that can save a life. High in a rugged California mountain range, their rescue becomes a desperate struggle for survival.

No Time to Wave Goodbye is Jacquelyn Mitchard at her best, a spellbinding novel about family loyalty, and love pushed to the limits of endurance.

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Descrição: Never-collected tales, including outrageous early stories from the Trainspotting years, plus a raucous new novella.

Reheated Cabbage gathers stories showcasing Irvine Welsh’s trademark skills: vaulting imagination, brilliant vernacular ear, scabrous humor, and the ability to create some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction. You can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie at his Ma’s and see how he greets his sister’s boyfriend and news of their engagement. You’ll discover in “The Rosewell Incident” why aliens speak hardcore Scots English and plan to put Midlothian roughs in charge of the planet. And you’ll be delighted to welcome back “Juice” Terry Lawson and now internationally famous DJ Carl Ewart, and watch them as they meet an old nemesis, retired schoolmaster Albert Black, under the strobe lights of a Miami Beach nightclub. These stories, most first published in small magazines and out-of-print anthologies, are all wildly offbeat and will delight both fans of and newcomers to Welsh’s world.

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Descrição: When Jenny Dunfree, a graduate student
in tropical ornithology, is banished to a
remote, Panamanian-sponsored birding
project near the Columbian border, she
is given one directive by her superior:
Don't piss anyone off. Almost immediately, Jenny encounters problems with
this assignment. The study site where
she's sent to observe nesting harpy eagles
is located near an indigenous village, and
upon arrival she's informed that her attendance is mandatory at many community
functions. Jenny finds the native Kuna
people to be a prickly lot, quick to take
offense; their values, language, and customs incomprehensible to her. Equally
confusing is the surrounding rainforest
with its myriad of unknown and impossible to identify species. Her bewilderment extends even to the nesting eagles
which the project's founder, a prominent
raptor authority, insisted were rare harpy
eagles but as far as Jenny can tell are a
lesser species "of no interest to the
Republic of Panama or any other
national entity."

With no option out, Jenny slogs on with
the research and her required attendance
at weekly "town hall" meetings in the
Kuna village. Jenny's liaison with the
native people is Pedro, a man whose early
education at a mission school left him
fluent in English but cynical and detached
from his own culture. As weeks pass,
Jenny becomes acquainted with other
members of the community: Eulogio, the
handsome and charismatic leader; shy Iris
who married and then was abandoned by
Jenny's predecessor in the harpy eagle
project; the racially prejudiced Anselmo;
and Ceferino, in whom Jenny discovers a

shared passion for the natural world. In
this lawless frontera, Jenny also encounters outsiders with their own agendas for
the Kunas and the surrounding rainforest.
Through her eyes, the reader is drawn
into Kuna culture and its struggle to
retain a traditional identity in the face of
erosion from both outside and within the
community.

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Descrição: Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes–only to realize that his letters of introduction and a gift of precious coral specimens, on which his tenure with the legendary Dr. Cuvier depends, have been stolen by the beautiful woman with whom he shared a stagecoach.

In the fervor and tumult of post revolutionary Paris, nothing is quite as it seems. In trying to recover his lost valuables, Daniel discovers that his beautiful adversary is in fact a philosopher-thief who lives in a shadowy world of outlaws and émigrés. Daniel’s fall into this underworld is also a flight, for as he falls in love with the mysterious coral thief and she draws him into an audacious plot that will leave him with a future very different from the one he has envisioned for himself, Daniel discovers a radical theory of evolution and mutability that irrevocably changes his conception of the world in which he lives.

The Coral Thief, as riveting and beautifully rendered as Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stott’s first novel, is a provocative and tantalizing mix of history, philosophy, and suspense. It conjures up vividly both the feats of Napoleon and the accomplishments of those working without fame or glory to change our ideas of who we are and the world in which we live.

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Descrição: "Written with impressive talent and suspense, this true story will appeal to many." —Elie Wiesel

Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.

Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his business affairs, travels to France, leaving Michael in the care of his mother and Gertruda Bablinska, a Catholic nanny devoted to the family. When Michael's mother has a stroke, Gertruda promises the dying woman that she will make her way to Palestine and raise him as her own son.

Written with the invaluable assistance of Michael, now seventy-two and living in New York City, GERTRUDA’S OATH re-creates Michael and Gertruda’s amazing journey. Gripping vignettes bring to life the people who helped ensure their survival, including SS officer Karl Rink, who made it his mission to save Jews after his own Jewish wife was murdered; Rink’s daughter, Helga, who escaped to a kibbutz, where she lived until her recent death; and the Jewish physician Dr. Berman, who aided Michael and Gertruda through the worst of times.

GERTRUDA’S OATH is a story of extraordinary courage and moral strength in the face of horrific events. Like Schindler’s List, it transcends history and religion to reveal the compassion and hope that miraculously thrives in a world immersed in war without end.

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Descrição: The Way of Boys by renowned psychologist Dr. Anthony Rao is an important wake-up call to the dangers of over-medicating our male children and our current tendency to treat their active boyhood as an illness. Dr. Rao raises a much-needed alarm in this essential volume that belongs in every parent’s collection alongside Raising Cain by Michael Thompson. In these times when many parents, concerned about ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, and bipolar disorder, may be dangerously misinterpreting their young sons’ healthy, normal development process, The Way of Boys is must reading.

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Descrição: From Denmark to Riga and back, through two World Wars, to India and Afghanistan, to America as it was and as it is, and it takes us through boarding schools, mental hospitals, and almshouses for the poor, Suzanne Brøgger's THE JADE CAT is a sweeping family saga of almost limitless ambition.

At the heart of the narrative, and of this Jewish family unit, is the grandmother, Katze, and her memories. She tells the story from her patrician apartment in Copenhagen's Gammel Mønt 14, where she has lived since the 1940s. It is a haunting portrait of the pride, conceitedness, grandness, and despair that has followed the Løvin family while the world outside the old apartment gradually fell apart. The family remains prey to drug addiction and suicide attempts. Some escape into sex, others into evangelical politics or religion.

With an unlikely but sympathetic cast of grotesques, this gripping saga of Danish highlife and lowlife, through three generations of a tormented family, is as diverse and uncompromising as William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice and Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits.

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Descrição: A bold new account of explorer Henry Hudson and the discovery that changed the course of history.

The year 2009 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Just in time for this milestone, Douglas Hunter, sailor, scholar, and storyteller, has written the first book-length history of the 1609 adventure that put New York on the map.

Hudson was commissioned by the mighty Dutch East India Company to find a northeastern passage over Russia to the lucrative ports of China. But the inscrutable Hudson, defying his orders, turned his ship around and instead headed west—far west—to the largely unexplored coastline between Spanish Florida and the Grand Banks.

Once there, Hudson began a seemingly aimless cruise—perhaps to conduct an espionage mission for his native England—but eventually dropped anchor off Coney Island. Hudson and his crew were the first Europeans to visit New York in more than eighty years, and soon went off the map into unexplored waters.

Hudson’s discoveries reshaped the history of the new world, and laid the foundation for New York to become a global capital. Hunter has shed new light on this rogue voyage with unprecedented research. Painstakingly reconstructing the course of the Half Moon from logbooks and diaries, Hunter offers an entirely new timeline of Hudson’s passage based on innovative forensic navigation, as well as original insights into his motivations.

Half Moon offers a rich narrative of adventure and exploration, filled with international intrigue, backstage business drama, and Hudson’s own unstoppable urge to discover. This brisk tale re-creates the espionage, economics, and politics that drove men to the edge of the known world and beyond.

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Descrição: Charlotte Sanders, a precocious American girl growing up in Paris in the late 1970’s, leads a charmed life. As students at an elite international school, she and her peers study in Paris’ cafés and tabacs, see movies at the Cinémathèque, and experience the thrills and agonies of first love to the sounds of Serge Gainsbourg and Pink Floyd. Charlotte’s father, a lawyer and quiet intellectual, devotes his spare time to Balzac and opera. Her sister, Lea, is a star equestrian. And her mother Astrid's passion for left-wing causes is equaled only by her fashion sense.

But this idyllic childhood is turned upside down when Astrid has an affair and the family is shattered. Leaving her sister in Paris, Charlotte follows Astrid to New York, where reduced circumstances and Astrid’s unwillingness to face reality force her to quickly grow up. In the shadow of her glamorous and erratic mother, Charlotte has to negotiate her own path to womanhood, eventually living through her own unhappy love affair and returning to a Europe that has been reshaped by the downfall of Communism, which she documents as a young journalist.

At once a coming of age story and a meditation on cultural identity, Dreaming in French is an enchanting portrayal of the challenges of adolescence and an honest account of one girl’s discovery that where we come from makes us who we are.

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Descrição: Dr. Steven Sumpter, a brilliant biologist and mathematician, has a radical thesis: All the processes of life can be distilled into a series of elegant algorithms. His groundbreaking idea is a potential leap in evolution . . . and a heretical violation of the Mutant Laws. In a world powered by religion and a fear of science, Steven’s work is seen as an abomination that must be destroyed. Desperate to protect his work and his family, Steven and his girlfriend, Eli, who is pregnant with their child, Julia, flee to a remote part of the Amazon forest. There they must survive the elements, a murderous crew, and powerful religious and governmental factions hell-bent on finding them. Ultimately, the fate of humankind rests in the hands of Julia, the fruit of Steven’s algorithms and a young girl who must prove herself the world’s new Eve.

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Descrição: Already an international sensation, and made into a movie which has swept top honors around the globe—including the Tribeca Film Festival’s highest prize—Let the Right One In is clearly a classic in the making. And its author, referred to as “Sweden’s Stephen King” by The Tucson Citizen, has burst onto the scene as an instant star.
Its autumn 1981 in suburban Sweden when twelve year old Oskar becomes obsessed by the murder that’s taken place in his neighborhood. Then he meets the new girl from next door. She’s a bit weird, though. And she only comes out at night…
Visit http://us.macmillan.com/lettherighton... read an excerpt and view the trailer for the award-winning film.

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Descrição: For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again.

Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

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Descrição: The Book of Samuel is a funny, heartbreaking coming-of-age tale by award-winning short story writer and Denver native Erik Raschke.

Growing up in 1980’s Denver, Samuel Gerald is just a normal teen… that is, until his dad abandons the family to “save the world” as he puts it, turning Sam’s own world upside-down and sending him on a series of adventures that will change his life. Samuel’s journey tackles the toughest issues about growing up and living in this country, from picking fights and pulling pranks with friends, to his first kiss, to a bully who won’t get off his back, to ethnic tension and then some. Samuel’s rocky journey through adolescence resonates with readers of all ages and keeps the pages turning.

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Descrição: The Glassblower of Murano, an instant independent bookstore bestseller and a #1 bestseller in Europe has left readers, reviewers, and book groups in awe.

Leonora Manin leaves her unhappy life in London to embark on a grand exploration of life and love as a glassblower in the city of her ancestors, Venice. But when her fate becomes inextricably linked with that of her ancestor, and treacherous secrets of his life come to light, Leonora learns that the past isn't as clear as blown glass.

Read the first three chapters, view the reading group guide, and to get a sneak peek at an excerpt from Fiorato’s upcoming novel The Boticelli Secret, at http://us.macmillan.com/theglassblowe...

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Descrição: Funny, in your face, and enlightening to the socio-political climate in the Middle East, Nylon Road is a unique read. In this semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Pasua Bashi paints a vivid picture of what it’s like to be a young woman growing up under Shiite law in Iran, poignantly describing the injustices she’s suffered while making a solid case for democracy and freedom.

In the tradition of graphic memoirs such as Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Bashi provides a window into a non-Western culture which we are still struggling to understand.

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Descrição: A charismatic young soldier meets a tragic end in this moving and mesmerizing account of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and no-safety-net America

Zackery Bowen was thrust into two of America’s largest recent debacles. He was one of the first soldiers to encounter the fledgling insurgency in Iraq. After years of military service he returned to New Orleans to tend bar and deliver groceries. In the weeks before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, he met Addie Hall, a pretty and high-spirited bartender. Their improvised, hard-partying endurance during and after the storm had news outlets around the world featuring the couple as the personification of what so many want to believe is the indomitable spirit of New Orleans.

But in October 2006, Bowen leaped from the rooftop bar of a French Quarter hotel. A note in his pocket directed the police to the body of Addie Hall. It was, according to NOPD veterans, one of the most gruesome crimes in the city’s history. How had this popular, handsome father of two done this horrible thing?

Journalist Ethan Brown moved from New York City to the French Quarter in order to investigate this question. Among the newsworthy elements in the book is Brown’s discovery that this tragedy—like so many others—could have been avoided if the military had simply not, in the words of Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, “absolutely and completely failed this soldier.” Shake the Devil Off is a mesmerizing tribute to these lives lost.

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Descrição: "Intelligent but accessible, and often poignant . . . [by] the biggest talents on the essay and blog beat." —Publishers Weekly (on Vol. 2)

Anyone still asking, “What is creative nonfiction?” will find the answer in this collection of artfully crafted, true stories. Selected by Lee Gutkind, the “godfather behind creative nonfiction,” and the staff of Creative Nonfiction, these stories—ranging from immersion journalism to intensely personal essays—illustrate the genre’s power and potential. Edwidge Danticat recalls her Uncle Moïse’s love of a certain four-letter word and finds in his abandonment of the word near the end of his life the true meaning of exile. In “Literary Murder,” Julianna Baggott traces her roots as a novelist to her family’s “strange, desperate (sometimes conniving and glorious) past” and writes about her decision, in The Madam, to kill off a character based on her grandfather. And Sean Rowe explains why, if you must get arrested, Selma, Alabama, is the place to do it. This exciting and expansive array of works and voices is sure to impress and delight.

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Descrição: William Kamkwamba grew up poor in Malawi, Africa, a country suffering from AIDS and poverty. Like most in his village, his family struggled to survive as farmers and did not have access to electricity. The situation became all the more desperate in 2002, as Malawi experienced the worst famine in fifty years. William was 14 and his family could no longer afford his school’s $80-a-year tuition.

During this time William began thinking a lot about electricity, which only two percent of Malawians can afford. After discovering a book in a nearby library about windmills, he decided to build his own using scrap metal, tractor parts, and blue-gum trees, which grew near his village. William’s home-made contraption succeeded in supplying electricity to his family’s compound—enough for four lightbulbs and two radios! News of his invention spread, attracting many people across the world who offered to help him. Soon he was re-enrolled in school and traveling to the United States to visit wind farms, much like the ones he hopes to build across Africa. THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND tells the story of one boy’s struggle to advance himself from nothing, and his journey to inspire other Africans—and the whole world.

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Descrição: Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband.

A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.

A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness. With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, Anita Shreve transports us to the exotic panoramas of Africa and into the core of our most intimate relationships.

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Descrição: A gentle story about sibling loss, from the perspective of the younger sister.

Becky and her brother John were best friends, telling jokes, caring for their dog together, and playing soccer. John was always there to cheer her up. But then he died. Becky wishes everything could go back to the way it was. When she feels guilty about enjoying a friend's birthday party, her mom wraps reassuring arms around her and says, "Don't you think he'd want you to laugh, even now?" Becky gradually realizes that she can still enjoy the things they used to do together, and that their memories of John continue to make him part of their family. Always My Brother is a sensitive, realistic story about the process of grief, acceptance, and recovery. Phyllis Pollema-Cahill's lovely illustrations bring readers right into the heart of Becky's family as they struggle to move forward.

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Descrição: >"Gammarino has created a perfect hero for the Age of Anxiety.” — Ron Currie, Jr.

While playing to lackluster crowds in their hometown of Philadelphia, progressive rock band Agenbite clings to the comforting half-truth that they're doing better in Japan. When their manager agrees to send them on a shoestring tour of that country, however, they're swiftly forced to give up their illusions and return Stateside. All but one of them, that is.

Brain Tedesco, the band's variously haunted chief composer, has fallen in love with a part-time sex worker — the first woman ever to have touched him — and his illusions have only just begun. What ensues is a Dantesque coming-of-age tale in which Brain must navigate the borderlands between fantasy and reality, past and present, sex and death — even as forces beyond his control conspire to undo him.

By turns compassionate and ruthless, erotic and grotesque, riotously serious and deadly funny, Big in Japan: A Ghost Story is a sparkling, gut-wrenching, face-melting debut novel.

M. Thomas Gammarino has an MFA in creative writing from The New School and is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at the University of Hawaii. In 2000-01, he was a Fulbright Fellow in creative writing at Kyoto's Doshisha University. Some of his recent short fiction has appeared in The New York Tyrant, The Adirondack Review, Word Riot, and Sliptongue.

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Descrição: New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe—America’s beloved national storyteller—brings her unique voice as she revisits the cast of characters her readers have been waiting for. God Ain’t Blind is the highly anticipated new addition to her acclaimed GOD Series.

Annette Goode Davis’ life is all about family and old friends like Rhoda O’Toole. And right now, Annette needs all the friends she can get… because her husband, Pee Wee, barely has the time of day for her. Desperate to regain his affections, Annette gets a total makeover, and looks hotter than she has for a long time. Everyone notices—everyone except Pee Wee.

Annette is ripe for the picking when she meets Louis Baines, a handsome young caterer, and she’s soon embroiled in a full-blown affair. When Annette learns a terrible secret about her new lover, she returns to the only person she knows she can trust: Rhoda. But soon Annette must face the fact that she may have destroyed the life she loved—and this time, not even Rhoda can help her make things right.

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Descrição: Ellie remembers how the boys kissed her. Touched her. How they
begged for more. And when she gave it to them, she felt loved. For a
while anyway. So when Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life, leads her from a party to the backseat of his van, Ellie follows. But their "one-time thing" is far from perfect: Ellie gets pregnant. Josh reacts with shame and heartbreak, while their confidantes, Caleb and Corinne, deal with their own complex swirl of emotions. No matter what Ellie chooses, all four teenagers will be forced to grow up a little faster as a result. Told alternately from each character’s point of view, this deeply insightful novel explores the aftershocks of the biggest decision of one fragile girl’s life — and the realities of leaving innocence behind.

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Descrição: Here is the fifth installment in Trisha R. Thomas’ Nappily series, which has been praised by fans and critics alike for its enduring spirit and unforgettable characters. Venus Johnston, known for her brazen personality and feisty humor in the bestselling novels Nappily Ever After and Nappily Married, is back once again in Nappily in Bloom. And she’s in for more than a few misadventures, as she encounters messy domestic dramas, troubled pasts, the joys and pain of womanhood, and the obstacles that we overcome to help the ones we love.

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Descrição: For Zack Thomson, living in the Nicholls Ward isn't so bad. After his parents died, he developed strange and severe allergies, and the mental institution was the only place where he could be properly looked after. As strange as it was, it was home. He could watch as much television as he wanted; his best friend Charlie visited him often enough; and Nurse Ophelia—the prettiest no-nonsense nurse ever—sometimes took him bowling. Of course, that didn't mean he had it easy. His allergies restricted his diet to strawberry smoothies, and being the only kid at the hospital could get lonely. But it never once crossed Zack's mind to leave...until the night someone crashed through the front doors and told him to run. Now he's on a race for answers—about his past, his parents, and his strange sickness—even as every step takes him closer to the darkest of truths.

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Descrição: Seahorses are Real is a haunting tale of love and tragedy. Marly is a young woman struggling to deal with her emotions and depression in a small, grey town. She longs to be anywhere else, retreating into daytime tv and her idyllic childhood dream-world of horses and white cottages by the sea. For her devoted fiancée David, this means a life of hard work, supporting the love of his life financially and emotionally. But as Marly begins to find her feet in reality and hope for a brighter future, time may be running out for David.

This intense, beautifully-written novel is a moving human tale of how lovers can create and destroy each other’s happiness.

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Descrição: #1 Essence bestseller and "One of hip hop fiction’s hottest authors” according to KING magazine, K’wan has been featured in Time, MTV, BET, VIBE and many more. Section 8 is his latest installment of the “Hood Rat” series, and in it he serves up another helping of drama straight from the hood.

When Tionna’s husband goes to jail and she’s left alone to care for their two sons, she returns to her old lifestyle in search of a way to cope, living by her wits in the same neighborhood she swore she’d never come back to. But along the way she rediscovers remnants of her old self which might change everything about her future.

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Descrição: Back by popular demand! We received SO MANY requests last month from for this book, that we'd like to give everyone a second chance, thanks so much for your enthusiasm!

Take a journey back to early 20th century China in The Concubine’s Daughter. Just as Lisa See captivated readers with Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and her latest, Shanghai Girls, The Concubine’s Daughter will leave you mesmerized with its passionate tale of love and courage.

From remote mountain refuges to Hong Kong on the eve of World War II, this adventurous tale spanning two generations reveals an amazing cultural journey of a mother and daughter as sweeping changes unfold in 20th century China.

In the bestselling tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha, Concubine’s Daughter is destined to be a reading group favorite, so the back of the book contains extensive bonus content including a conversation with the author, historical perspectives, discussion questions, and more!

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Descrição: Mavis Gallant is admired and beloved as one of the masters of the modern short story. She is a prolific writer, and her 1996 Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant was more than eight hundred pages long. Even so, this weighty volume left out many wonderful stories that appeared in now out-of-print volumes or in The New Yorker, where Gallant has been a regular contributor for the last half century. Now The Cost of Living, with an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri, provides an extensive new sampling of this great writer’s work.

Gallant’s has always been a cosmopolitan sensibility, and these stories take us from Quebec to postwar Europe, with side trips to Germany and the south of France, before landing in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. A further group of stories are set in New York and New England during the Mad Men era. Everywhere the book reveals Gallant’s subtly penetrating psychological insight and unsentimental sympathy for the excluded and exiled, not to mention her wicked sense of humor.

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Descrição: Amid deep personal crises, a successful American businessman's life takes a dramatic turn and he finds himself wandering the mystical terrain of southern Mexico, accompanied by great sages of Mexican mythology who are teaching him how to survive the changes coming as the Mayan calendar ends. In this quest he discovers hidden in the Mayan Prophecy of 2012 that the end of the calendar is not an end time but merely a time of great stillness — and a great opportunity to transform ourselves and the world. Facing a time of fear, our businessman returns to the U.S. to sound this call to remake the world.

The Ledge of Quetzal, Beyond 2012 offers a message of hope, shows us that no matter what 2012 may bring, it will be a time of opportunity. This compelling tale of one man's journey into mythological Mexico shows us that we can literally co-create a new reality simply by what we believe, and it will inspire us to make the right decisions.

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Descrição: On the 70th anniversary of the beginning of WWII, a timeless and universal message about the devastation of modern warfare for average, ordinary human beings.
This rare eyewitness account by a young career woman and mother brings to life in vivid detail the early, chaotic days of the war.

Expanded 2nd edition; newly edited; more than 100 photos, and maps

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Descrição: In southeastern South Dakota, wild animals begin to stir as day turns to dusk. A curious raccoon emerges from his bed and starts hunting for food. Tempted by sticky honey oozing from a bee’s nest, the little raccoon finds trouble he did not bargain for.

The Raccoon and the Bee Tree combines an old American Indian tale written down by Charles Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman with a traditional European fable. Written one hundred years ago, The Raccoon and the Bee Tree has a lesson for children that is still important and relevant in today’s modern society.

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Descrição: A brilliant new novel — deeply humane and entirely convincing — from Lori Lansens, author of two previous bestsellers and a writer who can be counted on to deliver an amazing story and characters to fall in love with.

In Lori Lansens’ Leaford, Ontario — home of Rose and Ruby Darlen, the sorrowing parents of Larry Merkel, and not far from Rusholme where Addy Shadd once looked after an abandoned child — love and grief combine to awaken an obese woman from her loneliness. When her husband doesn’t come home on the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch, who has never learned to be self-sufficient, sets out on a truly remarkable journey of self-discovery that takes her first to the big city and then to another country.

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Descrição: Escape. Milena, Bartolomeo, Helen, and Milos have left their prison-like boarding schools far behind, but their futures remain in peril. Fleeing across icy mountains from a terrifying pack of dog-men sent to hunt them down, they are determined to take up the fight against the despotic government that murdered their parents years before. Only three will make it safely to the secret headquarters of the resistance movement. The fourth is captured and forced to participate in a barbaric game for the amusement of the masses — further proof of the government’s horrible brutality. Will the power of one voice be enough to rouse a people against a generation of cruelty? Translated from the French, this suspenseful story of courage, individualism, and freedom has resonated with young readers across the globe.
In a gripping dystopian novel, four teenagers risk impossible odds to fight against tyranny in a world of dangerous choices — and reemerging hope.

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Descrição: Stephanie Plum with a CSI twist—Annelise Ryan’s new cozy mystery Series introduces wisecracking nurse-turned-coroner Mattie Winston, and the eccentric inhabitants of her small Wisconsin town.

When nurse Mattie Winston catches her surgeon husband administering some TLC to a coworker, she leaves both her marriage and her job. Taking refuge with her good friend Izzy, the medical examiner, she accepts a job as his assistant and begins to do a little investigation work on the side. But her first case becomes deeply personal when her ex-husband’s girlfriend is murdered, putting both Mattie and her ex at the top of the suspect list.

Soon Mattie is turning up a host of dizzying revelations, while dealing with her attraction to sexy Detective Steve Hurley. And if Mattie’s not careful, the next body that winds up in the morgue could be hers.

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Descrição: The first beauty bible devoted to chemotherapy patients—written by a cancer survivor and a fashion industry insider—to help healing women feel and look their best.

The National Institute of Health reports that as of 2007, 652,000 women will undergo chemotherapy. Beauty Pearls for Chemo Girls is the first and only beauty guide to address their unique needs. Fashion insider Debbie Kiederer, and cancer survivor Marybeth Maida consulted over 30 leading beauty and fashion experts to provide tips for hair, skin, makeup, and fashion to help healing women on the road to recovery look their best.

With the forward by fashion innovator designer Betsey Johnson, an engaging, interactive website, and tips to live for…Beauty Pearls will revolutionize the way women with cancer are seen and more importantly, how they see themselves.

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Descrição: To the literary elite, Michael Greenberg has always been known for his trenchant and moving columns that appear biweekly in the Times Literary Supplement. But when critics hailed his memoir Hurry Down Sunshine as a classic, Greenberg became a household name. Beg, Borrow, Steal is an autobiography in installments, set in NewYork, where the author depicts the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft, or simply stay alive. He finds himself writing about golf, a game that he never played; doctoring doomed movie scripts; driving trucks and taxis; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women’s department store; and botching his debut as a waiter in a coveted five-star restaurant.

Central characters include the City of All Cities; Michael’s father, whose scrap metal business looms large; his elegant mother; his first wife, Robin, whom he met in a Greenwich Village high school; their son, Aaron, who grew up on the Lower East Side; a repentant communist who fought in the Spanish Civil War; a Chilean filmmaker in search of his past; rats who behave like humans; beggars who are poets; a man who becomes a woman; and a woman who prefers to live underground. Greenberg creates a world where the familial, the incongruous, the literary, the humorous, the tragic, and the prosaic not only speak to each other, but deeply enjoy the exchange.

Praising Greenberg and his column in the New York Times, Rachel Donadio wrote: “Imagine The Talk of the Town as if written by Dostoyevsky.” This is an entirely original book, whose writing is magical and whose insights are deceptively profound.

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Descrição: Even the most devoted Francophile will learn something new from these 400 questions, by arrondissement, ranging from obscure lore to facts about well-known buildings, streets, and statues with fascinating and often humorous histories. A delightful way to explore the Paris on foot or via armchair.

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Descrição: The definitive history of the self-destructive lives—and tragic deaths—of rock and roll’s greatest icons: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, and Jerry Garcia.

The Rock & Roll Book of the Dead show there’s more hell than heaven in real stardom. Drawing on extensive research and groundbreaking details of these icons’ deaths, David Comfort’s exposé sheds new light on the tragic price of fame. Each chapter traces one of these seven artists’ lives, from their childhood traumas to their fatal attractions, and shows how much they had in common, as if cast in the same essential mythic legend.

All were obsessed with becoming stars, but once they achieved fame, all of them paid the price of their stardom. Drugs provided their temporary escape—and in the end—emancipation.

The popularity of rock legends (these 7 in particular) only increases with time, and the mysteries surrounding their deaths create continued interest among music connoisseurs and conspiracy theorists alike.

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Descrição: Simply an Inspired Life teaches readers to distinguish between events and our feelings about them, to choose thoughtfully, and to never blame ourselves or anyone else. Filled with inspiring quotes - wisdom from the ages and all traditions, personal stories, and exercises ― Simply an Inspired Life is based on eight guiding principles: honor, forgiveness, gratitude, choice, vision, action, celebration, and unity with all creation. They are all equally important ― and practiced daily they change lives.

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Descrição: Souls of My Sisters—a trusted, growing force in African-American publishing—presents a powerful new self-help book for women striving to live a healthy, fulfilling life.

Today’s women face bigger personal challenges than ever before. Balancing increasing responsibilities at work while managing a household and caring for family is enough to drive anyone to the brink.

Tears to Triumph shares a new framework to help readers move beyond just surviving. Here, real women share their stories of triumph over life’s hardships. Readers learn:
•Specific ways to ensure emotional, interpersonal, and career success
•The causes of stressful behaviors–and the solutions
•How to identify the lesson in the moment
Practical and prescriptive, this inspiring book offers a blueprint for not just overcoming, but embracing adversity in order to find true, lasting happiness.

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Descrição: Renowned sports psychology expert W. Timothy Gallwey teams up with two esteemed physicians to offer a unique and empowering guide to mental health in today’s volatile world. The Inner Game of Stress applies the trusted principles of Gallwey’s wildly popular Inner Game series, which have helped athletes the world over, to the management of everyday stress–personal, professional, financial, physical–and shows us how to access our inner resources to maintain stability and achieve success.

Stress attacks every aspect of our well-being. Gallwey explains how negative self-talk undermines us, making us believe that pressure is inevitable and that other people’s expectations are paramount–which leaves us feeling helpless and unhappy. But as Gallwey shows, we have the means to build a shield against stress with our abilities to take childlike pleasure in learning new skills, to properly and healthily rest and relax, and to trust in our own good judgment. With his trademark mix of case histories and interactive worksheets, Gallwey helps us to tap into these inner strengths, giving us these invaluable tools:

• the STOP technique: Learn how to Step back, Think, Organize, and Proceed with a more conscious choice process, even in the most chaotic circumstances.
• the Attitude tool: If you’re feeling resentment, try gratitude.
• the Magic Pen: Develop the ability to open up your intuition and wisdom.
• the Transpose exercise: Imagine what the other person thinks, feels, wants–and develop empathy, kindness, and better relationship skills.
• the PLE triangle: Use your goals for Performance, Learning, and Experience to redefine success and enhance enjoyment.

Now you don’t have to be a champion athlete–or an athlete at all–to keep your life in perspective and your performance at its peak. A one-of-a kind guide, The Inner Game of Stress allows anyone to get in the game and win.

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Descrição: Her body was found in a Dumpster. But one look at the victim told Hart and Tain that this would be no ordinary investigation. There were details eerily similar to the first case that they had worked on together, a search for a terrifying murderer called the Missing Killer. And when they saw the victim’s face they realized something else—this woman was the only one to escape the Missing Killer with her life. But Hart, Tain and Nolan solved that case almost two years ago. The killer is dead. Isn’t he? Is someone out to finish what the Missing Killer started? Or did they get the wrong man?

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Descrição: Steeped in the intriguing history of Niagara Falls, this epic love story is as rich, spellbinding, and majestic as the falls themselves.

1915. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a sheltered existence as the youngest daughter of the director of the Niagara Power Company. After graduation day at her boarding school, she is impatient to return to her picturesque family home near Niagara Falls. But when she arrives, nothing is as she had left it. Her father has lost his job at the power company, her mother is reduced to taking in sewing from the society ladies she once entertained, and Isabel, her vivacious older sister, is a shadow of her former self. She has shut herself in her bedroom, barely eating—and harboring a secret.

The night of her return, Bess meets Tom Cole by chance on a trolley platform. She finds herself inexplicably drawn to him—against her family’s strong objections. He is not from their world. Rough-hewn and fearless, he lives off what the river provides and has an uncanny ability to predict the whims of the falls. His daring river rescues render him a local hero and cast him as a threat to the power companies that seek to harness the power of the falls for themselves. As their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family and her future.

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of Niagara Falls, at a time when daredevils shot the river rapids in barrels and great industrial fortunes were made and lost as quickly as lives disappeared, The Day the Falls Stood Still is an intoxicating debut novel.

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Descrição: Chelsea Cain's series featuring Detective Archie Sheridan and serial killer Gretchen Lowell has captivated fans through two nail-biting entries, Heartsick and Sweetheart, both of them multi-week bestsellers in The New York Times, USA Today, and PW. Here Archie and Gretchen return; Gretchen is still on the loose and Archie is struggling to move on after his ploy to catch her went spectacularly wrong. They've entered a detente of sorts—Archie agrees not to kill himself if she agrees not to kill anyone else. But suddenly there's something else to contend with that might be even worse—a copycat, killing people as an homage to the Beauty Killer herself. At least they hope it's someone new, for the prospect of Gretchen on another killing spree is more than Archie can bear...

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Descrição: Early preview bound manuscript: SOUL CATCHER, dark urban fantasy (warning: explicit sex, violence) by NYT bestselling women's fiction author Deborah Smith (A PLACE TO CALL HOME) writing as Leigh Bridger; Book one in The Outsider series. Pub date: October 1, 2009 by Bell Bridge Books, trade paperback. More info contact bellebooks@bellebooks.com. Visit: www.bellbridgebooks.com, www.deborah-smith.com, www.leighbridger.com. Plot: A tormented folk artist in Asheville, North Carolina is stalked by a demon she catches in a painting. Book trailer on YouTube and excerpt at Scribd.com

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Descrição: Chaos is coming to the lovely, seemingly tranquil town of Three Pines, just over the Canadian border. It begins to show its face one morning when a murdered man is found lying on the old pine floor of the beloved bistro and antiques store run by Olivier and his partner, Gabri. No one has ever seen the man before—or admits to having seen him—until a mysterious cabin, filled with priceless treasures, is uncovered deep in the woods. Clearly the hermit must have lived there and died there, and someone has been bringing him fresh groceries—in exchange for what? And just how did Olivier make such a spectacular success of his antiques business?
Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in, and much as they personally like the man who has hosted so many wonderful meals, Olivier keeps answering all their questions with lies. Meanwhile, the cabin yields up extraordinary pieces of evidence—from signed first editions of Charlotte’s Web and Jane Eyre to a spider web with the word “WOE” woven in it—that will send Gamache to the remote Queen Charlotte Islands in search of the hermit’s secrets, then back to Three Pines to confront the brutal truth.

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Descrição: An electrifying epic, based on the incredible true story of a Chinese princess turned spy.

Peking, 1914. When the eight-year-old princess Eastern Jewel is caught spying on her father’s liaison with a servant girl, she is banished from the palace, sent to live with a powerful family in Japan. Renamed Yoshiko Kawashima, she quickly falls in love with her adoptive country, where she earns a scandalous reputation, taking fencing lessons, smoking opium, and entertaining numerous lovers. Sent to Mongolia to become an obedient wife, Yoshiko mounts a daring escape and eventually finds her way back to Peking high society—this time with orders from the Japanese secret service.

Based on the true story of a rebellious woman who earned a controversial place in history, The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel is a vibrant reimagining of a thrilling life—a rich historical epic of palace intrigue, sexual manipulation, and international espionage.

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Descrição: Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was.
Then she came to Bellevue.

New York City’s Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, has a tradition of “serving the underserved” that dates back to 1736. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue’s psychiatric emergency room, a one-woman front line charged with assessing and treating some of the city’s most vulnerable and troubled citizens, its forgotten and forsaken—and its criminally insane. Deciding who gets locked up and who gets talked down would be an awesome responsibility for most people. For Julie Holland, it was just another day at the office.

In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the psych ER, recounting stories from her vast case files that are alternately terrifying, tragically comic, and profoundly moving: the serial killer, the naked man barking like a dog in Times Square, the schizophrenic begging for an injection of club soda to quiet the voices in his head, the subway conductor who watched a young woman pushed into the path of his train. As Holland comes to understand, the degree to which someone can lose his or her mind is infinite, and each patient’s pain leaves a mark on her as well—as does the cancer battle of a fellow doctor who is both her best friend and her most trusted mentor.

Writing with uncommon candor about her life both inside and outside the hospital—her professional struggles, personal relationships, and the therapy sessions that help her crack the hard shell she’s formed to keep the pain at bay—Holland supplies not only a page-turner with all the fast-paced immediacy of a TV medical drama but also a fascinating glimpse into the inner lives of doctors who struggle to maintain perspective in a world where sanity is in the eye of the beholder.

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Descrição: For language buffs and lexicographers, copy editors and proofreaders, and anyone who appreciates the connection between language and culture—the illuminating story of “proper English.”

In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers—those who have tried to regulate, or otherwise organize, the way we speak. The Lexicographer’s Dilemma offers the first narrative history of these endeavors, showing clearly that what we now regard as the only “correct” way to speak emerged out of specific historical and social conditions over the course of centuries.

As literary historian Jack Lynch has discovered, every rule has a human history, and the characters peopling his narrative are as interesting for their obsession as for their erudition. The struggle between prescriptivists, who prescribe a correct approach, and descriptivists, who analyze how language works, is at the heart of Lynch’s story. From the sharp-tongued satirist Jonathan Swift, who called for a governmentsponsored academy to issue rulings on the language, and the polymath Samuel Johnson, who put dictionaries on a new footing, to John Horne Tooke, the crackpot linguist whose bizarre theories continue to baffle scholars; Joseph Priestley, whose political radicalism prompted riots; and the ever-crotchety Noah Webster, whose goal was to Americanize the English language—Lynch brings to life a varied cast as illuminating as it is entertaining.

Grammatical “rules” or “laws” are not like the law of gravity, or laws against theft or murder—they’re more like rules of etiquette, made by fallible people and subject to change. Charting the evolution of English, Jack Lynch puts today’s debates—whether about Ebonics in the schools or split infinitives in the New York Times—in a rich historical context, and makes us appreciate anew the hard-won standards we now enjoy.

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