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Across the Minefields
Are you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told? The sixth installment in the Great Escapes series is hereperfect for fans of the I Survived series!June, 1942Libya. Free French Officer Susan Travers was one of …
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An Inspiring True Story of Fighting to Survive and Choosing to Forgive
Cindi Broaddus didn't realize that her life was about to be forever altered as she sat in the passenger seat of a car on a lonely highway, speeding toward the airport in the early morning hours of June 5, 2001. …
What if your dearest friends were trapped in a world that was dying?Mehera Beatrice Crosby has one great loveand it's not following the latest health fads (like her school friend Celeste), and it's definitely not Andrew Suarez (even if he …
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Inside the Mind of the President
With the Bush administration in permanent crisis, a renowned Washington psychoanalyst updates his portrait of George W.'s public personaand how it has damaged the presidency.Insightful and accessible, courageous and controversial, Bush on the Couch sheds startling new light on George …
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A Guide to Modern Life
No one understands the complexities of modern life better than Eugene Mirman--claims Eugene Mirmanand anyone seeking guidance from a man who has lived through everything (except the Great Depression, the Spanish-American War, and Jerry Lee Lewis's sex scandal) won't resist …
Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today's Middle EastA thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch's life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide bombing …
View book details for Need, Speed, and Greed
How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most Wicked Problems
World-renowned economist Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran provides a deeply insightful, brilliantly informed guide to the innovation revolution now transforming the world. With echoes of Clayton Christensens The Innovators Dilemma, Tim Browns Change by Design, and Jared Diamonds Guns, Germs, and Steel, …
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A Spirited Guide to the Treasures of the Vatican
A unique look at the treasures of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and the Basilica of Saint Peter from an official guide of the Eternal City.In a tiny enclave in the heart of Rome lies the world's smallest independent …
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Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America
Genuine and raw...a heartfelt work of despair, triumph, and redemption. Boston GlobeThe critically acclaimed Heart of the Gamesubtitled Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League Americaexplores the pure roots of a sport that is stained by scandal at its highest …
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From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
A funny and fact-filled look at our astoundingly inconsistent written language, from Shakespeare to spell-check.St. Petersburg TimesDavid Wolman explores seven hundred years of trial, error, and reform that have made the history of English spelling a jumbled and fascinating mess. …
A searing chronicle of the life of a young ex-convict and heroin addict in 1960s Harlem, an unsparing portrait of a man who couldnt free himself from the horrors of addiction Blueschild Baby takes place during the summer of 1967the …
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Study of Revenge
The destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon -- all within one hour on September 11, 2001 -- demonstrated America's shocking vulnerability to terrorism.Yet terror had already emerged on America's shores …
View book details for Bible Babel
Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time
Kristin Swenson offers a confident, well-paced, well-informed, and accessible guide to Bible basics and biblical literacy. Walter Brueggemann, author of An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew BibleBible Babel, from author and religious studies professor Kristin Swenson, is a …
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A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein
Einstein's gravity theoryhis general theory of relativityhas served as the basis for a series of astonishing cosmological discoveries. But what if, nonetheless, Einstein got it wrong?Since the 1930s, physicists have noticed an alarming discrepancy between the universe as we see …
If they want to truly learn about the human body, London medical students Edward Montague and Jean-Claude Legard have no choice but to become common criminals. The authorities have long looked the other way as budding anatomists dug up fresh …
This edition of the Diatessaron of Tatian presents a reader-friendly version of the most popular unified account of Jesuss life and teachings, as written in the gospels, for over three centuries, and a crucial link to the early history of …
From internationally-acclaimed novelist Mayra Santos-Febres comes a carnal, epic novel about the life of Isabel La Negra Luberza--a legendary Puerto Rican madam who, by the end of World War II, became the most powerful woman on the island.Born into poverty …
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Poems and Prose Poems
The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature …
When a Hollywood location scout comes to Applewood, Long Island, and announces that the local elementary school might make the perfect backdrop for an upcoming George Clooney movie, the PTA's decorum crumbles like a cookie from last week's bake sale. …
Prominent Israeli journalist GershomGorenbergoffers a penetrating and provocativelook at how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism,threatening the prospects for peace and democracy as the Israeli-Palestinianconflict intensifies. Informing his examination using interviews in Israel andthe West Bank …
18-year-old Brook Searcy has just begun her first year at the Air Force Academy. Abandoned by her mother and raised by a loving yet distant father, Brook has surprised her traditional East Coast family by deciding to enter a completely …
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A Reader's Companion to the Dan Brown Novel
Ever since Professor Beyer read The Da Vinci Code, he became intrigued by Dan Brown's use of facts in fiction. He realized that an examination of the novel could be a tantalizing and entertaining entry into the world of research …
In The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansena moving Gothic tale that intertwines mystery, madness, betrayal, love, and literaturea fragile young woman must silence the ghosts of her past.Ten months after dropping out of all-girl Tarble College, Ruby Rousseau is …
Julie of the Wolves meets Hatchet in this middle grade novel that follows orphaned twelve-year-old Nika and her seven-year-old brother Randall as they leave a California foster home to visit a long-lost uncle in the wilderness lake country of Northern …
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Essays on Housecleaning and the Writing
For the twice-published novelist, reading an article about herself in the National Enquirerunder the headline "Here's One for the Books: Cleaning Lady Is an Acclaimed Author"was more than a shock. It was an inspiration.In A Broom of One's Own, Nancy …
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