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  • Dreams
    Even if you don't always remember them, you have dreams every night. Sometimes the dreams are vivid and easy to recollect. Sometimes all you remember are hazy feelings and colors. Did you know that virtually everything in your dreams is a symbol? These symbols, bubbling up from your subconscious,...
  • The Encyclopedia of Immaturity
    The ultimate how-not-to-grow-up guide. The Encyclopedia of Immaturity contains more than 300 entries, all painstakingly explicated and illuminated with full-colour photographs, illustrations, diagrams and the occasional footnote. Topics include: The Great Aussie Thong Throwing Challenge, Far Out Au...
  • Oliver Twist
    Cliffs Test Preparation Guides help students prepare for and improve their performance on standardized tests ACT Preparation Guide CBEST Preparation Guide CLAST Preparation Guide ELM Review GMAT Preparation Guide GRE Preparation Guide LSAT Preparation Guide MAT Preparation Guide MATH Review for Sta...
  • Angels and Demons
    When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. His baffling conclusion: that it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood pre...
  • Deception Point
    A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever heard... When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with prof...
  • Digital Fortress
    When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being h...
  • Blind Faith
    A dark, savagely comic novel from the bestselling author of Chart Throb. Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person feels and truly believes is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable is condemned as heresy. A world where to questio...
  • Echo Park
    In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case. But the young woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it...
  • 100 Awesome Crosswords
    What could be more awesome for a crossword lover than 100 new puzzles from Thomas Joseph, the popular author of 100 Amazing Crosswords (1-4027-1239-1), 100 Cunning Crosswords (0-8069-2294-X) and many other collections? This is the latest in the popular series and the clues span such topics as: poli...
  • Home
    Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
  • Natural Disasters
    Jake and Tor return in this long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Bareback! Having bought the ranch they've worked on for so long, they're now the proud owners of a spread of their own. There's more than enough on their plate coping with their new responsibilities and their arguments over ranch ma...
  • Burn
    The corporate-funded police force of Old New York dropped its investigation into a man's mysterious death by fire. Spontaneous human combustion is the rumored cause, but a down-and-out private detective, a former member of the Old New York Police Force, soon learns that this wasn't the only man to ...
  • Broken Angels
    For one woman, Nancye O'Reilly, this shocking path of events is real. Such tragedies would have destroyed a lesser woman, but Nancye took control of her life and made some crucial decisions to improve her lot and that of her two remaining sons. As a result of her extraordinary experiences, she is n...
  • The Card
    Only a few dozen T206 Wagners are known to still exist, having been released in limited numbers just after the turn of the twentieth century. Most, with their creases and stains, look like they've been around for nearly one hundred years. But one--The Card--appears to have defied the travails of ti...
  • Air
    What is air? You don't think about air or even perceive it unless it has changed from its usual state. Air, that most ubiquitous of the four elements, was long the most inexplicable enigma, peopled by gods and their messengers, venerated as the abode of spirits or demons. Nowadays air has been 'dec...
  • A Long Way Home
    Canada, 1951. An American B36 bomber with a live nuclear weapon on board crashes on a remote Canadian island. Jack Harper, an ex-Canadian Air Force serviceman, is recruited for a secret mission to recover the bomber's crew. He joins a Special Forces team led by Captain Groves to a mountain glacier ...
  • Chrysalis
    Imagine that the light bulb blows, darkness immediately and indiscriminately smothers all that even the brightest light has bathed. The same can be seen as it relates to human nature. Once the light is gone there is no stopping the tidal wave of blackness. Even when a proverbial candle is introduce...
  • Founding Fathers
    Born in Fayetteville, Tennessee in 1810, John Neely Bryan received an education and became a lawyer, dealt in real estate, became a north Texas pioneer, and the founder of Dallas, Texas. During his life he traveled across the southern part of the United States, from Florida to California. He lived ...
  • Heaven and Earth
    Through the lens of a microscope or the shaft of a telescope exists a universe of boundless life and beauty, that is entirely invisible to the naked eye. Atoms, ice crystals, grains of pollen, snowflakes, butterfly wings, cloud formations, searing comets, and showers of stars are born, live and die...
  • Little One
    For the past fourteen years, Ann Walker has lived and worked in the back room of her terraced west London home. Continually by her side has been a guiding spirit, a Red Indian whom she and thousands of others already know as White Arrow. Twelve years ago he showed her seven very simple symbols. The...
  • Gold
    This is a fresh look at the most important investment trend of the early 21st century. Many view the current bull market in gold as a flash in the pan, doomed to fizzle. Au contraire, say bestselling author Addison Wiggin and award winning analyst Justice Litle. In this explosive new book, Wiggin a...
  • Resistance
    As the grip of the German Occupation tightened on Paris in the summer of 1940, Agnes Humbert, a respected art historian, took a leap of blind faith and reckless courage. With a handful of her distinguished colleagues at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, she helped to form one of the first organised gr...
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age m...
  • Pride and Prejudice
    Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich batchelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daugher, Elizabeth, but a bad account of him is given to El...
  • Olivia
    The first full-length biography of the enduringly popular star of Grease Now approaching her 60th birthday, Olivia Newton-John grew up in Melbourne and still exudes star power and timeless glamour. She has sold 60 million records around the world, topped the charts in the US and the UK four times, ...
  • Buffy Vampire Slayer Watchers
    As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. From the first vampire staking to the last glimpse of Sunnydale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a genre-bus...
  • Tales of the Slayer Vol 2 (Btvs)
    Sacred duty, yadda yadda. -- Buffy Summers Buffy the Vampire Slayer has always held an irreverent attitude toward her calling, but ultimately she understands the ramifications of her destiny and is prepared to die to protect the world from Evil. In fact, she has died. Twice. I remember the drill. O...
  • The Awakening
    First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening" has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her fami...
  • Billy
    Meet Billy Butler. Heas been safely guarded from the evils (fun) of life by his overprotective parents, thereby spending his first 18 years on the planet moldering on the line of goodness and virtue. Meet Mirna, Billyas older sister who, now that her brother is out of school, wants to rectify that ...
  • Barn Dance
    Gabby Cox, a shy Minnesota bachelor farmer, is content with his quiet life. When rock star Sphinx and his celebrity girlfriend, Sparkle, crash their private airplane into Gabby's barn, his life is turned upside down. Sphinx and Sparkle are killed-along with a half dozen pigs-and Gabby loses both hi...
  • End Game
    This is the eighth in the series of high-tech thrillers centred on Dreamland - a top-secret USAF weapons research centre - from the acclaimed author of Act of War and Plan of Attack. While the Dreamland team is perfecting their latest weapon, code-named 'End game', an electromagnetic bomb that can ...
  • Baby Animals
    Building on the ongoing success of the Cube Book series, White Star has beefed up the traditional CubeBook format to present the SuperCube. This entry in the brand-new SuperCube series will appeal to animal lovers of all ages. The third volume in this innovative new series brings a wide range of ba...
  • Ghosts and Monsters
    Colorful photographs, astounding statistics, and challenging quizzes highlight these softcover 32-page nonfiction books. Fun fonts and graphics engage student readers with new facts on every page. Three-question quizzes entice kids to pit their wits against some brain-bogglers and discover more abo...
  • The Big Book of Boy Stuff
    There's this boy. Let's say he's somewhere between nine and thirteen years old or so. You'd like to see this kid get creative. You'd like to see him get some exercise. You'd like to see him get out from in front of the television. And you'd love for him to be motivated enough to find some stuff to ...
  • Never Say Never
    In "Never Before" and "Never Again, " award-winning author Jo-Ann Power evoked the drama and elegance of the Gilded Age with wonderful romances of American heiresses Victorian England would never forget. Now, in a tale as lavish as the age itself, she portrays the last and youngest of these ladies ...
  • Ripley's Believe it or Not!
    Ripleys Search for the Shrunken Heads is an evocative potpourri of the journeys and discoveries made by Robert Ripley in the 1920s and 1930s. His drawings, cartoons, doodles, and memorabilia puts in an atmospheric context of the strange and bizarre world that unfolded before Ripleys gaze. The book ...
  • Julius Caesar
    More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for emperor -- not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and do...
  • Dracula
    A biography of the 15th Century Prince of Romania, Vlad Dracula (1431-1476), nicknamed the Impale and on whom Bram Stoker based his fictional character. It covers his career as ruler of Wallachia, terror of Transylvania and crusader against the Turks and examines how closely he compares to his fict...
  • Macbeth
    Macbeth is Shakespeare's great tragedy of a fall into evil. The Norton Critical Edition text is based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. It is accompanied by an introduction, detailed explanatory annotations, and textual notes. A rich "Sources and Contexts" section ...
  • Barnyard Games and Puzzles
    Kids love animals as much as they love puzzles and silly word games. "Barnyard Games & Puzzles" follows the success of "Horse Games & Puzzles For Kids" and "The Petting Farm Poster Book". Full of lively drawings, it offers page after page of word games and picture puzzles, as well as jokes, riddles...
  • Great Quicksolve Whodunit Puzzles
    Get on the case Help famous detective Dr. J.L. Quicksolve and his son Junior solve some dastardly crimes. Interview suspects, evaluate their stories, examine crime scenes, and take note of strange details. Be on the alert for liars, tricksters, and unlikely alibis. * Did Mary Contrary kill her new ...
  • The Great Outdoors Games and Puzzles
    Buckley Beaver and Daffodil Duck are the tour guides for a nature excursion like no other! Children will love the curiosities and fun little quirks of the country setting as they work their way through a variety of activities featuring friendly animals, woodland wonders, and other nature themes. Co...
  • Magic Tricks
    You can be a great magician, able to perform incredible tricks! All it takes is this book and just a little bit of practice, and a few things you probably already have around the house. This book features topics such as The magic starts here The art of knot throwing The knot challenge Cut and resto...
  • On the Way
    Let's Move—the key feature of these books is how easily they can be put into practice. Each booklet provides exercise leaders and teachers with a comprehensive range of information, which will help them with individual lessons e.g. with carefully chosen stimulating ideas on movement, pla...
  • VCE Food and Technology: Units 3 and 4
    Food and Technology Book 2 2E VCE Food & Technology Units 3 & 4 has been specifically written for Units 3 and 4 of the new VCE Food and Technology Study Design (implemented in 2006). The first book in the series covers Units 1 and 2. This series provides a comprehensive coverage of all of the key k...
  • 101 Things to Do Before You're Old and Boring
    There is nothing worse than being boring, except for being old and boring! This exciting new book will help teens discover 101 ways to live life to its fullest before it's too late. The interactive format contains fill-in pages, checklists, and adhesive stars to place on each page when the suggeste...
  • 101 Things You Need To Know (And Some You Don't)
    Explains 101 marvellous facts: why do we have nails? Why is the sky blue? Why can birds stand on electric wires and not be electrocuted? This title enables you to educate your child with minimum effort, and is suitable for children who do not want to be boring when they grow old....
  • 202 Checkmates for Children
    Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly-explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way through the concepts while they have fu...
  • 21-foot-long Brainteaser Book
    Kids can find almost every kind of brainteaser in this fantastic 21-foot compilation! They're all fun, they improve logic and word skills and they'll keep children intrigued for hours on end. Kids will have fun finding the words in nonsense sentences, solving puzzles that use pictures and symbols, ...
  • 21-foot-long Crossword Puzzle Book
    With more than 50 crosswords, all of which are just for kids, this 21-foot long puzzle book will provide hours of entertainment, with clues that perfectly fit a child's knowledge and interests. Plus, as solvers fill in the grids, they'll also be improving their vocabulary, spelling and logic skills...
  • 21-foot-long Word Search Puzzle Book
    A word search is like a game of hide-and-seek on the page - and these 50 puzzles are also extra-special in lots of different ways. Firstly, these are 21-foot long and the grids aren't the usual squares instead, they come in a range of cool shapes (like elephants, ice skates, or a ferris wheel) that...
  • 365 Fun Facts, Wierd Trivia and Amazing Lists on Nearly Everything You Need to Know!
    Includes amazing lists and weird trivia on topics such as sports, food, movies, animals, Aussie placenames, astronomy, maths, art, weather, history, extreme sports, Australian slang, famous people, great Australians, inventions, mountains, volcanoes, music, TV and heaps more!...
  • Amazing Crosswords for Kids
    Every book in Trip Payne's popular, inexpensive crossword series has become a bestseller. Now, this genius of crossword creation (he had his first puzzles published when he was just in junior high and won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament a grand three times) is back with a seventh collectio...
  • At the Circus
    What does the circus sound like? Elephants THUNDER and THUMP, tigers ROAR, and a DRUM ROLLLLLL announces the flying trapeze. These board books serve a dual purpose for inquisitive little ones. Not only do they link noises to objects but they encourage the association of meaning to letters on a page...
  • The Awesome Egyptians
    History with the nasty bits left in. Awful information about phabulous Pharoahs, mean mummies, revolting recipes for 3000 year old sweets, and more. History has never been so horrible! For 9-12 year olds. Second-hand book, click to see more...
  • Baffling Word Search Puzzles for Kids
    After his bestselling Word Search Puzzles for Kids, Awesome Word Search Puzzles for Kids, and Clever Word Search Puzzles for Kids, Mark Danna's out to baffle youngsters again--and they'll enjoy every second of it. These puzzles are wildly imaginative and ingeniously designed. Instead of the usual g...
  • Big Book of Sudoku Puzzles for Kids
    Sudoku is a big craze, even with children - and this huge collection will keep every puzzle-loving kid busy and happy for days. It features a simply phrased, three-page introduction to teach all the basics and get new solvers up to speed. Then come the sudokus, which start easy and become progressi...
  • Brain Tingling Mazes
    Which way should you go? There's no guarantee you will ever find your way out once you enter any of these fantastic mazes! No path is clear and all have tremendous challenges at every twist and turn. Easel does it! Is it an abstract work of art? No, ...
  • The Big Wiggly Fun Book
    The must-have book for every Wiggles fan this year is The Big Wiggly Fun Book. Filled with hours of activities and games, stories and Wiggly information, this book provides children with an interesting and fun way to learn from one the most popular children's entertainment groups in Australia....
  • Fun on the Farm Activity Book
    Containing everything youngsters need for a make-believe day of fun on the farm, this kit includes a colorful, two-sided play mat, a book full of punch-out pieces to set up on the play mat, a My Farmhouse-shaped board book, an official John Deere toy tractor, and a fold-open barn with easy-to-assem...
  • Kids Around the World Play
    This is an activity book for kids aged 8-12 that describes how to make hands-on projects and play games from different lands. The different cultures represented span the globe, including China, Mexico, Korea, India, Russia, and South Africa. Ages 8-12....
  • Harry Houdini
    With his seemingly impossible escapes and incredible feats of illusion, Harry Houdini lived a life so fantastic that it seems almost too amazing even for fiction. Beyond his on-stage magic, Houdini also made his mark as an airplane pioneer, movie star, and debunker of frauds. His renown extended fr...
  • So You Think You Know James Bond
    In which film did James Bond get married? What car equipped with an ejection seat and machine guns did James Bond drive in Goldfinger? Name the two films in which the memorable henchman Jaws appeared. What does S.P.E.C.T.R.E stand for? In which Bond film did Kojak star, Telly Savalas, play the part...
  • So You Think You Know Shakespeare
    In which play would you find the characters, Bottom, Quince, Puck and Titania? How many of Shakespeare's history plays featured a King called Henry in their title? Does Juliet die by poison, stabbing herself or throwing herself off of a balcony? So you've read Shakespeare's plays, maybe seen them p...
  • So You Think You Know the Simpsons?
    This bestselling quiz book has been updated with 100 new questions based on recent series of The Simpsons, in addition to the original 1000 questions about life with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. Which of the Simpson family has webbed feet? ...occasionally drinks from the dog dish? ...discov...
  • Phonics for Beginners
    Phonics is fun when you're learning with puzzles These very simple searches present words with both short and long a sounds br combination (broom, brush) letter g beginnings (gap, gear goose) and ck endings (duck, knock, lock). Each word search has ten words to help children grasp the basics and pr...
  • The Truth
    With over a million copies sold worldwide and translated into 22 languages, the Health Freak books have been a global publishing phenomenon, bringing both fun and vital health education to teenagers the world over. The Truth has the popular question-and-answer format of the Health Freak series base...
  • Alpha
    Walk Away... How does a nice girl handle a hungry were? When Dek left her, Leila vowed never to fall for an animal like him again. But now he's back...and resistance seems futile. Dek is determined to have Leila join his family. He needs her, and he's not about to take no for an answer. Leila swore...
  • John Deere
    For over 150 years, John Deere & Company has set the bar for tractor design and ingenuity. Not only is it one of the most successful companies in American history, John Deere has revolutionized agriculture throughout the world and its green and gold logo has become a symbol of quality and durabilit...
  • Mathstart Tally O Malley
    The O'Malleys are off to the beach! But it's a long, hot, boring drive. What can Eric, Bridget, and Nell do to keep busy? Play tally games, of course -- counting up all the gray cars or green T-shirts they see. Whoever has the most marks at the end wins the game. Eric wins the first game. Bridg...
  • Breaking Windows
    The year is 1997, and despite the machinations of its rivals, Microsoft is master of the digital universe and the darling of corporate America. Windows and Office generate staggering profits, the company's share price is stratospheric, and Bill Gates is the preeminent icon of the information age. N...
  • Ghost Force
    Tensions between Siberia and Moscow are running high, but the sudden disappearance of leading top-tier Siberian politicians and oil executives sparks open outrage in the vast lands east of the Ural. Terrified that Siberia will sever their ties and deprive Russia of its most important oil source, Mo...
  • The Bond
    What would happen if we had access to the blood of Jesus Christ? What would happen if we removed the DNA from that blood? What would happen if we cloned a human from that DNA, and who would that human be? The Bond: A Story of Love Between the Living and the Dead is the story of twin brothers, one o...
  • Between Friends
    In an era when women set aside very little leisure time for themselves, let alone for their friends, Between Friends provides the perfect excuse to invite the girls over. Talented writer and designer Charlotte Lyons has brought together an imaginative array of craft projects that will help celebrat...
  • All about Love
    The word love is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb, writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love, Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our ...
  • More Than Words
    Good books inspire the imagination, jump-start creativity, and kindle new ideas. So it's no surprise that for these twenty-one members of the Chrysostom Society (a renowned contemporary Christian writers' group) the works of classic literary masters have played an influential role in shaping their ...
  • South Wind
    The south wind blows constantly during the spring and summer. Hardly less constantly in autumn. And in winter, often for weeks on end. Douglas' famed novel of Capri, loved and derided in equal measure for its plot or lack thereof, is back in a palatable edition. Bishop Heard returns from Africa, ma...
  • Sisters
    Candy - it's the only the name she needs - is blazing her way through Paris, New York and Tokyo as fashion's latest international supermodel... Her sister, Tammy, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV, and a home she loves in L.A.'s Hollywood Hills... In New York, ol...
  • The Red Tent
    'My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing. That is why I became a footnote, my story a brief detour between the well-known history of my fa...
  • The Visitor
    Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook had a lot in common. Both high flying army women, both victims of sexual harassment, they left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead, their bodies discovered, unmarked and unscarred, in their own homes. Jack Reacher, former US milit...
  • It's Only the Enemy Screaming
    It's Only the Enemy Screaming tells of one man's struggle with faith in the American experiment as the country's first made-for-media war unfolds. Perhaps I would be called upon to fight, I thought. I did not want to go. I did not want to sacrifice my life. I felt remorse for the boys who had alrea...
  • Never Call Retreat
    New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great what if of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won? After his great victories at Gettysburg and Union Mills, General Robert E. Lee'...
  • The Far Side of the World
    Tie-in edition of the major film from Fox due next Spring. Starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind) as Stephen Maturin. Directed by Peter Weir. It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on...
  • Jigs and Reels
    Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these twenty-two short stories from the author of HOLY FOOLS and FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE, the miraculous g...
  • Les Norton and the Case of the Talking Pie Crust
    Set in Bondi and the Central Coast, this is vintage Les Norton - who has been called in to help Albanian would-be filmmaker, Bodine Menjou locate a missing script. Les is giving advice to Bodine, dealing with an enraged ice addict who won't stay down, and confronting a shot gun and an exploding bui...
  • Gun Shy
    While on patrol, Minnesota police officer Dez Reilly saves two women from a brutal attack. One of them, Jaylynn Savage, is immediately attracted to the taciturn cop - so much so that she joins the St. Paul Police Academy. As fate would have it, Dez is eventually assigned as Jaylynn's Field Training...
  • Arabella
    The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detail--with many arti...
  • Ayesha
    This book, second in the trilogy that begins with She, takes place in central Asia (China, Tibet, or Russia -- Haggard never tells us where, exactly, but it's clearly someplace in that vicinity), rather than Africa, but loses nothing for its location. The book's full of adventure -- a great avalanc...
  • Beyond the Forests of Yesteryears
    Advance praise for Beyond the Forests of Yesteryears We meet pain, fear, shame, uncertainty, and insecurities in her stories. Sharon has captured those feelings in the allegories she shares with us. The journey of a thousand miles often begins with a single step-walk with her this is a journey you ...
  • Blue Beyond Blue
    An exploration of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums, and romantic love through one of our oldest literary forms--the fairy tale. Inspired and barbed, Slater's fairy tales are irresistible.--Donna Seaman, Booklist Mermaids, seal women, little girls born of eggs, old men born of premat...
  • The Blue Fairy Book
    THE TALES in this volume are intended for children, who will like, it is hoped, the old stories that have pleased so many generations. The tales of Perrault are printed from the old English version of the eighteenth century. The stories from the Cabinet des Fees and from Madame d'Aulnoy are...
  • Deathgate: Hand of Chaos 5
    With the publication of their first fantasy novel, New York Times bestselling authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman were an instant success. Seven years later, there are nearly ten million copies of their novels in print around the world. Their most ambitious project to date, the Death Gate novel...
  • The Reality Dysfunction
    Space is not the only void... In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries...
  • All in the Seasoning
    Celebrate the holidays lesbian style! Celebrate solstice with a firefighter on the job in New York City, Thanksgiving with a lesbian border patrol agent, Hanukah at a lesbian bar, and Christmas with a lesbian couple in South Africa. Here are the stories that celebrate our own traditions, storie...
  • Beautiful Monster
    Josh Mackay is hired to bring in Kiran Brunner, a Minder with the psychic ability to manipulate and kill. But Kir has been abused by the agency that wants him back and he'll do anything to escape. Josh's job is to lure Kiran to a safe house. That part's easy. The boy-Minder or no-is beautiful and s...
  • Best Gay Erotica 2002
    The Year's Steamiest and Most Thought-Provoking Gay Sex Writing Best Gay Erotica 2002 is a collection of 24 stories (14 never-before published) from some of the biggest names in gay fiction. Still the most literate and eclectic series on the market, past books have included the works of Felice Pica...
  • Measuring the World
    "Measuring the World" recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set ou...
  • Genghis
    Conn Iggulden's novels are grand historical tales of conquest and vengeance, cruelty and greatness. Now the acclaimed author of Genghis: Birth of an Empire delivers a masterful new novel of the mighty Mongol conqueror--as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule.... He ca...
  • Crooked River Burning
    The critically acclaimed novel of a compelling love affair and the decline of a once prosperous city . The birthplace of rock 'n' roll, Cleveland was an economic powerhouse and America's sixth-largest city in the late 1940s. By 1969, it had dropped to twelfth. In the summer of 1948, fourteen-year...
  • Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette
    Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas--eager to be a good wife and strong queen-...

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