| American Owned Love Release Date: March 25, 1997Robert Boswell has a gift for writing people into flagrant, discomfiting existence--as with the incorrigible Dulcie of his acclaimed novel of 1993, Mystery Ride.Now he conjures up Gay Schaefer, a sultry truck dispatcher who is determined to ignore small-town conventions and possess her life--to make it "original, graceful, adventurous". Separated from her husband of fifteen years, she meets him once a month at the Desert Oasis Motel for glorious carousing, but pretends they are divorced for the benefit of her teenaged daughter. Meanwhile, hanging around...
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| Butterfly Garden Publication Date: December 2, 2011Amishwoman Sara Lapp, all but shunned for studying with the local doctor to become a midwife, is shocked that, after months of waiting, her first call comes from “Mad” Adam Zuckerman, a self-appointed outcast. Adam doesn’t want her to attend at a birth, but to tend to his children because his wife has died in childbed.Adam wants to love his children, but he is afraid he will hurt them in the way his father hurt him. Without his late wife, Abby, to protect them, Adam must find someone else to care for the girls. He can think of only one w...
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| Downfall: A Political Thriller of Power, Corruption and Sex as Contemporary as Today's News ...
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| Hart's Victory (Harlequin NASCAR) Publication Date: December 4, 2007| Series: Harlequin NASCAR Maybe there is life beyond Victory Lane
Driver Hart Hampton is hot
until his winning streak tanks. Now he's not even allowed to watch the next race. Instead, Hart's delegated to charity work at a kids' camp to overhaul his image. Single mother Kellie Thompson knows Hart's trademark smile promotes everything from beer to boxers. But she won't let his grin melt her defenses. Kellie's number one job is to keep son Charlie healthynot jump on private planes as a NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge VIP! Even if generous Hart...
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| Science Verse (Golden Duck Awards. Picture Book (Awards)) Release Date: September 23, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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| Hot Ice Release Date: September 27, 2011From New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a seductive novel of red hot passion and cold hard cash, as a Manhattan socialite living at jet-set speed crosses a desperate man on the run—and finds herself trapped in a deadly game that may have no winners or losers . . . or survivors. Reckless Whitney MacAllister possesses all the wealth and beauty every woman dreams of. Streetwise Douglas Lord has the good looks and quick wits to be a success at his chosen profession: larceny. She has the cash and the connections. He has the stolen docum...
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| Prayer for a Child Release Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up This very special prayer just for children is perfect for even the youngest reader. In this new gift book edition Caldecott-winning Prayer for a Child is sure to win new fans and become a favorite. * * * Keep growing in faith and joy through Little Simon Inspirations books for your child!...
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| The Lion's Share [With Finger Puppet] (Activity Books) Publication Date: August 1, 2009 ...
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| Ocean Explorer! (Crabtree Connections) ...
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| Frightful's Daughter Release Date: September 16, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Fans of Sam Gribley and his falcon friend, Frightful, will thrill to Jean Craighead George's new book about these beloved characters. Now living in the wild, Frightful and her mate hatch three babies. The female, Oksi, "does things her own way" and, like her mother, is destined for greatness. Readers will follow her singular path from the timeshe breaks out of her rosy shell to her young adulthood, when Sam saves her life and they bond.Jean George's themes--the interdependence of human and animal, respect for the...
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| Mighty Machines (Ready To Read) Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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| The Ancient Chinese (Understanding People in the Past) ...
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| Dr. Seuss (Lives and Times) Publication Date: April 6, 2001| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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| Railroad!: A Story of the Transcontinental Railroad (Soundprints' Read-And-Discover: Level 3) Publication Date: January 2003| Age Level: 6 and up...
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| Faith Odyssey: A Journey Through Lent Publication Date: January 2001Faith Odyssey is a Lent book like none ever written. Richard Burridge here invites readers to journey through the season of Lent with devotional readings that combine Scripture with stories from science fiction and popular culture.For each day, beginning with Ash Wednesday, passages from the Bible are placed alongside stories drawn from literature, television, and filmfrom Homers Odyssey to 2001: A Space Odyssey from Star Trek and Star Wars to Dune and The Matrix, mixing Narnia, Harry Potter, and Pilgrims Progressall to illustrate the hum...
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| Psalms to Soothe a Woman's Heart Publication Date: September 1, 2009Through inspiring passages from the Psalms, Psalms to Soothe a Woman's Heart celebrates the gifts God gives us every day in 170 moving reflections.Each two page full-color spread presents a devotional thought and encouraging Scriptures, appealing to readers of all ages.Ideal for any gift-giving occasion. ...
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| The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business Release Date: August 28, 2012A world-class business education in a single volume. Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business. You can get better results (and save hundreds of thousands of dollars) by skipping B-school altogether.Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondo...
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| Work Breakdown Structures: The Foundation for Project Management Excellence Publication Date: October 6, 2008| ISBN-10: 0470177128 | ISBN-13: 978-0470177129| Edition: 1 Understand and apply new concepts regarding Work Breakdown StructuresThe Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) has emerged as a foundational concept and tool in Project Management. It is an enabler that ensures clear definition and communication of project scope while performing a critical role as a monitoring and controlling tool. Created by the three experts who led the development of PMI's Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, Second Edition, this much-needed text expands on what the stand...
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| How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation Publication Date: November 15, 2000Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions-and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes-in our own lives or the groups we lead at work-why are the changes are so frequently short-lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality?In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey take us on a carefully guided journey designed to help us answer these very questions. And not just generally...
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| High Stakes M&A: Seven bets that matter ...
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