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Seventy-seven pieces by "Punch" editor-writer Coren. Includes a memoir about a Gatsby of the future; an alcoholic's letter to his…
auntie; and a spoof of British ingenuity during the ice age. 1981.
Cassandra knew that Damon Grey thought she was heartless. After all, hadn't she left him to pursue her career? But…
Damon didn't know that her real reasons had been very different and she was determined he wouldn't discover them now! In her diary, she recounts their steamy times together. 1995.
Ten of Shakespeare's plays retold in simple language. Nesbit compiled the collection after a visit to the poet's home with…
her children. She encouraged them to try reading some of the original plays, only to be told the writing was too difficult to understand. This volume includes Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Macbeth, and Othello. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 1997.
Jack Pertwee was getting married in the morning and the darts club gathered in the pub to give him a…
send off. Charlie Hatton drove his lorry eleven hours down from Leeds just to be there. Charlie was Jack's best friend and he would be his best man. When the two finally parted at the Kingston Bridge, Jack felt as though his life was just beginning. But for Charlie Hatton life was just about to end. Sequel to "Wolf to the slaughter", followed by "A guilty thing surprised". 1981, c1969. (Inspector Wexford mystery)
A meditation on the dynamics of female friendship describes the author's life-defining relationship with Martha Stewart, relating the common experiences…
that bonded them and the factors that resulted in their estrangement. 2010.
1963. Former CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement to abort an assassination attempt in Berlin. If allowed…
to succeed, it could lead in a matter of minutes to all-out nuclear war and the end of the world as we know it. Teller soon finds himself in that never-never land of spies where no one is who he seems to be, and where danger lurks behind, above, below, and within every doorway. Strong language. 2006.
The Berenstain Bears Save Christmas. This year it seems everyone in Bear Country has gone Christmas-crazy, and Mama Bear is…
concerned the true holiday spirit has been lost. Santa worries also, and is ready to cancel Christmas! Now it's up to the Berenstain Bears to change his mind. Grades K-3. 2003. Taped with: The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear. How can Santa's sleigh land with no snow? How can he fit down all those skinny chimneys? These and other questions and the true meaning of Christmas are revealed. Grades K-3. 1984. Taped with: The Berenstain Bears' Thanksgiving. The Bear family happily prepares their holiday feast, but danger lurks. The legendary monster, Bigpaw, is coming to Bear Country and it's up to Brother and Sister Bear to save the day. Grades K-3. 1997. Taped with: The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin. The Bear family may not win the blue ribbon in the pumpkin contest at the Thanksgiving Festival, but they do remember all that there is to be thankful for. Grades K-3. 1990. Taped with: The Berenstain Bears' Comic Valentine. The day of Brother Bear's championship hockey game has arrived. It's also the day he finds out the identity of his secret admirer. Who can she be? Brother is in for a big surprise! Grades K-3. 1998. Includes an interview with Stan, Jan, and Mike Berenstain.
Inez Burns was adored by the desperate women who sought her out--and loathed by the power-hungry men who plotted to…
destroy her. During a time when women risked their lives with predatory practitioners lurking in back alleys, Inez and her team of women, clad in crisp, white nurse's uniforms, worked night and day in her elegantly appointed clinic, performing fifty thousand of the safest, most hygienic abortions available during a time when even the richest wives, Hollywood stars, and mistresses had few options when they found themselves with an unwanted pregnancy. 2018.
Riley Gibson is over the moon at the prospect of having her restaurant featured on a television network, but she…
didn't expect the undeniable chemistry with the hot executive producer, Trevor Cooper. 2017.
Provides a day-by-day guide designed to encourage habit change through fun, dynamic daily tasks. It takes thirty days to break…
a bad habit and thirty days to create a good one. The author provides a daily challenge for your mental, physical, and spiritual awareness to help you develop positive thinking and successful behavior and boost your brainpower. 2017.
'Snow Shine on Ice Mountain' by Kelly Long: When Naomi's mischievous father hires Gray to help for the season, she's…
positive the old man has an ulterior motive. She doesn't need help but, as Gray learns the craft of candle making, Naomi learns that love is more than possible. 'A Honeybee Christmas' by Jennifer Beckstrand: Bitsy Kiem made sacrifices in order to raise her three nieces Amish, so now that the girls are married, she's ready to return to her Englisch life--unless widowed Yost Weaver can convince her that Plain love is a flame that will never go out. 'The Christmas Candle' by Lisa Jones Baker: Blessing those in need at Christmastime is one of Lydia's favorite traditions. But without her sister's help this year, the task seems daunting--that is, until a handsome Mennonite shows her that hands joined to do good may also unite hearts. 2017.
There's no safety in numbers. Eve Singer needs death. With her career as a TV crime reporter flagging, she'll do…
anything to satisfy her ghoulish audience. The killer needs death too. He even advertises his macabre public performances, where he hopes to show the whole world the beauty of dying. When he contacts Eve, she welcomes the chance to be first with the news from every gory scene. Until she realizes that the killer has two obsessions. One is public murder. And the other one is her. 2016.
When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris…
to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne. And when they learn an ancient treasure is promised to any assassin who succeeds, they realize the entire royal family is at stake—as well as their own lives. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2018 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. 2017.
Reading body language is a gateway to understanding why people act the way they do. It's not just a matter…
of understanding their true emotions but also of identifying their true motivation. The authors share their highly successful READ (Review, Evaluate, Analyze, Decide) system of understanding body language, but with an exciting twist: they give you the skills to use READ to see what's behind those eye movements, gestures, and twitches, the skills to go inside the head of your source! Why stop at "what" when you can go all the way to "why"--the driving force behind the actions; discover how to get past your filters so you aren't tricked by your own misperceptions; and learn how to apply the skills in business and in your personal life. 2017.
Determined to save the family estates, Alexander, the new Laird of Kinfairlie, decides to auction off his sister Madeline's hand…
in marriage, never expecting his headstrong sister's reluctance to be 'sold' or her fierce refusal to accept her proposed bridegroom, the notorious Rhys Fitzhenry. 2016.
A deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a…
Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. 2016.
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction--pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading…
his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain or assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain could have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers grows into an addiction to vodka, marijuana, and Percodan. Sequel to "Zuckerman unbound", followed by "The Prague orgy". 2016.
A collection of three novellas from New York Times bestselling writer Jim Harrison, in which an aging Montana-based writer copes…
with an unplanned litter of piglets, a woman attempts to have a child late in life, and Detective Sunderson investigates a cult involved in mysterious activity at the zoo. 2016. Ancient minstrel -- Eggs -- The case of the howling buddhas. Uniform title: Short stories.
Prince Stefano Giorgio Paolo is the kind of man most women only dream of marrying. And now the very handsome…
- and very eligible - bachelor has arrived in America to search for a bride. A bride not to be. Hope Jordan's prince has finally come - but there's no happy ending in sight. Her royal suitor needs a wealthy wife to save his country from ruin. And Hope has nothing to offer Stefano - except her love. A dutiful marriage? Hope Jordan is the first woman to capture Stefano's heart - but can he give up his kingdom for love? For Hope? 2015.
Whether we're striving for a new job, a higher salary, or a better relationship, Dennis Merritt Jones explains that we…
all essentially want the same thing: freedom, inner peace, and a life filled with purpose and meaning. He argues that a life of wholeness and peaceful satisfaction is readily available to us--we just need the eyes to see it and the faith to claim it. The problem is that most people don't know where to look for such a life. This book will help readers open their eyes to the limitless abundance that lies waiting just beyond their current belief system. Jones identifies ten rules or practices that, when followed faithfully, lay the foundation for a life worth living. In order to make each rule as easy to apply as possible, Jones lays out the premise, the problem, the principle, the practice, and the payoff of each. The "Abundance Rules" assist readers in creating a greater flow of goodness into their lives--in ways they may have never considered. 2018.