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Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with…
the people who live there, Winchester offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex issues at work in this chaotic region. 2001.
Discusses the 1507 Waldseemüller map - the first to designate America - which is in the collections of and displayed…
by the Library of Congress. Traces the overlapping voyages, some geographical and some intellectual, that brought about the map’s revolutionary depiction of the world. 2009.
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her…
aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better. Grades 5-8. 2008.
Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where…
intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. When his mother, Silvia, suddenly marries an Okie building contractor named Cloyd Longpre, they are uprooted to a small apartment building, Los Flores - the Flowers. As Sonny sweeps its sidewalks, he meets his neighbours and becomes ensnared in their lives. 2008.
Caleb Yoder’s father forbids him to court Nellie Mae Fisher because her family has left the Old Order Amish church…
for the New Order. Nellie tries to figure out a way she can have both salvation in Jesus and a relationship with Caleb. Sequel to “The Parting”. Followed by “The longing”. 2008.
Fortysomething sportswriter Jack Brannon is bored to tears with the men's tour. So he decides to check out Ginger Clayton,…
the hot, new franchise babe on the ladies' links. Things get interesting in a hurry, as it becomes clear somebody wants the gorgeous superstar disqualified for good. 2008.
The love story of rodeo promoter Guy Weadick and trick roper Flores LaDue began among the rough-and-tumble vaudevillians who preserved…
the frontier way of life in the first Wild West shows. Their love endured through North American performances in the small-time and big-time circuits, to the audiences of Europe, and culminated in 1912 with the most spectacular of accomplishments - the establishment of the greatest outdoor show on earth, the Calgary Stampede. c2011.
"The first lady" is the tale of a preacher's wife who learns she's dying and vows to find her husband…
another woman. There is no shortage of ladies who want her man, but will she be able to find a suitable replacement among the conniving church women? 2007.
Rae's life falls apart when her father dies of cancer and her mother joins a religious cult. The only person…
who understands Rae is local bad girl Didi, who is experiencing a similar loss. Both girls fall in love with handsome flamenco guitarist Tomas Montenegro, whose aunt teaches at the university's flamenco academy. Rae and Didi take the class and become obsessed with the dance. In time, their love triangle plays out on an international stage, when Rae, Didi, and Tomas becoming the rising stars of flamenco. 2007.
Years before she became the celebrated speaker and Unity minister she is today, Edwene Gaines was raising her daughter in…
abject poverty. Overwhelmed and terrified, she turned toward her faith for reassurance, sustenance, and direction. As she began to follow the four spiritual laws of prosperity her life turned around and today she lives a life of once unimaginable luxury. This straightforward guide lays it all out for her listeners in a way that can change anyone's consciousness. 2006.
If you've just begun a new career in management, or if you'd like a new, refreshing approach to your job,…
Watkins gives practical advice for anyone looking to climb the business ladder. Through Watkins' four-fold study of the problems managers encounter, you'll learn how to establish yourself within the first 90 days in order to move quickly along the path to success. 2006.
Invited to lecture in America, von Igelfeld envisions a visit to California or New York. Instead, he finds himself at…
the University of Arkansas. Still, in von Igelfeld's view, one American state is very like the other. An expert philologist, von Igelfeld prepares to deliver a talk on verbs, until he makes a grim discovery - he has been mistaken for a German master of veterinary science who has recently passed away. 2004.
After discovering that her husband has lost all of their money and left her broke, Bonnie Duke Cullman is abandoning…
her comfortable life in Atlanta to teach at a community college in rural Alabama. Ruth Elkin just lost her sewing job at the Cherished Lady factory, and now she must attend college classes to get back on track. The two women's lives become intertwined, and together they survive the ups and downs of small town life. 2003.
Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching toward peace, and in the streets of Rome,…
strange new creatures have appeared: thousands of Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through a crack in the Iron Curtain. Among them are the Krasnansky family: Samuil, an old communist and Red Army veteran; Karl, his eldest son, a man eager to embrace the opportunities emigration affords; his younger son, Alec, a carefree playboy for whom life has always been a game; and Polina, Alec's new wife, who has risked the most by breaking with her old family to join this new one. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2011.
Walker & Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Its…
Friday Night Knitting Club is improvised by some of Georgia's regulars, who stroll into the shop looking for tips on knitting and end up finding much, much more. So now, once a week, they gather to work on their latest projects and to chat - and occasionally clash - over their stories of love, life, and everything in between. Some strong language. 2007.
Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate…
the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits. 2008. (Win Garano novels ; 2)
It's the start of winter, and Patrick is beginning to feel crowded out of his own family. His father's friend,…
Linda, and her seven-year-old daughter, Claire, are coming for dinner again. By the time spring arrives, not only is Patrick's father planning to marry Linda, but she and Claire will be coming to live with them at the summer's end. That just won’t do. So Patrick comes up with a big idea. He'll build a tree house where he can stretch out his arms and breathe. Grades 3-6. 2013.
This book claims that a new dimension of living awaits you. It aims to guide you to: a creative way…
of life; a world of answered prayer; dynamic faith and true communion with God. 1979.
John Amherst, clever, idealistic and poor, is assistant manager of a cotton mill and has the makings of a working-class…
leader. He meets a young nurse, Justine, a woman who shares his aims and dreams. But Amherst is fatally distracted when he encounters a widow of great wealth: Bessy is charming and beautiful - and the new owner of the mill. 1984.
Mary has been happily married to Jonathan for seven years, but he cannot father a child. He wants to do…
anything he can to make her feel fulfilled - even if it means giving her to his own brother. Mary is torn. Can the infidelity be justified, and what consequences will it bring? 1989.