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Boy Scouts in Mexico
By G. Harvey Ralphson.
The Self-Tracking
By Gina Neff, Dawn Nafus. 2014
People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today,…
people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, looking at the tools they use and the communities they become part of. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what happens when people turn their everyday experience -- in particular, health and wellness-related experience -- into data, and offer an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of using these technologies. They consider self-tracking as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind of mirror of the self but also how this enables people to connect to, and learn from, others.Neff and Nafus consider what's at stake: who wants our data and why; the practices of serious self-tracking enthusiasts; the design of commercial self-tracking technology; and how self-tracking can fill gaps in the healthcare system. Today, no one can lead an entirely untracked life. Neff and Nafus show us how to use data in a way that empowers and educates.All Night Long
By Janelle Denison. 2002
Cap'n Eri
By Joseph C. Lincoln.
Scent to Kill: A Natural Remedies Mystery
By Chrystle Fiedler. 2013
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO SOLVING CRIME? AT THE NATURE'S WAY MARKET AND CAFÉ, A GENTLE TOUCH, A DOSE OF AROMATIC…
HERBS, FRESH EVIDENCE, AND INSPIRED INVESTIGATING ARE THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS TO CATCHING A KILLER! When naturopathic doctor and shop owner Willow McQuade's ex-boyfriend Simon Lewis invites her to a party for the cast and crew of a new television show at Long Island's scenic Bixby Estate, she's most excited to visit the property's exclusive lavender farm. But a whole field of her favorite stress-reducing herb can't provide enough soothing support to calm the effects of a murder! Even the show's psychic star didn't predict the demise of Roger Bixby, the estate's owner and estranged husband of Simon's new girlfriend. Now Simon, who's been collared by police, needs Willow's help to remedy the situation. As Willow snoops about the mansion, offering natural cures to ease the mounting tension, a strange energy--and the discovery of an eerily similar unsolved murder decades earlier--makes her wonder whether the alternative source of the crime might actually be . . . supernatural. Can she find harmony between mind, body, and possibly even spirits before somebody else goes up in smoke?Another Man's Baby
By Kay Stockham. 2008
Garret Tulane is Darcy Rhodes's personal knight in shining armor. Not only did he rescue her from being stranded in…
the middle of a snowstorm, but he's also given her a place to stay. His close family ties and his caring support create the secure home life she wants to give her unborn child. That security is an illusion, however. Despite the growing closeness between Darcy and Garret, she knows he has obligations and commitments that don't include her--or another man's baby. But feeling as she does, when the time comes, will she be able to walk away?Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
By Franklin Hichborn.
Slocum #402
By Jake Logan. 2012
DEPUTY DANGER With his dying words, a sheriff tells Slocum to find the men who shot him. Though he’s never…
been too partial to the law, Slocum accepts the mission—and even the deputy’s badge that goes with it. Finding the bad men in Spencer Flats, Slocum takes stock of the situation. Rob Bensonn is a mean, nasty killer—but Slocum’s dealt with characters like him before. What he’s never seen before is a man with the shooting skills of Far Eye Abernathy. Going up against Far Eye won’t be easy…and the third man in that rag tag gang may be even worse. .Virgin with Butterflies
By Tom Powers. 2009
She's a smooth blonde with enough real glamour not to need makeup--especially when she's in tight white satin. She's honest…
and sort of naive, but she knows how to get a man or get rid of a wolf. She's a cigarette girl in a spot just off Chicago's loop, but she's about to start really going places. As she goes, she collects an Indian raja, an amorous sheikh and a mysterious gentleman reputed to be the Rockefeller of Burma. These gents are after something, chasing the gal around the world to get it, and it ain't hay. That's where her butterflies come in--they flutter hard, warning her when she's scared or propositioned, and they're working overtime. Effectively?--read the book and find out.Andersonville, Volume 2
By John Mcelroy.
Getting Red-Hot with the Rogue
By Ally Blake. 2009
Dylan Kelly: a wicked rogue and hotshot businessman who makes men stand to attention and women weak in the knees....Wynnie…
Devereaux: a clever, beautiful, but slightly ditzy girl, whom Dylan leaves feeling flustered and frustrated--in more ways than one....The fierce tycoon and the erstwhile protester shouldn't get along--yet sparks of desire fly between them. But will Wynnie get burnt when she gets red-hot with this untamable rogue?Vanished
By Wil S. Hylton. 2013
In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a…
trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow waterbut when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn't there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U. S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. They trolled the water with side-scan sonar, conducted grid searches on the seafloor, crawled through thickets of mangrove and poison trees, and flew over the islands in small planes to shoot infrared photography. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II. .Scot on the Rocks
By Brenda Janowitz. 2007
Manhattan attorney Brooke Miller plans to attend her ex-boyfriend's wedding with her sexy Scottish Rfianc. S When a fight leaves…
her without a boyfriend, a desperate Brooke concocts an outrageous plan in which she asks her coworker to don a kilt and pose as her Scottish ex. Original.Gabriel Hunt - Hunt Among the Killers of Men
By David J. Schow. 2014
From the towers of Manhattan to the jungles of South America, from the sands of the Sahara to the frozen…
crags of Antarctica, one man finds adventure everywhere he goes: GABRIEL HUNT. Backed by the resources of the $100 million Hunt Foundation and armed with his trusty Colt revolver, Gabriel Hunt has always been ready for anything--but is he prepared for the adventures that lie in wait for him?The Morcai Battalion: The Recruit
By Susan Kyle. 2009
A prophecy foretold. . . Three years after the unprovoked attack on a peaceful colony, the war between the Rojok…
dynasty and the Tri-Galaxy Fleet rages on. Born of that war is the Morcai Battalion, a fleet comprised of Centaurians and humans--the first collaboration of its kind and a step toward an intergalactic alliance. But the fragile union is tested as their courageous Commander in Chief, Dtimun, is faced with the temptation of the forbidden--and human--Dr. Madeline Ruszel. A combat surgeon, Ruszel is aware of the danger of inciting a Centaurian's interest, even if he is the most intriguing of men. Besides putting their mission at risk, personal relations between their kinds are still outlawed. But a prophecy that touches on both their lives and the future of all alien nations hints that a greater unity may be theirs for the taking. . . if they, and their crew, survive in the battle for peace.The Beldonald Holbein
By Henry James.
La visión de Endimión
By Patrice Martinez, Julieta Rodríguez Orvañanos. 2016
Veretti's Dark Vengeance
By Lucy Gordon. 2009
Arrogant Italian nobleman Salvatore Veretti is furious to hear that a young, beautiful model has inherited the company that was…
rightfully his. Clearly she's after the family gold! Salvatore will heartlessly reclaim what he's owed--and he'll show this impudent female just how out of her depth she is. But after meeting naively determined Helena, Salvatore changes tactics. . . . No longer satisfied with throwing her out of the business, he'll take his vengeance between the sheets!Rita Moreno: Memorias
By Rita Moreno. 2013
En esta lúcida autobiografía, Rita Moreno nos hace partícipes de su extraordinario periplo desde los sencillos inicios de su temprana…
niñez en Puerto Rico hasta que se convirtió en una leyenda de Hollywood y en una de las pocas artistas, y la única hispana, que ha ganado un Oscar, un Grammy, un Tony, y dos Emmy. A la edad de cinco años, Rosita Dolores Alverio, nacida en la idílica isla de Puerto Rico, se embarcó en una borrascosa travesía por mar con su madre, que la llevó hasta los turbulentos barrios del Bronx, donde descubrió que la danza, el canto y la actuación serían el escape de su accidentada niñez. A sus trece años, debutó en Broadway y poco después, en los años dorados de la meca del cine, se trasladó a Hollywood donde trabajó junto a estrellas de la talla de Gary Cooper, Yul Brynner, y Ann Miller. Cuando fue descubierta por Louis B. Mayer de MGM, el propio magnate declaró: Ella parece una Elizabeth Taylor hispana”. Gene Kelly la eligió para interpretar el papel de Zelda Zanders en Singin’ in the Rain, que la lanzó a la fama y a su actuación ganadora del Oscar, en West Side Story. Pero durante mucho tiempo Moreno fue encasillada en el estereotipo de versátil nativa” un rol que le fue casi imposible eludir. Aquí, por primera vez Rita reflexiona sobre su prolongada lucha por superar las barreras raciales y sexuales de Hollywood. Estudia a fondo la vulnerable jovencita que ocultaba su glamorosa fachada y cuánto le costó encontrar su lugar en el mundo. Habla con franqueza de su relación con Elvis Presley, de sus encuentros con Howard Hughes, y del apasionado romance con Marlon Brando que la llevó hasta un intento de suicidio. Y nos enseña los bemoles de un matrimonio perfecto” y las incomparables alegrías de la maternidad. Impregnada del brillante desparpajo y la profunda perspicacia de Rita Moreno, esta autobiografía es el deslumbrante retrato de una estrella del teatro y el cine que anhelaba convertirse en lo que realmente es ella. . . y lo logró. .Laurel: The Year I Turned Sixteen
By Diane Schwemm. 2010
Laurel takes her sisters--Rose, Daisy, and Lily--for granted, and she thinks nothing can go wrong. But when tragedy strikes, it…
feels like her family is falling apart, and she needs somewhere to turn. Luckily, there's Jack...