A historical thriller set in August 1889. A man lays dead in a darkened construction site near Manhattan's Madison Square Park. The murderer, Jim Tupper, a Mohawk Indian, flees back to the vast Adirondack wilderness. But he has left a trail of death behind pointing North, straight to where Detective Tom Braddock and his family are vacationing.
"Friday Night Chicas" is a collection of four flirty novellas that explore dating, marriage, friendship, and sex, through the eyes of four Latina women. "Friday Night in L.A" by Mary Castillo, "Friday Night in South Beach" by Caridad Peneiro, "Friday Night in Chicago" by Berta Platas, and "Friday Night in New York City" by Sofia Quintero.
Based on interviews with women across a social spectrum, the author has discovered that the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it is covert. She tells us: why women can't and won't admit to rivalry; how women are trained from an early age to compete with one another; and, in which areas women most heatedly compete.
Lydia Meadows, a former lawyer turned full-time mother, is startled to discover that her daughter Erin is one of the popular girls, a tight foursome whose mothers are also great friends. But Erin is kind and well-adjusted. Maybe this popularity thing won't be so bad after all.
Assigned the duties of military attache to the American ambassador in Korea, World War II marine colonel James Cromwell finds himself in the throes of the dramatic First Hundred Days of the Korean War. By the author of Warning of War and The Marines of Autumn. 75,000 first printing.
Crafts the dramatic story of the 1999 US Open by combining research with interviews of those who made it a unique event. From the compelling action on the course to the tournament's dramatic conclusion, this book shows readers why the 1999 US Open is regarded by many as the best US Open ever played.
Provides parents, teachers, counsellors and other concerned adults with the information and tools that they need to help shy and socially anxious kids. This book also offers information on problems that can go along with social anxiety, including depression, school anxiety, separation anxiety, excessive worry, selective mutism, and more.
Learn How to Make Any Occasion Shine!Have you ever attended a party so clever it had you talking for days? Or received an invitation that made you feel like royalty? Were you ever given a gift so "you" that you never forgot it? Make It Memorable is an A to Z thematically organized resource for making the most of every special occasion and highlighting the little things in life. From anniversaries and birthdays through weddings and zero-cost ideas, it includes: - It was a very good year! For a special anniversary, select bottles of wine with vintages from special years for the couple---the year they met, the year they married, etc.- A blast from the past! For a memorable birthday for an old friend, rent a limo and take a tour down memory lane---past the birthday girl''s high school, first house, etc., reminiscing as you go. - Love is in bloom! For a garden party shower theme, have each guest bring a plant. Distribute the plants around the room to create your own greenhouse atmosphere for the bride. - A to-do bag just for you! For a get-well present, create a to-do bag filled with things your friend can do while recuperating. You can include everything from favorite missed shows on videotape to assorted magazines and goodies.- Plus fabulous favors, inviting invitations, party ideas, dazzling centerpieces, memorable gifts, unforgettable weddings, and much more! Gift-giving expert Robyn Spizman has packed Make It Memorable with the most creative ideas under the sun for enlivening every party, event, and occasion with a touch of pizzazz.
In a moving and bittersweet story, M.J. Andersen chronicles her childhood and adolescence in South Dakota, her departure to forge her own life, and her persistent longing for the landscape she left behind. Her hometown, given the fictional name of Plainville, is so quiet that one local family regularly parks by the tracks to watch the train pass through. Yet small-town life and, especially, the prairie prove to be fertile ground for Andersen's imagination. Exploring subjects as seemingly unrelated as Roy Rogers and Tolstoy's beloved Anna Karenina, she repeatedly locates a transcendent connection with South Dakota's broad horizon.Andersen introduces us to her hardworking newspaper family, which produces one of Plainville's two competing weeklies; to Job's Daughters, a Christian association intended to prepare young women for adversity (Plainville's chapter assumes the added responsibility of throwing the town's best teen dances); and even to a local variety of hardy alfalfa, to which her best friend has a surprising kinship.Leaving behind her physical home, Andersen travels East for college, remaining to begin a journalism career. With her husband she eventually settles into her first house, a beautiful Victorian that, though loved, somehow does not feel like home in the way she had anticipated. Through subsequent travels, memories, and a meditation on Tolstoy's complex relationship to his ancestral home, she arrives at a new idea of what home is -- one that should resonate with every American who has ever had to pull up stakes.
Demonstrates that slow cookers are useful and ingenious year-round appliances, perfect not just for the soups and stews of winter, but for spring potlucks at school and big family picnics in summer. This book includes not just main dishes, but also appetizers and side dishes.
In the 1990s, two series of shots containing a mercury-based preservative called Thimerosal were added to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule. Some parents noticed their healthy children suddenly descending into autism soon after receiving vaccinations. This book explores both sides of this controversy.
A detailed memoir of an extraordinary young man by a close friend. the author was a freshmen at Brown when he met JFK, Jr. Although he came from a privileged background, it was worlds apart from the glamorous life of the son of the late President and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Robert Bruce was Scotland's greatest king ever. The Bruce, as he was known, was crowned King of Scots in 1306, a time when the ancient kingdom of Scotland was under English occupation. When King Robert began his reign, his first two battles were losses. Yet from 1307-1313, The Bruce won battle after battle.
"This book is for real, because Libby is for real," states legendary strategist Dr. Phil McGraw in his foreword to TRAVELING HOPEFULLY. With courage and candor, Libby reveals the real issues of her life--molestation, suicide, and mental illness--and shares her hard-earned insights on how her tragic family legacy shaped her life in negative ways.She shifted her perspective from limiting to liberating, shedding those recurring themes and dramatically transforming her past. With a process she calls Five Steps to Jumpstart Your Life, Libby explains how others can rewrite their stories, as she did, to create more joy and fulfillment.The 21 Hopeful Tools are easy to follow exercises and examples that take the reader through a transformative process, teaching how to:*dissect the past to direct the future*link internal clarity with external action*create a Traveling Hopefully personal roadmap*choose positive Travel Companions to support and inspire you*keep moving toward what is wanted and away from what no longer servesFilled with personal stories and those of others, TRAVELING HOPEFULLY inspires change--how to become a doer rather than a dreamer.
The FBI that Freeh took over was still reeling from the bloody standoff at Ruby Ridge and the conflagration at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texa. This work follows Freeh through his disputes with Clinton, National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, and others over indictments against the senior Iranian officials behind the Khobar bombing.
Sophie Quinn has always lived in Washington, DC, but now she finds herself in Portland, Maine for a year. With the pipes freezing-inside the house. And a husband who seems to have his eye on a hiking-booted LLBean femme fatale. Not to mention the mother-in-law from hell who never fails to let her know that she leaves much to be desired.
Focuses on two teenage sisters struggling to carve out their identities as young adults, taking risks and undergoing disturbing transformations that go unchallenged by their emotionally absent parents. In the vein of "American Beauty", this book offers a glimpse into the world of a family in crisis.
Features scores of fresh interviews, including one with the session musicians from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, who recorded with Aretha Franklin. This title is the story of a great artistic achievement. It's also a biography of a star who is both more complex and determined than her modern image as a diva indicates.
Abby has turned thirteen - a real teenager who only wants to pierce her ears, have a boyfriend and run her own life. But when her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Abby faces a life far from what she hoped for.
One man believes Linda Bascomb was murdered. A second believes she took her own life. The first is her husband, Warren, an aging surgeon who has lost his medical license because of his morphine addiction. The second is her son, Ben, a husband and father who struggles every day to remain sober and avoid bankruptcy.Warren has entered into an arrangement with his son that has since kept Ben financially afloat and Warren supplied with morphine. Ben's wife, Emma, desperately seeks to distance her husband from Warren before their relationship destroys her family. Opposing her efforts is Victor Javier, the mastermind of the arrangement, an immigrant whose cruelty masks a hope for his mother's deliverance. Though Linda Bascomb was once the true connection between Warren and Ben, her memory becomes the specter that polarizes them. As the pain of unresolved history accumulates, their embittered agreement collapses, and in the process destroys one life, changes another forever, and drives both from the emotional and chemical shelters in which they hide. In the inevitable reckoning, Ben and Warren are forced to acknowledge the power the dead exert on the living, the elusive nature of redemption, and the ways the things we lose define us. Sometimes shocking, always incisive, Keith Dixon's brilliant debut novel is a harsh but compassionate portrayal of love and need. Set on the emotionally bleak outskirts of New York City, Ghostfires, with stylistic power and psychological precision, lays bare a corrupt American dream-and a family with scores to settle.
In the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling a family is torn apart when two sisters fall in love with the same man. Forbidden love, family relationships, jealousies and surprising twists reveal the extent to which family honour in India still plays an important role.
In the wake of Viagra's enormous popularity, the international market has been inundated by a blizzard of purported natural sex enhancers. Some of these products are nothing but hype, yet others contain proven agents that enhance libido, improve sexual function, and increase pleasure. These bona fide sex-boosters can be found in Hot Plants.From the ancient rainforests of Malaysia, to remote mountains in Siberia, medicine hunter Chris Kilham has scoured the globe in search of effective, sex-enhancing plants. Hot Plants, Nature's Proven Sex Boosters For Men And Women, contains a lively account of those adventurous travels, with valuable information that you can use to boost your sex life. These natural agents of desire include Tongkat Ali, maca, yohimbe, catuaba, ashwagandha, horny goat weed, zallouh root, Rhodiola rosea, Red ginseng, Siberian ginseng and chocolate. Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham draws upon history, legend and keen research, as he weaves tales of remarkable people, exotic locations, and his extensive investigations into the science and uses of the hot plants. Learn which plants increase libido in both men and women, improve erectile function in men, put more fire into your sex life, and significantly boost your pleasure.
A husband-and-wife psychologist team uses case histories and examples from their own relationship to show how the differences between men and women can be turned into the source of the most romantic intimacy, and how to keep lovemaking and romance alive for a lifetime. Reprint.
Tess McDonald is running the show. Nikki Howard has what she thinks is the greatest job in the world. Kim Sheppard is at the pinnacle of corporate success. Then Tess loses her business. Nikki is convicted of a crime. Kim is accused of corporate theft. But fate truly intercedes when they meet in of all places - their doctor's office.
A medical emergency leaves desperate newlywed Gary with a very sick wife, a new baby, a mountain of bills - and no job. He is forced to make a difficult choice as he calls on his estranged sister-in-law, forcing long-buried emotions to come out, and saving his marriage and their lives.
Almost 29, Michael Hughes believes she is almost out of time to find the love that will make her dreams come true. Her craving for love is matched only by her obsession with finding 'the one', the perfect mate. Will Eddie Matsen fit the bill? It seems that things are finally going to change for Michael.
Set in a wealthy community in Northern Michigan, this novel tells the story of nine-year-old Symone who is mysteriously adopted by the Hustons, after her mother dies of a drug overdose.
Biotech companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In this text, Bill Lambrecht investigates how genetic engineering is changing what we eat, how we live and the global politics of food.
A true-life glimpse of the dangerous work regularly performed by the US Coast Guard Search and Rescue service. This is an account of the rescue of the fishing crew from the "La Conte" as it sank off the coast of Alaska in 90-foot seas, one January night in 1998.
Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock and got rid of cheating husbands. This is an exploration of the careers and lives of female stars such as Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Mae West.
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