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Princess Sophia and the Sparkling Surprise (Tiara Club)
by Vivian FrenchEvery Princess has to make her own ball gown, but Princess Perfecta is determined to spoil the gowns and ruin the evening's surprise. Hopefully, Princess Sophia can show her what a true Perfect Princess is.
Princess Emily and the Substitute Fairy (Tiara Club)
by Vivian FrenchPrincess Emily is delighted when a new Fairy Godmother arrives at the Princess Academy. Fairy Angora can grant the girls special wishes, but her magic creates some unexpected surprises!
Princess Daisy and the Dazzling Dragon (Tiara Club)
by Vivian FrenchPrincess Daisy is terrified when she hears that a real dragon is being brought into the Princess Academy. Will her friends think she is a scaredycat?
Princess Charlotte and the Birthday Ball (Tiara Club)
by Vivian FrenchOn her first day at the Princess Academy, Princess Charlotte inadvertently causes an accident that ruins the dresses of her new roommates, and unless something can be done none of them will be able to attend the much anticipated Birthday Ball.
Princess Katie and the Silver Pony (Tiara Club)
by Vivian FrenchEveryone at the Princess Academy takes Wish Class. Princess Katie and her friends must use their wishes wisely--but watch out for horrible Princess Perfecta; she has other ideas!
To Renew America
by Newt GingrichWith characteristic bluntness, the Speaker of the House describes where he believes the country should go and how such monumental goals can be achieved, relating not only to the formative events of his own political career but also to key elements of his vision of America's future.
The Case Of The Flying Phantom (The New Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley)
by Melinda MetzAshley and Mary-Kate are having a terrific time on a family vacation in Washington, D. C. They especially like spending time at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. But during their visit, the famous Wright Brothers' plane starts to tremble--and spooky voices float down from the cockpit! Could there be a ghost in the machine? Mary-Kate and Ashley are on the case!
Don Quixote (Wishbone Classics)
by Michael Burgan Miguel De CervantesCervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire, Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons and even computer games.
Blueheart
by Alison SinclairThe endless seas... Of all the worlds discovered by star-wandering humanity, Blueheart, with its endless, storm-tossed seas is the most beautiful. And the most doomed. Plans are already being made to terraform the planet into another Earth. But deep under the floating forests, the renegade Adaptives--the planet's first colonists--have another dream: the creation of a new aquatic human subspecies. As their struggle erupts into violence, Rache is called back to the seas, where he must choose between his humanity and his world.
The Eleventh Commandment
by Jeffrey ArcherConnor CIA assassin. Days before his retirement from the company, comes face-to-face with an enemy who, for the first time, even he cannot handle!
Civility: Manners, Morals, And The Etiquette Of Democracy
by Stephen L. CarterIn this followup toIntegrity,Yale law professor Stephen Carter continues to meditate upon the "prepolitical" qualities on which a healthy society is based.Why do people show poorer manners today than in previous ages? How did we come to confuse rudeness with self-expression and acting on our "rights"? Carter looks at these and other important questions with a combination of his personal experiences and an extremely long shelf of reading material, all the while maintaining an informal writing style that continuallybut politelyengages the reader, inviting him or her to think about these issues along with Carter.There are important messages here about generosity and trust, about respecting diversity and dissent, and about resolving conflict through dialogue rather than mandate. Stephen Carter would never be so uncivil as to demand your attention, butCivilitymost definitely compels.
How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
by Slavenka Drakulic"I clearly remember when it all began. Just before he retired, a journalist colleague returned from the Austria-Hungary border in mid-September 1989, crying with excitement. 'East Germans are crossing the border by the thousand. I didn't think I would ever live to see this!' Neither did I. That is how you are trained...to fear change, so that when change eventually begins to take place, you are suspicious, afraid...because every change...was always for the worse." excerpt from Introduction.
Strange Fruit: The Biography Of A Song
by David MargolickRecorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South. Originally sung in New York's Cafe Society, these revolutionary lyrics take on a life of their own in this revealing account of the song and the struggle it personified. Strange Fruit not only chronicles the civil rights movement from the '30s on, it examines the lives of the beleaguered Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, the white Jewish schoolteacher and communist sympathizer who wrote the song that would have an impact on generations of fans, black and white, unknown and famous, including performers Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, and Sting.
Anna and the King of Siam
by Margaret LandonHistorical fiction about the young Welsh governess who changed the course of Siamese (Thai) history. The book that the play and film 'The King and I' were based on.
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron RosenbaumDocuments a variety of authors' takes on the reasons behinds Hitler's actions.
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
by Peter Duffy<p>In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running or giving in to despair, these brothers - Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski - fought back, waging a guerrilla war of wits against the Nazis. <p>By using their intimate knowledge of the dense forests surrounding the Belarusan towns of Novogrudek and Lida, the Bielskis evaded the Nazis and established a hidden base camp, then set about convincing other Jews to join their ranks. As more and more Jews arrived each day, a robust community began to emerge, a "Jerusalem in the woods." <p>After two and a half years in the woods, in July 1944, the Bielskis learned that the Germans, overrun by the Red Army, were retreating back toward Berlin. More than one thousand Bielski Jews emerged - alive - on that final, triumphant exit from the woods.</p>
Integrity
by Stephen L. CarterIn this book, Stephen Carter examines why the virtue of integrity holds such sway over the American political imagination. By weaving together insights from philosophy, theology, history and law, along with examples drawn from current events and a dose of personal experience, Carter offers a vision of integrity that has implications for everything from marriage and politics to professional football. He discusses the difficulties involved in trying to legislate integrity as well as the possibilities for teaching it.
Using Terri: The Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights
by Jon B. EisenbergThe Terri Schiavo case centerred around the removal of a feeding tube from a dying woman. Eisenberg, who served as one of the lead attorneys on Michael Schiavo's side, asserts that the Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over abortion, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, gay rights, and the appointment of federal judges. The religious Right chose to make it a national spectacle because they thought they could win. They were wrong. But there are many more battles to come. Jon Eisenberg, who served as one of the lead attorneys on Michael Schiavo's side, exposes the religious Right's strategies and follows the money trail to reveal how they are organized, who is funding the movement, and where we can expect future legal maneuvers to combat the American traditions of autonomy and freedom. Jon Eisenberg has experienced the family struggle of removing a feeding tube from a loved one and witnessed firsthand the Florida drama that will continue to have national legal and political consequences for years to come. What tactics can we expect to see in courtrooms and state legislatures all across this country in the days ahead? Who is behind the funding and what do they hope to accomplish and when? What are the religious and bioethical issues that are at the center of these debates and how will they affect future legal battles? Using Terri gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what happened -- and what's coming. Author Info. Jon B. Eisenberg teaches appellate procedure at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
Somebody's Gotta Say It
by Neal BoortzRants on a variety of topics such as voters, Euro-wimps, the government school system and the minimum wage by the long-time talk radio host
The Reagan Diaries
by Ronald Reagan Douglas BrinkleyReagan's diary while he was the American President from 1981 to 1989.
One Soldier's Story: A Memoir
by Bob DoleA memoir detailing Bob Dole's entry into the army and his time serving before a German shell blast damages his spine and shoulder. His three years of recovery are detailed here.
1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI
by Peter LanceA journalist explores how the FBI overlooked opportunities to stop the 9-11 terrorist attacks. His conclusions are based upon interviews and declassified documents.
Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge
by Thomas FlemingThe secret war of the title was Washington's fight--while staving off the collapse of his army at Valley Forge--to identify and outmaneuver the political enemies who thought it was time to replace him with a more reliable and experienced general. Fleming, a longtime scholar of the Revolutionary War, thought he would be writing about the stubborn endurance of the American soldiers that winter. Instead he gleaned from his research a more personal story, revealing a new side of Washington--usually portrayed as a man who transcended politics: "He was a good politician in every sense of the word....He had to out think the conspirators who sought to destroy him and persuade others to out vote the congressional ideologues whose wrongheaded policies were the source of the Continental Army's woes." Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Andrew Jackson
by Robert V. ReminiProfessor Remini, already a recognized authority on the Jacksonian period, has written the best biography of Andrew Jackson available. It summarizes adequately the best of the old scholarship while at the same time branching off to offer significant new interpretations of crucial points.
Cover Up: What The Government Is Still Hiding About The War On Terror
by Peter LanceEver since 9/11, investigative reporter Peter Lance has been leading the fight to expose the intelligence gaps that led to 9/11. Now, in the follow-up to his bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge, he returns with devastating new evidence that the government has been covering up its own counterterror failures since the mid-1990s -- and continues today. In Cover Up, Lance shows how the government chose again and again to sacrifice America's national security for personal motives and political convenience. In its first half, he unveils shattering new evidence that terror mastermind Ramzi Yousef ordered the bombing of TWA 800 from his prison cell in order to effect a mistrial in his own terror bombing case. Astonishingly, the FBI was alerted to Yousef's plans in advance by a prison informant who even passed along his detailed sketch of a bomb-trigger device -- a document seen here for the first time. And Lance reveals the shocking reason the Justice Department suddenly ruled the crash anaccident despite overwhelming evidence of the bombing -- throwing away its best chance to penetrate the cell that was already planning 9/11. And the outrage doesn't stop there. In Part II, Lance offers an unofficial "minority report" on the 9/11 Commission, critiquing it as the incomplete, highly politicized "Warren Commission of our time." He explores potential conflicts of interest among its members, from the staff director who wrote a book with Condoleezza Rice, to the former Clinton deputy attorney general who participated in a critical meeting that upended the TWA probe. He exposes the report's false contention that the 9/11 plan was conceived in 1996, when the FBI had knowledge that the plot was in motion as early as 1994. And, in a heart-stopping, minute-by-minute chronicle of the attacks, he asks dozens of unanswered questions about the defense failures of that day -- from why fighter jets weren't scrambled for almost an hour after the hijackings, to why the president and several of his top military advisers remained virtually incommunicado for more than half an hour after it was clear that America was under attack. At a time when America feels no safer than ever, Cover Up will lend new eyes to readers who want the full story behind the 9/11 attacks -- and inspire us all to keep demanding the truth.