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Yard Sale: A Mud Flat Story
by James StevensonSimsbury is sitting under his favorite tree when a red chair and an accordion pass by, prompting him to get up and take a look at the Mud Flat Yard Sale.
Xenocide (Ender's Game #3)
by Orson Scott CardThe war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered eh destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitble.
X-Treme Latin: Lingua Latina Extrema
by Henry BeardEverything you'll need to say in Latin for hipsters, party animals, slackers, pop-culture junkies, the corporately downsized and generally disaffected
X-Men: The Last Stand
by Chris ClaremontThe world has acquired a lethal new weapon against X-gene mutants, so they have a choice: retain their mutant abilities or surrender and become human.
Writing for the Media: Film, Television, Video and Radio
by Paul Max Rubenstein Martin J. MaloneyThe business of writing fiction and non-fiction scripts, forms and formats, the story structure, writing dialogue, and information on selling your script. This is the second edition of the book.
Writing Home: Collected Essays and Newspaper Columns from 1992 - 2004
by Cindy La FerleBoth a memoir and a handbook for living, Writing Home brings together 12 years of domestic essays and columns by the journalist author.
Writing Better Requirements
by Richard Stevenson Ian F. AlexanderIf you are involved in the systems engineering process in any company, you will learn how to write requirements to get the system you want.
Writing 1B: Unit-Lessons in Composition
by Don P. Brown Katherine M. Blickhahn Nancy L. Cossitt Vicki Cox Jeanne M. Fratessa Albert LavinThis book presents a fundamental approach to learning how to write in high school.
Worlds in Collision
by Immanuel VelikovskyPropounds the theory that more than once within historical times, the order in our planetary system was disturbed and caused enormous cataclysms. From the book: WORLDS IN COLLISION, the most discussed book of our time, propounds the startling theory that more than once within historical times the order in our planetary system was disturbed and caused enormous cataclysms; the earth became a primeval chaos lashed by tornadoes of cinders; the skies darkened; land masses were destroyed and large portions of the human race perished.
World's Greatest Collection of Church Jokes
by Paul M. MillerDoes God have a sense of humor? He must have - He made us, didn't He? 500 stories and jokes about preachers, deacons, pew sitters, Sunday school teachers and kids.
World's End
by Upton SinclairThe Lanny Budd novels, of which this is the first, portray the changing pattern of world events from the first stirrings to WWI to 1940.
World Class Manufacturing: The Lessons of Simplicity Applied
by Richard J. SchonbergerOffers a demystified explanation of the simple techniques that have fueled Japan's industrial success
Workbook for Wheelock's Latin (3rd edition, revised)
by Paul T. Comeau Richard A. LafleurWorkbook associated with the classic text Wheelock's Latin
Words in My Hands: A Teacher, A Deaf-Blind Man, An Unforgettable Journey
by Diane ChambersBert Riedel, an 86-year-old deaf-blind pianist, cut off from the world since age 45, discovers a new life through hand-over-hand sign, taught to him by the author.
Words at War: World War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcasting Industry Blacklist
by Howard BlueThe history of radio broadcasting in the US, with an emphasis on World War II and the blacklisting during the 1950s.
Wool
by Hugh HoweyIn a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. <P><P> His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising.
Woody Guthrie: A Life
by Joe KleinBiography of the singer, songmaker and restless spirit who defined the American character for a generation.
Women, Law, and Social Control (2nd edition)
by Alida V. Merlo Joycelyn M. PollockCollection of articles that explores women as offenders, professionals, and victims, in the criminal justice system.
Women in White
by Frank G. SlaughterFive women working at the hospital, five stories of women caught in a kaleidoscope of crippling disease, community distrust, and their own dreams.
Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understanding
by Dusty MillerFilled with moving stories, this book focuses on women who inflict violence on themselves, eating disorders, and other chronic injuries.
Women Like Us
by Erica AbeelThis book traces the lives of four women from their undergraduate days at college in the late 1950s, thru the colorful histories of their boyfriends, jobs, husbands, children, divorces, etc to the present.
Wolfsbane
by Craig ThomasRichard Gardiner is a successful, smalltown English solicitor, whose violent past suddenly catches up with him while on vacation.
Wolfling
by Gordon R. DicksonEarthmen like Jim Keil were 'wolflings,' just idle curiosities. Was he an exotic diversion for a decadent aristocracy - or the instrument of their doom?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography
by Piero Melograni Lydia G. CochraneAn engaging account of one of the most enduringly popular and celebrated composers to have ever lived, this book is both readable and scholarly, and grounded by a wealth of Mozart's correspondence. His substantial oeuvre contains works that are considered to be among the most exquisite pieces of symphonic, chamber, and choral music ever written. His operas too cast a long shadow over those staged in their wake. And since his untimely death in 1791, he remains an enigmatic figure -- the subject of fascination for aficionados and novices alike. Piero Melograni here offers a wholly readable account of Mozart's remarkable life and times. This masterful biography proceeds from the young Mozart's earliest years as a wunderkind -- the child prodigy who traveled with his family to perform concerts throughout Europe -- to his formative years in Vienna, where he fully absorbed the artistic and intellectual spirit of the Enlightenment, to his deathbed, his unfinished Requiem, and the mystery that still surrounds his burial. Melograni's deft use of Mozart's letters throughout confers authority and vitality to his recounting, and his expertise brings Mozart's eighteenth-century milieu evocatively to life. Written with a gifted historian's flair for narrative and unencumbered by specialized analyses of Mozart's music, Melograni's is the most vivid and enjoyable biography available. At a time when music lovers around the world are paying honor to Mozart and his legacy,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be welcomed by his enthusiasts -- or anyone wishing to peer into the mind of one of the greatest composers ever known.