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Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa
by Don BrownBiography of a 19th-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893-1894, learning much about the area and its people.
Waterdeep (Forgotten Realms: The Avatar Trilogy, Book 3)
by Richard AwlinsonAdon suddenly knew why the guards had not been able to stop the attack. The man was an avatar. The avatar of the God of Assassins turned toward Adon and smiled in acknowledgment.
We Borrow the Earth: An Intimate Portrait of the Gypsy Shamanic Tradition and Culture
by Patrick Jasper LeeThis radical new analysis of international politics reveals the crucial role of women in implementing governmental foreign policies.
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
by Paco UnderhillUnderhill lays bare the struggle among merchants, marketeers, and consumers for control of the marketplace, explaining shopping phenomena unnoticed by retailers and shoppers alike.
Workbook for Wheelock's Latin (3rd edition, revised)
by Paul T. Comeau Richard A. LafleurWorkbook associated with the classic text Wheelock's Latin
101 Montunos (in English/Spanish)
by Rebeca Mauleón-SantanaThis book explores the role of the piano in the various types of rhythmic styles associated with Afro-Caribbean music and its never-ending evolution
44, Dublin Made Me: A Memoir
by Peter SheridanYoung Peter has a hilarious yet tender masculine perspective. You'll wish he had been your best friend or big brother. In recalling his childhood in Dublin from 1959 through 1970 Peter Sheridan shows his worthiness in carrying on the Irish traditional mastery of storytelling. At age 8 he proudly pedals his bike through Dublin streets on his Da's errands and willingly risks his life to help install the antenna for the family's first TV. Sheridan describes his parents' struggles with a new-fangled, epileptic, washing machine like he's announcing a prize fight. Though his boyhood classroom is an ocean and away and 45 years ago you'll laugh and cringe in recognition. You'll watch a children's Gaelic football game that is shockingly all tragedy and no sport. When Peter reaches his teens, you'll experience his first exposure to the Beatles, his first awkward dates, first rebellion against Da, first band, first realization of his Ma's wisdom and sacrifice for the family, and his discovery of the joys of live theater. Through tragedy and loss of innocence, a sensitive, creative, kind young boy grows in to a man with his compassion, humor and love of family in tact. Author uses a dash before quoted words to indicate quotes in dialogue instead of quotation marks or apostrophies. Adult language is occasionally used in dialogue.
A Bright Red Scream: Self-mutilation and the Language of Pain
by Marilee StrongSelf-mutilation is a behaviour so shocking that it is almost never discussed. Yet millions of people all over the world are chronic self-injurers. They are people who use knives, razor blades, or broken glass to cut themselves and their numbers include Johnny Depp and the late Princess Diana. In this groundbreaking work - an essential resource for victims, parents and therapists - Strong explores this hidden epidemic through case studies, research from psychologists, trauma experts, and the cutters themselves. It is a compelling tour of the trauma and science of self-injury.
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacdonaldMemoir of an Irish-American boy growing up in South Boston, with a conversation with the author and a reading group guide at the end.
An Introduction to Multicultural Counseling
by Wanda M. L. LeeA history of multicultural counseling, its current issues and controversies, along with historical and sociopolitical influences in treatment methods and in testing biases.
Battle Creek
by Scott LasserNominally a story about baseball, this is a profoundly moving novel about fathers, sons, ambition, honor, and the right to hold onto a dream no matter how elusive.
Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World
by Alan AtkissonAtKisson sees concerned citizens and scientists who view the world hurtling toward self-destruction. Is it true that most of the human race could care less about their dire warnings?
Careful What You Wish For
by Myrlin A. HermesEveryone knew the story of Eleanor Blackmar Cline, how her husband had taken up with a colored girl half his age, and how he had flaunted her before his wife.
Chains of Command
by William J. CaunitzFrom a former NYPD detective comes a novel of crime and corruption.
Charm School
by Anne FineBonny does NOT want to go to Charm School, no matter how much Mum wants her to. And it's just as bad as she feared. Worse, in fact.
Circle of Stones
by Anna Lee WaldoA medieval saga about a Welsh woman, who was the mistress of a powerful prince but then became a Druid healer. Historical fiction.
Cradle of Saturn (Cradle of Saturn #1)
by James P. HoganAmong the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. Operating without the hidebound restrictions of bureaucratic Earth, the colony is a magnet, attracting the best and the brightest of the home world, and has been making important new discoveries. But one of their claims (that the solar system undergoes periodic cataclysms) flies in the face of reigning dogma, and is under attack by the scientific establishment. Then Jupiter emits a protoplanet as large as the Earth.
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: America's Doctor Tells You Why the Health Experts are Wrong
by David Schrieberg Dean EdellRadio talk show host Dr. Dean Edell at his best.
Ender's Shadow (Shadow Saga #1)
by Orson Scott CardNot a sequel, this book begins and ends about where Ender's Game does, it tells the same tale, but from Bean's perspective this time.
Finding Laura Buggs
by Stanley Gordon WestIn 1949 Minneapolis, Sandy Meyer is given one perplexing clue to her past that sets her on an incredible and harrowing journey in search of her lost family.
First Avenue
by Lowen ClausenWhen Officer Sam Wright finds an abandoned dead baby in a seedy hotel, he promises himself he'll find the missing mother and uncover the truth.
Five Trucks
by Brian FlocaHere are five trucks with a single purpose. Clue #1: A boy and his father watch the busy drivers of the five trucks through a large window. Clue #2: A plaid suitcase is an important part of the progress that father and son are following. The five trucks -- each labeled appropriately as catering truck, baggage tractor, baggage conveyor, mechanic's truck, and push-out tractor -- all belong to a team. And their focus? One airplane, which viewers gradually see in greater and greater detail as takeoff nears. The text is brisk, the watercolor illustrations meticulous yet breezy. At the end, the airborne boy waves through his plane window at the five drivers who have become -- for him and for this appealing book's young audience -- as good as friends.
Frommer's 99 England
by Darwin Porter Danforth PrinceLife is short. Vacations are shorter. Relax! Trust your trip to England to Frommer's. Includes planning for your trip, attractions in both cities and the countryside.
God's Promises for Your Every Need
by A. L. GillUsing the King James Version of the Holy Bible as his reference, Dr. Gill gathers Scriptures together for a variety of subject such as personal peace, Jesus as forgiveness, Jesus as your righteousness and many more. This is a useful tool for subject studies of popular Christian topics.
Golf a la Cart: A Credible Source of Golfing Feats, Facts & Fun From the Fairways to the Fantastic
by Alan RossSports historian Alan Ross shares fascinating facts about some of golf's most amazing moments. A must-read for golfers everywhere.