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Imprint: Random House Trade Paperback, 2008 From American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, m oving novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher's aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Re gina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has en tered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo's fath er, Rafa, disappears while crossing over from Mexico, Regina fears the wors t. After several days of waiting and with an ominous phone call from a woman who may be connected to a smuggling ring, Regina and Gabo resolve to find Rafa. Help arrives in the form of Miguel, an amorous, recently divorced history teacher; Miguel's gregarious abuelo Milton; a couple of Gabo's gangbanger classmates; and a priest of wayward faith. Though their journey is rife with challenges and danger, it will serve as a remarkable testament to family bonds, cultural pride, and the human experience, Good Stock number: RWARE0000027309. ISBN: 9780812975710
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Imprint: Bottom Line Books, 2000 A crisp clean hardcover, no markings throughout, no dustjacket as issued. this is a complete reference book on health with sources for healthier foods and ideas for improving health in natural ways. It is in no way intended to replace medical advice., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000018417. ISBN: 9780887232756
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Imprint: Peachpit Press, 2002 Minimum wear, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-library book: As both the Web and the browsers used to navigate it mature, work-arounds t hat compensate for the myriad factors that affect Web page appearance no lo nger cut it. Users expect Web pages to look beautiful regardless--and with the Fifth Edition of this popular Visual QuickStart Guide, you can make you r Web pages comply. By following the generously illustrated, step-by- step i nstructions that are the hallmark of the Visual QuickStart series, you'll c reate beautiful code that works consistently across browser versions and pl atforms (including hand-held devices and cell phones) in no time. This updated edition includes a new section on foreign-language and multilingual Web sites as well as ample coverage on how the use of HTML is changing. What hasn't changed, however, is the book's popular format: Task-oriented, step-by-step instruction that builds on your growing knowledge. Info-packed appendixes, a comprehensive index, and plenty of screen shots and code examples make HTML for the World Wide Web, Fifth Edition, with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide a must-have reference. Whether you're just getting your feet wet (no prior HTML knowledge is required) or design Web sites for a living, you'll turn to this best-selling guide again and again for answers to all of your HTML- related questions., Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000024450. ISBN: 9780321130075
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Imprint: Abrams Image, 2008 Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of the national bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, aren't falling for any election year claptr ap-and they don't want their readers to either! In Aristotle and an Aardvar k Go to Washington, our two favorite philosopher-comedians return just in t ime to save us from the double-speak, flim-flam, and alternate reality of p olitics in America. Deploying jokes and cartoon as well as the occasional insight from Aristotl e and his peers, Cathcart and Klein explain what politicos are up to when t hey state: "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." (Donal d Rumsfeld), "It depends on what the meaning of the word ?is' is." (Bill Cl inton), or even, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." (Thomas Jeffe rson, et al). Drawing from the pronouncements of everyone from Caesar to Condoleeza Rice, Genghis Kahn to Hillary Clinton, and Adolf Hitler to Al Sharpton. Cathcart and Klein help us learn to identify tricks such as "The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy" (non causa pro causa) and the "The Fallacy Fallacy" (argumentum and logicam). Aristotle and an Aardvark is for anyone who ever felt like the politicos and pundits were speaking Greek. At least Cathcart and Klein provide the Latin name for it (raudatio publica)!, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036303. ISBN: 9780810995413
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Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy through J okes by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... has been a brea kout bestseller ever since authors--and born vaudevillians--Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, origi nal, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers an d traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in c ommon?) to Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything). Philosophy 101 f or those who like to take the heavy stuff lightly, this is a joy to read--a nd finally, it all makes sense! And now, you can read Daniel Klein's further musings on life and philosophy in Travels with Epicurus and Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change it., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039945. ISBN: 9780143113874
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Imprint: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004 A gripping saga of love, murder, greed, failure, and triumph, O Pioneers! v ividly portrays the hardships of prairie life. Above all, it champions the belief that hard work is the surest road to personal fulfillment. Described upon publication in The New York Times as "American in the best sense of t he word," O Pioneers! celebrates the men and women who struggled to build a nation that is both compelling and contradictory., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000019297. ISBN: 9781593082055
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Imprint: Laurel, 1982 Good Stock number: RWARE0000031656. ISBN: 9780440301233
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Imprint: Granta Books, 2013 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling wh ere everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems.... It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zeal and goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a te nse gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a seri es of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried t o end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. Eleanor Catton was only 22 when she wrote The Rehearsal, which Adam Ross in the New York Times Book Review praised as "a wildly brilliant and precocious first novel" and Joshua Ferris called "a mesmerizing, labyrinthine, intricately patterned and astonishingly original novel." The Luminaries amply confirms that early promise, and secures Catton''''s reputation as one of the most dazzling and inventive young writers at work today., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000034715. ISBN: 9781847088765
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Imprint: Warner Books, 2003 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Kim Cattrall, "Sex and the City"'s Samantha, slides between the sheets and shares her secrets on reaching the heights of pleasure. She teams up with her husband in this how-to-sex book, based on viewer feedback from the show and designed to help couples focus on achieving the female orgasm. 75 illustrations., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039266. ISBN: 9780446690904
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Imprint: Brécourt Academic, 1998 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Mesopotamia is credited with the invention of writing and of agriculture, and so is seen as the cradle of civilisation . The dazzling quality of the art of the Sumerians, Akkadian. Hittite, Assyrian and Persian empires speaks to the present about the culture and belief systems of these peoples. The text covers the origins of the cities and empires concerned, their view of the gods and the evolution of writing, including a special feature on the epic of Gilgamesh., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039385. ISBN: 9782879391526
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Imprint: Onyx, 2000 An electrifying new thriller from The New York Times bestselling author, on e of the originators of the big-city police novel William J. Caunitz, the author of such classics as One Police Plaza and Exceptional Clearance, is back in bestselling form with his latest New York City cop thriller, Chains of Command. When a young police officer is shot and killed in his girlfriend's apartment in Washington Heights, investigators suspect that he had been taking money from the Dominican drug gangs that rule the neighborhood. An ambitious female deputy police commissioner and a daring detective lieutenant go up against the forces of greed, rivalry, and long- buried secrets to protect the ones they love and solve the crime of their careers. These two cops are the best of the true blue, brave, and loyal., Good Stock number: RWARE0000031893. ISBN: 9780451409188
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Imprint: Lyons Press, 2010 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Heart-pounding real-life tales from the military's most experienced snipers, the best of the best snipers in action today. Gunfights, long distance shots, stalking, and more., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000027687. ISBN: 9781599218557
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Imprint: North Point Press, New York, 2000 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Do the languages and genes of living people contain a historical record of the species? The pioneering work of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza has answered this question with a decisive yes. "Genes, Peoples and Languages" serves as a summation of the author's work over several decades, the goal of which has been nothing less than tracking the past several hundred thousand years of human history. When and where did we evolve? How have human societies spread across the continents? How have cultural innovations affected the growth and spread of populations? What is the connection between genes and languages? Do racial classifications have any meaningful genetic basis? With their focus on written documents, professional historians can tell us nothing of the 99.9% of human history extending from our species' origins to the development of writing. Rich in incredible and fascinating detail, "Genes, Peoples and Languages" provides a panoramic tour of the missing hundreds of thousands of years, and provides a rare firsthand account of some of the most significant scientific work of our time., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000032838. ISBN: 9780713994865
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Imprint: Canongte Books, 2010 "The Death of Bunny Munro" recounts the last journey of a salesman in searc h of a soul. Following the suicide of his wife, Bunny, a door-to- door sales man and lothario, takes his son on a trip along the south coast of England. He is about to discover that his days are numbered. With a daring hellride of a plot, "The Death of Bunny Munro" is also a modern morality tale of so rts, a stylish, furious, funny, truthful and tender account of one man's de scent and judgement. The novel is full of the linguistic verve that has mad e Cave one of the world's most respected lyricists. It is his first novel s ince the publication of his critically acclaimed debut "And the Ass Saw the Angel" twenty years ago., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000033908. ISBN: 9781847677631
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Imprint: Gateway Learning Corporation, 1998 When Mother Night comes "to shake her dark quilt / and let dreams tumble do wn," animal parents put their children to sleep. Mother Mouse sings to her children, and they dream of an orchestra of bewigged pigs and hippos; the f ox children dream of riding their bucking bronco fourposter to save the ran ch from a gigantic Mother Goose. The parents lovingly awaken their children when morning comes and the world is "edged in dawn." The antics of the ani mals are distinct from the world outside their windows, except during the d ream sequences where the real and imagined worlds are joined. Inside their cozy houses, theywear bathrobes, drink tea and cuddle in easy chairs, but o utside, Cazet's ( A Fish in His Pocket ) sensitive watercolors portray a wo rld of serene beauty where stars dot the landscape like snow, and black rav ens are silhouetted above the pines. Ages 3-6., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000039498. ISBN: 9781887942492
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Imprint: Kyoto Museums Association, 2013 "Between the covers you will find some 200 Kyoto museums covering arts, his tories, sciences and treasures!"--title page. Includes index., As New Stock number: RWARE0000037561. ISBN: 9784763806659
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Imprint: Asian and Pacific Developmen, 1992 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Good Stock number: RWARE0000030022. ISBN: 9789679928303
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Imprint: HarperEntertainment, 2008 In a remote corner of New Jersey is a nation within a nation-a refuge for f anatical converts and fervent believers. But within the confines of the sec luded Islamic community of Kurmastan, plans are underway to spread fear, de ath, and untold destruction across America . . . and to deliver one fatal b low to the country's exposed and vulnerable heart. On the East coast to supervise the activation of CTU's New York office, rogue agent Jack Bauer finds himself in the center of an unleashed hurricane perhaps already too powerful to stop. But if it isn't, in twenty-four hours the U.S. will be brought to its knees by a secret army grown on its own earth. And there is no one Jack Bauer can trust-because the roots of the terror go very deep . . . and frighteningly high., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000013810. ISBN: 9780061431180
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Imprint: Thorsons Pub, 1984 Herbal teas have their own characteristic virtues. Some are slightly stimul ating, others are soothing and induce quiet sleep or act as tranquilizers. Many are tonics that can bring an "out-of-gear" system back to complete hea lth. The author describes a wide range of tea-making herbs and gives instru ctions for their preparation and use., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038477. ISBN: 9780722509043
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Imprint: Claretian Publishers, 1994 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000022167. ISBN: 9789715015899
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Imprint: Atria, 1997 "Chablis is a full-time transvestite. In clinical terms, she is a preoperat ive transsexual," John Berendt explains in his introduction. Chablis takes it from there, presenting a sassy, tongue-in-cheek version of her life stor y, which she began as Benjamin Edward Knox in 1957. She recounts growing up in Florida as a self-confessed "sissy-child"; recalls being abandoned by b oth her mother and father and being raised by her classy grandmother; and n otes the problems she and her family had coming to terms with her sexuality . She tells of her imprisonment for shoplifting; her debut on stage as a fe male impersonator in Atlanta in the mid-1970s; taking hormones to grow brea sts; and the high cost of electrolysis. After winning the Miss Gay World Pa geant, Chablis moved on to Savannah, where she changed her act to include s tand-up comedy. Writing with freelancer Bouloukos, Chablis presents a good- natured biography that covers the gamut from sexual adventures with unsuspe cting straight males to beauty tips and a listing of her favorite recipes., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000000873. ISBN: 9780671520953
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Imprint: Del Rey, 1984 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In Husaquahr, behind the cloak of seeming peace, evil was stirring again as the Dark Baron plotted with a Demon Prince to bring about Armageddon. Master Sorcerer Throckmorton P. Ruddygore could only trust one man with the mission of spying upon the evil villians: Joe. The only problem was, Joe had just been bitten by a weredog . . ., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036351. ISBN: 9780345308931
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Imprint: Del Rey, 1990 The evil Dark Baron has escaped and joined forces in the far North with the Master of the Dead to theaten all of Husaquahr with enslavement. Only Joe can stop them -- but Joe is no longer quite himself. In fact, he's not sure who he is!, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036608. ISBN: 9780345347992
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Imprint: Del Rey, 1985 The Dark Baron, defeated at last, had been stripped of all his magical powe r and exiled to Earth. But there he enlisted a computer to create even more effective spells. Helped by the forces of Hell, the Dark Baron is once aga in threatening Husaquahr -- and only Joe and Marge can stop him!, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036644. ISBN: 9780345315496
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Imprint: Robinson, 2000 Fun and Games with the Roman's and Their World, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039056. ISBN: 9781841192147
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Imprint: Pennwell Corp, 1999 Chambers gives you a history of these two converging industries and an over view of the factors forcing them together-political, regulatory, technical and economic. Contents: Introduction Natural gas history Transportation and storage Exploration, drilling and production Trading Natural gas basics El ectric power history Deregulation Convergence Power plant basics Power gene ration technologies Competing fuels and environmental factors Merchant plan ts Distributed generation Conclusion., As New Stock number: RWARE0000030072. ISBN: 9780878147618
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Imprint: For Dummies, 2006 Your one-stop guide to a long and happy relationship with your PC Mark Chambers doesn't believe computers are supposed to be complicated, and this book proves it. Here you'll find the straightforward scoop on using a nd enjoying your PC, whether it's your first one or your fifth. From using Microsoft Works and getting online to digital multimedia, problem-solving, and network security, it's all at your fingertips! Discover how to: Use the different ports on your PC Troubleshoot Windows XP Listen to Internet radio Use Microsoft Works and Office 2003 Make movies and DVDs Set up and secure a network, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000026822. ISBN: 9780471770824
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Imprint: BODLEY HEAD CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1999 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib: "Although the interweaving of the two narratives is slightly confusing at first, the end result is effective: it allows for two stories, separated by time, to come together to form a single narrative thread. What emerges is a tale that reveals the ongoing effects--and inescapability--of history, and the commonality between two adolescents searching for meaning and identity in an often-confusing world. POSTCARDS FROM NO MAN'S LAND is a richly layered novel, combining elements of history, politics, literary allusion, and linguistic play, and enhanced by Chambers keen insight into the adolescent mind.", Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000020593. ISBN: 9780370323763
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Imprint: Pantheon, 1998 A highly collectible, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. When Patrick Chamoiseau, Martinican author of the brilliant, magical novel Texaco, turns his hand to writing a police procedural, you can be sure that the "usual suspects" won't be usual at all. In Solibo Magnificent the title character, a master storyteller, dies on the first page, having uttered the mysterious phrase patat'-si ("this potato"). Though it is evident to his Creole audience that Solibo's throat was "snickt by the Word," to the Fort-de-France police department it's a clear case of murder., Fine/Fine Stock number: RWARE0000007366. ISBN: 9780679432364
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Imprint: FT Press, 2008 In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. "Champy's engaging prose, fascinating success stories, penetrating reflecti ons, and provocative challenges to the status quo capture your full attenti on from the first page to the last and leave your mind swirling with new th oughts about how to exploit opportunities in a very different world." - Ray Stata, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Analog Devices, Inc. "To outsmart or be outsmarted, that is the question in modern business. Jim Champy has found the answer, in fact many answers, by looking inside amazi ngly successful companies. And he tells their simple stories in this book t hat is so delightfully short it can be read on one flight." - Dr. Robert "Bob" Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners "In this remarkably readable and incisive book, Jim Champy provides case st udies of fast growing, innovative companies that have created and implement ed successful strategies that are practical, market tested, and reproducibl e in today's global marketplace." - Denis A. Bovin, Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, Bear Stearns & Co., In c . "This book shows how to spot opportunities in a world that looks, at times, like everything is done. Jim has strung together nine pearls that reveal th e essence of entrepreneurship." - Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, Founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks, Inc. Author of ReEngineering the Corporation A New York Times Best Seller & More than 3 Million Copies Sold Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, in Outsmart! he's doing it, Near Fine/Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000030707. ISBN: 9780132357777
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Imprint: Collins, 1996 Thanks to James Champy and Michael Hammer, reengineering will remembered as the business buzzword of the 1990s. In Reengineering the Corporation, they showed how companies could dramatically improve performance by delegating responsibility and authority throughout the enterprise--to the sales clerk, the shipping manager, the customer-service representative. And, indeed, mo st companies that took up the banner of reengineering saw dramatic improvem ents. But not to the degree that Champy thought possible. Unfortunately, ma nagement, which made reengineering possible in the first place, was the sam e group that was limiting its potential. Champy writes: Anything less than a fundamental revolution in actual management practice, we discovered, is like a communist regime introducing free enterprise into a controlled economy while trying to hold on to power. It can be done for a while, but no one supposes that such an arrangement can last. Something's gotta give, and history shows that it's not going to be free enterprise. It has to be management. If management doesn't change, reengineering will be stopped in its tracks. In Reengineering Management, Champy discusses the challenges managers face in trying to function in the reengineered workplace. At the heart of the manager's dilemma is the loss of authority and control, which in the new workplace must be delegated. Champy looks at how managers from a wide range of companies, including Federal Express, Frito-Lay, and AT&T, have stepped "out of the boxes on the organizational chart" and wrestled with the hard issues of leadership, values, and culture while at the same time dealing w, Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000005982. ISBN: 9780887307966
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Imprint: Addison-Wesley, 1998 The Java Developers Almanac 1998 presents all the core Java packages and th eir members in an easy-to-consult format. The first part of Chan's book lis ts Java packages alphabetically. Each package is accompanied by a list, als o alphabetical, of its member classes and their purposes. In later sections all the individual classes are listed alphabetically. A typical class's en try includes its inheritance structure and a table of all its properties an d methods. The author concludes with useful commentaries on topical Java is sues (such as operator precedence and the differences between Java 1.1 and Java 1.2) and a cross-reference that reveals relationships between classes., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000003737. ISBN: 9780201379679
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Imprint: Ace, 2007 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Clairvoyant Cassie Plamer has inherited new magical powers-including the ability to travel through time. But it's a whole lot of responsibility she'd rather not have. Now she's the most popular girl in town, as an assortment of vamps, fey, and mages try to convince, force, or seduce her- and her magic-over to their side. But one particular master vampire didn't ask what Cassie wanted before putting a claim on her. He had a spell cast that binds her to him, and now she doesn't know if what she feels for him is real-or imagined..., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038353. ISBN: 9780451461520
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Imprint: Berkley, 2009 "Karen Chance takes her place along with Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Har ris, MaryJanice Davidson, and J.D. Robb."--SF Revu View our feature on Karen Chance's Curse the Dawn. Cassandra Palmer may be the all-powerful Pythia now, but that doesn't mean people have stopped trying to kill her. Most of the supernatural power play ers don't want the independent minded Cassie as chief clairvoyant--and they 'll stop at nothing to see her six feet under. The Vampire Senate does support Cassie in her position, but their protectio n comes with a price: an alliance with the sexy master vampire Mircea, who has claimed Cassie as his own. But even the vampires will have trouble keeping Cassie alive now that the self-styled god Apollo, the source of the Pythia's power, has it in for her in a big way. To save her life--and the world--Cassie's going to have to face down her creator..., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038365. ISBN: 9780451412706
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Imprint: Ace, 2008 View our feature on Karen Chance's Embrace the Night. Cassandra Palmer may be the world's chief clairvoyant, but she's still magically bound to a master vampire. Only an ancient book called the Codex Merlini possesses the incantation to free Cassie-but harnessing its limitless power could endanger the world..., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038270. ISBN: 9780451461995
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Imprint: Ace, 2006 Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits--talents t hat make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren't usually dangerous; they just like to talk...a lot. The undead are another matter. Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloods ucking mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeanc e on his mind, she's forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection. The undead senators won't help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire--and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to pay...., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038349. ISBN: 9780451460936
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Imprint: Arrow, 1984 Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000010584. ISBN: 9780712603492
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Imprint: Andante Pub., 1994 Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000006009. ISBN: 9780963916709
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Imprint: Simon Pulse, 2008 The unbreakable bonds of love are put to the test in this romantic and susp enseful collection of the New York Times bestselling Kissed by an Angel tri logy. A love beyond life...a danger beyond doubt. When her boyfriend, Tristan, died, Ivy thought she'd lost everything, even her faith in angels. But now she's discovered that he's her guardian angel -- his presence so strong that she can feel the touch of his hand, the beat of his heart. Ivy needs Tristan now more than ever because he knows she's in terrible danger. Only Ivy's guardian angel can save her now that his kil ler is after her. But if Tristan rescues Ivy, his mission on earth will be finished, and he must leave her behind forever. Will saving Ivy mean losing her just when he's finally reached her again?, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000040145. ISBN: 9781416978831
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Imprint: Avalon Travel Publishing, 2011 Moon Spotlight Tulum is an 86-page compact guide covering Tulum, southern Q uintana Roo, Chichén Itzá,and the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve. Authors Gar y Chandler and Liza Prado offer their seasoned advice on must-see attractio ns, and they include maps with sightseeing highlights so you can make the m ost of your time. This lightweight guide is packed with recommendations on sights, entertainment, shopping, recreation, accommodations, food, and tran sportation, as well as easy-to-read maps, making navigating these fascinati ng destinations uncomplicated and enjoyable. This Spotlight guidebook is excerpted from Moon Cancún & Cozumel., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000024760. ISBN: 9781612382319
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Imprint: Faber and Faber, 1996 A tale of 19th-century India: of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; o f great wars and love affairs and a city gone "mad with poetry". Woven into this tapestry of stories is a second, modern narrative - the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000012240. ISBN: 9780571177196
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Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following th e fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal docum ents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells the memorable story of this ill-prepared a ttempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country, de tailing not only the risky disbanding of the Iraqi army and the ludicrous a ttempt to train the new police force, but absurdities such as the aide who based Baghdad's new traffic laws on those of the state of Maryland, downloa ded from the net, and the twenty-four- year-old who had never worked in fina nce put in charge of revitalising Baghdad's stock exchange. Imperial Life i n the Emerald City is American reportage at its best., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000026636. ISBN: 9781408806340
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Imprint: Allen Lane, 2010 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers destroys the biggest myths about the world we live in. It may have its flaws, but there's no real alternative to free-market capitalism - ultimately it's making us all more prosperous. The West is more efficient and financially savvy than the developing world. And technology is the way forward for everyone. Right? Wrong. This book will turn every piece of received economic wisdom you've heard on its head. It reveals the truth behind what 'they' tell you and shows how the system really works, including: There's no such thing as a 'free' market; Globalization isn't making the world richer; We don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internet; Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones; and, Higher paid managers don't produce better results. This galvanizing, fact-packed book about money, equality, freedom and greed proves that the free market isn't just bad for people - it's an inefficient way of running economies too. Here Chang lays out the alternatives, and shows there's a better way., Near Fine/Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000030131. ISBN: 9781846143281
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Imprint: Plume, 2000 A clean softcover, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-library book: Beyond the Narrow Gate is the brave and moving story of four Chinese girls-- Dolores, Suzanne, Margaret, and Mary--from their ultimate passage through the "narrow gate" in Communist China to America and their decades-long friendship. Leslie Chang, an American-born journalist and the daughter of Mary, lifts the veils of secrecy, shame, and loss that have for so long hung over the "bamboo generation." What Chang discovers is that the passage from one culture to another came at a great price, both to the women who had undergone it and to the children who were born into its legacy. Beyond the Narrow Gate weaves sagas of friendship and love, sacrifice and success, marriage and loss, as it illuminates one of America's least-documented immigrant experiences. At the same time, this is a deeply personal book: a daughter's discovery of her own history in her mother's past., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000024764. ISBN: 9780452277618
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Imprint: Soho Crime, 2007 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: At the start of Chang's promising debut, NYPD detective Jack Yu must cope with his father's recent death and investigate the rape of a grade-school girl on the fringes of Chinatown, where he grew up and has just been stationed. Meanwhile, would- be gangster Johnny Wong is carrying on with Mona, the gorgeous mistress of his employer, Uncle Four, head of the local branch of the Hip Ching tong and a powerful underworld figure in both New York and Hong Kong. As Yu digs deeper into his case, suspecting that an illegal Chinese immigrant may be the serial rapist he is seeking, he finds evidence of a connection between the rapist and the local gangsters. Though Chang builds less suspense than more seasoned police procedural authors, he presents a fascinating look at New York's Chinese-American urban community and its subcultures., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000017864. ISBN: 9781569474785
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Imprint: Random House, 2001 Minimum wear, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-library book: China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, thr ee times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-Am erican lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon . Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the sympt oms of decay are everywhere: Deflation grips the economy, state- owned enter prises are failing, banks are hopelessly insolvent, foreign investment cont inues to decline, and Communist party corruption eats away at the fabric of society. Beijing's cautious reforms have left the country stuck midway between communism and capitalism, Chang writes. With its impending World Trade Organization membership, for the first time China will be forced to open itself to foreign competition, which will shake the country to its foundations. Economic failure will be followed by government collapse. Covering subjects from party politics to the Falun Gong to the government's insupportable position on Taiwan, Chang presents a thorough and very chilling overview of China's present and not-so- distant future., Very Good/No Dustjacket Stock number: RWARE0000024847. ISBN: 9780375504778
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Imprint: Flamingo, 1992 Through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daught er - this book tells the story of 20th-century China. At times scarcely cre dible in the details it reveals of the suffering of millions of ordinary Ch inese people, it is an unforgettable record of tyranny, hope and ultimate s urvival under conditions of extreme harshness. In 1924, at the age of 15, t he author's grandmother became the concubine of a powerful warlord, whom sh e was seldom to see during the 10 years of their "marriage". Her daughter, born in 1931, experienced the horrors of Japanese occupation in Manchuria a s a schoolgirl, and after their surrender joined the Communist-led undergro und fighting Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang. She rose to be a senior Communis t official, but was imprisoned three times. Her husband, also a high offici al and one of the very first to join the Communists, was relentlessly perse cuted, imprisoned and finally sent to a labour camp where, physically broke n and disillusioned, he lost his sanity. The author herself grew up during the Cultural Revolution, at the time of the personality cult of Mao and the worst excesses of the Gang of Four. She joined the Red Guard but after Mao 's death she was to become one of the first Chinese students to study abroa d., Good Stock number: RWARE0000019875. ISBN: 9780006545996
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Imprint: Anchor, 1992 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: "This is a powerful, moving, at times shocking account of three generations of Chinese women, as compelling as Amy Tan." --Mary Morris. "An evocative, often astonishing view of life in a changing China." -- The New York Times, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000023437. ISBN: 9780385425476
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Imprint: Touchstone, 2003 Minimum wear,no markings throughout, NOT an ex-library book: Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness histo ry, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with m ore than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentie th- century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an u nusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspirin g tale of courage and love. Jung Chang describes the life of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents' experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving -- and ultimately uplifting -- detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000024795. ISBN: 9780743246989
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Imprint: Ballantine Books, 2005 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends, award-win ning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He i s a writer, observes the Chicago Tribune, who can "convincingly squeeze who le lives into a mere twenty pages or so." Now Chaon marshals his notable ta lents in his much-anticipated debut novel. You Remind Me of Me begins with a series of separate incidents: In 1977, a little boy is savagely attacked by his mother's pet Doberman; in 1997 anoth er little boy disappears from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny summer morning; in 1966, a pregnant teenager admits herself to a maternity home, w ith the intention of giving her child up for adoption; in 1991, a young man drifts toward a career as a drug dealer, even as he hopes for something be tter. With penetrating insight and a deep devotion to his characters, Dan C haon explores the secret connections that irrevocably link them. In the pro cess he examines questions of identity, fate, and circumstance: Why do we b ecome the people that we become? How do we end up stuck in lives that we ne ver wanted? And can we change the course of what seems inevitable? In language that is both unflinching and exquisite, Chaon moves deftly between the past and the present in the small-town prairie Midwest and shows us the extraordinary lives of "ordinary" people., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038592. ISBN: 9780345441409
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