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Imprint: St. Martin's Press, 1987 From Publishers Weekly Davis is a novelist, also author of the factual Bad Money, and he uses both his storytelling and reporting skills in this dual biography. Much of the material is by now over-familiar, but he adds sufficient color to heighten reader interest. The author details Onassis's financial coups, rivalries, m any romantic affairs, friendships, etc. More engrossing sections describe h is daughter Christina's life, stressing the vast difference between the pri vate woman and the adopted persona. Outwardly, she suggests a neurotic: fou r failed marriages interrupting frantic running around in search of diversi ons. But Davis shows that Christina has inherited and is wisely using her f ather's business acumen. Immediately after his death, she took control of t he Onassis empire and is building on it. The book is sharply witty and ente rtaining. Photos. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000004120. ISBN: 9780312902896
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Imprint: Arrow, 2000 Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000030160. ISBN: 9780099799719
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Imprint: Arrow/ Random House, 1994 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. Editorial Reviews, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031148. ISBN: 9780099831907
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Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd, 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., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031166. ISBN: 9780417015309
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Imprint: Arrow, 2006 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. The 17th book in the bestselling Falco detective series. Humour, surprises and domestic irony await Roman sleuth Falco as he attempt s to solve the disappearance of two newlyweds on their honeymoon trip to An cient Greece. With safe seas, good roads, a common currency, and lots of interesting conq uered territory, the Romans naturally invented tourism. They believed in a life of leisure -- fine for those who could afford it -- and some would set off on their travels for maybe five years at a time. As these ancient cult ure vultures descended on the sights, the tour guide was born to cater to t heir needs. "Marcus, you must help me!" Stunned by the dramatic appeal from his otherwi se cool mother-in-law, Marcus Didius Falso cannot resist. His brother-in-la w, Aulus, has been diverted from his route to Athens University by a man wh ose newly married daughter and her husband have disappeared while visiting the Olympic Games as part of their wedding trip. Suspecting a classic cover -up, Aulus enrolls Falco's help in solving the case. And of course his moth er-in-law hopes to hurry her son along to university by passing the case ov er to Falco. Joining the rest of the married couple's tour group on the remains of their Grand Tour, Falco and Helena seize the opportunity to interview the owner/manager of "Seven Sights Travel," as well as the other guests. Seemingly not getting very far, they can at least make the most of the splendid sights; but finally, on reaching Delphi, Falco and Helena unra, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031167. ISBN: 9780099445289
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Imprint: Random House UK Ltd, 2000 Rome. AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco, now Imperial Agent to Emperor Vespasian, is keeping busy tidying up corpses, kicking over the traces of a failed cou p, making a bit on the side in stolen lead ingots. But a new plot to usurp the purple robes of power puts Falco on the back of a mule with a one-way t icket down the Appian Way - bumping into trouble, treason and Helena Justin a, a senator's daughter he's trying hard to forget., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000016438. ISBN: 9780099414728
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Imprint: Three Rivers Press, 1999 A read copy but no markings throughout, unblemished spine, NOT an ex- librar y edition: Exploring the mystical impulses behind our obsession with information techn ology, TechGnosis presents a fascinating and passionately original perspect ive on technoculture. Today we often assume that the triumph of technological rationality has con demned the spiritual imagination to the trash heap of history. But as Erik Davis explains, religious impulses and magical dreams permeate the history of technology. Ranging from the printing press to the telegraph, from radio to the Internet, David peels away the utilitarian shell of technology to r eveal the mystical and millennialist fervor that attends each new communica tions breakthrough. As he unveils the hidden history of techno-mysticism, D avis shows how the religious imagination continues to feed the utopian drea ms, apocalyptic visions, and alien obsessions that populate today's technol ogical unconscious. In these pages, Davis offers a lucid, playful, and astonishingly erudite journey through our hyper-mediated environment. Anyone grappling with the morphing boundaries and terminal speed of our present moment will want to take the ride., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000027949. ISBN: 9780609804742
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Imprint: Arrow, 2004 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. Having returned from his trip to Londinium, Falco takes up employment with Paccius Africanus and Silius Italicus, two lawyers at the top of their trad e. For the trial of a senator they need Falco to make an affidavit confirmi ng repayment of a loan. Having been out of the country and starved of Forum gossip for some time, Falco has little interest in this trial, so he makes his deposition and then leaves. The prosecution are successful and a large financial judgement is made, but one month later the senator is dead, apparently by suicide. The heirs are now in a situation of not having to pay up, and the prosecutor Silius Itali cus suddenly decides to seek out Falco. With a little coercion, Falco joins the prosecution in seeking to persuade a magistrate to instigate a new tri al against Metellus' son. Blinded by the vision of rich pickings to be gain ed by the prosecution, Falco temporarily forgets that, if they fail, the fi nancial penalties leveled against the informers who brought the case are po tentially enormous. A pure delight, with Davis's unique blend of wit and humour brilliantly imm ersing us in the marvels of ancient Roman life Amazon Review Lindsey Davis's Falco thrillers normally focus on how like us the Romans were; The Accusers concentrates on an important difference. Prosecutors were rewarded with a portion of the guilty's goods, or fined to compensate the innocent. When a senator, found guilty in a corruption trial, apparently kills himself, Falco is hired to prove, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031191. ISBN: 9780099445265
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Imprint: Parragon Plus, 1996 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., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036624. ISBN: 9781858138466
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Imprint: Arrow, 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. Marcus Didius Falco is about to get involved in a Londinium noir tale of ga ngsters, gladiators and love. For Falco, a relaxed visit to Helena's r elatives in Britain turns serious at teh scene of a downtown murder. Editorial Reviews, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031194. ISBN: 9780099298403
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Imprint: ARROW (RAND), 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., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031160. ISBN: 9780099799511
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Imprint: Warner Books, 1998 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Fresh from Last Act in Palmyra, Marcus Didius Falco, that most modern of ancient Romans, takes on organized crime in this latest installment of Davis's impeccably executed series. Falco has a job everyone loves to hate: he's the Emperor Vespasian's informer, or private detective?and he does his work well. This time, he's up against Balbinus Pius, perhaps the original John Gotti. Balbinus has finally been convicted of a capital crime, but, in traditional Roman style, he's been given a chance to flee before his scheduled execution. The power vacuum created by his departure seems to have sucked up every miscreant in Rome: markets are plundered, children are kidnapped, centurions are murdered. While Falco sets out to determine whether the crime wave is the work of a new kingpin or a herd of small- time operators, his private life is also in a bit of a spin. Companion Helena, a senator's daughter whom Falco is forbidden by law to marry because of their differing rank, is pregnant. And he's also pitted against his old army buddy and best friend, Petronius, captain of the fourth cohort of the Aventine Watch, in a corruption investigation. The tale gets a bit bumpy, as Davis, compensating for a slightly subpar mystery plot, tosses in lots of action scenes and personal turmoil. But Falco remains as delightfully irreverent and insightful as ever; and Davis, as usual, brings the time to life while handling the eternals?worry, danger, love and in-laws?just as deftly., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000020583. ISBN: 9780446605915
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Imprint: ARROW (RAND), 1996 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. I still can't believe I've put the bastard away for good!' Petro muttered. Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch and Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed on of Rome's top criminals. Under Roman law citizens are not imprisoned but are allowed 'time to depart' into exile outside the Empire. One dark and gloomy dawn Petro and Falcoput the evit Balbinus aboard ship. But soon after, an outbreak of robbery and murder suggest a new criminal ring has moved into Balbinus' territory. Petro and Falco must descend into the underworld of Vespasian's Rome to investigate..., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031156. ISBN: 9780099338819
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Imprint: Arrow, 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. Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy Anacrites, Marcus Didiu s Falco has the perfect plan to make money - he will assist Vespasian in th e Emperor's 'Great Census' of AD73. His potential fee could finally allow h im to join the middle ranks and be worthy of long- suffering Helena Justina. Unexpectedly confronted with the murder of a man- eating lion, Falco is dist racted from his original task, uncovering a bitter rivalry between the glad iators' trainers. With one star gladiator dead, Falco is forced to investig ate and the trail leads from Rome to the blood-soaked sand of the arena in North Africa. Amazon Review The further Davies gets into her series of private eye (or, to be precise, public informer) thrillers set in the Rome of Vespasian, the more she learn s what it is that she does best. Falco is working for the tax department, i nvestigating used gladiator scams, and stumbles into more murders. The vari ous mysteries here--the stabbing of the arena- lion trained to eat criminal s, the murder of a famous gladiator generally considered past his prime--ar e solved elegantly enough and with a genial ruthlessness appropriate to the period in which they are set. Davies never forgets that this society rests on the backs of slaves and has a taste for bloodshed which even we might consider excessive. But what we read Davies for is partly for the continuing soap opera of on-the-make Falco, his upper-class wife Helena and their variously rackety, lowlife or snobbish connectio, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031159. ISBN: 9780099799610
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Imprint: Arrow Books, 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. 'Rats are always bigger than you expect.'Marcus Didius Falco, ancient Rome' s hangdog investigator, hates sharing a cell with a rodent - though being b ailed by his old mother is almost as embarrassing. His highborn girlfriend can't decide if she wants him and Titus Caesar' reward for past services is a wet fish. Hoping for a Editorial Reviews, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031147. ISBN: 9780099831709
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Imprint: BJU Press, 1987 In 1903 Amy Carmichael's book Things as They Are shocked many Englishmen an d Americans into taking a closer look at India. Unafraid of public criticis m, Amy Carmichael had revealed to the Western world the spiritual bondage o f India as well as the suffering of thousands under the supposedly "benign" religion of Hinduism. She raised a plea for the little children who were b eing sold into lives of shame as slaves in Hindu temples. Never content to do things man's way when the Lord was showing her a better way, Amy Carmichael was one of the first missionaries in India to adopt In dian dress. Amid Christians who considered manual labor dishonorable, she c heerfully settled down to doing her share of the work with the Dohnavur chi ldren. But the qualities of Amy Carmichael that will stand out to the reade r are her daring faith, her overcoming spirit, and her tender love for the children she sought to rescue. She was their beloved "Amma," or "Mother." H er family grew to almost a thousand children before her death in 1951. We hope that With Daring Faith will be a first step for our readers in discovering the wealth of insight and challenge that missionary biographies can offer. In Amy Carmichael's victories in India, we see the victory of the Lord Jesus Christ over the powers of darkness., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000014659. ISBN: 9780890844144
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Imprint: Jonathan Cape, 2002 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: On the second green of a Long Island golf-course there are three golf balls and a corpse with a bullet-hole in his forehead. The call goes out for Harry Fielding - that guardian angel with wet wings and a five-o'clock shadow - to come in from the cold. With a new suit and a new partner, Harry is back where he least wants to be: playing the deadly games of MI5. Always a triangular peg in a square hole, Harry has never felt easy with the protocol, the procedure and the need-to-know principles of the British secret service - particularly at the sleazy, turbid end of the pool in which he has to swim. And it doesn't help that his apprentice, Johnny Weeks, is a troublemaker with the measured diffidence of a French waiter and the volatility of a paid-up psychopath. Harry is going back to the work he hates but does so well, while all he really wants is to rekindle his relationships with his ailing, amnesiac father and his ex-wife - who appears to be sleeping with his boss. Will this be his last chance: the fresh start that will restore moral equilibrium to a life turned turtle, to a crooked man who wants to go straight?, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000019408. ISBN: 9780224061735
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Imprint: Red Wheel / Weiser, 1996 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: This revolutionary book, by the author of The Art of the Possible, shows that there are six unique patterns of perception. Each one determines how an individual with that pattern absorbs, organizes, remembers and expresses information. Markova shows how understanding their own perceptual style can help readers increase their self-esteem and relate to others who never seem to understand them., As New Stock number: RWARE0000018318. ISBN: 9781573240642
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Imprint: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing C, 1997 A tight clean copy, no markings throughout. Completely revised more than fifteen years after its first printing, To Wal k and Not Faint is Marva J. Dawn's popular first book. Her devotional refle ctions examine the fortieth chapter of Isaiah as it deals with many of the critical issues of daily life. Dawn's meticulous study opens up each verse of Isaiah 40 to challenge us with significant insights for faith and profou nd motivation for growth in discipleship. The structure of the book bridges head and heart: it offers both exegetical depth and personal involvement for a month of devotional reflection. Each meditation observes the text carefully, considers some of the nuances and implications of the original Hebrew, and identifies how our lives fit into the bigger story of the biblical narrative. Thus, the book both supplies skills for biblical meditation and invites readers to contemplate God's relation to all the cries of human existence, to realize how a relationship with the Trinity gives us the unusual ability to handle all the dimensions of life., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000011070. ISBN: 9780802842909
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Imprint: Fawcett, 1997 California PI Jeri Howard, seen last in Nobody's Child, takes a deliciously suspicion-saturated interest in everyone around in her latest adventure. T hat doubting stance makes the best part of this tale, which begins with har assing phone calls and some flattened flora and is strong- armed to a gun-wa ving finale. Vicki Vernon, the daughter of Jeri's ex- husband, calls for hel p when she and her housemates, all U.C. Berkeley students being threatened by menacing phone calls, find their garden has been trashed. The group of e ight offers Jeri a wealth of possible leads: Vicki and another are pestered by an obnoxious man they refuse to date; one encounters "frightening peopl e" when she volunteers at an abortion clinic; another works at a center for battered women. A few, Jeri learns in her probing, have omitted bits of th eir history when talking with her. She hasn't made much headway when a pipe bomb is tossed through the front window. Leaving most of the college crowd behind, Dawson sets a related mystery behind the current danger, one that hinges on an old unsolved homicide case that Jeri investigated eight years earlier., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000000487. ISBN: 9780449223574
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Imprint: Prentice Hall Press, 1997 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. What's the secret of making it to the top? Education ? Brains? Connections? Or just plain luck?, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036191. ISBN: 9780136714972
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Imprint: Your Coach In A Box, 2005 This revealing program of inside secrets from a master negotiator comes wit h a bonus CD on how to buy a car and how to negotiate a raise--two negotiat ions that listeners care about most. Unabridged. 5 CDs., As New Stock number: RWARE0000036221. ISBN: 9781596590021
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Imprint: Inspirational Communications, 1996 A tight clean copy, no markings throughout., Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000012890. ISBN: 9780958651608
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Imprint: Penguin Group (USA) Incorpor, 1991 A crisp clean hardcover, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-lib book., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000023954. ISBN: 9780399135712
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Imprint: Water Brook, 2002 This is the eagerly anticipated story of the two Christian aid workers from Waco, Tex., who were imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan shortly befo re the September 11 attacks on America. Because so many Americans followed their plight in the press, the behind-the-scenes details of their 105-day o rdeal will inevitably be riveting. Unfortunately, the narrative is told in a weaving fashion that shuttles back and forth between Curry's voice, Merce r's voice and their joint perspective. Moreover, much of their story of mon otonous prison life does not lend itself well to straightforward chronologi cal narrative. Instead, the book is organized loosely by themes, places and people, and often leaps ahead of itself in confusing ways. Despite these f rustrations and a surprisingly weak fade- to-black ending that barely mentio ns God or the faith that has sustained the missionaries throughout, the boo k is compelling. Readers will learn of the individual paths that led Curry and Mercer first to Christ and then to Kabul. Especially heartbreaking are the stories of all the Afghan families who were relying on the women for li fe-saving support and who were abruptly cut off at the time of their arrest . Perhaps most powerful is the honesty with which Mercer discusses her spir itual difficulties in captivity. This is not the story of larger-than-life heroines whose faith never wavers in the face of persecution; readers are a llowed glimpses into Mercer's very real despair and the rift it caused in t he group of prisoners. This gritty sense of the real life of ordinary, beli eving Americans keeps the pages turning., Fine/Fine Stock number: RWARE0000013511. ISBN: 9781578566457
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Imprint: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1979 Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000019173. ISBN: 9780233971810
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Imprint: Easton Press, 1989 A highly collectible Signed Easton Press Limited Edition, bound in brown le ather with gold gilt pattern to front and back boards, and gilt print on sp ine; gilt page edges; bound-in ribbon placemarker.Introduction by James Gun n., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000009668.
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Imprint: Diamond Books, 1994 Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000005364.
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Imprint: Berkley, 1985 Story about the Japanese Secret Service., Good Stock number: RWARE0000036136. ISBN: 9780425074589
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Imprint: Jove, 1992 The focal point for this immensely complicated plot is Congresswoman Laura Christen. Aiming to be the first female Speaker of the U.S. House of Repres entatives, she unexpectedly learns that the cosmetics company she founded i s about to secretly distribute a mind-control drug. Alternating chapters be tween Washington (about which Dean, wife of John Dean, has considerable kno wledge) and Los Angeles, Dean creates a vast gallery of characters., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000000462. ISBN: 9780515109245
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Imprint: Houghton Miffllin Company, 2004 Fifteen-year-old Kenny Wilson has dreams. And none of them include slaving for his domineering mama at her café or chauffeuring around his ex-con drun k of a daddy. As soon as his freshman year is over and he has enough money to get a decent start, Kenny plans to leave the stifling town of Comfort, T exas, and begin again in Dallas. A key to his financial plans is to place w ell in the University Interscholastic League, a real program that has aided young adults in Texas for years, including the author herself. Reading poe try with Cindy, a senior at Kenny's school, is just about the only thing th at gives Kenny comfort in Comfort. Meanwhile, his mama is determined to for ge Daddy into the best country and western singer who's ever lived, at the same time keeping him off the bottle. All Daddy wants is to get a job and t o recover some of the respect he's lost. In this well-thought-out first nov el, however, one has the feeling that everyone's plans and expectations wil l come to naught. Heartbreak and violence lie just over the horizon. This w ell-paced story stays on track for the most part. Its excellent thematic me ssage could be exactly what many young readers need to hear: Don't be afrai d to jump out of your comfort zone in order to chase your dreams., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000013093. ISBN: 9780618439126
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Imprint: Little Brown, 2004 Girls on Film is the wickedly funny and risqué sequel to the bestselling A- List that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Holl ywood glitterati. Seventeen year-old Anna ("pronounced Aaaanah") Percy has moved from posh Manhattan to the evcen more posh Beverly Hills, California, where she's living with her estranged dad for the rest of the school year while her mother travels to Europe with a friend., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000005257. ISBN: 9780316000796
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Imprint: Adams Media, 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. About the Author Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D. is a consultant and medical advisor for health websites. She is also a regular contributor to many health and alternative medicine magazines. She is frequently invited as an integrative medicine expert to present health segments local television programmes., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038772. ISBN: 9781593373337
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Imprint: For Dummies, 2006 Your one-stop guide to six great Macromedia tools for building Web sites It 's like a Web-site-in-a-book! First, there's some Web site insight to help you decide what you want your site to do. Then it's into the nitty- gritty o f making it happen - building with Dreamweaver, adding animation with Flash , enabling collaboration with Contribute, using ColdFusion to access databa ses, and a whole lot more. Discover how to * Plan content for your site * U se CSS styles * Incorporate forms into your pages * Beef up Flash movies wi th ActionScript * Use queries in ColdFusion * Integrate all the Macromedia products, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031884. ISBN: 9780764596902
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Imprint: Poppy, 2006 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. It's prom season, and no town does prom like Tinsel Town. Ben is back for t he summer -- just in time to be Anna's prom date. But his family has a hous e guest who's so hot, she's bound to burn up their perfect plans. Adam find s out a scandalous secret that threatens to tear Cammie's world to pieces. Sam agrees to take Parker to the prom and they end up doing a lot more than dancing. What happens when Sam's romance-obsessed boyfriend Eduardo flies in from Paris to surprise Sam? This prom is sure to be glamorous, and occas ionally downright shocking! It's just the kind of night the A- List crew wil l never forget. Editorial Reviews About the Author Zoey Dean's A-List is a national bestselling series. She divides her time between Beverly Hills and several small islands in the Caribbean. She is currently working on her next juicy A-List novel, at an undisclosed location., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039810. ISBN: 9780316010931
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Imprint: Poppy, 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. Tall Cool One is the fourth novel in this witty and risqu series that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. New York blueblood Anna Percy came to L.A. to learn how to have a good time. Now she's surfing Zuma Beach with the industry's hottest young television producer. But duty calls and Anna must jet down to Las Casitas, Mexico, on a secret mission for her uber-powerful businessman father. But it turns out Anna isn't the only one staying at the super- luxury resort with a secret. Soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures, The A-List and its bestselling sequels, Girls on Film, Blonde Ambition, and Tall Cool One, are full of page-turning action about the fast times of Beverly Hills' most beautiful and glamorous people., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039809. ISBN: 9780316735087
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Imprint: Firebird, 2006 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000022428. ISBN: 9780142406526
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Imprint: A. Dean, 2011 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., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031728. ISBN: 9789709150506
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Imprint: Simon & Schuster Export, 2009 Nothing is as it seems in The Bodies Left Behind, Jeffrey Deaver's quintess ential can't-put-it-down thriller about an off-duty cop who investigates an aborted 911 call from a secluded vacation home and ends up on the run. Fro m the opening scene (that'll keep even the bravest of you at home with the doors locked and the shades drawn), Deaver delivers a clever page-turner th at reads like one of his tightly plotted and fast- paced short stories (fans should check out Twisted). Endlessly surprising (there is more than one ja w-dropping plot twist) and supremely gripping (two hours after cracking thi s stand-alone thriller, I came up for air and took a moment to shake the cr amp out of my fingers), The Bodies Left Behind is one of the most entertain ing thrillers of the year., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000016809. ISBN: 9781439101100
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Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011 A tight clean softcover, no markings throughout: 'The face of war is changing. The other side doesn't play by the rules much any more. There's thinking, in some circles, that we need to play by a different set of rules too ...' Fresh from Afghanistan, James Bond has been recruited to a new agency. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of Five, Six and the MoD, its very existence deniable. Its aim: to protect the Realm, by any means necessary. The Night Action alert calls Bond from dinner with a beautiful woman. GCHQ has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected. And 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfil his mission., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000025136. ISBN: 9781444716481
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Imprint: Bantam, 2001 Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, payi ng her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot newsmagazine, Current Events -- an d she's got the story she knows will get her there. Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview with Rand y Boggs, who's doing hard time in Attica for a murder he claims he didn't c ommit. Rune can't say exactly why, but she's sure he's innocent. If she can prove it, Current Events won't merely report the news, it'll make news -- and Rune's career. But what she could be writing is Randy Boggs's epitaph -- and her own. Rune's newly discovered witness soon turns up dead. A hit man from Miami is on Rune's trail, and Boggs is finding prison even more dangerous than before. Someone wants this story killed, and it could be the girl with the camera who ends up on the cutting room floor., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039645. ISBN: 9780553583298
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Imprint: Pocket, 2001 Perennial bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver's alter ego, William Jefferies, knows a thing or two about Hollywood. So does John Pellam, the hero of his previous Shallow Graves and Bloody River Blues and the latest in the serie s, Hell's Kitchen. Pellam made a name for himself as a director before a st int in San Quentin took him off the fast track. Since his release he's been earning his keep as a location scout and not so incidentally shooting a do cumentary about New York's Hell's Kitchen, which he hopes will propel him b ack into the career that skidded south after he ran afoul of the law. Pellam has found the star of his new film, one Ettie Washington, who has lived in the neighborhood for decades and is the perfect voice to tell the story of an area that's losing its old-time seediness to urban gentrification. But then Ettie's tenement goes up in a blaze that kills a small boy and puts her right in the public eye--as a suspect. It's only the beginning of a series of fires, each one more deadly. The cops know Ettie couldn't have set the others, since she's been in jail, but they're convinced she knows who did. Pellam has his own reasons for getting Ettie off the hook and embarking on a search for the real pyromaniac. Jeffries saves the best one for the very end of this taut, well-paced, and highly atmospheric thriller., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000000430. ISBN: 9780671047511
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Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton General D, 1994 The Times 'The best psychological thriller writer around' The Times on A Maiden's Grave 'Deaver knits a seamless fabric of tightening tension right up to the explosive double whammy ending', Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000000442. ISBN: 9780340610558
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Imprint: Berkley, 2001 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. Eight vulnerable girls and their helpless teachers are forced off a school bus and held hostage. The madman who has them at gunpoint has a simple plan: one hostage an hour will die unless the demands are met. Called to the scene is Arthur Potter, the FBI's best hostage negotiator. He has a plan. But so does one of the hostages-a beautiful teacher who's willing to do anything to save the lives of her students. Now, the clock is ticking as a chilling game of cat and mouse begins., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039652. ISBN: 9780451204295
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Imprint: Pocket, 2007 Bestseller Deaver's second story collection (after 2003's Twisted) is best enjoyed in small doses, since, as the author states in his preface, each of the 16 suspense tales contains a "gut-wrenching twist," a formulaic final reversal that loses its punch with too much repetition. That said, readers will find a number of clever and concise thrillers. The standout, "Born Bad ," about a mother waiting in fear for her estranged daughter to kill her, d oes a superb job of matching up the clues at the beginning with the tale's resolution. Sherlockians will get a kick from a pastiche narrated in third person, "The Westphalian Ring," pitting Holmes against a crafty jewel thief . In an afterword to the tale "Afraid," Deaver (The Bone Collector) explain s how he works the concept of fear into his fiction., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000015663. ISBN: 9781416541288
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Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009 A tight clean softcover, no markings throughout: A highway patrol trooper notices something strange on the side of the road: a homemade cross, fashioned as a memorial. Except the date being 'remembered' is the following day - the day the police find a kidnapped teenage girl in the trunk of a car, left for dead..., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000025129. ISBN: 9780340937266
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Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ome, 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. The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside cro sses beside local highways�not in memoriam, but as announcements of hi s intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient way s: using the personal details about the victims that they�ve carelessl y posted in blogs and on social networking websites. The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Inves tigations foremost body language expert. She and Deputy Michael O�Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fa tal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog , The Chilton Report. As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Usi ng techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in multiplayer online r ole-playing games, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacr amento, paranoid parents, and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose bel ief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance�s career. It is this threat that causes Da nce to take desperate and risky measures... In signature Jeffery Deaver style, Roadside Crosses is filled with dozens of plot twists, cliff-hangers, and heartrending personal subplots. It is also a searing look at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world. Roadside Crosses is the third in Deaver�s b, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000033421. ISBN: 9781439163191
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Imprint: Hodder, 2008 Kathryn Dance, an investigator with the California Bureau of Investigation, returns from Deaver's The Cold Moon (where she was a secondary) in this po st–prison break pulse-pounder. Dance is the lead cop handling the esc ape of psychopathic killer Daniel Pell, dubbed "Son of Manson" by the press for his "family" of young runaways and his most horrendous crime, the murd ers of computer engineer William Croyton, Croyton's wife and two of their t hree children. The only child left alive, nine-year-old Theresa, is known a s the Sleeping Doll. Pell, charismatic and diabolically intelligent, contin ually eludes capture, but Dance, a specialist in interrogation and kinesics (or body language), is never more than a few suspenseful minutes behind. D ance is nicely detailed, and procedural scenes where she uses somatic cues to ferret out liars are fascinating. The book sags in its long middle, but toward the end Deaver digs into his bottomless bag of unexpected twists and turns, keeping readers wide-eyed with surprise, and leaving them looking f orward to more of the perspicacious Dance., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000013482. ISBN: 9780340833865
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Imprint: Grand Central Publishing, 2016 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. Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the mo st creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (Daily T elegraph, UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller. A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the stampede that killed them; there was no fire. Kathryn Dance--a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert--discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people's own fears and greed into weapons, has more attacks planned. She and her team must race against the clock to find where he will strike next before more innocents die., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036505. ISBN: 9781455517176
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Imprint: Coronet Books, 1999 Before he launched his praised and popular series about quadriplegic crimin ologist Lincoln Rhyme (The Empty Chair, etc.), Deaver made his reputation w ith tricky, stylish thrillers such as Praying for Sleep and Manhattan Is My Beat. This slick novel is a throwback to those books and Deaver's first wh olly outside the Rhyme universe since A Maiden's Grave. The basic plot is s imple. An insane but intensely charismatic psychiatrist, Aaron Matthews, fo r reasons revealed only near book's end, kidnaps his patient, alienated Meg an McCall, the young adult daughter of former Virginia prosecutor Tate Coll ier, and imprisons her in an abandoned mental institution. Tate and his est ranged wife go looking for Megan and enlist the cops in their search. Much violence ensues. Deaver's characters are workable but not deep, though ther e's some psychological probing along the fault lines dividing Tate, his wif e and their daughter. The novel's primary appeal arises from its thrills, w hich are plentiful. Like James Patterson, Deaver writes dialogue-driven pro se, in short, strong sentences and paragraphs that demand little from the r eader while seizing attention to the max. Tate and his wife are forgettable heroes, but Deaver tells some of the story from feisty Megan's gripping PO V, as she fights back against her captorAone dandy villain who delights in conning others through disguise and misdirection, allowing for plenty of pl ot curves., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000012857. ISBN: 9780340640234
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