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Lisa Goldstein has published eight novels, including the recent Walking the Labyrinth. Her novel The Red Magician won the American Book Award for Best Paperback. She has also published a short story collection, Travellers in Magic, and numerous short stories. Her novels and short stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. "She has given us the kind of magic and adventure that once upon a time made us look for s...

For two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien life - without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space. The ship's captain - immortal, obsessed - refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark, or destroy the ship trying. Only Sparrow, a young crewman uncertain of his own past, can stand again...

Dany Ashton is invited to vacation at her stepfather's house in Zanzibar, but even before her airplane takes off there is a stolen passport, a midnight intruder--and murder.

When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing vacation to Gulmarg, a resort nestled in the mountains above the fabled Vale of Kashmir, she anticipates an entertaining but uneventful stay. But when she discovers that the deaths of two in her party are the reuslt of foul play, she finds herself entrusted with a mission of unforseen importance. And when she leaves the ski slopes for the Waterwitch, a private houseboat on the placid shores of the Dal La...

This brilliant, original, and encyclopedic cookbook presents the authentic foods and recipes of the great oriental cuisines by cooking technique-steaming, stir-frying, deep-frying, currying, simmering, , barbecuing, noodle-making, etc. With loving attention to authenticity and detail, the author presents more than 300 tested recipes for such dishes as Indonesian twice-fried spicy peanut fritters, Japanese tempura, Peking duck, Philippine deep-...

Before Celine, a sixteen-year-old artist, can take a promised trip to Europe, she must show a little maturity, finish an overdue term paper and support her seven-year-old neighbor during his parent's separation.

Alaska is like no other state and few countries, men experience greater risk in her arms. This one-of-a-kind anthology captures the spine tingling adventures of daring men and women who venture into Alaska's vast wilderness and look death in the eye. "Danger Stalks the Land" relates gripping episodes of animal attacks, avalanches, aircraft disasters, fishing, hunting, and skiing accidents, and chronicles risky climbs and reckless mountaineerin...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nice Jewish widower must be in want of a wife. In Cohen's novel, a witty twist on "Pride and Prejudice, " the "village" is Boca Raton, Florida, and eligible men, especially ones in possession of a good fortune and country club privileges, are scarce.

Primo Levi wrote books that have been called "the essential works of humankind, " including Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining to his death in the house in which he'd been born, managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years, and tending his invalid mother to the end. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson unravels the strands of an influential life.

In this spirited memoir, TV journalist Paul Paolicelli travels to Italy to dig up his ancestral roots. He roams through the countryside, visits ancient castles and village churches, and enjoys an Alessandria siesta. He finds long-lost cousins by day and performs with an amateur jazz group by night. Along the way, he unravels deeply moving stories about his family's past and discovers the tragic legacy of WWII that is still affecting the Old Co...

This extraordinary trilogy depicts a gender war that crosses the boundaries of software, wetware, time, and reality itself in its imaginative leaps and bounds. Only love holds the future together in this tale of star-crossed teens whose transformations defy description or imagination.

Fourth-grader Wade Thompson is having trouble adjusting to Kennedy, the new school where he has been transferred to a class for the gifted and talented. . . . With fast-moving dialogue, humor and sympathy, Cohen weaves a story of developing friendships and self-knowledge and once again demonstrates how well she understands a child's need for acceptance".--The Horn Book.

Hades is dead and the Agency needs a replacement, a new apprentice to carry on its good work. After a vote, number 72 18 9 11 1 13 49 is selected and promptly yanked from his grave to serve a seven-day trial sentence. Each day the hapless narrator is to assist Death in the killing of one unfortunate soul.

Pregnancy is filled with many joys and much wonder. But this miraculous journey can also be accompanied by a good deal of fear and anxiety. Will my pregnancy be difficult? Will my labor be painful? Will I be a good mother?While Hypnosis for a Joyful Pregnancy and Pain-Free Labor and Deliver will not be able to provide answers to all of the unknowns, this unique and innovative book can teach you how to lessen the common complaints of pregnancy ...

The National Book Award finalist for White Man's Grave now presents a scathing, hilarious satire of doctors, lawyers, hospitals, health care, life, and death. When Felicia Potter comes to the hospital to visit her comatose father, Dr. Peter Ernst, a young resident, sees the opportunity to spice up his grim routine with a little romance.

A handbook that covers the practical and emotional issues facing divorced fathers today, "Be a Great Divorced Dad" offers advice, guidance, and support for the ever-growing number of divorced fathers who seek to remain "real" dads, but fear that their situation after divorce will make that impossible.

For two years in the pages of "Esquire" magazine, with no more professional qualifications than a decent consience, Harry Stein examined the battle between right and wrong in the most intimate terms. Now collected in book form, Stein's provocative essays eloquently address many of the real, if unspoken, issues of everyday life, providing warm, personal insights that offer a rich reward beyond good and evil.

A frank, streetwise "Our Bodies, Ourselves" for young men and women, this guide answers the questions young people are asking--about sexuality, drugs, alcohol, fitness and nutrition, and much more.

Cricket Explained offers the sports enthusiast a user-friendly introduction to baseball's British cousin, a game that shares with America's national pastime the common ancestor "rounders".This is the definitive beginner's guide to the game of cricket, written by a world authority on the sport, the co-inventor of the Coopers & Lybrand World Cricket Ratings System. Cricket Explained takes the reader from the game's fundamentals -- basic rules, t...

A first-time-in-paperback reissue, this full-fledged biography takes on all of the famous Shakespearean debates, from whether or not Shakespeare actually wrote his plays to speculation regarding his sexuality to the mysterious curse he set upon his own grave. This lively and provocative book weaves together the most complete, objective, and readable account of Shakespeare's life ever written. Includes 24 pages of illustrations.