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This debut novel by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadIt is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at ...

This text for graduate students examines problems related to earth and environmental sciences by means of theoretical models based on a purely random (stochastic) element. 103 figures. 16 tables.

Marc Zimmer has written the first popular science book on an amazing new area of biotechnology that will help fight cancer, create new products, improve agriculture, and combat terrorism. For more than one hundred and sixty million years, green fluorescent protein has existed in one species of jellyfish. In 1994 it was cloned, giving rise to a host of useful and potentially revolutionary applications in biotechnology. Today researchers are usi...

This book tells the remarkable story of one of Ireland's greatest yet neglected sporting heroes. Peter O'Connor, 1906 Olympic gold medallist, long jump world record holder and Irish nationalist. This book brings to life a forgotten era of Irish athletic achievement and provides a fascinating social commentary of the life of a young man of ambition in late Victorian Ireland and the early years of the twentieth century. It also describes the fru...

All six-year-old Sarah wants is another girl in her school. Grades 1-2.

The honeymoon is over - now the murders can begin. America*s #1 thriller writer returns with his sexiest, scariest novel ever. James Patterson's explosive new thriller introduces a bride who is beautiful, talented, devoted - and deadly. When a young investment banker dies of baffling causes, FBI agent John O'Hara immediately suspects the only witness, the banker's alluring and mysterious fiancie. Nora Sinclair is a beautiful decorator who expe...

Between Good and Evil is Roger Depue's retrospective look at a life spent apprehending criminals - mostly serial killers - as a small- town police chief, Swat team member, Behavioural Sciences Unit chief and developer of revolutionary law enforcement programmes that were the precursor to VICAP.

Beginning speakers will learn how to get started and how to become more confident speakers. Experienced speakers will discover how to make the most of their speaking engagements and to become sought-after presenters. You will find this to be an indispensable toolkit and guide to expanding your practice.

The Mayday" is the second installment of an acclaimed new series featuring ex-DEA Agent Jack Merchant and boat repo contractor Sarah Ballard. This time they are searching for a man's wife and children, missing on the high seas.

A cookbook with a difference -- recipes sorted by wine variety designed to help create the perfect seasonal meal paired with the perfect wine. Plenty of recipes and pairings are provided and include main courses, appetizers and desserts.

Award-winning Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants is now available in a softcover edition. Logee's Greenhouses is renowned worldwide as a leader in the horticultural industry, and since 1892 has been growing and selling over a thousand varieties of tropical and subtropical container and garden plants for both indoor and outdoor use. In this book, the third-generation owners of Logee's share the 112-year-old family secrets on how t...

Kong: King of Skull Island" is both prequel and sequel to the seminal 1933 fantasy that introduced King Kong. Celebrated fantasy artist Joe DeVito and top fantasy and sci-fi writer Brad Strickland join forces to create an interactive storytelling experience. Illustrations.

Edinburgh investigator John Rebus pursues a case in the city's red- light district, where refugees seeking asylum in Scotland are subject to the most ruthless members of the crime world.

In spite of living in the Sonoran Desert, renowned gardening expertScott Calhoun has created a lush and vibrant paradise in his own backyard.

At a time when cities appear to be fragmenting mosaics of ethnic enclaves, it is reassuring to know there are still stable multicultural neighborhoods. Beyond Segregation offers a tour of some of America's best known multiethnic neighborhoods: Uptown in Chicago, Jackson Heights (Queens), and San Antonio-Fruitvale in Oakland. Readers will learn the history of the neighborhoods and develop an understanding of the people that reside in them, the ...

This insightful and witty collection of recently published stories by National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson explores issues of identity and race.

Dr. Carlson teaches readers why affection is so important and how to develop that essential, active ingredient in marriage: the affection that demonstrates love for each other and makes a marriage the rich experience every couple craves.

Chadds Ford grew along an important early thoroughfare where it crossed the Brandywine Creek. Travelers along this east-west highway between Philadelphia and Baltimore were obliged to ford the creek at property owned by businessman John Chads. At first, farms, mills, and homesteads composed the architectural landscape. As the town grew, so did businesses, such as the Gallagher General Store and the Chadds Ford Hotel. By the end of the nineteen...

In this classic of South American literature, Aires returns home to his native, Rio after many years abroad and is captivated by a young widow whom he sees praying at her husband's graveside. Her charm and the tragic story of her brief marriage increase his fascination, and soon he is indulging in impossible dreams. But the Brazil that Aires remembers from his youth is changing fast. A new era is dawning with events such as the coming of the r...

Considered one of the world's most beautiful beaches for its sugar white sand and emerald blue-green waters, Panama City Beach has, until recently, remained one of Florida's undiscovered treasures. First documented by Spanish explorers in the 1500s and later by the English, the region remained unsettled because of its inaccessibility and marauding renegade inhabitants. At a time when property was valued according to the crops it could grow, th...