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I breathed as shallowly as possible and I made my way across the colorless land in my too bright red Cavalier. I seemed to be bringing the only real color in the entire desert. A distinct feeling of being watched by invisible eyes came over me. I was a huge, displaced, red ant crawling to her death in some giant kid's toy ant farm. I felt the last thing I expected to feel - embarrassed." At the bedside of their dying father, Cat Hopkins' older...

Features a collection of poems on intimacy, parenthood, and death, mountain-climbing, hiking, and birding.

Sudoku Puzzles and Number Sequences contains 135 puzzles (60 Sudoku and 75 number sequences). All puzzles are graded to test your ability at different levels. The first chapter begins by introducing key strategies for solving Sudoku puzzles. It then follows with with very simple puzzles and ends with quite challenging puzzles. You will gain hours of fun and pleasure doing these types of puzzles. Where as Sudoku puzzles will test you logical th...

A new look at the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement from the time that enslaved Africans arrived in Mississippi through 2005 as criminal cases and trials continue.. Whether a Rebel represents someone supporting the Confederacy's Lost Cause or someone opposing the caste system it represents, either way Mississippi has always been full of Rebels. Authors M. Susan Orr-Klopfer, Fred J. Klopfer, Barry C. Klopfer, Esq. Foreword by Benjamin T. Greenb...

As The Italian Government puts a limit on the number of tourists to Venice, to protect it from destruction and pollution, an American consortium (McBigBite and Pshht Cola) build beside the real Venice a "Second Venice" which is "bigger and better". This book is the ludicrous story of life in this fake Venice. With its fake canals and gondolas, its fake museums and fake paintings, its "Fake Films" festival, congresses and college and dog shows,...

Für viele ist es ein Traum, bei Dreharbeiten einmal live dabei zu sein. Filmluft zu schnuppern wie z.B. am Set von Serien wie "SK Kölsch", "GZSZ", "Unter uns", "Alarm für Cobra 11" und noch vielen anderen mehr. Als Komparse kann dieser Traum Wirklichkeit werden. · Was ist überhaupt ein Komparse? · Was macht ein Komparse? · Wie findet man eine seriöse Agentur? · Wie hoch ist die Gage? · Wie läuft das am Drehort / Set ab? Dieses Buch beantwort...

Arnold Krowneski is taken under the wing of his high school art teacher, Mrs. M. She sees great potential in his ability, so she introduces him to another friend, who owns an art gallery of great renown, one Mr. George Zukor, who in turn introduces the boy to the world of art. George promotes him, in an attempt to make his name synonymous with Dali and Picasso.Arnie's work was equal to these two giants of the art world, but his style was quite...

Everything Must Change is about the ups and downs of the fast life. Also, it's about a botched jewelry store robbery that I committed, which lead to the tragic death of a father of three and how death subsequently led to years of moral anguish and bitter regret for my former actions. This story is also about the metamophosis of James Wells, Jr., a man-child, strong willed and misdirected, who finally evolved into a responsible adult. I believe...

Katherine Lyons is a mature, attractive artist living in San Francisco. Tragically, she learns about her father's fatal plane crash in the mountains near her home in Wyoming. After a ten year absence, Katherine goes home to Lyons's Mountain View Ranch to bury her father, where she's reunited with the painful childhood memories of a mother's emotional neglect, when her mother unexpectedly returns home for the funeral and asserts her claim to he...

Eine wahre Rarität: Carlos Kleiber dirigiert den Rosenkavalier von Richard Strauss. 1979 gefilmt, liest sich die Besetzungsliste dieser Produktion bis heute wie das Who-is-Who des Gesangs: Gwyneth Jones, Brigitte Fassbaender und Lucia Popp um nur einige zu nennen machen diese Inszenierung zu einer Opernaufführung, die nichts zu Wünschen übrig lässt. Der wahre Star dieser Inszenierung ist Carlos Kleiber. Dass er ohne Zweifel einer der besten St...

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Sparks fly when a hardboiled reporter meets a handsome senator. But a political scandal-and attempts on her life-could drive them apart. Or maybe adversity could draw them into a bond even more intense than their steamy sexual embraces.

When one of her baristas unwittingly serves a poisonous latte to a prominent figure on the fashion scene, Clare Cosi must uncover some jolting secrets to save her shop. Includes recipes, coffee brewing tips, and historical facts. Original.

Andry, the new Sunrunner Lord of Goddess Keep, must master potentially deadlymagical knowledge before he can confront the ancient foe who nearly destroyedthe Sunrunners ages ago. Reissue.

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain and New York Times bestseller Brain Maker... Loss of memory is not a natural part of aging-and this book explains why. Celebrated neurologist David Perlmutter reveals how everyday memory-loss-misplacing car keys, forgetting a name, losing concentration in meetings-is actually a warning sign of a distressed brain. Here he and Carol Colman offer a simple plan for repairing those p...

Under the conditions of economic globalization, the prevailing liberal philosophy of governance is becoming increasingly problematic. Liberty Beyond Neo-Liberalism critiques three varieties of liberal engagement with the processes of globalization and their ability to temper the harmful effects of the process. Steven Slaughter proposes an alternate approach, global civic republicanism, which seeks to retrieve the civic and public character of ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford's "haunting, unforgettable, ice-blooded thriller"* that introduced Lucas Davenport... The killer was mad but brilliant. He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used...So many rules to his sick, violent games of death. But Lucas Davenport, the cop who's out to get him, isn't playin...

Frank Herbert's classic masterpiece-a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, and Charlotte Rampling.Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a no...

Our experiences of trauma sow the seeds of many persistent and misunderstood medical problems such as chronic fatigue syndrome and various maladies of the immune system. Because of our inadequate understanding of the relationship of mind and body in processing these traumas, many of us suffer needlessly from our exposure to life's traumas. Robert Scaer offers hope to those who wish to transform trauma and better understand their lives.

Presents thirteen stories and poems of danger, horror, comedy, and romance. This work includes "The Valley of the Sorceress" by "Fu Manchu" author Sax Rohmer, "The Masked Ball" by Alexandre Dumas, and "Tigre" by Zane Grey. It includes stories from O Henry, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert W Service, Edith Nesbit, and others.