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Consumption is a haunting story of a woman's life marked by struggle and heartbreak, but it is also much more. It stunningly evokes life in the far north, both past and present, and offers a scathing dissection of the effects of consumer life on both north and south. It does so in an unadorned, elegiac style, moving between times, places and people in beautiful counterpoint. But it is also a gripping detective story, and features medical repor...

It has been eight years since Marla Wolfblade buried her second husband. In that time, she has become the power behind Hythrias throne. But while Marla plays the games of politics and diplomacy, the High Arrion of the Sorcerers Collective is plotting to destroy her and the entire Wolfblade line.

From the burning heart of a pocket dimension to the farthest reaches of our own reality, the saga of Godland continues in this third trade paperback collection. As cosmic forces of evil conspire against the Earth and all who inhabit it, its lone emissary to the stars, Commander Adam Archer, finds himself the target of humanity's mistrust and deceit. All this, and Basil still wears the body of a woman!

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Over 270 clear, color photos and 53 pattern drawings show how to creature sculpture from soap, using simple wooden tools. You can learn to carve twelve well-known and much-loved dwellers of the oceans and coral reefs, including the clownfish, starfish, octopus, seahorse, penguin, orca, sperm whale, sea otter, manatee, queen angelfish, sea lion, and beluga. The projects begin simply with the starfish and increase in complexity. Carvers will pro...

This wonderful book contains stunning images of 540 rugs crafted by 292 of today's contemporary rug hooking artists. They are rugs made by a group of artists exploring a common theme, as well as series or topic-related rugs by individual artists. Among the many subjects included are rugs from The American Folk Art Museum's "Icons of America" contest, "Circus Train" rugs from the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild, "Art Hits the Wall, " from a Ca...

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Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America...and he taught them how to kill it. Sam and Dean have hit New York City to check out a local rocker's haunted house. But before they can figure out why a lovesick banshee in an '80s heavy-meta...

Today I feel silly. Mom says it's the heat.I put rouge on the cat and gloves on my feet.I ate noodles for breakfast and pancakes at night.I dressed like a star and was quite a sight. Today I am sad, my mood's heavy and gray.There's a frown on my face and it's been there all day.My best friend and I had a really big fight.She said that I tattled and I know that she's right.Silly, cranky, excited, or sad--everyone has moods that can change each ...

L'objet de cet ouvrage est d'expliquer le processus de formation de vastes domaines agricoles attestés dans la documentation papyrologique dans le courant du IIIe siècle ap. J.-C. dans le nome arsinoïte (Moyenne Egypte). Ces domaines appartenaient à des familles de notables entretenant des liens étroits avec le chef-lieu du nome, mais aussi avec Alexandrie. Le fonctionnement de tels domaines est connu par l'existence d'un important lot de papy...

Der Leser erhält hier einen konkurrenzlosen Tourenführer zum Trendrevier Ostsee, das sich für Kanuwanderer ebenso eignet wie für den Einstieg ins Seekajak. Die Hinweise sind genau zugeschnitten auf die Bedürfnisse der Kanuwanderer mit detailreichen Beschreibungen der Wasserwege, aber auch mit Tipps zu Sehenswürdigkeiten und Versorgungsmöglichkeiten an Land. Egal ob Familientour oder sportliche Tour - in diesem Buch werden alle Aspekte berücksi...

In this latest installment of the wildly entertaining and educational "Dont Know Much About" series, Davis creates a one-stop potpourri of intriguing information.

Miss Philomena Wellesley-Clegg is a young Regency heiress whose comical struggle to find a bigger purpose in life along with a proper suitor is only interrupted by shopping for bonnets and gossiping with her married best friend, in this novel that winks at Regency delicacy.

Gulliver Fairborn's novel, Nobody's Baby, changed Bernie Rhodenbarr's life. And now pretty Alice Cottrell, Fairborn's one-time paramour, wants the bookselling, book-loving burglar to break into a room in New York's teeth-achingly charming Paddington Hotel and purloin some of the writer's very personal letters before an unscrupulous agent can sell them. Here's an opportunity to use his unique talents in the service of the revered, famously recl...

From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Persuasion, edited by William Galperin, presents Jane Austen's classic work along with a critical introduction and contextual materials on and from the period. Published posthumously in 1817 along with the much earlier Northanger Abbey, the novel contains a number of elements that proved puzzling to Austen's nineteenth-centruy readers. The supplementary materials to this Longman Cultural Edition are int...

Evan Tanner can't sleep. Ever. Which gives him plenty of free time to get involved in lots of interesting endeavors in all sorts of exotic locales. Now Tanner's in Thailand with a partially baked plan and a butterfly net, hoping to snare a beautiful missing chanteuse who's metamorphosed into an international jewel thief. Tanner hopes everyone will buy his disguise as a rare butterfly researcher. And everyone does . . . Except the guerilla ba...

Sometime spy Evan Tanner has accepted impossible assignments for many reasons: money, thrills, to have something to occupy his waking hours (twenty-four of them every day, in fact, since battlefield shrapnel obliterated his brain's sleep center). But this might be the first time he's put his life on the line . . . for love. Tanner's agreed to smuggle a sexy Latvian gymnast--the lost lady love of a heart-sick friend--out of Russia. With the Col...

Hörtexte zu ausgewählten Aufgaben im Schülerband und Cuaderno de actividades.

Sports writer Travis chronicles the ribald intensity, ridiculous quirks, and religious fervor of football in the Southeastern Conference. This irreverent and witty account of the cultural individuality of the South on football Saturdays reveals the experiences and excitement of the common fan.

Grant masterfully weaves personal and political deception into a taut fabric of historical intrigue in 1819 England ("Library Journal"), as a couples picture-perfect life is ripped apart when their search for their missing child takes them through the underbelly of Regency society.