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Beep, beep! Honk, honk! Henry is stuck in traffic. But luckily, the emergency vehicles are on their way to help out—and Henry is ready for the action!

When the windiest weather in Rambletown history blows in a horde of hungry grasshoppers, the only thing the chomping insects devour faster than the grass is the Rounders' chance to host the midseason all-star game. Unfortunately, their shortstop's arm has gone haywire. Balls used to disappear into Stump's glove as if he were a one-man Bermuda Triangle, but since the infestation, he's jumpier than the grasshoppers. Will the Rounders find a way ...

On a summer afternoon in 1998, six-year-old Iris Neff walked away from a barbecue in her small suburban town . . . and vanished.Missing persons investigator Brenna Spector has a rare neurological disorder that enables her to recall every detail of every day of her life. A blessing and a curse, it began in childhood, when her older sister stepped into a strange car never to be seen again, and it’s proven invaluable in her work. But it hasn’t he...

What would you do if you knew there was going to be a terrible accident?When Stosh travels into the past to meet Roberto Clemente, a legendary ballplayer and a beloved humanitarian, he's got only one goal: warning Roberto not to get on the doomed plane that will end his life in a terrible crash. In the sixties, Stosh meets free-spirited Sunrise, and together they travel across the country to a ball game that leaves them breathless—and face-to-...

Josh's game is about to change.So is his life.Josh is still fl ying high from his team's tournament win at Cooperstown whenhis parents start talking about a divorce. Now his dad is challenging him toplay the best of the best at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. But does he just want to get Josh out of the way?Two things are sure: His father's new girlfriend, Diane, is looking to makesome changes, and Josh is determi...

As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Tracey Jackson found herself bombarded by a catchphrase on everyone’s lips: “Fifty is the new thirty.” With a comedy writer’s training and a screenwriter’s eye for detail, Jackson skewers that particular myth with a hilarious, bare-knuckled, and ultimately practical appraisal of what middle age really means today. Jackson not only faces the elephant in the room, she puts it under a (very large) microsco...

Help Biscuit count his favorite things while learning to count to 10 in this sweet and exciting lift-the-flap!

After twenty-five years abroad in America, Chris Lowndes decides to return to the Yorkshire dales of his youth. The rambling old mansion he buys is charming, but something about it disturbs him—a feeling made ever stronger when he learns that the house was the scene of a murder more than fifty years before. The former owner, a prominent doctor named Ernest Arthur Fox, was supposedly poisoned by his beautiful and much younger wife, Grace. Arres...

Flatscreen tells the story of Eli Schwartz as he endures the loss of his home, the indifference of his parents, the success of his older brother, and the cruel and frequent dismissal of the opposite sex. He is a loser par excellence—pasty, soft, and high—who struggles to become a new person in a world where nothing is new.Into this scene of apathy rolls Seymour J. Kahn. Former star of the small screen and current paraplegic sex addict, Kahn ha...

A Must-Have Guide for the Smart VeganA vegan lifestyle is the newest hot health trend—thanks in no small part to the smart, fearless, and number one New York Times bestselling Skinny Bitch books. But with so much conflicting information out there, it's not always easy to make the best choices. Now Skinny Bitch coauthor Kim Barnouin is back with a book that makes making the right vegan choice easy. In Skinny Bitch Book of Vegan Swaps, Kim Barno...

It was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London for master art restorer and spy Gabriel Allonand his wife, Chiara. But a deadly pair of bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this lovelyautumn day. Then, before he can stop a man he suspectsis about to launch a third attack in Covent Garden, Gabriel is knocked to the pavement—and he can only watch helplessly as the nightmare unfolds.The haunting memory of his failur...

In this comprehensive biography of one of the great movie icons of our time, Stefan Kanfer, the acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball, Groucho Marx, and Marlon Brando, illuminates the life and career of Humphrey Bogart. Along the way, Kanfer gives us a wide-reaching cultural appraisal of the movies many of us know and love as masterpieces of American cinema: The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, and countless others. He appraise...

Zwei Jahre verbringt Amélie in Tokio. Zwei intensive und literarisch ergiebige Jahre. Einerseits war es die Hölle - in >Mit Staunen und Zittern< berichtete die Autorin von ihrer demütigenden Abwärtskarriere bei einem japanischen Großunternehmen. Mit dem japanischen Verlobten jedoch erlebt Amélie Stunden von paradiesischer Heiterkeit. Das ist die andere Seite des Lands der aufgehenden Sonne - das ist das Japan, das sie liebt.

Sie werden ihr Ziel niemals erreichen: Reichtum und Glück. Da können sie noch so lange zu San Antonio beten, dem Heiligen des Unmöglichen. Denn sie sind Immigranten. Das Brüderduo Tito und Paul Andino schlägt sich gemeinsam in New York als Illegale durch. Sie arbeiten für einen mexikanischen Lieferservice und tragen Burritos und Chili-Tacos aus. Vor allem aber lieben sie die mysteriöse Kristin. Arnon Grünberg zieht den Leser mit hinein in eine...

Die Geschichte der Familie Salzmann, die quer durch beide deutschen Staaten, durch Österreich, Frankreich, die Schweiz verläuft, über drei Generationen und ein Jahrhundert. Zugleich eine kollektive Geschichte »aus unserer Mitte«, die uns vor Augen führt, was schützens- und liebenswert ist, gerade dann, wenn die Umstände die Menschen zu überfordern scheinen.

With the desire for dental implant therapy ever escalating, clinicians are faced with the challenge of augmenting deficient natural physiology to provide effective sites for implantation. Implant Site Development helps the clinician decide if, when, and how to create a ridge site amenable to implantation. This practical book offers solutions to many implant site preservation scenarios, discussing different treatment options, timing, a variety ...

Sensation bedeutete ursprünglich nichts anderes als "Wahrnehmung". Heute versteht man unter einer Sensation das, was die Wahrnehmung magnetisch auf sich zieht: das Spektakuläre. Was kein Aufsehen zu erregen vermag, wird kaum noch wahrgenommen. Esse est percipi - Sein ist Wahrgenommenwerden. Der Kampf ums Dasein wird in der Sensationsgesellschaft zum Kampf um Wahrnehmung. Christoph Türcke verfolgt in seinem grundlegenden philosophischen Werk de...

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