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Teenage girls don't know where to turn for guidance and support and struggle to trust the adults in their lives-but having famous and/or successful women offer wisdom and insight makes it more tolerable for them to hear.

A socialite is strangled to death in an unused storage closet within one of Manhattan's iconic hotels. Her murder puts the authorities on edge, but their concern turns into alarm when they spot a calling card on her corpse. The note confirms a sinister cult subdued many years ago has regrouped to try once again to crush the free world from within. Enter Dalton Lee, one of the world's pre-eminent architects. Twenty years ago, Lee brought the...

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Includes excerpts from six e-book oriignals published by Avon Impulse.

A meditation on memory and futility among the ruins of artistic ambition, family myth, and the fall of the South.

Richard works in advertising and lives in a ground floor flat in South West London with his wife Harriet. He never really got on with his mother and after her death his dad decides to pay them both a rare visit. Not thrilled with the idea of him coming to stay Richard is taken aback when his father arrives and discusses the contents of his mother's will and it's not what he wants to hear. Together with this and his father's bad habits and woma...

John McConnell Jr. was the famed founder and visionary of Earth Day. McConnell's vision was one of creating a day of remembrance, solitude, and action to restore the broken human relationship to the land. Little acknowledged are McConnell's religious convictions or background. McConnell grew up in a Pentecostal home. In fact, McConnell's parents were both founding charter members of the Assemblies of God in 1914. His own grandfather had an eve...

The extraordinary work of poet Philip Meersman is well known in his native Belgium and throughout Western Europe. His work has been described as "overwhelming and wonderful" with a style that permits the concept of an international language underlying his strong antiwar stance. With This Is Belgian Chocolate, Meersman's work is at last collected and presented in a gorgeous volume for a wider audience. Visual poems receive typographic treatment...

In The Secret Art of Derobio Escrima Grandmaster Dan Medina will take you on a journey into the lives and history of two of Leyte's Legendary Men. One was considered to be one of the Philippines most dangerous rebels, a leader of the Pulahan Movement and later a patriot. General Faustino Ablen (aka Papa Ablen). The other was his disciple, Grandmaster Braulio Tomada Pedo, who is not only be remembered for his kindness, physical and spiritual he...

I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." -Elizabeth GilbertThe debut novel that redefined the coming-of-age genre, now with an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Maria Semple.Stylish, suburban Katherine is just eighteen years old when she is introduced to Professor Jacob Goldman, his rambling home and his large eccentric family, but she is quickly enveloped into their chaot...

An honest and hilarious look at the world of yoga today and how you will gain valuable insight into the increasingly popular art form by taking a yoga journey that begins with disdain, and may just lead to love.

A warm and joyful collection of James Herriot's loving tales of our furry friends from delightful old favorites like Tricki Woo to heartwarming stories of Brandy, Hermann, Jock, and more. James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories is a must-have gift book for any dog lover. "When I decided to be a vet, I knew that I wanted to be a dog doctor, so I could spend all my time with dogs." - from the IntroductionJames Herriot would go on to become so much ...

Roald Amundsen was the most successful polar explorer of his era using sledges, dogs, skis, and ships. He is mainly remembered for being the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. What is less often remembered is that he was also the first man to reach the North Pole on May 12, 1926 as the leader of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition in the airship Norge. His involvement in aviation from his experiments with man-lifting ...

This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world.

Today's maps are filled with uniform states separated by linear boundaries. This book examines the important but overlooked role of cartography in shaping the development of modern states. It explores how maps have altered concepts of political space, organization and authority, and transformed practices of internal rule and international interaction.

This book examines the careers and writings of five inquisitors, explaining how the theory and regulations of the Spanish Inquisition were rooted in local conditions.

A Christian response to global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction in the twenty-first century.

This book links theoretical discussions about globalization and the distribution of wealth with a rich empirical analysis of Latin America.

A systematic introduction to a general nonparametric theory of statistics on manifolds, with emphasis on manifolds of shapes.

The Traders' War -- an omnibus edition of the third and fourth novels in Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series.Miriam was an ambitious business journalist in Boston. Until she was fired-then discovered, to her shock, that her lost family comes from an alternate reality. And although some of them are trying to kill her, she won't stop digging up secrets. Now that she knows she's inherited the family ability to walk between worlds, there's a ...