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Still Life with Shape-Shifter - Shifting Circle, Bk 2
Author: Sharon Shinn
ISBN-13: 9780425256817
ISBN-10: 0425256812
Publication Date: 11/6/2012
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Hardcover
6.3 x 9.35 inches, 343 pages

National bestselling author Sharon Shinn presents a passionate, heart-wrenching story of secrets and the lengths we'll go to, to protect those we love... — Melanie Landon and her half-sister share a unique bond. For her entire life, Melanie has hidden the fact that Ann is a shape-shifter. The never-ending deception is a heavy weight to bear, but Melanie is determined to keep Ann's secret and protect her from a world that simply wouldn't understand.

For months, Melanie hasn't seen or heard from Ann, in either of her forms. When a man shows up saying he's there about her sister, Melanie fears the worst. But Brody Westerbrook doesn't have information about Ann -- he's in search of it.

A freelance writer, Brody intends to include Ann in a book he's writing about the existence of shape-shifters.… Leer más

Lost and Found - Taken Trilogy, Bk 1
Author: Alan Dean Foster
ISBN-13: 9780345461254
ISBN-10: 0345461258
Publication Date: 6/29/2004
Publisher: Del Rey
Hardcover
6.5 x 9.5 inches, 248 pages

Ever since his classic debut, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first of the wildly successful Pip and Flinx adventures, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world. Now this writer of bold imagination and stunning originality has created an electrifying space epic set in a universe at once strangely familiar and starkly terrifying. Familiar because the universe is ours; terrifying because the human condition might soon be. . . .

Not so long ago Marcus Walker was just another young commodities trader in Chicago, working hard and playing harder. But that's all in the past, part of a life half forgotten--a reality that vanished when he was attacked while camping and tossed aboard a starship bound for deep space.

Desperately, Walker searches for explanations, only to realize… Leer más

Star Rebel - Hulzein Dynasty, Bk 1 by F. M. Busby
ISBN-13: 9780553238525
ISBN-10: 0553238523
Publication Date: 2/1984
Publisher: Bantam Books
Paperback
4.1 x 6.9 inches, 217 pages

At thirteen, Bran Tregare was stripped of his home, his name and his family, and sent to the brutal space academy known as the Slaughterhouse. — At seventeen, he'd survived the sadistic discipline of a starcaptain called the Butcher to become an ace pilot, crack gunner and hardened killer. — At twenty, he escaped with an armed warship to begin a one-man war against Earth's imperial masters.

A View from Above - Wilt Chamberlain
Author: Wilt Chamberlain
ISBN-13: 9780679404552
ISBN-10: 0679404554
Publication Date: 10/23/1991
Publisher: Villard
Hardcover
6.3 x 9.5 inches, 290 pages

The basketball superstar discusses his views on other basketball greats, his early career with the Harlem Globetrotters, and his views on politics, drugs in sports, and fame

Pocket Pal - A Graphic Arts Production Handbook, 17th Edition
Author: Michael H. Bruno, Editor
Seventeenth edition
Publication Date: 8/1997
Publisher: International Paper
Paperback
4.25 x 7.3 inches, 256 pages

Ever since its debut in 1934, the Pocket Pal has been an authoritative introduction to the graphic arts for many artists, designers, publishers, advertisers, students and buyers of printing. This 17th Edition is the fifth since 1983 when digital imaging beyond electronic typesetting and scanning began to exert a major impact on prepress operations. This edition attempts to put conventional and digital printing into proper perspective. It describe the conventional printing processes and the new digital printing systems, and what impact the new systems are having on the present and future uses of and markets for printing.

El Greco of Toledo by Jonathan Brown, Toledo Museum of Art Editorial Staff
ISBN-13: 9780821215067
ISBN-10: 082121506X
Publication Date: 1982
Pages: 275
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Paperback
8.35 x 11.65 inches, 276 pages

The great Mannerist artist Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco, created painting that electrified the artistic, political and religious climate of his adopted city of Toledo. While the artistic formation of El Greco took place first in Crete, then in Venice, and later in Rome; it was upon his settling in Toledo that his singular genius flowered to the particular climate of learning and patronage that prevailed there.

An impetus for this exhibition was our realization that recent scholarship on El Greco and his work in Toledo and on the city itself, places him in a more reasoned historical context than did the mystical, romantic and even physiological interpretations of his art that have been widely promulgated during this century.

This book was… Leer más

A Life in Progress - an autobiography by Conrad Black
ISBN-13: 9781550135206
ISBN-10: 1550135201
Publisher: Key Porter Books
Hardcover
6.3 x 9.5 inches, 522 pages

Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian and British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer.

Black's father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadian manufacturing, retail and media businesses through part-ownership of the holding company Ravelston Corporation. In 1978, two years after their father's death, Conrad and his older brother Montegu took majority control of Ravelston. Over the next seven years, Conrad Black sold off most of their non-media holdings in order to focus on newspaper publishing. Black controlled Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire, which published The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun-Times (US), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), and hundreds of… Leer más

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud & Peter Gay
ISBN-13: 9780393301588
ISBN-10: 0393301583
Publication Date: 7/1989
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Paperback
5.3 x 7.75 inches, 127 pages

Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, indeed the death drive, and its adversary eros. He speaks to issues of human creativity and fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, and the effects of repression.

Complexity -The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Author: M. Mitchell Waldrop
ISBN-13: 9780671872342
ISBN-10: 0671872346
Publication Date: 9/1/1993
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Paperback
5.45 x 8.4 inches, 380 pages

Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans value trust and cooperation? — At first glance these questions don't appear to have anything in common, but in fact every one of these statements refers to a complex system. A look at the rebellious thinkers who are challenging old ideas with insights into ways countless elements of complex systems interact to produce spontaneous order out of confusion, politics, economics, and biology. The science of complexity studies how single elements, such as a species or a stock, spontaneously organize into complicated… Leer más

Collected Stories 1939-1976 by Paul Frederic Bowles
introduction by Gore Vidal
ISBN-13: 9780876853962
ISBN-10: 0876853963
Publication Date: 6/15/1979
Fourteenth printing
Publisher: Black Sparrow Books
Paperback
5.8 x 9 inches, 419 pages

Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier in the Interzone, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.

Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making several trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with Aaron Copland, and in New York wrote music for theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with his first novel The Sheltering Sky (1949), set in French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931.

In… Leer más

Eye to Eye by Ken Wilber
afterword by Frances Vaughan
ISBN-13: 9781570622496
ISBN-10: 15770622493
Publication Date: 9/17/1996
Thirtd Edition
Publisher: Shambhala
Paperback
5.9 x 9 inches, 325 pages

Critiques traditional religion, modern materialistic philosophy, and popular new age theories; examines the concepts of senses, mind, and spirit; and offers a broader understanding of reality

In Business as in Life You Don't Get What You Deserve, You Get What You Negotiate
Author: Chester L. Karrass
ISBN-13: 9780965227490
ISBN-10: 0965227499
Publication Date: 6/1996
Publisher: Stanford Street Press
Hardcover
6.4 x 9.5 inches, 436 pages

Whether negotiating a critical agreement, closing a deal, or advancing one's goals, almost every interaction involves some kind of negotiation, yet so few understand the process.

Mercenary - Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol. 2
Author: Piers Anthony
ISBN-13: 9780380872213
ISBN-10: 0380872218
Publication Date: 6/1984
Publisher: Avon Books
Paperback
4.2 x 6.9 inches, 373 pages

He was driven by violent injustice from his home moon of Callisto -- and set forth to claim the epic destiny that would blaze across worlds and time. He saw his family destroyed, his sister carried off into sexual slavery, his beautiful lover killed -- and he swore revenge against the murderous pirates who had held the Jupiter planetoids in a stranglehold of terror.

Fired by raw courage, steeled by young might, he rose in the Navy of Jupiter to command a personal squadron loyal to the death. And it was death they faced -- against piratical warlords of the Jupiter Ecliptic who laughed at the young commander's challenge...until they met the merciless fury of the warrior who would annihilate all obstacles in his path to immortal renown as the Tyrant of Jupiter!

The Impeachment of Richard Nixon by Leonard Lurie
ISBN-13: 9780425024430
ISBN-10: 0425024431
Publisher: Berkley Pub. Corp - A Berkley Medallion Book - June 1973
Paperback
4.1 x 6.95 inches, 208 pages

The House Committee on the Judiciary soon began an official investigation of the president's role in Watergate, and, in May 1974, commenced formal hearings on whether sufficient grounds existed to impeach Nixon of high crimes and misdemeanors under Article II, Section 4, of the United States Constitution.

Brand of Empire by Luke Short
ISBN-13: 9780440107705
ISBN-10: 0440107709
Publication Date: 6/1/1986
Publisher: Dell, #10770
Paperback
4.2 x 6.75 inches, 191 pages

Nothing could stop Matt W.'s lust for power as U.S. senator and respected cattleman, he controlled the law, the territory, and eveyone in it- Indians and ranchers alike. He bribed the greedy to gain his bloody empire ... and murdered the rest to.
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Master of the Western pulp era. The story of two loners pitted against a rich and powerful corrupt Senator and land owner is shot full of Western style blood.

Comforting inspirational poetry

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Up until the mid-19th century, most dolls were made to represent grown-ups, and when childlike dolls first appeared it was a big shift. By the late 19th century childlike dolls overtook the market. Foremost among these were the French Bébés from doll makers like Jumeau, Bru, Steiner and Rohmer, which grew in popularity between the 1860s and 1880s. These were high quality dolls made with great skill. Like the earlier fashion dolls, they were made for children and dressed in contemporary children's clothing. In the 1890s German doll makers began taking over the market with less expensive dolls. In response, the French doll makers began making dolls as a consortium under the name Société Française de Fabrication de Bébés et Jouets but these later French Bébés were often of lesser quality.

French 1860-1890 fashion dolls are commonly worth over US$2000, and dolls from well-known doll makers like Jumeau, Bru and Huret can be worth over US$20,000. Among the French… Leer más

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Quebec is the capital of the province of Quebec in Canada. In 2015 the city had a population of 540,994, and the metropolitan area had a population of 806,400, making it the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about 233 km (145 mi) to the southwest.

The narrowing of the Saint Lawrence River proximate to the city's promontory, Cap-Diamant (Cape Diamond), and Lévis, on the opposite bank, provided the name given to the city, Kébec, an Algonquin word meaning "where the river narrows". Founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, Quebec City is one of the oldest cities in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico, and were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the 'Historic District of Old Québec'.

According to the federal and provincial governments, Québec is the city's official name in both French and English, although Quebec City… Leer más

Fifth Planet by Fred & Geoffrey Hoyle
A Fawcett Gold Medal Book - Fawcett Publications, Inc., Greenwich, CT - copyright 1963
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Paperback
4 1/4 x 7 inches, 192 pages

Fifth Planet is a science fiction novel written by astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle and his son Geoffrey Hoyle.

Another star is due to pass close to the sun, close enough for conventional spacecraft to reach it. The first planets observed are four gas giants, but then an inner 'Fifth Planet' is found. Signs of chlorophyll are detected, suggesting that it supports life. Rival Soviet and US expeditions are launched to visit it. (The world balance as it existed in 1963 is assumed to be still in place.)

One important aspect of the plot is that the Soviet expedition includes the first woman in space. This fictional milestone was eclipsed by reality soon after publication, when Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on Vostok 6 in June 1963.
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Synopsis
A planetary system, consisting of a star… Leer más