 | Street Rules
Publication Date: January 2003| Series: Detective Franco Mystery Series For `Frank,` L.A.P.D. Homicide Lieutenant L.A. Franco and her homicide squad, it's business as usual -- a multiple murder, ugly as it is, at least seems to have an easy explanation.Until it coincides with an untimely drive-by shooting.The investigation ultimately pulls Frank and her squad in conflicting directions while drawing Frank closer to the county's new Chief Coroner, Gail Lawless.Through a series of twists and turns, all Frank's leads eventually bring her to the disquieting possibility that the killer she seeks m...
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 | The Drop That Became the Sea: Lyric Poems
Release Date: September 12, 1999 This collection of poems introduces a general readership to Yunus Emre (1240-1321), called the "greatest folk poet in Islam." An unlettered Turkish shepherd who sang mystical songs that are still popular today, he was the first in a great tradition of Turkish Sufi troubadours who celebrated the Divine Presence as the intimate Beloved and Friend. Yunus's verse conveys the spirit and philosophy of Islamic mysticism in simple, earthy language. ...
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 | Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad
Publication Date: June 18, 1992| ISBN-10: 0198140274 | ISBN-13: 978-0198140276| Edition: First The Iliad came into existence to be heard from start to finish.While this is generally accepted in theory, the poem has not been properly studied in light of what this means in practice.Many connections, which are not obvious when the poem is read, become prominent if it is approached as an oral and aural creation, particularly if the poem is divided into three segments, probably a product of three night-long sessions of performance.This book contends that the shapings that these soundings, or ...
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 | The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
Release Date: October 4, 200533,000 PAGES44 MILLION WORDS10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY1 OBSESSED MANPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his fath...
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 | Heart of a Warrior
Release Date: March 5, 2002Stunning statuesque Brittany Callaghan isn't used to seeing Nordic gods in her tiny California town. But when the spectacular blond Viking—whose name is Dalden—turns up at her doorstep, Brittany knows her dream man is very real. Dalden claims to be a barbarian warrior—since Brittany's passion has been running red–hot since she first saw him, the sexy giant can fancy himself anything he pleases!The truth is a very rude awakening—for Dalden is exactly what he claims to be: a warrior to the depths of his soul from a place where the women alway...
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 | Lord Gilmore's Bride (Signet Regency Romance)
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 | Gold's Bride
Publication Date: July 18, 2005Wife for sale!When Jeremiah Gold buys the beautiful Garnet from her sot of a husband, he intends only to save her from degradation. Married by a convict parson, Jeremiah takes his bride to his remote selection, only to find Garnet fighting him at every turn. Fury soon turns to love and desire, but will either of them realize before it's too late?The time is 1830, the place the colony of New South Wales. Lively Garnet Perry has been sent from England to marry Edward Landis. Edward proves both elderly and impotent, and his terrible old mother engineers a situatio...
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 | The Complete Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)
Release Date: January 6, 1987| ISBN-10: 014009766X | ISBN-13: 978-0140097665Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. ...
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 | Death Roe: A Woods Cop Mystery (Woods Cop Mysteries)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Series: Woods Cop Mysteries In the sixth title in the successful Woods Cop Mystery series, another suspenseful who-done-it finds Grady Service with an unexpectedly complex, truly rotten, and important case on his hands. This time tainted eggs are showing up in caviar and Service must expose a ring of corruption in state government and perhaps within his own beloved DNR, one that could lead him all the way to the top. Making enemies at every level of the state, Service rousts out the people on the take. Can he get to the source of the c...
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 | Detroit Lions (NFL Today)
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 | Cobras (Snakes)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | We Wanted You
Publication Date: March 1, 2002| Age Level: 5 and up...
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 | Soccer Surprise (Jake Maddox)
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 | A Strawbeater's Thanksgiving
Publication Date: September 1998| Age Level: 7 and up During the time of slavery, the men, women, and children who had worked so hard bringing in the harvest were sometimes allowed one night to celebrate the completion of their wearisome tasks. This story takes place during one of those nights. Jess has always wanted to be the special boy who is allowed to help the fiddler during the corn-shucking party. He wants to be the one who gets to keep time by beating on the old man's fiddle with a pair of sturdy straws. However, wishing is one thing and making sure your wish comes true is something ...
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 | Weather (Mini Encyclopedias)
Publication Date: August 30, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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| All Around Ohio
Publication Date: April 2003Provides a look at Ohio's different geographical regions and the industry and economy of each. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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| Oxford Rainbow Atlas Activity Book Pb
Publication Date: July 1989This book is intended for children 6 to 8 years old ...
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 | Orianthi (Blue Banner Biographies)
Publication Date: July 8, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome
Publication Date: January 7, 2008Every year thousands of God's servants leave the ministry convinced they are failures. Years ago, in the midst of a crisis of faith, Kent Hughes almost became one of them. But instead he and his wife Barbara turned to God's Word, determined to learn what God had to say about success and to evaluate their ministry from a biblical point of view. This book describes their journey and their liberation from the "success syndrome"-the misguided belief that success in ministry means increased numbers. In today's world it is easy to be seduced by the secular thinking...
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 | The Basics of Self-Balancing Processes: True Lean Continuous Flow
Publication Date: February 13, 2012| ISBN-10: 1439819653 | ISBN-13: 978-1439819654| Edition: 1 Self-Balancing is not just a tweak or change to assembly line balancing, but a completely transformed method for achieving continuous flow. Among the reasons you should try Self-Balancing is that you can expect a productivity improvement of at least 30 percent—with improvements of 50-60 percent quite common. Using a well-tested method for successful improvements initiated by the author, The Basics of Self-Balancing Processes: True Lean Continuous Flow is the first book to explain how t...
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