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The Rollercoaster Years

by Margaret Sagarese & Charlene C. Giannetti

For the 20 million parents of 10- to 15-year-olds, The Roller-Coaster Years is a lively guide to mastering the ups and downs of early adolescence. Every parent knows about the terrible twos and the brooding...

The Gift

by Lewis Hyde

Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2010: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes

by , Gen Tanabe & Kelly Tanabe

Information on thousands of scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in this newly revised directory that features awards indexed by career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics,...

The Story of Sacajawea: Guide to Lewis and Clark

by Della Rowland

As a young girl, Sacajawea was separated from her family when she was captured by a band of Minnetaree warriors and taken to be their slave. Several years later, she was bought by a French fur trader to be his...

Journey

by Patricia Maclachlan

Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.

Journey searches...

The Green

by Troon Mcallister

The Ryder Cup.

A biennial tournament considered the premier event in the golfing world, pitting the twelve best players in the United States against the twelve best of Europe in a contest so pressure-filled it...

Customers for Life: How to Turn That One-Time Buyer Into a Lifetime Customer

by Paul B. Brown & Carl Sewell

In this completely revised and updated edition of the customer service classic (more than 600,000 copies sold), Carl Sewell enhances his time-tested advice with fresh ideas and new examples and explains how...

Stardust Melodies

by Will Friedwald

In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding.

Each chapter gives us an extended...

Mermaids

by Lucille Recht Penner & Mel Grant

For thousands of years, people have claimed to have spotted mermaids in the waves and on the rocks. Some were beautiful with long flowing hair and lovely voices. But other mermaids liked to drag people down...

The Zurau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka

The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher...

One Across, Two Down

by Ruth Rendell

   Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell....

Earth Magic

by Mallory Loehr

Thank you for watching my earth child. In an emergency, please call me. . . . So begins the mysterious note Polly and Sam discover in the woods near their grandparents' farm. There’s no child in sight, but...

Weird Planet #2: Lost in Las Vegas

by Dan Greenburg & Macky Pamintuan

Ploo, Lek, and Klatu have escaped from Area 51 and hit the road in a stolen station wagon. Where are they headed? Las Vegas, of course! After all Vegas has everything—slot machines, drive-through wedding chapels,...

Weird Planet #5: Lights, Camera...Liftoff!

by Dan Greenburg & Macky Pamintuan

KLATU, LEK, AND PLOO just missed their ride home to planet Loogl. The army men from Area 51 scared their spaceship away. So where can they find a place to land a spaceship without causing havoc? Hollywood, of...

The Fallen Curtain

Edgar Allan Poe Best Short Story 1975

by Ruth Rendell

   A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his   fiancée’s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee...

Andrew Lost #11: With the Dinosaurs

by J.C. Greenburg & Jan Gerardi

Andrew, Judy, and Thudd have escaped primordial Earth only to find themselves surrounded by huge–and hungry!–dinosaurs. Meanwhile Uncle Al is still stranded in the Ice Age. Somehow Andrew, Judy, and Thudd...

Weird Planet #3: Chilling with the Great Ones

by Dan Greenburg & Macky Pamintuan

Klatu, Lek, and Ploo head back to Groom Lake to fix their busted spaceship. But the spaceship is gone--it's been taken to Area 51. There's nothing for the aliens to do other than sneak in and search for it....

Wild Horses

by George Edward Stanley & Michael Langham Rowe

Long ago, all horse were wild. In time, people taught them to wear a saddle and a bit. But some horses were not tamed. And today, all over the world, wild horses still run free.

From the Trade Paperback edition....

Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs

by Jonathan Ames

But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman. — Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, a Medico-Forensic...

Andrew Lost #14: With the Bats

by J.C. Greenburg & Jan Gerardi

Thanks to an invention mishap Andrew, Judy, and Thudd have been shrunk down to the size of bugs. That’s a serious problem when they get lost in a deep, dark, and bat-filled cave. Bats love to eat bugs! Will...