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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. The New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of Illness.In his international bestseller, The End of Illness, Dr. David B. Agus shared what he has learned from his work as a pioneering cancer doctor, revealing the innovative steps he takes to prolong the lives of not only cancer patients, but all those who want to enjoy a vigorous, lengthy life. Now Dr. Agus has turned his research into a practical and concise illustrated handbook for everyday living.A Short Guide to a Long Life is divided into three sections (What to Do, What to Avoid, and Doctors Orders) that provide the definitive answers to many common and not-so-common questions: Who should take a baby aspirin daily? Are flu shots safe? What constitutes healthy foods? Are airport scanners hazardous? Dr. Agus believes optimal health begins with our daily routines. His book will help you develop new patterns of personal health care, using inexpensive and widely available tools that are based on the latest and most reliable science.An accessible and essential handbook for preparing for visits to the doctor and maintaining control of your future, A Short Guide to a Long Life explores the simple idea that a healthy tomorrow starts with good habits today (Fortune).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In the tradition of Michael Moore, Ed Asner-a.k.a. Lou Grant from The Mary Tyler Moore Show-reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it.Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured that if the right-wing wackos are wrong about voter fraud, Obamas death panels, and climate change, they are probably just as wrong about what the Constitution says. Theres no way that two hundred-plus years later, the right-wing ideologues know how to interpret the Constitution. On their way home from Philadelphia the people who wrote it couldnt agree on what it meant. What was the presidents job? Who knew? All they knew was that the president was going to be George Washington and as long as he was in charge, that was good enough. When Hamilton wanted to start a national bank, Madison told him that it was unconstitutional. Both men had been in the room when the Constitution was written. And now today there are politicians and judges who claim that they know the original meaning of the Constitution. Are you kidding?In The Grouchy Historian, Ed Asner leads the charge for liberals to reclaim the Constitution from the right-wingers who use it as their justification for doing whatever terrible thing they want to do, which is usually to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted. Its about time someone gave them hell and explained that progressives can read, too.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In her long career as Americas most beloved suspense writer, Mary Higgins Clarks The Lost Years is her most astonishing and dramatic novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human history-the holiest of the holy-and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world.In The Lost Years, Mary Higgins Clark, Americas Queen of Suspense, has written her most astonishing novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human history-the holiest of the holy-and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world.Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments-a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in the 1500s, the letter was assumed to be lost forever.Now, under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan is able to confirm his findings with several other experts. But he also confides in a family friend his suspicion that someone he once trusted wants to sell the parchment and cash in.Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. At the same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from Alzheimers, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. Even in her dementia, Kathleen has known that her husband was carrying on a long-term affair. Did Kathleen kill her husband in a jealous rage, as the police contend? Or is his death tied to the larger question: Who has possession of the priceless parchment that has now gone missing?It is up to their daughter, twenty-eight-year-old Mariah, to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel the real mystery behind her fathers death. Mary Higgins Clarks The Lost Years is at once a breathless murder mystery and a hunt for what may be the most precious religious and archaeological treasure of all time.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Your guide to the emotions of pregnancy and early motherhood, from two of Americas top reproductive psychiatrists.When you are pregnant, you get plenty of advice about your growing body and developing baby. Yet so much about motherhood happens in your head. What everyone really wants to know: Is this normal?-Even after months of trying, is it normal to panic after finding out youre pregnant?-Is it normal not to feel love at first sight for your baby?-Is it normal to fight with your parents and partner?-Is it normal to feel like a breastfeeding failure?-Is it normal to be zonked by mommy brain?In What No One Tells You, two of Americas top reproductive psychiatrists reassure you that the answer is yes. With thirty years of combined experience counseling new and expectant mothers, they provide a psychological and hormonal backstory to the complicated emotions that women experience, and show why its natural for matrescence-the birth of a mother-to be as stressful and transformative a period as adolescence.Here, finally, is the first-ever practical guide to help new mothers feel less guilt and more self-esteem, less isolation and more kinship, less resentment and more intimacy, less exhaustion and more pleasure, and learn other tips to navigate the ups and downs of this exciting, demanding time.

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Not so long ago religion was a personal matter that was seldom discussed in public. No longer. Today religion is everywhere, from books to movies to television to the internet-to say nothing about politics. Now religion is marketed and advertised like any other product or service. How did this happen? And what does it mean for religion and for our culture?Just as we shop for goods and services, we shop for church. A couple of generations ago Americans remained in the faith they were born into. Today, many Americans change their denomination or religion, sometimes several times. Churches that know how to appeal to those shopping for God are thriving. Think megachurches. Churches that don't know how to do this or don't bother are fading away. Think mainline Protestant churches.Religion is now celebrated and shown off like a fashion accessory. We can wear our religious affiliation like a designer logo. But, says James Twitchell, this isn't because Americans are undergoing another Great Awakening; rather, it's a sign that religion providers-that is, churches-have learned how to market themselves. There is more competition among churches than ever in our history. Filling the pew is an exercise in salesmanship, and as with any marketing campaign, it requires establishing a brand identity. Successful pastors ("pastorpreneurs," Twitchell calls them) know how to speak the language of Madison Avenue as well as the language of the Bible.In this witty, engaging book, Twitchell describes his own experiences trying out different churches to discover who knows how to "do church" well. He takes readers into the land of karaoke Christianity, where old-style contemplative sedate religion has been transformed into a public, interactive event with giant-screen televisions, generic iconography (when there is any at all), and ample parking.Rarely has America's religious culture been examined so perceptively and so entertainingly. Shopping for God does for religion what Fast Food Nation has done for food.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. The senator from Missouri shares her straightforward, plainspoken, and at once deeply personal and thoroughly political (Publishers Weekly) story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexism, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemies-and finding joy along the way.Claire McCaskill grew up in a political family, but not at a time that welcomed women with big plans. She earned a law degree and paid her way through school by working as a waitress. By 1982 Claire had set her sights on the Missouri House of Representatives. That door was slammed in her face, but Claire always kept pushing-first as a prosecutor of arsonists and rapists and then all the way to the door of a cabal of Missouri politicians, who had secret meetings to block her legislation.In this candid, lively, and forthright memoir, Senator McCaskill describes her uphill battle to become who she is today, from her failed first marriage to a Kansas City car dealer-the father of her three children-to her current marriage to a Missouri businessman whom she describes as a life partner. She depicts her ups and downs with the Clintons, her long-shot reelection as senator after secretly helping to nominate a right-wing extremist as her opponent, and the fun of joining the growing bipartisan sisterhood in the Senate.Unconventional, unsparing in its honesty, full of sharp humor and practical wisdom, and rousing in its defense of female ambition, Plenty Ladylike is a powerful, unapologetic primer on the successful exercise of real power and what it takes to get it, keep it, and use it. This is a brilliant memoir that nearly explodes with encouragement for women on how to achieve their dreams (Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. #1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Next PickAbsorbing.Winning.The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. Bucks voice, which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Brysons comic tone in A Walk in the Woods. -Dwight Garner, The New York TimesAn epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way-in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasnt been attempted in a century-which also chronicles the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.Spanning two thousand miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific coast, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used the trail to emigrate West-scholars still regard this as the largest land migration in history-it united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. Today, amazingly, the trail is all but forgotten.Rinker Buck is no stranger to grand adventures. His first travel narrative, Flight of Passage, was hailed by The New Yorker as a funny, cocky gem of a book, and with The Oregon Trail he brings the most important route in American history back to glorious and vibrant life.Traveling from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Baker City, Oregon, over the course of four months, Buck is accompanied by three cantankerous mules, his boisterous brother, Nick, and an incurably filthy Jack Russell terrier named Olive Oyl. Along the way, they dodge thunderstorms in Nebraska, chase runaway mules across the Wyoming plains, scout more than five hundred miles of nearly vanished trail on foot, cross the Rockies, and make desperate fifty-mile forced marches for water. The Buck brothers repair so many broken wheels and axels that they nearly reinvent the art of wagon travel itself. They also must reckon with the ghost of their father, an eccentric yet loveable dreamer whose memory inspired their journey across the plains and whose premature death, many years earlier, has haunted them both ever since.But The Oregon Trail is much more than an epic adventure. It is also a lively and essential work of history that shatters the comforting myths about the trail years passed down by generations of Americans. Buck introduces readers to the largely forgotten roles played by trailblazing evangelists, friendly Indian tribes, female pioneers, bumbling U.S. Army cavalrymen, and the scam artists who flocked to the frontier to fleece the overland emigrants. Generous portions of the book are devoted to the history of old and appealing things like the mule and the wagon. We also learn how the trail accelerated American economic development. Most arresting, perhaps, are the stories of the pioneers themselves-ordinary families whose extraordinary courage and sacrifice made this country what it became.At once a majestic journey across the West, a significant work of history, and a moving personal saga, The Oregon Trail draws readers into the journey of a lifetime. It is a wildly ambitious work of nonfiction from a true American original. It is a book with a heart as big as the country it crosses.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated. From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Abundance comes their much anticipated follow-up: Bold-a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions.Bold unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies that are disrupting todays Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from "Ive got an idea" to "I run a billion-dollar company" far faster than ever before. The authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Part Two of the book focuses on the Psychology of Bold, drawing on insights from billionaire entrepreneurs Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos. In addition, Diamandis reveals his entrepreneurial secrets garnered from building fifteen companies, including such audacious ventures as Singularity University, XPRIZE, Planetary Resources, and Human Longevity, Inc. Finally, Bold closes with a look at the best practices that allow anyone to leverage todays hyper-connected crowd like never before. Here, the authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of capital, and finally how to build communities-armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help todays entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true.Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. Itis todays exponential entrepreneurs go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome power of crowd-powered tools.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Product DescriptionAn absorbing and memorable novel (Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children) set in the world of corporate intrigue, about a woman who must choose between her dream job and everything else-her savings, her reputation, and an unexpected chance at love.From award-winning author Frederick Dillen, an inspiring and deeply moving novel about the power of second chancesAs a corporate undertaker for a mergers and acquisitions firm in New York, Carol MacLean travels from factory to factory, firing blue-collar workers who remind her of her father and the kids she grew up with. She hates her job. But Carol has been biding her time: her boss has promised that one day, after she has paid her dues, Carol will get to run a company instead of having to bury it.On what is supposed to be her last assignment, Carol travels up the coast of Massachusetts to a desperate fishing town where the late lobster and day boats cluster around the inner harbor, the blue steeples of the Portuguese church stand tall on the horizon, and the last remaining fish processing plant is in its death throes. Thats when she learns that shes about to be fired.To save the town and herself, Carol becomes determined to rescue the factory shes under orders to shut down. With the help of the townspeople and a roughly charming local fisherman, and by the force of her own resolve, Carol throws herself into transforming the company-but is soon faced with increasingly difficult decisions. Must she choose between the job she has always wanted and everything else?Beauty explores the ways in which one woman will risk everything-her savings, her reputation, and even a chance at love-in pursuit of her dream.From BooklistThe fast-moving, cutthroat world of corporate acquisitions and mergers proves a fascinating milieu for the story of one woman. Carol McLean, 56, is the undertaker who delivers the news that a company is dead for New York firm Baxter Blume, and in that role, she has become known as the Beast. After just one more burial-of Elizabeths Fish in coastal Massachusetts-shes been promised her own company. But Baxter Blume reneges and fires her instead, and Carol-impressed by the women who work the line at the fish factory-acts to make Elizabeths Fish her own to run. With her blue-collar background, Carol relates to the people of Elizabeth Island, particularly to fisherman Ezekiel Easy Parsons, who tags her with the nickname Beauty. Dealing with a proposed zoning change is easy, but then comes the potentially fatal injunction limiting the local fishing thats essential to Carols plan. Dillens third novel (after Hero, 1994, and Fool, 1999) is an absorbing story of one smart, hardworking woman handling the fat boys of corporate leadership on their own turf, with masterfully developed characters and, as a bonus, a poignant romance. --Michele LeberReview"Speaking of empathy, I loved Frederick Dillen's quirky novel 'Beauty,' in which a mergers and acquisitions professional learns that she's been fired and buys a fish factory she was ordered to shut down, redefining her life in a bleak coastal hamlet." Jayne Anne Phillips (WALL STREET JOURNAL - Best Books of 2014)About the AuthorFrederick Dillen is an award-winning author whose short fiction has appeared in literary quarterlies and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His first novel, Hero, was named Best First Novel of 1994 by the Dictionary of Literary Biography. His second novel, Fool, was honored by Nancy Pearl as a Book Lust Rediscoveries selection in 2012. Dillen and his wife, Leslie, are parents of two grown daughters and live in New Mexico.Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.BeautyBattle BayIt could have been any factory anywhere. Carol MacLean had been shutting places down for that long. And after all these years, each place hurt more than the last. The good news was that after two more burials, this one and the next, she would finally g.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. *MOST ANTICIPATED NOVELS OF 2017 SELECTION BY * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * BUSTLE *A sweet, funny, and moving tribute to nerds and misfits everywhere. -Seth Grahame-Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesUntil May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd.Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts of television, gorging on Pop-Tarts, debating who would win in a brawl (Rocky Balboa or Freddy Krueger? Bruce Springsteen or Billy Joel? Magnum P.I. Or T.J. Hooker?), and programming video games on his Commodore 64 late into the night. Then Playboy magazine publishes photos of Wheel of Fortune hostess Vanna White, Billy meets expert programmer Mary Zelinsky, and everything changes.A love letter to the 1980s, to the dawn of the computer age, and to adolescence-a time when anything feels possible-The Impossible Fortress will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you remember in exquisite detail what it feels like to love something-or someone-for the very first time.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. From Jacquelyn Mitchard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the suspenseful, otherwordly, and nearly impossible to put down (People) story about an unlikely hero whose life is transformed when he rescues a boy with an extraordinary gift.Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami, former police officer Frank Mercy pulls a little boy from a submerged car. Not quite knowing why, Frank doesnt turn Ian over to the Red Cross. Instead he makes up a story about where the boy came from and takes him home, where Frank realizes that Ian has an otherworldly gift-an extraordinary ability to transform lives beyond anything hed ever imagined. Awed and confused, Frank confesses Ians secret to Claudia, a beautiful champion rider who is training for the Olympics. They join together to fight the sinister forces gathering to take Ian back. In a final confrontation, Frank and Claudia will risk everything-their love, their family, their very lives-to save this boy they now love as their own son.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An intimate but disturbing portrayal of Nixon in the Oval Office. -The Washington PostBob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the Presidents Men.Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixons resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixons secrets, obsessions and deceptions.The Last of the Presidents Men could not be more timely and relevant as voters question how much do we know about those who are now seeking the presidency in 2016-what really drives them, how do they really make decisions, who do they surround themselves with, and what are their true political and personal values?.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A fun, playful look at the importance of first impressions-in design and in life-from acclaimed book designer Chip Kidd.First impressions are everything. They dictate whether something stands out, how we engage with it, whether we buy it, and how we feel. In Judge This, renowned designer Chip Kidd takes us through his day as he takes in first impressions of all kinds. We follow this visual journey as Kidd encounters and engages with everyday design, breaking down the good, the bad, the absurd, and the brilliant as only someone with a critical, trained eye can. From the design of your morning paper to the subway ticket machine to the books you browse to the smartphone you use to the packaging for the chocolate bar you buy as an afternoon treat, Kidd reveals the hidden secrets behind each of the design choices, with a healthy dose of humor, expertise, and of course, judgment as he goes.Judge This is a design love story, exposing the often invisible beauty and betrayal in simple design choices-ones most of us never even think to notice. And with each object, Kidd proves that first impressions, whether we realize it or not, have a huge impact on the way we perceive the world.

Audio Book (CD). Condition: Good. Unabridged. An original audio program unavailable in any other format! In the bestselling tradition of Good, Better, Blessed, Joel Osteen presents another collection of his encouraging, inspiring sermons, recorded live at Lakewood Church!AVAILABLE ONLY ON AUDIOTEN OF JOEL OSTEENS MOST INSPIRING SERMONS, RECORDED LIVE AT LAKEWOOD CHURCH!To live in Gods favor is to live a life filled with hope, abundance and joy. God has a new beginning in store for you! Whatever difficulties youve faced, God uses your challenges to stretch you and enlarge your vision to move beyond disappointments and experience his blessings. In this audio series Joel Osteen shares valuable keys that will help you live in faith, stand strong and overcome anything that comes against you.Capturing the unique excitement of Lakewood Churchs weekly services and broadcasts, Living in Favor, Abundance and Joy collects material from three of the most popular volumes of live recordings offered on the Lakewood website. Youll hear Joel Osteens distinct and effective mix of spiritual perspectives on real-world challenges, including:- Letting go of the past- Taking the limits off of God- Being grateful for the gift of today- Having a relaxed and easy-going attitude- Controlling your moods- Holding on to your joyDont settle for the status quo. God says that you are going to have the most peace, the most fulfillment. You may not have seen it yet, but if you make room, you will not lack in any area.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ** A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the YearIt has been called the great destroyer and the evil. The Pentagon refers to it as the pervasive menace. It destroys cars, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks house fires, and nearly brought down the Statue of Liberty. Rust costs America more than $400 billion per year-more than all other natural disasters combined.In a thrilling drama of man versus nature, journalist Jonathan Waldman travels from Key West, Florida, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to meet the colorful and often reclusive people who are fighting our mightiest and unlikeliest enemy. He sneaks into an abandoned steelworks with a brave artist, and then he nearly gets kicked out of Ball Corporations Can School. Across the Arctic, he follows a massive high-tech robot that hunts for rust in the Alaska pipeline. On a Florida film set he meets the Defense Departments rust ambassador, who reveals that the navys number one foe isnt a foreign country but oxidation itself. At Home Depots mother ship in Atlanta, he hunts unsuccessfully for rust products with the stores rust-products buyer-and then tracks down some snake-oil salesmen whose potions are not for sale at the Rust Store. Along the way, Waldman encounters flying pigs, Trekkies, decapitations, exploding Coke cans, rust boogers, and nerdy superheroes.The result is a fresh and often funny account of an overlooked engineering endeavor that is as compelling as it is grand, illuminating a hidden phenomenon that shapes the modern world. Rust affects everything from the design of our currency to the composition of our tap water, and it will determine the legacy we leave on this planet. This exploration of corrosion, and the incredible lengths we go to fight it, is narrative nonfiction at its very best-a fascinating and important subject, delivered with energy and wit.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. From William Norwich, the well-known fashion writer and editor, an unforgettable novel about a woman with a secret who travels to New York City on a determined quest to buy a special dress that represents everything she wants to say about that secretand herself.Sometimes a dress isnt just a dress.Emilia Brown is a woman of a certain age. She has spent a frugal, useful, and wholly restrained life in Ashville, a small town in Rhode Island. Overlooked especially by the industries of fashion and media, Mrs. Brown is one of todays silent generations of women whose quiet no-frills existences would make them seem invisible. She is a genteel woman who has known her share of personal sorrows and quietly carried on, who makes a modest living cleaning and running errands at the local beauty parlor, who delights in evening chats with her much younger neighbor, twenty-three-year-old Alice Danvers.When the grand dame of Ashville passes away, Mrs. Brown is called upon to inventory her estate and comes across a dress that changes everything. The dress isnt a Cinderella confection; its a simple yet exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta sheath and jacket-a suit that Mrs. Brown realizes, with startling clarity, will say everything she has ever wished to convey. She must have it. And so, like the inspired heroine of Paul Gallicos 1958 classic Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris, Mrs. Brown begins her odyssey to purchase the dress. For not only is the owning of the Oscar de la Renta a must, the intimidating trip to purchase it on Madison Avenue is essential as well. If the dress is to give Mrs. Brown a voice, then she must prepare by making the daunting journey-both to the emerald city and within herself.Timeless, poignant, and appealing, My Mrs. Brown is a novel for every mother in the world, every woman who ever wanted the perfect dress, and every child who wanted to give it to her.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. A frank, poignant memoir about an unlikely marriage, a tragic death in Iraq, and the soul-testing work of picking up the pieces (People) in the tradition of such powerful bestsellers as Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking and Carole Radziwills What Remains.Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming a writer. Marrying a conservative Texan soldier and becoming an Army wife was never part of her plan, but when she met Miles, Artis threw caution to the wind and moved with him to a series of Army bases in dusty Southern towns, far from the exotic future of her dreams. If this was true love, she was ready to embrace it.But when Miles was training and Artis was left alone, she experienced feelings of isolation and anxiety. It did not take long for a wifes worst fears to come true. On November 6, 2006, the Apache helicopter carrying Miles crashed in Iraq, leaving twenty-six-year-old Artis-in official military terms-an unremarried widow.In this memoir Artis recounts not only the unlikely love story she shared with Miles and her unfathomable recovery in the wake of his death-from the dark hours following the military notification to the first fumbling attempts at new love-but also reveals how Miless death mirrored her own fathers, in a plane crash that Artis survived when she was five years old and that left her own mother a young widow. Unremarried Widow is a powerful look at mourning as a military wife.You can finish it in a day and find yourself haunted weeks later (The New York Times Book Review).

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Great Race recounts the story of a century-long battle between automakers for market share, profit, and technological dominance-and a race to build the car of the future.The worlds great manufacturing juggernaut-the $2 trillion automotive industry-is in the throes of a revolution. Its future will include cars Henry Ford and Karl Benz could scarcely have imagined. They will drive themselves, wont consume oil, and will come in radical shapes and sizes. But the path to that future is fraught. The top contenders are two traditional manufacturing giants, the United States and Japan, and a newcomer, China.Team America has a powerful and little known weapon in its arsenal: a small group of technology buffs and regulators from California. The story of why and how these men and women could shape the future-how you move, how you work, how you live on earth-is an unexpected tale filled with unforgettable characters: a scorned chemistry professor, a South African visionary who went for broke, an ambitious Chinese expat, a quixotic Japanese nuclear engineer, and a string of billion-dollar wagers by governments and corporations.Tillemanns account is incisive and riveting. It explains how America bounced back in this global contest and what it will take to command the industrial future.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A swift-paced survival tale thats a cool blend of Lord of the Flies and Journey to the Center of the Earth. -School Library JournalA sharp meditation on the seemingly universal difficulties of being young, smart, and uncertain. -BCCBA multifaceted journey from darkness to light. -Kirkus ReviewsWinner of the Red Maple Fiction AwardA class field trips turns into an underground quest for survival in the latest middle grade novel from the author of Edgar Award winner OCDaniel.Mr. Bakers eighth grade class thought they were in for a normal field trip to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. But when an earthquake hits, their field trip takes a terrifying turn. The students are plunged into an underground lakeand their teacher goes missing.They have no choice but to try and make their way back above ground, even though no one can agree on the best course of action. The darkness brings out everyones true self. Supplies dwindle and tensions mount. Pretty and popular Silvia does everything she can to hide her panic attacks, even as she tries to step up and be a leader. But the longer shes underground, the more frequent and debilitating they become. Meanwhile, Eric has always been a social no one, preferring to sit at the back of the class and spend evenings alone. Now, he finds himself separated from his class, totally by himself underground. That is, until he meets an unexpected stranger.Told from three different points of view, this fast-paced adventure novel explores how group dynamics change under dire circumstances. Do the students of Mr. Bakers class really know each other at all? Or do they just think they do? It turns out, its hard to hide in the dark.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition ~1st Printing. An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and rolls greatest guitarists. Strap yourself in. -SlashRocking Joe Perry rocks again! -Jimmy PageBefore the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Perry was a boy growing up in small-town Massachusetts. He idolized Jacques Cousteau and built his own diving rig that he used to explore a local lake. He dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. But Perrys neighbors had teenage sons, and those sons had electric guitars, and the noise he heard when they started playing would change his life.The guitar became his passion, an object of lust, an outlet for his restlessness and his rebellious soul. That passion quickly blossomed into an obsession, and he got a band together. One night after a performance he met a brash young musician named Steven Tyler; before long, Aerosmith was born. What happened over the next forty-five years has become the stuff of legend: the knockdown, drag-out, band-splintering fights; the drugs, the booze, the rehab; the packed arenas and timeless hits; the reconciliations and the comebacks.Rocks is an unusually searching memoir of a life that spans from the top of the world to the bottom of the barrel-several times. It is a study of endurance and brotherhood, with Perry providing remarkable candor about Tyler, as well as new insights into their powerful but troubled relationship. It is an insiders portrait of the rock and roll family, featuring everyone from Jimmy Page to Alice Cooper, Bette Midler to Chuck Berry, John Belushi to Al Hirschfeld. It takes us behind the scenes at unbelievable moments such as Joe and Stevens appearance in the movie of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (they act out the murders of Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees).Full of humor, insight, and brutal honesty about life in and out of one of the biggest bands in the world, Rocks is the ultimate rock-and-roll epic. In Perrys own words, it tells the whole story: "the loners story, the bands story, the recovery story, the cult story, the love story, the success story, the failure story, the rebirth story, the re-destruction story, and the post-destructive rebirth story."