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Something Wicked

Alan M. Gratz

The Scottish Highland Festival in Tennessee is all set to begin, but there’s one problem: Duncan MacRae, founder of the games, has just been murdered. The police arrested Malcolm, Duncan’s son, but is he really the killer? Horatio Wilkes, for one, ha...

Hot Chicks with Douchebags

Jay Louis

Greasy foreheads. Spiky frosted hair. Oiled-up faces dripping with Tag Body Shot spray. Armani Exchange T-shirts and rank cologne wafting off their backs like fetid pollen clouds as they pump their fists and attempt to grind into any hotties nearby....

Diamond Duo (Texas Fortunes Trilogy, Book 1)

Marcia Gruver

Get ready to burn the midnight oil with Diamond Duo, a suspense-filled historical romance that will keep you reading with a white-knuckled grip. When Bertha Biddle meets an enigmatic charmer named Annie Monroe, she's hoping to learn from her the art...

The Cat Bible: Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know

Tracie Hotchner

The only fully comprehensive guide to “all things feline,” from the host of Cat Chat on Martha Stewart Living Radio.

Finally, a definitive book that delivers many unknown facts about every aspect of caring for and sharing your...

Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event (Covert-One)

Robert Ludlum

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a mysterious World War II-era aircraft, a discovery that forces the Russian Federation into a shocking admission. The unmarked plane is a Soviet strategic bomber that di...

All That Remains: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta)

Patricia Cornwell

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell's heart-stopping thriller featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta

In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be foun...

Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta)

Patricia Cornwell

Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose sign...

Cruel and Unusual: A Kay Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta)

Patricia Cornwell

"Killing me won't kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can't explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on another crime scene -- after...

Body of Evidence: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta)

Patricia Cornwell

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic.

Reclusive author Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone c...

Deep Storm

Lincoln Child

In this explosive new thriller, one of the most incredible and frightening discoveries mankind has ever faced is about to surface.

On an oil platform in the middle of the North Atlantic, a terrifying series of illnesses is spreading through th...

The Sweeter Side of Amy's Bread: Cakes, Cookies, Bars, Pastries and More from New York City's Fav...

Amy Scherber

If you’re a fan of famed Manhattan bakery Amy’s Bread, you will love The Sweeter Side of Amy's Bread, a beautiful cookbook that will show you how to re-create 71 of the bakery’s favorite sweet treats. Bake Amy’s signature scones, muffins, cook...

Ariel's Journey (The Ice Horse Adventures, Book 1)

Doug Kane

Five very different young women sent to the woods to learn about Icelandic horses, beautiful, fluffy, stocky horses with an uncanny ability to survive harsh climates and dangerous terrain. But this summer camping trip reveals their true power the h...

Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil

Mike Mignola

A murder in a New York wax museum and a missing corpse lead Hellboy into ancient Romanian castles on the trail of a sleeping legend: the original nobleman vampire. Nazi scientists prepare for the return of their occult master and the end of the world...

How Would Jesus Vote?: A Christian Perspective on the Issues

D. James Dr Kennedy

The 2008 election is shaping up to be one of the most important political contests in American history. In fact, Dr. D. James Kennedy believes it will be a watershed moment that could impact our very survival as a nation under God.

Values vote...

The Descent

Jeff Long

"Long's smart and epic tale takes the reader into a Dantesque world, a journey to the center of the earth for the new millennium. And what is found there is both horrific and entrancing: a system of tunnels that network beneath the earth, and homonid...

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as...

Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall

David Ben-Ariel

Mr. Ben-Ariel clearly has a God-given love for the Jews and the nation of Israel. His Israeli lawyer has stated that David's "future is linked with that of the Jews," and Gershon Salomon, chairman of the Temple Mount Faithful says, "God has some spec...

Good Spirits: Recipes, Revelations, Refreshments, and Romance, Shaken and Served with a Twist

A.J. Rathbun

Cocktail enthusiast A.J. Rathbun has collected 450 classic and contemporary drink recipes featuring an incredible variety of spirits, mixers, and garnishes. Accompanied by stunning, full-color photographs and written in a fresh, lively tone, this is...

Luscious Liqueurs: 50 Recipes for Sublime and Spirited Infusions to Sip and Savor

A.J. Rathbun

In this collection of 50 easy recipes, illustrated with gorgeous color photos, master mixologist A.J. Rathbun shows readers how to create their own liqueurs - infusions that meld liquor with fruit, herbs, and spices - for any occasion. Chapters inclu...

Jetpack Dreams: One Man's Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Ne...

Mac Montandon

v>Jetpack Dreams chronicles the colorful pop history and science of that most amazing and mysterious of machines, the jetpack. While exploring our collective fascination with flight, the tale takes readers from the first flimsy, shoulder-mo

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Dangerous Heart (Westward Hearts Series #3)

Tracey Bateman

Growing up motherless with an outlaw father made Ginger Freeman hard and unforgiving—and for the past seven years she's been driven by a single goal: to make Grant Kelley pay for letting her brother die. Now that she's tracked the hated doctor to...

Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure

Paul A. Offit

A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vacc...

Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan

Chip Kidd

The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever.

In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys...

The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen

Arthur B. Laffer

Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor Peter J. Tanous to sen...

Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth

Steve Pavlina

v>Despite promises of “fast and easy†results from slick marketers, real personal growth is neither fast nor easy. The truth is that hard work, courage, and self-discipline are required to achieve meaningful results—results that are not att

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More Information Than You Require

John Hodgman

The bestselling author of The Areas of My Expertise— also known as The Daily Show’s “Resident Expert†and the PC in the iconic Mac ads—picks up exactly where his first book left off. Exactly.

Like its predecessor,...

Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope

Emmanuel Guibert

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“When I was eighteen, Uncle Sam told me he’d like me to put on a uniform and go off to fight a guy by the name of Adolf. So I did.â€

 

When Alan Cope joined the army and went off to fight in World War II, he had no idea what he was

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The Revolution: A Manifesto

Ron Paul

The Complete M&A Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Buying, Selling, Merging, or Valuing a Business ...

Tom Taulli

The Ultimate Guide to Buying, Selling, Merging, or Valuing a Business for Maximum Return
The next merger wave has already started. You may be looking to grow your company through acquistions, or you may be planning for the perfect exit stra...

The Streetsmart Guide to Short Selling: Techniques the Pros Use to Profit in Any Market

Tom Taulli

All about short selling­­today's most market-tested technique for grabbing profits in falling markets

As individual investors are forced to become increasingly savvy in today's turbulent markets, more and more are investigating sh...