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Bravo Your Life!

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Burzlaff, Mi Soon, PUBLISHER: Koryo Company, Bravo Your Life is a collection of creative nonfiction vignettes about life, family, and friendship in contemporary South Korea. As Korean American adoptee author Mi Soon Burzlaff slowly acculturates herself into her birth family and society at large, her writing opens an illuminating window into Seoul's raw and dynamic identity.

Beneath a Western Moon

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wayne, Rochelle, PUBLISHER: Zebra Books, With a million copies of her novels in print, Rochelle Wayne has held readers spellbound with her special brand of sizzling historical romances. Now, she brings us the tale of a man and woman on a cross-country journey to the West, in search of a new beginning and the promise of eternal love.

First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tomasello, Michael, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child's earliest language development during her second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author focuses on how his daughter acquired her first verbs, and the role verbs played in her early grammatical development. The author argues that many of a child's first grammatical structures are tied to individual verbs, and that earliest language is based on general cognitive and social-cognitive processes, especially event structures and cultural learning.

My Year in Meals

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ray, Rachael, From everyday meals to complicated culinary feats, Rachael Ray reveals what she cooked for her own family and friends for one whole year. With "My Year in Meals," Rachael Ray invites readers into her own kitchen, offering recipes from her kitchen diary and sharing what she cooked for her own family over the course of a year. From weekday dinners to complex party menus, this book shows a side of Rachael you've never seen before. And for the first time ever, Rachael's husband and manager John Cusimano offers his own personal cocktail recipes. In addition to its lavish illustrations and photographs throughout, "Rachael's Year in Meals" contains Microsoft tags that connect readers to videos of Rachael demonstrating techniques, sharing cooking tips, and telling personal cooking stories.

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The Kingmaker's Daughter

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gregory, Philippa, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Ltd, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Philippa Gregory's stunning novel of conspiracy and a fight to the death for love and power at the court of King Edward IV of England. "The Kingmaker's Daughter" is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the "Kingmaker," Richard, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, Richard uses his two daughters as pawns in political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. In this novel, her first sister story since "The Other Boleyn Girl," Philippa Gregory explores the lives of these two fascinating young women. At the court of Edward IV and his queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Only a girl she is married and then left widowed and fatherless, with her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. She escapes by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the power of the royal family, sacrificing the lives of those she loves most in the world, including her only son, Prince Edward. Ultimately, the kingmaker's daughter will achieve her father's greatest ambition.

The Third Caliph

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Archer, Alex, PUBLISHER: Gold Eagle, Aholy war. An ancient scroll lost in history... until now. During a dig in Morocco, archaeologist Annja Creed and her companions are nearly buried alive when the "khettara" ceiling collapses, revealing a -year-old corpse. But when Bedouin bandits raid the camp, Annja barely escapes with her life...and half of a scroll in ancient "Kufic" script. Her companions' survival now depends on "her."" " The scroll dates back to 656 AD, when Muslim raised sword against Muslim and the assassination of the third caliph left no clear heir to Muhammad's teachings. It's a coveted find. Annja quickly finds herself caught between a devious terrorist whose family honor depends on destroying what she possesses and a ruthless CIA team. Both believe the end justifies the means. And that Annja cannot allow.

Heart of the Dove

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fobes, Tracy, PUBLISHER: Pocket Books, Brilliant new talent Tracy Fobes' first book, "Touch Not the Cat," received overwhelming critical acclaim. "Ms. Fobes' debut is a stunning novel...clever, evocative, and magical," said "Romantic Times." Her new book is as bewitching, a mesmerizing tale of magic -- and a love foretold centuries before.... Lucinda Drakewyck, one of a long line of Drakewyck witches, has foreseen her own death. Desperate for answers, she calls upon the magic in her cherished crystal dove, hoping for visions of the warrior whose love would first save her then destroy them both. When wounded Crimean cavalry officer Richard Clairmont walks into her secret forest glen, Lucinda recognizes him as her promised hero. Destiny has determined that only he can rescue her from a ghastly fate, and yet Lucinda fights the attraction between them, knowing if they love, both their lives are forfeit. Richard Clairmont doesn't believe in love, magic, or even himself. A captain in Her Majesty's Eleventh Hussars, he charged into the mouth of Hell and returned scarred forever. But from the moment he meets Lucinda Drakewyck, sunshine enters his life, throwing light on the shadows in his heart and making him question the possibility of magic. Together, they must stand against a malevolent presence and test the true power of their love.

The Fortune Hunter

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McKinney, Meagan, PUBLISHER: Zebra Books, USA Today bestselling author Meagan McKinney transports us to the opulent townhouses of New York, and into the life of a young spiritualist who enters a world of desire, obsession, and revenge. Lavinia Murphy fled a brutal St. Louis orphanage with four younger "siblings" and learned a spiritualist's ways from the carnies and gypsies she met on the road to New York City. Transformed as the mysterious Countess Lovaenya, she has built a safe haven for herself and her troubled family when she is suddenly confronted by a phantom more fearsome than any she's ever conjured in her shadowy parlor. Edward Stuyvesant-French -- the illegitimate son of Lavinia's wealthiest, and most frequent client -- has vowed to destroy her. To protect her family, Lavinia will enter into an uneasy bargain with the powerful and bitter Edward that forces her to understand that beyond the darkness of a troubled soul may lie a heart aching for comfort, acceptance, and healing love.

Pandora in the Crimson Shell Ghost Urn Nendoroid Action

From the popular anime series,Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn, comes a Nendoroid of Clarion! She comes with a alternate expression for comat as well as her combat knives,Yoryu, and,Haiko, as well as effect parts for her Plasma Neko Punch which allow you to recreate all sorts of combat scenes from the series.She also comes with parts to display her accessing her Pandora Device together with an embarrassed expression which suits the pose perfectly! BUER is also included and can also be set on Clarion,s neck accessory. BEUR also has an articulated middle leg allowing for various different nuances together with Clarion!The Nendoroid-style figure stands approx. 10 cm tall and comes with base and figure stand.

A Point of Honor

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Heydt, Dorothy J., PUBLISHER: Daw Books, Sir Mary de Courey is the doughtiest knight in the virtual reality land of Chivalry. But when, in the real world, her plane crashes and her car is driven off the road, she finds herself in more trouble than single combat can solve. Someone appears to want to retrieve the mysterious manor that she won from an anonymous knight, and is willing to kill her to get it back. Now she must travel through the world of Chivalry to find the secret door that leads from the most mundane of Virtual Reality libraries to the most magical of worlds

On Air

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Naqvi, Maniza, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This novel from the author of Mass Transit unfolds over a six-hour period in which the main character, Naz, tells stories to listeners and callers over the radio on a late night talk show slot that she has been offered to fill for just one night. The characters in Naz's stories reflect her own pathologies as she tries to come to terms with her experiences. Each story is built around the theme of a personal crisis but, in the telling of her tales, the underlying state of crisis in society is beautifully captured and imaginatively expressed.

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon CS

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gibbons, Kaye, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Audio, Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery. As she tells her story in , she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life that was made bearable in the main by the indomitable family servant Clarice. She secedes from the control of her overbearing father to marry Quincy Lowell, a member of the distinguished Boston family. Living in Raleigh on the eve of the Civil War, Emma Garnet and Quincy, with Clarice's constant help, create the ideal happy home. When war destroys the rhythm of their days, Emma Garnet works alongside Quincy, an accomplished surgeon. As she assists him in the treatment of wounded soldiers, she comes to see the war as a "conflict perpetrated by rich men and fought by poor boys against hungry women and babies." After Appomattox, Emma Garnet sets out to take the exhausted Quincy home to Boston, where she begins the journey of her own reconstruction. As in her five previous novels, Kaye Gibbons demonstrates her subtle mastery of detail and her unmistakable voice. Told in graceful cadences, "On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon"is a shimmering meditation on the divisions of the human heart.

Baroness Cox: Eye Witness to a Broken World

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gilbert, Lela, PUBLISHER: Lion Hudson Plc, In , Caroline Cox was appointed to the ranks of British nobility with the title Baroness Cox of Queensbury, Greater London. A former deputy speaker of the House of Lords, she is a tireless advocate for international human rights. In the course of her humanitarian career, Cox has visited overlooked people groups, often in highly dangerous conditions, to carry their stories of abuse and persecution back to the West. This is her inspiring life story, centering on how she has used her position in British government to turn the world's attention to humanitarian causes around the globe.

Naruto Shippuden Nendoroid PVC Action Figure Hinata Hyuga 10

From the popular anime series Naruto Shippuden comes a Nendoroid of Hinata Hyuga She comes with three face plates including a cute smiling expression, a combat expression with her Byakugan activated as well as an embarrassed expression for whenever she laid eyes on Naruto.She comes with a selection of optional parts allowing you to pose her in battle stances, the classic ninja running pose or even preforming the Hyuga clan,s secret technique - Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists Be sure to display her together with the previously released Nendoroid Naruto Uzumaki and other characters from the series

Rift

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cremer, Andrea, PUBLISHER: Philomel Books, Chronicling the rise of the Keepers, this is the stunning prequel to Andrea Cremer's internationally bestselling Nightshade trilogy Sixteen-year-old Ember Morrow is promised to a group called Conatus after one of their healers saves her mother's life. Once she arrives, Ember finds joy in wielding swords, learning magic, and fighting the encroaching darkness loose in the world. She also finds herself falling in love with her mentor, the dashing, brooding, and powerful Barrow Hess. When the knights realize Eira, one of their leaders, is dabbling in dark magic, Ember and Barrow must choose whether to follow Eira into the nether realm or to pledge their lives to destroying her and her kind. With action, adventure, magic, and tantalizing sensuality, this book is as fast-paced and breathtaking as the Nightshade novels.

The Double Life of Pocahontas

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fritz, Jean / Young, Ed, PUBLISHER: Puffin Books, In a story that is as gripping as it is historical, Jean Fritz reveals the true life of Pocahontas. Though at first permitted to move freely between the Indian and the white worlds, Pocahontas was eventually torn between her new life and the culture that shaped her.

A to Z

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Boynton, Sandra, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster, Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring nontraditional texts and her famous animal characters, have been printed on thick board pages, and are sure to educate and entertain children of all ages.

Maris

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hill, Grace Livingston, PUBLISHER: Living Books, On the eve of her brilliant society wedding, beautiful Maris must face the true meaning of love. Grace Livingston Hill is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs of people faced with the problems of life and love.

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Little Star

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lindqvist, John Ajvide, PUBLISHER: Thomas Dunne Books, When ex-pop-star Lennart Cederstr m finds an abandoned baby, he is uncertain what to do-until he hears her cry-a clear, haunting, perfectly pitched note. Lennart decides he will raise her in isolation: the vehicle for a pure, uncorrupted music. But like anyone brought up in a basement, young Theres develops a few idiosyncrasies. Dangerous ones.

Her Majesty's Army

Due volumi distinti: Her Majesty's Army A descriptive account of the various regiments now comprising the queen forces from their first establishment to the present time Walter Richards Vol. I (16 cromolitografie) e Vol. II (15 cromolitografie) London J.S. Virtue & Co., Limited circa Le condizioni dei libri sono ottime (solo il piatto posteriore del secondo volume e' staccato) Libri antichi, libro antico

Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom!

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Murphy, Stuart J. / Demarest, Chris L., PUBLISHER: HarperCollins, The yellow cars beep The red cars vroom As Molly plays with her big brother's toy cars, readers will see and recognize patterns, an essential first step in learning to reason from the specific to the general. But can Molly put the cars back in the right order before her brother returns?

Of Landscape and Longing: Finding a Home at the Water's Edge

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Servid, Carolyn, PUBLISHER: Milkweed Editions, Though Americans move frequently and often live far from the place they were born, they retain a memory of the landscape of childhood. For Carolyn Servid, and for others who love shorelines and boats, this imprinted place is where water meets trees. Using memoir as a means of meditation, Servid writes about connections to the land and the ways our love of a place can lead us to see it as an adversary, as she once felt during an ascent in Glacier Bay; as something to be consumed, as in the sprouting of mansions in the valleys of Colorado; or as a lover, as in her intimate, abiding knowledge of the shore near her home, where her greatest pleasure is to row her Banks dory among the whales and nearby islands.

Rose Dancer

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Earle, Christine A., PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, Follow the life of a little Chamilin, a horse-deer-like creature, as she finds she has was born with a power: the power to repel evil and attract friends of good heart. The woody territory of the River Vesper in the mythical region of Atrossia, is a charming but dangerous place..where love is a healer, and life and friendship can be cut asunder in a heartbeat. With her father's courage, her mother's sweetness and wisdom, and her own special abilities, Rose Dancer finds a way to live in this wild, beautiful, uncertain world full of friends, surprises...and calamity.

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