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A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Austen-Leigh, James Edward / Sutherland, Kathryn, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in , over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to inform all subsequent accounts. These are family memories, the record of Jane Austen's life shaped and limited by the loyalties, reserve, and affection of nieces and nephews recovering in old age the outlines of the young aunt they had each known. They still remembered the shape of her bonnet and the tone of her voice, and their first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. Their declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and the terms in which all biography functions. This edition brings together for the first time these three memoirs, and also includes Jane's brother Henry Austen's "Biographical Notice" of and his less known "Memoir" of .

A Time to Love

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Delinsky, Barbara, PUBLISHER: HarperTorch, "New York Times" bestselling author Barbara Delinsky demonstrates her incomparable talents for capturing the deepest desires of the human heart in this breathtaking story, first published in , of misunderstanding, fulfillment, and love. It is the ultimate in luxury and privacy -- a villa nestled amid brilliant sunlight and gently waving palm trees on a secluded Caribbean beach. There Arielle Pasteur hopes to find the solitude she desperately craves. Instead she ends up sharing her sensuous surroundings with a man who sparks memories of a painful past she thought she'd put behind her. Devastatingly handsome fashion photographer Chris Howe seems like an overbearing, egotistical chauvinist. Yet behind the glittering celebrity facade lurks a tenderness that begins to soften Arielle's protective shell. But before she can trust him with her fragile heart, she must learn to trust herself.

The Masks of Darkness

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hall, Patricia, PUBLISHER: Magna Large Print Books, Recently divorced, Jay Morton returns to her home town of Pendle Bridge with her daughter Kate. She gets a job helping to set up a museum at Pendle House, and while searching for artifacts in the attics she stumbles across some extraordinary masks with malevolent and threatening eyes... Donna once lived at Pendle House when it was a children's home and she remembers the menacing masks, and the depraved men behind them, all too clearly. Donna has returned to Pendle Bridge with only one thought in her mind - it's time that justice was served.

Kantai Collection Nendoroid Action Figure Kashima 10 cm

From the popular browser game,Kantai Collection, comes a Nendoroid of the 2nd Katori-class Training Cruiser - Kashima! She comes with three face plates including a standard expression, a half-damaged expression and a winking expression.Although she may be a training cruiser she still comes with effect parts to display her firing her turrets in the case of combat! She is also the first Nendoroid to include a Type 94 Depth Charge Projector which even comes with effect parts to display her firing off a depth charge - training cruisers are not to be underestimated! Her searchlight also comes with an interchangeable part to display it lit up!A lunchbox filled with sandwiches and well as a gratin are included as the usual food parts, and she even comes with a selection of parts to recreate her Christmas graphic from the game! Enjoy Kashima by your side in all sorts of different poses!The Nendoroid-style figure stands approx. 10 cm tall and comes with base and figure stand.

The Little Green Witch

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McGrath, Barbara Barbieri / Alexander, Martha, PUBLISHER: Charlesbridge Publishing, The little green witch has a problem. Her lazy monster friends just won't help her make a horrible pumpkin pie--not ghost, nor bat, nor gremlin. Barbara McGrath's feisty retelling of "The Little Red Hen," with Martha Alexander's charming illustrations, is the perfect choice for Halloween fun. Acquista Ora

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DOUBLE - The Captain Of Her Heart - MAXI SINGLE 45 giri Etichetta: Polydor ‎ Formato: Vinyl, RPM, Maxi-Single Paese:France Uscita: Genere:Electronic Stile:Synth-pop Elenco tracce A1 The Captain Of Her Heart 4:35 A2 Your Prayer Takes Me Off (Part II - Dub) 4:04 B Your Prayer Takes Me Off (Part I) 6:30 " SPEDIZIONE GRATUITA " Per Chiarimenti & Info: Piero.

Camo Girl

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Magoon, Kekla, PUBLISHER: Aladdin Paperbacks, A biracial student questions her identity in this contemporary novel from the author of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptor Award-winning "The Rock and the River."Ella and Z have been friends forever, both of them middle-school outsiders in their Las Vegas suburb. Ella is the only black girl in her grade and gets teased for the mottled colors of her face. (Her deceased father was white.) Z is the classic "weird kid" who maintains an elaborate--and public--fantasy life, starring himself as a brave knight. Though Z is content with his imagined world, Ella wishes for a larger group of friends, so she's thrilled when Bailey, another black kid, arrives at their school. He's popular and wants to befriend Ella--but to join the cool crowd, Ella would have to ditch Z. Does she stay loyal to the boy who has been her best and only friend for years, or jump at the chance to realize her dream of popularity? Author Kekla Magoon deftly navigates the muddy waters of racial and cultural identities in this contemporary exploration of one girl's attempt to find herself.

How to Be a Beautiful Bride

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ripley, Jacqui, PUBLISHER: Ryland Peters & Small, Every woman wants to look her best on her wedding day. Packed with pampering treatments and beauty tips, this little book by Jacqui Ripley offers the know-how you need to become a truly beautiful bride. Words and pictures show how to achieve flawless makeup that will not only look natural but also photograph well.

Behindlings

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barker, Nicola, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers, Spurting with kinetic energy, nasty wit, and kindness to animals, Wesley ought to be a star. Or so it seems to the "Behindlings" -- followers who nip at his heels, turn up everywhere he goes, and lie in wait for him around every corner. They skulk through the dreary streets of their tiny English town, gathering their own scabby intentions, irritating habits, and weird manners, burying all differences in the common pursuit of their true prize, their Wesley. In "Behindlings, " the inimitable and ungovernable Nicola Barker takes her most compelling character to date, gives him his head and her novel, and sees him run off with her readers.

My Kiasu Teenage Life in Singapore: A Novel for Anyone Who

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: See, Ee Lin, PUBLISHER: iUniverse, In Singapore, the word "kiasu" is a widely used term that both describes and laughs at the competitive nature of Singaporean culture. Fifteen-year-old Pei Yi discovers the true meaning of "kiasu" firsthand when she moves from her sheltered life in a small Malaysian town and accepts a scholarship to live and study in Singapore. In "My Kiasu TeenageLife in Singapore," author Ee Lin See weaves a charming tale of a teenage girl and her adventures as she navigates through all that life has to offer in a big city on her path to adulthood.

Catching Jordan

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kenneally, Miranda, PUBLISHER: Sourcebooks Fire, "Whoever said football and girls don't mix hasn't read Catching Jordan. I couldn't put it down " -- Simone Elkeles, New York Times bestselling author of the Perfect Chemistry series ONE OF THE BOYS What girl doesn't want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn't just surrounded by hot guys, though- she leads them as the captain and quarterback of her high school football team. They all see her as one of the guys and that's just fine. As long as she gets her athletic scholarship to a powerhouse university. But everything she's ever worked for is threatened when Ty Greeen moves to her school. Not only is he an amazing QB, but he's also amazingly hot. And for the first time, Jordan's feeling vulnerable. Can she keep her head in the game while her heart's on the line? "A beautiful novel with a real and captivating depiction of high school relationships, Catching Jordan shows the same reverence for the human heart that it does for the game of football." --Karsten Knight, author of Wildefire

Zenn Scarlett (Strange Chemistry)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schoon, Christian, PUBLISHER: Strange Chemistry, Zenn Scarlett is a bright, determined, occasionally a-little-too-smart-for-her-own-good 17-year-old girl training hard to become an exoveterinarian. That means she's specializing in the treatment of exotic alien life forms, mostly large and generally dangerous. Her novice year of training at the Ciscan Cloister Exovet Clinic on Mars will find her working with alien patients from whalehounds the size of a hay barn to a baby Kiran Sunkiller, a colossal floating creature that will grow up to carry a whole sky-city on its back. But after a series of inexplicable animal escapes from the school and other near-disasters, the Cloister is in real danger of being shut down by a group of alien-hating officials. If that happens, Zenn knows only too well the grim fate awaiting the creatures she loves. Now, she must unravel the baffling events plaguing her school, before someone is hurt or killed, before everything she cares about is ripped away from her and her family forever. To solve this mystery - and live to tell about it - Zenn will have to put her new exovet skills to work in ways she never imagined, and in the process learn just how powerful compassion and empathy can be.

A Crime in the Neighborhood

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Berne, Suzanne, PUBLISHER: Owl Publishing Company, An auspicious debut novel by a young writer who will remind readers of Anne Lamott and Anne Tyler Crime in the Neighborhood centers on a headline event-- the molestation and murder of a twelve-year-old boy in a Washington, D.C., suburb. At the time of the murder, , Marsha was nine years old and as an adult she still remembers that summer as a time when murder and her own family's upheaval were intertwined. Everyone, it seemed to Marsha at the time, was committing crimes. Her father deserted his family to take up with her mother's younger sister. Her teenage brother and sister were smoking and shoplifting, and her mother was "flirting" with Mr. Green, the new next-door neighbor. Even the president of the United States seemed to be a crook. But it is Marsha's own suspicions about who committed this crime that has the town up in arms and reveals what happens when fear runs wild.

Elegance

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tessaro, Kathleen, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers, Louise C. wants what Jackie O had... Unhappy with her looks, her life, and her empty marriage, Louise Canova needs help -- and she finds it in a secondhand bookstore. A forty-year-old encyclopedia of style titled "Elegance," this slim volume by formidable French fashion expert Madame Dariaux promises to transform even the plainest of women into creatures of poise and grace. It is a fairy godmother in print, an A-to-Z manual with essential advice that Louise vows to take to heart. But within its pages lie not only clues from her past, but also powerful lessons for the future. And as the old Louise gives way to the stunning new, she's about to find out that there's more to every life than what appears on the surface... and that everything, even elegance, has its price.

Safe Pasture

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gilbert, Donna Chapman, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, Love, loss, and discovery in the rugged Big Horn Mountains. Susanna Parker, a newly-unemployed single mom, visits her Aunt Ora in Wyoming and discovers that Oraas God is full of surprises. Susanna begins her own journey of faith amid a swirl of new experiences. From a handsome businessman to a sprawling cattle ranch, she encounters joys and dangers she never expects. Zeke McCall is haunted by a past that neither his young daughter nor his beloved ranch can overcome. Then Susanna signs on as ranch cook. Does he dare love again? And must Susanna be forced to make the most difficult choice of her life?

Voice of the Violin

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Camilleri, Andrea / Sartarelli, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Viking Books, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, with his compelling mix of humor, cynicism, and compassion, has been compared to Georges Simenon's, Dashiel Hammett's, and Raymond Chandler's legendary detectives. In this latest novel, Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immedi-ately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder.

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Life Class

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barker, Pat, PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton, In this superb new novel, Pat Barker returns to her most renowned subject: the devastation and psychic damage wrought by WWI on all levels of British society. In the spring of , a group of young students gather in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him. Pat Barker is unrivaled in her ability to convey simple, moving human truths. Her skill in relaying the harrowing experience of modern warfare is matched by the depth of insight she brings to the experience of love and the morality of art in a time of war. LIFE CLASS is one of her genuine masterpieces. Acquista Ora

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To Tempt a Sheikh

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gates, Olivia, PUBLISHER: Silhouette Books, He rescued hostage Talia Burke from his royal family's rival tribe and swept her into his strong embrace. But Prince Harres Aal Shalaan soon discovered there was more to the brave beauty than he knew. Talia held information vital to protecting his beloved kingdom...and she had every reason "not" to trust him. Marooned together at a desert oasis, Talia couldn't resist Harres. Yet even as his sizzling seduction entranced her, his loyalty to his family and country would always make them enemies. Falling for the sheikh would be her heart's greatest mistake...but she feared it was already too late....

April's Fool

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marriott, Blanche, PUBLISHER: Avalon Books, How can a wedding album start a tug-of-war between the bride and groom? When they aren't really married and an April Fools joke goes awry. In a moment of self-pity, April Vaillancourt, a graphic designer and all-around dreamer, creates a fake wedding album. She accidentally leaves it behind at a restaurant after a girls night out. Weeks later, when it turns up on the desk of the fake groom, he confronts her, and she's faced with telling the truth or living a lie. Michael Goode is a high-powered investment advisor on the threshold of becoming CEO. His neat and orderly bachelor life is jarred when April's prank appears on his desk. Ready to take her to task for the brazen invasion of his privacy, he instead falls captive to her charms. Intrigued by her evasive tactics, he pursues her, but when he finds himself wanting to spend every minute with April, he begins to question his bachelor life. Could there be something better?

Irish Hearts

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Roberts, Nora, PUBLISHER: Thorndike Press, In twenty years and over one hundred books, Nora Roberts has captured readers' hearts with enthralling stories and sizzling romance. Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author offers readers this special 2-in-1 edition containing her very first book and its sensational sequel. In Irish Thoroughbred, Adelia Cunnane's hot temper sets the heart of Travis Grant aflame. Now the powerful owner of Royal Meadows horse farm resolves to make her his own. In Irish Rose, Erin McKinnon accepts Burke Logan's loveless proposal and his cool promise of security and wealth. But can this ravishing beauty win her hard-hearted husband's love?

Balloons Can Be Murder

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shelton, Connie, PUBLISHER: Intrigue Press, "Shelton has created a lively hero in Charlie and puts her into situations that require prompt action and good common sense. A Charlie Parker mystery is always a good read."-"Southwest BookViews Three days before the start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, balloon pilot Rachael Fairfield walks into the offices of RJP Investigations. She received a threatening note, which she believes came from her father, a convicted felon whom she sent to prison 15 years earlier. To complicate matters, her brother has initiated a huge publicity campaign for the world altitude record Rachael plans to attempt on the final Sunday of the fiesta. It seems simple enough. Charlie and her brother Ron will locate William Fairfield and keep him away from Rachael for the duration of the fiesta. But as they follow leads on William Fairfield, the threats escalate, and Ron and Charlie start to wonder whether he's really the stalker. Amid the color and beauty of the world's largest ballooning event, Charlie also finds herself at odds with her husband and reassessing her life's priorities. Only when she nearly loses her own life do the answers begin to fall into place. Connie Shelton is a lifelong mystery fan who wanted to be Nancy Drew when she grew up. Now she relives her mystery fantasies through her Charlie Parker series. In addition to writing the series, she has served as president of her local writers group and is active in Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. Shelton is also a frequent speaker at writing and publishing conferences. She lives in northern New Mexico and central Arizona with her husband, author and helicopter pilot Dan Shelton.

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