For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. Now, in the first translation into English since 1930, Aristotle's thought is presented accurately, with a lucid introduction and extensive notes to explain the general structure of each section of the book, and shed light on particular problems. It simplifies and expands the style of the original, making for easier reading and better comprehension. Views: 599
More than 100 cancer survivors share their personal stories in this touching new collection of "Chicken Soup." These heartwarming accounts of courageous people who found the power to battle cancer in their endless hope, unwavering faith and steadfast determination will inspire you to adopt a positive attitude, discover your faith and cherish every moment. Just what the doctor ordered for healing your body, mind and soul. Views: 598
Tears roll over my face. I touch them with my quivering tongue. They are clear and salty, not dark and bloody. Another sign that I am human. What Alisa has desired for five thousand years has finally come true: She is once again human. But now she is defenseless, vulnerable, and, for the first time in centuries, emotional. As she attempts to reconcile her actions as a vampire with her new connection to humanity, she begins to understand the weight of lifeand-death decisions. Can Alisa resolve her past and build a new identity, or is she doomed to repeat her fatal mistakes? Views: 596
Read this classic romance by bestselling author Sandra Marton, now available for the first time in e-book!No one knew who was the father of Carin's baby. She'd kept her secret for the entire pregnancy. But during the birth, she called out a name—Raphael Alvares!The powerful Brazilian millionaire rushed to Carin's bedside. But had Rafe come because pride forced him to give the baby his name? Or was it because the one passionate night they'd shared had left him longing to make Carin his bride?Book 6 in The Barons miniseriesOriginally published in 2001 Views: 593
It is 1483. Father Felix Fabri has set sail from Germany to Mount Sinai on a pilgrimage to venerate the relics of the spiritual bride he took when he first swore his vows, the martyr Saint Katherine of Alexandria. Joined by a disturbed young woman who claims that Saint Katherine speaks through her, and her older brother whose intentions are never clear, Felix soon finds his expectations for a pure and holy journey crushed.
Following a tempestuous sea voyage, Felix's group comes ashore to pay homage and celebrate Katherine's life in Greece and Palestine. Each time they come to worship, though, they find that the remains of Katherine's body are being stolen in bits and pieces; her hand, her ear, and then her tongue are missing from their holy resting places.
Desperate to discover the thief and save his saint from such a brutal fate, Felix is thrust into a deep and strange mystery that takes him across the desert and plumbs the depths of his soul. Based on the historical Wanderings of Friar Felix Fabri, this suspenseful and thrilling novel is an irresistible look at how history resonates in the present landscape, and how heaven, through the follies and passions of men, constantly reinvents itself. Views: 592
Basking in the recent success of The Thin Man, William Powell and Myrna Loy stumble onto a situation so typically Hollywood that only the real-life incarnation of Nick and Nora Charles could take the case. A Hollywood madam publicizes that she's in need of money, effectively putting the squeeze on many of Holywood’s leading men by implying that soon she might be desperate enough to sell the contents of her little black book.A book like that could do a lot of damage in a town where Louis B. Mayer is not above exercising the morals clauses in bis actors' connects to suit his own schemes, where gossip spreads faster than you can say Louella Parsons." and where celebrity secrets are a valuable commodity—or a motive for murder.William Powell and Myrna Loy. the silver screen's most charming sleuthing couple, bring tbeir roles as Nick and Nora Charles back to life alongside George Baxt's fictional investigating trio of Herb Villon. Hazel Dickson, and Jim Mallory. Once again. Bait delivers a witty, engaging mystery depicting Hollywood in its heyday as only he can. Views: 589
The Jewels of Texas
Pearl Jewel Was About To Teach A Lonely Cowboy A Lesson In Love.
Cal McCade's world was the open range with no one but himself and his haunted past for company. It was the life of a man with no ties—and he liked it that way, until Pearl, a cultured beauty fresh from Boston with proper manners and fiery kisses, gave him a taste of something he could never have.
Diamond, Pearl, Jade and Ruby. The Jewels of Texas. Four sisters as wild and vibrant as the untamed land they're fighting to protect. Views: 587
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized. Views: 582
While helping organize Greenfield's Winter Festival, the Boxcar Children find a secret message in their developed photos. They realize someone is trying to ruin the Festival. Can they figure it out in time to save the event? Views: 580
This is the heart-rending story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after a violent, abusive marriage and a worsening drink problem. Paula Spencer recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable. Views: 580
The wildly popular series by K.A. Applegate is back! The first six books of Animorphs return, with striking new lenticular covers that morph.
When Tobias and his friends were given the power to morph, they were also given an important warning: Never stay in a morph for more than two hours. But Tobias broke the time limit, and now he's trapped in the body of a hawk -- forever. When he discovers an important Yeerk secret, Tobias knows he has to do everything in his power to destroy it. But to do so, he'll have to contend with a part of himself that's wrestling for control. A part that isn't human. Views: 579
Mystery fiction's legendary trio, Raymond Chandler,
Dashiell Hammett, and Erle Stanley Gardner, are back as amateur detectives,
following their dynamic, critically acclaimed debut in The Black Mask
Murders. Here they interact in a complex, colorful, and ultimately dangerous
adventure, a richly textured thriller that also celebrates the joys of love and
marriage between Chandler and his exceptional wife, Cissy.
As narrated by Chandler, the adventure begins in East Los
Angeles with the discovery of what is apparently the ritual suicide of Cissy's
former husband in a Chinese cemetery. Action moves swiftly from the coastal
splendors of the Hearst castle, to the abandoned canals of Venice by the Sea, to
an ornate hotel on Coronado Island, to the rococo Victorian mansions of Bunker
Hill.
The characters are equally diverse: a mysterious screen
star known to millions as the Vampire Queen, a concert pianist who discovers
surprising romance, an ex-stage actor with a penchant for using his fists, a
missing sister who prefers to stay missing, and a pair of muscle-bound punks who
don't balk at kidnapping and murder.
Along the way readers will encounter such fascinating
real-life personalities as newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, America's
cinema sweetheart Shirley Temple, comic genius Charlie Chaplin, Hollywood gossip
columnist Hedda Hopper, and a brash young Orson Welles.
Once again, William F. Nolan expertly evokes the surreal
world of Southern California in the 1930s, when Hollywood provided golden dreams
for a nation in economic crisis, as the all-time masters of crime fiction return
in a bold, inventive new novel that will stun, shock, and delight.
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From Kirkus Reviews
A thousand dollars is a lot of 1936 dollars, and even
though Raymond Chandler's never walked the mean streets he writes about, he's
happy to take the money from self-styled "Countess" Carmilla Blastok (Ce Letty
Knibbs of Newark) to find her missing sister Elina-especially since he'd like to
quiz Elina about the death of her rumored lover, pianist/composer Julian Pascal.
The LAPD thinks Julian's death in a Chinese cemetery was a clear case of ritual
suicide, but Julian's ex-wife, Cissy, who left him for Chandler years ago, is
sure it was murder. With some help from Dashiell Hammett and Erle Stanley
Gardner, his buddies from Black Mask (The Black Mask Murders,
1994), Chandler goes after Elina's lowlife companion Merv Enright-and walks
right into a mulligan stew of fact and fiction, with many scenes he's evidently
planning to hoard for his own later novels. Despite clunky cameos by Orson
Welles, Hedda Hopper, Charlie Chaplin, William Randolph Hearst, and Shirley
Temple, the shaggy story moves along briskly, with detection-on-the-fly very
typical of Chandler's own work, and inaccurate social prophecies ("Maybe Los
Angeles will someday even lead the way in race relations," muses one character)
that mark a nice change from the usual 20/20 hindsight of most historical
mysteries. It's not just because of his subject that prolific Nolan may well
represent the last of the pulp tradition. Black Mask fans will be waiting
eagerly for his Erle Stanley Gardner installment.
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From Booklist
The Black Mask boys are back, and that's a cause for
celebration. Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner,
introduced as detectives in Nolan's Black Mask Murders (1994), track down
the murderer of Chandler's wife's first husband, Julian, who has apparently
committed ritual suicide in a Chinese cemetery. Cissy Chandler, not buying the
suicide story, puts her husband on the case. Chandler follows Julian's trail to
horror-movie actress Carmilla Blastok, who leads the writerly sleuth to a thug
named Enright, who may have killed Carmilla's sister. When Chandler gets in over
his head, he calls his Black Mask cronies for help. Along the way,
Charlie Chaplin, William Randolph Hearst, and Orson Welles also make cameo
appearances. Nolan has obviously researched the Hollywood of the 1930s
thoroughly; his backgrounds are always convincing, even when you don't believe
the foreground for a minute. Entertaining for nostalgia buffs.
***
From Library Journal
Nolan's Black Mask Boys-Dashiell Hammett, Raymond
Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner-undertake their second amateur investigation.
The apparent suicide of Cissy Chandler's former husband entails visits to East
L.A., Hearst Castle, and Venice-by-the-Sea. Various famous people make
appearances. Especially good for fans of 1930s historical fiction.
***
"Masterfully penetrates the surreal Black Mask world of
Southern California in the 1930s. Nolan has captured the essence of both an era
and a literary form in one brilliant exercise."
-Robert R. Parker Views: 579
People had always told Ofelia what to do; for once she was going to do what she wanted. She refused to get on the cryo ships, refused to leave the only world she could call home. And when they finally came for her, she hid, not that the authorities looked all that hard for one crazy old woman. Now Ofelia is alone, content to live with no more demands on her self or her time, the only remaining settler on an abandoned planet. The new settlers arrive. At first she fears they have come to reoccupy the settlement she has come to think of as hers - but they land far away. And as Ofelia secretly listens, they are slaughtered to the last child by stone-age aliens no one knew were there. Now it will be up to Ofelia to save the aliens from Earth's wrath. Views: 578
Marco never wanted to be an Animorph. He never wanted the ability to change into any animal he touches. He just wants to chill. Whatever happens, happens. Views: 577
