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Read this thrilling novel about a wildlife biologist who will do anything to save endangered snow leopards...even face-off with an elite Special Forces soldier who is tracking the world's most-wanted terrorist-a fugitive who is as much a ghost as the elusive cats themselves. Wildlife...

Author: Frederic BauPublisher: Flammarion-Pere CastorPublished: 10/18/2011Pages: 416Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.80lbsSize: 10.83h x 9.72w x 1.36dISBN: 9782080200815Award: IACP Crystal Whisk Award - FinalistAbout the AuthorFrederic Bau is the creative director and executive chef of l'ecole du Grand Chocolat Valrhona. French patissier Pierre Herme contributed to...

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival-literally...

Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears.This mysterious vanishing--and the ones that follow--will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher...

A working girl is found dead in the desert. Can a calendar girl uncover the truth? In this award-winning prequel to GETTING OFF ON FRANK SINATRA, it's Christmastime in Sin City. Aspiring journalist Copper Black meets Victoria McKimber, an outspoken prostitute at one of...

This true story of Ruuxa the cheetah and his best friend, Raina the Rhodesian Ridgeback, will leave readers moved and forever changed. Ruuxa, born with front legs that grew crooked, and Raina, diagnosed with terminal cancer, have a friendship like no other. They prove...

That art should once have been markedwith this delicacy: always only oneof each thing made, so that your poemhas its one life on the sheetyou have chosen for it, or the snapshotof the birthday party, everythingin the room upended by the children'sjubilation, survives onlyin...

May 10, 1996 is the date of the most historic tragedy in Mount Everest history. Eight climbers died. Lou Kasischke was there. He lived that story. The climbing events and the forces of nature were at the extreme, especially when things went wrong. The...

Aaron G. Green, FAIA, was an internationally known organic architect of "striking originality and grace." His diversified architectural works include residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, judicial, religious, interment, mass housing, and educational projects. Aaron had a uniquely close relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright, serving as...

Irving Berlin came to the United States as a refugee from Tsarist Russia, escaping a pogrom that destroyed his village. Growing up on the streets of the lower East Side, the rhythms of jazz and blues inspired his own song-writing career. Starting with his...

At just 14 years old, gymnast Gabby Douglas left behind her close-knit family in Virginia Beach, Virginia, to train under Liang Chow, famed coach of Olympic legend Shawn Johnson. The move to Iowa was not an easy decision for the focused teenager. For many...

In the tradition of Douglas Chadwick's best-selling adventure memoir, The Wolverine Way, Tracking Gobi Grizzlies creates a portrait of these rarest of bears' fight for survival in one of the toughest, most remote settings on Earth. He demonstrates why saving this endangered animal supports...

Cee-Cee Bianco is visited by the Virgin Mary, but her brothers see a much darker vision. When the youngest, Baby Pauly, falls into a coma after witnessing a brutal crime in the woods, and area girls go missing at an increasing frequency, Cee-Cee is...

For the tribes of the American plains in the Buffalo Days of the pre-reservation life, horse raiding was a chance for men to show their courage and bravery in battle. No man can help another to be brave, says grandfather to fourteen-year-old Lone Bull,...

AN INDIE NEXT LIST SELECTION A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BIG INDIE BOOK OF FALL 2013 Part modern western, part mystery, this first novel will appeal to fans of Louise Erdrich and Kent Haruf. Quimby's prose reads so true, it breaks the heart. --BOOKLIST, starred review...

The Must-Have Book to Help All Writers Understand Publishing Lingo The Dictionary of Publishing Terms: What Every Writer Needs to Know uses simple language to explain the words most often used in publishing. From ISBN and index, to gutter and greyscale, the professional terms...

One of the most loved urban storytellers, Treasure Blue, delivers the second installment in the acclaimed Harlem Girl Lost series--a gritty urban drama featuring a group of Harlem teenagers facing the consequences of revenge and the hope that could save their city and their...

A child's sensory system affects their ability to learn, play, socialize and function. Maybe a child isn't able to sit still in class because his shirt tag is bothering him, or isn't able to play with other children because his balance is off. Maybe...

Hitchhiking her way through Alaska, a young woman named Anna is picked up by Kyle, a fisherman. Anna and Kyle quickly fall for each other, as they are both adventurous, fiercely independent, and in love with the raw beauty and solitude of Alaska. To...

PURELY ALASKA: Authentic Voices from the Far North includes 32 stories as far flung as Alaska itself, including that of a woman who discovers a surprising new world when she goes off to boarding school; a mother who hopes to steer his son to...