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Author: Michael ZimmerPublisher: Five Star (ME)Published: 03/19/2014Pages: 499Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.60dISBN: 9781432827632Award: Spur Awards - FinalistReview Citation(s): Booklist 02/01/2014 pg. 30This title is only available via back order

Short fiction from Elizabeth Bear, recipient of the "John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer." Includes her Hugo- and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winning "Tideline" and Hugo-winning novelette, "Shoggoths in Bloom," as well as an original, never-published story. A World Fantasy, Nebula, and Philip...

A dark attic. A light bulb. An imaginative little girl. Internationally acclaimed artist Lee uses these simple elements to create a visual tour de force that perfectly captures the joy of creative play and celebrates the power of imagination. Illustrations.Author: Suzy LeePublisher: Chronicle BooksPublished:...

This engaging cookbook, which features the tropical dishes of South India, demystifies the cuisine and offers more than 100 recipes with light, tropical flavors and simple praparations, along with sumptuous photographs of the food and the region. 24 full-color illustrations.Author: Maya Kaimal MacMillan, Maya...

Launched at a kitchen table in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, Mano a Mano began collecting and shipping medical supplies to impoverished Bolivian communities in 1994. Twenty years later, an organization that once operated exclusively from the founder's basement has now successfully implemented over 300 infrastructure...

"A clear explanation of the workings of the United States government that should be required reading for politically engaged Americans." -- KIRKUSCongressional Procedure explains the legislative and congressional budget processes along with all aspects of Congress.This comprehensive guide to Congress is ideal for anyone...

City of Vancouver Book Award winnerAs raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical...

Don't miss the "harrowing" (The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world. On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day...

2007 Book of the Year Honorable Mention, Short Stories, Foreword Magazine "Plunging into one of Jay Baruch's stories is like finding yourself in a busy Emergency Room at two in the morning--here you will meet characters whose lives are urgent and not always what...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of the Year (So Far) at The New Yorker, The BBC, Vulture, CrimeReadsA Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick"[A] savagely satirical thriller." --People The Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama...

Inspired by a passage from Henry David Thoreau's WALDEN, this wonderfully appealing story follows two friends who have very different approaches to life. When the two agree to meet one evening in Fitchburg, which is thirty miles away, each decides to get there in...

The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical account of Israel's bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. Beginning with the violent border disputes that emerged after Israel's founding in 1948, Daniel Byman charts...

The bravery displayed by our soldiers at war is commonly recognized. However, often forgotten is the courage required by veterans when they return home and suddenly face reintegration into their families, workplaces, and communities. Authored by three mental health professionals with many years of...

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen history. Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the...

Author: Lydia DabcovichPublisher: Clarion BooksPublished: 03/29/1999Pages: 37Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 10.31w x 0.12dISBN: 9780395975671Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.4Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 31093 / Polar Bear Son: An Inuit TaleAward: Georgia Children's Book Award - NomineeAbout the AuthorDabcovich, Lydia:...

Dear Pastor, Desire burns within you. You've trained and dreamt of doing large things in famous ways as fast as you can for God's glory. But pastoral work keeps requiring your surrender to small, mostly overlooked things over long periods of time.You stand at...

Wemberly worried about everything. Big things. Little things. And things in between. Then it was time for school to start. And Wemberly worried even more. If you ever worry (or know someone who does), this is the book for you.Wemberly worried about spilling her...

A lawyer's lucrative case has deadly consequences in the third installment of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that began with Thus Was Adonis Murdered "Sarah Caudwell is one of my very favorite mystery writers."--A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer s life spanned four decades of the early twentieth century and was shaped within the crucible of two European wars and an economic depression. Born in 1906 and raised in an upper middle class German family, he was educated to be a...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the...