Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago. In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk, and concerns over tigers and giants and things going bump in the night. Long a favorite for the ge[...]
Having a difficult time falling asleep, Russell the Sheep tries just about everything to cure his case of insomnia, including counting sheep, until he finally comes up with the perfect trick to send him into to a peaceful slumber.[...]
Russell the sheep is determined to find the Lost Treasure of Frogsbottom. Equipped with his Super-Duper Treasure Seeker, Russell searches high and low, up and down, and in and out.Nothing Finally, Russell finds an old chest Could it be?Discover how Russell finds the most valuable treasure of all.[...]
When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house, strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle thei[...]
A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained, and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seducti[...]
Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. It is a mark of Russell Banks' artistry and understanding that Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a bl[...]
In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame?[...]
A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cas[...]
This is Russell.Sometimes Russell is just a little bit out of step with the rest of the flock.All the sheep are falling asleep -- except Russell.What's a sheep to do?Russell tries everything ... until, at last, he falls asleep.[...]
Russell Brand learned early on to make a joke of fear and failure. From a troubled childhood in industrial Essex, England, to his descent into addictions to alcohol, drugs, and sex in the seamy underbelly of London, Brand has seen his share of both and miraculously lived to tell the tale. In My Book[...]
Red Auerbach was one of the greatest basketball coaches in sports history. Bill Russell was the star center and five-time MVP for Auerbach's Celtics, and together they won eleven championships in thirteen years. But Auerbach and Russell were far more than just coach and player. A short, brash Jew fr[...]
After doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, the Kid is forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and choices he struggles to comprehend. Enter the Professor, a man who has[...]
A masterly collection of new stories from Russell Banks, acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone, which maps the complex terrain of the modern American familyThe New York Times lauds Russell Banks as "the most compassionate fiction writer working today" and hails him as a noveli[...]
Russell Brand learned early on to make a joke of fear and failure. From a troubled childhood in industrial Essex, England, to his descent into addictions to alcohol, drugs, and sex in the seamy underbelly of London, Brand has seen his share of both and miraculously lived to tell the tale. In My Book[...]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore . . . Booky Wook 2 As incredible as it may seem, the honesty, the mayhem, the lascivious scandal of Russell Brand's magnum opus, My Booky Wook, are surpassed by Booky Wook 2 This time it's personal, as Brand unabashedly charts his rise f[...]
Till deathJana Webster and Michael Haynes were in love. They were destined to be together forever.DoBut Jana's destiny was fatally flawed. And now she's in Dead School, where Mars Dreamcote lurks in the back of the classroom, with his beguiling blue eyes, mysterious smile, and irresistibly warm touc[...]
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Doc, The Sparrow, and A Thread of Grace comes Epitaph, a richly detailed novel of the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the making of the mythology that surrounds it to this dayA deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan medi[...]
All the sheep are falling asleep--except Russell. What's a sheep to do? Count stars... Count feet...There must be a way to get a sheep to sleep Perfect for naptime or bedtime, this New York Times bestselling picture book from Splat the Cat author-artist Rob Scotton is now a go-anywhere 8x8 paperback[...]
The big hand of the clock is at 12.The little hand is at 7.It is seven o' clock.It is bedtime for Frances.It may be bedtime for Frances, but before Frances can sleep, she needs a glass of milk, a kiss from Father, one from Mother, her teddy bear, her doll, another kiss from Father, and another one f[...]
Frances and Thelma are friends -- most of the timeThelma always seems to get Frances into trouble. When she tricks Frances into buying her tea set, it's the last straw. Can Frances show her that it's better to lose a bargain than lose a friend?[...]
"Product Management, 4/e" by Lehmann and Winer is a lean, defining text that covers three major tasks facing today's product mangers: analyzing the market, developing objectives and strategies for the product or service in question, and making decisions about price, advertising, promotion, channels [...]
Focusing on the analysis needed for sound Marketing decisions, this book is structured around the core marketing document - the Marketing Plan. It also focuses on the analysis pertaining to a product's environment, customers and competitors.[...]
Everything you need to know about neuromuscular disease--in one concise, full-color volume "...this book will become an indispensable resource for clinicians involved in the diagnosis and management of patients with neuromuscular diseases, as well as for scientists working on the nature and pathogen[...]
Helps to maintain and plan signaling networks. This resource is for network engineers responsible for the daily maintenance of signaling networks. It includes coverage of wireless technologies, discussion of SIGTRAN (the transmission of SS7 over an IP network), and use of SS7 for intrusion detection[...]