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Things have taken a darker turn for the half-human teenager with an appetite for blood. Joss, a vampire slayer and Vlad's former friend, has moved back to Bathory. A mysterious and powerful new vampire, Dorian, appears with a shocking secret and an overwhelming desire to drink Vlad's blood. A[...]
"Simply great . . . Burns is as good a writer about the South as you're going to read for a long, long time." --"Atlanta Journal-Constitution"
A classic bestseller, "Cold Sassy Tree" is the story of Will Tweedy, a fourteen-year-old boy coming of age at the turn of the century in rural Georgia. H[...]
Down in Atlanta, tempers - and temperatures - are about to flare ...As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow across Atlanta like a tide. But once every seven years, a flare comes, a[...]
Counting to 100 in multiples of fives, tens and twenties comes into play when four girls share a game of hide-and-seek.[...]
Does power corrupt? Absolutely! Does the hunger and lust for absolute power course through your icy blue veins? Do you feel the need to rule the world with an iron fist? To subjugate the masses with a whimsical snap of your fingers? This book deals with these questions.[...]
If you're one of the more than 15 million stepmothers in the country, you know the particular trials -- and joys -- of stepfamily dynamics today. You wonder if you're doing the right thing and, as a stepmother, many of your specific questions are unique. In this second edition of Stepmotherhood: How[...]
This method uses traditional Spanish flamenco song forms and classical pieces to teach you the basics of this style and technique. You'll learn to play in the style of Paco de Lucia, Sabicas Ni o Ricardo and Ramin Montoya. Lessons cover: strumming picking and percussive techniques; arpeggios; improv[...]
The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for
The Civil War and Baseball.
Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music?jazz. Born in the [...]
A companion book to the acclaimed PBS series by the team who wrote The Civil War and Baseball furnishes a lavish photographic essay that celebrates the contributions of such artists as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and John Coltrane. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.[...]
This fourth volume in Robert Burns' celebrated series on the warrior King Jaume the Conqueror's Kingdom of Valencia describes the crucial years of 1270 to 1273, a period during which Jaume continued his consolidation of political power for future territorial expansion. Here in the colonial kingdom t[...]
No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, "The Bard" catches Burns' energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet[...]
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature and of science fiction. Published in 1974, it[...]
Half dragon, half woman, can she save her friend's soul - without losing her heart? Mercy Wilson is a reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area, but she's also more - and less - than human. Half woman, half air dragon, she's a 'draman' - unable to shift shape but still able to unleash fiery energy. No[...]
Serves as a guide to the world of business finance. This book explains balance sheets, profit and loss statements, cash flow, working capital, depreciation, cash flow forecasting, budgeting, and gearing. It is intended for those already running or planning to set up their own business.[...]
"Advanced Control Engineering" provides a complete course in control engineering for undergraduates of all technical disciplines. Starting with a basic overview of elementary control theory this text quickly moves on to a rigorous examination of more advanced and cutting edge date aspects such as ro[...]