Fred Saberhagen's Book of Swords novels have captivated fantasy readers for more than a decade. Here, now available in one volume, are the three books that started it all. For a game the gods have given the world twelve Swords of Power so that they might be amused as the nations battle for their pos[...]
Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. And he's a thief.
But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age - and he's also a wizard. And with the help of his partners - a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who c[...]
After smuggling gold into the Church city of Ruvinheigen with Lawrence and Holo, Norah abandoned her life as a shepherdess and set out on a journey with her loyal hound, Enek. In order to make her dream of becoming a seamstress a reality, she heads for the town of Kuskov, which is rumored to be e[...]
The girls seem to face new challenges everywhere they turn, and the pressure is threatening to tear them apart. Even their normal lives aren't free of stress -- particularly when Will's long absent father returns Will the girls be able to pull it together before a new enemy emerges?
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Ari, the lord of Arkhanta, has a grudge against the Oracle and will go to any lengths to destroy him. The Guardians must stop Ari's rising power at the source to protect Kandrakar, but with their team fractured, will that even be possible?
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The girls have barely recovered from their adventure in Arkhanta when they suddenly find themselves facing an Astral Drop revolution How can the Guardians stop their doubles from wreaking havoc in their lives, though, when the Astral Drops know exactly where to strike the Guardians to turn thei[...]
Polar is the charming story that the American heiress Daisy Corning Stone Spedden wrote for her son the year after her family escaped the doomed Titanic. The story, told through the eyes of the young boy's teddy bear, opens a window on a vanished Edwardian way of life and contains an enthralling eye[...]
A Second Course in Statistics: Regression Analysis, Seventh Edition, focuses on building linear statistical models and developing skills for implementing regression analysis in real situations. This text offers applications for engineering, sociology, psychology, science, and business. The authors u[...]
Created expressly for the beginning photographer-no matter what camera you might be using-Peachpit Press's bestselling From Snapshots to Great Shots books teach you the core fundamentals of photography, and show you exactly how to execute those fundamentals with your camera. Now that you've bought t[...]
Now that you've bought the amazing Canon 5D Mark III, you need a video that goes beyond the camera manual to teach you how to create great shots. In this video, photographer Ibarionex Perello takes you on a journey around the San Francisco Bay Area to demonstrate the powerful features of this camera[...]
Drawing upon his passion for statistics and teaching, Mike Sullivan addresses the needs of todayâs students, the challenges teachers face, and changes in the statistics community. With feedback from his own students and classroom experience, Fundamentals of Statistics provides the tools to help[...]
With the Jedi Knights splintered by conflict and a deadly war between the Killiks and Chiss threatening to engulf the entire galaxy, Luke Skywalker makes a desperate gamble to prevent all-out war by venturing deep into hostile territory to undermine the war-making capabilities of all the combatants.[...]
**"Washington Post" Best Books of 2013**
The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Miklos Banffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of[...]
The final book of the series follows the adventures of the descendants of Murdo Ranulfson, including Caitrfona, a beautiful Scottish woman, as she embarks on her own perilous pilgrimage though the mountains of northern Spain on a search for that most holy of relics, the Sacred Cup of Christ. 35,000 [...]
Genetic Programming Theory and Practice III provides both researchers and industry professionals with the most recent developments in GP theory and practice by exploring the emerging interaction between theory and practice in the cutting-edge, machine learning method of Genetic Programming (GP). The[...]
The third of a three-volume work, this book is the outgrowth of the authors' experience teaching calculus at Berkeley. It covers multivariable calculus and begins with the necessary material from analytical geometry. It goes on to cover partial differention, the gradient and its applications, multip[...]
Paul Murray Kendall's account of the life of Richard III explores not only the man himself, but also ways that he has influenced culture: Richard played a central role in several literary works, most notably in William Shakespeare's play.[...]