"A landmark. "American Taste"] encompasses an admirable range of thoughts on food ranging from fried chicken and barbecues to Bourbon to game and caviar. A banquet for your library."--Craig Claiborne ""American Taste" makes us savor the thought of good food, good living, and the joys of the good li[...]
In Hollywood history, no other lawyer has achieved the movie star-like fame and glamour that Greg Bautzer enjoyed. This revealing biography tells, for the first time, the amazing story of a self-made man who for 50 years used his irresistible charm and prodigious legal talent to dominate the courtro[...]
Opgaverne i Fandango 2 Arbejdsbog støtter elevernes aktive sprogbrug og sproglige opmærksomhed gennem talesproglige og skriftsproglige aktiviteter. Ordklasser introduceres i en funktionel ramme, og elevernes egen opmærksomhed og ansvarlighed for at lære sig ukendte ord skærpes. Arbejd[...]
The spectacular international bestseller that introduced Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross and launched James Patterson's career as one of the fastest-selling thriller writers in the world - now reissued in striking new cover style. He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped t[...]
Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Technology provides a comprehensive, easy-to-understand treatment of the background, development, and applications of the gas turbine engine it its various forms, such as turobjet, turbofan, turboprop, and turboshaft powerplants. Designed primarily as a resource for techn[...]
James Thurber was one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century (and a crack cartoonist to boot). A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945, The Thurber Carnival captures the depth of his talent and the breadth of his wit. The stories compiled here, almost all of which first appeared [...]
In The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse, authors James Altucher and Douglas R. Sease provide investors with provocative and essential guidance that will enable them to take advantage of the lucrative investment opportunities that inevitably will arise when disaster strikes. T[...]
Pete the Cat is back in New York Times bestselling author James Dean's beginning reader Pete the Cat: Too Cool for School. In this funny My First I Can Read Book, Pete just can't decide which outfit to wear to school He has so many options to choose from. Fans of Pete the Cat will enjoy Pete's crea[...]
Join Pete in New York Times bestselling artist James Dean's Pete the Cat picture book series as Pete celebrates Thanksgiving in this groovy lift-the-flap book Starring in the school Thanksgiving play would make even the coolest cat nervous. But when Pete the Cat gets onstage, he makes learning the s[...]
Join Pete, from New York Times bestselling author James Dean's Pete the Cat picture-book series, as he visits a farm in this groovy version of the classic children's song "Old MacDonald Had a Farm." Children will love singing along--e-i-e-i-o --with Pete the Cat.[...]
New York Times bestselling authorsJames Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell combinetheir talents in a gothic tale about anancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book known only as . . . The Blood Gospel.Some books should never be found, never opened--until now.An earthquake in Masada, Israel, reveals [...]
Join Pete the Cat in New York Times bestselling author James Dean's I Can Read beginning reader Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana. In this hilarious new title, Pete the Cat bites into a bad banana and decides that he never, ever wants to eat bananas again. But Pete really likes bananas Will a rotten[...]
Join Pete in New York Times bestselling artist James Dean's Pete the Cat picture book series as he stars in the classic nighttime song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." Pete the Cat fans new and old will delight as Pete sings about the stars up above in this rendition of a favorite children's bedtime[...]
Sing along with Pete the Cat in New York Times bestselling artist James Dean's three supercool adaptations of classic favorites. In Pete the Cat's Sing-Along Story Collection, head to school with Pete and his pals in The Wheels on the Bus; hang out on the farm with Pete in Old MacDonald Had a Farm; [...]
This super cool paperback beginning reader collection includes five of the grooviest stories from the Pete the Cat I Can Read series by New York Times bestselling artist James Dean: Pete the Cat: Play Ball , Pete the Cat: Pete's Big Lunch, Pete the Cat: Pete at the Beach, Pete the Cat: A Pet for Pet[...]
Highlights why government regulation is sometimes required as well as new models of business-community collaboration.[...]
"Ordeal by Fire" blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story--that of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the[...]
America's greatest living crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir - as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels - about his obsessive search for "atonement in women."
The year was 1958.Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maid[...]
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.[...]
Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect.[...]
This title is selected and introduced by Ruth Rendell. M.R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and[...]
Confess if you don't feel safe. Young women from New York's most exclusive neighbourhoods are being murdered, and the police aren't looking for answers in the right place. Confess if you don't trust anyone. Enter Tandy Angel. The first case she nailed was the mystery of her magnificently wealthy par[...]
A hard-hitting thriller set in the London office of the worlds most exclusive detective agency.
Forced into hiding from a mass murderer seeking vengeance, Detective Michael Bennett must decide whether to stay and protect his family, or hunt down the man who is hunting them.
When Bennett arrested Manuel Perrine, he thought he had brought an end to the drug cartel bosss reign of terror a[...]
Some of the world's largest and most spectacular birds are to be found among this group of wading birds. Tragically, they also include many of the world's most endangered species, as changes in land use erode their wetland habitats. Some like the White Stork have lived alongside humans for hundreds [...]