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Olivia . . . and the Missing Toy

Funny, true and ingenious, Olivia's legions of fans will not be disappointed with this new story of the funky little pig and her fierce attachment to her favourite toy. Olivia has one toy that she loves more than anything - a stuffed animal that she feeds and dresses and takes everywhere. And when he disappears, Olivia is furious! She shouts at Ian and baby William, but they plead innocence. She screams, she... (more)

Girls Under Pressure (Girls Quartet, Book 2)

Girls Under Pressure (Girls Quartet, Book 2)

by Jacqueline Wilson

Ellie thinks she looks awful. Horrible. FAT. Her best friends are both drop-dead gorgeous and Ellie’s sick of being the ugly duckling. So she goes on a diet. And she even starts to exercise, much to her friends’ and her gym teacher’s amazement. Ellie’s hungry all the time, she works out every spare second, and she’s turned into a grouchy meanie. But if her friends don’t want to deal with the new and improved... (more)

The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing

The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing

by Deepak Chopra

Join Deepak Chopra on a wondrous journey. . . "The Path to Love." Philosophical, inspiring, and ultimately very practical, The Path to Love is a book that can change lives as it invites the spirit to work its wonders on the most complex and richly rewarding terrain of all: the human heart.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play • Illustrations from the Folger... (more)

Serpents Among the Ruins

by David R. George

THE YEAR IS 2311 It is a year of infamy, a year that later generations will remember as one that altered the course of history at the cost of thousands of lives. It is the year of the Tomed Incident, and its tale can at last be told. In the midst of escalating political tensions among the Klingons, the Romulans, and the Federation, Starfleet goes forward with the inaugural flight of Universe, a prototype... (more)

Despereaux (Spanish Edition)

by Kate DiCamillo

Love Actually

by Richard Curtis

Love Actually is the highly awaited new screenplay and directorial debut from phenomenally popular screenwriter Richard Curtis. Weaving together the stories of ten couples, the movie is as real as our own lives, and as funny, wise, and poignant as only Richard Curtis ( Four Weddings and a Funeral ) could create. Set in contemporary London just before Christmas, the cast includes a lovelorn Prime Minister, an... (more)

The Sundered (Star Trek: The Lost Era, 2298)

The Sundered (Star Trek: The Lost Era, 2298)

by Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin

Five years after the presumed death of Captain James T. Kirk, the U.S.S. Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, is at the forefront of exploration, diplomacy, and the defense of the Federation. Unprecedented peace talks with the violently xenophobic Tholian Assembly trigger a deadly confrontation aboard the Excelsior. Now Sulu and his crew -- including Chekov, Rand, Chapel, Tuvok, and Akaar -- are... (more)

Virtual War: The Virtual War Chronologs--Book 1 (Virtual War Chronologs, Book 1)

Virtual War: The Virtual War Chronologs--Book 1 (Virtual War Chronologs, Book 1)

by Gloria Skurzynski

Imagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images. Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes, high intelligence, and physical superiority. Everything Corgan is, everything he has ever seen or done, was to prepare him for one moment: a bloodless,... (more)

Scavenger

by Tom Savage

A bestselling author with a love of the macabre...A devoted fan with a passion for games...A serial killer with a taste for revenge... What they have in common is scaring the hell out of critics. Just ask them.... " Scavenger is stylish and surprising. Tom Savage is playing mind games and you are his victim...But you'll love every minute of it."- Washington Post Book World " Scavenger is compelling. I'll... (more)

Grift Sense: A Tony Valentine Novel

by James Swain

Amidst the neon and the big special ugly of Las Vegas, mild-mannered Frank Fontaine is beating the brains out of the Acropolis Casino. The house cops think the dealer, a blonde named Nola, is part of the con, but no one can prove a thing. For Tony Valentine, it’s the first new scam he’s seen in decades—and maybe the best. Three things Tony knows: The blonde is guilty, the grifter has lived a former life, and the... (more)

Funny Money (Tony Valentine Novels (Paperback))

Funny Money (Tony Valentine Novels (Paperback))

by James Swain

Tony Valentine has a gift for grift: He can walk into a casino and spot a cheater across a crowded floor. A man who still uses pay phones and won’t spend more than a buck for coffee, Tony has protected Atlantic City gambling palaces for twenty years and learned every trick of the trade—until a new one blows him away. With his old partner murdered in a bomb blast, Tony returns to A.C. to retrace Doyle Flanagan’s... (more)

The Other Ones (Novel)

by Jean Thesman

For as long as she can remember, Bridget has been able to do things other people can't-read minds, move objects without touching them, hear the songs and stories the wind and rain tell. She has pushed her powers down for years, trying to be like her "normal" classmates. Then baffling, fragile Althea Peale comes to town, and Bridget is forced to choose. She is the only one who has the power to help Althea, or to... (more)

Babyville: A Novel

by Jane Green

On the heels of her three runaway hits, Bookends , Mr. Maybe , and Jemima J , Jane Green delivers a sparkling, sexy tale about the complexities of modern motherly love. Bestselling author Jane Green has won the hearts of thousands of readers with her fresh take on single life and the dating jungle. Now in Babyville , she applies her golden touch to the next phase of a girl’s life, in an... (more)

Sons of Fortune (Archer, Jeffrey)

by Jeffrey Archer

The bestselling author of Kane and Abel returns with a powerful tale of a pair of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny. In Hartford, Connecticut, in the early 1950s, a set of twins is separated at birth by accident. One brother grows up to be a war hero in Vietnam and a success-ful 1990s bank executive, while the other distinguishes himself as a lawyer and politician. Sons of Fortune is as much the... (more)

Bow Street Runners: Book 3

Worth Any Price

by Lisa Kleypas

What is the price of love? Nick Gentry is reputed to be the most skillful lover in all England. Known for solving delicate situations, he is hired to seek out Miss Charlotte Howard. He believes his mission will be easily accomplished -- but that was before he met the lady in question. For instead of a willful female, he discovers one in desperate circumstances, hiding from a man who would destroy her very soul.... (more)

Quentins

by Maeve Binchy

Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if it must close... (more)

Looking Back

by Belva Plain

New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain goes to the heart of what it means to be a woman, a wife, and a friend, in her powerful new novel—a story of love and betrayal that measures the limits of loyalty, friendship, and forgiveness. They met at school and have been inseparable ever since: Cecile, confident, elegant daughter of privilege; Norma, extraordinarily gifted and sadly troubled; and beautiful,... (more)

Kinsey Millhone: Book 17

"Q" is for Quarry

by Sue Grafton

A Kinsey Millhone mystery. . . She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were mulitple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of... (more)

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