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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

by Oliver Sacks

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people... (more)

Rumer Godden Treble: Coramandel Sea Change / The Greengage Summer / The RiverRumer Godden

Rumer Godden Treble: Coramandel Sea Change / The Greengage Summer / The River

by Rumer Godden

The Christmas Pearl

by Dorothea Benton Frank

Theodora is the matriarch of a family that has grown into a bunch of truculent knuckleheads. While she's finally gotten them all together in South Carolina to celebrate, this Christmas looks nothing like the extravagant, homey holidays of her childhood. What happened to the days when Christmas meant tables groaning with home-cooked goodies, over-the-top decorations, and long chats in front of the fire with... (more)

Father Tim: Book 1

Home to Holly Springs

by Jan Karon

Readers of the nine bestselling Mitford novels have been captivated by Jan Karon’s “gift for illuminating the struggles that creep into everyday lives—along with a vividly imagined world” ( People ). They learned quickly that “after you’ve spent time in Mitford, you’ll want to come back” ( Chicago Tribune ). Millions eagerly awaited the publication of each novel, relishing the story of the bookish and bighearted... (more)

A Special Relationship

by Douglas Kennedy

Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted gets his man: Based on the famous adventure strip (The Big little book)Zane Grey

Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted gets his man: Based on the famous adventure strip (The Big little book)

by Zane Grey

The Underdog and Other Stories

by Agatha Christie

A beautiful heiress, a dashing playboy, a handsome prince, and a forgotten recluse. What do they have in common? They're all victims in a series of crimes only Hercule Poirot could solve.

The Down Home Zombie Blues

by Linnea Sinclair

In this steamy, suspenseful new novel from RITA Award–winning author Linnea Sinclair, a dangerously sexy space commander and an irresistibly earthy Florida police detective pair up to save the civilized galaxy . . . but can they save themselves from each other? Bahia Vista homicide detective Theo Petrakos thought he’d seen it all. Then a mummified corpse and a room full of futuristic hardware sends Guardian... (more)

Fred the Mermaid: Book 2

Swimming Without a Net

by MaryJanice Davidson

As Fred the Mermaid tries to fit in with her own kind, she finds herself hooked on both Artur, the High Prince of the undersea realm, and Thomas, a hunky marine biologist. She's also caught between two factions of merfolk: those happy with swimming under the radar-and those who want to bring their existence to the surface.

Omnibus: Book 6

A Season in the Highlands

by Jude Deveraux, Jill Barnett

Love that grows among the heather is enchanted indeed...blessed with the misty magic and timeless passion of fair Scotland! New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux unravels a ghostly murder mystery in an ancient Scottish castle. National bestselling author Jill Barnett decrees all is fair in love -- when a rollicking Highland clan war leads an impetuous lass to kidnap the wrong man! Geralyn... (more)

The Abstinence Teacher

by Tom Perrotta

“Some people enjoy it.” That was all Ruth had said. Even now, when she’d had months to come to terms with the fallout from this remark, she still marveled at the power of those four words, which she’d uttered without premeditation and without any sense of treading on forbidden ground. (p. 11) Thanks to an off-hand remark made during a class discussion of oral sex, sex-ed teacher Ruth Ramsey finds herself a... (more)

HE'S YOUR DOG,CHARLIE BROWN!

SNOOPY COME HOMECharles M. Schulz

SNOOPY COME HOME

by Charles M. Schulz

It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie BrownCharles M. Schultz

It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

by Charles M. Schultz

Trespass

by Valerie Martin

Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights . Yet Chloe is disturbed—by the aggression of her government’s foreign policy, by the poacher who roams the land... (more)

Back On Blossom Street

by Debbie Macomber

Blossom Street where you'll find everything you're looking for! From yarn and flowers to friendshipÂ… There's a new shop on Seattle's Blossom Street a flower store called Susannah's Garden, right next door to A Good Yarn. Susannah Nelson, the owner, has just hired an assistant named Colette Blake, a young widow who's obviously hiding a secret or two. When Susannah and Colette both join Lydia Goetz's new knitting... (more)

The Gods Must Be Crazy: Two Novellas

by Katie MacAlister

A modern woman and a god from ancient legend? Surely an epic love mismatch...or maybe it's the "myth match" of the century? The irrepressible Katie MacAlister brings us heroes who are more than mere mortals in two sparkling new novellas of the Otherworld. STAG PARTY Dane Hearne -- also known as the Irish fertility god Cernunnos -- must choose a bride quickly. His long-time goddess has run off with a salsa dancer,... (more)

The Hinge Factor

by Erik Durschmied

From the wooden horse of Troy to the Gulf War, military history has been as much marked by chance and error, as by gallantry and heroism. Many conflicts have been decided by the caprice of weather, bad intelligence, heroism where it wasn't expected, or individual incompetence. In military terms, the incident which can swing a battle from victory to defeat in a moment is known as the "Hinge Factor". The "Hinge... (more)

Donal Grant

by George MacDonald

1900 Original Printing. Strictly original re-print on a Heidelberg press. Hand made, hard bound in forest green cotton cloth just like the originals! A classic Scottish novel with some local, Scottish brogue. It was a lovely morning in the first of summer. Donal Grant was descending a path on a hillside to the valley below, a sheep-track of which he knew every winding as well as any boy his half-mile to and from... (more)

Final Truth: A Novel

by Mariah Stewart

In her thrill-packed trilogy Cold Truth, Hard Truth, and Dark Truth, Mariah Stewart proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she can brilliantly and suspensefully handle the truth. Can you? Then prepare yourself for the shocking, eye-opening Final Truth, in which a woman who specializes in exposing lies finds herself trapped in a real-life nightmare. All that stands between Lester Ray Barnes and the state of... (more)

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