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Myth Conceptions

by Robert Asprin

After mistakenly being appointed court magician by a regent who should have known better, apprentice mage Skeeve must defend a kingdom from the mightiest invading army in the world.

Myth Adventures: Book 3

The beautiful Tanda wants the Trophy--and it's up to Skeeve to get it for her. The problem is, getting it will take more than luck. It will take all Skeeve's unproven magical talents, a scaly but clever Pervect, and a charming demon not above a little interdimensional thievery.

Winning the Net Game: Becoming Profitable Now That the Web Rules Have Changed

Winning the Net Game: Becoming Profitable Now That the Web Rules Have Changed

by Caroline Howard

This easy-to-follow book includes concrete examples of how businesses can implement inexpensive, innovative and immediately profitable Web strategies. It also contains a floating glossary, tips and side bars, and real world examples.

Simple HeraldryIain Moncreiffe of that Ilk

Simple Heraldry

by Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk

The Opposite of Love

by Julie Buxbaum

With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again. When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can’t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. Somewhere beneath... (more)

Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal: An A - Z Guide to Safe and Healthy Eating

Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal: An A - Z Guide to Safe and Healthy Eating

by Editors of Reader's Digest

An authoritative guide to the links between food and health covers such topics as the impact of diet on common ailments; how to cook foods to maximize nutritional value; and tips on reading food labels. $350,000 ad/promo.

Better Homes and Gardens Story Book

by Evangeline M. O'Connor

Includes:The Little Red Hen by Helen Dean Fish**A Rose is Red**The Nonsense ABC by Edward Lear**The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman**How Charlie Made Topsy Love Him by Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell**Hurt No Living Thing by Christina G. Rossetti**The House The Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott**Finger Games**The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear**The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter**What Is... (more)

In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World : From Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau, Eliot Porter

In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World : From Henry David Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau

A stunning presentation of one of America's leading photographers and artistic pioneers, this is Eliot Porter's interpretation of the works of Henry David Thoreau in a commemorative edition of one of the most famous (and bestselling) Sierra Club Exhibit Format Books. 72 color photos.

by Seymour Simon

Wolves are much more than big and badDID YOU KNOW THAT WOLVES... are like dogs: they are loyal, affectionate, and highly intelligent. live in packs -- or families -- led by the strongest female and male. are friendly with one another: they play games, bring food to one another, and baby-sit one another's cubs. HERE'S THE REAL STORY ABOUT THIS ANIMAL OF MYTH AND LEGEND, THE WOLF.

Men and Cartoons

by Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem’s new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers—nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of Lethem’s novels in all these pieces—narrators who can’t stop babbling, hapless would-be... (more)

HeraldryJulian Franklyn

Heraldry

by Julian Franklyn

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

by Bill Buford

Possession: A Romance (Vintage International)

Possession: A Romance (Vintage International)

by A. S. Byatt

Actual Book Cover May Vary -- There are two covers available and orders are filled at random. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics)

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Includes short stories, poems, and other works by one of the great American writers.

Vino Para Dummies/wine For Dummies

by Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan

Wine enthusiasts and novices, raise your glasses! The #1 wine book has been extensively updated! If you’re a connoisseur, Wine For Dummies, Fourth Edition will get you up to speed on what’s in and show you how to take your hobby to the next level. If you’re new to the world of wine, it will clue you in on what you’ve been missing and show you how to get started. It begins with the basic types of wine, how wines... (more)

The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time (Wheel of Time)

The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time (Wheel of Time)

by Robert Jordan

Since the debut of Robert Jordan's internationally bestselling series in 1990, The Wheel of Time has transported readers to a world so strikingly real, so rich in detail and complexity, it seems to rise from memory rather than a printed page. This essential companion to The Wheel of Time is for the millions interested in the history and the background of this incredible series-never-before-told legends,... (more)

American Gods

by Neil Gaiman

Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that... (more)

Arco the Performing Arts Major's College Guide (Performing Arts Major's College Guide)

Arco the Performing Arts Major's College Guide (Performing Arts Major's College Guide)

by Carole J. Everett

Gives information, including admissions requirements, costs, and programs offered, on two hundred and fifty college and conservatory programs in every major performing arts specialty, and offers advice on passing admission auditions.

A Problem Solving Approach to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers, Eighth Edition

A Problem Solving Approach to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers, Eighth Edition

by Rick Billstein

Jazz

by Celeste Bullock, Toni Morrison

Set in Harlem in the 1920s, this novel chronicles a bittersweet triangle involving a middle-aged door-to-door salesman, his mentally unstable wife, and his eighteen-year-old girlfriend. By the author of Beloved. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. K. PW.

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by Robert Asprin

by Robert Asprin

by Caroline Howard

by Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk

by Julie Buxbaum

by Editors of Reader's Digest

by Evangeline M. O'Connor

by Henry David Thoreau

by Seymour Simon

by Jonathan Lethem

by Julian Franklyn

by Bill Buford

by A. S. Byatt

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan

by Robert Jordan

by Neil Gaiman

by Carole J. Everett

by Rick Billstein

by Celeste Bullock, Toni Morrison