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William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless polish immigrant-born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world-are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. Over sixty years and three... (more)

The Prodigal Daughter

by Jeffrey Archer

With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel's daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more to be the first female president. Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world-and to build a future... (more)

A Quiver Full of Arrows

by Jeffrey Archer

Ordinary Heros,Extraordinary DeedsThe bestselling author of Kane & Abel, The Prodigal Daughter and Honor Among Theives once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies his legions of fans.From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives... (more)

A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

by Kate L. Turabian

For close to sixty years Kate L. Turabian's Manual for Writers has offered comprehensive and detailed guidance to authors of research papers—term papers, theses, and dissertations. Now the editors of The Chicago Manual of Style have revised Turabian's Manual to bring the details of style into conformity with the fourteenth edition of The Chicago Manual . This new edition of Turabian also reflects the way... (more)

Toxin

by Robin Cook

A gripping tale of bacterial poisoning, product tampering, and corporate malevolence by the dean of medical thrillers. After his daughter, Becky, dies from poisoning caused by "E. coli" bacteria, surgeon Kim Regis investigates and comes up against a code of silence more impenetrable that anything he has ever encountered in the medical world.

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)

Bloodline

by Sidney Sheldon

The daughter of one of the world's richest men inherits her father's company and faces a plot to destroy the company. 2 cassettes.

Lucky

by Jackie Collins

THE FABULOUS HEROINE OF CHANCES RETURNS. SHE'S A HOT-BLOODED BEAUTY IN LOVE WITH POWER, HUNGRY FOR PLEASURE... WILD, NOTORIOUS, TROUBLE... SHE'S... LUCKY With the sensual grace of a panther , Lucky Santangelo prowled her Las Vegas casino, restless, ready, eager for action. That night began a dazzling odyssey, filled with dangerous passion and sun-drenched sex, sadistic vengeance and breathless suspense.... (more)

Lady Boss

by Jackie Collins

The dangerously beautiful Lucky -- star of two of Jackie Collins' previous smash, international number one bestsellers, Chances and Lucky -- returns in Lady Boss. And this time the shockingly sensual, ruthlessly clever Lucky is out to conquer Hollywood! In Chances Lucky grew up in a top crime family. In Lucky, she was married three times. And now, in Lady Boss, she takes on... (more)

Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins

by Jackie Collins

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Strategies for Business and Technical Writing

Strategies for Business and Technical Writing

by Kevin J. Harty

This unique anthology was created with a simple principle in mind: to offer the best advice from the best sources about the most important issues business and technical writers face every day. Strategies for Business and Technical Writing teaches effective writing for the world of work. Reading selections from seasoned professionals in business, technical, and academic fields provide examples, models,... (more)

Images of Women in LiteratureMary Ferguson, Jean Carr

Images of Women in Literature

by Mary Ferguson, Jean Carr

Images of Women in Literature , Fifth Edition, is an anthology of literature—short fiction, poetry, and drama—by a broad range of female and male writers depicting the roles of women in literature.

The autobiography of an ex-coloured man

by James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction. The first fictional memoir ever written by a black, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph... (more)

The Brief Bedford Reader

by Dorothy M. Kennedy

A compact version of one of the most widely adopted composition readers of all time — at a significant savings to students — The Brief Bedford Reader continues to engage and inspire with 50 remarkable selections, all the outstanding instructional material of the full-length text, and a unique "Writers on Writing" feature in which 32 of the book’s writers comment on their process and their work. Thorough coverage... (more)

The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change

The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change

by Stephen R. Palumbi

Evolution is not merely the process that ruled the rise and fall of the dinosaurs over hundreds of millions of years. It also happens rapidly, so quickly and so frequently that it changes how all of us live our lives. Drugs fail because diseases like HIV and tuberculosis evolve in a matter of months, neatly sidestepping pharmacology. Insects adapt and render harmless the most powerful pesticides in a matter of... (more)

Integrated Solid Waste Management

by George Tchobanoglous

Provides a junior/senior- level introductory text aimed at civil and environmental engineers, taking a basic introduction to "Solid-Waste Management". The text includes the latest 1990-1991 laws and regulations.

Editing for Writers

by Lois Johnson Rew

Based on interviews with actual workplace writers and editors, this unique text/workbook teaches editing approaches and skills that writers can apply to their own or others' documents. Outlines a process to identify and solve problems and helps readers develop the ability to explain their editing decisions. Features 136 different kinds of exercises. Contains special chapters on editing on-line... (more)

Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry

by Diane Thiel

In Open Roads , a wealth of fresh and innovative writing exercises and a diverse anthology of poetic forms address specific elements of craft while sparking readers' imaginations and developing their writing skills. Clear, concise discussions of particular techniques of writing poetry are followed by practice of these individual techniques. An extensive anthology of both classic and contemporary poems features... (more)

Angels In America Part 1: Millennium Approaches (Angels in America)

Angels In America Part 1: Millennium Approaches (Angels in America)

by Tony Kushner

The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a feverish web of social, political, and sexual revelations.

Alosa fallax from North and South of Portugal: Study of its numerical characters (Publicac¸o~es do Instituto de Zoologia "Dr. Augusto Nobre", Faculdade de Cie^ncias do Porto)Jorge da Costa Eiras

Alosa fallax from North and South of Portugal: Study of its numerical characters (Publicac¸o~es do Instituto de Zoologia "Dr. Augusto Nobre", Faculdade de Cie^ncias do Porto)

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