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Sometimes you have to look at life in a whole new way . . . From the bestselling author of PS, I Love You comes a delightfully enchanting novel about what happens when two people who are meant to be together just can't seem to get it right. Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone seems to know it but them. Best friends since childhood, their relationship gets closer by the day, until... (more)

As Long as We Both Shall Live: Two Novels

As Long as We Both Shall Live: Two Novels

by Lurlene McDaniel

A change is coming, April Lancaster’s fortune cookie reads. Be prepared. But how could she be prepared for the news that she has an inoperable brain tumor? April’s life will never be the same. Then she meets handsome Mark Gianni. Mark has cystic fibrosis, but he also has a passion for life . . . and for April. When he asks April to marry him, she’s happier than she’s ever been. April thought she and Mark would... (more)

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these—the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr.... (more)

Essentials of Premarital Counseling: Creating Compatible Couples (New Horizons in Therapy)

Essentials of Premarital Counseling: Creating Compatible Couples (New Horizons in Therapy)

by Sandra Levy Ceren

b>Expand Your Clinical Practice with this Practical Hands-on Guide Teach conflict resolution skills to your couples Introspective quizzes expose more of couples¿ inner lives and past history to each other Real-life exercises let couples practice cooperative decision- making and compromise before a crisis happens. Couples will discover and have the opportunity to change bad habits which... (more)

Peace Is Every Step : The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Peace Is Every Step : The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

by Thich Nhat Hanh

In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on... (more)

The connected leader : creating agile organisations for people, performance and profit.

The connected leader : creating agile organisations for people, performance and profit.

by Emmanuel Gobillot

In the "people economy" of the 21st century, organizations are made up of networks, not traditional hierarchies. In order to connect these networks, leaders must function as brokers rather than sales people, negotiating with each group to reach a common goal. Emmanuel Gobillot provides the framework for a more informal, holistic approach to management, showing how to connect social networks through trust, shared... (more)

A Room With a View

by E. M. Forster

A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson - who is entirely unsuitable and whose father may just be a Socialist - Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and by her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor... (more)

Anne of Green Gables: Book 4

Anne of Windy Poplars

by L. M. Montgomery

Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside - and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies... (more)

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. "Sense and Sensibility" is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two... (more)

The Age of Innocence (A Norton Critical Edition)

The Age of Innocence (A Norton Critical Edition)

by Edith Wharton

The text of Wharton's richly allusive Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of Old New York is accompanied by necessarily rigorous annotation. Contexts constructs the historical foundations of the novel, with documents on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, and archery (the sport for daughters of the upper-crust), among others. Also featured in this section are contemporary reviews and some of... (more)

Vanishing Acts: A Novel

by Jodi Picoult

How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose? Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall...until a policeman knocks on her... (more)

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed novelist and editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

Twilight Saga: Book 3

Eclipse

by Stephenie Meyer

Edward’s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine–like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is... (more)

The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion (Bradford Books)

The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion (Bradford Books)

by Charles O. Nussbaum

How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In The Musical Representation, Charles Nussbaum offers a philosophical naturalist's solution. Nussbaum founds his naturalistic theory of musical representation on the collusion between the physics of sound and the organization of the human mind-brain. He argues that important varieties of experience afforded... (more)

Crime And Engagement (Harlequin Flipside)

Crime And Engagement (Harlequin Flipside)

by Nikki Rivers

Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation

Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation

by Karen Mossberger

Just as education has promoted democracy and economic growth, the Internet has the potential to benefit society as a whole. Digital citizenship, or the ability to participate in society online, promotes social inclusion. But statistics show that significant segments of the population are still excluded from digital citizenship. The authors of this book define digital citizens as those who are online daily. By... (more)

Making Literacy Magic Happen: The Best of ""Learning & Leading with Technology"" on Language Arts

Making Literacy Magic Happen: The Best of ""Learning & Leading with Technology"" on Language Arts

by Mark Gura, Rose Reissman

Two veteran educators infuse 29 great articles from L&L with additional commentary and guidance for an uncommonly rich and usable array of language arts activities. FEATURES Ready-to-use strategies, projects, and portfolios Tips and techniques for motivating special needs storytellers Commentary and activities link software tools with con temporary learning theory TECHNOLOGY Lessons and activities use the... (more)

No Love LostEleanor Woods

No Love Lost

by Eleanor Woods

It's Not About Me (A Second Glances novel, #1)

Second Glances

It's Not About Me (A Second Glances novel, #1)

by Michelle Sutton

When a young woman's life is shattered by a brutal attack, she is torn between two brothers, both of whom claim to love her. She is attracted to both, but which one does she love? How can she choose when her decision may cause a permanent rift between them? And more important, will she give her heart to the One who will sustain her even when human love fails?

Look Before You Leap: A Premarital Guide for Couples

Look Before You Leap: A Premarital Guide for Couples

by Sandra Levy Ceren

Ready to Tie the Knot? Originally published as a highly recommended professional text for premarital counselors, the research based quizzes, exercises, and case examples are now available for couples planning to marry. The materials can help you discover more about yourselves and your partner and determine readiness for marital challenges. Discover who you really are Find out more about your partner ... (more)

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