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Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, Third Edition

Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, Third Edition

by Adam Drozdek

Using C++, author Adam Drozdek highlights three important aspects of data structures and algorithms. First, the book places special emphasis on the connection between data structures and their algorithms, including an analysis of the algorithms' complexity. Second, the book presents data structures in the context of object-oriented program design, stressing the principle of information hiding in its treatment of... (more)

Looking Backward

From 2000 to 1887

by Edward Bellamy

Set in Boston on December 26, 2000, but written before the turn of the nineteenth century, this classic Utopian novel is more significant and relevant than ever with its reappearance this millennium. Addressing moral and material concerns of late nineteenth century industrial America through romantic narrative, Bellamy suggests a fictionalized society in which war, poverty, and malice do not exist.

Rubyfruit Jungle

by Rita Mae Brown

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a lesbian in America--and living happily ever after.

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages,... (more)

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela : With Connections (HRW library)

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela : With Connections (HRW library)

by Nelson Mandela

The best-selling memoirs, begun during the South African president's years in prison, traces the Nobel Prize-winner's historic life from his traditional tribal childhood to his triumphant rise to power. Reprint. NYT.

The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

by Ellen Bass

The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who, was sexually abused as a child -- and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully... (more)

Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters

Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters

by Phillip C. McGraw

Some people spend their lives reacting to what life hands them, while others craft life to fit their goals. Author Phillip C. McGraw, who is a psychologist but describes himself as a strategist, is determined to make sure that his readers are the creators of their lives, not created by their lives. By accepting that you are personally accountable for every element of your life, McGraw says, you can erase the... (more)

Selected Essays of Michel De Montaigne (Translated by Donald M. Frame)

this Classics Club edition has yellowing on closed pages and cover has some wear spots but pages are pristine and book is tight.

Haunted Mesa Louis Lamour Collection

by Louis L'Amour

Chronicles the fate of the Anasazi, a race of pre-Navajo cliff dwellers who inhabited the ancient American Southwest and who vanished from the region centuries before the coming of white explorers. Reissue.

The Sharing Knife: Book 1

Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, Vol. 1)

by Lois McMaster Bujold

Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her familys farm. But en route to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, nomadic soldiersorcerers from the northern woodlands. Feared necromancers armed with mysterious knives made of human bone, they wage a secret, ongoing war against the scourge of the "malices," immortal entities that draw the life out of their victims, enslaving human and animal... (more)

Legends II: Shadows, Gods, and Demons

by Robert Silverberg

Fantasy fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert Silverberg made publishing history with Legends , his acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, the long-awaited second volume is here. Legends II picks up where its illustrious predecessor left off. All of the bestselling writers represented in Legends II return to the special universe of... (more)

Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker

Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker

by Patrick Califia-Rice, Pat Califia

Patrick Califia is a noted pornographer and cultural critic whose writing and activism have revolutionized queer sex. Among his most noted books are Coming to Power, Macho Sluts, Melting Point, No Mercy, and Speaking Sex to Power.

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

by Elizabeth Wurtzel

No one better understands the desire to be bad than Elizabeth Wurtzel. Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning with Delilah, the first woman to supposedly bring a great man down (latter-day Delilahs include Yoko Ono, Pam... (more)

Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go WrongArthur Bloch

Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong

by Arthur Bloch

Moloka'i

by Alan Brennert

This richly imagined novel, set in Hawaii more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place---and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit. Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her.... (more)

Damron Women's Traveller 2005 (Damron Women's Traveller)

Damron Women's Traveller 2005 (Damron Women's Traveller)

Letters from the Closet

by Tony Ferrante

"Letters From The Closet" tells the story of Adam and Katie who are engaged to be married until Adam unexpectedly breaks off the relationship and leaves town. When they reconnect years later, Katie is living happily with her lesbian life partner and Adam is a Jesuit priest. It is a beautiful story of coming out and learning to love genuinely. It addresses issues of parents, children, gender, religion and... (more)

Beginning to Heal (Revised Edition): A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As ChildrenEllen Bass, Laura Davis

Beginning to Heal (Revised Edition): A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children

by Ellen Bass

The authors of The Courage to Heal provide hope, support, and guidance to help aid survivors of childhood sexual abuse in the healing process and show them how to thrive. Reprint.

Kissing Kate

by Lauren Myracle

Kate was lissa’s best friend. they’ve shared everything for four years. then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss lissa, and lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending lissa doesn’t exist. Confused and alone, lissa’s left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. but with the help of a free-spirit new friend, lissa’s beginning to find the strength to... (more)

The Best Short Stories of Leslea Newman

by Leslea Newman

The stories collected here span the years 1988 to 2002, during which time Leslea Newman wrote six volumes of short stories: A Letter to Harvey Milk, Secrets, Every Woman's Dream, Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear, Girls Will Be Girls and She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not . In Newman's prize-winning story "A Letter to Harvey Milk," Harry Weinberg, a 77-year-old Holocaust survivor, takes a writing class in which... (more)

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by Adam Drozdek

From 2000 to 1887

by Edward Bellamy

by Rita Mae Brown

by Anne Frank

by Nelson Mandela

by Ellen Bass

by Phillip C. McGraw

by Louis L'Amour

by Lois McMaster Bujold

by Robert Silverberg

by Patrick Califia-Rice, Pat Califia

by Elizabeth Wurtzel

by Arthur Bloch

by Alan Brennert

by Tony Ferrante

by Ellen Bass

by Lauren Myracle

by Leslea Newman