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"[A] superb biography....Scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical, and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka Simon Dixon's Catherine the Great is a complete and...

This #1 New York Times bestseller from Janet Evanovich moves into the fast lane with a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blooded murder, sunken treasure, a woman...

The secret history of an empire The mythical power of a stone The quest to solve the legend of ... The Queen Jade For centuries, explorers and scholars of the...

A stunning follow-up to her bestselling debut, Mrs. Kimble , Jennifer Haigh returns with Baker Towers , a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town...

Meet Eva, Simone and Ash: best friends, budding journalists, and the stars of this delightful new series about family, friends, and DOGS, from the author of the much-loved MARSHMALLOW PIE...

Haunting novel about time and identity set in post-war 'fast set' Britain. A brilliant new novel that is quite different from the wonderful Ferney but which has some of the...

A sequel to "North and South" and "Love and War", this chronicle of a nation striving for peace and unity depicts the Hazards and the Mains as they struggle to...

The author of Tomatoes discusses the varieties and alternatives available in the onion family, offering ideas on how onions, leeks, garlic, and chives can season, garnish, or otherwise complement several...

Fully revised and updated with dedicated trekking chapter by local trekking specialist. Comprehensive and informative culture, history and environment chapters written by experts.

Explorers & Traders is a dynamic reference book for children.  Was Price $6.99

How can you raise kids well if you are a busy working parent? Parenting expert Michael Grose has all the answers. Is it really harder than ever before to juggle...

The complete plays of history's greatest storyteller. Includes plot summaries, character lists and quotes for each play Illustrated with detailed relationship diagrams, family trees, timelines, charts and tables as well...

Delight Children with the Wonders of the Sea as illustrated by internationally renowned artist Christian Riese Lassen.

For those of us who love to cook, there can be few pleasures in life greater than having friends over for dinner. "Dinner with Friends" takes a thematic approach to...

Sense of Style: Colour is a how-to book with its own sense of style. Interior stylist Shannon Fricke presents the design tools needed to create home d cor that truly...

Written in an accessible style, the text is designed for nursing and health science students who are beginning a course in research methods. The Australian examples reflect a diversity of...

Maria owns an eccentric business: her clients pay her to come up with ideas for presents. She spends her days thinking about how best to wrap up love. Nicola, her...

An unlikely high school newspaper editor learns what is most important in friendship, in journalism, and in life in this award-winning YA novel. Winner of the Whippoorwill Award A Junior...

Forget the food fads: TIME's editors have served up the latest scientific findings on how better eating leads to better living. Find out which foods are healthy and which are...

The Telescreen is the pervasive media screen put in front of, and injected into, the eyes and ears of humans in the American electronic techno-culture. This begins from birth, and...

Stephen Rosenfield, founder and director of the American Comedy Institute, the premier comedy school in the United States, has taught literally dozens of major standup comics in North America, and...

The incredible success of quantum theory as a mathematical model makes it especially frustrating that we cannot agree on a plausible philosophical or metaphysical description of it. Some philosophers of...

Near a deserted island off the western coast of Iceland in 1960, the dawning of spring brings new life for the local wildlife. But for the body discovered by three...

Christian historian Sidney Mead has observed: ""In America space has played the part that time has played in older cultures of the world."" In Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces,...

Lydia was never the most upstanding of the Bennet sisters, but who ever said that moral rectitude was fun? At least she bested her elder sisters and was the first...

Gone are the days of TV trays and microwaveable meals as more and more families choose to return to the dinner table. Yet as food costs continue to rise, and...

A music lover's astonishing account of his obsession with the iPod, and a fascinating look at the phenomenon that has revolutionized the way we hear music. First came fire, the...

John Calvin preached over 2,000 times, this fitting commemoration of his 500th birthday involved some of the world's finest Calvinian preachers speaking in Calvin's pulpit. This is the book of...

"The Man Without a Face" is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years...

You don't deserve it. You can't buy it. You can't live without it. Many believers wrestle with grace and with the notion of doing better or trying harder in living...

Whether we need to make better financial choices, find the love of our life, or transform our career, crowdsourcing is the key to making quicker, wiser, more objective decisions. But...