Outlander
Outlander

Author: Diana Gabaldon

Publisher: Dell

Published: 2004-10-26

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 0440335167

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series • An interview with Diana Gabaldon • An Outlander reader’s guide Praise for Outlander “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News

What is Mine
What is Mine

Author: Anne Holt

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2006-07-10

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0759567727

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One afternoon after school, nine-year-old Emilie doesn't come home. After a frantic search, her father finds her backpack in a deserted alley. it is the backpack her deceased mother had given her a month before she died. Emilie would never leave that backpack behind voluntarily. A week later, a five-year-old boy goes missing. And then another. Meanwhile, Johanna Vik, a former FBI profiler with a troubled past and a difficult young daughter, is buried in crimes of the past, trying to overturn a decades-old false murder conviction. Police Commissioner Stubo has personal reasons for wanting to solve the case of the missing children: not long ago he lost his wife and only daughter in a terrible accident, and now all he has left is his young grandson. But when he tries to enlist Johanna to help him crack the case, she's resistant. However, when the bodies of the missing children start appearing in their family's homes with notes that say, "You got what you deserved," Johanna decides to help Stubo. While the rest of the Norwegian media is out hunting pedophiles, Stubo and Johanna manage to uncover a complex story of revenge. A singularly clever crime story combined with a serious discussion of children and our responsibilities towards them, What is Mine is the first installment in the the Stubo/Johanna crime series. Stubo and Johanna from one of the most original crime-solving teams ever.

What Is All This?
What Is All This?

Author: Stephen Dixon

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2012-06-11

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 1606995278

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A massive tome from one of America's greatest living writers. Stephen Dixon’s work has earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Fantagraphics Books is proud to re-present his 2010 hardcover collection of short stories, What Is All This?, in paperback form. Dixon’s finely chiseled sentences cut to the quick of people’s lives. None of these stories have been collected in any book before; they have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals over almost 40 years and Dixon has entirely rewritten all of them. Dixon admirers will be cheered to learn that these stories comprise a wholly original work. Centrally concerning himself with the American condition, Dixon explores obsessions of body image, the increasingly polarized political landscape, sex ― in all its incarnations ― and the gloriously pointless minutiae of modern life, from bus rides to tying shoelaces. Using the canvas of his native New York he astutely captures the edgy madness that infects the city through the neuroses of his narrators with a style that owes as much to Neo-Realist cinema as it does to modern literature.

Harlequin Presents October 2018 - Box Set 2 of 2
Harlequin Presents October 2018 - Box Set 2 of 2

Author: Miranda Lee

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 907

ISBN-13: 1488084157

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Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes: THE ITALIAN’S UNEXPECTED LOVE-CHILD Secret Heirs of Billionaires By Miranda Lee A luxury villa will be the latest jewel in Leonardo’s crown, until he discovers Veronica stands to inherit it. Their chemistry is spectacular…but so are the consequences when Veronica reveals she’s pregnant! BOUND BY A ONE-NIGHT VOW Conveniently Wed! By Melanie Milburne Isabella is on a deadline. She has twenty-four hours to wed or she’ll lose her inheritance! Andrea knows she can’t refuse his proposition for a temporary union. But can Izzy risk surrendering to temptation? THE SPANIARD’S PLEASURABLE VENGEANCE By Lucy Monroe Poised to bring the Perez name into disrepute, Miranda must be stopped! But when Basilio meets Miranda, he is captivated. His plan becomes one of seduction…that tests his control to the limit! THE TYCOON’S ULTIMATE CONQUEST By Cathy Williams Arturo is furious when Rose places his latest business deal in jeopardy. Now his greatest asset will be seduction, leaving Rose so overwhelmed with pleasure that she forgets all about the deal. Until he finds himself equally addicted—to her! BONUS BOOK INCLUDED IN THIS BOX SET! Close to the Edge by Zara Cox. Be sure to collect Harlequin® Presents’ October 2018 Box Set 1 of 2! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.

For All Practical Purposes
For All Practical Purposes

Author: Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (U.S.)

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 1000

ISBN-13: 9780716759652

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For All Practical Purposes is the most effective and engaging textbook available for showing mathematics at work in areas with a direct impact on our lives (consumer products and advertising, politics, the economy, the Internet). It was the first, and remains the best, textbook for liberal arts students and for instructors who want to bring students the excitement of contemporary mathematical thinking and help their students think logically and critically. The new edition offers a number of changes designed to make the text more accessible than ever to a wider range of students and instructors.

The Purpose of Life
The Purpose of Life

Author: Stewart Goetz

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-07-12

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1441157050

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What does philosophy have to say on the question of the meaning of life? This is one of the founding questions of philosophy and has remained a central problem for philosophers from antiquity through to the Middle Ages and modern period. It may surprise some readers that there has, in fact, been a good deal of agreement on the answer to this question: the meaning of life is happiness. The Purpose of Life is a serious but engaging exploration and defense of this answer. The central idea that shapes The Purpose of Life is Augustine's assertion that "It is the decided opinion of all who use their brains that all men desire to be happy." In working through the ramifications of this answer, Stewart Goetz provides a survey of the debates surrounding life's meaning, from both theists and atheists alike.