Executive Power
Mitch Rapp is unhappily consigned to a desk job despite his unparralled success as a covert assassin for the CIA. Unable to keep his hands to himself, he soon unearths a plot to simultaneously discredit Israel AND to wipe out terrorism on a worldwide scale, and tries to convince the powers that be that only his particular skills as suited to taking what may be most dangerous assassin he has ever tracked.
The Teacher's Funeral
When 15-year-old Russell Culver's mean old teacher drops dead shortly before school starts in August of 1904, he thinks it could be an opportunity for him to leave his Indiana farm and ride the rails out west for rollicking adventure. But, much to his horrified dismay, his own iron-willed big sister Tansy becomes the new teacher. The boys' privy in the school catches fire, a puff adder appears in Tansy's desk, the stove blows up, and Aunt Fanny winds up stuck in a ditch, but life at Hominy Ridge School keeps going, with a continuous stream of shocking new inventions like the telephone, the horseless carriage, and the Edison Victrola changing everyone's lives forever. Peck masterfully evokes gentle rural life at the turn of the century and creates a memorable cast of characters, including classmates Flopears (a dullard) and Little Britches, a painfully shy girl. Peck weaves plenty of humor into this comical tale of a boy maturing in a time of unprecedented changes. A Kirkus Editor's Choice...
The Teacher's Funeral 
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Flaubert's Parrot
Geoffrey Braithwaite is the learned and querulous narrator of this inquiry into the mysteries of Flaubert and his art, and into the facts of his own marriage to the adulteress he adored. He travels to France to find the stuffed parrot Flaubert kept on his desk for inspiration.
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California Geology
This interesting book uses plate tectonics as its central theme; it acquaints readers with California geology. Basic principles in the beginning of the book and tables of highlights for each province enable the reader to understand the whole picture of catastrophic national disasters, California history, mining methods, and societal impacts; it brings the lessons of geology closer to the everyday context of California life.
After a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of geology, this book then focuses on the geological highlights of California (young volcanoes, deserts, the Mojave Desert, the Sierra Nevada, the Klamath Mountains, water, the Great Valley, the coast Ranges, earthquakes, faults, and seismic safety, the transverse ranges, and the peninsular ranges). The inside back and front covers of the book contain a wealth of readily available information, with comprehensive geologic, fault, relief, and mountain range maps.
A handy desk reference for geologists,...
California Geology
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Flaubert's Parrot
Geoffrey Braithwaite is the learned and querulous narrator of this inquiry into the mysteries of Flaubert and his art, and into the facts of his own marriage to the adulteress he adored. He travels to France to find the stuffed parrot Flaubert kept on his desk for inspiration.
Flaubert's Parrot
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Dinner With A Perfect Stranger
You are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of Nazareth
The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky’s desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can’t pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched.
The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be more than comfortable discussing everything from world religions to the existence of heaven and hell. And this man who calls himself Jesus also seems to know a disturbing amount about Nick’s personal life.
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"You’re bored, Nick. You were made for more than this. You’re worried about God stealing your fun, but you’ve got it backwards.… There’s no adventure like being joined to...
Dinner With A Perfect Stranger
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Diagnostic Criteria from Dsm 4
The DESK REFERENCE TO THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FROM DSM-IV-TR is a concise, affordable companion to the ultimate psychiatric reference, DSM-IV-TR. It includes all the diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV-TR in an easy-to-use, spiral bound format.
Diagnostic Criteria from Dsm 4
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