Product Description: The characters of THE ADOLPHOS are a dysfunctional family with both good and bad traits. Some migrate from the Gulf Coast to Texas, Alabama, and New York. Caroline, the matriarch, tries her best to keep family harmony but fails her husband and some of her children...read more

Possessing a magnetic sexuality and a driving ambition to be her generation's most successful actress and model, Siena McMahon embarks on a series of affairs with the wrong men and continues the legacy of her powerful family.

Product Description: Like Carlos Fuentes, John Barth, Mario Vargas Llosa, and other masters of the new historical novel, Tom Marshall tells the story of Canada – from the War of 112 to the War Measures Act of 1970, from the Rebellion of 1837 to the Oka Crisis of 1990 – as a high adventure in self-referential style...read more

Nell knows that she shares a very special past with her cousins, Edmund and Perry. In their young days in Gloucestershire they used to play, quarrel, and perhaps fall in love a little. But when a strange young man arrives in their midst, Nell discovers with a shock that he too, shares some of their mysterious past.

Product Description: Where did our myths come from? How did our different cultures, languages and customs develop? What would happen if a world wide calamity occurred which destroyed most life on earth? How would people survive? What would be left? What type of society would the survivors build? What would the world be like three hundred years later? "After the Bomb" is a story about what could happen...read more

Product Description: Following the breakdown of a turbulent relationship, Frank moves from Canberra to a shack on the east coast once owned by his grandparents. There, among the sugar cane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life. Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parents' bakery and flirting with one of the local girls...read more

Product Description: Dessie Harper faces a crossroads in her life. She's lost her cousin and lover, gained a brother, and carries an unborn child. During a tropical getaway to Montego Bay, Jamaica, Dessie meets a captivating man named Daniel-but even the prospect of romance can't deter her from what she needs to do...read more

Product Description: After Jimmy's Grandfather dies, his mother turns into a little girl named Cindy. Jimmy's life is taken over with trying to get his mother to come back to reality, find his brother once he runs away, and find his sister so they can finally be a family again...read more

Taiwan is a fascinating country to visit, with ruggedly beautiful scenery and a vibrant culture that preserves the best of ancient traditions, while passionately embracing the newest in high-tech modernity. This new edition of Insight Guide Taiwan is a comprehensive full-colour travel guide to "the beautiful island", where landscapes vary from dramatic mountains to white-sand beaches. Inside Insight Guide Taiwan:Lively features by a local writer cover a whole range of subjects: mountain trails and railways, soaking in hot springs, traditional markets, folk arts, tea culture and tribal peoples.Stunning photography brings this intriguing country and its people to life. Highlights of the country's top attractions, including Taipei 101 - formerly the world's tallest building, trying local snacks at a legendary night market and the fine collection of classical Chinese architectureDescriptive region-by-region accounts cover the whole country from the vibrant capital Taipei to the wilds of Kenting National Park, dramatic Taroko Gorge and the remote Matsu IslandsDetailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip.About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

Product Description: [Read by Lucy Rayner] The international bestselling author of Somewhere in France returns with her sweeping second novel - a tale of class, love, and freedom - in which a young woman must find her place in a world forever changed...read more

Product Description: The international bestselling author of Somewhere in France returns with her sweeping second novel--a tale of class, love, and freedom--in which a young woman must find her place in a world forever changed.After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of World War I...read more

In the aftermath of Poland's violent 1794 dissolution and his marriage to the countess Anna Maria Berezowska, Jan Stelnicki enlists in the military to help ensure a sovereign nation for his children, while his best friend despairs of a relationship with Anna's cousin, who has her sights set on the emperor Napoleon. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Danielle Landau knows she should feel lucky, but she cant feel anything but dread. Not only did she pass the New York Bar, she married the man her father says is just right for her and lives in a fashionable new loft in Queens. But the man who seems like the perfect catch is a perfect nightmare at home...read more

Recounts the history of U.S. Army parachute troops, describes modern training, weapons, and uniforms, and discusses the mission of airborne troops

Product Description: EL ÁNGEL DE LA NOCHE II«Diles que el Ángel de la Noche camina. Diles que la Justicia ha llegado.»Tras la muerte de Durzo Blint, su maestro, y de Logan, su mejor amigo y legítimo heredero al trono, Kylar Stern siente que ya nada le ata a Cenaria, un país sometido a los caprichos del rey dios invasor, Garoth Ursuul...read more

Product Description: Bob and Margaret Wolff celebrated their wedding anniversary six months after their marriage--in case they didn't make it a full year. However, they shared a thirty-one year honeymoon before Bob's tragic accidental death. Alaskan Wolff Pack is Bob and Margaret's story, and the story of the remarkable children, friends, and pets they accumulated along the way...read more

Describes the land, people, history, government, economy, and culture of Alberta

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Product Description: These text-specific DVDs cover all sections of the text--providing explanations of key concepts as well as examples, exercises, and applications in a lecture-based format.

Product Description: In the last months of World War II, ten Land Girls are serving at Post Stone Farm, under the watchful eye of their warden, Alice Todd. The local Land Army representative had at first been reluctant to give Alice the warden's job, and Roger Bayliss, the farm's owner seemed not to have any confidence in her at all...read more

When Deputy Meeker blows up the local hot springs, it sets in action an unexpected chain of events