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Laugh with the Moon is on the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List.  Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in denial about her mother’s recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare.Clare feels like a fish out of water at Mzanga Full Primary School, where she must learn a new language. Soon, though, she becomes immersed in her new surroundings and impressed with her fellow students, who are crowded into a tiny space, working on the floor among roosters and centipedes.   When Clare’s new friends take her on an outing to see the country, the trip goes horribly wrong, and Clare must face another heartbreak head-on. Only an orphan named Memory, who knows about love and loss, can teach Clare how to laugh with the moon.   Told from an American girl’s perspective, this story about how death teaches us to live and how love endures through our memories will capture the hearts of readers everywhere.

Coming of age in Hawaii, Mamie Clarke is devastated by a servant's sexual violence and moves--along with her lovely but self-destructive sister Claire--to her wealthy aunt's Manhattan apartment, entering a world of numbing excesses to forget her trauma. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Dreaming of becoming the next Bill Gates, a Silicon Valley research engineer instead finds himself a pawn in a corporate power game waged by the powers above him. By the author of Bombardiers. Reprint. PW.

This text brings together Stumpf's SOCRATES TO SARTRE, Fifth Edition (1993) and PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS, Fourth Edition (1994) in one hardcover volume. It offers an accessible, single author survey of philosophical ideas (Book I: SOCRATES TO SARTRE) and a wealth of primary source readings (Book II: PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS) at an excellent value. In this fifth edition, the contributions of contemporary philosophers, Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Rorty, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty are added to the Book I sections. Book II's new additions include Bertrand Russell on appearance and reality, John Hick on the problem of evil, Carol Gilligan on a feminine voice in ethics, Walter Stace on ethical relativism, Simone de Beauvior and Joyce Trebilcot on the relevance of gender in the assignment of roles in society, and David Swenson, A.J. Ayer, and Leo Tolstoy on the question of human destiny.

Product Description: Another Spencer Johnson #1 Bestseller#1 New York Times Business#1 Wall Street Journal#1 BusinessWeekFrom the Author of Who Moved My Cheese?Dr. Spencer Johnson’s stories of timeless, simple truths have changed the work and lives of millions of readers around the world...read more

'Language Development', sixth edition, examines every aspect of syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics. It discusses both individual developmental differences and cultural differences. In addition, the sections on culturally linguistically diverse children accurately reflect the realities of everyday life in the United States.

Sara's new friend, a wise owl that can read peoples thoughts, inspires in her a new way of perceiving and interacting with the world, in this new age story intended to inspire and demonstrate ways of achieving happiness.

Throwing her crown out the window in protest, Princess Isabella is ordered by her father, the king, to retrieve it from the fishpond, but when she refuses and he orders her to go to the pigsty as punishment, Princess Isabella is more than happy to oblige!

Product Description: A profound follow-up to the bestselling book and major motion picture, The Ultimate Gift. When Jason Stevens found out he had to jump through hoops to maybe get an unnamed inheritance from his billionaire grandfather, he was not amused...read more

A candidate in a hotly contested Senate race, Los Angeles lawyer Teddy Mathison returns to Nantucket for a visit with his estranged mother, a renowned artist afflicted with Alzheimer's, and is forced to confront truths that bring unexpected changes in his life.

Product Description: After more than twenty years of life in London, Jean and Mark Hubbard decamp to a remote tropical island in the Indian Ocean. But when Jean, a health columnist, discovers a salacious love letter addressed to her husband, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life...read more

Product Description: Into the Den is a story about overcoming the hardships of coming of age in the 21st century where friends are dying young on the streets and in foreign lands; where questioning authority has become second nature; and where trouble can grow like a cancer offering little hope for the afflicted...read more

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Product Description: “Wild as sin and as exceptional as the lower reaches of insanity itself.”—Norman Mailer“One of the most perverse satires I’ve ever read.”—Jonathan Lethem"[A] Vonnegut-worthy satire." —Joshua Glenn, Boston Globe"A postmodern examination of the self that teases the very idea of postmodernism...read more