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From the creators of the Hugely Popular BBC quiz show QI and the best-selling Book of General Ignorance: 1,227 mind bending facts.
Did you know?
-Cows moo in regional accents.
-the international dialing code for Russia is 007
-The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than it's body.
-Pants are responsible for twice as many accedents as chain saws.
-Saddam Hussein's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker.
- Heroin was originally sold as cough medicine.

In his brilliant follow-up to In Sunlight or In Shadow, Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology as inventive as it is alluring, including Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, David Morrell, and Jeffery Deaver.
Even before Lawrence Block could rest on his laurels from In Sunlight or In Shadow, a question arose. What would he do for an encore?
Any number of artists have produced evocative work, paintings that could trigger a literary response. But none came to mind who could equal Hopper in turning out canvas after canvas. If no single artist could take Hopper's place, how about a full palette of them? Suppose each author was invited to select a painting from the whole panoply of visual art--From the cave drawings at Lascaux to a contemporary abstract canvas on which the paint has barely dried.
And what a dazzling response! Joyce Carol Oates picked Le Beaux Jours by Balthus. Warren Moore chose Salvador Dali's The Pharmacist of Ampurdam… Read More

Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world.

The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened.One of Time magazine's All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books, this is the book that changed America. Published just months before President Nixon's resignation, All the President's Men revealed the full scope of the scandal and introduced for the first time the mysterious "Deep Throat." Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing through headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward deliver a riveting firsthand account of their reporting. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post, toppled the president, and have since inspired generations of reporters.
All the President's Men is a riveting detective story, capturing the exhilarating rush of the biggest presidential scandal in US… Read More

Your survival guide for everyday words and expressions

Your fun and friendly guide to Modern Standard Arabic
This intimidating guide will help you start speaking Modern Standard Arabic-beginning today! Whether you're a student, a traveler, or you work in business or government, you'll find it's packed with practical lessons, cultural facts, and handy references-including coverage of written Arabic, and Arabic-English mini-dictionary, lists of vital verbs and more!

Amine Bouchentouf, a native Arabic speaker from morocco, graduated from Middlebury College where he offered a seminar on the Arabic language. He has also taught Arabic at the ABC Language Exchange and the Council on Foregn Relations in New York. he runs the Web site www.AL-BAAB.com.

The "bad kid" who grew up to become America's greatest baseball player...who set the world record for home runs hit in 154 games.

Babe Ruth tells his own story to America's top sports writer, Bob Considine, and dedicates it to "the kids of America".

In this hilarious collection of stories, D.D. Dunn uses wit and humor to tell about life on a small, run-down farm in western Illinois in the sixties. These entertaining accounts include her childood recollections of freeing her brother's head from the steering wheel of a tractor, to almost hanging herself with binder twine in the ramshackle barn. You will find out about the crap in the crock, and how she delt with the bully at school.

The lessons she learned about laughter, love and life have been shared for many years around the normal gathering places and family and friends, and now she is sharing them with you.

Her unique writing style will leave you nodding in recognition at the common ground of life's little setbacks we all endure.

This bundle of twenty-five "truth-is-funnier-than-fiction" stories from Dunn Movin' Farm delivers homegrown chuckles, sidesplitting belly laughs, and maybe a few tears.

The heart warming story of a family, their dog and their desperate attempts to find him when he goes missing. This story is, at it's core, centered around the importance of relationships.

These two unknown authors created a publishing phenomenon and a Multimillion-Dollar Business…Let them Show you How to create the life you want!

More than a decade ago, the publishing phenomenon that has become the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series was little more than an idea and a well-worn proposal that 140 publishers had rejected as "unsellable". Yet the aspiring authors remained undaunted and continued combining their passion with their 10 principals for "living their dream" Today, their book series includes more than 70 titles in 39 languages that have touched the hearts and minds of 90 million readers worldwide.

In this tenth anniversary edition, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen share time-tested strategies that will help you create the life you want for yourself, whether it's attaining financial freedom, enjoying ore fulfilling relationships, spending more leisure time with your family or a living a healthier lifestyle.

By implementing the steps they've used to help… Read More

"We're just here to look."
Helen Brown had no intention of adopting a pet when she brought her sons. Sam and Rob, to visit a friend's new kittens. But the runt of the litter was irresistible, whith her overlarge ears and dainty chin.
When Cloe was delivered weeks later, she had no way of knowing that her new family had just been hit by a tragedy. Helen was sure she couldn't keep her-until the saw something she thought had vanished from the earth forever; her son's smile. The reckless, rambunctious kitten stayed.
Through happiness and heartbreak changes and new beginnings, Cleo turned out to be the unlikely glue that affectionately held Helen's family together. Rich in wisdom, wit, heart and healing, here is the story of a cat with an extroaordinary gift for knowing just where she was needed most.

Everything you'll need to know to rock needlework.

The definitive classic on crocheting for years, the first edition of crocheting in plain English equipped readers with easy-to-follow, friendly advice Maggie righetti offered both basic principles and step-by-step instructions to get crocheters started and to perfect their techniques.

In this latest edition, completely updated and revised for today's crocheter, Righetti dispenses more of her invaluable wisdom, covering virtually everything you need to know about crochet, including:

Each technique is illustrated with clear drawings, charts, or photos. Complete with a new introduction and detailed glossary of crochet terms, Crocheting in Plain English is one sourcebook no crocheter should be without.

For the first five decades of my life, Seung-Whan (Steven) Kim was a buisness man who pursued financial prosperity, while largely ignoring both his family and his commitment to God. But after moving to China and rededicating his life to Christ, this South Korean-turned-American citizen felt called by God to help North Korean refugees escape from Chinese enslavement. In 2003, he was arrested while leading a; prayer meeting of nine North Koreans in his apartment.

Kim would spend the next four years in Chinese labor camp. Despite great hardship and suffering, he immersed himself in the scriptures and led fellow inmates, including a hardened murderer, and his prison guard to Christ.

Since his release, Kim had been a powerful advocate for North Korean refugees in China, raising awareness about their light and fighting for their human rights.

Kim's story is thrilling, heartbreaking, and victorious. His life reminds us that God can use anyone in any circumstances to achieve great things for His Kingdom

Closed-up movie theaters. Empty store fronts. For-sale signs everywhere. This is Odessa, Texas. But although it has seen better days, Odessa still has a dream.

That dream comes to life once a week every fall, when the Panthers of Permian High School take the footbal field under the Firday night lights! Mo-Jo! Mo-Jo! The haunting cheer rocks the stadium filled with 20,000 fans, who are there not only to toot for their belioved team, but to live out their own dreams and aspirations.

In this remarkable book, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist H.G. Bissinger Chronicles a season in the life of Odessa: the coaches, the mothers and fathers, the teachers, the ministers, the politicians- and most of the players, who carry an entire city's image of itself on their young shoulders. From the prayer that opens the Watermelon Feed before the first game, through the heart stopping season and its dramatic ending, Bissinger paints an unforgettable scene-the stale, sweltering air, the painful collision of… Read More

Forging Ahead!!
Bursting with wit and wisdom, these lighthearted, real-life stories, insightful scripture, and heartfelt prayers will make you chuckle and confess, "That sounds just like me!" Popular speaker and author Karen O'Connor inites you to celebrate the joys and misadventures of getting older. Have you noticed that...
* When you can't find your glasses, they're usually on top of your head?
* The delightful honestly of youth sometimes stings?
* Love still makes your heart skip a beat...or two...or three?
* Every morning you breathe a prayer of thanks for another day?
* Good sense of humor makes life so much easier?
Are you ready to trade in your wimp status for a more courageous existence? Or are you still wondering what lies ahead? Getting' Old Ain't for Wimps hilariously affirms that life will always be filled with wonder, promise, and advanture!

"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilized world, a strong new power waw at work... Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different...what was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpassed and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the western world." - From the book

A perennial favoirte in many differen editions, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures the spirit and achievement of Greece in the fifth century B.C. A retired headmistress when she began her writing career in the 1930's, Hamilton immediately demonstrated a remarkable abilitiy to bring the world of ancient Greece to life, introducing the world to the twentieth century. The New York Times called The Greek Way a "book of both cultural and critical importance".

Edith Hamilton won the… Read More

Explore some of the most interesting and historical places in America.

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey endure the ach of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrach". At eight years old and back at her mother's side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age-and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns about love for herself, and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors ("I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare") will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.

Poet and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic that will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.

Dr. Lynette Louise- a single mother of eight and world-renowned brain change expert-created this interactive book with a teacher's passion and a mother's touch. Within these pages she brings all of her skills together, enlightening readers with the power of neuroscience, psychology and parental love. A belief in humanity's ability to discover their own gifts drives this book while a desire to share knowledge fuels it. Lynette Louise presents strategies and perspectives that enable a view of the possible, beyond what opportunity to participate with Lynette in a unique journey of self-discovery that ends in the achievement of greatness.

Sensational Adventures...
Spectacular Powers...
Heroic Battles...
Welcome to Spider-Man's World
Discover everything you need to know about the amazing wall-crawler and his friends and foes!