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Fifteen-year-old Yeshe Anjur, the nearly-blind heir to the throne of Padma, undertakes a dangerous journey to far-off Tigristan to find the legendary White Bean Lama who may be able to restore his sight.

The long-awaited follow-up to the best-selling Wine Lover's Cookbook, The Wine Lover Cooks with Wine sets its sights on wine as an ingredient and it's now available as an ebook. Whether used to delicately poach fresh fish or braise a hearty stew, wine adds complexity and intensity to food—not to...

“Everybody's Book of Hobbies” contains information on almost every conceivable hobby, providing descriptions, suggestions, instructions, and more for each treated. From basket weaving to bee keeping, this volume has something for everyone and is highly recommended for those looking for avocational...

The peacefulness of the small quiet town is disturbed in the middle of the night when a shot rings out but when the police come to investigate, at first, there are no signs of violence. Then, a trace of blood is found and it is human. There is no body, no cartridge case from the bullet, no-one is...

Toby Malloy fights for justice in Toecap and the Fiddler. Born and raised in the Lake District, Toby takes on a secret double life as a crime fighter Toecappitted against evil mastermind the Fiddler.

Written for a general audience, with spectacular images for birders and nature enthusiasts at every level, Hummingbirds of Texas reveals the enormous appeal of this tiniest and shiniest of birds. The book opens with a look at the many manifestations of the human attraction to these flying jewels.

25-year old Ivy League transplant, Tal, ventured West wide-eyed and earnest in his desire to write. Instead, he found a real job, lost the real job, and is now adrift on floes of temp jobs. A shadow at the mercy of his stuntwoman-girlfriend, who looks to L. Ron Hubbard for her own answers, he steals...

It had been a long snowy winter and spring. The rivers were late rising, and the mountains held onto a pure white snow-cover. Rain fell upon the deep winter snow the day before the Flood of '64. Waters rose, the rivers raged. The dam failed to hold the Birch Creek flow, and broke, giving way...

The Civil War Mandy White says goodbye to her love, Wills Lay, and other young friends who are off to save the Pond Fork River Valley and Virginia from the Union. She is comforted by her pastor, friends John and Hiley, and young Tow Head. To the east, Vera and Thatcher Marlowe watch their daughter...

Le monde du travail traverse des mutations qui touchent tant sa nature et son contenu que l’organisation productive, les relations contractuelles d’emploi et les modes de régulation dans lesquels s’exercent les activités professionnelles. C’est pourquoi il faut repenser le travail, non plus...

Dans un contexte de mondialisation, alors que les modes de régulation se structurent de plus en plus à l’échelle internationale, la prise de décision sur les enjeux sociétaux fondamentaux tend de plus en plus à échapper aux acteurs locaux et régionaux. En même temps, en raison du désengagement...