May Be We'Ll All Go Mad


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"Why is it that people have so much to say these days, but can'™t find the right words?" This novel starts with Ulla Berke'wicz this question, and it's all her novel journey through this work to find "˜right words" to say what needs to be said so urgently. This book part detached reflection, part intimately personal memoir and in this sense a novel - is a deeply disturbing exercise to grasp the experience of terror at a personal as well as the collective plane. Here the author seeks to probe the cultural make up of the mind of fanatics with sympathy, yet without compromising her own moral standards. Fall of the twin towers on 9/11 has made the question of understanding the dynamics of fanaticism to the western world.




No Intention of Dying


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Before Morgan, there was Daphne, the girl who asked too many questions and changed everything... This original enovella set in the world of The Internment Chronicles is a gripping prequel to Perfect Ruin. In this look back at Daphne, before her subversive paper led to her murder by order of the king, Daphne witnesses her seven-year-old sister Amy having a seizure-like event, a result of injuries sustained when she wandered too close to the Edge. Government doctors insist these seizures are punishment for Amy’s bad behavior, but Daphne disagrees. Obsessed with finding out what lured her sister out there to the Edge to begin with, Daphne leads Judas, her betrothed, a young man with his own secrets, on an expedition near the Edge to reconstruct her sister’s fateful event. But how close is too close?




It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work


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Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework, are back with a manifesto to combat all your modern workplace worries and fears.




Marching to an Angry Drum


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Marching to an Angry Drum deals with the difficulties encountered by both gays and lesbians who are required to lead a double life while serving in the military. The "Angry Drum" is that aspect of the military that destroys lives not only through combat but also through the hostility of purges, intolerance and prejudice.Mitchell has written a fine addition to the turbulent history of gays in the military. It's star-spangled summer reading, replete with guts, romance, and gay patriotism and, importantly, the loyalty of straight friends.-Charles Alexander, Between The Lines, Farmington, Michigan, July 2000 Marching to an Angry Drum is a story that needs to be read by anyone apt to turn a blind eye to gays and lesbians in the military. March to the bookstore and get this one-double-time.-Ken Marten, editor, The Mirror, Royal Oak, Michigan, January 2004




A Dance with Fate


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A young woman who is both a bard--and a warrior--seeks to repay her debts and settle scores in this thrilling historical fantasy series. The young warrior and bard Liobhan has lost her brother to the Otherworld. Even more determined to gain a place as an elite fighter, she returns to Swan Island to continue her training. But Liobhan is devastated when her comrade Dau is injured and loses his sight in their final display bout. Blamed by Dau's family for the accident, she agrees to go to Dau's home as a bond servant for the span of one year. There, she soon learns that Oakhill is a place of dark secrets. The vicious Crow Folk still threaten both worlds. And Dau, battling the demon of despair, is not an easy man to help. When Liobhan and Dau start to expose the rot at the center of Oakhill, they place themselves in deadly danger. For their enemy wields great power and will stop at nothing to get his way. It will take all the skills of a Swan Island warrior and a touch of the uncanny to give them a hope of survival. . . .




Cave-in


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Deadly accidents plague Swastica Mine at the tiny coal camp of Brilliant, New Mexico. But until young pit boss Manuel Torres decides to organize the men and fight for something better, no one has asked the obvious question: Why? Only after Manuel endures a grizzly escape from deep underground do the frightened miners agree to listen to him again. But even as he tries to build momentum for a union, Superintendent Alex Russell makes his final move to bury the secrets of Swastica Mine forever. Can Manuel stop him in time to rescue his town?




To the Vanishing Point


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Nine Stories


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The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of Salinger's fictional Glass family. Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and frequently affecting, Nine Stories sits alongside Salinger's very best work--a treasure that will passed down for many generations to come. The stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut Just Before the War with the Eskimos The Laughing Man Down at the Dinghy For Esmé--with Love and Squalor Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period Teddy




Staying Alive and Other Stories


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If youre looking for plot twists and turns that keep you guessing until the end, Staying Alive is a must-read. You might think you know where its going, but you cant be sure until the very end. One of my favorites and an excellent suspense-filled story of greed and betrayal. Sharon Davey Editor