A Visit from St. Nicholas


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A poem about the visit that Santa Claus pays to the children of the world during the night before every Christmas.




Not a Creature Was Stirring


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Edgar Award Finalist: The patriarch of a wealthy, notoriously unpleasant Philadelphia family is murdered, and a former FBI agent must figure out whodunit. The Hannaford who made the family fortune called himself a tycoon. The newspapers called him a robber baron. Since the days of Robert Hannaford I, the family has infested Philadelphia society like a disease. The current Hannafords are a clan of embezzlers, gamblers, and fantasy novelists. This Christmas, they have money in their bank accounts, crime in their blood, and murder on their minds. Gregor Demarkian is their reluctant guest. A former FBI agent who quit the agency after his wife’s death, he is invited by the Hannaford patriarch to come for dinner at the family mansion. Demarkain arrives just in time to find his host bludgeoned to death in his study and his investigation will lead him to the Hannafords, a family of cold-blooded killers.




Santa Claus and the Law of Attraction


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Santa Claus and the Law of Attraction is a refreshing new story that could be about any one of us. During what everyone reminds her is “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” one woman is asking, yet again, why can’t she just have one Christmas that turns out right? It takes a reminder from an old friend to help her find the answer. In what is sure to become a holiday classic, ancient wisdom gets served up in a new way that is sure to inspire you to take a new look at Christmas...and yourself. Bursting with color on every page and magical illustrations throughout, Santa Claus and the Law of Attraction is a feast for the eyes as well as a treat for your heart. What people are saying about Santa Claus and the Law of Attraction: “As a mindset expert I love love love this book and highly recommend it. Celeste Himanek has an amazing way of teaching us that sometimes the more complicated we make a situation the further away we get from solving it! Her magical story of going back to the basics is a perfect reminder for anyone looking to create a healthier money mindset and overall healthier life. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.” Belinda Ginter, Certified Emotional Kinesiologist, BET Mindset Expert “The loving universe that brought us here and sustains our lives, awaits to give whatever we hold as our heart’s desire in accordance with our beliefs. This gem of writing by Celeste Eckman Himanek, helps clear the way to strengthen our faith even in our most troubled times. Her delightful, heart-felt sharing comes to life with sparkling clarity and will surely become a holiday classic for every parent to read and remember. A magical reminder of what to practice throughout the year!” Paul R. Scheele, PhD. CEO, Scheele Learning Systems, co-founder, Learning Strategies Corporation “At first glance, Santa Claus and the Law of Attraction looks like a kids’ book. Don’t be fooled. It’s a great and timely reminder of ancient wisdom, offered in a lighthearted, approachable manner. Fables like this take us out of time, into eternal Truth. A quick and easy read, the premise here, if practiced, can change your life. While it’s excellent for children, we grown-ups need this medicine, too! As a long-time wellness practitioner teaching Law of Attraction and other divine practices, I highly recommend this beautiful book.” Claire Sierra, MA, LFT, author, The Magdalene Path, MagdalenePath.com




Phineas and Ferb Not a Creature Was Stirring, Except for a Platypus


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'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring . . . except for a platypus. When Dr. Doofenshmirtz creates an -inator that sabotages St. Nick, it's up to Agent P to save the day . . . and save it he does, reversing Doofenshmirtz's -inator and making it home just before Phineas and Ferb wake up on Christmas morning. With foil and spot UV on the cover, this all-new Phineas and Ferb-style take on the familiar Christmas poem, The Night Before Christmas is sure to be a hit!




A Visit from Santa Claus


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An Invitation to Formal Reasoning


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An Invitation to Formal Reasoning introduces the discipline of formal logic by means of a powerful new system formulated by Fred Sommers. This system, term logic, is different in a number of ways from the standard system employed in modern logic; most striking is its greater simplicity and naturalness. Based on a radically different theory of logical syntax than the one Frege used when initiating modern mathematical logic in the 19th Century, term logic borrows insights from Aristotle's syllogistic, Scholastic logicians, Leibniz, and the 19th century British algebraists. Term logic takes its syntax directly from natural language, construing statements as combinations of pairs of terms, where complex terms are taken to have the same syntax as statements. Whereas standard logic requires extensive 'translation' from natural language to symbolic language, term logic requires only 'transcription' into the symbolic language. Its naturalness is the result of its ability to stay close to the forms of sentences usually found in every day discourse. Written by the founders of the term logic approach, An Invitation to Formal Reasoning is a unique introduction and exploration of this new system, offering numerous exercises and examples throughout the text. Summarising the standard system of mathematical logic to set term logic in context, and showing how the two systems compare, this book presents an alternative approach to standard modern logic for those studying formal logic, philosophy of language or computer theory. Fred Sommers is Professor Emeritus, Brandeis University, USA; George Englebretsen is Professor of Philosophy, Bishop's University, Canada.




The Laughing Librarian


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Despite the stodgy stereotypes, libraries and librarians themselves can be quite funny. The spectrum of library humor from sources inside and outside the profession ranges from the subtle wit of the New Yorker to the satire of Mad. This examination of American library humor over the past 200 years covers a wide range of topics and spans the continuum between light and dark, from parodies to portrayals of libraries and their staffs as objects of fear. It illuminates different types of librarians--the collector, the organization person, the keeper, the change agent--and explores stereotypes like the shushing little old lady with a bun, the male scholar-librarian, the library superhero, and the anti-stereotype of the sexy librarian. Profiles of the most prominent library humorists round out this lively study.




Life’S Like That


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Lifes Like That was born when I was having trouble getting clients at the Family Counseling Center. That is a fancy name that came from my family counseling career. I thought I needed to get some ads in the local newspaper. That led to my meeting Mr Rowe Ray, the managing editor of the San Marcos Daily Record. I simply wanted to explore possibilities but ended with an invitation to write a weekly column for the newspaper. I can honestly say I never broke my word on confidentiality; i.e., everything we talked about stayed in the Center, everything that is except the funny things. I was counseling with a game warden that told me about a lady who was losing a sheep a night to one old hungry coyote. Whenever the warden came out, she would start feeling sorry for the coyote and asked the warden not to shoot it. Finally she had five sheep left. She called the warden and once again told him she wasnt ready to have him hunt down the coyote. The warden looked at the little flock of sheep and said, Mrs. Jones, whatever you say, but weve only got five more days anyway. As you read this book there will be tears and sunshine. The good news is you dont have to sit down and read it all at once. Life Really Is Like That.




Short Tall Tales


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And that is exactly what this book is: a varied collection of short stories from the acknowledged British master of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Brian Lumley, in a single volume of all three domains of the imagination – but more especially the haunts of the sinister and macabre! Inspired by the weird tales of the great Edgar Allan Poe, and as some readers might reasonably insist, the even greater H. P. Lovecraft – himself an admirer of Poe – here is a host of rather more modern witcheries from times since the sad demise of many such old masters, based on eras long forgotten before all such tale-tellers so much as existed; concepts spawned in an immemorial past that even now continues to provide the source and fundamentals of similar conceits, such as they were, in the shape of folk legends and the frequently monstrous cautions of so-called “fairy tales,” in modes made their own by the antique yarns of the Brother’s Grimm, now sadly long-demised – a fact which in itself says a lot for the longevity of these genres! Stories included in this collection: The Man in the Dream Late Shopping Spider in the Bath Memory? The Lecture Hell Is a Personal Place Problem Child The Sorceror's Dream Mother Love Not a Creature Was Stirring In the Glow Zone Little Man Lost Snarker's Son What Dark God? The Strange Years The Man Who Saw No Spiders Swamped A Really Game Boy A Dreamer's Tale In Dublin's Fair City As well as three short stories in just fifty words each and four favourite poems from "Ghoul Warning"