Brian Williams

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Ohio

21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude from America's Finest News Source

Celebrating 20 years of The Onion, this irreverent, smart, and wonderfully wry collection--with commentary--features the very best of the publication's front pages from 1988 to 2008. Full color throughout.

Our Front Pages

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Hershey's Staff

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

81 Luscious Creations

Features 81 recipes which take a seasonal approach to chocolate with chapters devoted to winter, spring, summer, fall, and a special chapter on holiday gifts. Illustrated with 30 photographs.

Chocolate for Every Season

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Carol Deacon

Tips,Techniques and Trade Secrets

An indispensable compendium of essential knowledge and troubleshooting tips. Tapping into the hottest (and most persistent) trend in the craft cooking market, this book is crammed with information on the art and craft of using fondant. Today, a tastefully decorated cake is expected for birthday parties, weddings and any important celebration. A simple iced cake without a handmade fondant character or flowers is downright dull, no matter how good it may taste. 200 Tips for Cake Decorating shows why fondant is so popular. Its smooth surface, vivid colors and moldable texture allow bakers to roll it, cut it, model it and color it. With basic skills and minimal equipment, bakers can create entertaining toppers for cakes and cupcakes. The book includes make: Fondant Basics -- A beginner's kit, improvising tools, fondant recipes; coloring, flavoring and storing fondant, transporting cakes Covering Cakes and Boards -- Sponge cake and fruitcake; slicing, filling and covering with buttercream; rolling out fondant; stacking cakes, covering cake boards, using supports, ribbons Decorative Techniques -- Tools and molds; painting, frills and fancies; models, cutters and crimpers; piping, lacework, dots, broderie anglaise, writing Modeling -- Making figures, personalizing characters, making animals and flowers, recipes. "Try It" panels encourage bakers to use their own creativity when making decorations and models using simple, innovative techniques. "Fix It" panels show how to solve problems, improvise and avoid disasters. What makes this book extra special is that almost all of the techniques and designs are achievable without having to buy special equipment. Beginners can start with what they have in their kitchen and add tools as they progress, making this a practical guide for all cake decorators.

200 Tips for Cake Decorating

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Cooking Light Editors

Over 1,000 double-tested recipes All-time best tips and techniques with step-by-step photos Light-cuisine cooking secrets.

The Complete Cooking Light Cookbook

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Arthur Agatston

Joseph Signorile

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life

A follow-up companion to "The South Beach Diet" outlines an exercise program that complements the diet's three-phase system, explaining how to combine core fitness techniques with cardiovascular exercise to bolster the metabolism.

The South Beach Diet Supercharged

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H. G. Wells

John Callaway

Ray Bradbury

Ben Bova

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Mars' Invasion of Earth, Inciting Panic and Inspiring Terror from H. G. Wells to Orson Welles

Winner of the 2001 Book of the Year Award by Foreword Magazine for Pop Culture, The War of the Worlds has been revised and updated for this new paperback edition.

The War of the Worlds

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Rebecca Nelson

The past is filled with stories of personal struggles, hard-fought triumphs, interesting trivia, common myths and serious misconceptions. Now, with The Handy History Answer Book, you can step back in time and uncover the real truth behind the events that shaped the world leading up to the end of the 20th century. Caught up in "Millennium madness"? Take a break from the future with this fascinating guide. When was color television invented? Who was Montezuma? What was Bloody Sunday? When was the first alphabet created? What were the effects of the Industrial Revolution? Open the pages of this historical guide and get ready for an exciting journey. From the excavation of the Neanderthal Man to the creation of MTV, this easy-to-read question and answer book will change your attitude about history forever. Was the Chicago Fire really started by a cow? Learn about such notable figures as Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Mary, Queen of Scots, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Edison, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Rosa Parks, to name just a few. Enjoy more than 50 photos and illustrations of famous historical moments and individuals.

The Handy History Answer BookTM

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Weight Watchers International, Inc. Staff

Weight Watchers 5 Ingredient, 15 Minute Cookbook

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Andrea C. Kirkland

Presents over one hundred mouthwatering menus with points values of 8 or less. Includes a step-by-step foolproof game plan with each menu so that each meal can be made in twenty minutes, from start to finish--

Our Best Quick and Easy Recipes

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Sharon Kramis

Julie Kramis Hearne

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Recipes for the Best Pan in Your Kitchen

The cast-iron skillet is the original gourmet-cooking tool. This cookbook aims to show modern cooks how this inexpensive cast iron tool is the best pan in their kitchen.

The Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook

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Michael D. Lyman

Government

Criminal Investigation: A Brief Introduction is written in an innovative "brief" format, making it more easily understood by students and more user-friendly for instructors. It presents crime detection as a field that relies heavily on past experiences of investigators as well as recent practical, forensic, and technological innovations. This new text blends scientific theories of crime detection with a practical approach to criminal investigation and follows the belief that sound criminal investigations depend understanding the science of crime detection procedures and the art of anticipating human behavior.

Criminal Investigation

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Causes, Concepts and Control

This work focuses on the many critical areas of America?s drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision making within this complex and multidisciplinary field. Broken into three sections: Understanding the Problem, Gangs and Drugs, and Fighting Back, topics covered include the business of drugs and the role of organized crime in the drug trade, drug legalization and decriminalization, legal and law enforcement strategies, an analysis of the socialization process of drug use and abuse, and a historical discussion of drug abuse that puts the contemporary drug problem into perspective. Thoughtful analysis of the diverse perspectives on dealing with the impact of drug use and drug trafficking on American society A close look at the growing influence of Mexican cartels on the drug-trafficking landscape and the impact of their activity in and around the U.S. border Text is supplemented with photos, charts, critical thinking tasks, learning objectives, key terms, and discussion questions Appendices cover drug scheduling and federal trafficking penalties

Drugs in Society

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Kelly Cheeseman

Claudia San Miguel

Durant Frantzen

Lisa Nored

Everyday Ethics for the Criminal Justice Professional focuses on getting students to think about ethics in the day-to-day context. By placing an emphasis on practical applications as opposed to theoretical ideologies the book is more user friendly to the student of the 21st century. Unlike other texts, it includes forensics and private security in the list of criminal justice professions, their impact on the field and what it means to "do business" in criminal justice. The text also utilizes practical scenarios in in the career fields of policing, institutional corrections, community corrections, prosecutors and judges, private security, criminal justice supervision and forensics to allow for students to apply theoretical concepts to real life criminal justice situations. The text prepares students to think and process through ethics in both the concrete and abstract. The Instructor's Resource Manual with Test Bank is available electronically on a CD or via email. Blackboard-compatible files are also available. Please contact Beth Hall at bhall@cap-press.com to request a copy. PowerPoint slides available upon adoption. To view sample slides from the full 290-slide presentation, click here. Email bhall@cap-press.com for more information.

Everyday Ethics for the Criminal Justice Professional

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Paul Ekman

Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace Politics and Marriage

Describes gestures and other clues that indicate a person may be lying, explains why people lie, and discusses the controversy surrounding lie detector tests.

Telling Lies

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Rachel Hollis

Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.

Girl, Wash Your Face

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Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants

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Rachel Caine

While working for the most powerful vampire in town in order to protect her friends, Claire trains under Myrnin, a strong but mentally unstable vampire, and faces off with Mr. Bishop, who seeks to wreak havoc at a formal ball.

The Morganville Vampires, Volume 2

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Richelle Mead

Mammoth Paperback (8 to 10 lbs)

Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots. Original.

Vampire Academy

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L. J. Smith

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder

Night World Volume 1 includes books one through three of the New York Times bestselling series by the author of The Vampire Diaries.

Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World.

In Secret Vampire, Poppy thought the summer would last forever. Then she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now Poppy's only hope for survival is James, her friend and secret love. A vampire in the Night World, James can make Poppy immortal. But first they both must risk everything to go against the laws of Night World.

Fugitives from Night World, three vampire sisters leave their isolated home to live among humans in Daughters of Darkness. Their brother, Ash, is sent to bring the girls back, but he falls in love with their beautiful friend.

Two witch cousins fight over their high school crush. It's a battle between black magic and white magic in Spellbinder.

Night World No. 1

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George R. R. Martin

A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons and the arrival of barbarian hordes. Reissue. TV tie-in.

A Game of Thrones (HBO Tie-In Edition)

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Gayle Forman

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

If I Stay

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Reader's Digest Staff

2,317 Ways to Save Money and Time

Discover ingenious ways to use or reuse more than 250 common household items to replace, restore, repair, or revive almost anything in your household--including yourself.

When you have a household problem, don't run to the store and waste good money, just open your pantry door--and EXTRAORDINARY USES FOR ORDINARY THINGS. You'll be amazed at what you can do with baby oil, bleach, duct tape, tea, rubbing alcohol, and dozens of other handy items. This book will open your eyes to over 2,300 creative and helpful uses you can make of familiar household products. You will discover how to save time and money with items in your pantry, medicine cabinet, wastebasket, and recycling bin that you can use to solve common household problems or to substitute for products that you would otherwise buy.

The over 2,300 extraordinary uses includes:

* Aspirin can revive a dead car battery and a coating of petroleum jelly will keep the battery's terminals from corroding

* A dab of shaving cream can keep your bathroom mirror from fogging and can remove juice stains on carpeting

* Petroleum jelly makes a great lip balm, makeup remover, and moisturizer

* A turkey baster is the perfect tool for watering Christmas trees and hard-to-reach plants

* Beer can be combed through your hair as a setting lotion, used as lure to trap insects, and polish gold jewelry

* Sandpaper can be used to sharpen needles and scissors, roughen slippery soles of new shoes, remove ink stains and scuff marks from suede, and remove stains on grout lines

* Wax paper will prevent a cast-iron skillet from rusting, restore the nonstick surface on your iron, and use on the bottom of a microwave when cooking messy foods

If you hate to throw things away or if you delight in dreaming up new ways to use ordinary items, then you'll love the ideas in this book. You'll be amazed at the problems you can solve. It's a book you'll be sure to turn to again and again for helpful ideas, trustworthy advice, and entertaining reading.

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