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Nevada

Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self

While the notion that "happiness can found within oneself" has recently become popular, Buddhism has taught for thousands of years that every person is a Buddha, or enlightened being, and has the potential for true and lasting happiness. Through real-life examples, the authors explain how adopting this outlook has positive effects on one's health, relationships, and career, and gives new insights into world environmental concerns, peace issues, and other major social problems.

The Buddha in Your Mirror

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New York

When Regan Reilly's father is kidnapped three days before Christmas, she investigates the disappearance with the help of her parents' neighbors, Willy and Alvirah Meehan.

Deck the Halls

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What happens when a very creative artist runs out of things to paint? Just runs out--as in, he's painted everything!

Hugo, the artist in question, is in an elephunk, so he and his friend Miles leave Cornville for a whirlwind trip to Paris. They visit museums, parks, and landmarks. So what does happen when a very creative artist runs out of things to paint? Well, he begins to see things in a very different way . . .


Hugo and Miles in I've Painted Everything

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How to Win Before You Begin

Over the course of a forty-year career in the worlds of law, sports, business, and politics, Ron Shapiro has worked with and advised an incredible variety of people. What he’s found is that the secret ingredient for getting into the winner’s circle is simply the discipline of methodical preparation: that old-school, step-by-step way of having all your ducks in a row, whether you are an executive getting ready to do a deal or make a speech; a pitcher studying the traits of opposing hitters and keeping a meticulous notebook of their strengths and weaknesses; an international trade negotiator who knows all about the issues and the people on the other side before sitting down at the tab≤ or a surgeon who rehearses like a classical musician.

Deep down, you know you should do it. But how often do you wing it and fly by the seat of your pants because “Gosh, I don’t have time . . . I’ve done this before . . . I know what I’m doing”? It is obvious that you have to get ready for whatever game you’re playing, but all too frequently methodical preparation is the missing ingredient in today’s world of instant analysis, easy access to information, and glibness that sounds good at first but is unconnected with the reality at hand.

In Dare to Prepare, successful people such as wine guru Robert Parker, investment legend Bill Miller, pianist Leon Fleisher, Goldman Sachs partner Lisa Fontenelli, broadcaster Bob Costas, firefighter Ann Marie Tierney, New York Mets manager Willie Randolph, and many others share the way they apply discipline in preparing for career-changing games, deals, meetings, and interviews. Cal Ripken Jr. played thousands of games in the major leagues but prepared for each like it was his first. NPR host Liane Hansen has interviewed countless people but approaches each interview with the same meticulous research time and time again.

Make sure there are no slips “twixt cup and lip” as you get ready for your next personal or professional challenge by daring to prepare.

Dare to Prepare

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The song of the lark 

Before Larten Crepsley was a vampire general...Before he was Darren Shan's master...Before the War of Scars...Larten Crepsley was a teenager. And he was sick of the pomp and circumstance of fusty old vampires telling him what to do. Taking off on his own with his blood brother, Wester, Larten takes off into the world to see what his newly blooded vampire status can get him in the human world. Sucking all he can out of humanity, Larten stumbles into a violent, hedonistic lifestyle, where cheats beckon, power corrupts, and enemies are waiting.This is his story.

Ocean of Blood

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Did you ever see a walking dream 

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How to Understand Your Past and Shape Your Future

Why do bad things happen to me? Why can't I find a soul mate, lose weight, get a better job, be happy? Is it my karma? Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. Simply: What goes around comes around; you reap what you sow; you get what you deserve; if you give love you get love; revenge returns itself on the avenger. Literally, karma means action: good action equals good karma; bad action equals bad karma. Many believe that they are powerless to change their karma. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Now with stunning insight, wit, and practical wisdom, renowned psychic, visionary, and noted author Mary T. Browne untangles the web of confusion surrounding karma, its inextricable link to reincarnation, and the question of free will versus destiny -- and shows us how to use our karma to understand our past and shape our future. Knowledge is power, history is the record of human struggle, and history does not have to repeat itself once karma is understood and integrated into every thought, word, and action in our lives. In The Power of Karma, Mary T. Browne provides indispensable tips, usable tools, easy-to-follow spiritual exercises, and powerful affirmations designed to help us achieve the goal of a life enhanced by greater health, love, security, and balance.How many incarnations does it take to achieve self-mastery? What is the "karmic boomerang" -- and how does one recognize and avoid it? Can I discover the secrets of my past life by examining my present one? How do I differentiate bad karma from bad judgment? Drawing on dozens of fascinating case histories of her own clients, the author addresses -- and answers -- these intriguing questions and many more. Even as we face difficult times and know we will face far more arduous ones in the future, the opportunity for spiritual growth -- and real change -- is enormous. Let Mary T. Browne be your expert guide. The Power of Karma will lead you every step of the way as you shape your life for the better.

The Power of Karma

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A Story of Race and Its Legacy

Sons of Mississippi recounts the story of seven white Mississippi lawmen depicted in a horrifically telling 1962 Life magazine photograph—and of the racial intolerance that is their legacy. In that photograph, which appears on the front of this jacket, the lawmen (six sheriffs and a deputy sheriff) admire a billy club with obvious pleasure, preparing for the unrest they anticipate—and to which they clearly intend to contribute—in the wake of James Meredith’s planned attempt to integrate the University of Mississippi. In finding the stories of these men, Paul Hendrickson gives us an extraordinarily revealing picture of racism in America at that moment. But his ultimate focus is on the part this legacy has played in the lives of their children and grandchildren. One of them is a grandson—a high school dropout and many times married—who achieves an elegant poignancy in his struggle against the racism to which he sometimes succumbs. One son is a sheriff, as his father was—and in the same town. Another grandson patrols the U.S. border with Mexico—a law enforcement officer like the two generations before him—driven by the beliefs and deeds of his forebears. In all the portraits, we see how the prejudice bequeathed by the fathers has been transformed, or remained untouched, in the sons. For its sense of fragile hope, Sons of Mississippi is a profoundly important, revelatory work of still-evolving history. A stunning book by a masterful writer.

Sons of Mississippi

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An Incredible Voyage into the Unknown

Describes the epic voyage of a single ship and its crew toward the very heart of the galaxy.

Star Quest

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The Race to Save Animals in Peril

Greyhounds were bred to be the fastest dogs on earth. Yet for decades tens of thousands were destroyed, abandoned and abused each year when they couldn't run fast enough. Scrappy Marion Fitzgibbon became obsessed with saving these dogs when she became head of the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Along with an American greyhound rescuer, a foxhunter's wife, a British Lady and a powerful German animal advocate, she fights to create a sanctuary where animals heal and thrive. Their pioneering work is part of a global movement to close race tracks and find homes for these misunderstood dogs.In this David versus Goliath story (including the rescue of her own dog, Lily), Schenone takes us into a complex world of impassioned people who stood up for millions of animals.

The Dogs of Avalon

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Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize This autobiography of the world-renowned, visionary economist who came up with a simple but revolutionary solution to end world poverty--micro-credit--has become the classic text for a growing movement

Banker to the Poor

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A Novel

From Somalia's most celebrated novelist comes this bold novel about a couple whose life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful life and raised two children. But when their son kills himself in a suicide attack in Somalia, the couple reluctantly offer their daughter-in-law and teenage grandchildren a home. On arrival, Waliya and her daughter cloak themselves more deeply in religion, while her son hungers for new freedoms, in a rift that will have life-altering consequences for them all.

North of Dawn

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Why Social Security Isn't Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All

A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system. Social Security Works! amplifies these voices and offers a powerful antidote to the three-decade long, billionaire- funded campaign to make us believe that this vital institution is destined to collapse. It isn't. From the Silent Generation to Baby Boomers, from Generation X to Millennials and Generation Z, everyone now has a stake in understanding the real story about Social Security. Destined to be a game-changer, setting a strategy to benefit all.

Social Security Works!

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The Mike Tyson Story

Bad Intentions

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Tap the Power of Your Unconscious Mind

This guide will help readers discover how to tap into the creative, insightful, spontaneous, and ingenious areas of the unconscious mind, unlock dormant talents, and learn the power of dreams. A fascinating work in the tradition of A Whack on the Side of the Head.

Creative Breakthroughs

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The winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. This bilingual edition makes available a major selection of his poems, both in the original Spanish and impressively rendered into English by "his most enduring translator, the poet Ben Belitt" (Robert Creeley).

Selected Poems

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Greg Martin

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Illinois

"Delicate, heart-wrenching and poetic, this is a novel ofgreat poise and power." --Tash Aw, author of The Harmony Silk Factory


Set in Bangladesh at a time when Islamic fundamentalism ison the rise, The Good Muslim is an epic story about faith, familyand the long shadow of war. Tahmima Anam, the prize-winning author of A Golden Age, offers a moving portrait of a sister and brother whostruggle with the competing loyalties of love and belief as they cope with thelasting ravages of war and confront the deeply intimate roots of religiousextremism. Echoingthe intensity and humanity of Thrity Umrigar's The SpaceBetween Us, Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone, and Kiran Desai's TheInheritance of Loss,Anam's "accomplished and gripping novel," in thewords of author Pankaj Mishra, "describes not only the tumult of a greathistorical event, but also the small but heroic struggles of individuals livingin the shadow of revolution and war."

The Good Muslim

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Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

No Equal Justice is the seminal work on race- and class-based double standards in criminal justice. Hailed as a "shocking and necessary book" by The Economist, it has become the standard reference point for anyone trying to understand the fundamental inequalities in the American legal system. The book, written by constitutional law scholar and civil liberties advocate David Cole, was named the best nonfiction book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review and the best book on an issue of national policy by the American Political Science Association.

No Equal Justice examines subjects ranging from police behavior and jury selection to sentencing, and argues that our system does not merely fail to live up to the promise of equality, but actively requires double standards to operate. Such disparities,Cole argues, allow the privileged to enjoy constitutional protections from police power without paying the costs associated with extending those protections across the board to minorities and the poor.


No Equal Justice

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Anger and Mourning on the American Right

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets, people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.

Strangers in Their Own Land

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My Life As a Honeymooner

In a humorous memoir, the Emmy-winning actress recalls her years playing Alice Kramden opposite Jackie Gleason on "The Honeymooners"

Love, Alice

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Max Pzoras is the poster child for the American Dream, a successful Wall Street analyst. Yet he begins to confront questions about suffering and mortality that have dogged him since his mother's death. His search takes him to the farthest reaches of India, where he encounters a mysterious night market, almost freezes to death on a hike up the Himalayas, and finds himself in an ashram in a drought-stricken village in South India. In an ultimate bid for answers, he embarks on a dangerous solitary meditation in a freezing Himalayan cave, where physical and spiritual endurance is put to the test.

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Woody Hochswender; Greg Martin; Ted Morino

The Buddha in Your Mirror

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Deck the Halls

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Hugo and Miles in I've Painted Everything

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Dare to Prepare

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The song of the lark

Darren Shan

Ocean of Blood

Bobbs Merrill

Did you ever see a walking dream

Mary T. Browne

The Power of Karma

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Sons of Mississippi

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Star Quest

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The Dogs of Avalon

Muhammad Yunus

Banker to the Poor

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North of Dawn

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Social Security Works!

Peter Heller

Bad Intentions

Jill Morris

Creative Breakthroughs

Pablo Neruda; Ben Belitt (Edited and Translated by); Luis Monguio (Introduction by)

Selected Poems

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The Buddha in Your Mirror

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