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Twenty years after Callahan's Crosstime Saloon was revealed, the original bar is gone, but Mike Callahan's spirit lives on in the new bar, named Mary's Place for his daughter. On this inauspicious day, Mary Callahan and her husband show up literally out of nowhere, and they bring bad news: a nasty three-eyed, three-toed, three-everythinged purple monster is going to descend upon them within mere hours. Through laughter and tears, the most famous bar...
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The Empress of the Eight Worlds has been assassinated. Prince Harivarman, exiled on the Templar Radiant, suspects that he will be the next victim. Help is scarce: Anne Blenheim, the fortress' clear-eyed, fair Commander, is favorably disposed toward the Prince, but her first responsibility is to the Templar High Command. And Chen Shizuoka, a Templar recruit sympathetic to Harivarman's cause, is being stalked by planetary security forces. When Prince...
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"America needed its great war of brothers," wrote Bruce Catton, "to weld in a terrible fire what had been and what might be. The story of the war needs retelling because it helped to change the future of the human race." For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through all the maze of battles and issues of the Civil War, this is a book without parallel. Catton understood the Civil War, its...
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This is no ordinary celebrity biography pieced together by an outsider. Steve Martin and author Morris Walker had a close relationship growing up. They were class clowns together, charming the girls and the teachers with their wit and eventually going on the road as comedians. You'll meet the Steve Martin you've never seen before: the eleven-year-old already performing near-perfect, sleight-of-hand magic tricks; the thirteen-year-old selling guidebooks...
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Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle. Annie Kopchovsky changed all of that.Annie was a Jewish immigrant and working mother of three living in a Boston tenement with her husband, a peddler. This was as close to the American dream as she was likely to get-until she became part of what one newspaper called "one of the most novel wagers ever made":...
8) The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy As They Do
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Internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices for dozens of Fortune 100 companies. His groundbreaking revelations shed light not just on business but on the way every human being acts and lives around the world.
Rapaille's breakthrough notion is that we acquire a silent system of Codes as we grow up within our culture....
9) Open Range
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Boss Spearman knows that times are changing on the open range for free-grazing cattlemen who don't own land. But more and more settlers are staking claim to the land, and when a local rancher kills one of Boss's crew, he knows he must make a stand.
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The great blue Berserker's destruction of the human colony Shubra was swift and merciless. And when it was over, Niles Domingo's daughter lay among the dead. Now Niles is a man with a mission: vengeance at any cost. With one small ship, Niles sets out against the great Berserker called Leviathan, tracking it through the interstellar mists of the Milkpail Nebula. He is sure he is ready for anything, but nothing can prepare him for the astonishing discoveries...
11) Berserker Man
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To defeat the ultimate weapon, you must become one… Once, mankind feared the berserkers, killer machines determined to eradicate all life in the universe. But the Berserker Wars are long over and the threat of the sentient doomsday has passed. Or has it? The Berserkers are back, stronger and more unstoppable than before. And one strange child, half human and half machine, may be humanity's only hope—or its final destroyer.
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TURN YOUR GREAT IDEA INTO A GREAT BIG FORTUNE... We all have great ideas, and every day, ordinary people turn their simple, clever ideas into products or services that earn them millions in royalties. So what separates those who earn money exploiting their ideas from those who don't? The answer is in your hands: this audio book gives you all the information and all the motivation you need to turn your ideas into money without investment or financial...
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Civilization and Its Enemies is an extraordinary tour de force by America's reigning philosopher of 9/11, Lee Harris. In it, Harris focuses on the next great conflict: the war between the civilized world and the international terrorists who wish to destroy it. Harris's brilliant tour through the stages of civilization, from Sparta to the French Revolution to the present, demonstrates that civilization depends upon brute force, properly wielded by...
14) Bloodlist
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Jack Fleming, ace reporter, always had a weak spot for strange ladies. And he certainly should have listened to the one who said she was a vampire because, when a thug blasts several bullets through Jack's back, he does not die—but discovers that he has become a vampire as well. Bloodlist is the first novel in an exciting vampire adventure series.
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Home-based businesses are not just small versions of big marketing conglomerates. They are faced with totally different issues, problems, and opportunities requiring specific skills and tactics. This book covers these and will show you the way to: (1) Discover the secrets of the most successful home-based entrepreneurs. Their proven techniques can unlock the potential of small businesses; (2) Quit wasting time and money on strategies that will not...
16) Lifeblood
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Jack Fleming was an investigative journalist in Prohibition-era Chicago until he got shot by an unknown assassin, bitten by his vampire girlfriend, and became one of the undead. Now, this nice-guy nosferatu has a bunch of crazy vampire hunters on his trail armed with crosses, silver bullets, and sharp wooden stakes. He doesn't know how they found out about him or why they are “out for his blood,” but it's not a problem for this street-wise gumshoe,...
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Too many small and mid-sized businesses offer gold-medal quality and service yet struggle to pay their bills and stay in business. What they need are guerrilla marketing weapons to put energy behind their dreams. This indispensable nuts-and-bolts guide outlines every weapon you need to make a significant bottom-line difference in your company. These weapons will add potency to your marketing attack and substantially increase profits. They work for...
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Stuck in a win-win versus win-lose debate, most negotiation books focus on face-to-face tactics. Yet table tactics are only the first dimension of Lax and Sebenius's pathbreaking 3-D Negotiation approach, developed from their decades of doing deals and analyzing great dealmakers. Moves in their second dimension deal design systematically unlock economic and non-economic value by creatively structuring agreements. But what sets the 3-D approach apart...
19) Savage Armada
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A nuclear apocalypse almost destroyed Western civilization in 2001, leaving in its place the forbidding world of Deathlands. Though the human spirit has not been broken, the new rules of survival are harsh and barbaric. As barons fight for power in a savage new America, power is claimed with the salvaged arsenals of a predark world: weapons, gasoline and those willing to kill. The Marshall islands, once the testing grounds for twentieth-century weapons...
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Most people associate storms and other big weather with death-with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, and time and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where they're likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Still, the stories in Storm have more to say than that. They tell us about what happens when people find that...