"Who needs an oasis when you have the desert? Explore the beauty of desert plants, animals and vistas. This Discover Series book features 24 full-color images with simple titles beneath. Babies and toddlers will love the brightly colored plants and animals and older children will learn about one of the earth's most interesting landscapes. Used as a jumpstart for interaction, Discover Series Picture Books are a great way to introduce new images, words...

"Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics! Get up to speed with Windows 7 right away--the QuickSteps way. Fully updated to cover Windows 7 SP1, Windows Live Mail 2011, and Internet Explorer 9, this book includes color screenshots and clear explanations that show you how to maximize the powerful features and upgrades available in Windows 7. Find out how to navigate and customize your desktop, store data, manage files, connect to the Internet, use email,...

Ancient languages and history professors Lauren and Zack Fletcher carry on their academic lives with relative ease, but they are splintered by their contention over career goals and starting a family. And now their lives are about to be upended in ways neither could imagine as, unbeknownst to them, they've been drafted to take part in events that will span millennia and decide the course of mankind's future.Their fate manipulated, Lauren and Zack...

Nothing comes between Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) and her bargains. Neither act of God nor budget crunch can shatter her dreams of wall-to-wall Prada. Every milestone in her well-shopped life (travel, long-lost sister, marriage, pregnancy) inspires new vistas to explore in the name of retail therapy. But now Becky faces her greatest little challenge yet: her two-year-old daughter, Minnie.

On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical...

"Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!Start using Word 2010 right away--the QuickSteps way. Color screenshots and clear instructions make it easy to ramp up on the latest release of Microsoft's powerful word processing application. Follow along and quickly learn how to create and format documents, add tables, charts, and graphics, use mail merge, collaborate with others, save Word documents as web pages, and much more. Get up to speed on Word 2010 in...

"Launched by the summer '04 award-winning, best-seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. The Akashic Noir Series moves fearlessly to the city hosting the European/Asian divide. Brand-new stories by: Muge Iplikci, Behcet Celik, Ismail Guzelsoy, Lydia Lunch, Hikmet Hukumenoglu,...

"In this richly imaginative novel, Mingmei Yip--author of Peach Blossom Pavilion and Petals From the Sky--follows one woman's daunting journey along China's fabled Silk Road. As a girl growing up in Hong Kong, Lily Lin was captivated by photographs of the desert--its long, lonely vistas and shifting sand dunes. Now living in New York, Lily is struggling to finish her graduate degree when she receives an astonishing offer. An aunt she never knew existed...

I think gay guys like weddings more than anyone. And it's not because we want to destroy marriage, like some people say. It's because we really, really want to get married!"Russel Middlebrook is gettin' hitched! The wedding is taking place in a remote lodge on an island in Puget Sound. Russel and his husband-to-be have invited all their close friends to spend the whole weekend together beforehand. And for the first time in his life, Russel is determined...