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The Day It Rained Hearts Board Book

From the illustrator of If You Gave a Mouse a Cookie

One day it rains hearts, and Cornelia Augusta catches them.

Each heart is special in its own way, and Cornelia Augusta knows exactly who to send them to.

Frostbite (Vampire Academy, Book 2) (Bk. 2) Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose…

It’s winter break at St. Vladimir’s, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy’s crawling with Guardians–including Rose’s hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if handto- hand combat with her mom wasn’t bad enough, Rose’s tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason’s got a huge crush on her, and Rose keeps getting stuck in Lissa’s head while she’s making out with her boyfriend, Christian! The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academy’s not taking any risks….This year, St. Vlad’s annual holiday ski trip is mandatory.

But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only create the illusion of safety. When three friends run away in an offensive move against the deadly Strigoi, Rose must join forces with Christian to rescue them. But heroism rarely comes without a price…
Customer Review: Awesome read
If you like vampire novels, even you’re an adult… this book is for you. It was an amazing read.
Customer Review: Loved it!
This is a great second in the series! I love Richelle Mead’s style of writing and this book is even better than the first!! I read all 3 of these books in less than a week and am anxiously anticipating the 4th! Def. a great read for YA and MA as well!

Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven Trilogy, Book 1) In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse.

Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplainable evil events two more times - every seven years. With the clock winding down on the third set of seven years, someone else has taken an interest in the town’s folklore. Quinn is a well known scholar of local legends, and despite Cal’s protests, insists on delving in the mystery. But when the first signs of evil appear months early, it’s not only the town Cal tries to protect, but also his heart.
Customer Review: Have to read all three
I loved this trilogy. It’s got everything. A monster, romance, hot cars and sexy guys.
Customer Review: excellent
1st book in the trilogy this is a great read supsense and romance tied up in one great story line excellent book

Open the Barn Door (A Chunky Book(R)) Illustrated in full color. Open the barn door and take a tour around the

barnyard to find out just who’s making all those wonderful animal sounds.

Customer Review: gift for my niece
Book was received in good condition and in a timely fashion. It was a Christmas gift and she seems to enjoy it.
Customer Review: The picture is about actual size
That’s a slight exageration depending on your screen size but it’s a small book with just a few pages. Pretty much worth the inexpensive price. I bought it for my daughter to put my purchase over the limit for Super Saver Shipping. Just thought you should know.

Ernest Hamingway’s the Sun Also Rises (Barron’s Book Notes) The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it’s as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway’s famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: “Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy’s. She started all that.” His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates–Brett and her drunken fianc , Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton–are as familiar as the “cool crowd” we all once knew. No wonder this quintessential lost-generation novel has inspired several generations of imitators, in style as well as lifestyle.

Jake Barnes, Hemingway’s narrator with a mysterious war wound that has left him sexually incapable, is the heart and soul of the book. Brett, the beautiful, doomed English woman he adores, provides the glamour of natural chic and sexual unattainability. Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris caf s, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the “wonderful nightmare” of a week-long fiesta. Brett, with fianc and ex-lover Cohn in tow, breaks hearts all around until she falls, briefly, for the handsome teenage bullfighter Pedro Romero. “My God! he’s a lovely boy,” she tells Jake. “And how I would love to see him get into those clothes. He must use a shoe-horn.” Whereupon the party disbands.

But what’s most shocking about the book is its lean, adjective-free style. The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway’s masterpiece–one of them, anyway–and no matter how many times you’ve read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won’t be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation. –David Laskin
Customer Review: My Modern Day Translation
I hope no one finds this offensive but just remember that I really like Hemingway’s writing style. That being said, to be as pithy as possible, this book and my modern day translation of the meaning of the story “The Sun Also Rises” is the same as our modern day saying “Same old $hit”. The story at first brought out my empathy for Jake(aka Hemingway)who is essentially writing about his messed up life. Unbelievable! The most beautiful and wealthy people have the most dysfunctional lives. The book left me feeling a little disgusted at the end. Not that is wasn’t good or well written but that the moral was that some people never learn how to get their lives in order. Oh Well. I guess for some of us, thats life!
Customer Review: worst American writer
Ernest Hemingway has made alcoholism into a fine art, because that is basically what all his novels are about. This was the first piece of work I read by him and I wish it had been the last. There was no plot, no meaning, no story and, ultimately no point. The characters were bland and unlikeable. I can sum up the content of the story:
drunkenness, anger, hopelessness, drunkenness, depression, and more drunkenness.

Life of Pi Yann Martel’s imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting “religions the way a dog attracts fleas.” Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker (”His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth”). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don’t burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat’s sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: “It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.”

An award winner in Canada, Life of Pi, Yann Martel’s second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, “My greatest wish–other than salvation–was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time.” It’s safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. –Brad Thomas Parsons
Customer Review: Great Storytelling and More!
The author is one of the best story tellers that I have read. The reader is truly there on the raft and in the lifeboat with Pi. The story is so vivid that I had to keep reminding myself that it was not a real life survival story. The story has many deeper meanings and can be read many times I am sure with each new reading opening up new truths about life, spirituality and man’s place in nature.
Customer Review: Subtext, subtext, subtext
This is my favorite book of all time. Why? Because everyone who reads it will get something different from it. Just what is it about? Alot really depends on your own interpretation. To me, it is a commentary on belief systems and what you in your own mind want to believe, and how that affects what you do, etc. This is a good book for young adults to read. I hope they don’t make it into a movie, as I would not want to see a literal interpretation of this book (M. Night Shamalann (sp?)) has the movie rights.

Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 1) Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. The way Harper sees it, she’s providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living-but she’s used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. Traveling with her stepbrother Tolliver as her manager and sometime-bodyguard, she’s become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living it’s always urgent-even if the dead can wait forever.
Customer Review: Great story, very interesting
As a fan of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, I am a big fan of Charlaine Harris. Though I’m not really a mystery book fan, I really enjoyed this book. Charlaine has a way to draw you into her books so that you can’t put them down. She is a fantastic writer and I am so glad that I found her. It is because of writers like her that I got into reading in the first place.
Customer Review: Compelling Read
The characters are much more interesting than the plot of this mystery. Harper, the protagonist, was struck by lightening, which somehow gave her the ability to hear how people died when she is close to their corpses. She is now in business with her half-brother, Tolliver, helping people find out what happened to their loved ones. One of the strengths of the novel is the siblings’ relationship–they are survivors of a very abusive childhood, and take care of each other. One of the weaknesses of the novel is its predictability–I caught on to some of the mysteries hundreds of pages before any of the characters did, and I am no Sherlock Holmes. Nonetheless, this was an entertaining read & I’ll be sure to check out the next novel in the series. I do appreciate that this mystery was not too graphic.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD) Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know–such as the brain’s need for physical activity to work at its best.

How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget–and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains?

In Brain Rules, molecular biologist Dr. John Medina shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule–what scientists know for sure about how our brains work–and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.

Medina’s fascinating stories and sense of humor breathe life into brain science. You’ll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You’ll peer over a surgeon’s shoulder as he finds, to his surprise, that we have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You’ll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can’t tie his own shoes.

You will discover how:

- Every brain is wired differently
- Exercise improves cognition
- We are designed to never stop learning and exploring
- Memories are volatile
- Sleep is powerfully linked with the ability to learn
- Vision trumps all of the other senses
- Stress changes the way we learn

In the end, you’ll understand how your brain really works–and how to get the most out of it.

About the DVD The Brain Rules DVD, included with this book, is a lively tour of the 12 brain rules. You will experience firsthand Medina’s rare gift for making science fun, accessible, and relevant. The DVD will take your understanding of the book to the next level.
Customer Review: Brain Rules - Phenomenol resource for understanding brain neurochemistry!
Fantastic insight and presentation of neurochemistry of the brain, and how it applies to our personal and professional life. Well done!
Customer Review: Highly recommended!
This Wonderful work reveals the latest information on how the brain learns. All teachers and parents should read this book or listen to the audio CD. The author presents very serious material in a witty and fun way.

A Hunger Like No Other (The Immortals After Dark Series, Book 1)

Acclaimed author Kresley Cole introduces a sizzling new series with this tale of a fierce werewolf and a bewitching vampire — unlikely soul mates whose passion will test the boundaries of life and death.

A mythic warrior who’ll stop at nothing to possess her . . .

After enduring years of torture from the vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is enraged to find the predestined mate he’s waited millennia for is a vampire. Or partly one. This Emmaline is a small, ethereal half Valkyrie/half vampire, who somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within him.

A vampire captured by her wildest fantasy . . .

Sheltered Emmaline Troy finally sets out to uncover the truth about her deceased parents — until a powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottish castle. There, her fear of the Lykae — and their notorious dark desires — ebbs as he begins a slow, wicked seduction to sate her own dark cravings.

An all-consuming desire . . .

Yet when an ancient evil from her past resurfaces, will their desire deepen into a love that can bring a proud warrior to his knees and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter she was born to be?

Includes an excerpt from Kresley Cole’s next romance novel, No Rest for the Wicked.
Customer Review: Great Book
I really enjoyed reading this book. I have never read anything by the author before and descided to try something different and I’m glad I did. I read the book in a day becaseu I couldn’t put it down. She kept you interested the entire book and came up with some very orginial characters. Now I want the whole series.
Customer Review: Don’t judge a book by its cover
I’ve repeatedly been drawn to this book based upon the reviews and how frequently it came up on listmania lists, but the painfully embarrassing cover was a huge deterrent. I am SO glad I finally swallowed my pride and gave it a chance! Unlike most other “romance” books I’ve read, this one was a fantastic mix of steamy tension and entertaining dialogue, and the characters (both primary and secondary) were GREAT! Loved it and I look forward to reading the rest of the books in this series (even if all the covers ARE cheesy!)

Murder Game (GhostWalkers, Book 7) The new GhostWalker novel from the #1 New York Times

bestselling author As bodies pile up, a violent new cross-country game is blamed on the GhostWalkers. To clear their name, they infiltrate the dangerous sport. And to survive it, they must ignore the rules.
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Customer Review: Who do you think wins this game?
Murders are happening along the coasts, and Kadan has been ordered to find out who, why, and stop them. He’s also ordered to keep it under wraps - no one on his team is allowed to know what’s going on. For the murders are suspicious - whoever is doing it, is getting in and out in a flash, no witnesses, no evidence, nothing. They’re being made to look like it’s the GhostWalkers. Someone high up has always wanted them gone. Now they’re being threatened - a force wants them wiped out, and Kadan refuses to go down without a fight.