Someone once told me that groupings of objects should be displayed in threes. Three provides both tension and balance among items of varying size and heft. My sister's accident made me an only child; my husband's accident made me a widow. Part of me will always believe that Angel was the third, the one ... more »

There is no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects Visual Basic 2005 Demystified fully explains the language and its libraries and applications. You'll even learn to create a Visual Basic program without writing code. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key ... more »

How did Marc Rich make over 10-Billion-Dollars without hardly paying any taxes? Journalist A. Craig Copetas has infiltrated the inner circle of the commodities market and Rich's associates to show not only how Rich pulled off the scam, becoming one of Am more »

Benny Poteat is, among other things, a tower jockey, his life defined by up or down. Working hundreds of feet in the air repairing tension lines and replacing burned-out lightbulbs, he observes the world from above. Benny has seen a lot of things from this vantage point, but nothing can compare to watching ... more »

You'll never hear the truth from your man, so . . . Ladies Listen Up Diego Christian's trail of deceit follows him all the way to the altar. After ruining the life of the woman he was to marry, he continues to find himself in one casual relationship after another with other men's wives and girlfriends ... more »

The Broken Lands--a treacherous labyrinth of ice through which the fabled Northwest Passage was sought for centuries. Cabot, Frobisher, Hudson, Parry and Ross were all defeated, and the names on the maps testified to their despair: Bay of God's Mercy, the Devil's Cape, Savage Isles, and Repulse Bay. ... more »

Hailed as "a writer of uncommon clarity" by the New Yorker , National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls . Now she returns with a bracing new novel, at ... more »

Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma ) and making work faster (using Lean principles). In this plain-English guide, you'll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method can give you the tools to identify and eliminate ... more »

Writers from 20 Allied and Axis countries are gathered in this unique collection of letters from servicemen and women to their friends, families, and sweethearts. World War II Letters gives an unbiased look into the lives of those who served throughout the world--in Europe, the Pacific, Northern Africa ... more »

"A lovely book." raved Anne Rivers Siddons about Mina, Jonatha Ceely's luminous debut novel. "Suspenseful...evocative...meticulously researched," praised the Boston Globe . Now Ceely returns to the tumultuous mid-nineteenth- century landscape and the world of an unforgettable Irish ... more »

In a charming and witty novel in the tradition of Allison Pearson and Sophie Kinsella, Sarah Bilston tells the story of a busy career woman who finds her pregnancy a breeze -- until she's ordered off her feet for complete and total bed rest. Quinn Q Boothroyd is a young British lawyer married to an American ... more »

This magnificent novel by one of America's finest writers is the epic of one man's remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life. At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone ... more »