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ACEP First Aid Manual, 5th Edition

DK · DK; 5 edition
Format: Book

A possible life-saving reference to keep around the house or in the car, DKs First Aid Manual looks at more than 100 different conditions, from splinters and sprained ankles to strokes and unconsciousness, and shows exactly what to do with step-by-step photographic sequences. Every condition...
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 685
Format: Book

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find...
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A Kingdom Keepers Adventure The Syndrome

Ridley Pearson
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Fans of the Kingdom Keepers will devour this captivating stand-alone adventure told from the point of view of the Fairlies. When Amanda travels east to Orlando on a hunch, she's met with the worst news possible. Kingdom Keeper Finn Whitman is missing. Calling on her own gift (she's...
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Heretics: A Novel

Leonardo Padura · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban authorIn 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches...
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Nimona

Noelle Stevenson · HarperTeen
Format: Print book

A National Book Award Longlist TitleThe graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist Studio Prize, calling it "a deadpan epic."Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these...
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Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values

Sadie Robertson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 224
Format: Book

Seventeen-year-old Sadie Robertson - star of A&E's Duck Dynasty and daughter of Willie and Korie Robertson - shares her outlook on life as she opens up about herself and the values that make her family what it is.Sadie Robertson represents everything that a well-adjusted teenager...
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The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

Erin Meyer · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous...
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The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude

Howard Axelrod · Beacon Press
Pages: 211
Format: Print book

Named one of the best books of the year by Slate, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, BOOKLIST , Entropy Magazine, and named one of the top 10 memoirs by Library JournalInto the Wild meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - a lyrical memoir of a life changed in an instant and of the perilous...
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The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor

Robert Schnakenberg · Quirk Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

The man. The movies. The life. The legend. He's played a deranged groundskeeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a grouchy weatherman. He is William James "Bill" Murray, America's greatest national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags...
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Birnbaum's 2015 Walt Disney World: The Official Guide

Birnbaum Guides · Disney Editions
Format: Book

Birnbaum's Walt Disney World has been re-imagined! It boasts a bold new look and variety of added features, including a complete restaurant roundup with expanded details on all the dining options in Disney World, as well as a new chapter dedicated to Disney Cruise Line. We'll guide...
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Apprentice in Death

J D Robb · Berkley Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Lieutenant Eve Dallas returns in a fast-paced new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb. Nature versus nurture... The shots came quickly, silently, and with deadly accuracy. Within seconds, three people were dead at Central Park's ice-skating rink. The victims: a talented...
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Robert B. Parker's the Devil Wins

Reed Farrel Coleman · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

A Nor'easter blows into Paradise and churns up the past - in the stunning new addition to Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone. In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building...
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China Rich Girlfriend: A Novel

Kevin Kwan · Doubleday Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers...
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Friction

Sandra Brown · Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
Pages: 410
Format: Large print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes a gripping story of family ties and forbidden attraction.Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork...
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Dark Ghost: A Carpathian Novel

Christine Feehan · Berkley Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In the new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling "queen of paranormal romance," (J.R. Ward) a wounded warrior and a woman on the run find salvation, passion and unimaginable danger in the ghostly darkness of the Carpathian Mountains ... He wasn't civilized or tame....
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