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Love Starts with Elle

Rachel Hauck

Elle's living the dream-but is it her dream or his?

Elle loves life in Beaufort, South Carolina-lazy summer days on the sand bar, coastal bonfires, and dinners with friends sharing a lifetime of memories. And she's found her niche as the...

Hidden (Sisters of the Heart, Book 1)

Shelley Shepard Gray

When Anna decides it's time to leave her abusive boyfriend, she doesn't know where to turn. Rob has completely won over her parents, and the entire community, with his good looks and smooth charm. Only Anna has seen his dark side.

Desper...

Sweet Caroline

Rachel Hauck

Life's menu isn't offering many choices for waitress Caroline Sweeney until she inherits a lowcountry Cafe the same time her best friend offers her an international challenge.

But giving up ownership of the Beaufort Cafe i...

A Mile in My Flip-Flops: A Novel

Melody Carlson

Thirty-something Gretchen Hanover is stuck. Seeking solace from a broken heart, she traded her wedding plans for home improvement shows and ice cream—but she knows she can’t live on Ben and Jerry’s forever. She also knows that her enthusiastic Lab pu...

Stealing Bradford (Carter House Girls, Book 2)

Melody Carlson

The Carter House girls are divided when two of them go after the same guy. Rhiannon and Taylor are at serious odds, and before it’s over several girls get hurt.

Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications

The Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications offers complete coverage of the nature, characteristics, advantages, limitations, design, and evolution of Web portals. Other topics include semantic portals, philosophical portal issues, and p...

The Edgar Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Becoming...

Tom Taulli

Despite the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, navigating through a company's financial statements can still be a tricky proposition. The EDGAR Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements covers not only how to find the red flags but also how to find the s...

The Complete M&A Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Buying, Selling, Merging, or Valuing a Business ...

Tom Taulli

The Ultimate Guide to Buying, Selling, Merging, or Valuing a Business for Maximum Return
The next merger wave has already started. You may be looking to grow your company through acquistions, or you may be planning for the perfect exit stra...

Beyond the Night

Marlo Schalesky

They say love is blind. This time they’re right…

As a woman lies unconscious in a hospital bed, her husband waits beside her, urging her to wake up and come home. Between them lies an ocean of fear and the tenuous grip of memories long past. M...

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

David Allen

With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Main...

When Did My Life Become a Game of Twister?

Mary Pierce

You started out knowing just how the game of life would go—so how did it become a game for contortionists, twisting you in every direction in response to the pressures and heartbreaks of life? Offering humor and hope, Mary Pierce helps women untwist...

When Did I Stop Being Barbie and Become Mrs. Potato Head?: Learning to Embrace the Woman You've B...

Mary Pierce

This hilarious collection of real-life "adventures in growing older" will make you laugh, encourage you with the assurance that you are not alone, and give you the comfort of God’s unchanging, ageless love. Designed for quick reading, this book is p...

Confessions of a Prayer Wimp: My Fumbling, Faltering Foibles in Faith

Mary Pierce

Just as Mary Pierce had you rolling in the aisles with her thoughts about growing older in When Did I Stop Being Barbie and Become Mrs. Potato Head? this book will have you chuckling over her thoughts about life and faith—coming to faith, needing fai...

Hot Chicks with Douchebags

Jay Louis

Greasy foreheads. Spiky frosted hair. Oiled-up faces dripping with Tag Body Shot spray. Armani Exchange T-shirts and rank cologne wafting off their backs like fetid pollen clouds as they pump their fists and attempt to grind into any hotties nearby....

The Christian State

Gene Schwimmer

Christianity is the world's most popular religion, with 2.6 billion adherents worldwide. It is also the most persecuted. Despite its overwhelming worldwide majority, there are many countries where "the majority is a minority" and Christians suffer th...

The Five Senses of Romantic Love: God's Plan for Exciting Sexual Intimacy in Marriage

Sam Laing

Sharing insights from Song of Songs, author Sam Laing says that married sexual love should be the most fulfilling because it is God s plan, and God flat-out knows how to do things right! Showing how the married lovers in the Song celebrate their sexu...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

J.K. Rowling

Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that...

Whiter Than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy

Paul David Tripp

Through these meditations on David’s words in Psalm 51, readers discover there is mercy for every wrong and grace for every new beginning.

What do you do when you’ve really blown it? Is sin really as dangerous and is grace really as powerful...

Soul Revolution: How Imperfect People Become All God Intended

John Burke

Purpose, success, a better life…we all want it, but does it come to us, or does it come through us? Find out in this 60-day experiment in loving God and loving people. It has proved itself in thousands of lives. Now experience for yourself how moment...

Margaritas, Mojitos & More

Jessica Strand

Margaritas, Mojitos & More By Jessica Strand Photographs by Frankie Frankeny"Blended, shaken, stirred, sweet, tangy, or citrusy - this summertime collection of cocktails will have everybody's senses singing. Entertaining expert Jessica Strand puts a...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)

J.K. Rowling

This must-read fantasy takes you inside Hogwarts again for Harry's 6th year. What's in store for the wizard and his friends? What danger does his greatest enemy have planned? And who is the half-blood prince? Find out in this long-awaited adventure!...

Faith in the Fog of War: Let us Die to Make Men Free

Chris Plekenpol

A compilation of inspiring devotionals that use life and combat situations to bring God's word to life

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Timothy Ferriss

What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this
controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:

“I race motorcycles in Europe.”
“I ski in the Andes....

Lego for Adults - build real working LEGO guns

LEGO for ADULTS is the first construction manual exclusively for LEGO weapons. The THRILLER AUTOMATIC and the THRILLER COMPACT are slide action crossbow pistols with higly engineered cocking & chambering mechanisms.

Limit...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

Barbara Kingsolver

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, p...

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt

Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion...

Breaking Dawn

Stephenie Meyer