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The Official Red Book: A Guide Book of U.S. Coins 2013 (Official Red Book: A Guide Book of United States Coins)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jeff Garrett
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Whitman Publishing; 66th Edition edition (2012, Apr 3rd).
Pages: 448
The Official Red Book®, now in its 66th year, is famous nationwide as the premiere resource for U.S. coin collectors. This best-selling one-volume library helps you make smart buying decisions as you build your collection. Millions of readers rely on it for full-color photographs, detailed technical data, and up-to-date mintages. The Red Book covers the history of colonial and early American coins; official federal issues from half cents through silver dollars and gold coins; classic and modern commemoratives; Proof and Mint sets; error coins; Civil War tokens; pioneer (territorial) gold; every state and territorial quarter, plus the new National Park quarters; all of the presidential dollars; and more. You ll benefit from its practical essays on grading, investing, auctions, and other hobby subjects and of course, its pricing for 6,000-plus coins, in up to 9 grades each, gathered from more than 100 of the nation s leading coin dealers! The 2013 edition features more than 1,800 full-color photographs to help you confidently identify your coins. more
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Beautiful Sacrifice: A Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Elizabeth Lowell
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow (2012, May 22nd).
Pages: 384
According to Maya legend, December 21, 2012, will mark the end of the world as we know it. Is it myth . . . or will their prediction become reality? Archaeologist Lina Taylor has devoted her life to studying ancient Maya artifacts, splitting her time between digs in South America and the classroom teaching college students. But the professor's structured, academic life is about to spin out of control. Some extremely valuable and important Maya artifacts have gone missing. Are the culprits fanatics determined to create chaos and usher in annihilation? Helping out a friend, former immigration and customs enforcement officer Hunter Johnston is determined to recover the missing pieces and he needs Lina's help. A man used to calling the shots and working alone, he isn't comfortable letting anyone get close, especially a beautiful and brainy woman like Lina. more
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Photoshop Elements 10: The Missing Manual
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Barbara Brundage
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pogue Press (2011, Oct 8th).
Pages: 656
Elements 10 offers much of Photoshop's power without the huge price tag. It's a great tool for most image-editing buffs—whether you’re a photographer, scrapbooker, or aspiring graphic artist. But Elements still doesn't come with a useful manual. This bestselling book helps you get the most out of the program, from the basics to advanced tips for both Windows and Mac users.The important stuff you need to know:Quickly learn your way around. Customize Elements to suit your working style. Get to work right away. Import, organize, and make quick image fixes with ease. Retouch any image. Learn how to repair and restore old and damaged photos. Add pizzazz. Give images more zip with dozens of filters, layer styles, and special effects. Design with words. more
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A Night Like This
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Julia Quinn
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon (2012, May 29th).
Pages: 384
Nora Roberts calls Julia Quinn’s novels, “Delightful.” The #1 New York Times bestselling creator of the irresistible Bridgerton family, Quinn offers historical romance readers new delights with A Night Like This—the second book (following the phenomenal Just Like Heaven) to feature the affairs, romantic and melodic, of the endearing, if painfully untalented, Smythe-Smith musicians. On A Night Like This in Regency England, anything can happen, especially when a beautiful pianist sitting in at the annual Smythe-Smith musicale catches the eye of a haunted, hunted man in desperate need of redemption. There is simply no author in the realm of historical romance fiction hotter than the remarkable Julia Quinn—and anyone who has ever been swept away by the love stories of Amanda Quick, Lisa Kleypas, or Jill Barnett will cherish A Night Like This. more
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Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Kwasi Kwarteng
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: PublicAffairs (2012, Feb 7th).
Pages: 480
Kwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as British immigrants. He brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire, one that avoids sweeping judgmental condemnation and instead sees the Empire for what it was: a series of local fiefdoms administered in varying degrees of competence or brutality by a cast of characters as outsized and eccentric as anything conjured by Gilbert and Sullivan. The truth, as Kwarteng reveals, is that there was no such thing as a model for imperial administration; instead, appointees were schooled in quirky, independent-minded individuality. As a result the Empire was the product not of a grand idea but of often chaotic individual improvisation. more
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It's Not Summer Without You
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jenny Han
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing (2010, Apr 27th).
Pages: 288
Can summer be truly summer without Cousins Beach?It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come.But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started--at Cousins Beach. more
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Charmed By His Love (A Spellbound Falls Romance)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Janet Chapman
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Jove (2012, May 29th).
Pages: 320
New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman takes you back to the magical town of Spellbound Falls, where Duncan MacKeage is about to uncover great love with hidden dangers… All Duncan MacKeage wants is to keep his crew building roads and bridges up the mountain to the fancy resort overlooking Spellbound Falls’ new inland sea. He doesn’t want anything to do with his own family magic or with the beautiful widow, Peg Thompson, and her tribe of little heathens. But when Duncan is tasked with keeping an eye on the widow Thompson, trouble starts. Because of a family curse, Peg fears that giving in to her desires will mean killing off another lover. But Duncan—the strong, handsome man buying her gravel—is unbelievably tempting and determined to take care of her. more
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Rescue Me
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Rachel Gibson
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon (2012, May 29th).
Pages: 384
She's 33, unmarried, and stuffed into a Bubble Yum pink bridesmaid dress. And the whole town wants to fix her up with anyone with a dental plan . . . Who's going to rescue Sadie Hollowell now? Everyone in Lovett, Texas, knows Sadie has always been a "notional" kind of gal. She got a notion to leave town ASAP and never visit her daddy (bless his heart) again. Now she's back and got the notion to invite a good-looking, hard-muscled, total stranger to her cousin's wedding. Better a stranger than some of the losers she's dated. Vince Haven got his muscles the hard way—as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan. He's staying in Lovett to visit his crazy aunt—the proprietor of the local Gas and Go. Before he can get the heck back out of the small town, his aunt makes him an offer he can't refuse. more
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Home at 7, Dinner at 8
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Sophie Wright
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kyle Books; Reprint edition (2012, Feb 16th).
Pages: 176
Sophie Wright inspires you to create quick, stress-free delicious meals—in less than an hour. Chapters include: Every Day—recipes destined to become old favorites to cook time and again, like Honey-Roasted Pork with Pears and Parsnips; Watching the Pennies—with cheap, exciting recipes like Zucchini, Basil and Chile Linguine, suitable for a night in for one or entertaining friends; Posh Nosh—for more extravagant meals, such as Rare Seared Tuna with Grapefruit Salsa, perfect for special occasions; plus desserts and drinks, too. more
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Home for the Summer: The Chesapeake Diaries
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Mariah Stewart
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2012, May 29th).
Pages: 352
New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart presents a captivating contemporary romance novel in the tradition of Robyn Carr, Susan Mallery, and Barbara Freethy.Some of Lucy Sinclair’s best days were those spent growing up in small town St. Dennis—working at the family inn and enjoying summers filled with swimming, sailing, tennis, and the company of Clay Madison, her best friend. But Lucy’s darkest day, the one that shattered her innocence with violence and fear, also happened in St. Dennis. And the town she once loved became the place she gladly left behind—along with the terrible secret she’s kept for twenty years. While Lucy headed off for college and a career, Clay remained—more than satisfied with the life St. more
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