Author: Elizabeth Berg
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: novel, welcome
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-04-17
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0812971000
ISBN-13: 9780812971002

Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her characters’ hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. Her new novel, We Are All Welcome Here, features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis’s birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently–and violently–across the state. But in Paige Dunn’s small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concer

Author: Jeff Shaara
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: war, world, novel, wave, steel
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0345461398
ISBN-13: 9780345461391

General Dwight Eisenhower commands a diverse army that must destroy Hitler’s European fortress. On the coast of France, German commander Erwin Rommel prepares for the coming invasion, as the Führer thwarts the strategies Rommel knows will succeed. Meanwhile, Sergeant Jesse Adams, a veteran of the 82nd Airborne, parachutes with his men behind German lines. And as the invasion force surges toward the beaches of Normandy, Private Tom Thorne of the 29th Infantry Division faces the horrifying prospects of fighting his way ashore on Omaha Beach, a stretch of coast more heavily defended than the Alli

Author: Charlie Husto
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: novel, things, six
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 2005-06-28
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0345464796
ISBN-13: 9780345464798

Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind. Suddenly Hank’s in a desperate race to get to his parents in California before anyone can harm them. Along the way he’ll face Federales and Border Patrol, mafiosi and vigilantes, extortionists and drug dealers, and a couple of psychotic surf bums with an ax to grind. From the

Authors:Carl Sagan, Ann Druya,
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: candle, science, world, haunted, demon
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1997-02-25
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0345409469
ISBN-13: 9780345409461

Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other issues."A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto f

Author: Laurell K. Hamilto
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: book, gentry, meredith, kiss, mistral
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345443616
ISBN-13: 9780345443618

I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne of faerie. My day job, once upon a time, was as a private detective in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, princess has now become a full-time occupation.My aunt, Queen Andais, will have it no other way. And so I am virtually a prisoner in faerie–trapped here with some of the realm’s most beautiful men to serve as my bodyguards . . . and my lovers. For I am compelled to conceive a child: an heir to succeed me on the throne. Yet after months of amazing sex with my consorts, there is still no baby. And no baby means no throne. The only certainty is death at the h

Author: Donna Cunningham
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: life, inner, key, signs
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1993-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345347242
ISBN-13: 9780345347244

If you think your astrological fate is sealed by your Sun sign, think again! Your emotions, instincts, intuition, and mast private passions are dominated by your Moon sign. It throws light on such mysteries as why an Aquarian like Ronald Reagan is no radical, and why a Virgo like Raquel Welch is no virgin. Reagan’s Moon is in conservative Taurus, and Welch’s is in sexy Scorpio.In this eye-opening volume, world-famous astrologer and therapist Donna Cunningham unravels the often bewildering effects of lunar influence: a person’s potential for intimacy...sense of security...fami

Authors:Diane E. Levin Ph.D., Jean Kilbourne Ed.D.,
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: protect, kids, parents, childhood, new, sexualized, sexy
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-07-21
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0345505077
ISBN-13: 9780345505071

Risqué Halloween costumes for young girls. T-shirts that boast “Chick Magnet” for toddler boys. Sexy content on almost every television channel, as well as in movies and video games. Popular culture and technology inundate our boys and girls with an onslaught of graphic sexual messages at earlier ages than ever before. Without the emotional sophistication to understand what they are doing and seeing, kids are getting into increasing trouble emotionally and socially. Parents are left shaking their heads, wondering: How did this happen? What can we do?Diane E. Levin, Ph.D., and Jean Kilbourne, E