DescriptionThe Mountainview School in working-class Dublin boasts a brightly festooned room brimming with paper flowers and Renaissance posters. There, in an evening class, "An Introduction to Italian, " come Aiden Dunne, the supervisor, Signora, the professoressa…
DescriptionLaurence Levain, owner and chef of the internationally renowned Chez Laurence, collapses in his clogs the night before a star-studded black-tie benefit dinner. Tongues wag and gossip flows like a fine buere blanc through the food industry, and as the nation's top chefs vie for attention, all fingers point to years of eating France's finest foie gras as the cause of Levain's demise. But one person has her doubts: Chas Wheatley, the Washington Examiner's saber-penned restaurant critic. Using all her resources to find the culprit, members of the deadly competitive newspaper and food communities swirl around her in a precarious game of cat and mouse. And it soon becomes apparent to her that everyone is suspect.
DescriptionSuccess is not a matter of luck, an accident of birth, or a reward for virtue. Success is a matter of decision, commitment, planning, preparation, execution, and recommitment. Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. Now, award-winning business advisor Nido Qubein shares his complete program for personal and professional achievement.
DescriptionWhen Sherlock Holmes met his demise in "The Adventure of the Final Problem, " published in 1893, the distress of the unsuspecting reading public was profound. For years fans showed no signs of letting Sherlock Holmes lie down and die. Eventually, Doyle saw fit to continue his Holmes' canon and wrote a series of 13 short stories, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1905. The series begins, inevitably, with the shock re-appearance of the master detective in "The Adventure of the Empty House." This plus 3 others are included in Naxos AudioBooks' first volume of Doyle's continuation of the famous bloodhound of a genius, read by master storyteller David Timson. Though he has been away, it seems that Holmes has lost none of his remarkable qualities.
DescriptionA provocative epic of a story we know so well, or do we? Once expelled from the Garden, Adam and Eve had to find their way past recriminations and bitterness to build a new life in a harsh land. In Fallen, David Maine has drawn a convincing, enthralling portrait of a family driven (and riven) by familiar passions and jealousies. The result is a staggering achievement and intimate, hilarious, and utterly original telling of temptation and murder, and of exile and loss.
