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Offered by dcannon174027 (author): I'm a Canadian author and am hoping to spread the word about my book to the US and the UK. Aimed at teens and adults with a piratical sense of humour, THE PIRATE VORTEX features smart and sassy girls in a tale that pits hip, contemporary teen culture against not-so-bright 18th century pirates. Edgar award-winning suspense author T.J. MacGregor calls it "a delightful romp through time and history."

Description: Teen fencing champ, Elizabeth Latimer is a girl of her times. Armed with the latest pocket PC, she leaps into an oceanic vortex in pursuit of Daniel, an oh-so-awesome pirate. He knows the whereabouts of her missing marine archaeologist mom, but instead of reuniting them, he leads her into an impossible mission— to help the pirate Calico Jack Rackham rescue his girlfriend Anne Bonny.

In a world where men solve their problems by running a foot of steel into their enemies guts, Elizabeth has few weapons at her disposal. The Universe has its rules and Liz is bound by two of them. Number one: don't reveal modern technology to the pirates. Number two: don't kill anyone. If she breaks either of these rules, she'll change history and alter the future.

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Offered by katelisim: I won this from early reviewers and am passing it on.

Description: Seth, Horus, and Osiris are reborn, fated to re-fight their greatest battle.

Samiya, an Egyptian woman, and Taggart, a Canadian professor of Comparative Religion, have nothing in common, until they find themselves on opposite sides of a bloody war for causes neither is sure they believe in.

The Balance is in jeopardy, and either The Fullness: humanity, law, and reason; or The Void: animal instinct, chaos, and death; will soon rule the world.

But which is the right side? Reason has ruled for centuries. Isn't it time for Chaos to have a chance?

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Offered by maryltabor (author): I am the author: Why I do I do this? Here's the answer: In Lewis Hyde’s book The Gift: Imagination and the erotic life of property, he wisely tell us that “the true commerce of art is a gift exchange, and where that commerce can proceed on its own terms we shall be heirs to the fruits of a gift exchange: in this case, to a creative spirit whose fertility is not exhausted in use, to the sense of plenitude which is the mark of all erotic exchange, to a storehouse of works that can serve as agents of transformation, and to a sense of an inhabitable world—an awareness, that is, of our solidarity with whatever we take to be the source of our gifts, be it the community or the race, nature, or the gods.”

Description: Mary L. Tabor’s fictions concern sex, adultery, death, and food—in sum, a woman’s life—and take us on a dizzying cook's tour of life’s betrayals. The one woman who hides in this book faces loss or rejection, goes a bit mad in her obsession over what can be hidden and what cannot. She cooks as antidote to the poison of deception. But what if the woman hidden at the heart of this book discovers one day that she no longer can cook? This is the story of one woman's life through a series of lenses culminating in the title story: The woman who hides in the book is "The Woman Who Never Cooked."

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Offered by Tiffmeister (author): Here is a chance to be one of the first to review the second book in the Crystal Keeper Chronicles. I am giving away some of my promo copies to help get the word out about the second book in the series. Enjoy! Join the World of Crystal Keepers!

Description: Who's got time for homework when your problems involve evil sorcerers? Wanda should be studying for a quiz, avoiding the bullies at her new school and living a normal tweenage life. But, she is called upon once more to be a savior of the fairies, a protector of the fey, a Crystal Keeper. Bees are dying, fairies are missing and nobody knows why.

Wanda and her new friend, Edina, visit a crystal store to search for clues. They read about the Green Man, a forest king who Wanda thinks could be the key to solving the mystery. But, when a unicorn appears in her bedroom, the mystery just seems to deepen. Perhaps by asking the right questions, she can find the answer to the crisis. Or will she just end up in peril herself?

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Offered by CourageousSouls (author): Giving away one copy in exchange for a review.

Description: The book Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born by Robert Schwartz (www.yoursoulsplan.com) explores the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we’re born for purposes of spiritual growth. The book contains ten true stories of people who planned physical illness, having disabled children, deafness, blindness, drug addiction, alcoholism, losing a loved one, and severe accidents. The information about their pre-birth plans was obtained by four gifted mediums and channels. The book presents the actual conversations people had with their future parents, children, spouses, friends, and other loved ones when they planned their lives together. For readers, suffering that once seemed purposeless becomes imbued with deep meaning. Wisdom may be acquired in a more conscious manner; feelings of anger, guilt, blame, and victimization are healed and replaced by acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and peace. A large excerpt from the book may be downloaded for free on the web site.

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Offered by sophie.in.mtl: From my own collection. Dust jacket missing, pages yellowed, otherwise in great condition. Will send anywhere. Thanks and good luck!

Description: As the title implies, it is a layman's guide to using psychiatry in day-to-day living. Topics include: coping with criticism, marriage problems, self-image, therapy through work, and more. Hardcover, 1971.

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Offered by sophie.in.mtl: From my collection. Some highlighting, very minor wear to cover and spine, in overall very good condition. Will send anywhere. Thanks and good luck!

Description: Study aid for "As You Like it" from Coles Notes (Cliffs Notes Canadian cousin). Includes an overview of Shakespeare's life and works, plot summary, scene breakdown, character analysis, and lots more. Great as a companion to the play or an easier introduction to The Bard.

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Description: Ken Follett—the master of suspense—follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of the early days of World War II.

It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF's flight paths, and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Hermia Mount, an intelligence analyst with MI6, wonders if the Germans could have perfected a radar system like the one the British themselves are struggling to achieve-but that notion itself is shot down, by her own bosses. Preposterous, she is told; stick with what she knows. But, still, she wonders.

Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut across the German-occupied Danish island of Fano on his homemade motorcycle, and comes across an astonishing sight. He doesn't know what it is, but he knows he must tell someone.

In Copenhagen, police detective and collaborator Peter Flemming searches his list of known troublemakers. The Germans are determined to discover who is smuggling information, and an idea has just come to him. This could even mean a promotion....

In the weeks to come, their lives and the lives of those close to them will intertwine, and for Harald in particular, it will be a time of trial. For when he finally learns the truth, it will all fall upon him to deliver the word to England-except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in the nave of a ruined church: a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely ever to get off the ground . . . even if Harald knew how to fly it.

Filled with knife-edge suspense and rich, tantalizing characters, this is Ken Follett writing at the top of his form-unforgettable storytelling from an unforgettable writer.

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Description: "The definition of an owl had always pleased him: a night bird of prey...sharp talons and soft plumage which permits noiseless flight...applied figuratively to a person of nocturnal habits. 'I am The Owl,' he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, 'and nighttime is my time.'"

Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown in Cornwall-on- Hudson, New York, to attend the twenty-year reunion of alumni of Stonecroft Academy, where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There is, however, something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted, Alison Kendall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, died just a few days before, drowned in her pool during an early- morning swim, the fifth woman in the class whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end.

Also adding to Jean's sense of unease is a taunting, anonymous fax she has just received, referring to her daughter, Lily, a child she had given up for adoption twenty years ago, the offspring of a romance between her and a West Point cadet killed in an accident a week before graduation. She had always kept the child's existence a secret, so who has found out? And why the implied threat now?

Struggling to conceal her fears, Jean arrives at the hotel where the reunion is being held. One by one she sees the other honorees, including Laura Wilcox, the class beauty, whose dazzling exterior belies the fact that her television career is sinking, and the four men who, like Jean, had spent four bitterly unhappy years at Stonecroft: Carter (formerly Howie) Stewart, an acerbic and successful playwright, once the class nerd; renowned child psychiatrist and talk-show celebrity Mark Fleischman, who has never been able to resolve the pain of his own adolescence; Gordon Amory, a media mogul, hardly recognizable as the awkward boy who was the butt of cruel jokes; Robby Brent, a popular comedian, whose caustic humor emanates from a childhood of rejection. Omnipresent is an old classmate, Jack Emerson, the chairman of the reunion, whose reasons for spearheading the event may be motivated by something other than class spirit.

At the award dinner, Jean is introduced to Sam Deegan, a detective obsessed for years by the unsolved murder of a young woman in Cornwall, who may also hold the key to the identity of the Stonecroft killer and the source of the anonymous threat to her child. She does not suspect that among the distinguished people she is greeting is The Owl, a murderer nearing the countdown on his mission of vengeance against the Stonecroft women who had mocked and humiliated him, with Jean his final intended victim.

In Nighttime Is My Time, Mary Higgins Clark creates a riveting novel of psychological suspense, penetrating behind the pervading façade of status and respectability to depict the mind of a killer.

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Description: Psycho mama's boy Teddy Magyk has a serious jones for the Miami cop who put him away for raping a senior citizen — but he wants to hit Vincent Mora where it really hurts before killing him. So when a beautiful Puerto Rican hooker takes a swan dive from an Atlantic City high-rise and Vincent naturally shows up to investigate the questionable death of his "special friend," Teddy figures he's got his prey just where he wants him. But the A.C. dazzle is blinding the Magic Man to a couple of very hard truths: Vincent Mora doesn't forgive and forget ... and he doesn't die easy.

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Description: One of the great provocateurs of world literature has written perhaps his most outrageous and morally necessary novel: the story of a confused young man from a family with a Nazi past who decides he will devote his life to redeeming the suffering of the Jews in his own unorthodox way What is it to the sixteen-year-old Swiss youth Xavier Radek that his grandfather served in the SS? Why are Xavier's parents so quiet, so furtive, so uninterested in doing anything with their lives, in pursuing any great causes? Not that there seem to be many great causes on offer in Basel, Switzerland, at least within reach of a restless, socially nervous and-let's admit-not notably gifted young man. Until, that is, Xavier meets some members of the Basel Jewish youth group and comes to know a boy named Awromele, son of a local rabbi. Suddenly the light goes on: this group of people, who have suffered so much, need his help, and he will not stint at giving it to them. So it is that young Xavier decides to convert to Judaism and to begin his long journey to influence and, in the end, to infamy. With him at every step is the rabbi's son Awromele, first as his guide, then as his lover, and finally as his devoted right-hand man. Although Awromele arguably bears some responsibility for the botched circumcision that costs Xavier his left testicle, and while his decision to coax Xavier into collaborating on the first translation of Mein Kampf into Yiddish is of questionable taste, and his sexual promiscuity can often be hurtful, on the deeper issue of emotional fidelity there can be no doubt. Awromele sticks by Xavier's side through life's every turn: when Xavier's mother's sexual addiction to her favorite kitchen knife creates ugly domestic strife; when Xavier's father takes his own life; when Xavier transplants the two young men to Amsterdam so he can attend art school; when the two migrate to Israel; when Xavier enters politics; when he is elected Israeli prime minister; and when he chooses the nuclear option. Both a great love story and a grotesque farce, both an assault on the most well-guarded pieties and taboos of our age and a profound reckoning with the limits of human guilt, cruelty, and suffering, The Jewish Messiah is without question Arnon Grunberg's masterpiece.

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Offered by James_Knapp (author): I am the author of the book, and was given a few ARCs (Advanced Reader Copies) prior to the book's release. I noticed the book was not on the list and would like to see it reviewed here. Bear in mind this is an ARC, so while it is the finished book, it does not have the final cover art. If desired, I will send a final copy, signed, when the book is released to whoever reviews it here.

Description: Would you allow the military to reanimate your corpse, knowing it would commit atrocities, if it meant avoiding service in a brutal war during your lifetime?

What if your level of citizenship depended on your answer? To gain a chance at a better life, or feed your family, which would you choose then? Or would you choose neither, and accept a life of hardship and poverty?

What if you came face to face with your own death, and realized too late you had made the wrong decision?

They call them revivors - technologically reanimated corpses - and away from the public eye they do humanity's dirtiest work. But FBI agent Nico Wachalowski has stumbled upon a conspiracy involving revivors being custom made to kill-and a startling truth about the existence of these undead slaves.

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Offered by StunningSun: I hope you are the lucky winner, I have never won one myself, perhaps because until my recent retirement I have not taken the time to write reviews. I am sure had I done this, I may have, needless to say my record speaks for itself. This is another extra, I have found while reorganizing, and building a new room w/library.

Description: As the inside cover states: In a riveting psychological thriller, Mary Higgins Clark takes the reader deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all.

Of course, LT members know how to find out more !!!

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Offered by y2pk: This is an extra copy from my book collection. A few pages (109-116) have very slight water damage. Being given away as is.
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Description: Richmond's sophomore effort (after Dream of the Blue Room, 2003) traces a traumatic year in the life of photographer Abby Mason after she loses her fiance's six-year-old daughter. The moment Abby stopped to photograph a dead baby seal while walking on a fog-bound beach in San Francisco is one she will replay in her head a thousand times. That's the last time she saw Emma, who was racing ahead, eager to collect sand dollars. Panic and fear soon give way to sheer exhaustion and emotional shutdown as Abby and Emma's dad, Jake, immerse themselves in the desperate search for the missing first-grader. As the months tick by, Jake becomes convinced that Emma drowned, while Abby is sure that Emma was kidnapped. The trauma and the guilt wreak havoc with their relationship and with their struggle to regain a sense of normalcy. Richmond gracefully explores the nature of memory and perception in key passages that never slow the suspense of the search. Closely echoing Jacquelyn Mitchard's best-selling Deep End of the Ocean (1996), this is a page-turner with a philosophical bent.

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Offered by y2pk: This is an extra copy from my book collection. There's very slight water damage on a few pages. Being given away as is.
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Description: Captain Bligh (yes, the guy from the Bounty) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, Aubrey sets off for Australia. Several factors, including an attractive spy and a small-scale epidemic, conspire to change his plans, and before long his frigate is being pursued into Antarctic waters by a Dutch man-of-war.

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This is a Children’s Book for grades approximately 2 through 6.

I’m offering a free PDF file of my Children’s Book ‘Logan And The Magic Fish’ in exchange for reviews at Amazon.com. If you can’t or won’t leave a review at Amazon.com besides Librarything.com, then please don’t request a copy. If you enjoy the book, please tell everyone!

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Description: Join Logan on an exciting fishing expedition in the Pacific Northwest on the cool waters of Blue Lake. Logan's trip becomes strange and wondrous when he catches a large orange fish who claims to be magic. The creature grants Logan three wishes if the boy will let him go. Logan gladly agrees, but all is not what it seems. Is the fish truly a magic fish? Logan begins to have his doubts. You can help him decide!

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Offered by ottos (author): This is a Children’s Book for infants, toddlers, and children up to approximately 2nd grade.

I’m offering 6 free copies of my Children’s Book ‘Salem the Safety Seal’ in exchange for reviews at Amazon.com and Librarything.com. If you can’t or don’t want to leave a review on Amazon.com, then I ask that you not request a free copy.

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Description: Have fun and learn about water safety as you join Salem the Safety Seal in his bright and colorful underwater world. He and his friend Sierra will take you on an adventurous tale about the importance of wearing a life jacket when you're near the water. Children young and old will delight in this story. Enjoy!

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Offered by anarchistbanjo (author): I am the translator of this new edition of Alraune and hoping to reach a much broader audience for this book through the give-away program. I am giving away e-books in exchange for reviews because so few people know about this book and this author. Normal publishing avenues are not effective. People need to know enough about this book to create a demand for it.

Description: Alraune is a masterpiece of horror fiction first published in the German language by author Hanns Heinz Ewers. It is his best selling book and has been translated into many languages around the world. The first English language edition was published by John Day in 1929, was censored and poorly translated.

Now for the first time this important work has been newly translated by Joe E Bandel in it's entirety. Alraune is a melding of the Frankenstein story and the Mandrake legend. It is about a girl created through unnatural means and her strange effect on those that loved her. Some may find this book disturbing.

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Offered by crazy4reading: Not a book I want to keep in my possession.

Description: From back cover: She tumbled into his arms from a rocky overpass, a feisty copper-haired beauty eavesdropping on soldiers marching into Glencoe, Where she had run to hid. They said they came in peace, Lianna Fraser didn't trust them, or the stranger who now held her in his tight embrace. When the blody betrayal she'd feared finally came, all she has was Cameron MacKenzie's vow of innocence, and his promise to save her...

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Offered by bedda: Little spiral bound cookbook about 100 pages. Publication date of 1992. I have never used it and probably never will so I thought I’d see if anyone else was interested.

Description: Casserole cookbook

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Offered by Cruzan: I need some free room for my new books so I'm giving away this one.

Description: This book is a report about conference on protecting the seas around Scandinavia. Conference was held in October 1989. Language of the report is Swedish. 246 pages, lots of photos and charts.

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Offered by MahbodSeraji (author): Giveaway as a gift for the Holidays.

Description: Rooftops of Tehran opens in a middle-class neighborhood in Iran’s sprawling capital city. The rooftop of the narrator’s house – the tallest in their alley − is the perfect spot for sleeping on hot summer nights. It’s also the perfect location for stargazing, sneaking cigarettes, talking about American movies, and confiding, analyzing and agonizing through the typical trials of being a seventeen year-old boy, including being in love. This is the spot from which the narrator quietly watches his secret love, his beautiful next door neighbor Zari, promised since birth to his friend and mentor, nicknamed Doctor, a man adored and respected by the whole neighborhood. It is from this high perch that the narrator witnesses the SAVAK's brutal hunt and arrest of Doctor and realizes the oppressiveness of the regime under which he resides. And the rooftop is where the narrator and Zari ultimately find quiet refuge in each other after the shock of Doctor’s senseless fate ripples through their close-knit community and brings about terrible, unexpected repercussions.

With the candor only an Iranian can offer, Seraji's narrative bares the enduring struggle between beauty and brutality infused into the centuries-old Persian culture while reaffirming the human experiences we all share: contentment, terror, love, helplessness, ferocity, and hope.

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Offered by DiDiLemay (publisher): What adventures are waiting for Miya as she walks to the forest to feed the animals?

An angry squirrel, a gentle crow, and an intimidating owl are just some of the interesting characters Miya meets in the forest. The animals are concerned about the environmental impact the humans have on their forest. It’s up to Miya to deliver this message to the villagers.

But can she be convincing enough?

While reading this beautifully illustrated story, children will be silently rooting for Miya as she tries to support her new animal friends. They will be so captivated by Miya’s adventures, young readers will not realize they are learning lessons in helping others, standing up for their beliefs, conquering their fears, and caring for the environment.

Description: "A Winter Solstice Celebration" helps children and adults alike to understand how the animals feel about their planet, how humans can help and how and how humans and animals can live together in harmony. A Winter Solstice is warm story that relates to all who read it.

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Offered by dahlmann (author): "Las seducciones" es un conjunto de ocho relatos y una novela corta publicado por Bubok a finales de 2009. El libro ya está a la venta a través de internet, pero si estáis interesados en conseguir una copia gratuita, sólo tenéis que solicitarla.

Description: Un vidente aquejado de un fuerte sentido de la responsabilidad social. Los problemas de una escritora en el exilio con su servicio de habitaciones. Dos asesinos posibles de Jorge Luis Borges. La inquietud de una embarazada primeriza ante la oscura mancha que se extiende día a día sobre su vientre. Un niño horrorizado ante el descubrimiento de su propia condición de divinidad alienígena, y otro niño que hoy ha decidido aprender a volar.

Ocho relatos y una novela corta que exploran, con sentido del humor y con ácida ironía, los ángulos en sombra de nuestra vida cotidiana.

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Offered by JoanHolub (author): One paperback copy of Shampoodle. A Random House rhyming easy reader for ages PreK to Grade 1. Dogs visit a groomer on pet picture day in the park, and wind up with wacky hairdos that bear a humorous and striking resemblance to those of their groomers. Great illustrations by the fabulous Tim Bowers.
Kirkus Reviews on Shampoodle: "Snappy rhyming verses. . .Very funny—there may be a short film in this."

Description: A Random House rhyming easy reader for ages PreK to Grade 1. Dogs visit a groomer on pet picture day in the park, and wind up with wacky hairdos that bear a humorous and striking resemblance to those of their groomers. Great illustrations by the fabulous Tim Bowers.
Kirkus Reviews on Shampoodle: "Snappy rhyming verses. . .Very funny—there may be a short film in this."

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Offered by crawford (author): One free autographed copy for each person reviewing this book. Compliance and Conviction is used in my corporate governance and board leadership consulting practice. The reader will experience an insider view of the most fascinating topics in corporate boardrooms today.

Description: In general, corporate America continues to be quite healthy. We are not plagued with weak leadership at the top of our companies. However, we do have some serious issues that are being addressed in earnest. We are confident that the strength of the best leadership in corporate America will weed out most of the obvious bad seeds.

Most of the issues surrounding "good corporate governance" are not new. There have been major concerns about corporate leadership for years. There are numerous articles and references that highlight examples of poor corporate leadership. While the positive examples are not frequently presented, I believe they outnumber the negatives by a disproportionate margin. There are many examples of great leadership and performances by management and the boards of directors that go unnoticed by the general public, but are much valued and appreciated by their shareholders.

Today, investors, employees and of course, many directors are concerned about the board's ability to execute its responsibilities in the most effective manner. This book reviews some of the most significant issues facing corporate directors during the past three decades. It also highlights the major trends in corporate governance during this transitional period. A major focus is placed on the past ten years, a period of significant transition in corporate governance. It offers the general public some insight to a very esoteric topic. Likewise, this book will help enlighten current business leaders and guide them toward creating future agendas aimed at reforming corporate governance to meet the challenges of the coming era.

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Corporate Rise is used in conjunction with my Professional Mentoring practice. I hope this will inspire the readers to make an effort to accelerate their progress toward their career goals.

Description: If you have big dreams and sincerely want to be in charge, Corporate Rise will help you earn the opportunity to do great things in the corporate world. Following the advice contained in this book will help you develop the skills, behaviors, and attitudes necessary to accelerate your progress to the top of the business world.

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Offered by FMRox: I read the book and am done with it. It's of the sci-fi genre. The author is someone I know and it is such an obscure book and I am passing it on to others.

Description: On the planet Zoria, David Bain has been imprisoned and tortured for the most horrendous crime a person can commit in any galaxy. What’s worse, the man who framed him, James Dawson, visits to watch his suffering. But revenge is a dish best served cold, and after ten years, Bain escapes from prison with vengeance on his mind. His quest for retribution takes him to a planet called Earth where he must enact a daring plan to bring Dawson down. One thing he doesn’t count on is Lavinia Dawes, a shy med student who he can’t stop thinking about. She adds a whole new set of complications to the equation. Can David stop the cycle, exact his revenge, and save Lavinia at the same time? It’s a daunting task and millions of lives on two planets hang in the balance.

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Offered by suzannecrowley1 (author): I'm the author of the young adult book, The Stolen One, an Elizabethan set novel of mystery, intrigue and romance.

Description: Kat's true identity is a secret, even from her. All she has ever known are Grace and Anna and their small village. Kat wants more - more than hours spent embroidering finery for wealthy ladies and more than Christian, the gentle young farmer courting her.
But there are wolves outside, Grace warns Waiting, with their eyes glowing in the dark . . . and Grace has given Kat safety and a home when no one else would.
Then a stranger appears in their cottage, bringing the mystery of Kat's birth with her. In one night, Kat's destiny finds her: She will leave. She will journey to London, and her skill with the needle will attract the notice of the magnificant Queen Elizabeth - and of the wolves of the court. She will discover what Grace would never tell her.
Everything will unravel

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Offered by SusanMcBride (author): I'm celebrating my debut in women's fiction with THE COUGAR CLUB, after writing a mystery series and a young adult series. So I'd like to give away five copies to LibraryThing members for possible review and hopefully word-of-mouth recommendations to friends and fellow readers!

Description: If you think that life—and romance—end at forty…think again!

Meet three women who aren’t about to run and hide, just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation:

Kat Maguire: her life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position.

Carla Moss: this sexy TV news anchor is in danger of being replaced by a twenty-something blond bimbo. Wasn’t it just yesterday that she was the up and coming star?

Elise Randolph: a married dermatologist, Elise thinks her plastic surgeon husband is playing doctor with someone else.

Kat firmly believes that aging gracefully isn’t about giving up; it’s about living life with your engine on overdrive. So this unofficial “Cougar Club” quickly learns three things about survival of the fittest in today’s youth-obsessed society: true friendship never dies, the only way to live is real, and you’re never too old to follow your heart.

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Offered by JoanHolub (author): I'm the author and would appreciate a review from the winner of this book. Thanks so much!

Description: NEW FOR 2010! Hardcover picture book (Putnam)—a must-have book for Groundhog Day. Professor Groundhog opens a school so groundhogs can learn to accurately forecast the weather each February. Following along with the amusing cast of students, kids are drawn in by the thoroughly engaging tale while they learn fun facts about different animals (groundhogs in particular), seasons, weather, and predicting the weather. With funny asides and a comic-style approach to the illustrations, this informational story presents a fresh look at Groundhog Day through the eyes of the animals who live it each year.
* A Junior Library Guild Selection
* A Buyer's Pick in Ingram's magazine!
* Kirkus Reviews says it's: "...a clever look at the weather...good fun that will subtly teach in between laughs."
* Booklist calls it "clever," "amusing," and "inviting," and says: "...the approach is so varied and so often witty that children will absorb the facts effortlessly."

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Offered by johnwcassell (author): Crossroads: 1969 is offered by author John W. Cassell as a way to further make this true story of the Sixties available to those either interested in nostalgia or learning about a time that is rarely presented with candor.

The book has no mission...no agenda...it just shows the times through one young man's journey through the year 1969.

No review is requested. Just enjoy!

Description: The one that started it all.... Crossroads: 1969 was the first feature length book authored by John W. Cassell. He began writing it shortly after discharge from the service in 1976.

Written from diaries, letters and other original sources, the book was the author's response to a desire to preserve forever his experiences on the road as a member of the Counterculture in 1969...what led to that decision, and the lessons learned along the many miles of his journey.

He would later write "factional" accounts of both 1970 and 1971...but this...the beginning of the adventure...is a true story [some identities are masked but that's all].

This is the way it was. There are no stereotypes here... no attempts to justify. All the embarrassments of things done, things left undone, and opinions held and modified are here.

Crossroads: 1969 was recognized in 2008 by the Arts on the Underground Foundation in London and is currently having selected chapters translated into French as part of a university contemporary literature project. It continues to inform and entertain new readers as it is slowly discovered by more and more people.

Along with Odyssey: 1970 and Hell's Quest: 1971, it is part of a trilogy that accurately and truly presents those exciting and turbulent times in America. It joins Jack Engelhard's Days of the Bitter End in telling the truth about a time already shrouded in falsehood and agenda.

Excerpts from the book are available at the url provided as well as amazon.com's product page and the common knowledge section maintained by its author here at Librarything.

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Offered by StunningSun: I bought 2, so good luck on this give away. I know I have never received one, maybe you will this time! This book is like new, it has never even been read.

Description: A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel's sixtieth best selling novel, the story of a mother's courage, a family's strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds....

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Offered by yonderboy777 (author): This is a very dense book that will be of particular interest to readers with a background in ancient history and the Mystery traditions. Cross-posted reviews on LibraryThing and Amazon appreciated. Readers are welcomed to join the book's discussion forum at http://www.shift-of-ages.com/forum.

Description: Many people in the ancient world saw human life as deeply connected with the great cycles of nature: the rising and setting of the sun, the changing of the seasons, the death and rebirth of vegetation. In the same way that other patterns in nature repeat at regular intervals, they believed that human history also goes through cycles in which significant events repeat, and are likely to happen again in the future at predictable times.

A penetrating study into the history of astrology, ancient religion, secret societies and the evolution of consciousness, 2012 and the Shift of Ages: A Guide to the End of the World is sure to be an invaluable resource in navigating a time of difficult transitions.

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Offered by ReadableClassics (publisher): Publisher offering review copies.

Readable Classics gently edits the great works of literature, retaining their essence and spirit, and making them more enjoyable and less frustrating for the modern reader. Forthcoming books include: Moby-Dick, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and The Odyssey.

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Description: Puritan Boston, 1600’s — Beautiful, defiant Hester Prynne commits adultery, refuses to name the father of her illegitimate child, and is condemned to wear a scarlet ‘A’ on her breast for the rest of her life. She becomes the first true heroine of American fiction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 masterpiece was the first American novel to explore the moral struggle with sin, guilt, and pride; the conflict between the heart and the mind; and the deadly consequences of not being able to forgive ourselves and others.

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