If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

Study faster, learn better, and get top gradesModified to conform to the current curriculum, Schaum's Outline of Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics complements these courses in scope and sequence to help you understand its basic concepts. The book offers extra practice on topics such as rectilinear motion, curvilinear motion, rectangular components, tangential and normal components, and radial and transverse components. You’ll also get coverage on acceleratio...

Rocket into the astonishing worlds of 1940s science fiction with a collection that captures the boundless imagination, adventure, and wonder that defined one of the greatest decades in the genre’s history.Join the unforgettable Lancelot Biggs, the unlikely genius navigator created by Nelson S. Bond, in three entertaining adventures that blend humor, invention, and interplanetary excitement. Explore distant asteroids, mysterious planets, and strange civilizations wh...

Working for Grimm isn't Marissa Locks's dream job. But when your parents trade you to a Fairy Godfather for a miracle, you don't have many career options. To pay off her parents' debt and earn her freedom, Marissa must do whatever Grimm asks, no matter what fairy-tale fiasco she's called on to deal with.Setting up a second-rate princess with a first-class prince is just another day at the office. But when the matchmaking goes wrong, Marissa and Grimm find themselves in a bigger mag...

Marissa is due for a little happily ever after. After all, she did kill the evil Fairy Godmother, end a war, and snag a sweet promotion within the Fairy Godfather's magical-problem-solving Agency. But between maintaining a relationship with someone whose amorous advances can cause third-degree burns, dealing with a killer-poodle infestation, and helping her best friend, Princess Ari, learn to wield spells more powerful than curing a hangover, she's not getting as much peace and quiet as sh...

Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus is a compact Christmas fantasy in which a child's imaginative journey becomes a moral and emotional education. Written in a warm, conversational style and enriched by illustrations, the tale belongs to the late nineteenth-century tradition of sentimental holiday literature, where wonder, domestic affection, and ethical instruction converge. Its prose is simple enough for young readers yet carefully shaped by an adult storyteller's sense of rhythm, atmosphe...

This extraordinary compendium of religious traditions is invaluable to all healthcare providers. The user-friendly resource contains specific and detailed information on faith traditions vital for providing optimal spiritual care in a clinical setting. A series of inspirational introductory chapters promote the importance of spiritual well-being as

Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds, the first book focused specifically on how to design virtual worlds for educational purposes, explores:• the history and evolution of virtual worlds• the theories behind the use of virtual worlds for learning• the design of curricula in virtual worlds• design guidelines for elements experienced in virtual worlds that support learning• design guidelines for learning quests and activities in virtual world...

Even when she's not starting it, trouble follows Marissa everywhere. First there was the incident with the homicidal Fairy Godmother. Then there was the time she accidentally started Armageddon. But the problems that always seem to arise on Marissa's birthday take the cake.This year, her annual bad-luck presents include an army of invading goblins, the resurrection of two vengeful enemies from hell, and the return of the Black Queen, the evil sorceress whose reign of terror still h...

The Vintage Science Fiction Collection 23More Than 12 Hours of Classic Science FictionThe greatest science fiction never grows old. The Vintage Science Fiction Collection 23 gathers twenty-one unforgettable stories from the pioneers who transformed impossible ideas into timeless adventures. Across more than twelve hours of expertly narrated fiction, you’ll encounter alien worlds, strange inventions, cosmic mysteries, an...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...