One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2009-- now adapted into the feature film Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart-- award-winning writer Maile Meloy's short stories explore complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Don't miss her new novel, Do Not Become Alarmed.Meloy's first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Wa...

Island life can be deadly.For Ollie Arias, owning an island in Micronesia is beyond his wildest dreams. Moving his best friends from college to share his dream…priceless. A little urban exploration of the abandoned military lab unearths strange, dark secrets. And awakens a slumbering beast that has gone decades without food. Ollie and his pals have unwittingly unleashed a deadly infection above, and a prehistoric killing machine below. The storm of the century is h...

Now adapted into major film, Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart and Michelle WilliamsCaught between opposing forces - fidelity and desire, impulse and security, innocence and experience - these unforgettable characters have each reached a fork in the road. But what kind of fool only wants it one way?Funny, sly and sparkling with energy, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It confirms Maile Meloy as an enthralling storyteller.

Mail-Order Marriage by Margaret WayAfter backbreaking years spent building up his Outback cattle station, Matthew Carlyle was ready for family life. With little time for courting, he'd advertised in the paper, and one reply in particular stood out. Why was the beautiful Cassie Sterling, of all people, applying to become his wife? He knew her privileged background and, although he believed her claim to want the same things he did, he couldn't imagine her adapting to isolated...

The In An Instant series is a new brand of user-friendly, engaging, and practical reference guides on core business topics, which capitalizes on the authors' extensive experience and knowledge, as well as interviews they have conducted with leading business experts. Written in an upbeat and engaging style, the series presents 60 tips and techniques with anecdotes, examples, and exercises that the reader can immediately apply to make their work life more efficient, effective, and satisfying...

With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected to the development of the airmail as the first commercially sustainable use of airplanes. From the lighted airways of the 1920s through the radio navigation system in place by the time of ...

Every day more than 281 billion consumer and business e-mails are sent; hundreds of millions of business people are asking for the sale, for information, for collaboration, for support, and more – via email. Overwhelmed by the daily flood of emails, recipients have become very selective. Nobody wants to read me-mails ("I am soandso... I sell/produce/offer this and that... and I want/need/request...").Email evangelist Gisela Hausmann's "73 Ways to Turn a Me-Mail into an E-mail" will ...

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Have you experienced the success that you expected at work? Do you know when to write your message and when to say it in person? You need understand the how's, when's and when-not-to's of communicating in the workplace, especially as it applies to e-mails. Through real life stories, learn what successful managers know about business communications and you can e-mail you way to success.

No less than five would-be-brides show up in town after seeing Macon's ad for a wife in Texas Men magazine. Five too many, as far as Harper Moody is concerned. The efficient postmistress has already secretly sent discouraging replies to all the other applicants! And now as payback, Macon is insisting Harper host all the women for a week while he makes his choice. Fat chance! She and Macon shared more than a past-and she's determined to lasso this sexy single cowb...

Sam Clay ( formerly Samuel Samuelson Jr.) is banished from his fathers Paris, Kentucky tobacco farm because of holding opposite views on slavery. After he discloses his intention to enlist in the Union Army, his obstinate, opinionated father sends him away, telling him, he would be shot if he returned. With a horse and rifle borrowed from a sympathetic neighbor, he rides to Cincinnati, Ohio and enlists in an Infantry Regiment. With his Regiment he marches to Virginia and fights in several ...

In Working My Way through Retirement, author Lola Albion finds that retirement has many surprises and totally unexpected opportunities in store for her. She shares her unique trek in a series of e-mails written to family and friends from locations throughout the world over a period of nearly eight years. Her travels spanned far and wide, with her messages relayed from places as diverse as Doomadgee, an Aboriginal community in remote Australia; Labrador on the Atlantic edge of Cana...