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Monsters aren’t always the obvious ones.Merle isn’t the wolf he was before, and who could blame him? He was sold to the labs, then Tom, Alpha Erskine’s second, kidnapped and tortured him, leaving him for dead. Merle’s body has been healed, but his mind hasn’t, and he’s struggling with everyday life and nightmares. Add to that an overbearing mother, and his life is a mess.Nootaw left his wendigo tribe a year before, but even though he hasn’t hurt anyone since then, people st...

The newly released book Merle Tales reveals the author's experiences following life in a megalopolis as Sydney. His terrific friends created many satire and humoristic scenes. They enjoyed enormous fun with the author Merle Sweety Clown. More satirical books are on the way and could be a continuation of an author's unusual life tale narrated funnily.

A second nutty buddy collection of Dead Sea Squirrels adventures!Merle and Pearl have been squirrel-napped and taken back to Israel! As Michael, Sadie, Justin, and the Gomez family set off on a wild rescue mission, the squirrels will uncover a villainous plot and meet more talking animals like a lock-picking alpaca, a retired tour-guide donkey, and a honey-loving lizard. Get ready for daring disguises, hilarious jokes, and much more Middle Eastern mayhem in books 7...

The Age of Innocence is a portrait of upper-class, East Coast American life in the 19th century. Newland Archer, a lawyer and son of one of New York City's most established families, is happily engaged to marry the beautiful and sweet May Welland, a picture-perfect product of Old New York society. Yet he begins to question his dreams of wedded life when he meets Ellen, May's beautiful but stubbornly independent cousin, who has made the scandalous decision to divorce her husband an...

FROM CONFUSION TO CONFIDENCE IN FIVE STEPSSECOND EDITION COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATEDThe Baby Decision is a clear, compassionate guide to making a parenting or childfree decision with confidence. Many women of childbearing age and their partners find it hard to make this life-changing decision. Without a crystal ball, what can you do? Some women say "I like the idea of motherhood, but how do I know I'd really enjoy it? What will happen to my job, my relationship, my sanit...

Over the last 30 years a host of new technologies have begun to change every industry driving us into a new era of human existence. The companies who have been most able to tap into these new innovations have become the most highly valued companies in the world. To do so, they have created a new approach to corporate innovation. In "Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era," Silicon Valley insiders Matthew C. Le Merle and Alison Davis share the lessons they have learned from two decades of in...

The bestselling author of Merle's Door offers a "moving, pictorial love story" of man and his new best friend—full of dog care knowledge and insight ( People).After Ted Kerasote's beloved dog Merle passed, the author received thousands of emails asking two questions: "Have you gotten another dog?" and "Are you writing a new book?" Now, the bestselling canine lover answers both, in the most heartwarming way.Told in Pukka the pup's charming ...

"Never has a President of the United States, or any head of state for that matter, been so totally revealed, so completely documented" (Robert A. Arthur).Plain Speaking is the bestselling book based on conversations between Merle Miller and the thirty-third President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. From these interviews, as well as others who knew him over the years, Miller transcribes Truman's feisty takes on everything from his personal life, mili...

Step into the refined, seductive, and often cruel world of Edith Wharton — the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and one of America's greatest literary voices. The Complete Works of Edith Wharton brings together her masterful novels, novellas, and shorter fiction, offering a sweeping portrait of society, ambition, desire, and the unspoken rules that shape human lives. From the aching restraint of The Age of Innocence to the moral complexity of Ethan Frome, the glittering so...

Croatian Tales of Long Ago is a luminous collection of literary fairy tales that draws upon South Slavic folklore, pre-Christian mythic figures, and the moral architecture of European wonder tales. Rather than merely transcribing oral tradition, Brlic-Mazuranic reshapes it with a refined narrative art: rhythmic prose, symbolic landscapes, and conflicts in which humility, courage, sacrifice, and spiritual insight are tested against pride, greed, and enchantment. First published in 1916, the...

The bestselling author of Plain Speaking crafts a candid portrait of one of the most complex, fascinating, difficult, and colorful American presidents.From his birth in 1908 to his death in 1973, the story of Lyndon B. Johnson is told without sparing his personal excesses and contentious public image—while also highlighting the strength of his greatest accomplishments in Washington. Interlaced with interviews from Lady Bird Johnson, John Kenneth Galbraith,...

Edith Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence.Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome.Wharton's writings often dealt with themes such as social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old...