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This Limited 1st Edition paperback is the only Saardu book available in print. Carma created this as a special collectible item, working with Intensive Image Inc., a local small print shop in South El Monte, California, ordering only 5, 000 copies in 2009, and promising collectors this will never be reprinted.  SAARDU: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS launches a whole new myth.  Saardu is a "sweetly scary" planet in in the Eagle Nebula, the conduit between Earth and the 11th dimension, Zenya.  The adventure starts when Ruby tells a dangerous secret to her brothers and sisters on what will be the worst day of her entire existence.  Ruby is chosen by children of the 11th dimension to be the hero on Saardu, but she fails miserably and insists she is a nothing special human.  Her love for her parents, and their love for her, pushes her to reach for supernatural strength. This is book 1 of a zen scifi ebook series for teenagers, bright younger readers and fun-loving adults, Saardu: The Adventure Begins (Saardu 1)New Game New Rules (Saardu 2)Deja Vu (Saardu 3)The Mars Agenda (Saardu 4)Polydimensional Honeymooners (Saardu 5)Carma plans to write 11 ebooks in The Saardu Series and then sell licenses to other writers who wish to expand on the polydimensional games she has invented.  Since Zenyans give our descendants four spaceships and four directions in 2092 A.D. (also known as 2992 M.N.) and send them on missions, promising a new home at Zenya in the end, there will be plenty of room for other writers to collaborate and expand on this great new mythological epic!

“One of our most exquisite storytellers” (Esquire) gives us his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display his mastery over a quarter century.Tobias Wolff’s first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World, were a powerful demonstration of how the short story can “provoke our amazed appreciation, ” as TheNew York Times Book Review wrote then. In the years since, he’s written a third collection, The Night in Question, as well as a pair of genre-defining memoirs (This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army), the novella The Barracks Thief, and, most recently, a novel, Old School.Now he returns with fresh revelations—about biding one’s time, or experiencing first love, or burying one’s mother—that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and e

In the spotlight and on her own LAPD. detective Lena Gamble returns to investigate Hollywood’s most shocking double murder in decadesDetective Lena Gamble knows how to handle the hottest cases--do it fast and keep her head down because if it all goes south, the department won’t hesitate to make a scapegoat out of her. So when she gets called to the scene of a double murder at Club 3 AM, the A-list hangout for Hollywood celebs, she knows the fun is only beginning.And she's not wrong. It's just much worse than that. As expected, one of the victims is club owner Johnny Bosco, one of the most well-connected men in Hollywood politics. But the shocker comes when Lena sees the other: 25-year-old Jacob Gant, acquitted just days ago of murdering his 16-year-old neighbor, after L.A.'s latest trial-of-the-century. But are these victims of a father's righteous anger or is something bigger at play?Robert Ellis's third white-knu

This book provides a picture of the Great Glen, stretching from Fort William to Inverness, from AD550 to 1850. It begins with a description of the glen as it is today and an account of its geological development. This is followed by eleven chapters describing major characters or events in the glen. These are: St. Columba, King Brude, Macbeth, Alasdair Carrach (an early chief of the Keppoch MacDonalds), the Battle of the Shirts, the 1st Marquis of Montrose, Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, Viscount (Bonnie) Dundee, the building of the Military Roads, the 1745 Jacobite Rising and its aftermath and the building of the Caledonian Canal. There is a short final chapter which makes some reference to the poets and musicians of the glen. Brief passages throughout on political and social developments serve to link the chapters together. The book is academic to some degree but perfectly comprehensible to the general reader with any interest in history. It will be particularly welcome to the hundreds of people who walk the Great Glen Way each year.

A journalist surveys a wide range of scientific research and popular culture to reveal the roots of low self-esteem in girls and offers practical suggestions to parents and society for raising girls to an equal status with boys. Reprint.

From Foreword - No more baffling and perplexing character ever puzzled historians than that mysterious individual who suddenly appeared out of the unknown at the beginning of the eightieth century, and, after flittering through the courts of Europe for a greater part of the century, then disappeared as mysteriously as he first appeared. While he used many names, which he changed to suit the occasion, that most commonly assumed, though as fictitious as the rest, was that of Count Saint-Germain, the alchemical adept who was the marvel of Louis XV's court on the eve of the French Revolution, whose coming he predicted and at which he was present, after his feigned death in 1784. There is widespread belief among modern occult organizations, as the Theosophical Society and the "I Am: Movement, that Saint-Germain is still alive. According to the Brazilian Theosophical Society, he is now living in the Subterranean World as a member of an advanced civilization that exists there. In this book we shall consider the long life of the mysterious individual. (Description by http-mart)

Provides a narrative of life in Iraq just before, during, and after the American invasion of March 2003, presenting the opinions and experiences of ordinary Iraquis attempting to carry on some semblance of normal life.

From Foreword - No more baffling and perplexing character ever puzzled historians than that mysterious individual who suddenly appeared out of the unknown at the beginning of the eightieth century, and, after flittering through the courts of Europe for a greater part of the century, then disappeared as mysteriously as he first appeared. While he used many names, which he changed to suit the occasion, that most commonly assumed, though as fictitious as the rest, was that of Count Saint-Germain, the alchemical adept who was the marvel of Louis XV's court on the eve of the French Revolution, whose coming he predicted and at which he was present, after his feigned death in 1784. There is widespread belief among modern occult organizations, as the Theosophical Society and the "I Am: Movement, that Saint-Germain is still alive. According to the Brazilian Theosophical Society, he is now living in the Subterranean World as a member of an advanced civilization that exists there. In this book we shall consider the long life of the mysterious individual. (Description by http-mart)

Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch-a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the "several kinds of education"-none of them of the textbook variety-Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse.A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it fertile, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best.

NEW -OUT OF PRINT-1st edition This 153 page book titled Fiberglass and Composite Materials is a guide to high performance non metallic materials for automobile racing and marine use. For many years , race cars of all types have been constructed with lightweight materials. These include fiberglass , kevlar and reinforced plastics. The applications are becoming more widely used on street cars as stronger materials are developed , costs become lower and techniques are simplified. The Corvette has always been built of fiberglass, and cars like the Chevy Lumina and 1994 and up Ford Mustang also use reinforced plastic in certain body panels. The most common automotive application is racing , and the equipment and technology today now make it possible for many racers to repair, and even construct their own lightweight body panels. Sections covered include: FRP MATERIALS FIBERS & FIBER FORMS RESINS GEL COATS ADVANCED TECHNIQUES BUILDING MOLDS & PLUGS AND MORE