Jackson Godspeed is the hottest young Angel in a city filled with them. He's days away from becoming a full Guardian, and people around the world are already competing for the chance to be watched over by him. Everyone's obsessed with the Angels and the lucky people they protect - everyone except for Madison Montgomery.

"Strong writing, well-rounded characters, and an enticing hook [of] mercenary/celebutante angels breathe life into the world Speer has created." — Publishers Weekly

Maddy's the one girl in Angel City who doesn't breathlessly follow the Angels on TV and gossip blogs. When she meets Jackson, she doesn't recognize him. But Jackson is instantly captivated by her, and against all odds the two fall in love.

"An intriguing premise...with an action-oriented mystery sure to entice readers."
— Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)

Maddy is swiftly caught up in Jackson's scene, a world of glamour, paparazzi - and murder. A serial killer is on the loose, leaving dead Angels' wings for the police to find on the Walk of Fame. Even the Guardians are powerless to protect themselves in the face of this threat . . . and this time it's up to Maddy to save Jackson.

George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver's achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver's complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.

When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Kellerman has worked his magic again in this chilling masterpiece.

The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something “real dead . . . buried in your marsh.” The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it’s a prank, but when a young woman’s body turns up in L.A.’s Bird Marsh preserve no one’s laughing. And when the bones of more victims surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city’s under siege to an insidious killer. Milo’s first move: calling in psychologist Alex Delaware.

The murdered women are prostitutes–except the most recent victim; a brilliant young musician from the East Coast, employed by a wealthy family to tutor a musical prodigy, Selena Bass seems out of place in the marsh’s grim tableau.

Conveniently–perhaps ominously–Selena’s blueblood employers are nowhere to be found, and their estate’ s jittery caretaker raises hackles. But Milo’s instincts and Alex’s insight are too well-honed to settle for easy answers, even given the dark secrets in this troubled man’s past. Their investigation unearths disturbing layers–about victims, potential victims, and suspects alike–plunging even deeper into the murky marsh’s enigmatic depths.

Bizarre details of the crimes suggest a devilish serial killer prowling L.A.’s gritty streets. But when a new murder deviates from the pattern, derailing a possible profile, Alex and Milo must look beyond the suspicion of madness and consider an even more sinister mind at work. Answers don’t come easy, but the darkest of drives and desires may fuel the most devious of foes.

Bones is classic Kellerman–relentlessly peeling back the skin and psyches of its characters and revealing the shadows and sins of the souls beneath. With jolt after jolt of galvanizing suspense, it drives the reader through its twists and turns toward a climax as satisfying as it is shattering.

HERE IS THE STUNNING DEBUT from a fresh Nigerian literary voice: a mesmerizing, deceptively simple, Kafkaesque narrative, resonant of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and lightly informed by the life of Nigerian musical superstar Fela Kuti—powerful story of love, sacrifice and courage.

“Burning with magic and loss, exile and return, beauty and heartache, Taduno’s Song is a colossal epic disguised as a small novel.”—Marlon James, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings.

The day a stained brown envelope is delivered from Taduno’s homeland, he knows that the time has come to return from exile. Arriving full of hope, the musician discovers that his people no longer recognize him, and no one recalls his voice. His girlfriend, Lela, has disappeared, abducted by government agents. Taduno wanders through his house in search of clues, but all traces of his old life have been erased. As he becomes aware that all that is left of himself is an emptiness, Taduno finds new purpose: to unravel the mystery of his lost life and to find his lost love. But soon he must face a difficult decision: to fight the power or save his woman, to sing for love or for his people.

About the Author

ODAFE ATOGUN was born in Nigeria, in the town of Lokoja, where the Niger and Benue rivers meet. He studied journalism at the Times Journalism Institute in Lagos and is now a fulltime writer. He is married and lives in Abuja.

A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever, in this captivating debut of connection across space and time.

“The best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A solitary ship captain, drifting through time.

Nia Imani is a woman out of place. Traveling through the stars condenses decades into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her. She lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky.

A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power.

The scarred boy does not speak, his only form of communication the haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs and otherworldly nature, Nia decides to take the boy in to live amongst her crew. Soon, these two outsiders discover in each other the things they lack. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside of herself. For both of them, a family. But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy.

A millennia-old woman, poised to burn down the future.

Fumiko Nakajima designed the ships that allowed humanity to flee a dying Earth. One thousand years later, she now regrets what she has done in the name of progress. When chance brings Fumiko, Nia, and the child together, she recognizes the potential of his gifts, and what will happen if the ruling powers discover him. So she sends the pair to the distant corners of space to hide them as she crafts a plan to redeem her old mistakes. 

But time is running out. The past hungers for the boy, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.

Common—the Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Golden Globe–winning musician, actor, and activist—follows up his New York Times bestselling memoir One Day It’ll All Make Sense with this inspiring exploration of how love and mindfulness can build communities and allow you to take better control of your life through actions and words.

Common believes that the phrase “let love have the last word” is not just a declaration; it is a statement of purpose, a daily promise. Love is the most powerful force on the planet and ultimately, the way you love determines who you are and how you experience life.

Touching on God, self-love, partners, children, family, and community, Common explores the core tenets of love to help others understand what it means to receive and, most important, to give love. He moves from the personal—writing about his daughter, to whom he wants to be a better father—to the universal, where he observes that our society has become fractured under issues of race and politics. He knows there's no quick remedy for all of the hurt in the world, but love—for yourself and for others—is where the healing begins.

Courageous, insightful, brave, and characteristically authentic, Let Love Have the Last Word shares Common’s own unique and personal stories of the people and experiences that have led to a greater understanding of love and all it has to offer. It is a powerful call to action for a new generation of open hearts and minds, one that is sure to resonate for years to come.

“A gripping journey.”—People

The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami’s crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame.

Rick Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people know his full story. Now, for the first time, Ross offers a vivid, dramatic and unexpectedly candid account of his early childhood, his tumultuous adolescence and his dramatic ascendancy in the world of hip-hop.

“Hip-hop fans will flock to Ross' frankly told and compelling life story.”—Booklist

Born William Leonard Roberts II, Ross grew up “across the bridge,” in a Miami at odds with the glitzy beaches, nightclubs and yachts of South Beach. In the aftermath of the 1980 race riots and the Mariel boatlift, Ross came of age at the height of the city’s crack epidemic, when home invasions and execution-style killings were commonplace. Still, in the midst of the chaos and danger that surrounded him, Ross flourished, first as a standout high school football player and then as a dope boy in Carol City’s notorious Matchbox housing projects. All the while he honed his musical talent, overcoming setback after setback until a song called “Hustlin’” changed his life forever.

From the making of “Hustlin’” to his first major label deal with Def Jam, to the controversy surrounding his past as a correctional officer and the numerous health scares, arrests and feuds he had to transcend along the way, Hurricanes is a revealing portrait of one of the biggest stars in the rap game, and an intimate look at the birth of an artist.

Do you enjoy classical music but wish you knew more about it? Do you buy CDs, tune in to radio programs, go to concerts, and sometimes wonder just what, precisely, all those Italian musical terms mean? In this wonderfully engaging guide, Miles Hoffman demystifies the terms and concepts of classical music in an accessible and witty style. With more than one hundred entries, The NPR Classical Music Companion delves into definitions and etymologies, explores terms with reference to famous composers and works, and calls upon amusing analogies to make sense of music's finer points. Ranging from a paragraph to a few pages, the explanations gathered here tackle both the familiar and the not so familiar, from " a cappella " to " motet," from " opus numbers " to " zarzuela." The result is a delightful and comprehensive assemblage. For anyone who thinks that only professional musicians can understand classical music, this guide offers a clear path through a potentially daunting world. As much a companion to keep by the radio as an enjoyable book to read in a few sittings, The NPR Classical Music Companion makes understanding music a pleasure.

Originally edited by Thomas H. Greer, this series emanates from the Humanities Department at Michigan State University. Today, these books remain outstanding sources for the comprehensive study of most subject areas included under the umbrella of humanities. Most major literary forms are represented: essay, poem, short story, play, novel, memoir, epigram, scientific discourse, philosophical treatise, political manifesto, and religious proclamation. Major subject areas include art, music, education, mathematics, biology, psychiatry, religion, philosophy, politics, economics, and physics.Originally published under the General Editorship of Thomas H. Greer, the series emanated from the Humanities Department of Michigan State University. The books remain today perhaps the best sources available for the comprehensive study in one volume of every subject area which might be included in the umbrella of humanities. Most major literary forms are represented: essay, poem, short story, play, novel, memoir, epigram, scientific discourse, philosophical treatise, political manifesto, and religious proclamation. All major subject areas are explored: art, music, education, mathematics, biology, psychiatry, religion, philosophy, politics, economics, and physics. The informative apparatus, headnotes, and footnotes are all aimed at enhancing the student-reader's comprehension.

Hall of Fame disc jockey Tom Joyner uses his signature brand of humor to discuss everything from business to careers to relationships as he shares the insights and lessons he's learned along the way.  Now the host of a radio show that is the most popular media outlet ever among African Americans, Joyner started his career at a small AM radio station in his home state of Alabama, working his way across the midwest, and eventually landing in Chicago.  In 1985, he made headlines as "The Hardest Working Man in Radio" when he worked a morning show in Dallas in addition to his afternoon show in Chicago. His daily commute earned him the nickname "The Fly Jock." In 1994, he convinced ABC Radio to syndicate his program, and The Tom Joyner Show—a mix of comedy music, and guests who range from Stevie Wonder to Tipper Gore—was born.

Asimov's Science Fiction August 2011

Novelettes

• The End of the Line, Robert Silverberg
• Corn Teeth, Malanie Tem
• Paradise is a Walled Garden, Lisa Goldstein

Short Stories

• Watch Bees, Philip Brewer
• For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not be Back Again, Michael Swanwick
• We Were Wonder Scouts, Zachary Jernigan

Poetry

• Bribing Karma, Danny Adams
• The Music of Nessie, Bruce Boston

Departments

• Editorial—The 20th Dell Magazine Awards, Sheila Williams
• Reflections—Earth is the Strangest Planet, Robert Silverberg
• On the Net—Writing Lessons, James Patrick Kelly
• Next Issue
• On Books, Peter Heck
• The SF Conventional Calendar, Erwin S. Strauss

Fortean Times : The World of Strange Phenomena

Issue 148 August 2001 Priced in US & CAN Dollars NO Sticker on Cover

Double Agent : Candy Jones, Cover Girl & Cold War Spy

India's Deadly Monkey Man • London's Big Cat Scare • More Missing Manhoods • Sceptics vs. Believers: Round 1 & Musical Elephants

ALSO:

• UFOs Over the White House—ET Prophet Challenges Washington
• From Russia with Hate—Moscow's New Warrior Tribes
• Strange Days—Disappearing Diseases, FBI: Steven Greer & CSETI, Plus Much More...

Fortean Times : The World of Strange Phenomena

Issue 145 May 2001 Priced in US & CAN Dollars NO Sticker on Cover

Swine of the Times : The Curious Tale of the Hog-Faced Gentlewoman

Talking Trout • Privates in Peril • Skunk Ape & Antigravity

ALSO:

• Carry on Up the Congo—On the trail of a Living Dinosaur
• Music Spoken Here—The Incredible Universal Language of Solresol
• Stonehenge Rebuilt—Look what they've dug up!

Chinese Healthy Balls stimulate and exercise your hands muscles by moving both of them in one hand. Play them to relax and reduce stress. Each ball is about 1.5" in diameter.

• Massage balls originated in the Chinese city of Baoding during the Ming Dynasty
• It stimulates the circulation of blood and energy throughout the body
• Musical, Chiming Notes

Chinese Healthy Balls stimulate and exercise your hands muscles by moving both of them in one hand. Play them to relax and reduce stress. Each ball is about 1.7" in diameter.

• Massage balls originated in the Chinese city of Baoding during the Ming Dynasty
• It stimulates the circulation of blood and energy throughout the body
• Musical, Chiming Notes

• Massage balls originated in the Chinese city of Baoding during the Ming Dynasty
• It stimulates the circulation of blood and energy throughout the body
• Musical, Chiming Notes

Offering an alternative to other methods, the Xtreme series is exciting, modern, and inspirational. It features core lessons, true stories, superstar tips, top tens, and a style guru. Not only an introduction to the techniques needed to play each instrument or learn a skill, Xtreme is designed to inspire a passion for music that will transcend many young adults' fads. The reader will be guided through each area in a humorous and informative way. A CD is included with each book. 

In Xtreme Electric Guitar, resident axe master Marshall guides you through a ten-lesson program that covers everything from strumming patterns and barre chords to mastering techniques such as hammer-ons and pull-offs. Xtreme Electric Guitar will arm wannabe rock guitarists with all they will need to reel out those rocking riffs in no time.

Excerpt:

He was thinking of the town he had known. Not of old New York—he had heard of that from old, old men when he himself had still been young and had smiled at their garrulity. He was thinking of a young New York, the mighty throbbing city to which he had come long ago as a lad from the New Hampshire mountains. A place of turbulent thoroughfares, of shouting drivers, hurrying crowds, the crack of whips and the clatter of wheels; an uproarious, thrilling town of enterprise, adventure, youth; a city of pulsing energies, the center of a boundless land; a port of commerce with all the world, of stately ships with snowy sails; a fascinating pleasure town, with throngs of eager travelers hurrying from the ferry boats and rolling off in hansom cabs to the huge hotels on Madison Square. A city where American faces were still to be seen upon all its streets, a cleaner and a kindlier town, with more courtesy in its life, less of the vulgar scramble. A city of houses, separate homes, of quiet streets with rustling trees, with people on the doorsteps upon warm summer evenings and groups of youngsters singing as they came trooping by in the dark. A place of music and romance. At the old opera house downtown, on those dazzling evenings when as a boy he had ushered there for the sake of hearing the music, how the rich joy of being alive, of being young, of being loved, had shone out of women's eyes. Shimmering satins, dainty gloves and little jeweled slippers, shapely arms and shoulders, vivacious movements, nods and smiles, swift glances, ripples, bursts of laughter, an exciting hum of voices. Then silence, sudden darkness—and music, and the curtain. The great wide curtain slowly rising....

But all that had passed away...

I have remembered beauty in the night,
⁠Against black silences I waked to see
⁠A shower of sunlight over Italy
And green Ravello dreaming on her height;
I have remembered music in the dark,
⁠The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's,
⁠And running water singing on the rocks
When once in English woods I heard a lark.

But all remembered beauty is no more
⁠Than a vague prelude to the thought of you—
⁠You are the rarest soul I ever knew,
⁠Lover of beauty, knightliest and best;
My thoughts seek you as waves that seek the shore,
⁠And when I think of you, I am at rest.

PREFATORY NOTE

Beside new poems, this book contains lyrics taken from "Rivers to the Sea" (The Macmillan Company), "Helen of Troy and Other Poems" (G. P. Putnam's Sons), and one or two from an earlier volume. Thanks are due to the editors of Harper's, Century, Scribner's, Poetry and other periodicals for their permission to include poems hitherto unpublished in book form.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

About the Publisher

International News Books & Gifts publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. International News Books & Gifts uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A beautiful, full-color collection of recipes and stories that celebrate comfort and inspire happiness all year round from Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy and his wife, Kathy.

Steve Doocy calls Kathy, his wife of more than thirty years, "the best cook I’ve ever met." Together, they take joy in cooking and entertaining with their family and friends. In The Happy Cookbook, the Doocys share favorite recipes, stories, and photos from their family life. In addition to beloved family dishes, this full-color cookbook includes recipes from friends like musician Kid Rock, professional golfer Greg Norman, and many more!

The Happy Cookbook will not only appeal to Steve’s legions of Fox & Friends fans, but to anyone looking for accessible, fun, and delicious food that will inspire great meals for every day and for special occasions. The Happy Cookbook includes a range of yummy dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, such as:

• Steve’s Breakfast Smoothie
• Eggs in a Nest
• Roma Tomato Flatbread
• Pimento Cheese Dip
• Bacon Corn Chowder
• Flaky Ham and Cheese Sandwiches
• Mamma Marie’s Meatballs
• Kid Rock’s Mom’s Chicken Pot Pie
• Ritz Cracker Breaded Pork Chop
• Buffalo Chicken Calzone
• Kathy’s Famous Sugar Cookies
• Betty’s Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake

Offering an inside look at the Doocys’ home life—their food, stories, and infectious family spirit—The Happy Cookbook is all-American home cooking at its best: nothing fancy, and everything delicious!

Presents the life of the young singer who rose to stardom on "The X Factor," discussing her childhood, musical accomplishments, and acting career.

Dreaming Heaven : The beginning is near! by Gini Gentry, Lee McCormick, Francis Rico, and Kelly Sullivan Walden

The ancient Toltec city of Teotihuacan is much more than an archeological wonder. For thousands of years, pilgrims have journeyed thru Teo’s sacred plazas and temples and ascended the Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun to discover what is real, authentic and true; to experience the deepest aspect of themselves; and by “dreaming heaven,” to actualize heaven on earth.

Once among the largest cities in the world, a pre-Columbian center of craft and commerce with a multi-cultural population of more than 200,000 Toltec, Zapotec, and Maya people, Teotichucan’s most enduring legacy is as a spiritual center—the oldest mystery school in the Western Hemisphere—it’s name translating as “where Man becomes God.”

Dreaming Heaven is an unprecedented documentary film—an intimate, mysterious and illuminating portrait of people from many walks of life, led thru Teo by Naguals (guides) both seen and unseen.

The accompanying Dreaming Heaven JourneyBook offers practices, activations, journaling prompts, meditative thoughts and affirmations to assist individuals and groups with a deeper exploration of the themes, insights and transformational power of the film.

Join a cowboy shaman, a drama queen turned dream expert, a recovering addict, a best-selling author, a Native American musician, a Hollywood publicist, an attorney, a teacher, a man with a plan and a skeptic—together you’ll face the Angel of Death, seek answers to crazy questions, remove masks, release old habits, discard limiting beliefs, sing, dance, laugh, cry and climb to the sky.

Packed with original music!   Dreaming Heaven soundtrack album sold separately.

Film Score by Dana Walden and Philippo Franchini

CONTAINS: Full-length Movie DVD and JourneyBook

'Twas the night before Christmas, & you have a wonderful book filled with delightful holiday tales! Follow Santa as he leaves wonderful presents on Christmas Eve, two little elves as they change a poor shoemaker's life, a little fir tree & so many more characters as they celebrate the Christmas season! Also includes The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Gift of the Magi, The Friendly Beasts, & six popular Christmas carols (words only, no music).

Saving the World using the Law of Attraction : It Always Begins with a Small Group that Starts Talking by Cedar Medicine - Paperback

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.—Margaret Mead.

The Law of Attraction, with this quote, inspired this book. 

There are only two processes in life: intention, and experience of that intention. The only thing that can block your manifesting is your own limiting beliefs. You can remove your limiting beliefs more easily in a group. Groups also manifest more easily than individuals. 

The Universe consists of light, and information, or modulation of that light. Intent, refined, can take you anywhere you want to go. It can manifest anything. If you can breathe, you can use intent. If you can use intent, you can manifest. Your dreams are the children of your heart, the voice of your soul, God/the Universe seeking manifestation through you. 

They are important. You came here to manifest them. There is a path you can intend, to the realization of these dreams. We seek out problems for their gifts, because we grow as we solve those problems. You cannot solve a problem out of the same place it was created. You must go to a new level of order. 

If we have great problems, it is because we are about to grow, greatly. Everything you see in this book, and every human creation, was sought out to solve some problem, by someone in a state of confusion, who didn't have the answer at first, and asked new questions. 

Manifesting is the Law of [Resonant] Attraction at work. You are always manifesting what you are in resonance with. You are also manifesting according to the polarity you radiate. This book is for controlling this process, so it puts out more satisfying results. 

This book is written along the lines of the Tao Te Ching, Journey to the Ancestral Self, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Richard Bach's book Illusions, or Richard Bartlett's Matrix Energetics, and classic books where one can go back to it many times, and get something new and fascinating each time. 

Read this book in the same way you would listen to music- one note at a time. Do not come to be taught, come to be transformed, to transform yourself. That is what dowsing does. This book is about having fun becoming who you truly are, about realizing your mission and purpose in life, in fun ways, that surprise and delight you, in a small group. This book is designed for groups, and has excerpts from the book The Key to the Secret: Manifesting from the Heart.

You think positive thoughts. You apply the law of attraction. You visualize and clear pathways to abundance. You examine your belief systems. And...you manifest nothing. Now you want to find out exactly what to do about it. You want wealth, you want prosperity, you want transformation. Here you will discover the real secrets to money and manifesting. What you learn will change your life forever. Parts of the book are fictionalized. This brings the left brain together with the right brain for the purpose of integration. Integration of mind, body, and spirit is a necessary foundation for all manifestation.

Parts of the book are fictionalized for illustrive purposes and so there is a story here as well. The book itself is an exercise in integration. It engages both your left brain and right brain. When you're done reading it you've automatically taken the first steps toward manifesting. --Dyan Garris

From the Inside Flap

You think positive thoughts. You apply the laws of attraction. You visualize. You even clear pathways to abundance. And you manifest nothing. Now you want to find out exactly what to do about it. You want wealth. You want prosperity. You want transformation. You want the truth. Here you will discover the real secrets to money and manifesting. What you learn will change your life forever. "It is not enough to think positively, repeat affirmations, and attract positive energy. We must implement and integrate this learning. This is the real secret of manifesting money. It is the real secret to manifesting anything." - Dyan Garris, author, musician, clairvoyant.

This MasterPieces 39 inch x 27 inch 1000 piece EZ Grip Puzzle was painted by Aimee Stewart, a self-taught artist who specializes in lush, eclectic digital painting and photo manipulation. Heavily inspired by music and literature, Aimee works from the heart to bring her unique and transporting visions to life. In essence, she is a cartographer of the imagination, and a champion of daydreams. This puzzle features a medley of baking supplies, including vintage recipe cards, a rolling pin, measuring spoons, and even a complete pie. The EZ-Grip technology used to make this puzzle offers larger puzzle pieces that snap together perfectly, without compromising image quality. To reduce its impact on our environment, the chipboard used in this puzzle is made of recycled material.

From the Manufacturer

For over 20 years, MasterPieces has enjoyed making quality jigsaw puzzles, games, toys & Works of Ahhh craft kits. Innovation and premium quality is the MasterPieces hallmark. Our puzzles are made from recycled paper and soy based inks. Green is not just a color, it’s a commitment.

The Rainbow Bridge: Bridge to Inner Peace and to World Peace, recipient of 21 literary awards (see below), has been endorsed by H.H. the Dalai Lama, New York Times Bestselling Authors, Doctors, Lawyers, Ambassadors, Astronauts, Olympians, an Academy Award-Winning Actor and a growing chorus of prestigious global luminaries. The book illuminates the common ground in the world's major wisdom traditions, also known as universal principles. The sixty easy-to-use universal principles can be used to help guide us to experiencing deep inner peace. They can also be used in concrete ways to help create a bridge to a peaceful harmonious world that works for all via a comprehensive Road Map to World Peace.

This book also reveals how the mainstream Rainbow Bridge is spontaneously appearing around the world in the form of physical bridges, stores, hotels, music festivals, Hollywood films and more.

The Rainbow Bridge is a vision of peace and unity that comes from deep inside the heart of humanity. Learn how it can be a positive contribution to your life and to the lives of billions of people worldwide.

WINNER: 2015 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award (Inspirational)

WINNER: 2015 Beverly Hills Book Award (Inspiration)

WINNER: 2015 Beverly Hills Book Award (Spirituality)

WINNER: 2014 USA Best Book Award (Spirituality: Inspirational)

WINNER: 2014 National Indie Excellence Award (Body/Mind/Spirit)

WINNER: 2014 Los Angeles Book Festival (Spirituality)

WINNER: 2014 B.R.A.G. Medallion

WINNER: Gold Medal, 2014 Global Ebook Awards (Gift/Specialty)

WINNER: Silver Medal, 2014 Global Ebook Awards (Current Events/Politics/Foreign Affairs)

WINNER: Bronze Medal, 2014 Global Ebook Awards (Inspirational/Visionary)

WINNER: Notable Indie Book, 2014 Shelf Unbound Writing Competition

WINNER: 2013 Bronze Medal for World Peace

HONORABLE MENTION: 2015 Paris Book Festival (Spiritual)

HONORABLE MENTION: 2014 London Book Festival (Spiritual)

HONORABLE MENTION: 2014 New York Book Festival (Spirituality)

RUNNER-UP: 2014 San Francisco Book Festival (Spirituality)

FINALIST: 2014 Wishing Shelf Book Awards

FINALIST: 2014 International Book Award (Spirituality: Inspirational)

FINALIST: 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award (Spirituality)

FINALIST: 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award (Social Change)

FINALIST: 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award (New Age)

An avant garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger’s The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life and its history and language as if it were a bardo state rather than ultimate reality, and thus seeks a context for life (and dreams), even as it addresses more "mundane issues" including genetic theory, the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's presidency, North Korea, advertising, global warming, Prison Industrial Culture, childhood trauma, even country western music. Written with playfulness and precision, Bardo takes a new, probing approach to all the important questions of creation, destruction, and existence. In these intellectual field notes, Grossinger proves thematically fearless as he crosses quantum mechanics with totemic hexes and draws transcendental insight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. If, as Tibetan cosmology holds true, all conditional realms are bardos, then the state we all share is nothing less than the bardo of waking life.

Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.

About the Author

Vikram Seth has written acclaimed books in several genres: verse novel, The Golden Gate; travel book, From Heaven Lake; animal fables, Beastly Tales; epic fiction, A Suitable Boy. His most recent novel, An Equal Music, was published in 1999. He lives in England and India.

The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy returns with a powerful and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians.  Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet.  He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist he loved and left ten years earlier, Julia McNicholl.  Now Julia, married and the mother of a small child, unexpectedly reenters his life and the romance flares up once more.

"A beautifully written novel of music, romance, and the endless search for transcendent passion....A joy to read." -The Baltimore Sun

Against the magical backdrop of Venice and Vienna, the two lovers confront the truth about themselves and their love, about the music that both unites and divides them, and about a devastating secret that Julia must finally reveal.  With poetic, evocative writing and a brilliant portrait of the international music scene, An Equal Music confirms Vikram Seth as one of the world's finest and most enticing writers.

"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine."

When Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in Barcelona, no one knows his whereabouts for seven days and seven nights.

His story begins when he meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of the city. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave.

When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her, they begin a journey that transports them to a forgotten postwar Barcelona--a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons--an reveals a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon's haunting Marina has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller.

From School Library Journal

Gr 8 Up—Set in Barcelona, Spain from late 1979 to May 1980, this gothic novel centers around 15-year-old boarding school student Oscar Drai. Instead of studying during his free time, the teen explores the city, and one day ends up in an area that seems deserted. Drawn in by music coming from an old dilapidated house, Oscar is given a scare by the owner, an eccentric and haunted German artist. Having accidently taken a watch from the house, the boy returns to bring the valuable item back and meets the enigmatic Marina. Realizing that they both like mysteries, Marina invites Oscar on an escapade to a graveyard to observe a woman who leaves a red rose on an unmarked grave. The two follow this woman, lose her, but eventually wander into an abandoned greenhouse filled with sinister marionettes and grotesque photos. Soon, the narrator becomes embroiled in the lives and histories of a presumed dead actress, recluse tycoon, and mad scientist obsessed with escaping death. From the very first page, this beautifully written work of historical fiction is impossible to put down. With elements of romance, mystery, and horror, none of them overwhelming the other, this complex volume that hints at Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manages to weave together three separate stories for a cohesive and eerie result.—Jesten Ray, Seattle Public Library, WA

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