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Ali Conrad is determined to find an intellectual man. When her dates turn out less than exciting, she emails her sister a list of 10 wishes her fantasy man could provide. Her wishes start appearing, but anonymously. Ali caught apartment manager Cole Hayden's eye the day she rented the apartment. Through his computer-support business, he spotted her wish list and hopes by fulfilling them, he'll convince Ali to accept a date. But he's not present when the wishes arrive, and Ali assumes the wishes are coming from another man. How far will Cole go to convince Ali he's her secret admirer?

A encounter with a boy dangling from the sky changes pickpocket Magpie's life forever. Like her, the boy dreams of flying over the rooftops of Paris. His family, the Montgolfiers, are desperate to be first to discover the secret of flight. Together with Pierre, Magpie is soon caught up in a world of inflatable bloomers, spies and a trio of unruly animals in a race to be the first to fly a hot air balloon - in front of the King and Queen of France.

This first book by the much-loved stars of TV's Village Vets is the unforgettable, hilarious, heartwarming and hair-raising adventures of two country vets, the animals they treat and the characters they meet. Best mates since they met on their first day at uni, Anthony Bennett and James Carroll both dreamed of working with animals from the time they were young. Committed to and passionate about caring for creatures great and small, they share a mischievous sense of humour and a wonder for life.

The compensation beast can rear its ugly head in many ways. But generally, compensation problems for freight brokers come from the four employee "lacks": Lack of urgency, lack of motivation, lack of good decision-making, lack of alignment with company objectives. Taming the Compensation Monster helps transportation and logistics providers create a sense of urgency, inspire motivation, promote better decision-making, and provide rewards that align with company objectives.

Constance has always done everything by the book. Follow the rules, be good, and hide. Can this letter to a man she doesn't know break her out of the shadows? Drake has dreamed of going to sea, but Father's ultimatum has him sending for a mail-order bride. He'll take care of her, but she needs to know, he'll leave for the sea after they're married.

Lewis Carroll's enduring tale begins with Alice chasing the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, where she encounters a world of delightfully eccentric characters like the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, and the Queen of Hearts. Throughout her fantastic journeys, Alice retains her reason, humor, and sense of justice.

With her 30th birthday fast approaching, Chelsea Wilson decides she is done being single. She is going to be married by the end of the year if it kills her. And 16 first dates might just do that. With no male companionship, other than her cat Daughtry, Chelsea reluctantly creates an online dating profile. She begins meeting all kinds of men in a world now full of man buns and skinny jeans. While trying to find one good man, she ends up with four. How will Chelsea ever decide? The best part is she doesn't have to. It's up to you.

Alice in Wonderland and Jabberwocky come alive in a fresh new and highly accessible way in this in this brilliant recording by acclaimed comedienne Alison Larkin and Audie-award-winning narrator Derek Perkins. The recordings are followed by a short excerpt from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, by Carroll's nephew, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood.

Leah Carroll's mother, a gifted amateur photographer, was murdered by two drug dealers with Mafia connections when Leah was four years old. Her father, a charming alcoholic who hurtled between depression and mania, was dead by the time she was 18. Why did her mother have to die? Why did the man who killed her receive such a light sentence? What darkness did Leah inherit from her parents? Leah was left to put together her own future, and now in her memoir she explores the mystery of her parents' lives through interviews and police records.

Pete Carroll is one of the most successful coaches in football today. As the head coach at USC, he brought the Trojans back to national prominence, amassing a 97-19 record over nine seasons. Now he shares the championship-winning philosophy that led USC to seven straight Pac-10 titles.

All the delightful and bizarre inhabitants of Wonderland are here: the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, the hooka-smoking Caterpillar and the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Ugly Duchess... and, of course, Alice herself - growing alternately taller and smaller, attending demented tea parties and eccentric croquet games, and observing everything with clarity and rational amazement.

A dramatized, abridged performance of Alice in Wonderland with Eva Le Gallienne, Bambi Linn, and Margaret Webster.

I Dig Symmetry is a collection of character-driven stories of love, obsession, and lust, chronicling the absurdities of men (as in males) in their selfish drive to love and be loved, to own and be owned, to fantasize but never face the reality of their objectifying, damaging methods. Nothing is real, nothing is forbidden, and everyone's a head case.

Within These Walls is the powerful memoir of Rev. Carroll Pickett, who spent fifteen years as the death house chaplain at "The Walls," the Huntsville unit of the Texas prison system. In that capacity, Reverend Pickett ministered to ninety-five men before they were put to death by lethal injection. They came with sinister nicknames like "The Candy Man" and "The Good Samaritan Killer," some contrite, some angry -- a few who might even have been innocent.

Durch einen Kaninchenbau gelangt Alice in eine wundersame Welt. Hier kann sie wachsen und schrumpfen, staunt über die Grinsekatze...

Alexandra Brontay: a pear-shaped imperfect in a sterile, antisocial 23C London. Her world is like the city, an uncomfortable hotchpotch of the wrecked and the wondrous. The remains of iconic buildings sit next to towering dome structures, bastions of hard light that sink a mile underground. Down there the past is bastardised, sanitised, and reimagined for mass consumption via the hyperreal systems in every apartment and workplace. Inter-human contact is minimal and strictly rationed. Something inside Brontay hates what has been imposed upon her from birth to the core and she yearns for escape....

Mit ihrer einzigartigen, skurrilen Phantasie und ihren absurd-witzigen Sprachspielen gehören die Abenteuer der kleinen Alice mit zu dem Schönsten, was die englische Kinderliteratur hervorgebracht hat. Immer noch begeistern sie Groß und Klein und entführen in eine Welt, in der manches auf dem Kopf steht und seinen eigenen Regeln folgt...

Retrouvez le lièvre de mars, la reine de cœur, le lapin blanc, le ver à soie ou encore le chapelier, et laissez-vous bercer par les rêves d'Alice. Vanina Michel a réalisé, à la demande de Jacques Canetti, cette magnifique interprétation d'Alice et nous en propose une lecture et une musique originales.

Le 4 juillet 1862, au cours d'une promenade en barque avec ses deux sœurs, Alice Liddell demande à Charles Lutwidge Dodgson de lui raconter une histoire. La petite fille lui inspire, à lui le mathématicien-logicien passionné de phénomènes occultes, cette tumultueuse plongée souterraine dans le monde du rêve. À la demande d'Alice, Charles écrira l'histoire. Pour la publier, il prendra le nom de Lewis Carroll.

Inmortales aventuras para grandes y ninos. Alicia en el pais de las Maravillas es una de esas obras magicas de la literatura que apela tanto a grandes como a ninos, ya que para los primeros esta la ironia y el fino humor con que Carroll se burlaba de las convenciones sociales de su tiempo, mientras que los mas pequenos pueden seguir, tambien con una sonrisa, las increibles aventuras de Alicia en ese lugar donde todo parece suceder al reves.