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Oops ... I Spilled the Coffee ... Again!
by Sharon Rose WhiteGod has a special design and purpose for each one of us, even when we spill the coffee again!
Onward and Upward in the Garden
by Katharine S. WhiteMrs. White loved gardens and spent much time working in hers and writing about all things related. Her husband's introduction to this book is warm and informative.
Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears
by Alex W. BealerFrom 1837 to 1838, thousands of Cherokee Indians were marched from their homelands in Georgia to exile in Arkansas by the same white men that they had once befriended. The Cherokees journeyed through bitter cold and blazing heat, with little food or water. One out of four died, and with them died a culture that had existed for hundreds of years, a civilization that had embraced the white man's ways only to perish through his betrayal. Today, only the names remain of this once great nation.
Only Love
by Erich SegalThe brilliant neurosurgeon has encountered many desperate people. But his next case is not simply a suffering patient for whom he is the last hope. It is Silvia--his only love. Now both of them are married. But even after all this time, he has not recovered from her unexplained disappearance on the even of their marriage--and thoughts of her have haunted him ever since.
Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers
by Kelli Cargile Cook Keith Grant-Davie24 college educators focus on the most important questions to be addressed by all scholar-teachers and administrators committed to developing high-quality online education programs. The educators describe these questions as "global" because they transcend the particular situations of individual institutions. They are questions that everyone in online education needs to address: What are the issues to consider when first developing and then sustaining an online education program? How do we create interactive, pedagogically sound online courses and classroom communities? How should we monitor and assess the quality of online courses and programs? How should recent developments and innovations in online education cause us to reexamine our roles and responsibilities as educators in technical communication? While these questions affect all of us, they demand different local answers, such as those presented by the contributors to this textbook.
Onions in the Stew
by Betty MacdonaldOnions in the Stew is a true story about an island, a house and a family. The island, Vashon, lies "plump, curvy and green" in the icy waters of Puget Sound, and the house (dream) is the one the MacDonald ,.: a"-. family found there, after long search, '~ _'~ : and has lived in ever since.
Onion John
by Joseph KrumgoldEven though his father has big plans for him, Andy is happy to work summers at the hardware store and play baseball.<P><P> Newbery Medal Winner
One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology
by Anne C. PettyThis academic analysis of, "The Hobbit," and, "The Lord of the Rings," leads Tolkien fans to consider his work in new ways. It suggests that Tolkien's myth conforms to the mythic content, characters and story progressions Joseph Campbell has described. The author also sites evidence that artists are responsible to inspire, not by stating lessons and rules, but by creating complex myths where values are demonstrated by characters' actions and choices, and in which readers can imagine themselves facing the challenges of a quest. She uses many examples of elements of folklore in Tolkien's work as described by Propp and Levi-Strauss. Using a list of lettered and numbered abbreviations, she creates equations which summarize the storylines of the epic from Bilbo's meeting with the dwarves in the Hobbit to Frodo's sailing away from Middle-earth with the elves in the last volume of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. As Petty employs her abbreviations liberally throughout the text, the reader may find it helpful to consult appendix A on page 120 where they are listed. These are followed by Appendix B, schemes of the Tales, notes listed by chapter, a bibliography and an index.
One of Us
by Michael W. Smithfrom the book jacket Hap Thompson had never been that good a criminal. So it's a lucky thing he's discovered something that pays even better than crime. And it's legal. Almost. Hap is a receiver at REMtemp, working during the night hours, having people's dreams for them. Hap is one of the best REMtemp has ever seen. He's so good they offer him some under-the-cover work-taking on memories instead of dreams for clients who have something to forget. And in a world falling apart at the seams, there's no shortage of business. All Hap has to do is carry the memories for a couple of hours. Just long enough for a client to have an affair without guilt. Or pass a lie detector test for a crime she suddenly can't remember. Everyone wins. Until a beautiful young woman who committed murder leaves Hap her memory...and won't take it back. In this world, it's not what you've done that counts-it's what you remember. Now Hap is on the run. The LAPD wants him for homicide. Six angels of death in grey suits and sunglasses are leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake. And there's a contract out on his life that has just been picked up by the best hit man in the business: his ex-wife. And if that's not enough to give him the willies, people all around Hap are disappearing in a strange white light. The paranormal. UFOs. Angels. The Bible. A guy who claims he's God. The key to it all may be buried somewhere deep in Haps past. Now all he has to do is stay alive long enough to remember the most important thing of all-whether or not he's...ONE OF US.
One Lord, One God, Same Lord, Same God
by C. KeechAn introduction to the similarities of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Holy Koran
One Good Man
by Charlotte DouglasJodie's only experience with love had resulted in a pregnancy at age 15. Now she has a rebellious teen. The last thing she needs is a boyfriend.
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken KeseyAn international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers.
One-Eyed Jacks (Wild Cards VIII)
by George R. R. MartinSomething strange and dangerous is stirring on Ellis Island, dangerous enough to subdue even the white-hot tensions between Wild Cards and naturals.
One Evil Summer (Fear Street #25)
by R. L. StineChrissy seems like the perfect babysitter for Amanda's little brother and sister, but Amanda discovers her secret. Babysitting is Chrissy's job but killing is what she does best!
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Max Hayward Ronald HingleyStory of one day in a Soviet work camp, and one man's heroic struggle to survive in the face of the most determined efforts to destroy him, by the Nobel Prize winning author. Includes Solzhenitsyn's now-classic letter of protest against censorship.
Once Upon a Baby
by Karen Rose SmithThe sheriff knows he should stay away from his pretty and pregnant neighbor - he's not the husband and father type. But delivering her baby changes everything...
The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time
by Elinor W. GadonA sweeping chronicle of the sacred female and her reemergence in the cultural mythology of our time.
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (6th edition)
by William ZinsserPrinciples, methods, forms and attitudes necessary to write nonfiction well.
On the Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau G. D. H. ColeRousseau seeks to explain why, when freedom is the natural state of human beings, they are not in fact free, and to establish the basis for legitimacy in a political community.
On the Eve
by Ivan S. Turgenev Gilbert GardinerNovel about a Bulgarian hero, by the Russian author.
On Photography
by Susan Sontag6 essays on photography (In Plato's Cave; America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly; Melancholy Objects; The Heroism of Vision; Photographic Evangels; The Image-World), and a brief anthology of quotations.
On Negotiating
by Mark H. MccormackAn advanced course on the art of negotiating, this book is filled with personal and professional anecdotes to illustrate the concepts.
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
by Robert A. BurtonBurton challenges the notions of how we think about what we know. He shows that the feeling of certainty we have when we know something comes from sources beyond our control and knowledge. In fact, certainty is a mental sensation, rather than evidence of fact. Because this feeling of knowing seems like confirmation of knowledge, we tend to think of it as a product of reason. But an increasing body of evidence suggests that feelings such as certainty stem from primitive areas of the brain and are independent of active, conscious reflection and reasoning. The feeling of knowing happens to us; we cannot make it happen.