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Eddie Morales finds his lowly R&D life completely upended when his Boise-based biotech firm dispatches him to Puerto Malogrado, a tiny but tumultuous country in South America where the international media is accusing their experimental potatoes of causing a bizarre medical crisis.Eddie unwillingly arrives in South America only to find his plans for a quick resolution thwarted when he gets caught between the two sides of an impending revolution, each hoping to capitalize on the potato scandal in order to seize power.Eddie stumbles into a conspiracy that reveals just how far his company will go to advance its potato empire. He is forced to make a choice: whatand whowill he sacrifice to preserve his own future in this brave new world of biotechnology?Darkly funny and compassionately rendered,One Potatocharts the crooked line between nature and technology and takes a deep look into a future shaped by disasters both natural and devastatingly man-made.

On January 1900, Caroline Astor greeted the new century with her annual Opera Ball. Dressed in a black velvet gown, she was draped with diamond necklaces and brooches and wore her famous diamond tiara--the jewels alone worth over $2.3 million in today's dollars. Her guests danced all night in her palatial ballroom, stopping only for a ten-course supper that included consomme, supr?eme de volaille, filet de boeuf, terrapin, duck croquettes, pa?te de foie gras, salade Orientale, and bonbons.Small in stature, but as determined as ever to maintain the rigid social structure she established decades earlier, Mrs. Astor was every inch an American queen surveying her subjects: families whose wealth and power dominated New York City society for nearly forty years. Just fourteen years later it all came to a crashing end, first with the sinking of the Titanic and then the start of World War I. Caroline Astor would not live to see it.A Season of Splendor takes you on a spectacular journey through this Gilded Age, the period from roughly the 1870s to 1914, when old-money bluebloods and patricians confronted the nouveau riche--railway barons, steel magnates, and Wall Street speculators--and forged an uneasy and dazzling new social order in New York City. Together, their extreme wealth, elaborate parties, marble mansions, shocking excesses, and delicious scandals transformed the social, architectural, and sartorial landscape. Author Greg King places you in the heart of this glittering era. You'll meet the rich and famous--Astors, Vanderbilts, Belmonts, Goulds, and others--and tour sumptuous estates furnished with marble and silk and filled with antiques, tapestries, and European art. You'll sit at the table of lavish dinner parties that start with two soup courses (consomme and bisque) and include up to twelve more courses, plus sherry, wine, champagne, and liqueurs. You'll attend society balls, go yachting in Newport, buy dresses in Paris--and for everything, the more extravagant, the better."Money was poured out like water," one society lady recalled. "No one thought of the cost." But by the time parties began to include cigarettes rolled in hundred dollar bills, each stamped with the guest's initials in gold, or live elephants wandering from room to room in mansions to amuse the guests, even Caroline Astor was disillusioned by the excess. The Gilded Age--so named by Mark Twain to capture the essence of its avarice--was beginning to disintegrate from within. In A Season of Splendor, you'll discover all that was beguiling and appalling about this altogether extraordinary epoch.

The Cichlid: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Fish is the cichlid source for the freshwater aquarium hobbyist. Everything you need to know about cichlids is here, from choosing healthy fish to keeping them well fed. You'll get an analysis of the water conditions preferred by all the most popular members of the cichlid family and advice on how to provide your fish with conditions in which they will thrive. You'll also learn how to arrange the decor in your tank so that it is pleasing to both you and your fish, as well as how to select tankmates for your cichlids (with their aggressive tendencies, no simple matter). Written by an experienced fish-keeper, The Cichlid: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Fish, includes a wealth of information to help you understand your cichlid's behavior so that caring for your fish is all the more fun. With info-packed sidebars and stunning color photos, this is the cichlid book that hobbyists will most enjoy.

The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders shows that effective solutions begin at home and cost little more than a healthy investment of time, effort, and love. Based on exciting new research, it differs from similar books in several key ways. Instead of concentrating on the grim, expensive hospital stays of patients with severe disorders, the authors focus on the family, teaching parents how to examine and understand their familys approach to food and body-image issues and its effect their childs behavior. Parents learn to identify an eating disorder early, to establish healthy attitudes toward food at a young age, and to intervene in a nonthreatening, nonjudgmental way. The authors concentrate on teens, the age group most often affected by eating disorders, as well as younger children. Individual chapters cover boys at risk, relapse training, dealing with friends, school, and summer camp, and much more. The book includes an appendix and sections on further reading, organizations and websites, residential and hospital programs, and references.

In curmudgeonly Mas Arai's 6th mystery, he gets entangled in a baseball-related murder-with international implications-at Dodger Stadium.

The Burden Is Light is the author's soul-searching account of her discovery of Jesus Christ. Told in the vibrant, honest prose that has made Eugenia Price a classic religious writer and bestselling novelist, The Burden Is Light offers an intimate account of her conversion to Christianity at the age of thirty-three. Traversing the mountains and valleys of her journey from birth to rebirth in Jesus Christ, Ms. Price examines closely her spiritual, personal, and professional development through the years.

Share My Pleasant Stones offers personal insights and practical guidelines for expanding one's relationship with Jesus Christ through daily reading and meditation. Each page-one for every day of the year-is headed by a quotation from the Bible and followed by notes the author has written in the margins of her own Bible over the years. It is, perhaps, Eugenia Price's most personal book. First published in 1957, and now reissued with a new preface by the author, Share My Pleasant Stones is a book Eugenia Price's readers will want to open every day.

Like a wise counselor and friend, this New York Times bestselling author speaks directly to women everywhere with practicality and inspiration. With over one million copies in print, Woman to Woman provides advice that will touch all women who strive for a Christ-centered life.

"e;As screenwriter Austin Lively plunges back and forth between two dark, strange placesthe fantasy kingdom of Galiana and the weirdness of contemporary Los AngelesI turned the pages faster, faster, with growing delight. Scary, suspenseful, funny, wonderfully imaginative, Another Kingdom is pure, unadulterated fun."e; Dean Koontz, #1 New York Times Bestselling author "e;This is a journey you won't want to miss."e; Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times Bestselling author of the Orphan X seriesAustin Lively, once just an out-of-luck Hollywood screenwriter, is now a chosen hero caught between two worlds and dual quests in both Los Angeles, California, and the magical medieval world of Galiana. Tasked with taking a talisman across the Eleven Lands to restore the rightful queen to her throne, Austin must evade a murderous, vengeance-seeking wizard who seems to have the Eleven Lands under his control. But just how far does his influence reach, and how can Austin defeat him if the wizard also has access to his darkest memories?Austin's only hope is to find a missing manuscript by the title, Another Kingdom, but his sister Riley, the one person who may hold the key has gone missing too. With a deranged billionaire set on creating a "e;utopia"e; of anarchy and death also on the hunt for the manuscript, Austin must get to Riley before the billionaire's assassins.Trapped in a house of horrors in one world and a game of cat and mouse in the other, time is running out in both of Austin's realities as he struggles to piece together the clues and find Another Kingdom. With higher stakes, darker secrets, and bigger monsters, there is no going back for Austin Lively and no guarantee he will escape the nightmare feast.

In paperback at last - the definitive guide to parrot training.Originally published as The Pleasure of Their Company: An Owner's Guide to Parrot Training, this amply illustrated book is just what parrot owners need to bring up happy, well-behaved pets. You get:Hands-on advice from one of the nation's foremost parrot authoritiesA thorough explanation of "e;normal"e; parrot behavior and the benefits of trainingCoverage of everything from gentling fledglings and basic obedience to potty training, speech, and tricks"e;

Extensive national publicity campaignAuthor is very connected in the surf world and is working on events in Southern and Northern California, New York, Hawaii, and moreOutside publicist with expertise in cookbooks and lifestyle has been retained to get television, radio, and print coverageBroad coverage in the surf media and in regional California and Hawaii media expectedBook is as much an aspirational lifestyle book as a cookbook and surf-themed travel book, so excellent gift potentialExtensive color photography of food, destinations, and surfThis is first real surf-themed cookbook produced in AmericaPotential to sell well internationally in English-speaking areas, including Australia, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific (Tahiti, Guam, etc.)Author is expanding his Instagram portfolio with the help of well-known professional surfers and surf photographersRecipes in the book from such surf stars as Bethany Hamilton and Rell Sunn, and personal stories involving such legendary surfers as Miki Dora, Dale Velzy, and Gerry Lopez

The untold story of Lane Kirkland, labor leader and advocate for the American worker"e;This book tells the story of one of the true heroes of the struggle for freedom from totalitarianism. Through the skillful use of the power he exercised as the leader of American labor, and through his own unshakeable commitment, Lane Kirkland played a crucial role in our peaceful revolution in Poland. He did much more. Throughout the world, millions of free people owe him a debt of gratitude for his service to the democratic cause. I am gratified that the full account of his indispensable contribution to freedom has finally been written."e; --Lech Walesa, founder of Solidarity and former president of Poland"e;Lane Kirkland believed in freedom and would fight for his beliefs. Here is a portrait of his tough, principled, and consistent brand of leadership. We can admire him and learn from him."e; --George P. Schultz"e;I knew Lane Kirkland well. While he may not always have been able to secure the influence of the American labor movement he represented, he always supported the interests of the workers with great dedication and showed willingness to compromise. . . . [With] this biography, the man and his work will always be remembered. The book will also find considerable interest in Germany."e;--Helmut Schmidt, former chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1974?1982)"e;Lane was a crusader for freedom and I can testify on the basis of personal involvement that his role in the defeat of Stalinism was second to none."e; --Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter

By the mid nineteenth century, the city of Houston was becoming a vibrant cultural center of the South. From its birth to the present, Houston has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, the city has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens. With a selection of fine historic images from her bestselling book Historic Photos of Houston, Betty Trapp Chapman provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Houston. Remembering Houston captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From early cotton exports to the discovery of oil to the establishment of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, Remembering Houston follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city's history. This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of more than a hundred historic photographs. Published in vivid black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.