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The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum

Kim Izzo, Ceri Marsh — 2009-11-08T03:07:51-05:00

Good manners will make you fabulous. Good manners will make you sexy. The well-mannered get invited to more dinner parties, see their career aspirations blossom, and have a wider array of friends and eligible suitors. So if you want to become your most fabulous self, read on–The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum is your ticket to becoming the girl you want to be.

Authors Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh know first-hand that today’s young women require etiquette advice that speaks to their modern sensibilities. Yes, we girls need to know how to write a perfect thank-you note and set a proper table–but we also need to know how to handle a one-night stand, how to ask for a promotion, what to wear at an art opening, and when a budding romance should move from supper to sex.

With The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum, Izzo and Marsh have written the etiquette guide for the new millennium and created the ultimate icon of style for the 21st century: The Fabulous Girl. She’s liberated but chic, impeccably mannered but never a snob, confident but compassionate, full of verve instead of vanity. She’s the epitome of Audrey Hepburn-esque style and savoire faire at the workplace, at a dinner party, and even in the bedroom.

The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum addresses all aspects of urban life, including careers, friendships, families, entertaining, socializing, romance, and sex (these days they don’t necessarily go hand in hand!) and provides invaluable advice on how to navigate these tricky waters with unfailing grace. From what to wear at a power lunch to how to behave at a film premier, Izzo and Marsh address topics such as:
·Coping with an office backstabber
·Taxi and door-holding protocol on dates
·How to handle an affair with the boss
·Hosting the perfect dinner party
·How to handle fair weather friends
·Protocol for first-night sex
·The 10 things an FG will always have in her handbag
·Saving face when a male buddy has become too attached
Charming, witty and eminently practical, The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum is as essential as the little black dress and a must for every young woman’s bookshelf.

Lone Star Christmas: Someone Is Rustling Up a Little Holiday Matchmaking in Four Delightful Stories

Kathleen Y'Barbo, Vickie MaDonough, Cathy Marie Hake, Pamela Griffin — 2009-11-08T03:06:48-05:00

Anything can happen when four meddlesome, retired Texas Rangers try their hand at matchmaking. As Christmas draws n ear, clandestine meetings are held and plans are afoot to foil plots to leave town. Will the folks of Cut Corners learn that no matter what plans they hold, God is the grandest planner of them all.

Advanced Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan: Tai Chi Theory and Tai Chi Jing

Jwing-Ming Yang — 2009-11-08T03:06:47-05:00

Kids Can Draw Forest Animals (Kids Can Draw series #2)

2009-11-08T03:06:34-05:00

A Child’s First Drawing Book

With this simple teaching method, every child can learn to draw!

Designed as a child’s first art series, Kids Can Draw will help any child learn the basics of drawing. It’s as easy as drawing a triangle, circle, or square. By starting with these basic shapes, your child can create a bear, squirrel, deer, or any forest animal.

The Kids Can Draw method provided a fun, effective way for your child to learn basic drawing skills and achieve amazing results.

Allsorts (A Preschool Puzzle Book)

Tony Wells — 2009-11-08T03:05:51-05:00

Missouri: Variety Is the Spice of Four Romances in the Show-me State (4-in-1 Novellas)

Hannah Alexander, Tracey V. Bateman, Freda Chrisman, Joyce Livingston — 2009-11-08T03:04:57-05:00

Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Hearst Srs Ppr)

W. A. Swanberg — 2009-11-08T03:04:02-05:00

The Witching Hour (Mayfair Witches, Bk 1)

Anne Rice — 2009-11-08T03:03:42-05:00

The first in the Mayfair Witches series, The Witching Hour introduces the fictional Mayfair family of New Orleans, generations of male and female witches. This tight-knit and deeply connected family, where a death of one strengthens the others with his/her knowledge. One Mayfair witch per generation is also designated to receive the powers of "the man," known as Lasher. Lasher gives the witches gifts, excites them, and protects them. Unsure as to exactly what this spirit is, the Mayfair clan knows him variously as a protector, a god-like figure, a sexual being, and the image of death. Lasher's current witch is Deirdre, who lies catatonic from psycological shock treatments.

Deirdre's daughter, Rowan, has been spirited away from this "evil" and has happily become a neurosurgeon and has an uncanny gift to see the intent behind the facade. Rowan also has a gift few doctors possess--she can heal cells. Yet, though she uses it to save lives, she also fears that she hs caused several deaths. She rescues Michael from drowning. Michael then develops some extraordinary powers that compel him to seek New Orleans and to seek Rowan. He finds both, and pulls the tale closer together by meeting people connected to the Mayfair family who now fear Rowan because she is the first Mayfair who can kill without Lasher's help.

Michael dives into learning the history of the Mayfair witches: Deborah, Charlotte, Mary Beth, Stella, Antha, and many others across hundreds of years and three continents. When Michael looks up from his reading, he learns that Rowan has come to New Orleans to attend her mother's funeral. Rowan learns of her family history, her ancestral home in shambles, and Lasher waiting for the next one. Rowan dedicates herself to stopping Lasher's reign. Michael too has his own mission, but it is foggy and unclear to him. But Lasher is seductively powerful and Rowan's gifts offer him the opportunity to achieve his ultimate goal.

Shadow Spinner

Susan Fletcher — 2009-11-08T03:02:22-05:00

A young girl, Marjan, rescues the fabled Shahrazad from the Sultan's wrath in this exciting and thought-provoking novel from Fletcher. With her crippled foot, Marian never expects to be dragged off to the palace, but that is what happens after a chance meeting with Shahrazad -- the storyteller who wins her life each night with cliffhanging stories for the sultan, and who obtains a story from Marjan.

Heartbroken at leaving her Aunt Chava and her Uncle Eli, Marian confronts cruelty within the palace's lush interior, where wives and concubines can be executed at the sultan's whim, and where the Khatun, the sultan's mother, spies on everyone. Dispatched by Shahrazad to find more stories, Marian sneaks out into the marketplace, where she eventually finds an old storyteller who tells her the end of a story of which the sultan has become fond. Beaten and imprisoned by the Khatun, Marian escapes the palace, only to return and tell the sultan an allegory that enables him to realize his love for Shahrazad, and to spare her life.

Inside Out (Winter Massey, Bk 1)

John Ramsey Miller — 2009-11-08T03:02:17-05:00

The Justice Department is hunting Sam Minelli, the godfather of one of America's biggest crime families. Now an execution gone bad hands the government the ammunition they need. But they can't do it without Dylan Devlin, the sociopath hit man whose testimony will put Manelli away for good. Haunted by the crash that killed his wife and blinded his son, U.S. Marshal Winter Massey knows that safety is only an illusion. Now a man who couldn't protect his own family has to keep a killer and his wife alive at any cost.

Sandman (St-Cyr and Kohler)

J. Robert Janes — 2009-11-08T03:02:04-05:00

Mission: Motherhood (Homecoming Heroes, Bk 1) (Love Inspired, No 452) (Larger Print)

Marta Perry — 2009-11-08T03:01:53-05:00

When Caitlyn Villard's twin nieces were orphaned, she traded New York City for Prairie Springs, Texas. She found it hard to adjust to small-town life. But army chaplain Steve Windham taught her that sometimes you find the man -and life- of your dreams where you least expect.

The 6 Homecoming Heroes titles are:
1-Mission: Motherhood by Marta Perry (7/08)
2-Lone Star Secret by Lenora Worth (8/08)
3-At His Command by Brenda Coulter (9/08)
4-A Matter of Heart by Patricia Davids (10/08)
5-A Texas Thnkasgiving by Margaret Daley (11/08)
6-Homefront Holidays by Jillian Hart (12/08)

Age of Ra

James Lovegrove, James Lovegrove — 2009-11-08T03:01:23-05:00

An alternate history of the world where the Egyptian gods have defeated all others and have carved up the planet between themselves. Only a band of Freedom Fighters and their enigmatic leader can free the Earth from their divine tyranny.

Carousel (St-Cyr and Kohler)

J. Robert Janes — 2009-11-08T03:01:17-05:00

Paris, December 1942. The corpse of a naked girl has been found, strangled. Not far away, the body of a young man is discovered with his throat slashed, tied to the back of a carousel animal. A Wehrmacht corporal is killed. Scattered ancient Roman coins connect the three victims. Is it the Resistance? Or are sex and greed, the oldest of motivations, still rampant in a country groaning under the burden of Occupation?

J. Robert Janes's mysteries have been heralded as "an astonishing historical series" in The New York Times Book Review.

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt — 2009-11-08T03:00:42-05:00

Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune