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Write SQL statements that are more powerful, simpler, and faster using Oracle SQL and its full range of features. This book provides a clearer way of thinking about SQL by building sets, and provides practical advice for using complex features while avoiding anti-patterns that lead to poor performan... More

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USuzwe is an African country rotten with corruption. Its rulers systematically pillage the economy, rob the charities and drain the aid budgets of gullible Western countries. However, a group of citizens rebel against the poverty, food shortages, bankrupt social services, disease and early deaths an... More

Alice Fulton, the judge for the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, calls Once I Gazed at You in Wonder “quite simply, the most endearing book I’ve read in some time.” Readers of this audacious and, yes, endearing collection will agree. Jan Heller Levi has said that her poems are not confessions but conversati... More

The follow-up to the #1 bestseller, I Wrote This For You: Just The Words presents twice the number of entries with over 400 works from the internationally acclaimed poetry and photography project; including several new and never before seen poems. While focussing on the words from the project, new p... More

"I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you." The follow-up to the international #1 bestselling collection of prose and photography, this is the third book in the I Wrote This For You series and gathers together the very best entries in the project fr... More

"I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn't get it." Started 2007, I Wrote This For You is an acclaimed exploration of hauntingly beautiful words, photography and emotion that's unique to each person that reads it.... More

Two months into the 2007 baseball season, novelist Jane Heller, an obsessed Yankee fan heartsick over their poor play, announced her intention to divorce the team, on grounds of mental cruelty, in the pages of the New York Times. Her words inflamed the passions of sports lovers across the country, a... More

Bestselling writer Jane Heller thought she'd found her dream man--until he turned out to be a "frequent flier," the term doctors and nurses use to refer to patients who land in the E.R. more often than the average person goes to Starbucks. Here, Jane shares her experiences of looking after her chron... More

“If you ever wanted to kill your sister, this is the novel for you…Delightful.” —PEOPLE “With the snappy style her readers have come to expect, Heller (Princess Charming; Crystal Clear) presents another breezy tale of modern women.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Soap opera writer Deborah Peltz can handle any... More

In this New York Times–bestselling author’s “very funny novel,” a frustrated woman gets the ultimate makeover—by making an unwitting deal with devil (Library Journal). Florida real estate agent Barbara Chessner is down on her luck, up several dress sizes, drowning herself in Bloody Marys—and, wors... More

“Wildly inventive…Heller’s prose is quite funny and always engaging.” —PEOPLE “Fresh language, with singular energy…spirited, effortless entertainment.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Stacey's acting career is on the rise, she can feel it. After leaving Cleveland for the glamour of Hollywood, she knows she's ... More

This hilarious romantic comedy is perfect for readers of Nancy Thayer and Mary Kay Andrews! The sequel to bestselling author Jane Heller’s much-loved novel Princess Charming. "A hilarious culinary comedy dripping with both romance and suspense that deliciously sends up the farm-to-table foodie pheno... More

What happens when a woman goes to Sedona to commune with New Age spirits and instead runs into the ex-husband she hasn’t seen in years? A suspenseful romantic comedy about finding love the second time around. No one craves order more than bean counter Crystal Goldstein. A partner at one of New York’... More

“A flat-out funny read.” —COSMOPOLITAN “Smart-alecky…outrageous.” —HOUSTON CHRONICLE Amy Sherman has it all—a two-bedroom Manhattan apartment, a great job as a publicity director at a major publishing house, and a romantic life that’s…less than robust, but two out of three isn’t bad. She's come a ... More

This tale of murder and mistaken identity in a Manhattan apartment building is “a rollicking and delectable read” by a New York Times-bestselling author (People). A teacher at a fancy Manhattan preschool, Nancy Stern spends her days cleaning spills, moderating bathroom breaks, and preventing that ... More

Three divorced friends—and one killer—set out to sea in the New York Times–bestselling author’s hilarious and “unforgettable” cruise-ship murder mystery (Booklist). Three best friends are on a Caribbean cruise for their latest vacation together. But the trip could be their last—unless they sort ou... More

When a golf club’s first single female member is murdered, spunky club wife Judy Mills takes a swing at sleuthing in this “witty, well-plotted” mystery (Publishers Weekly). Judy Price has it all: a handsome husband, a thriving career, and a landmark house on two sylvan acres. But when Judy is dow... More

After a market crash, a rich suburbanite turns to cleaning houses—and solving murders—in a “sexy and humorous” romp by a New York Times-bestselling author (Library Journal). What’s a woman to do when her husband loses everything in the stock market . . . then ditches her to go back to his first wi... More

A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection.In August 1939, thirty-year-... More

The completely updated and expanded version of the 1987 classic hailed by parents and educators everywhere.... More

A mother&’s secret past and her daughter&’s present collide in this richly atmospheric novel from the acclaimed author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor.   In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings—and a little bit obsessed with each other. Drawn to ... More

SFML Game Development is a fast-paced, step-by-step guide, providing you with all the knowledge and tools you need to create your first game using SFML 2.0.SFML Game Development addresses ambitious C++ programmers who want to develop their own game. If you have plenty of ideas for an awesome and uni... More

The problem of corruption, however described, dates back thousands of years. Professionals working in areas such as development studies, economics and political studies, were the first to most actively analyse and publish on the topic of corruption and its negative impacts on economies, societies an... More

Fifty alluring eye-makeup recipes in a beautifully illustrated book, ideal for giving.In Love Those Eyes, Sarah Ellis and Elisa Mazzone bring you an array of gorgeous eye-makeup tutorials. These mouth-watering ideas will delight all the more when you apply them to your own eyes. As with any great re... More