Title: Moonbog


Author: Hautula, Rick

Pub Year: 1982
Publisher: Zebra

Media: Paperback
Genre: :Horror:
Location: HAUT

Description:

THE EVIL GLOW OF THE MOON... lit the path as twelve-year-old Billy Wilson walked past the bog. He knew he shouldn't have gone near the inky shadows of the swamp — but something forced him to come closer to the yawning darkness, the suffocating tangle, the flesh-tearing brambles of Holland Bog. THE MURKY DEPTHS OF THE BOG... sucked the boy into its fetid earth and claimed its human sacrifice. But one child wasn't enough. It needed a second, a third — and then nothing could stop the unquenchable hunger, the raging bloodthirst of the MOONBOG.

Moonbog

Title: Ninja


Author: Lustbader, Eric Van

Pub Year: 1980
Publisher: Fawcett

Media: Paperback
Genre: :Thriller/Intrigue:
Location: LUST

Description:

By the current author of the Jason Bourne series. Raised in Japan by a British father and a Chinese mother, young Nicholas Linnear felt at home only in the dojo, where he gave himself over to mastering ninjutsu—the ancient art of the ninja. Over years of training, he ascended to the highest ranks imaginable—until a confrontation over the very meaning of ninjutsu changed his approach to martial arts forever, sending him on a journey that would take him across the globe. Now, after years of success in the advertising business, Linnear quits his job abruptly when he feels himself yearning for the life he led in Japan. Searching for direction, he meets a striking beauty named Justine, but just as he is beginning to fall in love, something chilling draws him back into his past: the corpse of a coworker, murdered by a Japanese throwing star. There is a ninja loose in New York City, and as the body count rises, it becomes clear that people close to Linnear are being targeted. Only he has the skill to stop a twisted killer with a personal vendetta.

Ninja

Title: Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body; Qigong for


Author: Frantzis, Bruce

Pub Year: 2006
Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Media: TradePaper
Genre: :Medicine and Health::Religion-Spiritualit:
Location: 613.71 FRAN

Description:

Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body explains the practice of chi gung (qigong), the 3000-year-old self-healing exercise system from China. Originally published in 1993, this book has become a classic that has inspired tens of thousands of Westerners to learn to activate their chi—life-force energy—to improve their health, reduce stress and reverse the effects of aging. This fully revised edition has more than 100 pages of new material, including Longevity Breathing methods; how cross-training in chi gung can enhance other exercises such as yoga, golf and weight training; and nei gung techniques for advanced practitioners. Chi gung exercises utilize a system of energy channels in the body that are similar to an electrical circuit. Frantzis’ thorough knowledge of energy arts and the Chinese language allow him to peel away the secrecy and metaphors. He presents this 300-page edition in easy to understand terms to suit beginners, with enough meaty detail and depth for the advanced martial artist, healer or meditator. Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body includes a comprehensive guide to chi gung theory and a systematic lesson plan with more than 100 illustrations. These low-impact exercises are suitable for almost any age or fitness level. They provide the foundation for learning any other chi practice, such as tai chi, martial arts, meditation or TAO Yoga. Frantzis explains not only how these inner aerobics are done, but why. Going beyond mere body movement, he teaches from the inside out, linking the biomechanics and anatomy of the physical body with the subtleties of chi. This book provides practical methods to help people become balanced, relaxed and joyful. Frantzis trained for more than a decade in China, became a Taoist Lineage Master—quite a rare occurrence—and came back to the West to teach. “My hope is that chi gung and tai chi can become mainstream exercises in the West,” says Frantzis. “We have a major health crisis looming; practicing chi gung or tai chi is one of the most effective ways people can reclaim control of their health and well-being.”

Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body; Qigong for

Title: Return to Paradise


Author: Michener, James A.

Pub Year: 1951
Publisher: Fawcett

Media: Paperback
Genre: :Essays:
Location: MICH

Description:

James A. Michener, the master of historical fiction, revisits the scenes of his first great work, Tales of the South Pacific, the Pulitzer Prize winner that brought him international acclaim. In this sequel collection, Michener once again evokes the magic of the extraordinary isles in the Pacific—from Fiji and Gaudalcanal to New Zealand and Papua New Guinea—through stories that burst with adventure, charm, and local color. For Michener’s many fans around the globe, Return to Paradise is a precious second look at a land of enchantment by one of the most gifted storytellers of the twentieth century. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii.

Return to Paradise

Title: Rome and Jerusalem; the Clash of Ancient Civilizat


Author: Goodman, Martin

Pub Year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf

Media: Hardcover
Genre: :History - Ancient::History - Middle Eas::Politics, Government::War:
Location: 933.05 GOOD

Description:

A magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem. Martin Goodman—equally renowned in Jewish and in Roman studies—examines this conflict, its causes, and its consequences with unprecedented authority and thoroughness. He delineates the incompatibility between the cultural, political, and religious beliefs and practices of the two peoples and explains how Rome's interests were served by a policy of brutality against the Jews. At the same time, Christians began to distance themselves from their origins, becoming increasingly hostile toward Jews as Christian influence spread within the empire. This is the authoritative work of how these two great civilizations collided and how the reverberations are felt to this day.

Rome and Jerusalem; the Clash of Ancient Civilizat

Title: Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine


Author: Eckhardt, Linda West; Diana Collingwood Butts

Pub Year: 1995
Publisher: Doubleday

Media: Hardcover
Genre: :Cooking:
Location: 641.85 ECKH

Description:

From the award-winning authors of Bread in Half the Time comes a complete guide to making nearly 100 European-style breads with the indispensable aid of your bread machine. Nothing smells quite as wonderful as bread baking in the oven. Nothing tastes quite as good as a thick slice of fresh, warm homemade bread. And nothing can be quite as intimidating or time-consuming as mixing, kneading, raising, and baking that bread—until now! With a bread machine to do all the hard work, and experts Linda West Eckhardt and Diana Collingwood Butts as guides, anyone can turn out a perfect sourdough, raisin pumpernickel, focaccia, or any other variety of classic European breads featured in this book. The trick is to use the machine for what it does best-mixing and kneading the dough that produces the loaves we all love so much. After letting the dough rise in the machine, you shape it by hand and bake it to perfection in the oven. With Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine in hand, every home cook can become a master baker. Eckhardt and Butts provide not only an encyclopedic knowledge of their subject and foolproof step-by-step recipes, but also limitless, contagious enthusiasm. Their clear and thorough explanations will turn every home kitchen into an aromatic, appetite-satisfying European bakery.

Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine

Title: Stallion Gate


Author: Smith, Martin Cruz

Pub Year: 1986
Publisher: Ballantine

Media: Paperback
Genre: :Espionage:
Location: SMIT

Description:

This is a novel about the most important ten seconds in history. Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Gorky Park, is a powerful sensual idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war. In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select the test site for the first automatic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Peña, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, Indian. Oppenheimer and Groves have hidden Los Alamos on a mesa surrounded by vast Indian reservations. It is the most secret installation of the war, the future encompassed by the past. To it come soldiers, roughnecks and scientists, including Anna Weiss, a mathematician and refugee from the Holocaust with whom Joe falls in love.

Stallion Gate

Title: Sword Point


Author: Coyle, Harold

Pub Year: 1988
Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Media: Hardcover
Genre: :Thriller/Intrigue::War:
Location: COYL

Description:

From the White House and the Kremlin to the battlefield--the life of each character is changed or brutally ended by the rapidly escalating war. And then the stakes are raised: Iran is on the verge of assembling a nuclear device. Harold Coyle traces the lives of his soldiers, officers, and men, American and Russian, with sensitivity and a profound understanding of the strains, the glory and the ultimate horror of battle, swiftly moving the reader from the deck of an aircraft carrier to a tank in combat, from a fighter pilot's view of the war to that of an infantryman. He never loses his grip on the complex narrative that builds to the dreadful, climactic threat of nuclear warfare that, in the end, brings ordinary soldiers of both sides together, in a race against time.

Sword Point

Title: The Brothers; the Hidden World of Japan's Richest


Author: Downer, Lesley

Pub Year: 1994
Publisher: Random House

Media: Hardcover
Genre: :Biography/Autobiogra::Business/Commerce:
Location: 333.88 DOWN

Description:

The epic, untold story of the men behind Japan's greatest business dynasty, and their rise from obscurity to extreme wealth and power, The Brothers recounts the public and private lives of the Tsutsumi family, who are to Japan what the Rockefellers or the Gettys are to the West. At the center of the Tsutsumi saga are three men. Yasujiro "Pistol" Tsutumi was the patriarch, one of the most feared men in Japan. His business empire of railroads, resorets, and real estate was built on the sure knowledge that land was a commodity the Japanese would never have enough of . He was a womaniing Citizen Kane figure whose ruthless ambition and visionary business sense took him from humble beginnings to the height of Japanese politics. His two sons enlargedand continued his legacy.

The Brothers; the Hidden World of Japan's Richest

Title: The Winds of War


Author: Wouk, Herman

Pub Year: 1971
Publisher: Little, Brown

Media: Hardcover
Genre: :Historical Fiction:
Location: WOUK

Description:

Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation. Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II, as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom. The Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance stand as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers.

The Winds of War

Title: Walking in This World; The Practical Art of Creati


Author: Cameron, Julia

Pub Year: 2002
Publisher: Putnam

Media: Hardcover
Genre: :Arts::Life Skills:
Location: 153.35 CAME

Description:

The author of THE ARTIST'S WAY presents a practical 12-week program designed to help readers tap into and develop their creative side. She presents exercises on getting started, suggests ways around blocks, and makes the simple physical activity of walking--and all it can bring--part of her program.

Walking in This World; The Practical Art of Creati

Title: When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress


Author: Mate, Gabor, M.D.

Pub Year: 2004
Publisher: Vintage Canada

Media: TradePaper
Genre: :Family Relationships::Life Skills::Medicine and Health::Psychology:
Location: 616.08 MATE

Description:

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis and many others, even Alzheimer's disease. When the Body Says No is an impressive contribution to research on the physiological connection between life's stresses and emotions and the body systems governing nerves, immune apparatus and hormones. With great compassion and erudition, Gabor Maté demystifies medical science and, as he did in Scattered Minds, invites us all to be our own health advocates.

When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress

Title: When the Sleeper Wakes


Author: Wells, H. G.

Pub Year: 1899
Publisher: Ace Books

Media: Paperback
Genre: :Science Fiction:
Location: WELL

Description:

When the Sleeper Wakes is an unforgettable vision of the future, one of the most stirringly prophetic novels ever written. In its pages H. G. Wells predicted the social impact of television, flying, advertising, banking, labor organization, and totalitarianism . . . all in the framework of an exciting personal adventure story. Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. Finally resorting to medication, he instantly falls into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. Upon waking in the twenty-second century to a strange and nightmarish place, he slowly discovers he is master of the world, revered by an adoring populace who consider him their leader. Terrified, he escapes from his chamber seeking solace—only to realize that not everyone adores him, some even wish to harm him.

When the Sleeper Wakes

Title: Whispers From the Grave


Author: Rule, Leslie

Pub Year: 1995
Publisher: Berkley

Media: Paperback
Genre: :Supernatural::Thriller/Intrigue:
Location: RULE

Description:

Discovering the diary of a girl who was murdered one hundred years earlier, Jenna learns about the striking similarities between her and Rita and is horrified to witness the same deadly history repeating itself. As Jenna reads of Rita's tragic past, she fears for her own future. Because Rita's history is repeating itself--in Jenna's life. The similarities between Jenna and Rita were uncanny. They looked and acted exactly alike. Each was experiencing the thrill of first love. Each was empowered with a gift of the supernatural. And each harbored dark secrets. Jenna and Rita could have been sisters. Except for one thing...

Whispers From the Grave