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Attention would-be paesans: Can’t distinguish “gabagool” from “pasta fazool”? Not sure how to properly accessorize your track suit with gold chains? Does the phrase “go to the mattresses” make you sleepy? Now Steven R. Schirripa, The Sopranos’ own Bobby Bacala, exposes the inner mysteries of this unique Italian-American hybrid in A Goomba’s Guide to Life so that anyone can walk, talk, and live like a guy “from the neighborhood.”

Step into the ancient world of Veteris, a planet teetering on the edge of space, where destiny beckons and power resides in the hands of children. On the enigmatic planet of Veteris, children from across the universe are summoned to undergo a transformative rite of passage, where their strengths and weaknesses are laid bare for all to see. Yet, when a group of children from a distant blue planet unexpectedly ascends to power, the delicate balance of Veteris is shattered.

The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world’s most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions!

Some 100,000 soldiers fought in the April 1862 battle of Shiloh, and nearly 20,000 men were killed or wounded; more Americans died on that Tennessee battlefield than had died in all the nation's previous wars combined. In the first book in his new series, Steven E. Woodworth has brought together a group of superb historians to reassess this significant battle and provide in-depth analyses of key aspects of the campaign and its aftermath.

Charles's son, Michael Strange, was a top cryptologist and SEAL Team 6 member on the Osama Bin Laden raid in 2011. Three months later on August 6, 2011, Michael was killed in Afghanistan along with 30 other Americans on call sign Extortion 17. Charles has been seeking the truth about Michael's death for nearly a decade and has gone to Congress, the Pentagon, and The White House. Simultaneously he leads other Gold Star Families to finding peace.

The return of Bricks. People thought the cocaine trade was exclusively for the kingpins of Mexico. But Miami was where it all had originally began....

When the Confederates emerged as victors in the Chickamauga Campaign, the Union Army of the Cumberland lay under siege in Chattanooga, with Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee on nearby high ground at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. A win at Chattanooga was essential for the Confederates, both to capitalize on the victory at Chickamauga and to keep control of the gateway to the lower South.

Move over, Miss Lonelyhearts...Steven R. Schirripa, author of the runaway best seller A Goomba's Guide to Life, is back with more life lessons from the neighborhood, and this time the subject is love...

Nicholas's father grew up in Brooklyn, but you'd hardly know it. An Italian dinner at Nicholas's house in the suburbs is whole wheat pasta, organic tomato sauce, and, if he's lucky, a tofu meatball. And Brooklyn? Well, Brooklyn is the place his father left and never talks about. Nicholas has never been there, and he doesn't want to go now.

Here is an unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science fiction short stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents. In "Erosion",l by Ian Creasey, a man tests the limits of his exo-suit prior to leaving a dying earth. In "As Women Fight", by Sara Genge, a hunter has no time to train for a fight to inhabit his wife's body in a society of body-switchers....

Green Eyes IN A WOLF'S FACE... That's the creepy nightmare Jennifer keeps having—ever since that terrible night when she and her boyfriend, Lee, stumbled upon Thaler Academy's terrifying secret...and almost died because of it. But now evil has been purged from the select Connecticut boarding school. Or has it? What are the strange animal-like creatures moving across the campus at night? What happened to the former Dean at Thaler—and why did he disappear so suddenly? Why is her best friend Monica acting so weirdly? Soon she and Lee realize they are up against something even more horrible...

Am Anfang steht eine wissenschaftliche Entdeckung: Wegen eines Unfalls im Gravitationssystem stürzt die Erde in die Sonne zurück. "Es wird immer heisser werden, und schnell wird alles sterben", schreibt C. F. Ramuz lakonisch dazu. Die Menschen am Ufer des Genfersees wollen das erst nicht glauben und erfreuen sich am schönen Wetter. Aber dann wird klar, dass es vor der Hitze kein Entkommen gibt, die Freude schlägt um in Angst, als die Gletscher schmelzen, die Flüsse austrocknen, die Bäume verdorren.

Posh Thaler Academy, nestled in the leafy Connecticut countryside, is one of New England's most exclusive boarding schools. For scholarship student Jennifer Field, it's a dream come true to be at Thaler. Until the dream turns into a nightmare... Strange shadows flickering acrosss the moonlit campus...a mysterious old building in the woods with a secret lab...a Dean of students whose startling eyes seem to convey unspoken evil. Jennifer is tempted to blame her imagination for her fears. Then she and her boyfriend, Lee, stumble across the body of a Thaler classmate in the woods. A body ...

WHERE FEAR LURKS— HORROR MAKES ITS HOME… They were out there. Watching. Waiting, in the looming shadows around Thaler Academy, the wolf-like creatures were hiding their terrible secret from the world. A student was dead, a teacher was missing…and Jennifer Field was terrified. She and her friends were the only ones who knew the awful truth. For only miles away from the school, beyond the murky waters of a legendary lake called Witch’s Eye, the alien horror had set up its unearthly home—killing trees and plants, and perhaps, anyone who knew too much.

TRAPPED LIKE A FLY — IN A WEB OF MOUNTING TERROR The aliens were taking over. At first, Jennifer thought the horrible menace was confined to posh Thaler Academy. But now, she and her friends were beginning to realize that no one could be trusted. Not even the police. The terror was growing. The hideous creatures that roamed the school grounds assumed human forms. And worse yet, the unearthly beasts knew about Jennifer and her plan to expose them. Could she stop the escalating nightmare before the aliens found the key to Earth’s ultimate destruction?

JENNIFER IS FIGHTING A BATTLE FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET. The eerie night cloaks Thaler Academy in silent shadows. Jennifer and her friends know that something is out there. It is infinitely dangerous and it comes from a distant world; intending to destroy all that lives on the planet. Two of Jennifer’s friends have been kidnapped—dragged down into the Alien laboratories on the edge of the lake known as the Witch’s Eye. And Now, Jennifer realizes there is only one way to stop the relentless terror of the hideous wolf-like creatures: Enter their lair and destroy them. . .or die. . .

THE FINAL BATTLE The aliens have been defeated. The nightmare is over. Or so Jennifer thinks. Lurking in the shadows of Thaler Academy, the last surviving creature plots its vengeance in blood. One by one, her friends are stalked by the wolf-like beast. And one by one, they are rendered helpless. Now, Jennifer is alone. Can she put an end to the alien terror?