What happens when growing up means growing apart? 1997. New York. Earnest, bookish Rose. Brash, extrovert Charlotte. When they moved to New York in the late nineties, coffee cost less than a dollar and you could still smoke in bars. You could stay up drinking all night, sat in vinyl booths patched up with duct tape....

A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife – an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman’s adventures and misadventures through the dark comedy of the wilderness years....

It is not love at first sight for Frances and Bernard. She finds him faintly ridiculous while he sees her as aloof. But after that first meeting, Bernard writes Frances a letter which changes everything and soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can alter the course of lives....

Florist Lily Schmidt just may be in love with the handsome DEA agent who walked into her shop one normal day. But since he entered her life, nothing has ever been the same. She’s not even using as many post-it notes to keep her life organized. Chaos and danger are becoming a normal part of her day. Now her car has been stolen....

Today Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is celebrated as an artist at the forefront of the international stage, although he spent almost his entire life in Lower Austria and Vienna. This publication uses the most recent sources and previously unpublished......

A beautifully illustrated and attractively priced volume on the life and work of Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo is one of the art world\"s most enigmatic figures. Beautiful, talented, tragic and strong, she broke barriers as a woman and as an artist and......

Java Persistence with Hibernate is the new bible of Hibernate. As a major revision of the popular Hibernate in Action, it builds on the same single example application to introduce and explain the latest Hibernate 3.2 in detail. In addition, the new......

Book DescriptionImagine being a thirteen-year-old girl dealing with your single father, annoying brother and all the baggage of growing up. You start having nightmares about a dark figure who asks you to visit the past and \"find her treasure....

These historical sketches written by members of a life writing class in Lafayette, Louisiana, are the result of a program sponsored by the University of Louisiana, Lafayette and contain memoirs of doctors, legislators, engineers, geologists, teachers, and many others....

Book DescriptionCompanies routinely lose six percent or more of their gross profits to ethics-related problems but rarely see those problems until it is too late. This book focuses primarily on how personal values and working styles can create ethics problems and what to do to reduce those risks....

From the foremost expert on supply chain management: Shows how market leaders are focusing their entire organization on driving value to customers; A practical guide for developing effective supply chain plans and e-business models; Reveals how leading firms have forged up to a two-year lead over competing supply chain networks; Rich in details and...

Both an introduction to the theoretical aspects of automated object/relational mapping and a practical guide to using Hibernate, this resource provides extensive sample codes to implement an online auction application....