Carol Snow

Seemingly average Claire Martin, who has the ability to switch bodies whenever lightning strikes her small town, finds herself in the body of a waify blond nanny who gets a lot of attention--especially from Nate, her longtime crush.

Switch

Daisy and Henry are best friends, and they know all each other's secrets. Or, so Daisy thinks, until she wakes up one morning to find that Henry and his family have disappeared without a trace. Daisy suspects Henry's disappearance is connected to their seriously awkward meeting the night before, but then she finds a note from Henry, containing just the words "SAVE ME." Deeply worried, Daisy convinces her unemployed brother to take her on a rescue mission into the California mountains. As they begin to home in on Henry's exact location, they also start to find some disturbing clues... clues that call into question everything Daisy believes she knows about her friend. Why is he so hard to find? What kind of trouble is he in, exactly? And most importantly, who is actually saving who?

The Last Place on Earth

After sixteen-year-old Fresia learns--and tells her friends--that their perfect life on a luxurious tropical island is not real, she is banished from her virtual world to the "mainland," where people are ugly, school is hard, and families are dysfunctional.

Bubble World

After a messy, painful divorce, Veronica takes a job as a celebrity double for starlet Haley Rush and gets to drive the actress's car, wear her clothes, and have fun with her boyfriend--maybe a little too much fun. Original.

Just Like Me, Only Better

Journalist Kathy Hopkins is forced to go undercover at a college rumored to be the home of a secret prostitution ring, and finds herself dealing with a Clay Aiken-obsessed roommate, late-night parties, and a crush on a guy who just turned legal.

Been There, Done That

Claire Martin has some serious body issues. Ever since Claire hit her teens, electrical storms have been making her switch bodies. Usually she's back to her old self in no time. But when something goes terribly wrong, she finds herself stuck in the fabulous body—and life—of Larissa, the icy blonde beauty who has caught the eye of Nate, Claire's longtime crush. Will Claire ever figure out how to get her old life back? And, more importantly, will she even want to?

Madison Sabatini thought she knew who she was: an almost-sophomore with a bright future. The newest photographer on her school paper. A shopaholic with great hair and a fabulous wardrobe. Then, in a flash, everything changed. Now she's stuck in Sandyland, a gloomy beach town in the middle of nowhere, living with her parents in a crappy hotel "suite." Instead of spending the summer with her friends at home, she's hanging out with pink-haired Delilah, an artist who works in a shop called Psychic Photo, and a skater boy named Duncan who's totally not her type. Except, maybe he is . . . Determined to make the best of things, Madison throws herself into her one passion: photography. But when strange figures start appearing in her pictures—people who weren't there when she snapped the shots, people who are later reported dead—she begins to question everything about who she is . . . and who she wishes she could be.

Snap

Invited by her boyfriend, Jimmy, to spend a week at a posh Maui resort, Jane Shea is thrilled, but her enjoyment is undermined by her worries about every aspect of the trip and by Jimmy's mysterious disappearance, the supposed victim of a drowning. Original.

Here Today, Gone to Maui

Steven Fine

Edward Bleiberg

Lawrence Nees

Lisa R. Brody

Claus-Peter Haase

Arnold E. Franklin

Alan Gampel

Lyle Humphrey

Hieromonk Justin of Sinai

Annie Montgomery Labatt

Robert Schick

Building on the groundbreaking 2012 exhibition “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition,” which explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century, the present volume extends the exhibition catalogue’s innovative investigation of cultural interaction between Christian and Jewish communities and the world of Islam. Eleven essays by internationally distinguished scholars address such topics as the transmission of Christian imagery to the Mediterranean, icons preserved in The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai, interaction between Jewish communities and the Muslim world, the purposeful mutilation of figurative floor mosaics in places of worship, the evolution of classical and Byzantine motifs in a new cosmology for Muslim rulers, and interconnections in the realm of music. Each essay provides compelling evidence that the era of transition from Byzantine to Islamic rule in the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa resulted in unprecedented cultural cross-fertilization and significantly affected the development of the Mediterranean world for centuries to come.

Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World

Age of Transition

From the author of Here Today, Gone to Maui, the story of a woman who finally got a life...some else's. Ever since Veronica's husband found the love of his life-not her-she's been a walking zombie with runny mascara. It doesn't help that she keeps getting mistaken for Haley Rush-the Hollywood starlet whose dazzling life is plastered on every magazine. When Haley's manager offers Veronica a job as a celebrity double, it only takes a moment before she says yes. Veronica gets to drive Haley's car, wear her phenomenal clothes-and have fun with her hot celebrity boyfriend, Brady Ellis. Too bad the job's only part-time, and at the end of the day she has to return to her life as a cash-strapped substitute teacher and cub scout mom. But when real sparks fly with Brady, is it a fantasy come true or a disaster in disguise?

Struggling with mounting debt and a need to become independent from her parents as her thirtieth birthday approaches, Natalie tells fantastical tales to the men she meets to cover up her undesirable traits, a practice that backfires when she meets a man she actually likes. By the author of Been There, Done That. Original. 25,000 first printing.

A Novel

Getting Warmer

A single mom who had her child through artificial insemination by an anonymous donor seeks to give her son a sibling from the same donor and resorts to an internet search to track him down. Original. 35,000 first printing.

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