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An overview of music theory that covers topics such as music notation, scales and modes, melody harmonization and counterpoint, chord progressions, and song form and structure, and includes notated music examples for piano, guitar, bass, and drum. Includes CD.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called to Acadia when the body of a young girl is found, and as she investigates the case, Temperance uncovers a startling link between the victim and her childhood friend, Evangeline, who disappeared more than twenty years earlier.

Examines the judicial, moral, and political ideas in Plato's "Republic," and describes its importance to the modern world.

The story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him.

Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily like a mother for ten years, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.

Story of the events of a twelve-year-old's summer, which altered his view of his family and the world forever.

Orphan Oliver Twist runs away from an English workhouse and falls into the hands of rogues who train him to be a pickpocket.

Widow Anne Dunne takes her three children--one who is suicidal, one who is a drug user, and one who is withdrawn--on a sailing trip hoping they can reconnect as a family, but dangerous weather and an individual who wants them dead threaten to ruin her plans.

The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esme Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.

Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the death of her beloved cat, Mango.