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Designing an Effective Pay for Performance Compensation System
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We are no longer selling this report. You can download it for free at www.mspb.gov/netsearch/viewdocs.aspx?docnumber=224104&version=224323&application=ACROBAT
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Goat Cheese: Delectable Recipes for All Occasions
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Goat cheese is an amazingly versatile ingred. that enhances any course of a meal. Known to the French as “fromage de chevre,” goat cheese has slowly but surely made its way onto American menus & dinner tables. This is a charming intro. to using goat cheese in your everyday cooking. With a short history of this versatile ingred. & a description of how it’s made, this book features profiles of all the varieties & tips for storing, serving, & cooking. From tempting appetizers such as Grilled Eggplant & Goat Cheese Rolls to satisfying entrees like Gnocchi with Spinach & Goat Cheese to luscious desserts, including Poached Winter Pears with Sweet Goat Cheese. Charmingly illustrated & complete with a guide to the many varieties of goat cheese.
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Dark Water’s Embrace: A Novel
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Stephen Leigh (au). In the tradition of Ursula Le Guin comes a startling & thought-provoking novel of gender, society -- & survival. A cent. ago a small group of humans was marooned on a distant planet. Now their descendants struggle with rising infertility, mortality & mutation, for which no cause -- or cure -- can be found. Then comes a startling revelation: The preserved corpse of a member of the planet’s long-extinct native race bears deformities nearly identical to those of Anais, the settlement’s doctor. Anais must discover the link between the mysteries of the planet’s past & the plight of the present-day humans, before she is exiled forever -- thwarting her society’s last chance for survival. Intelligent & compassionate, this novel raises a host of interesting questions.
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Worst Noel: A Novel
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Lia, Erin, Maddy, Jill, & Kathy are unlikely bunkmates & even unlikelier friends. But at Camp Wildwood, miracles do happen. Now that summer’s over, can they keep up their friendship? Kathy is sentenced to spend Christmas with her busy father & his new wife & baby, & her stuck-up stepsister. So when her Holiday Five friend Erin describes the festivities at her house -- a noisy & joyous family gathering -- it sounds Christmas-card perfect to Kathy. She wrangles an invitation to spend Christmas at Erin’s & -- without telling anyone -- slips out at the height of her father’s holiday party. Part of “The Holiday 5 Series”.
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Virtual Death: A Necromantic Thriller
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Shale Aaron (au). It’s the day after tomorrow in an America where Chevrolet Reagans (no one at the wheel) cruise the streets of free/dog cities (they keep the homeless down), where cannibalism is legal (in Colorado), & where Lydia Melmoth is a celebrity. A special kind of celebrity. Lydia is a death artist who has flatlined for fame & fortune in vast arenas & underground clubs. She died more times than anyone alive, then got out of the game before the gray rot turned her brain to bric-a-brac. But Lydia is a legend, & legends’ lives (& deaths) are not their own. Her fans still worship her, her mother needs the money from the TV rights -- so Lydia has agreed to end it all one more time in the big comeback that could be her last.
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Falling Torch: A Novel
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Algis Budrys (au). Now, for the first time, the complete text of this classic novel. Wireman came back to a vanquished Earth on a mission to save it. What he learned was that the guerillas were corrupt & the average citizen would just as soon be left alone. And he wasn’t in very good shape himself. How could he save Earth -- when Earth no longer cared? “A crackling good yarn.”
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Let’s Talk Tails
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An adorable little Golden Book that helps children figure out which tail belongs to each of their favorite animal friends! The pictures uniquely combine drawings with color photographs, & includes fish, horses, beavers, chameleons, dogs, kangaroos, & peacocks.
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Hunchback of Notre Dame: An Animated Flip Book
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As you flip through these pages, you will see Quasimodo swinging on the spire of the Notre Dame cathedral, just as he does in the Disney animated movie, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Turn the book over and flip to see the beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, acknowledge the crowd’s applause.
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Pirates!: Raiders of the High Seas
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Meet pirates who got away with murder . . . and pirates who died in the hangman’s noose! Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in this DK Reader, which is one book in a reading program guaranteed to capture children’s interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. This book is for Level 4 Proficient Readers. It features a rich vocabulary and challenging sentence structure; additional information and alphabetical glossary; and a comprehensive index. Full color illustrations.
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True Crime: Serial Killers & Mass Murderers (vol. 2)
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Valerie Jones (au); Peggy Collier (au). This volume is a spinoff of the highly successful True Crime Trading Cards. The book contains all the art & the complete text of Series Two of the best-selling & controversial trading cards. Each biography of a killer includes a full-color photo or drawing. Includes: Mary Flora Bell; David Berkowitz; Jerome Brudos; Theodore Bundy; Lt. William Calley; John Reginald Christie; Juan Corona; Robert Hansen; James warren Jones; henry Lee Lucas; Charles Manson; William Palmer; Richard Franklin Speck; Charles Whitman; Christopher Wilder & many more. Includes a brief essay on the psychology of the sociopath.
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