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In the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Gossamer Ghost , scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand investigates a murder in New Orleans' legendary Lafayette Cemetery... Enjoying dinner at Commander's Palace with her beau, Detective Edgar Babcock, Carmela finds the food and the compan
In the tradition of the bestselling the Western Canon, Genius is a monumental achievement of scholarship that offers a series of brief parallel appreciations of 100 of the greatest creative minds of all time. From the Bible to Ralph Ellison, America's most prominent and bestselling literary critic t
The origin story of Sidroc the Dane, a new standalone entry point into The Circle of Ceridwen Saga . Read first, read last, read between any of the Saga novels. But read it and learn how Sidroc became Sidroc. A discarded child Fated to become a powerful Jarl - here is the story of Sidroc. Fate guide
The definitive account of one of American history's most repellent and most fascinating moments, combining investigative journalism and sweeping social history Years later, the tale of murder and revenge in Georgia still has the power to fascinate...Intense, suspenseful. -- The Washington Post Book
Dominick Izzo has been a thorn in the side of Police Command since his first Police Department when he refused to accept the status quo of allowing village officials and police commanding officers to operate with the falsehood that they were above the same law he swore to uphold. Having served as a
I learned how to compose, how to tell a story. There's no way I could have done what I did later if I hadn't had all that men's adventure magazine work. -Mort K nstler Known today as America's Artist for his popular and much admired historical paintings, it was in the wild world of men's adventure m
'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can't escape it, not even by dying...' Edward Lynch enlisted whe
A gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in 1888 when he was eighteen. Thirty-one years later, after serving a prison term for an attempted assassination, he was expelled to the Soviet Union, a country which he eventually renounced. But before h
In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a remarkable work, revealing a confidence and sureness that very few earlier plays can rival. They show how the young Shakespeare, working closely from his chronicle sources,
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball... Grisham knocks it out of the park.-- The Washington Post It's the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rook
Popes and Saints have called this single greatest book of Marian spirituality ever written. In a newly translated day-by-day format, follow St. Louis de Montfort's classic work on the spiritual way to Jesus Christ though the Blessed Virgin Mary. Beloved by countless souls, this book sums up, not jus
Contributors: Erin Adair-Hodges, Susan Aizenberg, Rebecca Aronson, Ruth Awad, Carol Barrett, S. Erin Batiste, Sandra Beasley, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Malachi Black, Elijah Burrell, Janet Burroway, Lauren Camp, Victoria Chang, George David Clark, Tiana Clark, Aaron Coleman, Flower Conroy, Lisa Fay Co
Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blonde, stylish, married to a successful merchant banker and having raised two daughters, Faith has a life many would envy. But Faith has overcome a childhood marred by tragedy, and has carried within herself a secret she could d
2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Reviews Explores fracking's dual impact on settler colonial culture and sustainability Through meticulous research and poignant storytelling, Land of Extraction unravels the complex web of relationships between humans, places, and the environment, all
Thomas M. Disch is the author of many novels, including such classic works of science fiction as Camp Concentration and 334 . He lives in Manhattan and in Sullivan County, New York.
This is one for the ages. --Gayle Forman, author of the #1 bestseller If I Stay A book everyone should read right now. -- The New York Times Book Review A vital and heartbreaking story that brings together the #MeToo movement, the effects of gun violence, and the struggle of building oneself up agai
In his first memoir written especially for young readers, Abdul-Jabbar focuses on his relationships with several important coaches in his life--including his father, his high-school coach and UCLA basketball coach John Wooden--as he tells the story of his life and career. The first memoir for young
Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife's death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor. But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the t
Shoes Along the Danube refers to the memorial of cast iron shoes that honor Hungarian Holocaust victims. Based on a true story, this amazing book follows the lives of two extended Hungarian families, the Rézlers and the Földes, one gentile and the other Jewish, through three decades. The story begin
Dick, Philip K.: - Over a writing career that spanned three decades, PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned to deep
The first ever monograph on the groundbreaking work of artist and composer Raven Chacon. A career-spanning catalogue featuring excerpts from Raven Chacon's scores, musical prompts, and drawings interspersed with full-color documentation and descriptive texts of installations, sculptures, and perform
With more than 100,000 copies in print, this easy-to-use pocket edition of Ameslan has become a classic in its field. Arranged in a dictionary format, the revised and expanded edition contains over 600 signing entries with accompanying directions, illustrations, and sample sentences. The simplest, m
In this 64 page book Dr. Roy B. Blizzard presents comparisons between the words of Jesus and the words of rabbis prior to, contemporary with, and following Jesus, recorded for us in the Mishnah , Order Nezikin , Tractate Avot , or the Chapters of the Fathers ( Pirkei Avot ). Probably anyone who has
This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. See more details about this and other books on Russian Novels in Russian and English page on Facebook.
A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun más tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores . --Jorge Luis Borges En su primer libro de ficción, Borges trabaja con biografías de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores y a veces también heroicos. Aquí están, entre otros, Lazar
DeBoer, Fredrik: - FREDRIK DEBOER is a writer and academic with a PhD from Purdue University. His writing has appeared in such places as The New York Times , Harper's , The Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post, Politico , Playboy , New Republic, Foreign Policy, n+1 , and Jacobin . He is one of th
In the third installment in the Horses and Friends series, thirteen-year-old Kate Ferris already has one problem. Snooty, well-to-do Melissa is boarding her horse at Kate's family stable. When Melissa suddenly turns nice, Kate is shocked ... and suspicious. The last thing she needs is more trouble.
On the island of Cuba lived two sisters named Adelaida and Marisol. Although identical twins in appearance, their personalities were as different as night and day. Adelaida was noble and loved to help others. She understood that the situation at home was not easy. On the other hand, Marisol believed
The books should be required reading for anyone who comes to teach, practice medicine or work on the Navajo Nation in any capacity- as well as young Navajos who seek a deeper understanding of their culture. --Cindy Yurth, The Navajo Times In Sacred Narratives and Ceremonies , the authors lay the fou
Nevertheless, within three weeks from that very day she was seated in the train; leaving London, leaving her life in England with every detail arranged and every foreseeable mishap foreseen and guarded against-and pinned on her coat was a bunch of gentians given to her in loving farewell by her husb
