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This useful and practical book provides the college student, seminarian, church study group, and interested lay person with a much-needed introductory guide on the "how" (method) and the "what" (message)...

After years of being moved from place to place Greg has finally put down some roots and he likes his life just as it is. He works hard in his...

The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have been married for six years. There are...

Alone in his New York loft our hero, the private detective Kinky Friedman, reflects on friendship and why his friends are out of town. The phone rings. It's Kinky's old...

Samuel Beckett's bleak vision represents the attempts of an honest and heroic artist to find some hope in the no-man's-land of contemporary existence. His plays for the theatre and radio...

Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors, Eragon and Saphira narrowly escaped with their lives. But more awaits the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by...

Cultivated by slaves, consumed by the elite, paid out as a tribute to conquerors, this tale of one of the world's favourite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, socio-economics and culinary...

Make coins disappear, bend spoons, and read through sealed envelopes! Anyone can be a magician with the help of this guide, which explains how to perform mystifying sleight-of-hand maneuvers and...

Women's fashions of the 1920s continue to fascinate artists, couturiers, and students of fashion, who will welcome this treasury of French designs from that dazzling era. Carefully selected from rare...

London, 1660: Ready to throw off a generation of Puritan rule, all England rejoices when Charles Stuart returns to reclaim the throne. Among those welcoming him is young Barbara Villiers...

In San Francisco, Dan Kearny Associates raids a classic car dealership, while in Los Angeles, a Gypsy's dying words finger a Gypsy princess for his murder. In Hong Kong, a...

A recent graduate of Notre Dame, Pierce Duncan embarks on a cross-country odyssey across postwar America, a quest that leads to fateful encounters with a redneck chain-gang guard, a vicious...

This "Critical Edition" of "Fathers and Sons", translated and edited by Michael R. Katz, is accompanied by a selection of Turgenev's letters, illustrating his involvement in the critical storm that...

This novel begins in the 1960s in a small Wisconsin town, when a young boy, Mac, finds out that his beautiful handicapped older sister, Madeline, is in fact his father...

New Year's Day, 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport, brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts, consecrated by Pope...

A frightening--and funny--debut comes to paperback. Adelaide Foss, Maggie Borland, and Beatrice Alfred are known by their classmates at Widowsbury's Madame Gertrude's School for Girls as "scary children." Unfairly targeted...

Reyes is a man possessed. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure.Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do...

She's the daughter of Jared Trent. He's the son of Madoc Caruthers . . . Kade and Hunter Caruthers. Brothers. Twins. My cousins. In a way, they're my family. Protective....

When he was nine, and his mother had her first deadly dance with cancer, Harry became a thief. Someone had to find food and pay the mortgage even if his...

Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological,...

'Grace and intelligence . . . [her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama ' Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old...

"An original and courageous work . . . . Has broad and valuable lessons for women now." The New Yorker A brilliant, revisionist history tracing the effects of childhood sexual...

When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe, strange things begin to happen - and Ross Wakeman, a paranormal...

The second book in a dazzling four-volume fantasy epic of war and virtue, sorcery and betrayal The Briar King has woken and, with the aid of monsters formerly found only...

When all questions of space, time and matter have been resolved, only one question remains - 'where shall we have dinner?' This novel provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for...

"Shaker" is an illustrated exploration of the unique lifestyle of the American "Shaker" celibate religious communities founded in the 18th century by an English Quaker, Ann Lee. A major feature...

A haunting literary memoir of a journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what...

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Johnson's poetry and prose...

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David and Charlotte are so disappointed with the ending of their book that, with the help of an old alchemy set, they jump right into the world in their book....

At last Horne's great trilogy of works on French history are published together. The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact - on Paris, on France and on...

A new addition to Penguin's best-selling series of historical atlases. This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps - explores the Middle Ages from...

Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf - White City, Shepherd's Bush - as "Frank theFib." He's a liar - but one who always tries to tell...

When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over...

An extraordinary first-hand story of leading the wartime resistance in France. One of the last major untold stories of the war, this is the first-hand account of a conscientious objector...

Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But...