In this antic riff on Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Tom Marshfield, a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale, is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace. At a desert retreat dedicated
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their th
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Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's international bestseller Passages, named by a Library of Congress survey as one of the most influential books of our times. Sev
The Conversation Piece will make you think twice about the everyday opinions you take for granted. What instrument is not music to your ears? If, for one day, you could have anything to yourself--any
Anne Wilson Schaef's bestselling Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much invited women to do less and live more. In this wise and graceful sequel to that beloved book, which is also a collection of dai
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Stating that the human body contains a system of healing any malady, from everyday illnesses to life-threatening ones, a detailed guide explains how to strengthen this system through diet, nutrition,
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing mo
A.D. 1135. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry I, his barons faced the unwelcome prospect of being ruled by a woman: Henry's beautiful daughter Maude, Countess of Anjou. But b
Includes a foreword by Steven Spielberg!The supernatural wonders of Ghostbusters.??The lively three-dimensional toons from Who Framed Roger Rabbit???The unstoppable liquid-metal T-1000 cyborg of Termi
The best book on how your diet impacts your health has gotten even better! For this tenth anniversary edition, Annemarie Colbin has updated her classic to include the latest information on new dietar
Ricardo Arias is found dead, the gun still wedged in his mouth. It looks like suicide, but the physical evidence strongly suggests murder. The police investigation uncovers an estranged wife, Terri Pe
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The most lucid account of the patterns of problem drinkers ever set down in a book!Drawing on soundly tested theories of transactional behavior, Dr. Steiner describes the three distinct types of alcoh
"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."--The Philadelphia InquirerSince his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear an
Living in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon revaled that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotti
Since Dave Barry writes about weird things, you might be tempted to think he has a weird brain. He does, of course, but that's not the whole explanation: A lot of the things he writes about - explodi
The precursor to Fifty Shades of Grey, Pauline Reage’s Story of O continues, as a woman returns to the place of her deepest, most intimate erotic initiation.She gave up everything to surrender to the
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"BERNHARDT IS A MASTER LEGAL TOUR GUIDE, taking the reader through the labyrinth of the judicial system of America's heartland."--Mostly MurderA young Vietnamese immigrant is brutall
Ben Kincaid wants to be a lawyer because he wants to do the right thing. But once he leaves the D.A.'s office for a hot-shot spot in Tulsa's most prestigious law firm, Ben discovers that doing the rig
In the readers' court, no one objects to a full docket of Perry Mason. Virginia Baxter is the only witness still living who can vouch for the authenticity of Lauretta Trent's will. Now, Lauretta has b
Argues that many psychological problems are caused by spirit possession, describes five case studies, and explains how to protect oneself from earthbound entities
During a magical storm, romance writer Alaina Costanza is hurled back in time, into the Western world of her latest novel. There she is kidnapped by her own character, a ruthless outlaw known only as
An electrifying new novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford, who demonstrates her superb storytelling gifts in this passionate tale of Nicky Wells. Beautfiul and fabulously successful as a television war cor
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Strange things were happening on the icy planet called Petaybee. Unauthorized genetically engineered species had been spotted, while some people were simply disappearing. None of the locals were talki
The first in Fern Michaels' best-selling Texas series, TEXAS RICH introduces us to passionately compelling Billie Ames. Young Billie was naive but a real knockout when she met Moss Coleman at the Phil
Let the festivities begin! Garfield's seventh hilarious collection of Sunday comics shows him at his rib-tickling, side-splitting, laugh-inducing best. Party on, Garfield!
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Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answe
If you think your astrological fate is sealed by your Sun sign, think again! Your emotions, instincts, intuition, and mast private passions are dominated by your Moon sign. It throws light on such mys
Book three in the Anthony Award-winning mystery series featuring Amanda Pepper, the resourceful English teacher at Philly Prep.Amanda is sorting books for a school fundraiser, when she comes across a
"Bernhardt is a master legal tour guide, taking the reader through the labyrinth of the judicial system of America's heartland."--Mostly MurderBen Kincaid is not a superstar attorney. In Tulsa, Oklaho
