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Confusion, fury, and disbelief filled Rucker McClure's soul when he saw his wife across the airport waiting room. ?A year ago, Dinah had vanished without a trace, but he'd never stopped looking for he

Maps of Manhattan show the location of hospitals, museums, churches, nightspots, libraries, theaters, restaurants and shops, and are accompanied by useful addresses and telephone numbers

Abundant close-view photographs and detailed descriptions of seashells fill the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Seashells of North America, yet the guide is designed to be slim enoug

A personal account of life in the Catholic ghetto of West Belfast by a Chicago journalist offers vivid portraits of people adjusting to bomb threats, murders, police searches, hunger strikes, and spor

The War & Peace of golf. A quaint old classic from 1946, with an intro by the Duke of Windsor. It's good advice, and seriously, this game has hardly changed a whit in 50 years!

The author describes her experiences as the wife of a Czech diplomat during the political turmoil of the 1950s and 1960s

Since Old Testament days discrimination against minorities and other groups has been the rule in history rather than the exception. Chief among these repressive attitudes has been the inferior social

Describes the literary traditions of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America and looks at the problems women writers face in gaining acceptance

The policy of affirmative action, today, more so than in the Civil Rights era, is under severe scrutiny. Nicholas Capaldi's Out of Order typifies the present-day criticism of affirmative action and sh

Thomas Szasz has been challenging the very existence of "mental illness" for over twenty-five years. His advocacy of freedom of choice and the abolition of involuntary psychiatry has made him America'

Drawings provide scenes of possible future ecological danger, warfare, and increasingly hazardous city life

Do you want to become more confident handling an oil brush? How about developing your skill in manipulating and mixing oil colors? This volume, filled with the experience and techniques of ten of toda

Offers a detailed month-by-month account of the events of the Cultural Revolution and analyzes their legacy in current Chinese politics

For how thy memory has lingered on–In spite of cruelest winter’s drear and howl–By inner mirror seen; I’ve dwelled upon,I must confess, my treachery most foul.Did Shakespeare pen a series of passionat

A mother and child share so much together–countless milestones, simple joys, unexpected challenges, and all the little surprising moments in between. This five-year journal will help you capture it al

New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry returns with his latest thriller, a Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a pol

Three oddballs form an alternative family in Paris; its warm heart and youthful vibe have made Gavalda's novel, originally published in France in 2004, a bestseller in that country and elsewhere.Camil

The bestselling collaboration of two masters of the macabre is available once more. Thirteen-year-old Jack Sawyer has been chosen for a quest across America--and into another realm. To save his moth

In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inve

Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th

The complete text of 2 of Aristotle's most important and influential works, in the famous and authoritative Oxford translations by W. Rhys Roberts and Ingram Bywater.

The hit danmei novel series that inspired the manhua—also available in English from Seven Seas—and the animated series/donghua! In an ancient China where magic has been nearly extinguished, two young men must work together to prevent the destruction of all life. Set in the same universe as Legend of Exorcism!Once, ancient China was brimming with magic…but three hundred years ago, the Spiritual Qi of the Heavens and Earth dried up in the Silence of All Magic. Hundreds of years with no spiritual qi have allowed resentment to build unchecked, and it’s only a matter of time before calamity descends and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction. Once-powerful exorcists have done their best to preserve their legacy in the centuries since, but now only one remains: Chen Xing, now tasked with venturing out into the war-torn world to prevent the impending apocalypse.Chen Xing’s sole magical ability is a heart lamp, a supernatural light source that’s supposed to guide him to the destined P

For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Hare with Amber Eyes comes a propulsive, haunting journey into the secret history of brain science by Luke Dittrich, whose grandfather perfo

For readers of Station Eleven and The Martian, Lily Brooks-Dalton’s haunting debut is the unforgettable story of two outsiders—a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Ear

From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West. ?In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s end

A lavishly illustrated book on the close relationship between de Lempicka’s art and the world of fashion. Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898–March 18, 1980)—an icon of the Jazz Age and Art Deco style—wa

Bento's Sketchbook is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well as a meditation on how we perceive and seek to explore our ever-changing relationship with the world around us.From the Hardcov

In this unprecedented work two decades in the making, leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking

Looks at the history of Fenway Park and the Boston Red Sox along with a pop-up replica of the ballpark.

Move over, Uncle John. Here comes a hipper book with engrossing-and just plain gross-articles on subjects other bathroom books barely touch: celebrities, sex, drugs, computers, and crime, along with p

This easy-to-understand retelling of Hanukkah, The Jewish Festival of Lights, teaches children about the defilement and reconsecration of the Temple, the formation of the Maccabees, and the great mira

Sally, now 25, is comfortably settled with her child, Harriet, her work, and her London friends. But when a complete stranger claims to be both her husband and Harriet's father, Sally's whole world co

John Thomas, a boy who lives in the woods of Tennessee with his stern guardian Luke, leads a lonely, solitary life. One morning after a storm, he finds an injured bird and makes his pet. When another