Haunted by guilt after killing a man in his hometown and concealing the crime, a young Southern man travels to New York with his new wife but is dogged by vivid recollections of the murder
Don't you feel that there should be something "more" to working than the paycheck at the end of the week? That you are called a task or career that is uniquely yours, which you can undertake with the
A compelling account of the journey from severe depression, guilt, and near alcoholism to a true healing of the mind and spirit—from a bestselling author and noted psychiatrist"If there is hope for on
Linda is convinced that her troubled boyfriend Lenny--despite dropping out of school--is back on the right track, until she discovers that he is gambling
This illuminating historical and theological argument is an essential work for anyone wishing to understand the major changes that are inexorably altering the face of modern world religions.
Imagine losing your personality, feeling it slip and alter, steadily changing, until the person inhabiting your body is no longer recognizable as you. Imagine. . . and you will understand the feelings
Translated by Hillel Halkin, this is a remarkably diverse and immensely entertaining gathering of Jewish legends and the first worldwide anthology of Jewish folktales.??It draws from both traditional
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Spend a year meditating on the gospel call, as lived out in Mother Teresa of Calcutta. This devotional guide is arranged under fifty-two themes of love and charity, incorporating relevant scriptural p
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This ambitious, wide-ranging, exhaustively researched book is a compelling attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier's experience in its entirety - from the humiliation
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"Never am I more I than when I stand serene, survey the field, weigh my choices,?set my face in one direction, and advance with firm step and joyful heart. To know what I want to do and do it is the e
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Explains what kinds of fears are normal for every age of childhood and adolescence, discusses specific fears--death, strangers, animals, burglers--and shows how to handle children's fears before they
From the best-selling author of??Rubyfruit Jungle and??Bingo, here is a writers' manual as provocative,??frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most??writers' guides, this one had as much to do with
The year Carly turns eleven, 1907, is filled with playing detective, watching condors, observing a fierce feud involving her family's Southern California ranch, and coping with unexpected tragedies.
JILLY COOPER'S outrageous new novel is a riotous story of life behind the television screen.??It marks the return of Rupert Campbell-Black, the unscrupulous hero of RIDERS, and explores the machinatio
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Determined to become a writer, Blackford Turlow decides to work as an apprentice with Eldon Odom, but is disillusioned when he discovers what Odom is really like
Sales pros know that we are in the midst of one of the most turbulent and competitive periods in the history of selling. There are more players in the game, and the game is far mole complex. Customers
This book is both a fascinating account of dream therapy and an exploration of the symbolism of the hare in myth and fable around the world. John Layard, a British Jungian analyst, first recounts his
When Ricky Reyes dares Jeffrey to get a bloody dagger out of the old McGyver house on Halloween night, Jeffrey is counting on Max, his ghostly friend, to help him.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The new wave of organizational innovations involves new types of arrangements between individuals and corporations. It is likely to continue to produce new organizational forms, spanning the entire ra
Astronomy has never been a more popular pastime than it is today. The increased availability of less expensive, more powerful, and more sophisticated telescopes has given rise to a new generation of s
The ancient path of shamanism is alive and well in contemporary society. Physicians, therapists, and spiritual seekers are among those who are rediscovering the shaman's methods—such as drumming, visu
A #1 bestseller in France, this is a nostalgic portrait of a French scholarship student’s discovery of America during the academic year of 1954–1955. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be American, lik
For twenty-five hundred years Buddhism has taught that everyone is Buddha—already enlightened, lacking nothing. But still there is the question of how we can experience that truth in our lives. In thi
This contemporary literary translation of the Gospels will give readers a remarkable new perspective on the Gospels, a feel for them that is very much like the experience of reading the original Greek
Kiddo is back and a decade older. At 23, he's not much wiser or thinner, but the family business needs him, and so does the woman of his dreams. It's time to grow up--whatever that means.From the Trad
"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person stat
Postponing an eagerly awaited retirement after he is assaulted, kidnapped, and thrown off of a building, British spy Appleton Porter seeks the reason behind the violent acts
Is the near-death experience a defense mechanism of the brain or have people actually been on the threshold of another world? Colin Wilson assesses the evidence that includies mediumship, paranormal
Celebrating God's Healing ForgivenessHere is a practical, pastoral book for all Catholic Christians – laity as well as clergy – to foster renewed understanding and practice of the sacrament of reconci
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? “A unique crime writer whose fictional world was brutal, realistic and harrowing in the extreme.”—Guardian? When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West Lon
"It is difficult to imagine a better course for practicing, would-be, or even part-time vegetarians," said The New York Times of Annemarie Colbin's cooking classes. And, in this book, the founder of t
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