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No Love Lost
by Margery AllinghamTwo swift-moving mysteries: The Patient at Peacocks Hall,and Safer Than Love.
A Beggar in Jerusalem
by Elie Wiesel Lily EdelmanThe prize-winning novel of a man haunted by love and war, and obsessed by a dream of life
Catherine of Aragon
by Garrett MattinglyBiography about Henry VIII's first wife, the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon
The Coming of the Robots
by Sam Moskowitz10 short sci-fi stories by Asimov, Simak, Del Rey, Binder, Wyndham, Phillips, Vincent, Tremaine, Gallun and Fischer - all about robots
The Coming of the Quantum Cats
by Frederik PohlThere are mysterious goings-on at the Cathouse in Albuquerque, the site of the nation's most hush-hush experiments in quantum mechanics...
We Are the Beloved: A Spiritual Journey
by Kenneth Blanchard"My hope is to clear up your amnesia and help you remember what you once knew in childlike innocence: that there is something or someone out there bigger than you who has a divine purpose for your life. The first step in any spiritual journey is a longing for home, a yearning to reconnect with something bigger than you. The focus in this book is on "suiting up"- deliberately accepting on faith God's unconditional love for us as manifested in His gift of grace. ... Rather than trying to persuade you what to do, I'd simply like to share what I believe is an incredibly good deal. It answers the questions about self-esteem once and for all, for it's the realization that once you receive the Lord's forgiveness through grace, you have all the love you will ever need. No amount of striving for approval or achieving greater and greater things will give you more love and acceptance than you already have."
Spill the Jackpot
by Erle Stanley GardnerCorla was blonde, beautiful, and on her way to a lifetime of happiness when she suddenly headed for Las Vegas and faded out of sight...
The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin
by Robert J. BegiebingBased on a true unsolved murder in 17th century New Hampshire, a woman is raped and murdered. Her husband accuses another man and then disappears.
The Greek Treasure
by Irving StoneSophia was only 17, the child of a sheltered Greek upbringing, when she fell under the spell of 47-year-old Henry Schliemann.
Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment
by Colin WilsonThe author devotes much thought to Shaw's formative years, 20-30, and how his novels built up the Shaw persona, and how his success changed him.
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
by Laird KoenigWhat goes on in the house at the end of the lane? Ask the little girl who lives there. Her name is Rynn. She's young and pretty, and very very bright, and just a little strange.
Yesterday's Spy
by Len DeightonA tale of two spies and the old ties that bind them - tightly enough to kill.
The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
by Irving StoneMichaelangelo - creator of David, painter of the Sistine Chapel - and his times, his loves, his genius, his art. Historical fiction.
Jackpot: The Short Stories of Erskine Caldwell
by Erskine Caldwell75 short stories by the classic author
The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence
by Robin W. WinksThe adventurous search for clues to scholarly hoaxes, forgeries, and lost and misleading documents, and the evaluation of evidence in man's study of his own past.
A Short History of Music (Fourth American Edition, Revised)
by Alfred EinsteinThis book covers considers such topics as: primitive music--what was it? how do we know anything about it? music of the middle ages, music of the renaissance, instrumental music through the ages, opera--Latin America is included in this discussion, chamber music--did you know it was popular in the 1920s? Though sometimes technical, this volume is easy to read.
The Passions of the Mind
by Irving StoneA biographical novel of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
by George JacksonWhen he was 18, Jackson was sentenced from 1 year to life for stealing $70 from a gas station. His letters are an outpouring of grief, passion, outrage and defiance.
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan S. Turgenev Constance GarnettWhen a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it was published in 1862 and continues today to seem as fresh and outspoken as it did to those who first encountered its nihilistic hero. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
The Gate of Hell
by Alfred CoppelRoss Ferrar...a veteran of the Korean War, a soldier by profession, is serving as a volunteer with an Israeli paratroop company. Sarai Steiner, once a terrified young refugee from Nazi Austria who fled to England, is now a lovely woman living in Israel. This is the story of Ross and Sarai, their struggle to avoid love, and then to grasp it in the midst of the conflict between Israel and Egypt. This is far more than the bittersweet and moving record of two decent human beings caught in an unconventional emotional cross-current. It is also a vibrant portrait of a new nation in an old land, and a saga of battle, new in its techniques, but ancient in its test of men and its cruel consorting with chance. Here is the exciting adventure and pulsating emotion. Projected against an authentic moment in history, it is grimly real and tenderly human.
Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained
by Damon KnightFrom the book: Charles Fort was convinced that there is a great deal going on in our universe which man has not as yet been able to explain. He was, of course, right. Fort amassed reports of events allegedly observed by humans around the world. Fort's books are full of reports of strange phenomena-such as those similar in every way to today's reports of flying saucers but centuries before they were called flying saucers. Boole gave scientists a powerful tool for attacking problems when the obvious approaches refused to yield informative results. Boole employed reductio ad absurdum. He exhausted all the impossibles and thereby isolated a "very probable" answer. Charles Fort, failing to gain the publishers'-and thereby society's-consideration of his positive theories, left world society with a Boolean-like confrontation of illogical events. Charles Fort as a man of true vision purposefully inverted the equations. By getting the publishers to publish the absurd, he proved his point that the publishers published only the absurd.
Touched by Darkness (Sentinel #1)
by Catherine SpanglerKara settled in the sleepy town of Zorro, Texas, convinced she and her son had escaped the sinister reach of a supernatural underworld but dark forces jeopardize her new life.