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Browse all authors List your book | Civil Law in AmericaLarry A. Berglas A creative, concise and simple expression of the law, Civil Law in America is an important and unique addition to the vast library of complex law topics and titles. Less than 70 brief pages in length, the book is not a law treatise, casebook, "how to," substantive reference, or primary or secondary law source... |
 | The Brujo's WayGerald W. McFarland Don Carlos Buenaventura, a powerful brujo in his sixth life, practices a benign form of sorcery based on his motto "Do no harm." His great powers derive from intensive training in heightened awareness akin to Eastern yogic disciplines rather than from incantations... |
 | TurbulenceAnnette Herfkens If you think that surviving an airplane crash will get you a free pass for the rest of your life, think again. When young Annette Herfkens, one of the few female international bond traders on Wall Street and her fiancé boarded Vietnam Airlines flight 474 in Ho Chi Minh City, they were just two... |
 | Last WordsRich Zahradnik In March of 1975, as New York City hurtles toward bankruptcy and the Bronx burns, newsman Coleridge Taylor roams police precincts and ERs. He is looking for the story that will deliver him from obits, his place of exile at the Messenger-Telegram. Ever since he was demoted from the... |
 | The Essence of Christianity Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72), the German philosopher and a founding member of the Young Hegelians, a group of radical thinkers influenced by G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), was an outspoken critic of religion, and the 1841 publication of this work established his... |
 | Healing Your Wounded SpiritCherie Rickard The loss of a love is a nearly universal emotional crisis, whether the end is divorce, desertion of a friendship, death of a loved one or a mutually agreed-upon separation. At first, friends and family are there to offer a shoulder to cry on, but after a few months there's an... |
 | The Bridge to CaracasStephen Douglass How was an incredible $325,000,000 theft achieved using The Peace Bridge as a fulcrum? It was a piece of national history. The story had to be told. One of the largest and most audacious gasoline tax evasion scams in Canadian and U.S. history. The perpetrator used The Peace Bridge... |
 | Rage Against the Dying LightJan Surasky Few woman warriors are more storied than Boudicca, the fierce redheaded queen who, in the first century A.C.E., led the most celebrated Celtic rebellion in history. Here, for the first time, Jan Surasky imagines Boudicca's enthralling story of bravery and... |
 | The WhipKaren Kondazian The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man. As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love and had a child. Her husband was lynched and her baby killed. The destruction... |
 | Nowhere OutVincent J. Sachar Former Navy SEAL Kent Taylor, under the false identity of Ronald Lane Woodruff, is hidden away with a reclusive lifestyle that he must have for reasons that touch upon the safety of others. This scintillating razor-sharp sequel to "The Nowhere Man" serves up a new list of victims when a... |
 | Rowing into the SonJordan Hanssen The daring true story of the first North Atlantic Rowing Race, and the endurance needed by a team of companions to row their way to victory across the Atlantic Ocean. Traces the struggle of the only American team competing in the first rowing race from New York to England. The... |
 | A Gift from My FatherMichael L. Banner Big men, small men, smart men, strong men, brave men, kind men, rich men, poor men: they can all be different. They can all be real men, and it seems like they all were not all that long ago. The men of the greatest generation knew what fortitude meant. They knew what it took to win a war, to... |
 | Patience BetrayedOlivia Andem Patience Betrayed follows the title character through the courtship maze in 1816, during the era of Jane Austen. This sweet romance is about a young lady's starry-eyed quest for happiness that unfolds in the spa city of Bath, the English countryside and London. Each chapter begins... |
 | Sprouting SeedsJamila D. Smith I sat at my great- grandmother's kitchen table, helping her prepare for our 69th annual family reunion. Lots of relatives were traveling from all over the country to visit Mama Cora in Atlanta, yet I was the first great- grand- daughter to fly from Philly. I had just changed out of my... |
 | Death at 40Cheryl A. Shaffer When Your Dreams Are a Message from God... Everyone dreams. Sometimes you remember your dreams in vivid detail; sometimes they don't seem important. Death at 40 is a compelling memoir from Cheryl A. Shaffer about the role that dreams played in communicating... |
 | The Sleepwalkers The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a... |
