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Missing Books Brian Harris This is a book for the book-lover. As the author writes, ‘great and wondrous things can happen around books. Boswell met Johnson at Tom Davies’s bookshop in Covent Garden. Karl Marx planned to remodel the world in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Jorge Luis Borges conceived a... |
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How to Be a Grown-Up Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus From bestselling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus comes a timely novel about a forty-something wife and mother thrust back into the workforce, where she finds herself at the mercy of a boss half her age. Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible... |
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L'École de Francfort Nul doute que l'École de Francfort est une matrice majeure de la philosophie contemporaine. Cependant repérer les traits constitutifs de ce qui, de manière d'ailleurs assez tardive, s'est appelé «École de Francfort» présente une certaine difficulté... |
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A New View of Society In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation of mankind' and the creation of a 'new... |
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Alien Hitman Jay Cannon This prequel to the Euclidian series follows the exploits of Adar, an alien from the Ossuary System, hired as an elite assassin aboard the Euclidian resource ship Andrea. Adar was sent to retrieve, dead or alive, renegade aliens who started a gang war on their home planet and killed a group of... |
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Where Angels Live, Work, and Play William J. Lavin In late 2012, the New Jersey State Firefighters’ Mutual Benevolent Association was committed to providing much needed advocacy and ongoing support for firefighters, their families and their communities struggling from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. Just two... |
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Lake Misère Jack Fairbanks Lake Misère, a mystery thriller, is set on a lake in Louisiana by the same name. Syndicated food editor Pat Vincent accepts an assignment from The Times Picayune to write a story about a famous Garfish Ball recipe on the eve of the spring Regatta. The renowned cook lives in the dying town of... |
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Bryant's Gap Michael E. Burge In 1947 postwar Chicago, mob related violence is commonplace. Nothing stands in the way of the “Outfit” when it comes to making money; a body here or there, who really cares as long as everyone’s pockets are lined, but when a man is found dead in a small Illinois town—people... |
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Quiescence Terminated Allan Greenbrier Power and political realities ensnare a young Muslim teenage boy in schemes to make religious change. His own quest to make his mark on the world, to be legendary, and to continue a proud family heritage make him a readymade instrument of those plots. His... |
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A Poem and a Picture: Volume 2 Pamela Goodwin The poems in A Poem and a Picture: Volume 2 celebrate life and love, discovery and fulfillment. They show the meaning in our lives through relationships and an appreciation for the world around us. The purpose of this book is to offer ideas that are thoughtful and that... |
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Shot Down Steve Snyder For the first time, the full and complete story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Susan Ruth is shared in unbelievable detail. Author Steve Snyder’s story of his father, Lieutenant Howard Snyder, and the Susan Ruth crew, provides in-depth details about many aspects of World War II few understand... |
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He Said - She Said Frederick Blumberg Joshua Adams is a Harvard-trained Philadelphia lawyer and managing partner of White & Marks, a prestigious 300-plus-person law firm. The story revolves around a disputed charge of sexual harassment by a former white female associate against a prominent black senior... |
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A Cyber Affair Lonz Cook Tiffany Wilkes, "SanFran Pearl," spends hours on dating websites. She’s tired of guys who can’t charm the lid off of a garbage can and sick of God awful blind dates, and mindless encounters. Meeting men at work is a competition and a risk of breaking a dating policy that results in... |
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Beyond Our Degrees of Separation Judith Ravin & Muhammad Hassan Miraj A narrative weave of testimonial non-fiction, Beyond Our Degrees of Separation evokes points of intersection between the US and Pakistan. Hailing from oxymoronic bureaucracies, the co-authors transcend their respective realms of diplomacy and military... |
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Secrets of Men in a Lifeboat Todd R. Baker Luke Morrow, a financially struggling young single parent to an 8-year-old boy, comes to believe that he has nothing, until by a magical twist of fate, his improbable internet technology start-up turns him into a Silicon Valley billionaire star. Secrets of Men in a... |
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The Lies We Tell Jamie Holland The Lies We Tell is a coming-of-age novel set in 1974, after the Watergate scandal has left the country grappling with an unnerving sense of deceit. Although she doesn’t fully understand, thirteen-year-old Martie Wheeler, whose father has suddenly dropped dead of a heart attack... |
