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Pastor of the National Community Church on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., offers suggestions for using the ancient practice of…
prayer circles. Provides examples of what the ritual can achieve and asserts that "who you become is determined by how you pray." Bestseller. 2011.
After over a decade of successful ministry, Groeschel had to make a painful self-admission: although he believed in God, he…
was leading his church like God didn't exist. Now the founding and senior pastor of the multi-campus, pace-setting LiveChurch.tv, Groeschel’s personal journey toward a more authentic God-honoring life is more relevant than ever. 2010.
Weaves together the life, loves and murder of the world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, with the story of the man…
who killed him (twice): Martin Strauss, an everyday man whose fate was tied to the magician's in unforeseen ways. A cast of memorable characters spins around Houdini's celebrity-driven life, as they did in his time: from the Romanov family soon to be assassinated, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the powerful heads of Scotland Yard, and the Spiritualists who would use whoever they could to establish their religion. 2014.
Dwindling resources, massive population shifts, natural disasters, spreading epidemics. Drought, rising sea levels, plummeting agricultural yields, crashing economies and political…
extremism. These are some of the expected consequences of runaway climate change in the decades ahead, and any of them could tip the world towards conflict. 2008.
Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator…
and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not refuse. Sequel to "The sword of the Lictor". 1983.
The Torturer Severian continues his journey of exile to the city of Thrax. He carries with him the ancient executioner's…
sword, Terminus Est, and the Claw of the Conciliator, a gem of extra-terrestrial power and beauty which no one man is meant to possess. Sequel to "Shadow of the Torturer". Followed by "Sword of the Lictor". 1981.
Four years after the battle of Londra and the destruction of the Dark Empire, Castle Brass is rebuilt in the…
wild marshlands of the Kamarg, and there Dorian Hawkmoor lives with his family. Suddenly their peaceful life is interrupted when old enemies from Hawkmoor's past appear, forcing him to battle once more against the forces of evil. 1985.
A history of China from 1780 to 2000, outlining its transition from a traditional society to a world power. Includes…
the consequences of Western imperialism, early twentieth-century cultural upheavals, continuing social transformation, and economic disasters. 2000.
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Well's odyssey begins. As…
the older unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder, a man of rare compassion and with an addiction to ether. It is Homer's story we follow, from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to his adult life running a cider-making factory and his strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend. Strong language. Descriptions of sex. 1985.
When accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 Singer said that the storyteller must be "an entertainer of the…
spirit". His stories range from the fantastic and supernatural to tales of ordinary life and people. 1982.
For Mary and Colin, on holiday in a city where everything is strange to them and they are continually lost…
both physically and mentally, it is easy to close their eyes to the hidden danger lurking behind Robert's apparent friendliness. 1981.
This history of Chinese immigration to Canada includes an examination of the impact of racism on the Chinese community and…
the occupational achievements of Chinese-Canadians in the 1960s and after. c1988.
Margaret Sargent is a young bohemian who is finding it increasingly difficult to live according to the truth of her…
1930s world of cynical intellectuals. Through six different episodes, she moves towards a confrontation with herself. 1970, c1939.
A collection of stories that variously portray Southern small town society, rural life, and a professor in academia. "Blackberry Winter"…
is a man's boyhood reminiscence about a rude drifter who visited his family's Kentucky farm years ago and made an indelible impression. 1947.
The authentication of a handwritten chapter of Dumas's The Three Musketeers embroils rare-book hunter Lucas Corso in a literary intrigue.…
The chapter's owner is found hanged, but was the death suicide or homicide? The beautiful widow has her own interest in rare books. Corso goes from Madrid to Paris to figure it out. 1996. Uniform title: Club Dumas.
JR the terrier and his embassy friends Robert, Pie, and Beatrix are on their way to Prague! Having solved the…
mystery of the missing dogs in Moscow, JR is ready for a vacation with his human, George, and George’s Russian girlfriend, Nadya. And where better to distract themselves than in Prague, taking in the sights and meeting Nadya’s brother, a circus performer. But something is amiss at the circus - the animals are unhappy. The boxing kangaroo doesn’t want to box, the dancing chimpanzee doesn’t want to dance. Not only that, but a fancy new circus is coming to town, threatening to put everyone out of a job. It’s up to JR and the embassy dogs to save the show, with the help of some unlikely accomplices. Grades 3-6. Sequel to "The metro dogs of Moscow". 2013.
The best selection of George Orwell's non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism. His letters to such…
luminaries as Julian Symons, Anthony Powell, Arthur Koestler, and Cyril Connolly are poignant and personal. His essays, covering everything from "English Cooking" to "Literature and Totalitarianism," are memorable, and his books reviews are among the most lucid and intelligent ever written. V.1 "An age like this, 1920-1940." 1970.