SUMMARY: When Kate McBride returns to her hometown of Bishop's Bridge, North Carolina, for a family reunion, she expects questions about her husband's conspicuous absence. What she...
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"Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get. It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health."--The New York Review o...
Product DescriptionSpecial delivery: Danger! When Stanley's mother needs the secret ingredient for a special recipe, Stanley mails himself to Mexico to track down its mysteriou...
A space-borne superweapon rains death down on an American small town, and Blaine McCracken races to learn who pulled the trigger before the fearsome beam turns on Washington ...
Product DescriptionThe Alabaster Staff is the first title in a new Forgotten Realms series focusing specifically on the iconic character class of the rogue. Each novel in the serie...
From Publishers WeeklyThis history of the development of the airplane by Spenser, a former curator of the National Air and Space Museum and author of 747, recasts the Wright broth....
SUMMARY:If you are either learning German, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a German speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of The Age of In...
From Publishers WeeklyInspired by Richard Hofstadter's trenchant 1963 cultural analysis Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Jacoby (_Freethinkers: A History of American Secular....