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Fever Pitch
by Nick Hornby
This is a book about identity, belonging, obsession; about afternoons in the driving rain and bitter cold and glorious, unforgettable goals; getting your head read in Hampstead and punched at Highbury; the dazzling skills of the gods of football and leaving your girlfriend lying fainted on the terraces because Arsenal are about to score. It's about the moments of ecstasy in one man's life. And his pain. And it's... (more)
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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
Original title: 午後の曳航 (Gogo no Eiko)A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic.... (more)
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The Left Hand of God Trilogy: Book 1
The Left Hand of God
by Paul Hoffman
Fourteen-year-old Thomas Cale is an acolyte of the Redeemers, struggling, like other boys his age and younger, to live up to the harsh standards of the Sanctuary. When he is sent to the Lord of Discipline for a minor infraction, he stumbles on a scene of vivisection and kills the Redeemer in his effort to save the victims. He flees with two other boys, Vague Henri and Kleist, and the girl that he has rescued,... (more)
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The Book of Human Skin
by Michelle Lovric
Midday, May 13, 1784: An earthquake in Peru tears up the white streets of Arequipa. As the dust settles, a young girl arrives at the devastated convent of Santa Catalina. At the same moment, oceans away in Venice, an infant tears his way out of his mother's womb. The great Palazzo Espagnol, built on Peruvian silver and New World drugs, has an heir by the name of Minguillo Fasan. Twelve years later, Venice is in... (more)
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La Sangre de Los Inocentes
by Julia Navarro
I am a spy and I’m scared...This is how the chronicle begins, written in the 13th Century by Friar Julian, about the siege of Montsegur and the strife between the Cathars and Catholics. Several centuries later, in 1939, a medievalist agnostic sets off on a perilous journey to Nazi Berlin in search of his Jewish wife. Now set in modern times, a group of radical Muslims blow themselves up in... (more)
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing the stranger as Satan, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally deciding... (more)
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Guilty
Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
by Ann Coulter
In her most controversial and fiercely argued book yet, Ann Coulter calls out liberals for always playing the victim – when in fact, as she sees it, they are the victimizers. In GUILTY, Coulter explodes this myth to reveal that when it comes to bullying, no one outdoes the Left. GUILTY is a mordantly witty and shockingly specific catalog of offenses which Coulter presents from A to Z. And as with each of her... (more)
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Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints
by Sam Brower
"A remarkable man on many levels, Sam Brower is the real deal. Readers are apt to find his firsthand account of bringing Warren Jeffs to justice both extremely disturbing and absolutely riveting."-Jon Krakauer, from the foreword From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints... (more)
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Böser Engel
by Timothy Carter
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Because He Loves Me
How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life
by Elyse Fitzpatrick
Clear word that a heartfelt desire to live a godly life flows out of a recognition of how we've been loved and transformed through Christ. Simply speaking, love changes people. Christians, then, by definition, should exhibit the greatest transformation of all because, rightly understood and cherished, God's love makes them increasingly more like the One who has lavished his love on them. This truth... (more)
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Strife
by John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy OM (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era; challenging in his works some of the ideals of society depicted in the preceeding literature of Victorian England. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. From the Four... (more)
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Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries: Book 6
Quietly in Their Sleep
by Donna Leon
Also known as: "The Death of Faith" - UK editions...Donna Leon’s mastery of plot, her understanding of Venetian manners and mores, and above all her philosophical, unfailingly decent protagonist have made the Commissario Brunetti mysteries bestsellers around the world, including an ever-growing American audience. In The Death of Faith , Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who is leaving her... (more)
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Sons of Taldra
Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure
by Duane Simolke
The scientist Taldra is one of the few people on the planet Valchondria who can see in color, but a police force called "the Maintainers" won’t let colorsighted people reveal their ability to the public. Duane Simolke explores that "closet" metaphor more in this revised edition of Degranon; he also recreates three of the major characters as gay men. Taldra’s family becomes entangled with a violent religious... (more)
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The Beatles
The Biography
by Bob Spitz
"Irresistible ... A captivating picture that hasn't been seen before ... THE BEATLES amplifies and corrects some of what is known about the band's formative years ... It powerfully evokes both the excitement and the price of such a sudden rise." — NEW YORK TIMESAt last in paperback: the biography the Beatles deserve. It's all here, raw and right — the highs and the lows, the love and the rivalry, the awe and... (more)
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Tokyo Cancelled
by Rana Dasgupta
Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they form a huddle by the silent baggage carousels and tell one another stories. Thus begins Rana Dasgupta's Canterbury Tales for our times. In the spirit of Borges and Calvino, Dasgupta's writing combines an energetically modern landscape with a timeless, beguiling... (more)
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The Most Dangerous Man in America?: Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition
by Rob Boston
An expose+a7 of televangelist Pat Robertson's extreme political views, his goals for the United States, his role in contemporary politics, and his efforts to influence society through various political organizations, businesses, and broadcast empire. Original. 50,000 first printing. Tour. IP.
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A Dry White Season
by André Brink
As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season , is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality. Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in... (more)
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Pentecost-Today?: The Biblical Basis for Understanding Revival
by Iain H. Murray, Aain H. Murray
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Havoc in Its Third Year
by Ronan Bennett
A penetrating and ambitious historical novel, Havoc, in Its Third Year is an ingenious, often deeply unnerving narrative of seventeenth-century England that speaks directly to the fanaticism and fears of today. The time is the early seventeenth century, as the quarrel between Royalists and Parliamentarians turns toward civil war, and that between Catholics and Protestants leads toward bloody religious tyranny;... (more)
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The Spanish Inquisition: Book 2
The Growth of the Spanish Inquisition
by Jean Plaidy

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