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Like a Fire Is Burning (Work and the Glory)

Like a Fire Is Burning (Work and the Glory)

by Gerald N. Lund

Following its new edition of Jackie Susann's "Valley of the Dolls", Grove Press is proud to reissue a classic novel in the author's pantheon of pop-culture mythologies. "Once Is Not Enough" recounts the colorful life of luscious January Wayne who "can't make it with a guy because she has a thing for her glamorous celebrity dad, Mike" ("Library Journal")

The Work and the Glory, Vol. 1: Pillar of Light

The Work and the Glory, Vol. 1: Pillar of Light

by Gerald N. Lund

One man’s remarkable vision; one family’s desperate struggle With more than two million copies of the nine-volume series in print since its initial release in 1990, The Work and the Glory is one of the most popular historical fiction series ever published by a religious publisher. Pillar of Light, volume one, is soon to be a major motion picture and will introduce this unforgettable story to a new generation... (more)

Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Mormon Money, Murder and Deceit

Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Mormon Money, Murder and Deceit

by Robert Lindsey

Secret Ceremonies

by Deborah Laake

A member of the Mormon Church describes the voodoo-like rituals and behaviors revealed to her on her wedding day and the male dominance, strange teachings, and divine revelations characteristic of her religion. Reprint. PW.

The Furies (The Kent Family Chronicles)

by John Jakes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR The eight-volume epic of the Kent family continues as a new generation struggles to survive within a nation rife with conflict. Amanda Kent was a woman of great courage, but nothing prepared her for the massacre she witnessed at the Alamo. Now she's returned to Boston to rebuild the Kent legacy.

The Warriors

by John Jakes

The Kent Family Chronicles continue as Confederate Corporal Jeremiah Kent carries out his commander's dying request-while the Union Army ravages Georgia.

Bury Me Standing, the Gypsies & Their Journey

Bury Me Standing, the Gypsies & Their Journey

by Isabel Fonseca

Isabel Fonseca describes the four years she spent with Gypsies from Albania to Poland, listening to their stories, deciphering their taboos, and befriending their matriarchs, activists, and child prostitutes. A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. 50 photos.

HERE AND HEREAFTER

by Ruth Montgomery

Have you lived before? Will you live again? Fascinating new revelations about the experience of reincarnation from one of today's foremost psychic authorities. From the Paperback edition.

Ellis Island

by Fred Mustard Stewart

They were five young penniless people who came to America at the turn of the century--a land of shining hope and breathtaking challenge. They came to fulfill a glowing promise and take the fearful gamble of a new life in a land where anything was possible. Reissue.

A World Beyond

by Ruth Montgomery

From beyond the grave comes a startling message from one of the world's most renowned psychics, a message containing the answers to these questions and many more...What does happen after death? Where do you go? What is it like "over there?" What does it feel like to be out of our human shell? Do you see loved ones we have lost long ago? America's best-known spiritualist medium has reached the other world. He has... (more)

The Voyage of NarwahlAndrea Barrett

The Voyage of Narwahl

by Andrea Barrett

Jean-Pierre Rampal Music My Love An AutobiographyJean-pierre; with Wise, Deborah Rampal

Jean-Pierre Rampal Music My Love An Autobiography

by Jean-pierre; with Wise, Deborah Rampal

Mormon Murders

by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

On October 15, 1985, two pipe bombs shook the calm of Salt Lake City, Utah, killing two people. The only link-both victims belonged to the Mormon Church. The next day, a third bomb was detonated in the parked car of church-going family man, Mark Hoffman. Incredibly, he survived. It wasn't until authorities questioned the strangely evasive Hoffman that another, more shocking link between the victims emerged... It... (more)

Strangers among us : enlightened beings from a world to come

Strangers among us : enlightened beings from a world to come

by Ruth Montgomery

Valley of the Dolls: A Novel

by Jacqueline Susann

Its three protagonists--Anne Welles, the uptight-but-full-of-a-strange-yearning New England beauty; Neely O'Hara, the Judy Garland á clef; and Jennifer North, who is sort of the Marilyn Monroe á clef and also sort of the Brigitte Bardot á clef but mainly sort of the least realized character in the book--all spend most of the novel with what they want excruciatingly just out of reach, and all are ultimately... (more)

The Vampire Chronicles: Book 1

Interview With the Vampire

by Anne Rice

The time is now.We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks - as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the leaving dead ...

The Vampire Chronicles: Book 2

The Vampire Lestat

by Anne Rice

After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints . But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview , finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat . As with the first book in the... (more)

The Vampire Chronicles: Book 3

Queen of the Damned

by Anne Rice

In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat . In The Queen of the Damned , Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of... (more)

Cry to Heaven

by Anne Rice

In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as... (more)

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by Gerald N. Lund

by Jacqueline Susann

by Gerald N. Lund

by Robert Lindsey

by Deborah Laake

by John Jakes

by John Jakes

by Isabel Fonseca

by Ruth Montgomery

by Fred Mustard Stewart

by Ruth Montgomery

by Andrea Barrett

by Jean-pierre; with Wise, Deborah Rampal

by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

by Ruth Montgomery

by Jacqueline Susann

by Anne Rice

by Anne Rice

by Anne Rice

by Anne Rice