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People of the Lie: the Hope For Healing Human Evil

People of the Lie: the Hope For Healing Human Evil

by M. Scott Peck MD

A description of the author's experience of psychiatric therapy with patients who appear manifestly evil which attempts to show that a spiritual or even religious dimension is required to aid in the understanding of human nature.

City of Refuge: A Novel

by Tom Piazza

In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families—one black and one white—confront a storm that will change the course of their lives. SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward community where he and his sister Lucy were born. Across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern transplant and the editor of New Orleans's alternative paper, faces deepening cracks in his family as his... (more)

Sweeping Up Glass

by Carolyn D. Wall

1938: Olivia and the boy, Will’m, run Harker’s Grocery and live in the cold-water kitchen behind the store. Money is scarce; business is bad. Out back, Pap is buried near the outhouse, and Olivia’s crazy mother Ida is living in a tarpaper shack. For 30 years, Olivia has loved Wing Harris, who plays a mean trumpet and owns the Kentuckian Hotel. For decades, they’ve shared only howdies at Ruse’s Café. This may be... (more)

Ferlinghetti Coney Island of the Mind

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919. After receiving an A.B. degree in journalism from the U. of NC, an M.A. from Columbia U., and a stint in the Navy during World War II, and after working in the mail room at Time Magazine and living in Paris where he received a Doctorat de l'Universite from the Sorbonne, Ferlinghetti eventually settled in San Francisco, where he and Peter D. Martin... (more)

Die, Decorator, Die: A Novel of Murder, Greed and Interior Design

Die, Decorator, Die: A Novel of Murder, Greed and Interior Design

by Franklin H Levy

INTRODUCING BUZZ AND ALLY LEVIN, THE SEXIEST COMEDY-MYSTERY DUO SINCE NICK AND NORA CHARLES. Buzz is a Yuppie Boston lawyer, whose wit is as sharp as his Mont Blanc pen. Ally is his career-savvy interior-designer wife intelligent, gorgeous, and quick as a whip. Their worlds collide only once a year when the Boston Designers Annual Show House competition descends upon them, and Buzz will do all he can to stay out... (more)

Ruth, a NovelLois T. Henderson

Ruth, a Novel

by Lois T. Henderson

I Am Potential: Eight Lessons on Living, Loving, and Reaching Your Dreams

I Am Potential: Eight Lessons on Living, Loving, and Reaching Your Dreams

by Patrick Henry Hughes

Patrick Henry Hughes was born with a rare genetic disorder that left him without eyes and physically disabled. But he was also blessed with exceptional musical talent—able to play the piano as a toddler and now, at age 19, a nationally known pianist, singer, and trumpeter who has performed at the Grand Ole Opry and the Kennedy Center. Currently he’s a member of his college marching band, playing while his devoted... (more)

All the Living: A Novel

by C. E. Morgan

One summer, a young woman travels with her lover to the isolated tobacco farm he has inherited after his family dies in a terrible accident. As Orren works to save his family farm from drought, Aloma struggles with the loneliness of farm life and must find her way in a combative, erotically-charged relationship with a grieving, taciturn man. A budding friendship with a handsome and dynamic young preacher further... (more)

Belle in the Big Apple: A Novel with Recipes

Belle in the Big Apple: A Novel with Recipes

by Brooke Parkhurst

When Belle Lee, a vivacious, tart-tongued daughter of Mobile, Alabama, decides that the only way she'll ever make a name for herself as a journalist is to leave the family paper and head to New York,she soon realizes just how daunting life in the big city can be. An outsider desperate to carve a place for herself in the cutthroat world of New York journalism, Belle marches all over town in her kitten heels and her... (more)

Mountain, the Miner and the Lord and Other Tales from a Country Law Office (Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)

Mountain, the Miner and the Lord and Other Tales from a Country Law Office (Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)

by Harry M. Caudill

"The stories shine.... More important, they celebrate people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today.-- Washington Post " -- Washington Post "Something to be savored. Some of the tales have twists rivaling anything ever conceived by O. Henry.-- St. Louis Post Dispatch " -- St. Louis Post Dispatch

Time Is a River

by Mary Alice Monroe

With a strong, warm voice that brings the South to life, New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe writes richly textured stories that intimately portray the complex and emotional relationships we share with families, friends, and the natural world. "Every book that Mary Alice Monroe has written has felt like a homecoming to me," writes Pat Conroy, bestselling author of The Prince of Tides . Time Is... (more)

Sag Harbor: A Novel

by Colson Whitehead

The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. After a tragic mishap on his first day of... (more)

Life Without Summer

by Lynne Reeves Griffin

Life Without Summer tells the story of Tessa, a mother who has just lost her four-year-old daughter in a hit-and-run accident and the grief counselor, Celia, who tries to help her to put her life back together. When their lives begin to intersect in powerful and unexpected ways, they discover that the answers one needs might be the other’s only chance for peace. Each woman’s intensely personal journey... (more)

Loser's Town: A David Spandau Novel

by Daniel Depp

In Hollywood, you're not made until you've made a movie. First-time author Daniel Depp introduces private investigator David Spandau, an ex-stuntman familiar with the ins and outs of Hollywood -- a smart, tough, and wickedly funny observer of la vie L.A. -- whose patience is almost sapped when he's hired to protect actor Bobby Dye from a blackmailing scheme gone wrong. Dye -- young, brash, and on the verge of... (more)

Listening to Stone

by Dan Snow

A master craftsman provides us with the timeless wisdom he has gained from heaving and hewing stone. In his highly anticipated second book, Vermonter Dan Snow once again proves that he is not just one of America's premier artisans, but also one of our most articulate voices on the natural world and our relationship to it. Snow's medium is stone: He is the nation's premier drystone wall builder. Schooled in this... (more)

At The Breakers: A Novel (Kentucky Voices)

At The Breakers: A Novel (Kentucky Voices)

by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

"Soon or a little too lateeverything you never knewyou always wanted turns uphereat The Breakers" -- from the book In her new novel At The Breakers, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, author of the widely praised and beloved Come and Go, Molly Snow, presents Jo Sinclair, a longtime single mother of four children. Fleeing an abusive relationship after a shocking attack, Jo finds herself in Sea Cove, New Jersey, in front of The... (more)

Plain Pursuit: A Daughters of the Promise Novel (Daughters of the Promise)

Plain Pursuit: A Daughters of the Promise Novel (Daughters of the Promise)

by Beth Wiseman

Carley has given up chasing her dreams. Now her dreams are chasing her. Carley Marek experiences culture shock when she visits her friend Lillian's family on their farm deep in Amish country. She'll get an article out of the visit--and maybe some of Lillian's newfound peace will somehow rub off on her. Just when Carley is getting used to the quiet nature of the Plain community, Lillian and Samuel's son... (more)

Masterpieces of Murder Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie

Masterpieces of Murder Agatha Christie

by Agatha Christie

Brooklyn

by Colm Toibin

Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn , is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself. Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn to... (more)

Prayers for Sale

by Sandra Dallas

Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado. Nit Spindle is just seventeen and newly married. She and her husband have just moved to the high country in search of work. It's 1936 and the depression has ravaged the country and Nit and her husband have suffered greatly. Hennie notices the young woman loitering near the old sign outside of her... (more)

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