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The View from Nebo: How Archaelogy Is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East

The View from Nebo: How Archaelogy Is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East

by Amy Dockser Marcus

The accounts of the Holy Lands history in the Bible have for years been taken for granted. But recently, a body of discoveries has raised questions about many of the most widely accepted Biblical narratives. Amy Dockser Marcus examines this research, which is changing not only our understanding of Scripture but the face of the Middle East today. Marcus takes the reader on a tour of the Old Testament to reveal new... (more)

Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress: A Hip Girl's Guide to the D&D Game

Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress: A Hip Girl's Guide to the D&D Game

by Shelly Mazzanoble

Most Dungeons & Dragons game players are men, yet storytelling and roleplaying come so naturally to women. So where are all the female gamers? The answer is - everywhere! Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress is a smart, humorous examination of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game from a female gamer's point of view. The book delves into the myths and realities of gamer stereotypes. It explains... (more)

Spud

by John Van de Ruit

It’s 1990. Apartheid is crumbling. Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison. And Spud Milton—thirteen-year-old, prepubescent choirboy extraordinaire—is about to start his first year at an elite boys-only boarding school in South Africa. Cursed with embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, a senile granny named Wombat, and a wild obsession for Julia Roberts, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to ... (more)

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice

by Scott Adams

Everyone knows Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert , as the king of workplace humor. His brilliant insights into the crazy world of business have long been on display in his hugely popular comic strip and bestselling books like The Dilbert Principle . But there’s much more to life than work, and it turns out that the man behind Dogbert and the Pointy-Haired Boss has an equally outrageous take on life outside the... (more)

Final Breath

by Kevin O'Brien

At first, the deaths seem random. A young Portland couple brutally murdered in a game gone awry...a Chicago woman who plummeted to her death from an office building...an aspiring screenwriter asphyxiated in his New York apartment. But the macabre souvenirs television reporter Sydney Jordan receives hint at a connection that is both personal and terrifying. After events in her own life went wrong, Sydney fled to... (more)

Generosity: An Enhancement

by Richard Powers

FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ECHO MAKER , A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENE When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar’s blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from... (more)

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