Barry: 2877 books

Following his divorce, Dr. Stanley Gilford, chief of cardiology at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, restructured his life on the guiding principle of maximum gain, minimum pain. So what is the well-heeled doctor doing with Ruby, a high school dropout and waitress at the local greasy spoon, and what are...

A staggering vision of Earth in the not-so-distant future. . . In a controlled and mechanical world, the only reality is fear and killing boredom. The only escape from mind-blowing monotony is the Game, with predictable rules of stimulus and response. And if you pit yourself against the Games...

John Livingstone stood and slowly made his way to the kitchen. Detective Gary 'Schoolbags' Samson followed close behind. He grabbed the jug off the bench top, filled it with water and turned it on.  "W-We were at a friends place, Maggie, playing cards. Her new boyfriend, Peter somebody. He was...

Maria Santos, who just bought the Breakfast Nook, knows nothing about cross-contamination, pest control, immersion gauges or reduced-oxygen packaging. The new health inspector is every restaurant owner’s worse nightmare, but Maria needn’t worry. She’s got an ace up her culinary sleeve.

In the rear of Levinson's Wholefood Market, the owner's son, Ernie, just told Shifrah Fienberg that he wants to marry. The emotionally irascible Israeli would have preferred a first date or dozen long-stemmed rose.

In a beautifully written, brooding, and visceral modern gothic thriller, a boundary dispute in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands escalates out of control, pitting local against in-comer with explosive and violent consequences Arriving at their idyllic and newly renovated Highland home, wealthy...

Jewish Lightning (So , what could go wrong?)Where will the lightning strike next?A Coming of Age novel about young man who never quite comes of age. Just when you think he has risen above his earlier challenges, the protagonist, Henry Katz creates new ones, even more hazardous than before.Henry's...

This is a fresh and vibrant offering of Haiku from Barry Plamondon. It is both esoteric and personal and brings humanity and nature into soulful harmony.

Some things hadn’t changed at all.  The sun still came up every morning and set every night.  It rained sometimes, though not much,  and yet even that was normal,  for this time of year.  The nights were cool and the days were hot.  Winds were light for the most part,  and carried beautiful...

Has a plant or tree ever spoken to you, or moved you to a deeper place of self-knowing? Voices of Light, Voices of Love shares the transformational experiences of WOTE students as they journeyed with an essential oil of their choice as part of the Level 1 Medicinal Aromatherapy certification process....

Cultural Writing. THE ENDURING VISION OF NORMAN MAILER is Professor Barry H. Leeds' second book about one of America's most respected, most controversial, and most prolific authors. It looks at Mailer from where Leeds' first volume left off and takes him on through his most recent works. "Leeds'...

In their medical practices, physicians T. Barry and Arlene Levine and Sammie Justesen began seeing young men and women who suffered from PTSD, and were also plagued by severe, advanced, and chronic diseases. Despite their young ages and physical training, many PTSD-afflicted veterans and first responders...

We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would happen. We also believe that some things simply must be so, with no possibility of having been otherwise. And in acting intentionally we all take certain things to be good reason to believe or do certain...

Barry Unsworth’s Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of a man unable to see himself separately from the hero he mistakenly idolizes Admiral Lord Nelson. Charles Cleasby is, in fact, a Nelson biographer run amok. He is convinced that Nelson—Britain's greatest admiral, who finally defeated...