Bentley Bentley: 401 books

"Offers valuable material not only to students of crystallography but also to those of the arts." — The New York Times Did you ever try to photograph a snowflake? The procedure is very tricky. The work must be done rapidly in extreme cold, for even body heat can melt a rare specimen that...

Finalist, 2018 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Walking with Eve in the Loved City is an ambitious collection. Using a variety of male figures—Jeff Goldblum, Ringo Starr, the poet’s uncle Billy, to name a few—these poems skillfully interrogate masculinity and its cultural artifacts, searching...

The Art of Biography Is different from Geography. Geography is about Maps, But Biography is about Chaps. With these rhyming lines, English novelist and humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley introduces this book and an unusual form of verse of his own invention. Bentley's four-line poems, known as "clerihews,"...

Now retired, author Dr. Steven Bentley was a successful emergency physician. But his path in life wasnt always an easy one. In Poor No MoreAn American Dream, he shares his story of how he survived a rare birth defect, abject poverty, an alcoholic mother, a KKK father, an abusive childrens home, and...

Adolescence marks a special and unique stage in human growth and development, but it can be an extremely challenging time for both parents and teenagers. In The Parents and Educators Manual of Teenage Rebirth, author Bruce G. Bentley provides an understanding of how teenagers think, feel, and experience...

YOU ARE AN OVERCOMER! is based on sermons by Dr. Carl Bentley, a pastor of more than twenty-five years. These messages have provided insight and spiritual guidance to congregation, broadcast, and family members. The twenty- one chapters of this book cover topics such as healing, how shouting causes Satan...

Can I trust God when my child is seriously ill? Wessel Bentley knows the agony of this question, and he writes from his own experience of having a child with severe heart problems. Bentley understands parents' need for spiritual support when they face the tough task of raising a child with...

It’s not just about the money... Arguments about money are by far the top predictor of divorce, says Sonya Britt, a professor at Kansas State University. “It's not children, sex, in-laws, or anything else. It's money—for both men and women." Satan seeks every means possible...

Phyllis Bentley a native of Halifax, has written many novels with a background set in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Her descriptive power has been compared to that of the Brontes, who lived but twelve miles from Miss Bentley's home. Of her stories The House of Moreysis perhaps best known, and in the...

Welcome back to our 'Worlds of Treebs'. This is the second in a series of Treeb books by children's author and illustrator Roy Bentley. Treebs are delightful woodland characters that have exciting and surprising adventures; all with happy endings! In this sequel we pick up with Sally Willow, after...

It is a wonderfully wide and multifarious pageant of West Riding life that Phyllis Bentley has spread before us down the years: and now, in Tales of the West Riding (six stories, one of them almost a novel in itself), she enriches it with a number of episodes as vivid as any that have come from her...

Is a girl born a witch? Or does she become one? France, 1350s Jeanne is gambled away by her father at the Rennes Great Market in medieval Francia. Will her new owner, Enchanteur, be kind? She gets her answer soon enough. A harsh taskmaster, Enchanteur demands she learn...

The emerald-encrusted gold San Pedro cross has been stolen from the Bermuda Maritime Museum. In its place remains an impeccable forgery. The investigation into its disappearance by the police and its insurers is at a standstill. All leads have gone cold. Originally discovered by two salvage divers off...

Sometimes a minor incident can have devastating effects. When a brief altercation between two women at an upscale Vancouver hair salon threatens to expose an international Chinese crime boss, flamboyant local banker Neil Mohle and his wife Vivian find themselves running for their lives and others...