Burns: 965 books

Amanda is an ordinary girl in an extraordinary world. Raised with the secrets of the backworlds and behind-the-scenes spaces of our reality, she has grown into a confident, normal person. But, when she falls in love with the son of a Locus -- a cornerstone of reality -- Amanda must prove she can be...

The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But if we shift our focus from economic...

Amateur sleuth Samantha Washington’s shopping trip to Chicago takes a deadly detour when a man is murdered on her bus . . . After some post-Christmas retail therapy in the Windy City, mystery bookshop owner and historical whodunit novelist Sam Washington is returning home to North Harbor,...

What is this thing called Philosophy of Religion? grapples with the core topics studied on philosophy of religion undergraduate courses including: the meaning of religious language, including 20th century developments the nature of the Divine, including divine power, wisdom and action　 arguments...

On the list of things that Grey Graham thought shed never do is hire a psychic. Her new bookstore on South Padre Island, however, appears to be haunted. Unable to explain why, shes convinced that the restless ghost is her late partner, Mary. The locals tell her that psychic Angie June is the real deal,...

Physician Corinthia Madsen Salas—Dr. Maddie—has a flourishing practice in the tiny southern town of Maypearl, Alabama. Although she’s on call for her eclectic patients 24/7, she keeps her personal life private—most notably the fact that she is in love with her new receptionist, Ella Lewis....

The two authors of “The Crevice” are well suited to writing a crime novel together.  William J. Burns was director of the Bureau of Investigation, a predecessor to the FBI; a member of the Secret Service; founder of the eponymous detective agency; and author of true crime stories. ...

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) is increasingly recognized as the most influential writer of the twentieth century. Sales of his books remain exceptionally high, and Middle-earth fan clubs flourish around the world. The massive success of the film versions made of The Lord of the Rings, and released between...

Søren Kierkegaard is often cast as the forefather of existentialism and an anti-Hegelian proponent of the single individual. Yet this book calls these traditional characterizations into question by arguing that Kierkegaard offers not only a systematic critique of idealist philosophy, but more surprisingly,...

Over four years ago, Jack Preston’s world was destroyed when Sara Johnson, the woman he was going to ask to marry him, disappeared from his life. Slowly, over the years, he has become a successful rancher, but emotionally he remains the bitter, wounded man she left behind. This rancher has been...

A Healing Kind of Love Sally Rogers left Dallas a broken woman—physically and emotionally. Her marriage was a farce in every sense of the word. After her parents turned their backs on her, she sought shelter with a childhood friend. On her way there, upset and crying, she almost hits a man...

A chance meeting at a rodeo threw Luke and Amanda together. Amanda is Luke's one chance at happiness and he's going to keep her for as long as the ride lasts. Until she learns the terrible secret he's hiding. Amanda has found the love of her life and she's going to do everything in her power...

When a simple search into her family history reveals a terri‐ fying truth about herself, Raven Stone sets out to find the truth. Dazed and alone after confronting her parents with her new found knowledge, an accident lands her in the arms of Tanner Graham, a Private Investigator. Running...

Drawing on evidence from across the behavioural and natural sciences, this book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated social brain in Homo sapiens. Having explained the rationale for an evolutionary approach to psychosis,...