Jean Grant: 15 books

Can marriage survive war and temptation? In the spring of 1976, the crackle of machine-gun fire resonates throughout Beirut, Lebanon. Finlay Fortin, a professor at the American University of Beirut, is anxious to leave the country with his family. But his wife Mo, an ambitious photojournalist,...

Ever felt the hairs on your neck rise at something a toddler says?Inspired by the creepy things kids say and do, this collection of horror stories features unexpected frights, nervous giggles and often poignant reflections on life, childhood, and the terrors of growing up - such as when your new house...

Quel est le secret de l’infirmière Hilda Wade ? Pourquoi s’intéresse-t-elle autant au Pr Sebastian, sommité médicale qui fait l’unanimité ? Le Dr Cumberledge va bientôt découvrir la vérité sur ce savant qu’il admire tant,...

An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy. Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest,...

On a volé les rubis de Miss Persis Remanet, la riche héritière américaine ! Mais Scotland Yard enquête… Malheureusement, le plus suspect n’est pas celui qu’on croit. Un classique méconnu de la detective story. Grant Allen (1848-1899)...

C’est avec un plaisir sans mélange que nous vous présentons Miss Lois Cayley, une héroïne qui n’a pas froid aux yeux. Ruinée par un beau-père dispendieux, elle n’a pas d’autre choix que de se faire aventurière et s’embarque pour un périple...

Maître du déguisement, illusionniste hors pair, recherché par toutes les polices du monde, le Colonel Clay est le plus grand des voleurs… mais ce n’est pas un gentleman ! Voici qu’il s’est mis en tête de persécuter Sir Charles Vandrift, un homme d’affaires...

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...

Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs. In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging...

Team Foundation Server is now for everyone! Team Foundation Server is an integral part of Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management suite for managing and delivering software projects. The 2013 update has opened up TFS for everyone by expanding capabilities to support iOS, MacOS, Android,...

In this collection of 29 stories, you can visit a smoke-filled bar in a fantasy world, or experience a love affair with artificial intelligence. Maybe you'd prefer to go back in time and relive the experience of going to a baseball game with your dad, or go back even farther to live in a perilous...

Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection Category, 2018 With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a...

Human Strengths and Resilience is intended to serve as a bridge between these two rapidly expanding disciplines by focusing on the critical issue of human strengths and resilience in cross-cultural and international perspective. To achieve these ambitious goals the editors have assembled an international...

Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Elise the Actress: Climax of the Civil War (covering the year 1865), Janie’s Freedom:...