Jim: 5732 books

After Brock moved in next door six months ago, the robberies began: lawn mowers, barbeques, and checks from mailboxes. The tranquility of our tree-lined neighborhood was further shattered when the car break-ins started three months ago. Yesterday, someone broke into my daughter Jayna’s car and stole...

Pith & Piffle, overt verse is Jim Gronvold's fourth collection of poems. HIs concise lyrical verse is inspired by nature, philosophy, autobiography and humor.

Rising from the depths of poverty and despair, Jim Richards fought his way through the hell of Vietnam, to engage in even more deadly combat to defend his family. With his adopted brother and family of friends, he not only endures the loss of his beloved Mary, but overcomes the deep emotional scars...

Dark magic and dark pasts haunt the characters in these short stories set in mysterious, exotic Thailand. Ghosts and spirits and the real-life terror of despair besiege the pages of The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand, horror stories by award-winning writer and longtime...

Rhymed poetry inspired by lyrical moments that leapt and crept out of natural places, and a few of the winged creatures that connect us to them. This is Jim Gronvold's first printed collection of verse.

Blood on the Moon brings to a close the series of five books which Tully hoped would be grouped together and called the Underworld Edition. He saw his previous books Beggars of Life. Circus Parade, Shanty Irish, and Shadows of Men as having a common thread of telling the stories of the outcasts and...

In the fourteenth century, French kings prized such fare as peacock, storks and herons. Guillaume Tirel not only cooked these dishes, he left a book on how to do it. Le Viandier has survived in at least four different versions. Now Jim Chevallier has translated the so-called Fifteenth Century version,...

In the fourteenth century, French kings prized such fare as peacock, storks and herons. Guillaume Tirel not only cooked these dishes, he left a book on how to do it. Because (it is said) he had a long sharp nose, he was nicknamed "Taillevent" ("Slice-wind"), and his classic cookbook...

Le Grand d'Aussy traces French bread history from the first Tameliers and Fourniers to the Boulangers whose bread evolved from a simple boule to the pains mollet of the seventeenth century and the long breads which already began to replace round breads in the eighteenth century. Along the way he looks...

Words mean things. They are pregnant with imagery, tone, meaning, and texture. They are building blocks by which we can construct silly things or serious things. We can instruct and insult with our language. I choose to encourage and instruct. This book is a collection of thoughts, ideas, jokes, and...

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's Tension City. With Flying Crows*,* veteran newsman and bestselling author Jim Lehrer has written his most powerful novel, a work that moves masterfully from past to present and back again to solve the mystery that is American mayhem. In...

Following the enormous success of his two bestselling previous novels, White Widow and Purple Dots, Jim Lehrer takes on a new and controversial subject in this ambitious story about an American soldier who, many years after the fact, is forced to relive his harrowing experience in the Second World...

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's Tension City. Ever reliable and responsible, Otis Halstead is a father, a husband (one half of a “well-dressed couple of substance”), and the CEO of Kansas Central Fire and Casualty. He has never done anything out of the ordinary....

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's Tension City. Veteran newsman and acclaimed novelist Jim Lehrer exposes worlds both intimate and universal, builds suspense with an accomplished hand, and reveals a savvy understanding of the modern social landscape. With The Phony Marine,...