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by Emma Newman
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
“A modern fantasy that playfully mixes magic and interesting characters into an intriguing mystery.”—Kirkus Reviews
Beautiful and nuanced as it is dangerous, the manners of Regency and Victorian England blend into a scintillating fusion of contemporary urban fantasy and court intrigue.
Between...
by Mike Newman
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
A full story rhyming text for boys who are ‘reluctant’ readers, but who are also far too grown-up for kids picture books!Mike Newman is a qualified teacher and professional freelance writer. Although he specializes in medical writing occasionally he strays from the norm, follows his heart...
by Al Newman
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Are you ready for a story about an eighty-eight foot, seven thousand pound anaconda? No, no, no — don’t shred this yet. Be a Brazilian literary agent or film producer for a moment. Tales of constrictor snakes almost twice that size appear in Brazilian newspapers with sobering regularity. Websites...
by James Newman
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Bangkok, mega-city, land of metal and glass.
What’s there to do in the city?
Explore shopping malls, ride a motorbike taxi, visit China Town. Take a river cruise, visit the night market in Pat Pong, watch the Beatles cover band, caress exotic pets at the weekend market, experience the embalmed...
by David Newman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
The poems of 60 Signs for Doomsday have a lyrical quality which should appeal to a general audience: doers of good, doers of evil, the righteous, Biblical scholars, the felonious, worshippers of satanic craft, boring housewives, high-and-mighty executives, fans of heavy metal music, and rage-filled...
The White Flamingo
Joe Dylan Crime Noir, #3
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
"The White Flamingo – the third ‘Joe Dylan crime noir book ‘ – is hard-boiled pulp fiction pumped up to the max. It’s a lethal cocktail of graphic violence, booze, drugs and sex. It’s bright lights and dark shadows and it’s certainly not for the fainthearted." - Paul Brazill.
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Heresy
A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
A Catherine LeVendeur mystery
Catherine LeVendeur is a creature of twelfth-century France. Her life is a mirror of that time but she is a unique spirit, determined to make her way in the world and armed with a keen mind and a curiosity that often puts her in peril. Her life is both a reflection...
Love Canal
A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. Initially seeking evacuation, area activists...
Waiting for Birdy
A Year of Frantic Tedium, Improbable Grace, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of “Bringing Up Ben & Birdy,” a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the...
Making Love in the Twelfth Century
"Letters of Two Lovers" in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student fell in love and chronicled their affair in a passionate correspondence. Their 116 surviving letters, some whole and some fragmentary, are composed in eloquent, highly rhetorical Latin. Since their discovery in the late twentieth...
Ghosts of the Civil War
Exploring the Paranormal History of America's Deadliest War
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2017
The Civil War left behind unforgettable stories of brave soldiers, heartbroken families, violent battles...and a paranormal legacy that continues to fascinate and scare us more than 150 years after the war ended.
Paranormal investigator Rich Newman presents over 160 different locations with...
Untamed Hospitality (The Christian Practice of Everyday Life)
Welcoming God and Other Strangers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Christian hospitality is more than a well-set table, pleasant conversation, or even inviting people into your home. Christian hospitality, according to Elizabeth Newman, is an extension of how we interact with God. It trains us to be capable of welcoming strangers who will challenge us and enhance...
Edible Flowers
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Most of us like to look at them, but why on earth would anyone want to eat them? As Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman show in this book, however, flowers have a long history as a tasty ingredient in a variety of cuisines. The Greeks, Romans, Persians, Ottomans, Mayans, Chinese, and Indians all knew...
Desegregating Dixie
The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to...