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House

by Tracy Kidder

Published: 1999-10

Paperback: 352 pages

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Tracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American Dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, tensions, challenges, and triumphs.

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Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women

by Anne Moir, David Jessel

Published: 1992-08-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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Why can't a woman be more like a man? What is this thing called "feminine intuition"? Why are men better at reading maps, and women at other people's characters? The answers lie in the basic biological differences between the male and female brain, which, say the authors, make it impossible for the sexes...

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Killer Diller: A Novel

by Clyde Edgerton

Published: 1996-09-29

Paperback: 247 pages

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"Wonderful...Clyde Edgerton tells us another of his lovely tall tales."LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEWListre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile their Project Promise is busy ma...

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The Book Group Book: A Thoughtful Guide to Forming and Enjoying a Stimulating Book Discussion Group

Published: 2000-09

Paperback: 400 pages

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Seventeen new essays and 37 new book lists have been added to this classic primer on book groups. Here is everything any book lover needs to know about forming and enjoying a successful book discussion group. Forty-six essays describe how individual groups are organized and portray their strengths, weaknesses,...

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Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835

by Jefferson Morley

Published: 2012-07-03

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A gripping narrative history of the explosive events that drew together Francis Scott Key, Andrew Jackson, and an 18-year-old slave on trial for attempted murder. In 1835, the city of Washington pulsed with change. As newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, free blacks outn...

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The Cartographer of No Man's Land

by P. S. Duffy

Published: 2014-05-20

Hardcover: 384 pages

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'Trust me. I know where I'm going.' Angus MacGrath, artist, sailor and navigator, is lost ? caught between a remote wife, a disapproving father and a son seeking guidance. Far from his coastal village in Nova Scotia, war rages in Europe, and among the missing is Angus's adventurous brother-in-law whose...

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Burning Girls: A Tor.Com Original

by Veronica Schanoes

Published: 2013-06-19

Kindle Edition: 48 pages

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"Burning Girls", by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educated by her grandmother as a healer and witch growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. In addition to the natural danger of destruction by...

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A Spear of Summer Grass

by Deanna Raybourn

Published: 2013-04-30

Paperback: 384 pages

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Paris, 1923The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsid...

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The Last Call: A Bill Travis Mystery

by George Wier

Published: 2012-10-29

Paperback: 234 pages

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Bill Travis believes that he may not live the most exciting of lives, yet when Julie Simmons steals two million dollars from North Texas quarter horse racer and illegal liquor baron Archie Carpin, the last of a dynasty of criminals from the 1920's, thus ensues a chase across the Lone Star State to recover...

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THE CRY FOR FREEDOM (Winds of Betrayal)

by Jerri Hines

Published: 2013-02-07

Kindle Edition: 162 pages

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A rousing family saga for the fight for America's independence. Follow Hannah and Jonathan Corbett path to Freedom!The winds of change brews over the colonies. Tension against the Crown is mounting daily. In Williamsburg, the rebellion burns strong in the hearts of two si...