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The Romances of George Sand

by Anna Faktorovich

Published: 2014-09-12

Hardcover: 252 pages

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The Romances of George Sand: takes the heroine from a childhood in the aristocracy amidst the Napoleonic Wars, to an unhappy early marriage and eventual divorce, to her careers as a country doctor, pharmacist, lawyer, and most successfully as a romance novelist. This is a story about the r...

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We Live in Water: Stories

by Jess Walter

Published: 2013-02-12

Paperback: 192 pages

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The first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, We Live in Water is a diverse suite of stories marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of America’s most talked-about writers.Stories in We Live in W...

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Cast of Stones, A (The Staff and the Sword)

by Patrick W. Carr

Published: 2013-02-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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An Epic Medieval Saga Fantasy Readers Will Love In the backwater village of Callowford, Errol Stone's search for a drink is interrupted by a church messenger who arrives with urgent missives for the hermit priest in the hills. Desperate for coin, Errol volunteers to deliver them but soon ...

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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

by Donnie Eichar

Published: 2013-10-22

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph...

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Blood and Beauty: The Borgias; A Novel

by Sarah Dunant

Published: 2014-03-11

Paperback: 544 pages

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSThe New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels—The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts—has an exceptional talent for breathing life into history. Now Sarah Dunant ...

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Emotional Equations: Simple Steps for Creating Happiness + Success in Business + Life

by Chip Conley

Published: 2013-02-12

Paperback: 288 pages

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“An invaluable operating manual,” says Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO and author of Delivering Happiness. Using brilliantly simple logic that illuminates the universal truths in common emotional challenges, popular motivational speaker and bestselling author Chip Conley has written “a fresh,...

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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Published: 2014-05-12

Paperback: 132 pages

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Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the...

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Where There's Smoke: A Short Story

by Jodi Picoult

Published: 2014-05-19

Kindle Edition: 40 pages

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Bestselling author Jodi Picoult is a masterful storyteller, who “writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships” (The Boston Globe). Now, in this original short story, available exclusively as an eBook, Picoult i...

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Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God

by Elizabeth A. Johnson

Published: 2011-07-21

Paperback: 248 pages

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'Since the middle of the twentieth century,' writes Elizabeth Johnson, 'there has been a renaissance of new insights into God in the Christian tradition. On different continents, under pressure from historical events and social conditions, people of faith have glimpsed the livin...

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Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love

by Elizabeth A. Johnson

Published: 2014-03-13

Hardcover: 352 pages

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For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main d...