Francis of Assisi

Arnaldo Fortini

Biographies & Memoirs

Crossroads Press

"This is a novel about a day in the life of Jake Rinker, coal miner. You are with him from waking until the end of his shift at the mine. In that small span of time, this brief and straightforward book brings you very close to a man and his thoughts about his job, the miners he works with, the company he works for, his union, his home, his life."

Rinker

Barbara Angle

My Life as a Boy

Joyner, Quintard

Watching TV Off The Back Of A Fire Truck (Voices From The Floyd Flood In Eastern North Carolina)

Julie; Newman Harlan Joel (editors) Fay

Gentile Girl: Living with the Latter-day Saints introduces the major beliefs and practices of the Mormons through the easy-to-read, captivating story of a young Christian girl at Brigham Young University.

Gentile Girl: Living with the Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality

Forseth, Carol Avery

Christian Books & Bibles

Arnie Hackett finds a remarkable granite stone and discovers that it can turn him into any animal he chooses. He uses the stone to thwart the class bullies, rescue his friends, and to overcome many challenges.

Arnie Hackett

Alexander, Lee

More than the true story of a daringly successful entrepreneur, MAKING WAVES will inspire the reader to take to heart the author's parting advice, "It's frightening to step into the unknown. But if you never risk it, you'll never know what might have been. And simply by taking that step, win or lose, you succeed." In 1975, Libby took a chance and, with her partners, started This End Up Furniture Comapany. The business began what would become the crate furniture phenomenon in America, and ultimately grew to a nationwide chain of 253 stores, 6 factories, 12 distribution centers and 2500 employees. When the company was sold in 1985, at 41 years old Libby found the choices for the rest of her life to be gloriously broad. Eight years of blue-water cruising between the Florida Keys and Venezuela aboard the 70-foot motor yacht "Crossroads" generated pleasure and terror in equal measure. With wanderlust sated, Libby and her husband then turned their assets and business acumen to developing a resort in the Bahamian out-islands. The Browns bought a 50-acre island of rock and ruined buildings, 75 miles from the nearest city, devoid of potable water, power or communications. Three and a half years of extraordinary will, work and wealth went into the little cay, the entrenched culture of the tropical island country and the inscrutable bureaucracy of the Bahamian government. In 2002, Fowl Cay Resort opened for business and showed Libby the backside of fortune.

Making Waves

Libby Brown

First Printing. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that is lightly faded along its spine. Signed and numbered by Lansdale. This is #384 400 numbered trade hardcovers. Cover art by George Pratt.

Freezer Burn

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

joe-r-lansdale

Thrillers & Suspense

In her debut novel, Sunglasses After Dark (1989), no-nonsense nosferatu Sonja Blue is a punk vampire vigilante with a Clint Eastwood swagger who shows up the sensitive vampire antiheroes of most dark fantasy as refugees from a fern bar. The commanding figure she cuts in three follow-up novels is only occasionally on display in these seven short stories (three original to the volume), the majority of which read like outtakes from longer works. "Cold Turkey" actually was incorporated into the third novel, Paint It Black, but it offers a satisfying example of the series' hard-boiled appeal with its chronicle of Sonja's struggle to repress "the Other," the ravenous vampire ego that lurks behind her omnipresent mirrorshades and terminally threatens her efforts at anonymous coexistence with humans. Other stories are less generous in imagination, overworking vampire rape imagery, yanking Sonja onstage belatedly to bat cleanup and, in the case of "Knifepoint," avoiding her appearance altogether. At least one is near-perfect, "Vampire King of the Goth Chicks," in which Sonja exposes a vampire faker in the Goth subculture, perfectly balances graveyard humor with Sonja's self-conscious disgust with her own vampirism and her seething contempt for deluded vampire wannabes who think being undead is "all black leather, love bites, and tacky chrome jewelry." Though Collins is in full command of her material and always makes the gore seem to matter, this book is only for Sonja's blood simple fans. 
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Dead Roses for a Blue Lady

Literature & Fiction

Nancy A. Collins

Contemporary

Buy It By the Acre, Sell It By the Foot

ALLMAN, Sam with ALLMAN, Sheldon

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