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Drawing on scriptural passages, as well as on the experiences of herself and others, the author of God Uses Cracked Pots provides an inspirational guide designed to offer comfort, solace, and hope to those confronting the challenges and pain of life. Reprint.

Modern events sometimes demand the reissue of a book published several years ago. Hirsh's "Kabul" almost miraculously provides a window into a country and its people that has suddenly taken center stage. Readers will find a far deeper understanding of this sad country and its suffering people.

Sex and the Single Sister" is an intimate peek inside the lives--and bedrooms--of five upwardly mobile African-American women, who all have the same agenda: to find Mr. Right--or else just Mr. Right Now.

When Elizabeth happens across Damien, she has no way of knowing how drastically her life -- and her beliefs -- will change. Together, Elizabeth and Damien discover a bond of loyalty so unbreakable that together they overcome incredible odds as they attempt to escape a world where such friendships are unknown.

Take Charge...It's Easy! Diabetes has reached near-epidemic proportions in America. If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with it, you need to keep blood sugar in normal ranges and avoid serious complications. But how can you help control diabetes and not let it control you? This handy guide offers step-by-step pointers to not only handle diabetes and keep it from getting worse-but also to reverse the harmful effects of the disease. It...

In Brandon Sladder, author Jeffrey Frank has created one of the most memorable rogues in contemporary fiction. A prominent Washington columnist, Sladder has known just about everyone of importance. He has spoken on intimate terms with world leaders, been a witness to enormous change, and expressed weighty opinions on important matters of state. When former President Bush encourages him to write his memoirs, Sladder believes that his life story...

A biblically rooted discussion of prophetic history and functioning

This concise history relates how Sicily rose to become the first independent, civilized nation of greater Italy, and home to many of the world's most distinguished philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, and artists. The narrative subsequently recounts the region's millennium-long decline at the hands of successive invaders, its hard-won battle for freedom in 1860 under the leadership of Giuseppe Garibaldi, and its current status as a center...

A fast-paced book that is easy to read, The Shroud of Turin is guaranteed to interest everyone and give convincing proof--despite the recent propaganda to the contrary--that the Shroud of Turin is the actual burial cloth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Filled with facts of science and history, you are guaranteed to learn a lot! Well researched and well written. This book is small and doesn't take too long to read -- makes a great gift!

Carla Murdoch had learned what it was to be alone, growing up on different army posts. But now her loneliness is terrible--for her officer father met a mysterious death on a foreign battlefield, and Carla has been sent to live in her new guardian's New England mansion . . . a remote, snowbound place where she finds she isn't really wanted. Together with her dog, Merlin, Carla must make a new start and face demons within and without--for her fa...

How we arrived at a capacity for taking cold, hard looks at the facts of nature -- and whether we ever truly have done so -- are questions that continue to engage both historians of science and students of culture. Historians of modern European intellectual history commonly credit Francis Bacon with laying the groundwork for a mode of study that begins without presuppositions, religious or otherwise, the kind of searching we know as research a...

A rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life." -- "British Journal of the History of Science

Brilliant translations of stories by one of Korea's best known and critically acclaimed writers.

A new collection by the author of "Marisol and Other Plays.

First publication of an important, young playwright.

This collection of the definitive essays by and about the Russian Formalists is crucial to understanding the major theoretical movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Investigating the conceptualization of structure and form within literature, the Formalists affected both the creation of art during this period and the development of literary theory as a scientific discipline.

Iceland follows the absurd adventures of its narrator, Paul, from making love to a woman named Emily whom he meets by a swimming pool filled with floating internal organs, to falling into an underground river in a volcano in Iceland, to sitting in a piano bar for six years crying over the lyrics to "The Banana Boat Song." Driven by Paul's obsession to be reunited with Emily, the plot leaps hilariously through time, coincidence, and disjointed ...

The character Uncle Tom, from Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " is based on the life of Josiah Henson (1789-1882). Born in Maryland, Henson escaped and fled to Dresden, Ontario, Canada in 1830. In 1841, a group of abolitionists, including Henson, created a community/school for runaway slaves called the British-American Institute for Fugitive Slaves. On the 200 acre parcel, Henson and his friends built a grist mil...

Selected by Marilyn Hacker as winner of the Hayden Carruth Award.

From one of Turkey's most influential authors, an arresting novel about male intimacy and desire.