A disgraced outcast samurai living in early seventeenth-century Manila, Kitazume is contemplating ritual suicide when a divine force (of a sort) intervenes: Luis, a rogue Jesuit priest and Kitazume’s
Halaris (psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience, Loyola U.) and Leonard (pharmacology, National U. of Ireland) bring together 14 articles in the area of psychoimmunology examining the role of inflamma
Examines the life and career of the American architect, detailing the evolution of his innovative design and the structures which won him fame around the world.
Hidden in London is a legendary power. A fabled chest guards secrets more precious than gold.But in 1666 secrets are deadly, and London is burning.…Charlie Tuesday is the city’s best thief taker. But
In a world at war, four youths try to determine what’s really worth fighting for.For more than twenty years, the Homeland has been immersed in a brutal, unwinnable war. Young men are drafted and sent
Her instincts are telling her something isn’t right…On a chilly morning in rural Suffolk, Cassandra Hawke is woken by a gunshot. Her mother is clinging on to her life, the weapon still lying nearby. E
In 1944, newly married Copper Reilly arrives in Paris soon after the liberation. While the city celebrates its freedom, she’s stuck in the prison of an unhappy marriage. When her husband commits
From one of China’s foremost authors, Jia Pingwa’s Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its humor and pathos, as seen through the eyes
The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new America who became one of the most privileged figures of the Gilded Age.Born to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in
From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world’s most chilling cases of serial murd
From the author of The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about coming apart, getting it together—and moving on. It’s just a two-hour drive…Pon
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer comes an exuberant memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection on the remote Azorean islands of the Atlantic Ocean.Reporter Diana Marcum is i
Abduction. Murder. A conspiracy that could bring down the King.London, 1667: In the wake of the Great Fire, a new city has emerged from the flames. The King has reopened the capital’s theatres,
In the latest installment of the phenomenally bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, author-illustrator Jeff Kinney brings the series back to its roots, as Greg starts a new school year and faces a
With his three daughters finally married, Edward, Duke of Faraday, prepares to settle into a quiet bachelor life. His family, however, has other plans. Concerned that the handsome widower will grow lo
Maggie Monroe has always been independent, headstrong, and capable of handling just about anything. So when her aunt, Margaret, hires Samuel Clay to "assist" Maggie in the opening of a dance hall, Mag
#1 Kindle Bestseller on Amazon.comWinner of Kindle Book Review's Best Indie Book of 2012 Award“An epic feat of imagination” —Justin Cronin, New York Times bestselling author of The PassageThis is the
Kidnapped on his wedding day in the twelfth century and forced into a thousand years of servitude by a cold-hearted faery princess, rugged blacksmith Aidan dreams of nothing but revenge on his captor.
