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Baphomet's Blessing
by Eve MortonWhen Natasha "Tasha" Joon accepts an invitation to read from her gender memoir to a feminist bookstore, she thinks it's one of her many stops on her publicity tour organized by her best friend and secret-crush Lydia. As it turns out, the audience that awaits her is far more sinister than she ever thought possible, and Tasha is soon cursed.Instead of falling into despair, she and Lydia fall in love. Later on, Tasha realizes she has a tumour in her stomach that is rapidly growing. Then appears to move, as if it is a life force all its own. She and Lydia, both trans women, come to the same strange conclusion: Tasha is pregnant and this close to the holidays, it seems that she will be giving birth to the new messiah -- or a monster.Now, with a possible monster baby on the way, Tasha and Lydia have more things to consider than they thought possible. When the coven shows up again, their supernatural adventure becomes that much more dangerous. Good thing Tanner Chapman, talk show host extra ordinate, can help sort out the matter of paternity once and for all.Will Tasha's baby be human or demon, devil or angel? And is Lydia the father -- or mother? And who will get custody of the new miracle child: the two trans women who created life in spite of all odds, or the evil coven who only wish to destroy all light during the darkest time of the year?
Baptism
by Max KinningsThe London Times called Baptism "a tense blockbuster with worryingly credible characters." In this modern-day thriller set in the subway tunnels beneath London, DCI Ed Mallory of the London police faces the greatest challenge of his brilliant, if somewhat unconventional, career as a hostage crisis negotiator. Blinded in a grenade blast during the course of only his second official negotiation, Mallory has over the ensuing years developed other faculties to compensate for the lack of sight, including an acute sense of hearing and penetrating insight into the twisted workings of the criminal mind. Driven and obsessive, Mallory now faces a high-stakes showdown with a psychopath who combines religious fanaticism and a chilling disregard for human life. Will Mallory's skills be enough to save London from a baptism by blood?From the Hardcover edition.ive, Mallory now faces a high-stakes showdown with a psychopath who combines religious fanaticism and a chilling disregard for human life. Will Mallory's skills be enough to save London from a baptism by blood?
Baptism for the Dead
by R. R. IrvineHigh atop the Temple looming over Brigham Young's city, the golden Angel Moroni trumpets to The True Believers. Far below, on Salt Lake's blizzard-blinded streets, fallen angel Moroni Traveler gives the devil his due. An ex-football star turned P.I., Traveler's searching for his chronically lost love who may not want to be found, and setting up shop in the town he once called home. Penny Varney, ungodly daughter of a powerful High Churchman, wants Traveler to find her mother--whom she fears is dead. The Church also wants Traveler on its payroll, on its terms: Don't mess in Church business. But when Traveler discovers a far-out sect, a self-appointed savior with a secret army, and blood atonement--sanctified murder in which the victim is "set free from sin"--Church business becomes his calling. It's a mission that will take him into the haunted, crimson mountains to find a lost soul--without losing his own.
Baptism for the Dead: A Moroni Traveler Novel
by Jeffrey Kafer R. R. IrvineMoroni Traveler finds it a blessing and a curse to be named for the angel that graces the top of the temple looming over Brigham Young’s city. The ex–football star–turned–private detective has returned to Salt Lake City, a town he once called home. During a spring blizzard, Moroni meets Penny Varney, the ungodly daughter of a powerful high churchman. She retains him to find her mother—whom she fears is dead. His boyhood friend, Willis Tanner, also solicits his services on the same day. Moroni can’t believe his luck, but there’s a catch: Willis is acting for the church and wants Moroni to keep an eye on Penny. Moroni is soon on the trail of a far-out religious sect whose self-appointed savior calls for sanctified murder. Moroni must act fast to close the case and discover the truth. The next victim could be him.
Baptism in Blood (The Gregor Demarkian Mysteries #Bk. 14)
by Jane HaddamAn infant&’s death draws a former FBI agent to a strange Southern town in this mystery by an Edgar Award–nominated author. As a hurricane bears down on Bellerton, North Carolina, Zhondra Meyer opens her gates to the townsfolk. Her farm occupies the area&’s highest ground, but the locals are wary of accepting her invitation. Zhondra says her camp is nothing more than a retreat for battered women, but the town&’s evangelicals believe that her residents are lesbians, occultists, or, worst of all, satanists—a fear seemingly confirmed when an infant is found ritualistically slaughtered. Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian might have experience solving religious murders, but he&’s never dealt with satanism. Invited by his friend David, one of America&’s most prominent atheists, to investigate the murder, Gregor keeps an open mind. What he finds in Bellerton shows that even the most pious Christians are capable of hellish deeds.
Baptism of Fire: Witcher 3 – Now a major Netflix show (The Witcher #5)
by Andrzej SapkowskiGeralt of Rivia is on a mission to save his ward, Ciri, and with her the world, in this third novel in the bestselling Witcher series that inspired the Netflix show and video games. The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times.But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered from his injuries.While war rages across all of the lands, the future of magic is under threat and those sorcerers who survive are determined to protect it. It's an impossible situation in which to find one girl - Ciri, the heiress to the throne of Cintra, has vanished - until a rumour places her in the Niflgaard court, preparing to marry the Emperor. Injured or not, Geralt has a rescue mission on his hands.Translated by David French.
Baptism of Fire: Witcher 3 – Now a major Netflix show (The Witcher #5)
by Andrzej SapkowskiGeralt of Rivia is on a mission to save his ward, Ciri, and with her the world, in this third novel in the bestselling Witcher series that inspired the Netflix show and video games. The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times.But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered from his injuries.While war rages across all of the lands, the future of magic is under threat and those sorcerers who survive are determined to protect it. It's an impossible situation in which to find one girl - Ciri, the heiress to the throne of Cintra, has vanished - until a rumour places her in the Niflgaard court, preparing to marry the Emperor. Injured or not, Geralt has a rescue mission on his hands.Translated by David French.
Baptism of Fire: Witcher 5 (The Witcher #3)
by Andrzej SapkowskiThe New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered from his injuries. While war rages across all of the lands, the future of magic is under threat and those sorcerers who survive are determined to protect it. It's an impossible situation in which to find one girl - Ciri, the heiress to the throne of Cintra, has vanished - until a rumor places her in the Niflgaard court, preparing to marry the Emperor. Injured or not, Geralt has a rescue mission on his hands. The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Time of Contempt.The Witcher series The Last WishThe Sword of Destiny Blood of ElvesThe Time of ContemptBaptism of FireThe Malady and Other Stories: An Andrzej Sapkowski Sampler (e-only)
Baptism: An Ed Mallory Thriller
by Max Kinnings07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a tunnel, four hundred passengers trapped inside. All efforts to communicate with it have been met with silence. 09:15am. DCI Ed Mallory has just started his day. The Met's top hostage negotiator - despite having been blinded thirteen years earlier - Mallory is about to discover that, today, an underground train is not the only thing on the line.
Baptism: An Ed Mallory Thriller
by Max Kinnings07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a tunnel, four hundred passengers trapped inside. All efforts to communicate with it have been met with silence. 09:15am. DCI Ed Mallory has just started his day. The Met's top hostage negotiator - despite having been blinded thirteen years earlier - Mallory is about to discover that, today, an underground train is not the only thing on the line.
Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
by Rachel AdcockAlthough literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist women. Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 fills that gap, exploring how female Baptists played a crucial role in the group’s formation and growth during the 1640s and 50s, by their active participation in religious and political debate, and their desire to evangelise their followers. The study significantly challenges the idea that women, as members of these congregations, were unable to write with any kind of textual authority because they were often prevented from speaking aloud in church meetings. On the contrary, Adcock shows that Baptist women found their way into print to debate points of church organisation and doctrine, to defend themselves and their congregations, to evangelise others by example and by teaching, and to prophesy, and discusses the rhetorical tactics they utilised in order to demonstrate the value of women’s contributions. In the course of the study, Adcock considers and analyses the writings of little-studied Baptist women, Deborah Huish, Katherine Sutton, and Jane Turner, as well as separatist writers Sara Jones, Susanna Parr, and Anne Venn. She also makes due connection to the more familiar work of Agnes Beaumont, Anna Trapnel, and Anne Wentworth, enabling a reassessment of the significance of those writings by placing them in this wider context. Writings by these female Baptists attracted serious attention, and, as Adcock discusses, some even found a trans-national audience.
Baptiste: The official prequel to the hit television show
by David HewsonThe official prequel to the hit television showFrance, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party near an abandoned chateau. Baptiste believes he's nailed the culprit, the eccentric Gilles Mailloux. When he appears in court, the public call for the guillotine - and that's the sentence Mailloux gets. But as Mailloux awaits an appeal for clemency, he asks to see Baptiste, who's still haunted by the fact the girl's body remains missing. As the clock ticks towards execution hour, Baptiste begins to realise he may have made a terrible mistake...
Baptiste: The official prequel to the hit television show
by David HewsonThe official prequel to the hit television showFrance, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party near an abandoned chateau. Baptiste believes he's nailed the culprit, the eccentric Gilles Mailloux. When he appears in court, the public call for the guillotine - and that's the sentence Mailloux gets. But as Mailloux awaits an appeal for clemency, he asks to see Baptiste, who's still haunted by the fact the girl's body remains missing. As the clock ticks towards execution hour, Baptiste begins to realise he may have made a terrible mistake...
Baptiste: The official prequel to the hit television show
by David HewsonThe official prequel to the hit television showFrance, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party near an abandoned chateau. Baptiste believes he's nailed the culprit, the eccentric Gilles Mailloux. When he appears in court, the public call for the guillotine - and that's the sentence Mailloux gets. But as Mailloux awaits an appeal for clemency, he asks to see Baptiste, who's still haunted by the fact the girl's body remains missing. As the clock ticks towards execution hour, Baptiste begins to realise he may have made a terrible mistake...
Bapu Mari Maa
by Manubahen Gandhiકુમારી મનુબહેન ગાંધીના, भावनगर समाचारમાં પ્રસિદ્ધ થયેલા આ ડઝનેક લેખો વાંચનારને પસંદ પડ્યા વિના રહેશે નહીં. બહેન મનુનો લેખ લખવાનો, હું ધારું છું કે, આ પહેલો જ પ્રયાસ છે. પૂ. બાપુજીના સ્વભાવ અને છેવટના કાર્ય પર એ સારો પ્રકાશ નાખે છે એ એનું મહત્ત્વ છે. 1946ના અંતમાં પોતે પૂ. બાપુજી જોડે નોઆખાલીમાં જોડાયાં ત્યારથી એણે ત્યાંની ડાયરી પણ રાખી છે. તેનો કેટલોક ભાગ शिक्षण अने साहित्यમાં ક્રમશ: આવે છે. નોઆખાલીનું મિશન શરૂ થયું ત્યારથી પૂ. બાપુજી સાથે એ જ એક કાયમનાં સાથી હતાં, એ કારણથી એની નોંધ બહુ મહત્ત્વની થશે, અને વાચક એ બહેનને આ લખવા માટે ધન્યવાદ આપ્યા વિના રહેશે નહીં. પૂજ્ય બાપુજી જાતે જ બહેન મનુની ‘મા’ બન્યા હતા. આથી પુસ્તકના નામનો ખુલાસો થશે.
Baquedano
by Carlos TrombenLa historia se mueve en círculos, plantea uno de los personajes de la nueva novela de Carlos Tromben, ambientada en los convulsos años veinte, cuando el general Baquedano inspiraba a los militares que entonces construyeron su propio protagonismo. El regreso de Carlos Tromben a la novela histórica viene de la mano de la figura del general Manuel Baquedano, controvertido militar que inspiró tropas y marcó una historia dentro de la milicia. A la par, en esos convulsos años del gobierno de Alessandri se desarrollan las primeras movilizaciones femeninas y se desarrolla una revista de corte feminista, La voz de las mujeres. Una de sus inquietas reporteras es quien narra los acontecimientos.
Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise
by Julie Sheehan"Nearly knocked me off my metaphoric stool."?--Diann Blakely, Antioch Review "When Julie Sheehan takes the lyric poem out for a few drinks, everyone winds up talking fast and loose. The lush, agreeably-out-of-style cocktails who take the stage in Bar Book . . . [pull] the reader through this artful, wry, and unlikely book's tales of hearts on the rocks and hearts surviving."--Mark Doty
Bar Flaubert
by Alexis StamatisYannis Loukas is editing his father's autobiography. Going through the family archives, he discovers the manuscript of an aspiring novelist named Loukas Matthaiou. While reading it, Yannis feels as if someone has put to paper his innermost thoughts. But who was the writer of this amazing story and what happened to him? Following in the tracks of this elusive stranger, Yannis' life takes an unforseen turn. He finds that everyone who met Matthaiou was profoundly affected by his charismatic personality. Driven by his quest to find Matthaiou, Yannis must first unravel the codes in his writing.
Bar Flaubert
by Alexis StamatisYannis Loukas is editing his father's autobiography. Going through the family archives, he discovers the manuscript of an aspiring novelist named Loukas Matthaiou. While reading it, Yannis feels as if someone has put to paper his innermost thoughts. But who was the writer of this amazing story and what happened to him? Following in the tracks of this elusive stranger, Yannis' life takes an unforseen turn. He finds that everyone who met Matthaiou was profoundly affected by his charismatic personality. Driven by his quest to find Matthaiou, Yannis must first unravel the codes in his writing.
Bar Maid: A Novel
by Daniel RobertsA sparkingly witty, poignant debut novel that is a Bright Lights, Big City for a post-Reagan, pre-Y2K Philadelphia—for readers of Normal People, Sweetbitter, Modern Lovers, and Less. It&’s September 1987. Charlie Green is an eighteen-year-old romantic and aspiring alcoholic, whose great wish is to fall in love with a light-eyed girl on his first day of college and never look back. Charlie believes in the magic of bars and girls. He believes he can use these talismans to finally feel at home, an assurance his dim and privileged childhood did not provide. At the Sansom Street Oyster House, he meets Paula Henderson, a beautiful and deceptively soulful waitress who is the most overqualified bar maid in all the city—and perhaps the most alluring. But there are obstacles in the Philly night between Charlie and his full heart. Drunks, louts, boyfriends—heroes too. And in Paula&’s eyes, Charlie becomes one. When she takes him home to New Hope, PA, to meet her very Catholic mother, the young couple must contend with the consequences of their pure love. In this darkly comedic coming-of-age novel, Charlie Green needs to grow up fast. At stake is his soul.
Bar Mitzvah Boy
by Mark Leiren-YoungMark has had books published by Anvil Press, Knopf, Greystone Books, Orca Books, and more.
Bar-20 Days
by Clarence E. MulfordHopalong Cassidy and his fellow cow punchers on the Bar-Twenty ranch run into many adventures during the course of a season. After being shanghaied into forced labor at sea, Hopalong and his friends return to shore to fight Apaches, escape flash floods, and avenge the murder of a lawman.
Barabbas
by Par Lagerkvist Alan BlairBarabbas is the acquitted: the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. By the Nobel Prize winning author.
Barabbas
by Par LagerkvistBarabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe."Translated from the Swedish by Alan BlairFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Barafa the Snow Leopard: …and Other Animal Stories
by Paul JordanThese stories have been written to introduce young readers to the natural world and the wonderful and rare creatures that live in it. The stories in the book provide factual detail and extrapolations on the lives of the animals, as told by the animals themselves, and invites the young ready into a special world that is rarely seen or heard from. The animal characters are larger than life and engaging. The stories carry messages about kindness and friendship and the need to preserve the natural world for future generations of both animals and humans.