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• Word - Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool that allows .docx files

Mile High

An exciting thriller about a mafia leader, slavery, the Prohibition, the Depression, McCarthyism - America in the 30s, 40s and 50s.

Mr. Bridge

Connell's other novels include Mrs. Bridge, The Diary of a Rapist, and The Connoisseur. Mr. Bridge was made into a movie.

Postmarked the Stars (Solar Queen #4)

Genetic regression aboard the Solar Queen means trouble for two planets.

Readings in Humanistic Psychology

24 articles present a representative cross-section of developments in the field of humanistic psychology, with both theoretical and applied contributions.

Readings on Modern Organizations

28 contributors examine the problems of organizational rationality.

The Dueling Machine

When a gentlemen's duel becomes military murder, the galaxies' lifetimes grow short. Only science can stop the war!

The Healing Flame of Love

Have you been disappointed in love? If God is love, our idea of love must be elevated if we are to be oriented in the eternal life of love.

The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence

The adventurous search for clues to scholarly hoaxes, forgeries, and lost and misleading documents, and the evaluation of evidence in man's study of his own past.

The Wednesday Witch

Mary Jane peeps outside and sees a witch on her doorstep.

To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words

An informal autobiography by the author of "Raisin in the Sun", with an introduction by James Baldwin.

Trouble River

When he builds his raft, 12-year-old Dewey never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for him and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Parallel Spanish texts and English translations from the famous Chilean poet.

Up the Line

Wellspring

The suspense-filled hunt for a sinister mastermind who has successfully begun the annihilation of 40 million Americans

Wolfling

Earthmen like Jim Keil were 'wolflings,' just idle curiosities. Was he an exotic diversion for a decadent aristocracy - or the instrument of their doom?

A Beggar in Jerusalem

The prize-winning novel of a man haunted by love and war, and obsessed by a dream of life

Bedtime Stories

A warm, delightful and humorous collection of stories. Includes: The Old Red Cushion, The Mouse and Rat Robber, The Talking Doll, The Little Brownie House, The sparrow Children, Billy's Butterfly, I Was Here First, In The Fashion, She Hadn't Any Friends, The Whispering Pool, It's Just A Dream, Foolish Little Sambo, The Other Little Boy, and What Happened On Christmas Eve?

Books That Changed America

From the book: THOUGH YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT, BOOKS THAT YOU MAY NEVER HAVE READ ARE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTING YOUR LIFE AND LIFE AROUND YOU IN AMERICA TODAY. The call for revolutionary action by Thomas Paine ... the argument for civil disobedience by Thoreau . . . the dissection of governmental corruption by Lincoln Steffens . . . the analysis of American racism by Gunnar Myrdal . . . the chilling warning against ecological disaster by Rachel Carson . . . these are but a few of the books that have left a lasting impression upon America. From the moment of their publication, their influence began to be felt-an influence that has never ceased to operate in American society. Taking a brilliant cross-section of works in virtually every area of thought-political, economic, scientific, judicial, sociological, and literary-Dr. Robert B. Downs, former President of the American Library Association and head of the University of Illinois Library, gives a superb explication of each of these fascinating works and charts their effects upon the complex fabric of our emerging and evolving nation.

Brighton Rock

Pinkie, a boy gangster in the pre-war Brighton underworld, is a Catholic dedicated to evil and damnation...

Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained

From the book: Charles Fort was convinced that there is a great deal going on in our universe which man has not as yet been able to explain. He was, of course, right. Fort amassed reports of events allegedly observed by humans around the world. Fort's books are full of reports of strange phenomena-such as those similar in every way to today's reports of flying saucers but centuries before they were called flying saucers. Boole gave scientists a powerful tool for attacking problems when the obvious approaches refused to yield informative results. Boole employed reductio ad absurdum. He exhausted all the impossibles and thereby isolated a "very probable" answer. Charles Fort, failing to gain the publishers'-and thereby society's-consideration of his positive theories, left world society with a Boolean-like confrontation of illogical events. Charles Fort as a man of true vision purposefully inverted the equations. By getting the publishers to publish the absurd, he proved his point that the publishers published only the absurd.

Dread Companion

There were women, slender, with thick green hair waving back and forth, their skin shining brown, wearing scant leaves. There were others, humanoid in appearance, some beautiful, some grotesque...

Ecclesial Women: Towards a Theology of the Religious State

Dubay lays bare the evangelical and theological principles which can give vitality and meaning to a sister's life, giving priorities and perspective in the light of Vatican II directives.

Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day

Test yourself against the #1 Sherlock Holmes in sneakers as he cracks ten nasty new cases!

Five Patients

Non-fictional look at 5 patients at a Massachusetts hospital, when Crichton was a medical student at Harvard.

Future Shock

Description of the world's response to change and how it affects our lives.