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Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country

by Peter Yanev

The geologic, architectural and structural hazards of earthquakes, and how to recognize, avoid or correct them.

Pilgrims Pray

by Fr. Thomas Dubay

In a lucid style, Dubay explores the richness of scriptural prayer themes to be found in the biblical word.

Rx for Ailing House Plants

by Charles M. Evans

Diagnosing plant ailments, cultural and environmental problems, nutritional deficiencies, insect pests, plants diseases, and preventative measures and remedies.

The Gulag Archipelago

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

This combines history, autobiography, documentary and political analysis as it examines the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.

The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western

by Richard Brautigan

The time is 1902, the setting, Eastern Oregon. A 15-year-old Indian girl wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for men to kill a monster.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

by Laird Koenig

What goes on in the house at the end of the lane? Ask the little girl who lives there. Her name is Rynn. She's young and pretty, and very very bright, and just a little strange.

The Lucille Ball Story

by James Gregory

Her life in public, in private, her triumphs and her troubles, with a never-before-published interview with the famous actress.

The Medicine Show: Consumer Union's Practical Guide to some Everyday Health Problems and Health Products

by The Editors of Consumer Reports

Medical advice on common health problems, facts about popular brand-name remedies, advice on buying prescription drugs, choosing a doctor and a hospital, what to have (and not have) in your medicine cabinet

The Palace Guard

by Dan Rather Gary Paul Gates

Analysis of the people and events around Nixon's White House and the Watergate scandal

The Perilous Gard

by Elizabeth Marie Pope

In 1558, while exiled by Queen Mary Tudor to a remote castle known as Perilous Gard, young Kate Sutton becomes involved in a series of mysterious events that lead her to an underground world peopled by Fairy Folk-whose customs are even older than the Druids' and include human sacrifice.<P><P> Newbery Medal Honor book

The Run to Morning

by James Graham

It was not a happy alliance, an international crime magnate and an ex-intelligence agent with a reputation for going beyond the law. But Grant had no choice. Stavrou had kidnapped his sister.

The Silent Cry

by John Bester Kenzaburo Oë

The novel's anti-hero Mitsu searches for 'truth' throughout the novel, with many subcurrents on a variety of subjects. Oe won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The White House Transcripts: Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives by President Richard Nixon

by Richard M. Nixon Gerald Gold

The 46 private conversations between President Nixon and his closest advisors, a Who's Who and chronology of events surrounding Watergate, and more.

Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History

by Fawn M. Brodie

A bibliography of one of our most interesting Presidents, Thomas Jefferson.

Triple Detente

by Piers Anthony

It was the dictum of the Conqueror that the population of the planet must be halved. Control of live births and encouragement of suicides would have only a limited effect...

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

This novel chronicles an entire lifetime in the course of a single day, a day which is the last in the tragic life of alcoholic British consul Geoffrey Firmin. Set in Quahnahuac Mexico, against the backdrop of a conflicted Europe during the Spanish Civil War, it is a gripping novel of a man's compulsive alienation from the world and those who love him. A classic novel.

Women in White

by Frank G. Slaughter

Five women working at the hospital, five stories of women caught in a kaleidoscope of crippling disease, community distrust, and their own dreams.

A Maigret Trio

by Georges Simenon

3 novels: Maigret's Failure, Maigret in Society, and Maigret and the Lazy Burglar

American Religious Thought

by William A. Clebsch

This book presents the broad current of religious dissent as a pervasive, although often hidden and ignored, stream in American life.

An Exaltation of Stars: Transcendental Adventures in Science Fiction

by Terry Carr

The Feast of St. Dionysus by Robert Silverberg, 'KJWALLL'KJE'K'KOOTHAILLL'KJE'K by Roger Zelazny, and My Brother Leopold by Edgar Pangborn.

Can Religious Life Survive? An Urgent Question Confronts the Church Today

by Fr. Thomas Dubay

Can religious life survive by attaining a shared vision of love, humility and unity throughout the Christian world?

Canyon de Chelly: The Story of its Ruins and People

by Zorro A. Bradley

Canyon de Chelly National Monument is located in the red rock country of northeastern Arizona's high plateau, near the center of the Navajo Indian Reservation. Included in its 131 square miles are three spectacular canyons--Canyon de Chelly, Canyon del Muerto, and Monument Canyon--and many ruins of long-deserted villages. Perched in alcoves and on high ledges along the sheer-walled canyons, these villages are evidence of man's ability to adjust to a difficult environment, using bare hands, simple stone age fools, and his own ingenuity. They stand as enduring monuments to the culture of the ancestors of the present-day Pueblo Indians of the southwestern United States.

Caring: A Biblical Theology of Community

by Fr. Thomas Dubay

Christian communities find in this work the Biblical, theological, psychological and practical means to reinvigorate their lives with meaning and purpose

Check List for a Perfect Wedding

by Barbara Lee Follett

The essential preliminaries, 4 weeks before the wedding, 1 week before the wedding, and what to do on the special day.

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