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The Heart of the Matter
by Graham GreeneScobie, a policeman in a West African colony, is above reproach, but he's forced to borrow money to send his wife on holiday. While she's gone, he falls in love with a pathetic child widow, and inexorably, his conscience and his love of God lead him to disaster.
The Human Comedy
by William SaroyanA warm and captivating story of an American family in wartime, and in particular, of Homer Macauley, the fastest telegraph messenger in the San Joaquin valley.
The Littles Have a Wedding
by John PetersonMeet the Littles, a family like any other but with a few tiny differences! They live in the walls of the Bigg family house where they get everything they need. In return they make sure the Bigg house is always in good repair. When Dinky comes home from his latest adventure, he's not alone. Della came back with him and they're going to be married! But a tiny person wedding takes a huge amount of preparation. The Littles need to get everything ready and travel to a neighboring house by the next day. Will they be ready in time?
The Molecule Men
by Fred Hoyle Geoffrey HoyleTwo novels, The Molecule Men and The Monster of Loch Ness, by the father and son astronomer team.
The Passions of the Mind
by Irving StoneA biographical novel of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis
The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga
by James D. HoustonAdventure and romance when whalers are rescued by Eskimos
A Beggar in Jerusalem
by Elie Wiesel Lily EdelmanThe prize-winning novel of a man haunted by love and war, and obsessed by a dream of life
Bedtime Stories
by Enid BlytonA 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
by Robert B. DownsFrom 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
by Graham GreenePinkie, a boy gangster in the pre-war Brighton underworld, is a Catholic dedicated to evil and damnation...
Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained
by Damon KnightFrom 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
by Andre NortonThere 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
by Fr. Thomas DubayDubay 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
by Donald J. SobolTest yourself against the #1 Sherlock Holmes in sneakers as he cracks ten nasty new cases!
Five Patients
by Michael CrichtonNon-fictional look at 5 patients at a Massachusetts hospital, when Crichton was a medical student at Harvard.
Future Shock
by Alvin TofflerDescription of the world's response to change and how it affects our lives.
Goliath
by David M. HarrisGoliath is the nation-state of America. But this book is really about what we must do to keep from being crushed by Goliath, and what we must build in place of it.
I and Thou
by Walter Kaufmann Martin BuberThe classic work on philosophy and religion, with a wealth of footnotes to clarify obscurities.
Klingsor's Last Summer
by Hermann Hesse3 short stories by the famous author: A Child's Heart, Klein and Wagner, and Klingsor's Last Summer.
Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks, and Covens
by Paul HusonThis book presents the first steps to becoming a witch or warlock; it answers all the basic questions about spells, magical recipes, rituals, divination, covens, curses, apparatus, how to develop one's powers, etc. From reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards, through all the rituals and magical practices, the author carefully explains the details of witchcraft, including the four great rules of magic, how to observe natural "Power Tides," how to use herbs and incenses, how to cast an evil eye, how to form a coven, etc.
Mencius
by Mencius D. C. LauMencius helped formulate a Confucian orthodoxy that helped China replace feudalism with a centralized government around 320 BC. This is part of the Four Books that make up the Confucian corpus.
Mr. Sammler's Planet
by Saul BellowMr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a “registrar of madness,” a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities). His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. “Sorry for all and sore at heart,” he observes how greater luxury and leisure have only led to more human suffering. To Mr. Sammler—who by the end of this ferociously unsentimental novel has found the compassionate consciousness necessary to bridge the gap between himself and his fellow beings—a good life is one in which a person does what is “required of him.” To know and to meet the “terms of the contract” was as true a life as one could live. At its heart, this novel is quintessential Bellow: moral, urbane, sublimely humane.<P><P> Winner of the National Book Award
Nathanael West: The Art of His Life
by Jay MartinNathanael West was one of America's most original writers. His novels, especially The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts, continue to be widely read and stand as a particularly American image of tragedy drawn from popular and democratic culture. The story of his life is as poignant and terrifying as anything in his novels. Jay Martin has written a biography that has bee praised as the last word on a mythic life. Martin successfully traces that certain inspiration, hard-going development, and inevitable demise of West's vision.
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain
by Sheila Ostrander Lynn SchroederEncounters with Russia's scientifically tested psychics and their research in Soviet Russia, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia