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Crazy February: Death and Life in the Mayan Highlands of Mexico
Products of the "imagination," such as novels, can be especially useful tools for understanding how things work in societies far removed from our own experience. Through the telling of a story, a sound ethnographic novel conveys more than information. It involves the reader in the dynamics of life... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1974 -
Mister Tender's Girl: A Novel
How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender?At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates and left to die. The teens claim she was a sacrifice for a man called Mister Tender, but that could never be true: Mister Tender doesn't exist. His sinister character is pop-cultur... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Dead Girl in 2A: A Novel
This flight will take them somewhere they never expected to goJack Buchanan knows the woman sitting next to him on his business flight to Denver—he just can't figure out how he knows her. Clara Stowe isn't in Jake's line of work and didn't go to college with him. They have nearly nothing in common a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Boy in the Woods
&“A deep, dark, twisted nightmare of a ride&” from the USA Today bestselling author of The Dead Girl in 2A (Miami Books Examiner). In 1981, three fourteen-year-old boys witness a horrific murder in the Oregon woods near their homes. Sucked into becoming accomplices to the subsequent cover-up, they... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Comfort of Black: A Novel
USA Today best-sellerWinner of the 2016 National Indie Excellence Award for SuspenseWinner of the 2016 Colorado Book AwardFinalist 2016 RONE Award2016 International Book Award Winner Mystery/Suspense CategoryThough they seem to have everything, Hannah Parks has watched her husband, Dallin, become in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Revelation: A Thriller
USA Today best-selling author2017 International Book Awards Winner (Mystery/Suspense)Winner of the 2017 Colorado Book Award (Thriller)Foreword Reviews Indies Gold Award (Thriller/Suspense)"This is a sledgehammer of a novel, slamming away at the foundations of modern cult religions until nothing is l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Final Crossing: A Novel Of Suspense
USA Today best-selling authorRudiger doesn't kill because he wants to. He kills because he needs to. When the sadistic Preacherman stole the last bit of Rudiger's already troubled childhood soul, Rudiger lost himself forever. He has committed atrocities even he cannot explain in his quest for the En... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Dead Husband
A murderer, a victim, and a witness... but no one in this house is innocentTwenty years ago an unspeakable tragedy rocked Rose Yates's small, affluent hometown... and only Rose and her family know the truth about what happened.Haunted by guilt, Rose escaped into a new life. Now she seems to have it ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The New Neighbor: A Thriller
"The New Neighbor is a dizzying descent into a Byzantine maze of psychological suspense. Carter Wilson proves once again why he is one of the best most inventive thriller writers working today." — S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop WastelandUSA Today best... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Scream and Scream Again!: Spooky Stories from Mystery Writers of America
by R. L. Stine • Heather Graham • Jeff Soloway • Wendy Corsi Staub • Peter Lerangis • Chris Grabenstein • Beth Fantaskey • Bruce Hale • Tonya Hurley • Steve Hockensmith • Daniel Palmer • Emmy Laybourne • Lisa Morton • Stephen Ross • Carter Wilson • Ray Daniel • Phil Mathews • Doug Levin • Joseph S. Walker • Alison McMahanA harrowing array of scary stories that all have one thing in common: each either begins or ends with a scream!R.L. Stine—the godfather of Goosebumps—and some of the most popular authors today bring an unrivaled mastery of all things fearsome, frightening, and fantabulous to this terrifying antholog... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Racism: From Slavery to Advanced Capitalism
An explanation of the phenomenon of racism throughout history is sought in this book. Carter A Wilson draws on and integrates the considerable literature on racism which has originated from economic, political and cultural realms. In doing so he addresses four major goals: to resolve the major debat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Racism: From Slavery to Advanced Capitalism
Racism: From Slavery to Advanced Capitalism, is an important example of how much new ground must be broken in regard to the historical social scientific study of racism,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Sex and Rockets
This remarkable true story about the co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory. By day, Parsons' unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that helped the Allies win World War II. By night, Parsons called himself The Antichrist. "One of the best books of the year."--The Anomalist... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Love Inspired November 2013 - Bundle 1 of 2
Love Inspired brings you three new titles for one great price, available now for a limited time only from November 1 to November 30! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This Love Inspired bundle includes Tail of Two Hearts by Charlotte Carter, The Firefighter... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Bridging the Academia Industry Divide: Innovation and Industrialisation Perspective using Systems Thinking Research in Sub-Saharan Africa (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)
This book is the result of years of research following a realization of the mismatch of engineering skills produced by universities and those that industry required, based on the situation in Sub-Saharan Africa, equally applicable to other regions in Africa and indeed worldwide. The book is meant to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Investigating CSI: Inside the Crime Labs of Las Vegas, Miami and New York
This selection of smart, accessible essays covers CSI's cutting-edge science, intriguing mysteries, and engaging personal dynamics. Essays from experts in the field illuminate such processes as DNA testing, ballistics, crime-scene photography, and autopsy procedure. With pieces that focus on the lea... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023