Like everyone, I am born naked. With this opening line of Naslund's compelling new novel, a very human Marie Antoinette invites readers to live her story as she herself experiences it. From the lush gardens of Versailles to the lights and gaiety of Paris, the verdant countryside of France, and finally ... more »

Warning: the truth can be shocking, seductive, offensive, outrageous...even disgusting! Are you perplexed by the mysteries of the universe, confounded by the workings of the human body, prone to pondering the great imponderables? At long last, the answers are here for every inquiring mind that's not ... more »

WRITTEN AROUND 1902! This small volume was commenced as a review article on Professor Percival Lowell's book, Mars and its Canals, with the object of showing that the large amount of new and interesting facts contained in this work did not invalidate the conclusion I had reached in 1902, and stated in ... more »

Shocking. Controversial. Unprecedented. A case unlike any other in the annals of UFO investigation, DNA research, or alien abduction. Sydney, Australia. July 23, 1992. Twenty-eight-year-old Peter Khoury was awoken by what appeared to be two females -- both striking and unearthly -- kneeling on his bed ... more »

The author of the cherished bestseller On Mystic Lake returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter--the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness. Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her ... more »

CHAPTER ONE Miss Selena Cott If you were my daughter, said the comte de Broglie, taking Selena Cott's hand and kissing his own thumb, as was the continental custom, I would put you across my knee and paddle you. Selena, who had known the comte since she was a baby, smiled at him and in her mind's eye ... more »

... is clearly written and designed to address the wide audience; it will be an invaluable resource for students, featuring the following material: * case studies and illustrations * exercises * discussion questions * further reading suggestions * a glossary The book also develops organizational theory ... more »

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On a summer night when she was five years old, Helene Stapinski watched out her kitchen window as her Grandpa Beansie was carted off to jail for the last time. Beansie (so nicknamed because he had stolen a crate of beans as a child) had spent the better part of that day in the Majestic Tavern, a dive ... more »

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