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  • Picnic In the Ruins

    Named Best Mystery Thriller in the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards"Part mystery; part quirky, darkly funny, mayhem-filled thriller; and part meditation on what it means to 'own' land, artifacts, and the narrative of history in the West . . . A fast-paced, highly entertaining hybrid of Tony Hillerman and Edward Abbey." --Kirkus ReviewsAnthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Picnic in the Ruins

    Narrated by Eliana Marianes ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 39 min

    Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a "collector" of Native American artifacts, but their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence. Their employer, a former lobbyist ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Washing Our Hands in the Clouds

    Joe Williams, His Forebears, and Black Farms in South Carolina

    The history of a region reflected through the life and struggles of one Black farmer and his ancestorsIn Washing Our Hands in the Clouds, Bo Petersen masterfully crafts a reflection on the Civil War, emancipation, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement in the personal story of how it affected one man's life in a specific South Carolina locale. Petersen's accomplishment is that, in studying the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gay Past

    A Collection of Historical Essays

    Fascinating reading on the plight of gay men and women through the ages. The contributors to this compassionate book document how society has made life difficult and even dangerous for homosexual people. Through narrative history as well as biography, these essays trace the legal, social, and physical consequences of this oppression. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Path and the Gate

    Mormon Short Fiction

    The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi describes the journey to eternal life as going through a gate of ordinances and traveling a “straight and narrow path.” Twenty-three authors took that gospel roadmap passage as a prompt to write “a Mormon story.” They responded with a surprisingly wide range of realistic and fantastic tales. Many are human reactions to unexpected steps on the path: a lifetime of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The New Interpreter's® Bible One-Volume Commentary

    Pastors and students who want a one-volume commentary to complement the New Interpreter's Study Bible will be pleased to find in this resource the quality of scholarship that is a hallmark of other New Interpreter's Bible resources.The portability, accessibility, and affordability of the one-volume commentary will appeal to professors and students as well as lay persons and pastors.This commentary ... Read more

    $64.09 USD

  • It Needs to Look Like We Tried

    A Novel

    "Todd Robert Petersen is crazy–talented, and the wild, weird, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what’s called for in these bizarre, frightening times." —Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and TrajectoryA domino chain of failures draws Todd Robert Petersen's characters together in these interconnected stories, despite hopes, dreams, and their best–laid plansEveryone ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Revising Eternity

    27 Latter-day Saint Men Reflect on Modern Relationships

    Marriage’s central role in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints distinguishes the faith while simultaneously reflecting widespread American beliefs. But what does Latter-day Saint marriage mean for men? Holly Welker presents a collection of essays exploring this question. The essayists provide insight into challenges involving sexuality, physical and emotional illness, addiction, loss ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bloody Red Nose

    Fifteen Fears of a Clown

    Series series Fears of a Clown
    In a world filled with menace, dare to paint on a grin.The world is full of images of scary clowns: packs of grinning figures with knives plaguing towns; pom-pom clad serial killers; loners who like children in the wrong way.But clowns can be a force for good: it takes a kind heart to put other people’s joy first; keeping children entertained is honest work; what better disguise than one that ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • I Hope You Know How Much I Love You

    And Other Advice for a Happier Life

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    Recharge your spiritual batteries with this delightful Time Out for Women Classic book by well-known author and speaker, John Bytheway. With humor and insight, John takes us through invaluable lessons he has learned in order to have a happier life. His advice to be content with ourselves and our accomplishments, reduce stress by striving to have the Spirit with us, choose to be delightful, show ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Psychos

    Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane

    This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again.From Hannibal Lecter ( The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman ( American Psycho), stories of serial killers and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed

    Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids

    by Meghan Daum ...
    Sixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthologyOne of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society’s most vexing taboos.One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed ... Read more

    $14.99 USD