After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
Readers of the Harry Potter series and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta’s thrilling blend of historical fiction and fantasy, as three young friends scratch the surface of the grown-up world to ...
Food historian Karen Hess believes that vinegar-and-pepper sauces originated, like the peppers they require, in the West Indies. She points to the testimony of a Dominican missionary, Jean Baptiste Labat, who wrote in 1698 about a feast ...
The final section of the book presents some of the people who cook barbecue for a living, recording firsthand what experts say about the past and future of North Carolina barbecue.
What are the public health implications? This book looks at the types of products that could reduce harm and reviews the available evidence for their impact on various forms of cancer and other major ailments.
This suspenseful first novel follows an undercover crime reporter in Berlin in 1931 as she searches for her brother's killer, a trail that leads from the city's dark underbelly to the top ranks of the rising Nazi party.
Author Everett Jaime, an Hispanic American writer and artist, directs his short graphic novel to young parents and pregnant teens, and their social network of friends and family.
Pursuing a career as an arson investigator after a fire destroys her family's pizzeria, Reena Hale embarks on a relationship with Bo Goodnight and finds herself targeted by an arsonist who taunts her with threatening phone calls.
Terra Little takes readers on a roller coaster ride of emotions in this story of a very real, very dysfunctional family.
In 1964, the first Surgeon General's report on the effects of smoking on health was released. In the nearly 50 years since, extensive data from thousands of studies have consistently...
61; and Lowery Stokes Sims, Stuart Davis, American Painter (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991). "Whatever Aristotle and all of philosophy might say ..." Cited by Jacques Derrida, Given Time, pp. 112-13.