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A day-by-day path through a year of healing prayer Prayer is a sacred moment in the secular world. Whether it is a spontaneous expression of thank...

If you suffer from back pain, as 85 percent of Americans do, you may think there is no way to bring about a complete end to your pain. Books, video...

From America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit comes a comprehensive guide covering all aspects of the ga...

From Simon & Schuster, Perfect Lies, edited by William Hallberg, is a collection of a century of great golf stories.The game of golf has been c...

What is the source of personal writing? When do we begin to consider our own lives worthy of a story? These powerful and passionate selections of s...

From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stra...

Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, is thirty-three years old when she travels to the arid plains of eastern Colorado in the mid-193...

Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordin...

Compiling the wisdom of nine books—including international bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking—this timeless classic provides readers with a ...

QUILTS -- PIECES OF FABRIC SEWN TOGETHER LIKE MOMENTS IN TIME, AS HANDMADE AS LIFE ITSELF Every quilt has a story to tell, an endearing story that...

All parents want their children to thrive and succeed, but Latino parents face a unique set of challenges -- passing along our much-cherished cultu...

Completely updated with new entries and extensive revisions of the previous 1,800, The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll is the authori...

Rules for the Unruly is a distillation of surprising life wisdom from National Public Radio commentator and writer Marion Winik -- a woman who has ...

The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but ...

Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the ...

Jeff Cox displayed his remarkable gift for translating complex theories into entertaining stories as the coauthor of Zapp! and The Goal. Now, in co...

ABSTINENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW STRONGER If you're single and in between relationships -- or just about to embark on a new one -- then you can't u...

Shakira's crossover success has been predicted for years by those in the know. She landed her first record deal when she was a mere thirteen years ...

From Simon & Schuster, Shoes in the Freezer, Beer in the Flower Bed is a guide to down-home tips for house and garden.Practical, informative, a...

Shopping Cart Soldiers is a modern day Odyssean tale of the atrocities of war and its even more appalling aftermath. Set against the brutal realiti...

Elizabeth Drew presents a vivid account of the dramatic and historic political clash between Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich as the Speaker of the H...

The skies aren't friendly anymore! Sweltering heat waves. Bone-chilling blizzards. Ferocious winds. Mighty peculiar weather we've been having, isn...

“Eccentric, dazzling…the literary conversation piece of the year.” –San Francisco Chronicle An American short story writer and novelist acclaimed f...