Pierce Moffett, an out-of-work teacher, and Rosie Rasmussen, a recent divorcee, are drawn to the house of Fellowes Kraft, an historical romance writer, and discover evidence of an alternate history

Product Description: Pierce Moffett, jilted and newly jobless, is seeking an answer to the question of life when he gets off a bus by chance and steps unawares on a path toward the longed-for country of our oldest dreams and most unanswerable desires.

Product Description: Thought provoking novel by the author of Little Big

Product Description: Bringing fresh insight to an important contemporary debate, Fred Dallmayr and José M. Rosales consider the changing definition of nationalism and the nation-state in our era of globalization. The question mark in the title of this volume points to the multiple issues at stake: what is the meaning of nationalism? Is there only one or possibly multiple types of nationalism? What does it mean to be "beyond" nationalism? Can one safely abandon nationalism and the nation-state? The contributors address these and other concerns, not only through the lenses of institutional and comparative social scientific analysis, but also with an eye toward the "existential" implications for people living in our time: their well-being, legal safety and protection, and sense of identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A new novelette by the award-winning author of LITTLE, BIG.

A tale of love and magic in a world where time, space, and matter undergo near-cataclysmic transformations continues the adventures of Rose Ryder, Rosie Rasmussen and her daughter Sam, and Pierce Moffett.

Product Description: Book by Crowley, John

Product Description: a Mass companion and ideal resource for homilists and those involved in Scripture study

Pierce Moffett believes that there are 'passages of time' in which the rules governing the world slip and change, causing new times and laws and leaving the old as merely myths and legends, and he is determined to find proof of it.

On an impassioned quest for sainthood, one man searches into the distant past to study the age-long catastrophes and cataclysms that have shaped our world

Casper Last, an impoverished genius, uses his time machine in an attempt to preserve the reign of the British Empire for the Otherhood

Product Description: A compendium of cutting-edge statistical approaches to solving problems in clinical oncology, Handbook of Statistics in Clinical Oncology, Second Edition focuses on clinical trials in phases I, II, and III, proteomic and genomic studies, complementary outcomes and exploratory methods...read more

Product Description: The Archimedes is a modern merchant steamship in tip-top condition, and in the summer of 1929 it has been picking up goods along the eastern seaboard of the United States before making a run to China. A little overloaded, perhaps—the oddly assorted cargo includes piles of old newspapers and heaps of tobacco—the ship departs for the Panama Canal from Norfolk, Virginia, on a beautiful autumn day...read more