Product Description: Matt Martin, along with best friend Johnny and Matt's loyal dog Cheetah, wake one morning to find an odd-looking little blue man in their campsite on their favorite remote lake island. When Cheetah gives chase, the little man and Cheetah seemingly disappear by running straight into the face of a rock cliff! The blue man reemerges, telling things too strange to believe...read more

Product Description: ArcSDE is the geographic information systems (GIS) gateway for storing and managing multiuser spatial databases in virtually any relational database management system -- Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, or Informix Universal Server...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A poignant portrayal of professional ballplayers' lives on and off the field during the sport's golden years in the 1950's.

Product Description: Author Mark Harris, an Episcopal priest, says that Anglicans mostly define themselves by reflecting on their experience rather than by defining distinct theology or doctrine. Anglicans feel that their reason for being is bound up not with being Anglicans but with being Christians...read more

Product Description: This biography of poet Vachel Lindsay is a lively, swift-moving, sympathetic story of a man who deserves to be remembered . . . a book people will enjoy, and suffer over, and not soon forget. -- Library Journal New American Writing Award

A narrative account of the life of the twentieth-century poet relates his rise to and fall from fame, wealth and social esteem

John Bunyan * Origen * Evelyn Underhill * John Newton * The Desert Fathers * Julian of Norwich * John of Ruysbroek * Bernard of Clairvaux * Margery Kempe * George Herbert * The Celtic Saints * Aelred of Rievaulx Each of these classic Christian writers has something to teach us about life with God. Weaving together life today with the wisdom of these saints, Mark Harris has created a practical guide to spiritual growth. The book covers difficult issues such as working through spiritual dryness, prayerlessness, temptation and discouragement. In addition we learn how to keep focusing on Jesus, develop spiritual friendships and reach out to others in love. In this small book you will meet more than a dozen spiritual companions who will shape and transform your journey with God.

Product Description: One day young Dario Figg is found wandering alone in an unfamiliar town with all of his memories completely erased! The kind townspeople place Dario in the local orphanage while waiting for his memory to return. Unfortunately, the only clues to Dario's past are dreadful, vivid nightmares, where he finds himself in a horrifying place that may once have been his homea town completely cursed by an evil phantom...read more

Product Description: A collection of short nonfiction baseball writings contains pieces written between 1946 and 1993 about subjects including Pete Rose, Willie Mays, and Jackie Robinson, along with the entire screenplay for the author's famous work Bang the Drum Slowly.

Dr. Who, the eccentric scientist from the planet Gallifrey, reveals the secret workings of his fantastic robots, spaceships, weapons, and tools, providing detailed, scale-model blueprints

Profiles the increasingly popular method of natural burial as an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional burials, citing the toxic hazards and high expense of embalming methods while discussing the benefits of chemical-free cremation, home burial, and burial-at-sea options. 35,000 first printing.

Selections from journals by Samuel Johnson's famous biographer document Boswell's experiences from his arrival in London in 1762 to his work as a lawyer in 1774

Product Description: Contains the text of the 1st 3 of Mark Harris' novels featuring journeyman baseball pitcher Henry Wiggens: "The Southpaw","Bang the Drum Slowly" & "A Ticket For A Seamstitch".