Alice: 2648 books

“Reads easily, even breathlessly. . . . The subtle but intensely felt shifts of closeness among the young women are lovingly and expertly laid bare.” -- John Updike   This ambitious and richly compelling Superior Women is in the grand tradition of The Group and Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon...

“No other writer in recent memory has called to mind so clearly the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald.”  --The Washington Post * * In Almost Perfect, Alice Adams brilliantly and movingly explores what happens to love when the beloved is transformed into someone unrecognizable.   They were an almost...

“A painful and hilarious send-up of grandiose doctors and their barbaric medical miracles. . . . A postmodern Jane Austen romp.” – The Boston Globe   In a novel that brilliantly conjures up the resilience of the human spirit, Alice Adams draws a clear-eyed portrait of a woman who must overcome...

“Her stories recall such past masters as Flannery O’Connor and Katherine Mansfield.”  --Newsweek * * Throughout her acclaimed career, Alice Adams demonstrated a remarkable finesse in both the novel and the short story.   Her second collection reveals her ability to feelingly project whole...

“What a terrific book. I loved its rich, recognizable characters, the intricacies and excitement of the plot, the beauty of the writing.”  --Anne Lamott   Reaching back to the Great Depression, and with all the insight, tenderness, and extraordinary narrative power that have been the hallmark...

HAVE YOU HEARD? Life shouts. God whispers. How can we hear God’s whispers when the struggles and worries of life distract us? How can we quiet our souls? The Art of Spiritual Listening is about learning to listen to the gentle, persistent voice of God and help others hear God’s voice...

Educator and noted feminist thinker Alice Moore Hubbard was an important early voice in the fight for equal legal and social rights for women. In The Myth in Marriage, Hubbard takes a look at the large and small ways in which traditional marriage roles tend to subjugate women. The book provides a fascinating...

In Joseph Stalin’s early 1930’s Russia, an entire class of people were at risk of exploitation. Valeyria and Alexei Yolkin were members of one such family.                                                                            ...

Book 3 of the "Werewolves of Seaside" series. Claire is done with werewolves. All she wants is a normal life. But this is before she's asked to help a friend deal with the big bad wolf who's set up shop in the nearby village of Mist. She and the new love magnet in her life roar into her latest adventure. Will silver bullets be enough? Who can she really trust?

Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote The**Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal, a 1934 program of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, neglect Cohen and instead focus on John Collier, commissioner...

Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "like cures like," counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms. Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical...

"Alice Outwater’s infectiously readable Wild at Heart captures the essence of ecology: Everything is connected, and every connection leads to ourselves." —Alan Weisman, author, The World Without Us and Countdown "A wonderful book. Information rich to say the least, and the...

This book seeks to explain two core paradoxes associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): How have diverse states hung together and stabilized relations in the face of competing interests, divergent preferences, and arguably weak cooperation? How has a group of lesser, self-identified...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol II of II) - With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes, and Methods of Playing etc.. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back...