Austin: 1740 books

IN THE WILDS of southeastern Africa more than half a million years ago sits the village of Kura, a matriarchal society of Homo erectus. Snap—a young, passionate woman—is destined to lead her people, and this year she must select a mate for the first time. As the Bonding ceremony approaches, Snap’s...

A sprawling novel focuses on the burgeoning revolution in 19th-century     Texas.  …a substantial piece of thoughtful historical fiction.                         —Kirkus Reviews ________________________ In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most...

The story of one boy’s adoption and of three Russian mothers who are forced to make heartbreaking decisions for their children, set in Yekaterinburg, Russia in the years after the collapse of communism, Sobornost examines adoption from both the adoptive and birth parent perspectives and explores...

This is a short collection of short stories, intended to be read by people of all lengths. Roger Stories are narrative water balloons filled with madness, thrown against a wall to explode and drip to death on the concrete. Watch Roger try. Watch Roger. Watch him, you naughty little voyeurs you.

A father takes a break from every guy's dream gig--covering football (and the odd swimsuit shoot) for Sports Illustrated--to give it a go as Mr. Mom, in this hilarious and heartfelt book After nineteen years as a writer for Sports Illustrated, Austin Murphy should have had it made. Instead,...

The Hellenistic period began with the considerable expansion of the Greek world through the Macedonian conquest of the Persian empire and ended with Rome becoming the predominant political force in that world. This new and enlarged edition of Michel Austin's seminal work provides a panoramic view...

The calendar rectified. Color illustrated. Comedy.

Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles! Enjoy these historical romances of adventure and faith. THE RANCHER’S SURPRISE TRIPLETS Lone Star Cowboy League: Multiple Blessings by Linda Ford After stumbling on triplet orphans abandoned at the county fair, rancher Bo Stillwater’s...

They call me an abomination. A mutant. A curse on their kind. I don’t let it bother me. Much.  My name is Holly James, and what they say is true. I’m a freak of nature—a null. My mere presence zaps the magic from Others, rendering them powerless. That’s why they hate me. But...

My name is Holly James, and I’m a null, which means I obliterate magic. Somehow, I’ve managed to turn my freakish power into a thriving null-for-hire business. I spend my days babysitting magical Others with anger management issues and mediating contracts between rival shifter clans. When...

Color illustrated. Into the realm of supernatural figmentations I drifted off, within my newest imagination, To interview all the living Gods there, Some who’ve left and some yet ruling everywhere. An epic.

In the aftermath of debate about the death of literary theory, Austin E. Quigley asks whether theory has failed us or we have failed literary theory. Theory can thrive, he argues, only if we understand how it can be strategically deployed to reveal what it does not presuppose. This involves the repositioning...

Alfredo López Austin, uno de los más destacados estudiosos del pensamiento y la religión prehispánicas, autor de grandes tratados e indagaciones exhaustivas, ofrece aquí una muestra de sus hallazgos. Y lo hace en el tono de quien conversa, con humor y ánimo de entretener, a la vez echando mano...