Bert: 448 books

Every word of this tale is true. It was told to me in sacred confidence, as the good people of Cobb County have locked-up the truth and until now, their dark and heinous secret has been hidden. For the record, they want their story told and I let them tell it in their own words. I am a reporter...

Church pandemonium, as congregants begin to drop like flies, after drinking arsenic-laced coffee just after the liberal Unitarian church Sunday morning service. Four later die, including Alicia Holmes, a visiting minister. Riverton, Alabama’s new Police Chief and church member, Donald Ginsburg,...

Ed Harmens, co-owner with his wife, Meg Yarmouth, of a Seattle bed and breakfast, while jogging comes across a murdered homeless man in a local Park. They meet SPD detective Roosevelt Brown and become involved in the investigation. Two additional murders occur and, as the trail to the surprising killer...

After running a Victorian house Bed and Breakfast for four years at the top of Seattle's Capital Hill, two seniors want something completely different and hatch a plan to move a cottage to the edge of a beautiful, remote tidal marsh in eastern North Carolina. They run into unexpected difficulties...

Eric Harmon is visiting his salmon fisherman Uncle Larry and his wife, Olga, in beautiful British Columbia. He discovers a mysterious totem pole in the woods and soon teams up with a Northwest Native American girl, Jenny Whitefeather, to try to discover the pole’s story, which seems to be buried...

1918, Bergen, Norway, and handsome Navy Lt. Eric Andersen meets and marries spirited "Bus" Holmboe. They emigrate to booming 1920s California, where Eric's film industry job brings in money for stock investments which promise to make him rich. The Depression strikes, they lose everything...

A noteworthy investigation of the Darwinian element in American fiction from the realist through the Freudian eras In Evolution and “the Sex Problem” author Bert Bender argues that Darwin’s theories of sexual selection and of the emotions are essential elements in American fiction from the late...

Grandmas are wise beyond their years and often give us memories to cherish for the rest of our lives. Helping Santa: My First Christmas Adventure With Grandma is the story of one of those enchanting moments. Told there is no Santa by his older sister, the narrator recalls rushing off to consult...

“Wagendorp’s book manages to be funny, shrewd, and moving, with a complex structure that never feels cumbersome, and a finale so intense that you want to read it very slowly, almost one word at a time.” —The Guardian “A wonderful blend of humor, suspense, and poignancy, which will...

Aujourd’hui, la vie sentimentale se déploie en une myriade de formes. C’est dans cette diversité qu’ont puisé les auteurs de ce collectif pour créer de délicieuses et surprenantes nouvelles, à l’invitation de la romancière Claire Bergeron. Jean-François Beauchemin, Sophie Bérubé,...

Draw with Confidence and Creativity! Creativity occurs in action: It is not a trait; it is something you do. To be creative, you need to engage in the art-making process. When you are "in the flow," you shift out of the future and into the present, making connections, generating variations...

How can the Holy Spirit bring power and light to your life? This pocket-sized book features seventy-five reflections that will expand your knowledge of the Holy Spirit and encourage you to pray specifically—and expectantly—for the gifts he bestows. For each reflection, popular author and speaker...

La presente obra, reedición actualizada y en muchos aspectos abreviada de Religión, psicoterapia y cura de almas, documenta los esfuerzos de Bert Hellinger por encarar la cuestión religiosa de una forma nueva. Constata, por un lado, que la mayor parte de los métodos terapéuticos en raras ocasiones...

This is a guidebook for our children and grandchildren, to make sure they understand the mess the seniors are leaving them! They inherit the confusion of a struggle of values. So this is a low-tuition course on "What's Important?", from the curriculum of The School of Hard Knocks, from one...