James J: 962 books

Sometimes life is unfair. Sometimes life just plain sucks. You do what you can to get by, but sometimes even that isn't enough.Meet Gloria, aging porno star, drug addict, failed wife and mother—seduced into a monstrous world of depraved sex and violent deceit, battling to save her immortal soul and that of her only daughter from Inferno … and you thought your life was hell.

A story is never one-sided. There will always be other perspectives, other points of view, that someone can take—and why shouldn’t we? Using these different perspectives helps us observe, understand and learn from our experiences—they help us grow. Putting forth the effort to take on these points...

WPaD presents: Strange Adventures in a Deviant Universe… - A scientist struggles to find a cure for Alzheimer's before the disease takes his mind… - Dolphins and whales work with their human trainers to terraform a new planet… - Artificial intelligence backfires on humanity...

The warped minds of WPaD are proud to present this tribute to the bizarre: - People who eat Tide Pods turn into detergent-craving zombies - A gift of a fishing bobber turns deadly - A woman lost in the desert makes friends with an ancient creature - A hole inside a closet...

A collection of short stories about creatures which will warm the heart.

As a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, gave voice to the ordinary man and woman, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam. Yet his...

Lou Malloy meets a young and beautiful PI, Hilary Kelly, and together they fight to keep their freedom and $15 million in Mob money as Malloy and Kelly race to protect what he earned the hard way and find the people responsible for his sisters death.

This volume sheds light on the transformed post-Holocaust relationship between Catholics and Jews. Once implacable theological foes, the two traditions have travelled a great distance in coming to view the other with respect and dignity. Responding to the horrors of Auschwitz, the Catholic Church...

A powerful and challenging examination of what Jews believe today—by a new generation's dynamic and innovative thinkers. At every critical juncture in Jewish history, Jews have understood a dynamic theology to be essential for a vital Jewish community. This important collection sets the next...

The timeless brilliance of this exhaustive survey of the best classical writers of antiquity on Pythagoras was first published in 1687 in Thomas Stanleys massive tome, The History of Philosophy. It remains as contemporary today as it was over three hundred years ago.The text of the 1687 book...

It is a tribute to the vigour of research and development in aquaculture that we are able, in a relatively short time, to provide readers with a second volume in this series, which has such a diversity of high calibre research and developments to report. That the first volume was so well received...

Bookshots: una serie innovativa di romanzi originali ideata e realizzata dall’autore di thriller più venduto nel mondo. Veloci. Avvincenti. Nuovi. Da leggere tutti d’un fiato. Qualunque cosa sia successa, comunque siano morti... è stato atroce Qualcuno ha preso di mira i migliori...

Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex trafficking may be forced...

Every generation produces a counterculture icon. Joss Whedon, creator of the long-running television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is famed for his subversive wit, rich characters, and extraordinary plotlines. His renown has only grown with subsequent creations, including Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse,...