Mara: 571 books
by Mara Stone
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
When Greta finds a pair of beautiful red shoes in a grimy, backstreet store she is determined to have them. Little does she know they are about to take her on the erotic journey of her life!
WARNING! This 6,200 word short story contains ADULT THEMES and GRAPHIC SEXUAL LANGUAGE. ADULTS ONLY!!
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Greta...
by Mara Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Books 1-3 in the Freshman Roommates Series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mara Jacobs. Three complete novels.
IN TOO DEEP ***(Lily and Lucas)***:
I didn’t believe in love at first sight, until I first saw Lucas Kade.
I was giving swimming lessons to children...
by Mara Valderran
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Weeks have passed since Ariana and Alec escaped from Kellen's dungeon, but danger isn't far behind them. The guilt of his past weighs heavily on Alec’s shoulders, and his secrets only push Ariana further away. As they travel through unknown lands and encounter multiple threats, their biggest challenge...
Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa
Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi‘i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi‘i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, each...
Media and National Development
Perdana Discourse Series, #6
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The relationship between the media and government, and its influence on democracy and national development are non-separable. In the 21st century, with the emergence of modern nation states, media is also essential aid to development, becoming an important channel for good governance and transparency.
In...
Rosenzweig's Bible
Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Rosenzweig's Bible examines the high stakes, both theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweig's attempt to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it as the basis for a Jewish textual identity. Mara Benjamin's innovative reading of The Star of Redemption places Rosenzweig's best-known work at the beginning...
Fallout
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Wil Mara returns with a top-notch thriller that will keep you flipping pages.
Silver Lake, Pennsylvania, is hit by a monster storm. When a massive lightning strike hits one of the nuclear reactors that provides power to Silver Lake and much of the state, essential components fail. Explosions...
Saving Babies?
The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United States is screened for more than fifty genetic disorders....
The String Quartet, 1750–1797
Four Types of Musical Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing of the string quartet, often represented as a smooth and logical progression from first violin-dominated homophony to a more equal conversation between the four voices. Yet this progression was neither as smooth nor as linear as previously...
by Tim O'Mara
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
New York City school teacher Raymond Donne had no idea how bad his night was going to get when he picked up the phone. Ricky Torres, his old friend from his days as a cop, needs Ray's help, and he needs it right now in the middle of the night. Ricky picks Ray up in the taxi he has been driving since...
Pivotal Tuesdays
Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Serious and silly, unifying and polarizing, presidential elections have become events that Americans love and hate. Today's elections cost billions of dollars and consume the nation's attention for months, filling television airwaves and online media with endless advertising and political punditry,...
by Mara Oliva
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
In the 1950s, most of the American public opposed diplomatic and trade relations with Communist China; traditional historiography blames this widespread hostility for the tensions between China and the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency. In this book, Mara Oliva reconsiders the...
Unnatural Selection
Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
A Slate Best Book of 2011
A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011
Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years,...
When the Body Speaks
The Archetypes in the Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
When the Body Speaks applies Jungian concepts and and theories to infant development to demonstrate how archetypal imagery formed in early life can permanently affect a person's psychology.
Drawing from Mara Sidoli's rich clinical observations, the book shows how psychosomatic disturbances originate...