Nicholson: 562 books

A man with a mission A Cajun cowboy with a pistol, a cell phone-and a bloodhound who’s scared of cows? What’s wrong with this picture? In fact, the cowboy’s more than a cowboy. Adam Dubois is an undercover detective who’s come to the high country to protect an endangered species. His...

A story to be read by all honest lovers of romance in terms of whimsy. It is altogether spirited and delightful, a masterful fantasy released from the sober interpretation of American life and character.

Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling."--San Francisco Chronicle.

British suburbanites wrestle with the trials of midlife: “Smart, crisp insight and lacerating wit . . . The feel of a Nick Hornby novel with a little more teeth” (Publishers Weekly).   When Belinda discovers her husband is having an affair, she’s furious, hurt, and bent on leveling the score....

This first novel in the Noble Warriors sequence begins when sixteen-year-old Seeker's older brother is publicly humiliated and--with no explanation--exiled from the Nomana, a revered order of warrior monks. Seeker refuses to believe that his beloved older brother is capable of committing a betryal...

Iosif Dzhugashvili is born on the day Stalin dies and is given his name by a zealous hospital official. Young Iosif grows up haunted by his great namesake, convinced that the dictator has found a new dwelling place within his chest, behind his heart. But when Iosif unwittingly destroys his family's happiness he is forced to question his lifelong loyalties to Stalin's ghost.

This first-person narrative begins in the early 1960s when the authors father unexpectedly disappears, plunging the family into poverty. Faced with inner-city violence, her mothers failing health, and institutionalized racism, her bitterness deepens. But when a violin enters her life, she experiences...

A powerful collection of essays from authors such as Mircea Eliade, Joan Halifax, Stanley Krippner, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Serge King, and Michael Harner on the mystifying phenomenon of shamanism around the world---what it is, how it works and why.

From Trading Post to Cowtown to Cosmopolitan Crossroads. Kansas City Story, a rich collection of short stories blending history with fiction, takes the reader from the muddy banks of the Mighty Mo to the gleaming glass and steel of the Sprint Center. The journey highlights memorable moments...

Every culture has its own folklore of deadly creatures of the night. But what if these tales are actually based on fact? Now, the nightmare creatures are returningand they are hungry. V-WARS chronicles the first Vampire War, from the savage murders committed by patient zero of the V-Virus plague, to...

Welcome to Nightmare Pie! We offer a variety of tastes to meet your reading pleasure. Which slice would you like? Here is our menu for the day... Perhaps think twice before hiring a psychic, it may be a dangerous thing indeed... What happens when two low life punks torturing cats and dogs run into...

Secrets abound in a quiet English village, in this novel filled with “piercing insights into married life and smalltown living” (Publishers Weekly).   Laura is a content married mother of two—but when her first love resurfaces after twenty years, she begins to question her choices. She can’t...

The British Army's involvement in the Crimean War of 1854-56 is often remembered only for the ill-advised 'charge of the Light Brigade' during the battle of Sevastopol as memorialized in Tennyson's poem. Nevertheless, the British Army, together with the French and Turkish armies, posed a formidable...

The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told...