Philip: 4665 books

"Powerful....Caputo's wisdom runs deep. Few writers have better captured the emotional lives of men." **—**The New York Times Book Review From Philip Caputo**—the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin—**comes a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town...

I swore not to tell this story while Newton was still alive. 1696, young Christopher Ellis is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. Though Ellis is notoriously hotheaded and was caught fighting an illegal duel, he arrives at the Tower as assistant to the renowned scientist Sir...

The New York Times bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels reimagines the end of World War 2 in this gripping standalone spy thriller. Autumn 1943. Since Stalingrad, Hitler has known that Germany cannot win the war. The upcoming Allied conference in Teheran will set the ground rules...

A young couple has graduated from a middling state college, and seeing nothing attractive about the workplace or graduate school, they elect to live in a tent in a public campground, getting by on small remittances from indulgent parents. The slacker narrator says that a work ethic, requiring punctuality,...

The Principal rules the City and so can do what he likes. He likes raping women and murdering their male kin should they complain. The City Council must find a way to curb the Principal and so save their City from impending chaos. The solution is to provide him a friend, with the companionship he...

The Principal rules the City and so can do what he likes. He likes raping women and murdering their male kin should they complain. The City Council must find a way to curb the Principal and so save their City from impending chaos. The solution is to provide him a friend, with the companionship he...

In today's world Jack McCall is a killer. he is known for shooting Wild Bill Hickok. Every day the act is replayed for paying customers in the town of Deadwood.People know what to expect, but, what if things change? How would you react?Here is one story that will give you insight into the minds of the players and complete the tale of the Inevitable McCall

In Psychiatry in Indiana: The First 175 Years, authors Philip M. Coons, M.D., and Elizabeth S. Bowman, M.D., paint a fascinating, compelling, and vibrant portrait of the history of psychiatry in Indiana from its beginnings when Indiana was a territory up through present day, relying on meticulous...

A teenager stares at his reflection and sees the Milky Way. A motorbike prowls and growls like a wild animal. A whale sings a song to end loneliness. Philip Ridley's collection of short stories - like his two adult novels, Crocodilia and In the Eyes of Mr Fury- became an instant cult classic...

Star City’s gangsters attempt to assassinate Trent Stone and Tess Carter from the rooftops outside an abandoned movie theater. When a young South American man succeeds in scaring the villains away only to be killed by a remotely controlled spider, the pair decides to honor his last request and go...

Reporter for the Star City Tribune, Claire Templeton, uncovers a pattern of grisly murders that look like the work of a strange new predator and presents her findings to Detective Tony Wells. When Tony finds a seven-year-old witness to one of the murders, her unbelievable story sets him on a path...

Contents: 1. The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker 2. The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson 3. Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher 4. The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster 5. A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard...

Mookie is tired of being victimized by the school bully and when he stumbles upon the web site, "Hell.org", he believes his prayers have been answered. But, is it worth the cost?

Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder’s writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he...