A portrait of Jesus seeks to reveal his relevance in the modern world, drawing on historical and intellectual sources to discuss Jesus's role as a central figure in a dominant religion and his inspiration of both conflict and morality. ...

This blazingly original debut novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades to meet Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, overtaken by a sophisticated competitor. As her family m ...

Miss Julia's investigative work on a possible murder and her financial reputation keeps her buzzing. But the sudden arrival of Hazel Marie's twins during a fierce blizzard brings a whole new set of challenges and a double helping of trouble. ...

Rumors are sprouting in Depression-era Darling, Alabama. The town's newest visitors, Nona Jean Jamison and Miss Lake, may be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic, who specialize in dancing nearly naked. The Dahlias suspect more than ...

While trying to find out who is pilfering money from the church and keeping an eye on her friend's elderly mother, Ursula, Faith Fairchild is drawn into a decades-old mystery when Ursula receives a letter linked to her brother's murder during the De ...

Dugald Kerr, the laird of Brae Aisir, has lost his male heirs in the raging border wars. His last inheritor is a beautiful headstrong granddaughter known as Mad Maggie. Many are eager to wed Maggie, for with her comes the right to exact tolls at a f ...

The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of Americ ...

In the small Irish village where he hopes to become a full partner in the local medical practice, Barry Laverty questions his ambitions in the face of a romantic reversal, while housekeeper Kinky Kincaid dreads the loss of her status to Dr. O'Reilly ...

"1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. Eighteen-year-old Cristina spends her da ...

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