Cook: 1663 books

In 1883 Clara left her home in Indiana and everything she had ever known to go with her young husband and small child to establish a home and raise a family in Kansas. She faces disasters and family illnesses as the world changes around her.Her strength to face and triumph over the hardships she encounters comes from her indomitable spirit, her sense of humor, and her devout faith.

Newly-graduated, divergent magician Darius Liviu has scoured half the world in search of the rarest of rare magical artefacts: a tolerable talking sword. After a year of failure, one last rumour sees him risk Rajad’s chaotic, cluttered, terrifying Great Souk. The noise, the smells, the people and...

When Molly O'Brien's husband Phil dies from injuries sustained in a car accident, she must find the strength to go on with her life. Christmas alone was not an option, so she went half-way around the world to Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina for a spiritual retreat to deal with the sadness...

Seven years ago, Darius Liviu met a talking sword belt in the Great Souk, an eldritch being who changed his life forever. In that time, he has learnt something of the sword, mastered strange magic and survived dangerous jobs, but while he has friends in Rajad, he still feels out of place—too divergent...

Roscoe is a short story about two men, generations apart, who become unlikely friends.Set in Tulsa, OK in the late 1990s, Roscoe is about a reading tutor who becomes the student when he learns about a terrible event in Oklahoma history. North Tulsa is not a place where a middle class, white...

Retired Michigan State Police trooper Angelo Cervelli and his boisterous parrot, Callahan, move into an old Victorian home in rural Bitely, Michigan. Angelo hopes the change of scenery will help eliminate the horrible nightmare he continues to endure. But shortly after he moves in, the nightmare takes...

A sequel to Old Fashioned. With Kit gone to the Greensward, Amelia March is content with her faked witchery, the ailments of her villagers and romance confined to a novel. She isn’t pleased, therefore, to find her cousin darkening her doorway—her cousin with two feet, a belly, a sword of...

Far From the Maddening Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics* *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable...

_______ _ _ _ _ What if your déjà vu was really flashes of a life running parallel to your own? _ _ _ ____ An imaginative child, Janey left childhood far behind as soon as older children and adults began to tease her for it, much to the disappointment of her younger brother. On her...

We live in a scary world, and we hear about it every night on the news. Yet, it is perhaps the stories that dont make the news that are the most horrificthe stories that remain in the dark, never to be unveiled. These haunting occurrences often end in blood and torment, but youll never hear about...

The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life Egypt is a lynchpin of the US's Middle East strategy receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world...

Greek Painted Pottery has been used by classics and classical archaeology students for some thirty years. It thoroughly examines all painted pottery styles from the Protogeometric to the Hellenistic period from all areas of Greece and from the colonies in parts of Italy. In each case it covers the...

John lived on the edge but he didn't expect solo cave diving to lead to this. His 21st Century dive took him back 100 years to the trenches of World War One. He is sent over the top and spends the rest of the book trying to unwind the events of that day. This takes him through a complex web of relationships and exciting adventures in time.

Kate Brentwood is wealthy, has a small circle of close friends, and keeps busy by researching and writing about some of Chicago’s more interesting cold cases and other unsolved mysteries.Kate Brentwood is also dead, found in her upscale loft apartment; a large gash in the back of her head has spilled...