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Mystery/Thriller:In CLOSE TO HOME, a brutal killer with a bloody sense of revenge terrorizes the affluent Chicago suburb of Ravensburg. First the well-scrubbed teenage "girl next door" is found dead, her corpse provocatively posed alongside a busy thoroughfare. The body count climbs as the town's young and handsome activist minister and his older, married, minivan-mom lover are found mutilated in her locked suburban home. CLOSE TO HOME is a to...

The true story of a daring band of twenty-first-century mammoth hunters and their fascinating search for the long-extinct beast

Poet and cardiologist John Stone is a man of many voices. A gifted verse maker, he exhibits in his writing the qualities of a compassionate physician, a musician, linguist, naturalist, and down-to-earth yet whimsical grandfather, son, husband, and brother. Selections from his four previous books together with twenty-two new works compose this exquisite volume, a "best of the best" sampling from a beloved poet, a delicious treat for readers who...

The title of this collection states the central theme -- the losses that accrue over time. This particular poetic persona deals with these losses: the loss of faith, of loved ones, of innocence -- losses of both a personal, and of a larger, historical nature -- losses that simultaneously deplete and elevate.

Elaine Murray Stone explores the life of Maximilian Kolbe, who gave his life at Auschwitz.

Drawing on her own family stories, as well as those of a hundred other people, Elizabeth Stone shows how we are shaped by the tales and lore that we absorb from the family circle, how stories teach us values, inspirations, warnings and incentives.

This book shows how each person's puzzle piece is just as vital and necessary as any other. All aspects of living the fullest expression of your individuality.

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Living alone has become inevitable for most women, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that 73% of females will die single. With climbing divorce rates and increased female life expectancy, the reality of living without a significant other becomes more and more common for women. A Woman's Guide to Living Alone: 10 Ways to Survive Grief and Be Happy offers practical advice and personal stories to help women successfully ease into a new and full life...

Where Water Begins, which arrives thirteen years after his last collection of new poems, resumes John Stone's literary quest to express his fascination with life's mysteries and miracles. Much has happened in the interim, as this collection of writing intimates. While Stone's artistic gaze combines the perspectives of poet, physician, teacher, husband, and father, his world has changed, reorienting and deepening his vision. The title of the bo...

Stone pays tribute to Harry Caray, one of baseball's biggest legends never to take the field, remembering the unique baseball commentator who was also the game's biggest fan. Photos.

In Wandering to Glory De Witt Boyd Stone, Jr., pieces together the words of officers and soldiers in an imaginative, nontraditional brigade history of one of the Confederacy's most active combat troops. Stone blends firsthand accounts from a variety of sources to tell the colorful story of Brigadier General Nathan George "Shanks" Evans and his "Tramp Brigade." An independent South Carolina unit never permanently attached to a particular army, ...

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The Ultimate Imperative reclaims the love ethic as expressed in principles from the Ten Commandments and Jesus. Ronald Stone sets this ethic in tension with more recent theological insights and church pronouncements in order to explore personal and social issues, including race relations, economics, politics, ecology, and peacemaking.

Winner: National Book Award and Wallace Stevens Award. "A marvelous tribute to love and survival."--"The New York Times

In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today. The New York Times called this national best-seller an "intellectual thriller.

A full-color gallery with over 150 photos of the original Broadway production, color costume and set designs and sketches, the complete back-story of the production from concept to launch to hit musical, artists at the helm: the crossing from fact to fiction, a brief history of Titanic lore, poster and marketing art, and the complete book and lyrics.

Sam can't help it-he's in love with his Grade 6 teacher. The trouble is, his friend Darryl's in love with her, too. But Sam's also up to his ears in other worries: how to win the annual Hope Springs a Leak river race and how to get the town's only genuine Maple Leafs sweater before his sister snags it for her boyfriend. A rollicking tale of small-town life.