Pdf: The Virgin Cure

'I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart.' So begins THE VIRGIN CURE, a nove ...

A macabre voyage into the underbelly of nineteenth-century New York. 'I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mysti ...

Ajene Jabari's worst nightmares come to life when his daughter's innocence is taken away by a man influenced by a witch doctor to cure his AIDS with a youn ...

"My mother said she was a nun. That may have been a lie." So begins the eye-opening and entertaining tale of Vera St. John's chaotic upbringing amid the tu ...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Wonderfully wicked and deliciously dark, The Witches of New York had me totally spellbound. Reminiscent of Jonathan Strange & M ...

In a tale spanning the 20th century, Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Scotia and creates a rich tableau of characters ...

Weaving together family history, genetic discovery, and scenes from her life, Ami McKay tells the compelling, true-science story of her own family's unsett ...

Settle in for a thrill-a-minute journey to the land of the ancient Incans in H. Rider Haggard's novel The Virgin of the Sun. An antique dealer whose life i ...

At twenty-six with no experience in love and living in the middle of nowhere, Kirby’s starting to panic. One day the most handsome man she’s ever seen ...

Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduc ...

Beloved author Ami McKay is back, bringing us a magical follow-up in the tradition of Victorian winter tales to her mesmerizing bestseller, The Witches of ...

Once upon a time, hockey player Joe Hart fell in love with sweet, beautiful Emma Donovan. But then Joe discovered that Emma's father owned the NHL team he ...

A provocative social history examines the history of virginity and of noted virgins in Western culture, describing the unique fascination civilization has ...

When Paige Lassiter, scared and covered with bruises, comes into his bar with her three-year-old son, Marine John "Preacher" Middleton, immediately drawn t ...

January 1987, Small Plains, Kansas. On the night of the decade's worst blizzard, a boy discovers the naked corpse of a beautiful girl. No-one can identify ...

Considering fiction from the colonial era to the present, State of Peril offers the first sustained, scholarly examination of rape narratives in the litera ...

The million-copy bestseller: “A laugh-out-loud and cry-out-loud tale of growing up . . . this fast paced, sassy novel triumphs” (The Philadelphia Inqui ...

Roark is a bad man. His pig is a bad pig. They match in devilish temperament and violent deeds. Roark laughs at a drowned monk; his pig eats its own young ...

In Medieval France, a powerful young witch tries to stop the Hundred Years War by any means necessary.If it will put a stop to the needless slaughter, she' ...

How was the Book of Hours created and used as a book and what did it mean to its owners? ...

About CQ Researcher Readers In the tradition of nonpartisan and current analysis that is the hallmark of CQ Press, CQ Researcher readers investigate import ...

A provocative imagining of the later years of the mother of Jesus finds her living a solitary existence in Ephesus years after her son's crucifixion and st ...

The Virgin of Zesh In which a beautiful woman, a mind-drunk poet, and a super-sober scientist must fight for their lives on a planet occupied by weird cult ...

For Black, a mural artist in East L.A., the city's tumbledown landscape is his canvas. Residing in a ramshackle apartment above 'The Ugly Store', he lives ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A beautiful New Face of Fiction debut from a stunningly gifted young novelist about what it means to be a daughter, a patient, a lover ...

"A gripping, sinister fable!"--Margaret Atwood, via Twitter LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "Ingenious and incendiary."--THE NEW YORKER A MOST ANT ...

Desperate for work, Daisy accepts a live-in position on a dairy farm, where she expects to spend her days scrambling eggs, making pots of chili and washing ...

The Virgin and the Gipsy By D.H. Lawrence ...

Struggling to maintain a facade of family harmony for the sake of their religious beliefs and three grown children, Winifred and Daniel Coulson begin a leg ...

"Helen King examines the origins and history of the disease, from its roots in the classical tradition to its extraordinary survival into the 1920s, despit ...

A sequel to Earthly Joy follows the life of John Tradescant the Younger, who works as a gardener to King Charles I before fleeing to the Royalist colony of ...

A monk embarks on a dangerous quest to find a trio of missing travelers in this medieval mystery by an Edgar Award–winning author. The winter of 1139 wil ...

A novel of Africans and British, community and exile, set against the backdrop of the Ghanaian fight for independence: “A talented writer.”—The New Y ...

Anny Chamion isn't used to acting out of the ordinary—not when her regal position dictates that she behave sensibly and with decorum. But a chance encoun ...

In 2001, in the metropolis of Chennai, a boy named Alex was in his hospital bed, sick with fever, when Mary appeared to him and told him to walk. At home l ...

Hitherto few scholars have treated John the Baptist as an independent personality, apart from the subordinate position accorded him in the Gospels of forer ...

I Found God in Me is the first womanist biblical hermeneutics reader. In it readers have access, in one volume, to articles on womanist interpretative theo ...

In Gilded Age New York, a centuries-long clash between two magical families ignites when a young witch must choose between love and loyalty, power and ambi ...