Wine Country Mystery 04 - The Riesling Retribution
Ellen Crosby returns with the fourth book in her rich mystery series set amidst the vines of Virginia wine country. When a tornado rips through Montgomery Estate Vineyard, it not only destroys some of Lucie Montgomery’s newest grapevines, it also unearths an old grave. After the dead man is identified as a former business associate of Lucie’s father, it seems everyone in Lucie’s hometown has already decided Leland Montgomery is a murderer. As the evidence piles up against him, Lucie sets out to prove her father’s innocence.
Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, the atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men and women readied themselves for war, pestilence, or divine retribution. Against this background, and amid deep economic depression, the Pilgrims conceived their enterprise of exile.
Liberty and Law: Kantian Essays in Theory and Practice
Jeffrie G. Murphy's third collection of essays further pursues the topics of punishment and retribution that were explored in his two previous collections: Retribution, Justice and Therapy and Retribution Reconsidered. Murphy now explores these topics in the light of reflections on issues that are normally associated with religion: forgiveness, mercy, and repentance.
A Kiss before Dying by Ira Levin (a novel, unabridged)
Added by: innasharina | Karma: 291.99 | Fiction literature | 28 August 2009
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A young man wishes his American Dream come true: he wants to be rich. The only way to become rich is to marry a rich girl. But the three women he meets on his way to the top must pay the price for loving him. A gripping tale of greed, love, and retribution.