The Pope is also A. Pope, Private Eye, and he is battling the Neo-Canadian Amish Mafia for control of the Vatican underworld. When Angel Yolkmussel is kidnapped and ransomed for St. Peter's bones, it is up to the pontiff to save her. Enlisting the help of drug addicts, transvestites, slum lords, and more, he risks everything to save one lost lamb.

High Hat

Literature & Fiction

Mandel, Greg

Humor & Satire

Ken Arnold Books

"Loaded with wit, bristling irony, draped in erudition and studded with metaphysics": so wrote The New York Times Book Review about Robert Wexelblatt's work. Now comes a novel of equal intelligence. Zublinka is a beloved friend, author, and philosopher who, at the age of seventy, lives a rich and varied life of the mind and spirit. Actually, he lives several lives, writing poems and stories under pseudonyms, two of them female. He is also engaged by the lives of others. His dear friend Julia is having some marital difficulties that distress him. Julia's daughter, whom he calls George, adores him, and he writes stories for her, one under the pseudonym, Don Corleone, about "Finbad the Failer." A feminst philosopher condemns and flirts with him. But the story that begins to emerge from the ordinary chronicle of Zublinka's life and mind is far different from that of an academic. Once as a teacher in a country behind the Iron Curtain, Zublinka claimed responsibility for a subversive pamphlet he did not write-and it led to his fleeing to the West. This past continues to weigh on Zublinka, who not only left behind the life he knew but two women he loved-and still loves. He returns to that country after the fall of communist rule and discovers the shocking truth behind his memories. This warm and witty novel of ideas shows that goodness is possible-and in Zublinka palpable-but that goodness is seldom unalloyed. As Zublinka and we learn in the course of this richly rewarding story, the discovery of truth and one's self is the work of a lifetime. Wisdom is possible and hard won. Robert Wexelblatt is Professor of Humanities at Boston University's College of General Studies. He is the author of two story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone and The Decline of Our Neighborhood, and contributor to dozens of literary journals.

Zublinka Among Women

Wexelblatt, Robert

Literary

Five short stories by the Episcopal priest and advocate for social justice.

Samuel Joseph for President: Media, Politics, Religion, Race

History

Boyd, Malcolm

World

Nancy Roth believes that the future well-being of planet Earth is dependent on the human will and that becoming aligned with truth rather than falsehood, with altruism rather than selfishness, and with action rather than passivity, is good for the soul. And for the Earth. Her book is a passionate and hopeful challenge to people of faith and seekers for truth.  "Roth's gentle commentary and elegant passion entice us to a one-ness with creation and each other that is both active and rooted in faith."-Phyllis Tickle, compiler The Words of Jesus: A Gospel of the Sayings of Our Lord  "Rev. Nancy Roth gets at the big questions here. Christians in our era will be judged by how they respond to the ecological crisis we now face."-Bill McKibben, author of The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation

Grounded in Love: Ecology, Faith, and Action

ORR, David W.

Roth, Nancy L.

<p>“This avatar of the Tao Te Ching comes to us as a contemporary, familiar creature, an incarnation both timeless and timely. In The Tao of Now, Daniel Skach-Mills gives us wisdom as refreshing and new as this moment’s wind in the trees, wisdom as secure in tradition as the cardinal directions with which we name any wind’s path.”--Paulann Petersen, author of A Bride of Narrow Escape, The Wild Awake, and other books of poetry The Tao of Now shows us ourselves in eighty-one poems that, like the ancient Tao Te Ching, offer no answers. But they do challenge us to go beyond the intellect and reconnect with wisdom in a time of desperate need. As the author writes, “The contemporary urgency for a consciousness and heart revolution is no longer an option if the planet, and humanity as a species, are to survive.” His poems are here to help us make that shift. Aimed not at the thinking mind but at that part of our being which already knows the truth of what is here, Daniel Skach-Mills’ poems are more like a remembering than a teaching. Each one calls us back to another voice but leaves us right where it finds us. These writings stand as a contemporary witness that the eternal Tao is alive and well, if people would only unplug, unwind, and take the time to listen with their whole Being.</p>

The Tao of Now

Daniel Skach-Mills

Poetry

<p>Hill offers quirky perspectives on life, love, and globalization in his firstbook of poems to be published in the United States.</p>

Consumed

Humor & Entertainment

Hill, DAVID

Humor

An outrageous collection of satirical essays that cuts through the crap of American culture. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll relate. Nothing escapes Bonny Belgum's wit, not greedy HMOs, not husbands, not Long Dong Silver, not the Fourth of July. Cut the woman some slacks? She'll cut them herself, thank you very much. "Bonny Belgum's voice is straight-shooting, sharp and sassy, a cross between Maureen Dowd and Erma Bombeck."--Susan Shapiro, author of Lighting Up and Five Men Who Broke My Heart. "Bonny Belgum has always been funny-and she gets better with age. Queen of the humorous essay form, Bonny looks at everyday life from the edges, with an idiosyncratic wit that makes you laugh and ponder at the same time."-Mollie Hoben, Co-Founder and Publisher, Minnesota Women's Press

Bonny's America: Cut the Woman Some Slacks!

Belgum, Bonny

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