Sarah Stewart: 21 books

Augustine's dominant image for the human life is peregrinatio, which signifies at once a journey to the homeland (a pilgrimage) and the condition of exile from the homeland. For Augustine, all human beings are, in the earthly life, exiles from their true homeland: heaven. Some, but not all, become...

When college student Brad Putnam turns up dead in his bedroom in his Boston apartment, Homicide Detective Timothy Quinn is baffled by the crime scene and decides to seek the help of art history professor Sweeney St. George to make sense of the evidence. An expert on "the art of death," Sweeney...

Newcomer Sarah Stewart Taylor delivers a compelling and atmospheric cozy mystery that introduces Sweeney St. George, an art historian in Boston with a special interest in the art of death. Sweeney becomes interested in Byzantium, Vermont, an art colony that flourished in the late nineteenth century,...

Art history professor Sweeney St. George is in the middle of putting together an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that should be in the museum's collection seems to be...

As gravestone expert Sweeney St. George tours burial sites of the Civil War, she stops to watch a battlefield reenactment in Massachusetts. There, she meets Pres Whiting, a boy whose family is in the gravestone business. When Pres discovers a dead man in a Revolutionary War-era British soldier's uniform,...

This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the major themes present in Augustine's extensive corpus...

Brand new edition for 2014! First Books, publisher of the bestselling Newcomer's Handbook® relocation series, is excited to announce publication of the fifth edition of the Newcomer's Handbook® for Moving to and Living in Atlanta: Including Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee Counties. This...

Of the great ancient civilizations, that of Persia is the least known and the most enigmatic. This book explores the formation of the first Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Persians. It brings together a multi-disciplinary view of ancient Iran in the first millennium BC and concentrates on the...

The Summer 2017 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited. ...

Prayers are powerful. They can give strength, provide comfort and sometimes, make miracles happen. Even more importantly, they connect people to God. What would happen if someone decides to start a prayer chain? How can complete strangers be linked together in times of distress by one tiny piece...

Prayers are powerful. They can give strength, provide comfort and sometimes, make miracles happen. Even more importantly, they connect people to God. What would happen if someone decides to start a prayer chain? How can complete strangers be linked together in times of distress by one tiny piece...

Ten of the greatest authors of all time present their great works in the short story genre. A great compilation of tales for all tastes with the great geniuses of literature in his most acclaimed works.  This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: ...

Prayers are powerful. They can give strength, provide comfort and sometimes, make miracles happen. Even more importantly, they connect people to God. What would happen if someone decides to start a prayer chain? How can complete strangers be linked together in times of distress by one tiny piece...

Prayers are powerful. They can give strength, provide comfort and sometimes, make miracles happen. Even more importantly, they connect people to God. What would happen if someone decides to start a prayer chain? How can complete strangers be linked together in times of distress by one tiny piece...