Mp imprint: 249 books

Robert Hooke stood out as an inventive, versatile, and prolific scientist and architect in an age of brilliant minds. But for three hundred years his reputation has been overshadowed by those of his two great contemporaries, his friend Sir Christopher Wren and his rival Sir Isaac Newton. He was an inventor,...

A moving collection of personal essays about the real, human experiences behind the highly politicized issue of reproductive choice. At a time when a womans most complex decisions have been reduced to political rhetoric and impersonal theory, and political debate has been hijacked by pundits and name-callers,...

"Holy Fire invades the church, a fast-breeding light transfiguring faces, transforming the dark stone space. I hear gasps and cheers and sobs and tears. The emotion is overwhelming, the heat suffocating ...". Every Easter the miracle of the 'Holy Fire' is enacted in front of hundreds of the faithful...

Winner of Frances most prestigious literary award, Laurent Gaudés 'The House of Scorta' spans five generations in a small village in southern Italy. Beginning in 1870 with Rocco Scorta Mascalzone, a notorious brigand who leaves his children penniless, the saga of the Scortas is one of infamous crimes,...

From the best-selling nonfiction author, Michael B. Oren comes his first novel. Set in Belgiums Ardennes Forest, the site of a brutal, last-ditch assault by the Nazis in December 1944, Reunion reunites the surviving members of the 133rd Infantry Battalion for one last chance to relive their youth, bury...

While is seems some people are born with the gift of gab there are some of us that seem as if that gift has passed us by, or eluded us completely. Whether you are a natural born speaker or have acquired the skill through many hours/weeks of practice we can all agree that being able to hold an intelligent...

Decluttering is not a one-time event. Living clutter free is a lifestyle choice - meaning it’s done on purpose. It’s one thing to declutter your home, but is doing this one thing really enough?  We spend a lot of time and energy in putting forth this step which is truly the first step and...

A novel about crossing the border in the opposite direction: from wealthy, suburban Texas into the wild heart of Mexico. Alma Price is seventeen — shes smart, shes angry, and shes going to Mexico. Her grandfather lives there, or so she thinks, although its hard to know whats true with a lying mother...

Gabriel Black is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. In a twisted expression of honor, he takes responsibility for the action of a woman he loves and pays with his freedom. One day in the prison library Gabriel reads about a man with a wonderful family and a successful career who finds...

Sleep Toward Heaven' is a luminous story of murder and desire, solitude and grace, set in Manhattan and small-town Texas. In Gatestown, twenty-nine-year old Karen awaits her execution on Death Row. In New York, Franny, a doctor the same age, plans her wedding and tries to resist her urge to run. In Austin,...

Originally published in the mid-1940s, 'Old Mr. Flood' is Joseph Mitchells story of retired house wrecker Hugh G. Flood, a New Yorker determined to live to the age of 115 on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air, and good Scotch. Mitchell created an unforgettable character in these stories of fish-eating,...

Thirteen-year-old Peter Paddington is overweight, the subject of his classmates' ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week story lines. When Peter's nipples begin speaking to him one day and inform him of their diabolical plan to expose his secret desires, Peter finds himself cornered...

Chimney sweep Shane McCarthy has three great loves in life: a whip-smart wife named Lou, pickup basketball, and his booming hometown, San Francisco. While Lou hunts easy millions at the height of the dot-com frenzy, Shane fills his extra hours searching for a troubled player from his weekly hoops game...

As the popular 'Blue Moon Café' series moves into its third volume, 'The Alumni Grill' showcases award-winning veterans from the first two 'Blue Moon Café' collections, handpicked by editors William Gay and Suzanne Kingsbury. In this stunning anthology of Southern prose and poetry, beloved authors...