Jones: 7670 books

A revised and updated comprehensive examination of the supervolcanic eruption of Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia over 75,000 years ago, and how it changed human genetic history by causing a population bottleneck, written by best-selling author Marie D. Jones and her father, the late geophysicist Dr. John...

Written between the late 1930s and the late 1950s, Epoch and Artist represents those essays that David Jones wished to see preserved in his lifetime.Beginning with his most personal reflections upon Welsh culture, the selection turns next to Jones's thoughts on the position of art and the artist in...

Winner of the Spur Award for Best Historical Novel “Douglas C. Jones is one the great novelists of the American West, and Roman is one of his finest works—a hugely entertaining story with unforgettable characters.”—James Donovan, Author of A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn Young...

The Dead Walk. Magic Has Returned. The Netherworld Awaits. Death plagues Isolde's village and everyone thinks that the demon, Orlog, has returned from the northern wastes. Isolde knows it is true because she hears the demon's voice whispering for her. But as the pox spreads, no one has time...

This is a book of poems for the dead. A way to honor those who have passed on from this world. I wrote this in loving memory of my sister, Sheryl Lynn Jones 1976-2009

You are an admin of this page. Back to Admin panel In world where words like child abuse, sexual abuse, molestation, incest, and rape are rarely spoken and in hushed tones, there are millions of survivors who live in silent torment. We do not talk about the things that happen in secrecy, and so they...

After burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with The Fast Red Road and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with The Bird is Gone, Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana. Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon, is laid bare through the eyes of those...

It was a fire that could be seen for miles, a fire that split the community, a fire that turned families on each other, a fire that its still hard to get a straight answer about. A quarter of a century ago, someone held a match to Greenwood, Texass cotton. Stephen Graham Jones was twelve that year. What...

What if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic renderings as Sarah Vaughan was in her musical vocals? As honest about heartache as Billie Holiday was every time she sang about the blues of life? As alluringly...

If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often struck...

Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. M/FMaggie James was sixteen years old when the Earth self-destructed. She's spent the years since fighting to protect herself and the band of subway-dwelling misfits who took her in. Every day is...

Nigel has worked hard to earn the position as rep for the Galactic Cage Fighter Association. He even sacrificed his personal life putting his fighters first. Now, everything he has worked for is being threatened and he could lose it all, including the female he can't live without.Amelia...

The ghosts of war reverberate across the generations in a riveting, time-shifting story within a story from acclaimed thriller writer Tim Wynne-Jones. When Evan’s father dies suddenly, Evan finds a hand-bound yellow book on his desk—a book his dad had been reading when he passed away. The...

By all appearances, Shyla Ball has an enviable life: a loyal boyfriend, a great job, and family that loves her. She doesn’t realize how deeply unsatisfied she is until she has an embarrassing encounter with a handsome stranger at a coffee shop. Taylor Holden, a successful businessman, takes a sudden...