**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER“Reader to reader, knitter to knitter: You’re going to love this book.”—Debbie Macomber**For fans of Jennifer Chiaverini and Sarah Addison Allen, The Wishing Thread is an enchanting novel about the bonds between sisters, the indelible pull of the past, and the transformational power of love.The Van Ripper women have been the talk of Tarrytown, New York, for centuries. Some say they’re angel...

For fans of Sarah Addison Allen, Aimee Bender, and Alice Hoffman, The Night Garden is a luminous novel of love, forgiveness, and the possibilities that arise when you open your heart.Nestled in the bucolic town of Green Valley in upstate New York, the Pennywort farm appears ordinary, yet at its center lies something remarkable: a wild maze of colorful gardens that reaches beyond the imagination. Local legend says that a visitor can gain answers to life’s m...

In Music for the Millions, author Van Allen Bradley tells the story of a firm which, at the time of this book's original publication in 1962, had endured for 100 years.But the Kimball Piano and Organ Company accomplished more than simply surviving a century—it played a dominant role in the development of the industry of which it was a part.The company started as a piano dealership in Chicago in 1857 as W.W. Kimball and Company by William Wallace Kimball (1828-1904). In 1864, ...

David Brower said, "Conservationists have to win again and again and again. The enemy only has to win once. The history of the Quetico-Superior region perfectly illustrates Brower's warning. Ultimately, we get the amount of wilderness that we are willing to fight for. Quetico-Superior: A Short History and Other Stories tells the story of a century of vigilance to protect this lake land wilderness from commercial development. Other books have addressed aspects of this struggle. My book give...

Post-secularism is the fundamental evidence of the end of modernity. Modernity, as sleeping reason in Francisco Goya's painting, realizes that, although it thought that it was awake, it was producing monsters. We try to analyze post-secular philosophy from the point of view of Russian religious thought. We believe that such philosophers as Vladimir Soloviev, Pavel Florensky, Sergey Bulgakov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Georges Florovsky, and Semen Frank may be helpful for understanding and overcomin...

Although a novel, Hidden Destruction is Allen van der Linde's seamless account of a history that dragged a country into a long, bloodied conflict.Laurence lived on a farm in an area then known as the Northern Transvaal in South Africa. Discipline, good ethics and hard work were drummed into his young mind and from an early age, his elders nurtured his hunting and tracking skills. His great love and passion for Africa's pristine wilderness dug its roots deep into his psyche.At...

In this full-length novel by Van Allen, a young couple hopes to rekindle their relationship in a remote mountain cabin. Their get-away from the city quickly turns into a desperate fight for survival when they run into a vicious killing machine, a natural predator.The local hunting professional has this to say:"I spect grizzlies would kill more people if it were true that grizzly bears wanted to eat people. That's what city folk thank. There ain't no truth to that. Grizzlies...

A peaceful, international scientific research base orbiting Alpha Centauri-A.A military coup aboard a starship headed to resupply that base.A terrible, dark secret concealed on the moon of Amphion.General Thomas Jefferson Davis and his UN commando squad have just jumped head-first into a hornets' nest of cosmic proportions. But—are they the good guys in this story… or the bad?ALPHA/OMEGA: A new serialized near-future space opera adventure from Van Allen Plexico,...

Contemporary philosophy and theology are ever more conscious of the fact that the model of relations between religion and culture developed in modernity is fundamentally flawed. The processes of the secularization of society, culture, and even religion are rooted in the dualistic vision of religion and culture introduced in the late Middle Ages. In seeking a way out, we need to explore domains of culture unaffected by Western European secular thinking. Russian thought is remarkably well pr...

A brilliant team unlocks the power of cold fusion—only to spark a global power struggle between a shadowy government and a ruthless corporation. Some technologies are too dangerous to be owned.Just as one man prepares to destroy the Engine to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands, an interdimensional being intervenes— alters the fate of them all.Fifteen years later, haunted by loss and armed with a radical new invention, The Zone Engine, he takes one shot to rewrite ...

"The totalitarian state clearly intends to eliminate all those forms of organic community that rival the absolute loyalty of the individual to the state. This god is a jealous god. . . . Mrowczyński-Van Allen's diagnosis is therefore no less relevant after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And his proposed cure is no less salutary. He appeals to the work of Grossman and other voices from the East to oppose the idolatry of the deified self with the icon, which opens up a distance in which giving...

Peter Chaadaev (1794-1856) is rightfully considered to be one of the forerunners of modern Russian philosophy. There is a famous scene from his life that may help us to understand both his own thought as well as the whole subsequent tradition of Russian religious philosophy. When Chaadaev finished his studies of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, he crossed out the title on the cover and wrote beneath it Apologete adamitischer Vernunft (An Apology for Adamic Reason). Russian religious philoso...