(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All Music Guide describes the chart-topping Music as an album that "blows by in a kaleidoscopic rush of color, technique, style, and substance." Titles are: Music * Impressive Instant * Runaway Lover * I Deserve It * Amazing * Nobody's[...]

Material Girl . . . Immaculate sexpot . . . Superstar . . . Mother . . . Kabbalah enthusiast . . . For three decades she has defied categorization. . . . She remains one of our greatest living pop icons.Here is the groundbreaking biography that finally solves the mystery at the heart of Madonna's ch[...]

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With this book, China Galland brought increased attention to the spiritual traditions of the Black Madonna and other cross-cultural expressions of the feminine divine. The popularity of recent works by authors like Sue Monk Kidd and Kathleen Norris[...]

When Nicole introduces her friend from New York to the other Roses, the other girls begin to feel like they are losing Nicole's friendship to the newcomer.[...]

Amy's convinced that her life as she knows it will be over after the arrival of her new baby sister. When pregnancy forces her mother to cancel their long-planned trip to Milan, she feels that things couldn't possibly be worse...until the English Roses have to take Charlotte's younger brother to the[...]

The English Roses are in a tizzy over the gift exchange at school, especially Charlotte. Certain she'll get something fabulous, she can't hide her dismay at ending up with a dumpy pot holder. And after receiving her Secret Santa, the nerdy Jeanette Jones runs off in tears - can the English Roses hel[...]

It's holiday time and all the English Roses have exciting plans. Nicole and Amy are visiting a creative arts camp. Charlotte's off to her family's villa in the south of France. And Grace has invited Binah to come to Atlanta and visit her cousins. Binah is so excited, and she can't wait to meet her f[...]

The best-selling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never[...]

This is a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Robert A. Orsi's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life. Awarded the Alpha S[...]

"A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice... that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us...In short, his is a voice for which one s[...]