John Louis Home

product_img5
Wendy Moore
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th-century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter. When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice wa...
$12.56
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Nancy Mitford
Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie
Two sparkling comedies from early in the career of the beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. •  “Exuberant...enjoyable skulduggery and shenanigans....
$13.79
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Holly Edwards
Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930
Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures explores complex American attitudes toward the Near East--as revealed in collected paintings, interior design, and multiple vernacular forms--at the formative moment of industrialization and the crystallization of a truly mass culture. Published to coincide with the m...
$32.98
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Stuart Clayton
Bass Monsters (Bass Guitar TAB Books by Stuart Clayton)
Learn Songs by Bass Monsters such as Billy Sheehan, Victor Wooten, Stuart Hamm, Jeff Berlin, James Jamerson and more! Bass Monsters contains transcriptions of some of the most challenging pieces every written for the bass guitar! Within these pages you’ll find highly detailed transcriptions an...
$28.79
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Joanna Trollope
Sense & Sensibility
From Joanna Trollope, one of the most insightful chroniclers of family life writing fiction today, comes a contemporary retelling of Sense and Sensibility , Jane Austen’s classic novel of love, money, and two very different sisters. John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care ...
$19.70
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Henry Dumas
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction—Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America. Henry Dumas’s fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity, ...
$12.70
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Howard Means
Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story
“Finally, the cliché is peeled away and the essence of this utterly American character is so revealing. John Chapman comes alive here and it is a thrilling experience to escape the specific gravity of the decades of myth” (Ken Burns). This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-b...
$12.59
www.amazon.com
product_img5
II Hampton, Codis
Gracie Hall-Hampton: The Arkansas Years, 1917-1953
I have learned over the years that there is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to give something of oneself in hopes that others will benefit from that gift. The idea was planted in my being by my father's way of raising his children. It grew in leaps and bounds and, in fact, was magnified wh...
$23.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Chuck Wendig
Vultures (Miriam Black)
In the sixth and final thriller of the “wildly entertaining” ( Kirkus Reviews ) Miriam Black series, Miriam tries to break the curse of her powers, but first she must face The Trespasser a final time. Still reeling from the events of The Raptor and the Wren , Miriam must confront two terrify...
$15.66
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Courtney Carbone
A Very Fraggle Holiday (Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock)
A Very Fraggle Holiday: A Festive Adventure Filled with Activities and Holiday Cheer! Join your favorite Fraggles in a heartwarming holiday adventure with A Very Fraggle Holiday, a lively storybook adaptation of the Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock episode “Night of the Lights” (Apple TV+). This ...
$20.29
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Matthew McBride
Frank Sinatra in a Blender
Nick Valentine has problems. He's a drunken ex-cop who lives in his shabby office, hangs out at strip clubs, and has only one real friend--Frank Sinatra. But he's one of the best private investigators in Saint Louis. So when an inept crew robs a credit union, only Valentine can figure out who made o...
$29.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Marilynne Robinson
Lila (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
A New York Times Bestseller NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an ...
$14.98
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Ralph J. Gleason
Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews
An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. These informal sessions, conducted mostly in...
$18.64
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Charlie Hailey
The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature
Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we’ve entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises: What does it mean to be in a place? How does one place teach us about the world and ourselves? What d...
$26.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Billy Busch
Family Reins: The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty
The story of the iconic Anheuser-Busch dynasty, written--for the first time--by a Busch heir. As an heir to the Anheuser-Busch company and fortune, Billy Busch was raised on the real stories of how his family built one of America's oldest and most iconic brands. Since the company was formed almost 1...
$16.65
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Cush
The How-To Book of Catholic Theology: Everything You Need to Know But No One Ever Taught You
As you'll learn in The How-to Book of Catholic Theology: Everything You Need to Know But No One Ever Taught You , theology at its core is about encountering God's self-revelation in Christ through the Church. In his clear, conversational style, theologian Father John Cush offers a comprehensive ove...
$19.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Vincent Farelly
A Year in the French Style: Interiors & Entertaining by Antoinette Poisson
The founders of Antoinette Poisson take readers inside their historic townhouse on the Atlantic coast to discover a style and art of entertaining rooted in French tradition and elegance. Maison Lescop—the historic residence of an eighteenth-century French importer for the Indian trading company ...
$36.99
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Ingraham
March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen
Though nothing in the natural world would be quite the same without them, microbes go mostly unnoticed. They are the tiny, mighty force behind the pop in Champagne and the holes in Swiss cheese, the granite walls of Yosemite and the white cliffs of Dover, the workings of snowmaking machines, Botox, ...
$17.41
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Mel Bay
Mel Bay Easy Classic Guitar Solos
Designed for the beginner, these diverse solos acquaint the student with musical selections by a myriad of great composers. This book is a favorite classic guitar solo collection used by teachers worldwide. Standard notation only. Titles included: Adeste Fideles (18th Century) John Reading America H...
$9.99
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Chris Bohjalian
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Vintage Contemporaries)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the author of The Flight Attendant .  Emily Shepard is on the run; the nuclear plant where her father worked has suffered a cataclysmic meltdown, and all fingers point to him. Now, ...
$11.98
www.amazon.com