Nicholas Gage

#2

1936

No Sactuary When she bought the old farm near the tiny rural town of Peaceable Corners, bright and beautiful Kate Wade was seeking a temporary refuge. She was fleeing the memory of the recent tragic death of her husband and the cruel rigors of city life--hoping for a serene spot where she could heal her shattered spirit. -- Instead she found new terrors to face. Close relatives grown suddenly strange...a bitter and powerful man laying claim to her embattled heart..a woman found gruesomely slain on her property...and an unseen killer reaping a harvest of death who moved closer...ever closer.

#3

1998

In our crowded, noisy world - too many people, too much crime, too many wars, not enough time - it seems almost impossible to locate and preserve the common ground where a civil society might flourish. Where can we be ourselves and live our lives, arbitrate our differences, be something more than mere consumers, take charge of things? Everywhere we look there is conflict, alienation, bureaucracy, unbridled marketeering capitalism, loss of individual control. Whatever happened to the civic virtue and community life that nourished true democracy? In this book, Benjamin Barber tackles these questions head-on and, in answering them, retrieves the ideals of "civil society" from the nostalgists who want to re-create old-fashioned (and discriminatory) small communities and from the free-marketeers who associate it with unfettered commercial activity. Barber proposes practical strategies for making civil society real, for civilizing public discourse and promoting civic debate, and for envisioning an America where we honor values beyond those of work and leisure, commerce and bureaucracy.