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Raymond James Long (born December 15, 1938) is an American academic and professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is also a faculty member at St. John Fisher Seminary in Stamford, Connecticut. Long was the president of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. Biography Long has published nine books, including The Life and Works of Richard Fishacre, O.P., Prolegomena to the Edition of his Commentary on the "Sentences", published in 1999; editions of parts one and two of the second book of Fishacre's Sentences Commentary (2008 and 2011); "Adam of Bockenfield, 'Glossaae super De vegetabilibus et plantis': A Critical Edition with Introduction"; and, most recently "Hagar's Vocation. Philosophy's Role in the Theology of Richard Fishacre" (CUA Press, 2015). Of German and Italian ancestry, Long has also authored more than 60 articles on medieval philosophy (which include editions of the works of such writers as Alfred of Sareshel, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, the anonymous author of a Peterhouse manuscript on the science of botany, in addition to his work on Fishacre and Adam of Bockenfield), and was the recipient of numerous academic awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, a Canada Council Postdoctoral Fellowship and a NEH Text and Editions Grant. Long received a licentiate in medieval studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in 1966 and earned his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1968. Personal life Long is married to former Broadway actress Wendy Lesniak, with whom he has three sons: Damian, Justin, and Christian. References . Discover the James Long popular books. Find the top 100 most popular James Long books.

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  • Liberty Is Sweet synopsis, comments

    Liberty Is Sweet

    Woody Holton

    A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette GordonReed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooke...

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    Gone Fishing

    Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

    Experience a heartpumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.In this tag team Thr...

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    French Country Cooking

    Elizabeth David

    French Country Cooking first published in 1951 is filled with Elizabeth David's authentic recipes drawn from across the regions of France.'Her books are stunningly well written ....

  • The Face in the Window synopsis, comments

    The Face in the Window

    Heather Graham

    Experience a heartpumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.In this haunting Thr...

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    The Long Mirage

    David R. George III

    Continuing the posttelevision Deep Space Nine saga comes this thrilling original novel from New York Times bestselling author David R. George III!More than two years have passed si...

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    The Fisher King

    Melissa Lenhardt

    When the dust settles in this Texas town, who will be left standing?It’s been six weeks since Jack McBride’s life went to hell: the resolution of his first case as chief sparked a ...

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    The Portal

    John Lescroart & M. J. Rose

    Experience a heartpumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.Two New York Times b...

  • Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli synopsis, comments

    Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli

    Mark Seal

    This “wickedly pacey pageturner” (Total Film) unfurls the behindthescenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film’s original release.The story of h...

  • Long Time Coming synopsis, comments

    Long Time Coming

    Michael Eric Dyson

    AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis edition includes illustrations by Everett DysonFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America t...

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    Baldwin for Our Times

    James Baldwin & Rich Blint

    A collection of James Baldwin's writings that speaks urgently to our current era of racial injustice, with an introduction by prominent Baldwin scholar Rich BlintIn his unforgett...

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    The Hunt for Dmitri

    Gayle Lynds

    Experience a heartpumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.New York Times bests...

  • The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago synopsis, comments

    The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

    David M. Gitlitz & Linda Kay Davidson

    The road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle Ages, leading pilgrims to the res...

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    Last Night

    James Salter

    Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stories port...

  • For Your Eyes Only synopsis, comments

    For Your Eyes Only

    Ian Fleming

    A STUNNING COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT SENDS BOND TO BERMUDA, THE BAHAMAS, AND BEYOND “From a View to a Kill” whisks Bond to the French countryside where he must go undercover ...

  • Kill Zone synopsis, comments

    Kill Zone

    Robert Liparulo

    Experience a heartpumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.In this redemptive T...

  • Dinner at the Long Table synopsis, comments

    Dinner at the Long Table

    Andrew Tarlow & Anna Dunn

    From the acclaimed owner of Brooklyn’s Diner, Marlow & Sons, Marlow & Daughters, Reynard, The Ides, Achilles Heel, She Wolf Bakery, Marlow Goods, Roman’s, and the Wythe H...

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    Questions for a Dead Man

    Alex Gray

    Your favourite Scottish detective returns in 2023 in an enthralling new mystery'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH 'Move over Rebus' Daily Mail 'Exciting, p...

  • Dirty Weather synopsis, comments

    Dirty Weather

    Gregg Hurwitz

    Experience a heartpumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.In this intense Thri...

  • Octopussy and the Living Daylights synopsis, comments

    Octopussy and the Living Daylights

    Ian Fleming

    FOUR TALES OF INTRIGUE THAT PUSH 007 TO THE LIMITIn “Octopussy,” a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins when James Bond knocks on the do...

  • Mothers and Sons synopsis, comments

    Mothers and Sons

    Colm Tóibín

    With dazzling brilliance and empathy, Colm Tóibín's collection of stories wrestles with complicated themes of emotional restraint, the long reach of sexual repression, and the diff...

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    Assassins

    Christopher Reich

    Experience a heartpumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.In this tight Thrill...

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    Waking Kylie

    Alafair Burke

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex comes a new eshort featuring an excerpt from her forthcoming novel, The Wife.After losing a criminal case, a prosecutor as...

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    Going to Meet the Man

    James Baldwin

    A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writersinformed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. “If Van ...

  • The Enchanted Wanderer synopsis, comments

    The Enchanted Wanderer

    Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

    Written over the course of Leskov’s career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and reven...

  • The Tuesday Club synopsis, comments

    The Tuesday Club

    Katherine Neville

    Experience a heartpumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.In this historical T...

  • Crash and Burn synopsis, comments

    Crash and Burn

    James Rollins

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a shocking short story, where a chance mishap leads to the discovery of a weapon like no other in . . . Cras...

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    Long Time Gone

    J. A. Jance

    Fifty years ago, when she was five, Sister Mary Katherine witnessed something terrible . . .A former Seattle policeman now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homic...

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    Notes of a Native Son

    James Baldwin

    In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first w...

  • Richard III synopsis, comments

    Richard III

    William Shakespeare

    The authoritative edition of Richard III from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.In Richard III, Shakes...

  • The Empty Throne synopsis, comments

    The Empty Throne

    Ivo H. Daalder & James M. Lindsay

    American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous. America emerged from the catastrophe of World War II ...

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    Redeeming Heartache

    Dr. Dan B. Allender, PLLC & Cathy Loerzel

    Find freedom and healing from painful memories and relational struggles and learn how your past has uniquely prepared you to experience more joy. Tragedy and pain inevitably t...

  • The Death of a Joyce Scholar synopsis, comments

    The Death of a Joyce Scholar

    Bartholomew Gill

    Trinity professor and Joycean scholar Kevin Coyle was one of Dublin's most colorful and controversial characters, until someone stabbed him through the heart on Bloomsday, the an...

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    Dubliners

    James Joyce, Edna O'Brien & Malachy McCourt

    This Vintage Classics edition of James Joyce’s groundbreaking story collection has been authoritatively edited by scholars Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and includes a chro...

  • A History of Wild Places synopsis, comments

    A History of Wild Places

    Shea Ernshaw

    In this “riveting, atmospheric thriller that messes with your mind in the best way” (Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author), three residents of a secluded, seemingly peac...

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    Man Catch

    Christopher Rice

    Experience a heartpumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.In this eyeopening T...

  • War Hawk synopsis, comments

    War Hawk

    James Rollins & Grant Blackwood

    Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his war dog Kane are thrust into a global conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of American democracy in this second exciting Sigma...

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    The Sea Detective

    Mark Douglas-Home

    Discover the chilling first mystery in a truly unique crime series you won't be able to put down'There comes a time when a novel raises the bar for a particular genre, and The Sea ...

  • Five-Carat Soul synopsis, comments

    Five-Carat Soul

    James McBride

    One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017“A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous ...

  • The Beach House synopsis, comments

    The Beach House

    James Patterson & Peter de Jonge

    When New York law student Jack Mullen learns that his brother has drowned, he knows it can't be an accident . . . Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking ne...

  • The Midnight Watch synopsis, comments

    The Midnight Watch

    James Rollins

    From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a lightningpaced short story, in which a major attack on U.S. soil can only be stopped by…The Midnight WatchIn the dead o...

  • The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson synopsis, comments

    The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson

    James Weldon Johnson & Rudolph Byrd

    “A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd.”–Henry Louis Gates, Jr.One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure...

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    Tick Tock

    Fern Michaels

    In a thrilling new story of female empowerment, adventure, and vigilante justice from the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author, The Sisterhood reunites to avenge an attac...