Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail,the Sackett series is a remarkable contribution by one of America'sgreatest storytellers. The Sky-liners Flagan and Galloway Sacketthad made a deal to escort Judith Costello, the granddaughter of awealthy Irish horse trader, to her father's home in Colorado.Flagan saw nothing but trouble in the pretty, fiery young woman,but they needed the horses. Unfortunately, Flagan was right, forJudith had fallen for James Black Fetchen, a charismatic gunmanwhose courtship hid the darkest of intentions. Flagan and Gallowaycould only guess why Judith was so important to Fetchen and whatawaited them at her father's ranch. One thing Flagan knew for sure:the tough and spirited woman had won his heart. But could he trusther with his life? Galloway Trouble was following Flagan Sackettwith a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, hehad escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he would try tostay alive until his brother, Galloway, could fi
Once upon a time people described Ray Bradbury as aparticularly gifted writer of science fiction. Today he seems morelike a magical realist, a small-town American cousin to Borges andGarcia Marquez. A writer whose vision of the world is so intensethat the objects in it sometimes levitate or glow with otherworldlyauras. Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in whichchildren's fantasies become real enough to kill? The beautifulwhite suit that turns six down-and-out Chicanos into their idealselves? Only Bradbury could make us identify with a man who livesin terror of his own skeleton. And if a generic science fictionwriter might describe a spaceship landing on Mars, only Bradburycan tell us how the Martians see it-and the and dreamlike visitorsfrom Planet Earth.
Harry Bernstein started chronicling his life at the age ofninety-four, after the death of his beloved wife, Ruby. In hisfirst book, The Invisible Wall , he told a haunting story offorbidden love in World War I-era England. Then Bernstein wrote The Dream , the touching tale of his family’s immigrantexperience in Depression-era Chicago and New York. Now Bernsteincompletes the saga with The Golden Willow , a heart-liftingmemoir of his life with Ruby, a romance that lasted nearly seventyyears. They met at a dance at New York’s legendary Webster Hall, fellinstantly and madly in love, and embarked on a rich and rewardinglife together. From their first tiny rented room on the Upper WestSide to their years in Greenwich Village, immersed in the artscene, surrounded by dancers, musicians, and writers, to their lifein the newly burgeoning suburbs, Harry and Ruby pursued theAmerican dream with gusto, much as Harry’s late mother would havewanted. Together, through a depression, a world war, and the McCarthy era
What's the truth behind the legend of the hound of theBaskervilles? Is it really a devil-beast that's haunting the lonelymoors? Enter Sherlock Holmes to find the answer, in this, the onlyfull-length novel ever written by the creator of one of the mostpopular and enduring detective series ever written.
Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB bandedtogether to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabalof powerbrokers and assassins whose sole objective was to achieveworldwide economic domination. Now the bloody Matarese dynasty isback--and the only man with the power to stop it may have alreadyrun out of time.... CIA case officer Cameron Pryce is hot on thetrail of the new Matarese alliance. His only chance to terminateits ruthless activities is to follow the trail of blood money andstone-cold killers right to the heart of its deadly conspiracy.From the Hamptons to London's Belgrave Square, Matarese assassinshave already struck with brutal efficiency, eliminating all whostand in their way. Their chain of violence is impossible tostop--until Pryce gets a rare break. One of the Matarese's victimssurvives long enough to whisper dying words that will blow the casewide open: the top secret code name for legendary retired CIA agentBrandon Scofield--the only man who has ever infiltrated
In the fifth novel in King's bestselling epic fantasy series, the farming community in the fertile lands of the East has been warned the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are also coming their way. And the farmers of the Calla want to enlist some hard calibers. Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland faces his most deadly perils as he journey through the Mid-World towards the Dark Tower.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Franz Kafka's imagination so faroutstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition heinherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out inorder to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulouslynaturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these storiesrepresent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift ofmaking our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. Thisedition of his stories includes all his available shorter fictionin a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by GabrielJosipovici in ways that bring out the writer's extraordinary rangeand intensity of vision. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES tells of Craig Childs' own chillingexperiences among the grizzlies of the Arctic, sharks off the coastof British Columbia and in the turquoise waters of Central America,jaguars in the bush of northern Mexico, mountain lions, elk,Bighorn Sheep, and others. More than chilling, however, thesestories are lyrical, enchanting, and reach beyond what one commonlyassumes an "animal story" is or should be. THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES isa book about another world that exists alongside our own, an entirerealm of languages and interactions that humans rarely get thechance to witness.
Divorcee Theresa Osborne, newspaper columnist and mother of atwelve-year-old son, picks up a bottle on the beach during aseaside vacation. Inside is a letter from a man called Garrett. Mydearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but todayis particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, andthe song is that of our life together ...For Garrett, his messageis the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman hehas lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shatteredher trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Who areGarrett and Catherine? What is their story? Challenged by themystery and unaccountably drawn to find him, Theresa embarks on asearch that takes her to a sunlit coast town and an unexpectedconfrontation ...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A LIVING, POWERFULLY PHYSICAL WORK . . .UPDIKE IS A SUPERBLY SKILLFUL WRITER.""-The Wall StreetJournal""WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS UPDIKE Our own king of eruditionhas gone back to the Hamlet story to imagine its inception: itsoffstage pre-story, when Claudius fell in love with his brother'squeen and that first dastardly deed in the garden was set inmotion. Wickedly replete with allusions, weaving the history ofideas with the lustier possibilities of adulterous coupling. . . .There is something delightful about following Updike down thispath, seeing his sentiments and sympathies unfold.""-The BostonGlobe""WITTY . . . FRESH AND MOVING . . . Engrossing enough on itsown terms to stand independently of Shakespeare's play."-"Time" "UPDIKE] HAS MANAGED TO CREATE IN GERTRUDE A GENUINELY COMPELLINGCHARACTER, a woman who is, by turns, vulnerable and outspoken,daring and naive. . . . One of his most sympathetic and persuasivefemale characters.""-The New York Times""BRILLIANT.""-NewRepublic"
Decline and Fall (1928) was Evelyn Waugh's immenselysuccessful first novel, and it displays not only all of itsauthor's customary satiric genius and flair for unearthing theridiculous in human nature, but also a youthful willingness totrain those weapons on any and every thing in his path. In thisfractured picaresque comedy of the hapless Paul Pennyfeatherstumbling from one disaster to another, Waugh manages the delicioustask of skewering every aspect of the society in which helived. With an Introduction by Frank Kermode
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