Cass Neary made her name in the seventies as a photographerembedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Herpictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, thedamned, and the dead, earned her a brief moment of fame. Thirtyyears later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when anold acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famouslyreclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When shearrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery thatis still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot atredemption. Patricia Highsmith meets Patti Smith in thismesmerizing literary thriller.

An illustrated guide, in both book and CD-ROM, of landscapesseen from commercial airplane windows across the United States.This is a guide to what an airline passenger sees from his seatwhile flying over the United States. Through its ingeniousconstruction and a map of preferred flight paths, it's easy to findthose pages that correspond to whatever flight a passenger happensto be on, and then to identify features that can be seen from theair. The book marries geology, natural history, and human historyfor a glorious portrait of the continent, from the Atlantic CityBoardwalk to Mount St. Helens. Each two-page spread features anaerial photo with captions identifying features passengers will seeand an essay interpreting the features. Each chapter is a FlightCorridor, with pages sequenced to follow a trip from takeoff tolanding. Because many flight paths overlap, the fifteen corridorscover the forty most heavily traveled flight segments in thecontinental United States, plus many others. In many regions of