The summer of 28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. Asummer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Ofhalf-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandmasbelly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels andgold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of atwelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spauldingremembered forever bythe incomparable Ray Bradbury.
Hard to believe, but there was a time when the word "lawyer"wasn't synonymous with "criminal," and the idea of a law firmcontrolled by the Mafia was an outlandish proposition. Thisintelligent, ensnaring story came out of nowhere--Oxford,Mississippi, where Grisham was a small-town lawyer--and quicklycatapulted to the top of the bestseller list, with good reason.Mitch McDeere, the appealing hero, is a poor kid whose only assetsare a first-class mind, a Harvard law degree, and a beautiful,loving wife. When a Memphis law firm makes him an offer he reallycan't refuse, he trades his old Nissan for a new BMW, his crampedapartment for a house in the best part of town, and puts in longhours finding tax shelters for Texans who'd rather pay a lawyerthan the IRS. Nothing criminal about that. He'd be set for life, ifonly associates at the firm didn't have a funny habit of dying, andthe FBI wasn't trying to get Mitch to turn his colleagues in. Thetempo and pacing are brilliant, the thrills keep coming, and thefinish has a
"The third and fourth novel in John Updike's acclaimed quartetof Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume."RABBIT IS RICHWinnerof the American Book Award andthe National Book Critics CircleAward "Dazzlingly reaffirms Updike's place as master chronicler ofthe spiritual maladies and very earthly pleasure of theMiddle-American male."-"Vogue ""A splendid achievement "-"The NewYork Times "RABBIT AT RESTWinner of the Pulitzer Prize andtheNational Book Critics Circle Award "Brilliant . . . It must beread. It is the best novel about America to come out of America fora very, very long time."-"The Washington Post Book World" "Powerful. . . John Updike with his precision's prose and his intimatelyattentive yet cold eye is a master."-"The New York Times BookReview"
A new trade paperback edition of McCullers' second novel,REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starringElizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston. Set on aSouthern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story ofCaptain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival ofMajor Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair withPenderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon thenovel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to makeof its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for TimeMagazine wrote, "In almost any hands, such material would yield arank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tellsher tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase."Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves wason the brink of collapse, her second novel deals with her trademarkthemes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.
Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man cameto the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike.Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him hisoldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars-- and inthat instant, Mars conquered him. The strange new world with itsancient, dying race and vast, red-gold deserts cast a spell on him,settled into his dreams, and changed him forever. Here are thecaptivating chronicles of man and Mars-- the modern classic by thepeerless Ray Bradbury.
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has wonthe Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, iscalled out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lakenear Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers theidentity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that couldgo to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo justone step behind, March, together with an American journalist, iscaught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truththat has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, atruth that will change history. "From the Paperback edition."
"The first and second novels in John Updike's acclaimedquartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume."RABBIT, RUN"Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity ofinsight, and crystal-bright prose, Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrowhis and out own."-"The Washington Post ""Precise, graceful,stunning, he is an athlete of words and images. He is also animpeccable observer of thoughts and feelings."-"The Village Voice"RABBIT REDUX " 'Great in love, in art, boldness, freedom, wisdom,kindness, exceedingly rich in intelligence, wit, imagination, andfeeling-a great and beautiful thing . . .' these hyperboles (quotedfrom a letter written long ago by Thomas Mann) come to mind afterreading John Updike's "Rabbit Redux."-The New York Times BookReview""""Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligenceand a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. . . . Amasterpiece."-"Time"
Sentenced to a life of misery in the Scottish coal mines,twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally:beautiful high-born Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kindof hell. In 1766, from the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold ofa slave ship headed for the American colonies to a sprawlingVirginia plantation, two restless young people, separated bypolitics and position, are bound by their search for a place calledfreedom....
This 100th Anniversary Edition presents the timeless tale ofHumphrey Van Weyden, pressed into service aboard the seal-huntingGhost, led by the brutal, enigmatic captain Wolf Larsen. Thisvolume also includes four of London's acclaimed short stories.
Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty- six, gazed out a moonlitwindow, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley homeof her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderoussociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent onkilling everyone inside. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventure,"Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immensehimself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, tolive with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safetyand self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At firsther sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns theidentity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent onlyshe can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaningbeyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resourceshe has to save an endangered girl—as moment by moment, theterrifying threat Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which sparesno one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital,but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealingfood rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to thisnightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with nomother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barrenstreets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundingsare harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation anda vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century,Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayalof man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimatelyexhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will tosurvive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize forLiterature
In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. Ayoung student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a smallcircle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates aspiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades andentwine many loves... From the exclusive men's club and brothelsthat cater to every dark desire of London's upper classes to thedazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulatorsof the world's wealth, Ken Follett conjures up a stunning array ofcontrasts. This breathtaking novel portrays a family splintered bylust, bound by a shared legacy... men and women swept toward aperilous climax where greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boy'sdeath, must be stopped, or not just one man's dreams, but those ofa nation, will die...
He gave up the money. He gave up the power. Now all he hasleft is the law. Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushingrelentlessly to the top of Drake Sweeney, a giant D.C. lawfirm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, inan instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm's plushoffices. When it is all over, the man's blood is splattered onMichael's face--and suddenly Michael is willing to do theunthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michaelis leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker oncelived--and where society's powerless need an advocate forjustice. But there's one break Michael can't make: from a secret that hasfloated up from the depths of Drake Sweeney, from aconfidential file that is now in Michael's hands, and from aconspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael's formerpartners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them,Michael Brock is the most d
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaurDNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam JurassicPark, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goeswrong...and science proves a dangeroustoy...."Wonderful...Powerful."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD "Fromthe Paperback edition."
H. G. Wells Scientific visionary. Social prophet. Master storyteller. Fewnovelists have captivated generations of readers like H. G. Wells.In enduring, electrifying detail, he takes us to dimensions of timeand space that have haunted our dreams for centuries -- and showsus ourselves as we really are. The time machine In the heart of Victorian England, an inquisitve gentleman knownonly as the Time Traveler constructs an elaborate invention thathurtles him hundreds of thousands of years into the future. Therehe finds himself in the violent center of the ultimate conflictbetween beings of light and creatures of darkness. The war of the worlds Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-centuryLondon. This tale of conquest by superior beings with superadvancedtechnology is so nightmarishly real that an adaptation by OrsonWelles and the Mercury Theater sent hundreds of impressionableradio listeners into panicked flight forty years after the story'soriginal publicati
In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm:Twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliantlegal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer andan impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi StatePrison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist nowfacing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has runout of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyerwho just happens to be his grandson. While the executioners preparethe gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameraswait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. Forbetween the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets-- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall's life...orcost Adam his. "A dark and thoughtful tale pulsing wit moraluncertainties... Grisham is at his best." --"People.""Compelling... Powerful... "The Chamber" will make readers thinklong and hard about the death penalty." -- "USA Today." "His bestyet." -- "The Houst
