Miss Read's charming chronicles of small-town life have achievedan almost legendary popularity worldwide by offering a welcomereturn to a gentler time and "wit, humor, and wisdom in equalmeasure" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). This volume introduces ThrushGreen, the neighboring village to Fairacre: its blackthorn bushes,thatch-roofed cottages, enchanting landscape, and jumble sales.Readers will delight in a new cast of characters and also welcomefamiliar faces as they become immersed in the village's turn ofevents on one pivotal day -- May Day. Before the day is over, lifeand love and perhaps eternity will touch the immemorial peace ofthe village.
Are hurricanes increasing in ferocity and frequency because ofglobal warming? In the wake of Katrina, leading science journalistChris Mooney follows the careers of top meteorologists on eitherside of this red-hot question through the 2006 hurricane season,tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weatheritself have skewed and amplified what was already an intensescientific debate. In this fascinating and urgently important book,Mooney--a native of New Orleans--delves into a compellingconsequence of the great inconvenient truth of our day: Are weresponsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than theyalready are?
George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized inplaces where people disappeared--Judge Crater, the Lost Colony.Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found,and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes for the town paper,stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and localcelebrities, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of hisson's last day.Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-personsdetective still obsessed with the unsolved case of Katherine Carr.When he gives Gates the story she left behind--about a man stalkinga woman named Katherine Carr--Gates too is drawn inexorably into asearch for the missing author's brief life and uncertain fate. Andas he goes deeper, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the keynot only to her fate, but to his own.
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History withJigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabbleweaves her own story into a history of games, in particularjigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief frommelancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveriesabout jigsaw puzzles--did you know that the 1929 stock market crashwas followed by a boom in puzzle sales?--Drabble introduces us toher beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to thehouse in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first tripto London together, the books they read, and the jigsaws theycompleted. She offers penetrating sketches of her parents,siblings, and children, and shares her thoughts on the importanceof childhood play, on art and writing, and on aging and memory. Andshe does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit. Thisis a memoir like no other. --A New York Times Book ReviewEditors'Choice.
A collection of Lewis's complete shorter fiction, includingtwo previously unpublished works, "The Dark Tower" and "The ManBorn Blind." Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.
This anthology represents Alice Walkers complete earlierpoetry, from the summer of 1965 when she traveled to East Africaand began the poems that would form her first collection, throughher poetry of the civil rights movement and beyond. Revelatoryintroductions to each group of poems provide a special insight intothe evolving consciousness of one of the most remarkable andprovocative literary minds of our time.
In despair at having no son to succeed him, the King of Turkeyleaves his palace to live in seclusion. Soon after, however, heencounters four wandering dervishes - three princes and a richmerchant from Persia, Yemen and China - who have been guided toTurkey by a supernatural force that prophesied their meeting. Thefive men sit together in the dead of night, each in turn tellingthe tale of lost love that led him to renounce the world. As theirstories within stories unfold, a magnificent world is revealed ofcourtly intrigue and romance, fairies and djinn, oriental gardensand lavish feasts, adventures and mishaps. "A Tale of FourDervishes" (1803) is an exquisite example of Urdu fiction thatprovides a fascinating glimpse into the customs, beliefs and peopleof the time.
This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish herfirst book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited andwith a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.
"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"
Ambitious Brew, the first-ever history of American beer, tellsan epic story of American ingenuity and the beverage that became anational standard. Not always America’s drink of choice, beerfinally took its top spot in the nation’s glasses when a wave ofGerman immigrants arrived in the mid-nineteenth century and settledin to re-create the beloved biergartens they had left behind. Fiftyyears later, the American-style lager beer they invented was thenation’s most popular beverage—and brewing was the nation’sfifth-largest industry, ruled over by titans Frederick Pabst andAdolphus Busch. Anti-German sentiments aroused by World War I fedthe flames of the temperance movement and brought on Prohibition.After its repeal, brewers replaced flavor with innovations such asflashy marketing and lite beer, setting the stage for thegeneration of microbrewers whose ambitions would reshape the brewonce again.
The surprise New York Times bestseller, from an author who delivers American storytelling at its best. The story of marriage, family, and forgiveness that has become not just a bestseller but an instant classic Their story begins with one letter on their wedding night, a letter from the groom, promising to write his bride every week for as long they both shall live. Thirty-nine years later, Jack and Laurel Cooper die in each others arms. And when their grown children return to the family B&B to arrange the funeral, they discover thousands of letters. The letters they read tell of surprising joys and sorrows. They also hint at a shocking family secret and ultimately force the children to confront a life-changing moment of truth
Would you stay in a haunted house for more than one night? Would you live in a place where ghostly things keep happening? Where a cellar door you know you locked the night before is always open the following morning? Where hushed whimpering is heard? Where white shadows steal through the darkness? Where the presence of evil is all around you? Would you? Should you? The Caleighs did, but they had their reasons. They should have known better though. As the terror mounts, they begin to regret their decision. As the horror rises, they realize their very lives are at risk.., and so is their sanity. For the secret of Crickley Hall is beyond all nightmares...
St Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school - hidden away, it's a place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St Vladimir's where the girls must survive a world of forbidden romances, a ruthless social scene and terrifying night time rituals. But most of all, staying alive.
Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet nonethe less he is an outcast in India s caste system: an Untouchable.In deceptively simple prose this groundbreaking novel describes aday in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as hesearches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been borninto - and comes to an unexpected conclusion. Mulk Raj Anand poureda vitality, fire and richness of detail into his controversialwork, which led him to be acclaimed as his country s CharlesDickens and one of the twentieth century s most important Indianwriters.
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia,Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinatingstory of the final days of Russian monarchs Nicholas and Alexandraas seen through the eyes of the Romanov's young kitchen boy,Leonka.
We treat disease as our enemy. Germs and infections are thingswe battle. But what if we’ve been giving them a bum rap? From the earliest days of life on earth, disease has evolvedalongside us. And its presence isn't just natural but is alsoessential to our health. Drawing on the latest research, Zukanswers a fascinating range of questions about disease: Why do mendie younger than women? Why are we attracted to our mates? Why doesthe average male bird not have a penis? Why do we--as well asinsects, birds, pigs, cows, goats, and even plants--get STDs? Whydo we have sex at all, rather than simply splitting off copies ofourselves like certain geckos? And how is our obsession withcleanliness making us sicker? In this witty, engaging book, evolutionary biologist Zuk makes usrethink our instincts as she argues that disease is our partner,not our foe. Reconsider the fearsome parasite!
Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they're his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.'s Bureau brass. He's climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-narcogoon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare. 作者简介： JAMES ELLROY was born in 1948 in Los Angeles, the city that has served as the inspiration for his acclaimed crime novels. His L.A. Quartet novels, the Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential was made into and Academy Award-winning motion picture. American Tabloid was TIME maga
