Nora Roberts continues the romantic saga: the story of threewomen who shared a home and a childhood -- but grew to fulfilltheir own unique destinies.
**DEBUT FICTION** Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's mostmisunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president's wife to becalled First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter ofemancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three childrenand the assassination of her beloved husband. Yet she also ran herfamily into debt, held seances in the White House, and wascommitted to an insane asylum. In Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel,Mary Todd Lincoln shares the story of her life in her own words.Writing from Bellevue Place asylum, she takes readers from hertempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through theyears after her husband's death. A dramatic tale filled withpassion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity andredemption, Mary allows us entry into the inner, intimate world ofthis brave and fascinating woman.
Written in 1953, published in 1959 (after the 1957 publicationof Kerouac's On the Road made him famous overnight) and long out ofprint, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England milltown is one of Kerouac's most accessible works.
We don't just live in the air; we live because of it. It's themost miraculous substance on earth, responsible for our food, ourweather, our water, and our ability to hear. In this exuberantbook, gifted science writer Gabrielle Walker peels back the layersof our atmosphere with the stories of the people who uncovered itssecrets: - A flamboyant Renaissance Italian discovers how heavy ourair really is: The air filling Carnegie Hall, for example, weighsseventy thousand pounds. - A one-eyed barnstorming pilot finds aset of winds that constantly blow five miles above our heads. - Animpoverished American farmer figures out why hurricanes move in acircle by carving equations with his pitchfork on a barn door. - Awell-meaning inventor nearly destroys the ozone layer. - Areclusive mathematical genius predicts, thirty years before he'sproved right, that the sky contains a layer of floating metal fedby the glowing tails of shooting stars.
Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor ofThe No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause forcelebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comicnovels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane andrarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of theInstitute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in anever-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due–aquest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray. In Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Professor Dr von Igelfeld learnsto play tennis, and forces a college chum to enter into a duel thatresults in a nipped nose. He also takes a field trip to Irelandwhere he becomes acquainted with the rich world of archaicIrishisms, and he develops an aching infatuation with a Dentistfatale. Along the way, he takes two ill-fated Italian sojourns, thefirst merely uncomfortable, the second definitely dangerous.
Bill Canavan rode into the valley with a dream to start hisown ranch. But when he managed to stake claims on the three bestwater holes, the other ranchers turned against him. No one is moredetermined to see Canavan dead than Star Levitt. Levitt is anunscrupulous businessman who has been accumulating cattle at analarming rate. Suspicious after witnessing a secret meeting betweenthe riders of warring ranches, Bill begins noticing other dubiousbehavior: Why is Levitt's fiancee, Dixie Venable, acting more likea hostage than a willing bride-to-be? Canavan doesn't have muchtime to figure out what's going on. The entire valley is againsthim, and everyone is ready to shoot on sight.
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, hassuffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book hehas ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his ownname, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembersnothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort toretrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in thehills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, hesearches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photoalbums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story ofhis generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, JosephineBaker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and thelife racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel.Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocentimage: that of his first love. A fascinating, abundant newnovel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from theincomparable Eco.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Raymond Chandler's first threenovels, published here in one volume, established his reputation asan unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. "The BigSleep," Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, aprivate detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralyzed Californiamillionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder. In"Farewell, My Lovely," Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, amurder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentiallydeadly women. In "The High Window," Marlowe searches the Californiaunderworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in thetangled affairs of a dead coin collector. In all three novels,Chandler's hard-edged prose, colorful characters, vivid vernacular,and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, enduringly establishhis claim not only to the heights of his chosen genre but to thepantheon of literary art.
Written during 1951-52, this novel was an underground legendby the time it was finally published in 1972. Written in anexperimental form, Kerouac created the ultimate account of hisvoyages with Neal Cassady, which he captured in a different formfor On the Road.
In this romantic, funny, and heartwarming classic novel, #1"New York Times" bestselling author Tami Hoag poignantly capturesone eventful summer in the life of a woman facing the ultimaterelationship dilemma. It took only one look for Genna Hastings tomake up her mind about her new next-door neighbor, J. J. Hennessy.She knew his type all too well: Jared Jay Hennessy was tall andhandsome, a man who thought he was God's gift to women. From thepink flamingos dotting his front yard to the all-night boozybarbecues, he threatened to disrupt Genna's peaceful summer offfrom teaching. But beneath his carefree smile and teasing nature,J.J. was a man as serious about the future as he was about Genna.He'd come to this quiet Connecticut town to change his life, and hechallenged Genna to help him become Mr. Right. It was a challengeshe knew she'd be smart to refuse . . . and one J.J. knew shecouldn't resist.
This is not your father's list of classics. In thesedelightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introducesnearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books. Writing withaffection as well as authority, Dirda covers masterpieces offantasy and science fiction, horror and adventure, as well asepics, history, essay, and children's literature. Organizedthematically, these are works that have shaped our imaginations."Love's Mysteries" moves from Sappho and Arthurian romance to SorenKierkegaard and Georgette Heyer. In other categories Dirdadiscusses not only "Dracula" and Sherlock Holmes but also the "TaoTe Ching" and Icelandic sagas, Frederick Douglass and "Fowler'sModern English Usage." Whether writing about Petronius or Perelman,Dirda makes literature come alive. "Classics for Pleasure" is aperfect companion for any reading group or lover of books.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The only complete edition ofstories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collectedhere for the first time in one volume, including some stories thathave been unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned towriting at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories inpulp magazines such as "Black Mask" before later writing his famousnovels. These stories are where Chandler honed his art anddeveloped his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops andbad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondesand redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance.In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories-in which hissignature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around thecool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famousdetective Philip Marlowe-Chandler also turned his hand to fantasyand even a gothic romance. This rich treasury of twenty-fivestories shows Chandler developing the terse, laconic, understatedstyle
This tale of two princesses - one beautiful and oneunattractive - and of the struggle between sacred and profane loveis Lewis?’s reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche and one ofhis most enduring works.
Two classic stories-one indispensable volume. Timeless tales of wolves, dogs, men, and the wild, The Call ofthe Wild and White Fang are two of the world's greatest adventurestories.
Who will be with you in the darkesthour? Amy Redwing has devoted her life to rescuing dogs. But the uniquebond she shares with Nickie, a golden retriever she saves in themost dangerous encounter of her life, is deeper than any she hasever known. In one night, their loyalty will be put to the test,and each will prove to the other how far they will go – when thestakes turn deadly serious.
"At the heart of "American Widow" is the notion of Sept. 11 asa personal, rather than a national or political, tragedy, which,this achingly tender work reminds us, is exactly what it was." -- LA Times Want to honor those who passed during 9-11? Turn off the stupiddocumentary glorifying all of those images we've seen over andover, and read this sincere account of how that fateful dayeffected one person that represents all of us.” — Aint It CoolNews “[A] raw, occasionally maddening, bracing graphic memoir…Unbearably moving.” — The New York Times Book Review “Reading it, you feel that Torres could be your friend or neighbor;she makes an epic tragedy intimate.” — Newsday On September 10, 2001, Eddie Torres started his dream job at CantorFitzgerald in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The nextmorning, he said goodbye to his 7?-months-pregnant wife, Alissa,and headed out the door. In an instant, Alissa’s world was thrown into chaos. Forced to dealwith unimaginable challenges,
The New York Times Bestseller The phenomenal number-one New York Times bestselling author is back with a spine-tingling novel about awoman who walks fearlessly into danger—but must draw on her courageto let love into her life.
