Fire investigator Reena Hale steps into an inferno of madnessas she tries desperately to trace the origins of the taunting phonecalls she's receiving, the fires, and the hatred aimed in herdirection.
In Dorian Gray, Wilde's full-length novel, a fashionable youngman sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Also included inthe volume are three of the Irish master storyteller's shortworks.
Robert Kincaid, a photographer and free spirit, and FrancescaJohnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhooddream, reveal what it is like to love and be loved so intenselythat life is never the same again. Reprint."
Three of her favorite tales of love and magic - collected forthe first time in one volume: "The Witching Hour" "Winter Rose" "AWorld Apart"
George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fireseries has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epicfantasy. Martin--dubbed the "American Tolkien" by Timemagazine--has created a world that is as rich and vital as anypiece of historical fiction, set in an age of knights and chivalryand filled with a plethora of fascinating, multidimensionalcharacters that you love, hate to love, or love to hate as theystruggle for control of a divided kingdom. It is this very vitalitythat has led it to be adapted as the HBO miniseries "Game ofThrones." This boxed set includes the followingnovels: A Game of Thrones A Clash of Kings A Storm of Swords A Feast for Crows
Myths Legends retells the stories central toevery culture that have been passed down from generation togeneration for thousands of years. Coverage extends from thewell-known tales of the Ancient Greeks, which hold the key to theorigin of such phrases as "Achille's heel," to the lesser-known,but richly colorful, myths of the Americas and the East. Topicspreads explore characters and stories in terms of their cultural,psychological, and religious meanings and show their power,purpose, and influence both in their own time and in today's world.Feature spreads visit the sacred sites that can still be seentoday, and underline the importance of themes that appear acrosscultures and through the centuries. In looking at such universalthemes as creation, heroic trials, tricksters' lessons, and deathand the afterlife, Myths Legends investigates howdifferent cultures have addressed questions such as How was theworld created? How did man learn to use fire? and Why do we growold?
Four tales of holiday love and danger from Nora Robertswriting as J.D. Robb, and bestselling authors Susan Plunkett, DeeHolmes, and Claire Cross.
Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely readand enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One ofthe oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epicof Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death,loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king andhis doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason'sretelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece ofstyle, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's longaffinity with the original.
The second book in Robert Jordan's internationally bestsellingepic fantasy series, THE WHEEL OF TIME, now reissued with astunning new cover design. The Forsaken are loose, the Horn ofValere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamlesssleep. The Prophecies are being fulfilled - but Rand al' Thor, theshepherd the Aes Sedai have proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn,desperately seeks to escape his destiny. Rand cannot run forever.With every passing day the Dark One grows in strength and strivesto shatter his ancient prison, to break the Wheel, to bring an endto Time and sunder the weave of the Pattern. And the Patterndemands the Dragon. Look out for more information on this title andothers at www.orbitbooks.co.uk
Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its direct path. One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.
Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African Diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s.one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American west later that century, and one a Gl posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War. Crossing the River won the James Tait Black Memorial Award in 1994, and was shortlist for the 1993Booker Prize. Caryl Phillips exploration of the relations between black and white is nuanced, humane,and sympathetic ,And his deep awareness of the historical proess is combined with an exceptionally inteligent prose style-clear,unecumbered,and compassionate'New Statesman& Society.
The inspiration for the film starring Kathy Bates and JenniferJason Leigh.
Drawing on her investigative and literary talents, JuliaKeller offers a riveting account of the invention of the world'sfirst working machine gun. Through her portrait of itsmisunderstood creator, Richard Jordan Gatling-who naively hopedthat the overwhelming effectiveness of a multiple-firing weaponwould save lives by decreasing the size of armies and reducing thenumber of soldiers needed to fight-Keller draws profound parallelsto the scientists who would unleash America's atomic arsenal half acentury later. The Gatling gun, in its combination of ingenuity,idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplifies the paradoxof America's rise in the nineteenth century to a worldsuperpower.
Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make upBalzac's "History of the Thirteen" are concerned in part with theactivities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secretsociety in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of "TheThirteen" remain frequently in the background, however, theindividual novels are concerned with exploring various forms ofdesire. A tragic love story, Ferragus depicts a marriage destroyedby suspicion, revelation and misunderstanding. The Duchess deLangeais explores the anguish that results when a society coquettetries to seduce a heroic ex-soldier, while "The Girl with theGolden Eyes" offers a frank consideration of desire and sexuality.Together, these works provide a firm and fascinating foundation forBalzac's many later portrayals of Parisian life in his greatnovel-cycle "The Human Comedy".
Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees ofGombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behaviorever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologistLouis Leakey suggested that a long-term study of chimpanzees in thewild might shed light on the behavior of our Stone Age ancestors.Accompanied by only her mother and her African assistants, she setup camp in the remote Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania.For months the project seemed hopeless; out in the jungle from dawnuntil dark, she had but fleeting glimpses of frightened animals. Atlast came the day when she was accepted and no longer feared. Shewas able to record previously unknown behavior, such as theuse--and even the making--of tools, until then believed to be anexclusive skill of man. As she came to know the chimps asindividuals, she deciphered their complicated social hierarchy,their rituals, and many other extraordinary behaviors, which haveforever changed our understanding of the profound connectionb
Offers a detailed, fact-filled examination of the AirborneTask Force, complete with exclusive photographs, illustrations,diagrams, and an extensive interview with the commander of the 18thAirborne Corps, General John Keen. Original."
The third book in Robert Jordan's internationally bestsellingepic fantasy series, THE WHEEL OF TIME, now reissued with astunning new cover design. The Land is One with the Dragon - andthe Dragon is One with the Land The Shadow lies across the Patternof the Age, and the Dark One has turned all his power against theprison that binds him. If it fails he will escape and nothing willstand in the storm that blows then ...save the man that was born tobattle the darkness: Rand al' Thor, the Dragon Reborn. But to wagehis war Rand must find Callandor, ancient Sword of the Dragon...and the Forsaken will shatter the world to thwart him. Look outfor more information about this title and others atwww.orbitbooks.co.uk
Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.
Ben Richards is out of work and out of luck.Hiseighteen-month-old daughter is sick,and neither Ben nor his wifecan afford to take her to a doctor. For a man from the poor side oftown with no cash and no hope,there's only one thing to do: becomea con-testant on one of the Network's Games,shows where you can winmore money than you've ever dreamed of--or die trying. Now Ben'sgoing prime-time on the Network's highest-ratedviewer-participation show. And he's about to become prey for themasses
Cicero’s speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina,""In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of GaiusRabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo,"and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman life,law, and history.
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that sparesno one. Authorities confine the first to go blind to an emptymental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyonecaptive, stealing food rations and assault-ing women. There is oneeyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through thebarren streets to freedom--a procession as uncanny as thesurroundings are harrowing. Blindness is an unsettling portrait of man's inhumanity toman-and of humankind's resilient spirit. Discussion guide available at www.HarcourtBooks.com .
The Dharma Bums was published one year after Onthe Road made Jack Kerouac a celebrity and a spokesperson forthe Beat Generation. Sparked by his contagious zest for life, thenovel relates the adventures of an ebullient group of Beatnikseekers in a freewheeling exploration of Buddhism and the searchfor Truth.
Set in an apocalyptic future ending in the year 2100, Shelley's 1826 novel concerns a plague that destroys almost all of humankind. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
