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.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amourdelivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fateof their missing father — and finding themselves in a struggle justto stay alive. Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking foranswers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. Touncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwisegypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-createtheir father’s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep thebrothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot onthe trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind... and a secret worth killing for.
From the author of "On The Road" comes this story of two menenganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their majoradventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbinginto the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in thewilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, andhis magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow intolight...and into an encounter with mystery. That night, a pair ofsingular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to maketheir approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, beginsto unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door allthe forces of a government in peril. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come togetherto begin a descent into darkness...In Las Vegas, a specialist inchaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable...On a Seattlegolf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements formurder...Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the pastbegins a trek toward his destiny. In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless,fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the momentbetween one turn of the world and the next, acros
Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage '54 Buick Roadmaster. At least, that's what it looks like ...There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years - terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system. Young Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it's a boy's way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another Buick. And one day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to stir ...
1996 wurde das Teatro La Fenice in Venedig vom Feuer zerst?rt.Ausgehend von dieser Trag?die gestaltet der Autor einbeeindruckendes historisches Portr?t einer einzigartig sch?nenStadt und seiner Bewohner und prominenten G?ste.
Divorcee Theresa Osborne, newspaper columnist and mother of atwelve-year-old son, picks up a bottle on the beach during aseaside vacation. Inside is a letter from a man called Garrett. Mydearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but todayis particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, andthe song is that of our life together ...For Garrett, his messageis the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman hehas lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shatteredher trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Who areGarrett and Catherine? What is their story? Challenged by themystery and unaccountably drawn to find him, Theresa embarks on asearch that takes her to a sunlit coast town and an unexpectedconfrontation ...
"In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long,nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when abrutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town's mostattractive women, lifelong neighbors are forced to wonder if theculprit is a stranger lurking in the bayou...or someone right nextdoor." Burned out by a whirlwind career, world-famous concertviolinist Caroline Waverly arrives in Innocence looking for alittle peace and some time to think. She hopes that a stay at herlate grandmother's house--the one with a covered porch just madefor soft summer nights--will provide the tranquillity she needs.But Innocence has something else to offer Caroline: handsome,charming Tucker Longstreet. Tucker is known for keeping hisromances short and shallow. But one look at Caroline, and Tuckerrealizes that she is unlike any other woman he's met. The coollyreserved Caroline feels an unexpected thrill at his ardentadvances. But when she discovers a third murder victim in the murkywaters behind her ho
It is now six years since the secret disaster at JurassicPark, six years since the extraordinary dream of science andimagination came to a crashing end -- the dinosaurs destroyed, thepark dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to thepublic. There are rumors that something has survived....
Don Juan, the "Seducer of Seville," originated as ahero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover andscoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. Oneof Molire's best-known plays, Don Juan was written while Tartuffewas still banned on the stages of Paris, and shared much with theoutlawed play. Modern directors transform Don Juan in every newera, as each director finds something new to highlight in thistimeless classic. Richard Wilbur's flawless translation will be thestandard for generations to come, as have his translations ofMolire's other plays. Witty, urbane, and poetic in its prose, DonJuan is, most importantly, as funny now as it was for audienceswhen it was first presented.
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."
After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud ofthe Devil's Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests ingoods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has apowerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead.A battlefield promise made to Sackett's father threatens Genester'sinheritance. So on the eve of his departure for America, Sackett isattacked and thrown into the hold of a pirate ship. Genester'sorders are for him to disappear into the waters of the Atlantic.But after managing to escape, Sackett makes his way to the Carolinacoast. He sees in the raw, abundant land the promise of a brightfuture. But before that dream can be realized, he must first returnto England and discover the secret of his father's legacy.
andquot; The best novel of James Michener's career.andquot;Milwaukee JournalGold fever swept the world in 1897. The chance foruntold riches sent thousands of dreamers on a perilous trek towardtheir fortunes, failures, or deaths. Follow four Englisharistocrats and their Irish servant as they misguidedly haul theirdreams across cruel Canadian terrain toward the Klondike goldfields.
From #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tami Hoagcomes this romance classic about a man in love--and the woman who'sdetermined to prove it to him... Maggie McSwain should have beenthrilled when Rylan Quaid asked her to marry him. Instead, she wascrushed. After all her romantic fantasies, Ry's proposal wasmissing one crucial element: "love. "But Maggie would prove to Rythat he had a heart--and then she'd use every teasing, temptingounce of seductive power she had to capture it. The next time heproposed to her--and there would be a next time--common sense wouldbe the last thing on his mind. As far as Ry was concerned, solidpartnerships made for lasting marriages--and that's what he couldhave with Maggie. Of course he wanted her, as any man with eyeswould want her. But he couldn't love her...because he'd vowed neverto fall in love again. Now it seemed that the only way to make herhis wife was to use reverse psychology. He'd just retract hisproposal--and pretend to be immune to her charms. He had no
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyesof the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the UnitedStates), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible resultsof today's follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it istransformed by Vonnegut's pen into hilarious farce (a finalslapstick that may be the Almighty's joke on us all.) "Vonnegut'songoing puppet show...that fabulous is reborn."--John Updike "Bothfunny and sad...just about perfect "--"Los AngelesTimes""Imaginative and hilarious...a brilliant vision of ourwrecked, wacked-out future."--"Hartford Courant "*"The New YorkTimes"
Drawn from the wondrous tales told to Kipling as a child byhis Indian nurses, "Just So Stories" creates the magicalenchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk andthink like people.
First published in 1918, My ?ntonia is the unforgettable storyof an immigrant woman’s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains.Together here with O Pioneers! , a classic American tale ofpioneer life and the transformation of the frontier, this volume ofWilla Cather’s works captures a time, a place, and a spirit thatare part of our national heritage.
