Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii.
Praise for *Iberia
*
“From the glories of the Prado to the loneliest stone villages, here is Spain, castle of old dreams and new realities.”—The New York Times
*
“Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—*The Wall Street Journal
*
“A dazzling panorama . . . one of the richest and most satisfying books about Spain in living memory.”—Saturday Review
*
“Kaleidoscopic . . . This book will make you fall in love with Spain.”—*The Houston Post* Views: 558
Hired to discover why a wild-animal farm's tame lion has become unpredictably nervous, three young detectives begin an investigation that uncovers a smuggling operation. Views: 558
This is the story of a family of the 'best' people, living in Gibbsville, Pa. Three generations of the Chapin family are portrayed with intimacy and uncompromising clarity. Many other people at all levels of the social ladder are portrayed as well, and what they do and say to one another is often shocking. Views: 558
A solid collection of science fiction stories from the mid-1940s which can be divided into two main groups: tales of mutations induced by nuclear war, leading to the next step in human evolution, and plain humourous tales. The former are very much products of their time (and nothing wrong with that), with the atomic bomb at the forefront of everybody's consciousness in the immediate post-war era.
Content:
Absalom Originally appeared in Starting Stories, Fall 1946
Call Him Demon Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1946
Cold War Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Oct 1949
Dark Angel – Starting Stories, March 1946
Housing Problem 1944 Reprinted from Charm.
Little Things Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1946
Nothing but Gingerbread Left 1946 . Reprinted from Astounding Fiction
The Piper’s Son 1945 . Reprinted from Astounding Science Fiction
Views: 558
CROSSROADS OF EMPIRE: CHIEF of the Mutant Corps to ATLAN: "Rhodan was captured by his son. The Antis paramechanically brainwashed him, unlawfully altered his personality. Now he wants to find Trakarat and attack it.""The survival of the Solar Empire is threatened. War is imminent. We must have the full cooperation of the Baalol scientists.""For Perry Rhodan is the Earth!"This crisis leads to a-- Duel Under The Double Sun! Views: 558
In this deeply affecting novel Scott O’Dell envelops the reader in the heroic world of the conquistadors—a world that is at once somber and many-colored. Though they may have been ruthless, these steel-helmeted young men of Spain lived their lives on the very edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage. Views: 558
It was only an accident -- but it would change their lives forever. Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret. But some secrets don't stay buried, and someone has learned the truth. Someone bent on revenge. This summer, the horror is only beginning.... Views: 557
Money was worthless; it had no value! It couldn't buy housing, clothing, or food. Someone with enormous quantities of cash was buying houses and tearing them down, buying stores and closing them.
Perhaps a few people could have stopped the transactions before it was too late. They could have said that Earth was being taken over by alien beings in the shapes of bowling balls, talking dogs, and dolls that walked like men.
In fact, they did say it. The trouble was, no one believed them! Views: 557
Only recently out of the Army and back in the USA after fighting the Japanese in the Far East, Hank Janson is in no mood to just sit back and take it when his old friend Lola gets caught in the crossfire of a bar-room shooting. He sets out to avenge her death, finding himself up against a vicious gangster – and three even more dangerous women... With their erotic pin-up covers and hardboiled crime tales, the Hank Janson pulp paperbacks were a British publishing sensation in the 1940s and 1950s, selling millions of copies to readers craving escapism from post-war austerity. Prosecutions under Britain's then-harsh obscenity laws dealt them a severe blow, however, and today they are highly sought after by collectors. The tough, uncompromising This Woman is Death was the very first novel in the regular Hank Janson series, originally published in 1948. It is reissued by Telos Publishing complete with its original Reginald Heade cover. Views: 557
Skimmer was the hotshot - handsome, smart, arrogant . . .He had everything: personality, looks, women. He was ready for success - regardless of the cost . . .And then he met a girl and a gangster - and something went wrong . . .Hotshot is Skimmer's story - a unique candid portrait, not of the knife-wielding delinquents who capture headlines, but of today's troubled youth as they really are.The unforgettable story of a generation battling to find its way in a world it never made. Views: 557
It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snufkin and Sniff find the Hobgoblin's top hat, all shiny and new and just waiting to be taken home. They soon realize that his is no ordinary hat; it can turn anything--or anyone--into something else Views: 557
In 'The Cubs and Other Stories' Vargas Llosa's domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, on the dance floor and on street corners. Views: 556
The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich.
The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war's bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come.
Cornelius Ryan's compelling account of this final battle is a story of brutal extremes, of stunning military triumph alongside the stark conditions that the civilians of Berlin experienced in the face of the Allied assault. As always, Ryan delves beneath the military and political forces that were dictating events to explore the more immediate imperatives of survival, where, as the author describes it, “to eat had become more important than to love, to burrow more dignified than to fight, to exist more militarily correct than to win.”
It is the story of ordinary people, both soldiers and civilians, caught up in the despair, frustration, and terror of defeat. It is history at its best, a masterful illumination of the effects of war on the lives of individuals, and one of the enduring works on World War II. Views: 556
It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor sharp teeth and the taste for human blood began to be realised by a panic-stricken city. For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly, shockingly, horribly - the balance of power had shifted... Views: 555
