A Cajun girl tries to keep her family together on the Louisiana bayou It's been almost 2 years since Suzette's father caught 2 bullets in his back. Since then, he's been bed-ridden, too sick to hunt or fish or do any of the things a bayou man must do to keep his family fed. While he heals, Suzette scours the swamps around her house for fish, gators, or anything she can sell to put food on the table. It's hard, but Suzette is a proud Cajun, and work doesn't scare her. When an Indian girl appears on the bayou, Suzette finds in her a friend—and maybe a way to save her family. This moving novel lovingly depicts the warmth and vitality of Cajun people and a time when the bayous seemed to stretch forever. Views: 27
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryIn this study of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia on the shores of a legendary sea, Neal Ascherson explores the disputed meaning of community, nationhood, history, and culture in a region famous for its dramatic conflicts. What makes the Back Sea cultures distinctive, Ascherson agrues, is the way their comonent parts came together over the millennia to shape unique communities, languages, religions, and trade. As he shows with skill and persuasiveness, Black Sea patterns in the Caucasus, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Turkey, and Greece have linked the peoples of Europe and Asia together for centuries.Amazon.com ReviewIn a colorful, learned and wholly original chronicle, Neal Ascherson shows us the Black Sea and its place in the history of Europe and Asia, from Jason and the Golden Fleece to the fall of Communism and the new world disorder. In his exploration of the myths and realities surrounding this remarkable region, where ancient cultures collided and modern states - Russia, Turkey, Romania, Greece, and Caucasus - mingle, he discovers that the meanings of community, nationhood, and cultural independence are both fierce and disturbingly uncertain. From Publishers WeeklyIf Ascherson (The Polish August) cannot pinpoint precisely where Xenophon's 10,000 soldiers were when, lost on the march home from Persia 2600 years ago, they saw the sea and thought they were home, there is little else he does not tell us in this exotic and seductive history of the Black Sea. From his tales of its peculiar composition?in the depths beneath its upper stream of living water, it is the world's largest dead sea?to those of the myriad of peoples who have inhabited its coasts throughout time, his stories seem more fabulous than the Arabian Nights. Ascherson tells of obscure tribes, familiar heroes, lost languages, current politics and ancient hostilities as poisonous as the depths of the Black Sea itself. Around the once "monstrously abundant" Black Sea, peoples who disliked each other lived together, at best uneasily, at worst at war: Goths, Romans, Germans, Greeks, Turks, Jews, Russians, Persians, Asians and others. "My sense of Black Sea life," concludes Ascherson, "a sad one, is that latent mistrust between different cultures is immortal... not a helpful model for the 'multi-ethnic society' of our hopes and dreams." Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 27
Lost in the Woods is a 2000 word short story of contemporary life. Bud Higgins, while waiting in the hospital for his wife, has his life of yesterday and today passes by in front of his eyes. Views: 27
It's a dangerous night but I manage to escape my brother's warning. Heading out into the night, I know a male is hunting me. When we meet again our passion is unleashed along with a horde the likes of which our kind has never seen...Enter the world of The Red Velvet Trilogies where Vampires, known as The Legion, battle to protect their race from the rebels, the Insurgents. On a night like tonight, Halloween, a scourge is unleashed bringing with it a horde the likes of which has never been seen. Sylvain, a vampire shifter is hurled into a nightmare. Can her new lover save her in time?Next in the series: A Vampire's Touch- Prequel - Available now. Views: 27
Review'Smegging wonderful... some of the comic riffs are sublime.' Independent '...such a fine piece of work. Doug Naylor has come up with a winner here.' Dreamwatch Views: 27
Finding Gracie's Rainbow is Book 1 of the Happily Ever After series or the HEA series for short. During this quartet of books, we will focus on the lives of four different women. The first book deals with the life of Gracie Cameron, who has to deal with what happened in her past in order to accept what is being offered to her in the present. Views: 27
Certain men. Certain professions. Some things are just universally sexy. But maybe not quite this sexy… “Are you questioning your doctor?” Views: 27
Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition.REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes "The Lost Chapters of TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA."THE ABORTION: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE 1966: A public library in California where none of the books have ever been published is full of romantic possibilities. But when the librarian and his girlfriend must travel to Tijuana, they have a series of strange encounters in Brautigan's 1971 novel.SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY: It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his twelfth summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Written just before his death, and published in 1982, this novel foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide.Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition. Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes "The Lost Chapters of Trout Fishing in America." Views: 27
Spawned in the realm between the worlds, a Horror comes. Defeated in battle centuries before by the elven mage Aina, it walks again, seeking vengeance on the mortal lands. If Aina fails to convince the courts of Tir na nOg and Tir Tairngire of the danger, she will have to face the Horror alone once more--or watch the world end. Spawned in the realm between the worlds, a Horror comes. Defeated in battle centuries before by the elven mage Aina, it walks again, seeking vengeance on the mortal lands. If Aina fails to convince the courts of Tir na nOg and Tir Tairngire of the danger, she will have to face the Horror alone once more--or watch the world end. Original. Views: 27
