Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged moors, remote beaches, secret fishing spots, and hidden forests and cranberry bogs. Admirers of Conroy's classic and acclaimed memoir Stop-Time will again delight in what James Atlas, writing in the New York Times, called his "genius for close observation."In Time and Tide, Conroy recounts the island's history from the glory days of the whaling boom to the present, when tourism dominates. He vividly evokes the clash of cultures between the working class and the super-rich, with the fragile ecology of the island always in the balance. But most fascinating of all, he tells his own story--of playing jazz piano in the... Views: 43
The first book in a brilliant new paranormal series called "electrifying...brilliantly conceived and executed" (Library Journal) by Colleen Gleason, writing as Joss Ware. A man with no future . . .When Dr. Elliott Drake wakes from a mysterious fifty-year sleep, the world as he knew it is gone. Cities are now desolate, and civilization is controlled by deadly immortals. Stranger still is Elliott's extraordinary new "gift"--he has the power to heal, but it comes with fatal consequences.A woman with a past . . .Jade barely escaped the immortals and is now hell-bent on revenge. She trusts no one . . . until Elliott. His piercing gaze and tempting touch shatter her defenses, but the handsome doctor seems to have dangerous secrets of his own. Is it safe to trust him with her heart?If they are to survive in this dark new world, Jade and Elliott must work together to fight the forces that take them beyond danger.Beyond desire.From Publishers WeeklyIn Ware's profanity-saturated debut, Dr. Elliott Drake and his friends Quent and Wyatt are trapped underground and knocked unconscious when the immortal Strangers arrive to destroy human civilization. The trio awaken after 50 years, unaged, and escape the cave to find that two of them now have odd powers and everything familiar has vanished. After six months of wandering amid desolation, they rescue some teens from an attack of quasi-humans with the help of Jade, a mysterious woman on horseback. The teens lead the men to their city of Envy (pop. 2,000), formerly Las Vegas, where Jade draws Elliott into romance as well as efforts to understand and dispel the Strangers' powers. Ware creates a convincing and chaotic world, complete with ocean, elephants and tigers on the Nevada terrain, but the story seems too sparse to fill the planned three books. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistWhen Dr. Elliott Drake and his friends arrive in Sedona, Arizona, they plan on spending a few days, not 50 years. But while they’re exploring a cave, an earthquake strikes, and the next thing Elliott knows, it’s the future, and the world is a very different place. Now survival is the only thing that matters, and if Elliott and his friends can just get past the roaming gangs of zombie-like creatures known as gangas, they just might have a chance. So far Elliott’s only hope is a mysterious woman named Jade. Convincing her to trust him isn’t going to be easy, but Elliott soon finds that nothing in this brave new world is ever simple. Ware’s time-travel tale is dark, dangerous, and deliciously sexy as she packs her wildly inventive plot with plenty of clever twists and pop-culture-inspired turns guaranteed to keep readers tuned in until the second installment in this romantic paranormal series, Embrace the Night Eternal, arrives in early 2010, followed by a third. --John Charles Views: 43
Dark McLean is in a terrifying race to find a cure for the mystery illness that is rapidly killing his uncle. Shadowed at every turn by a sinister neighbour, his courage and friends start to fail him. In desperation, he returns to a forbidden fairy fort where he crosses into the ancient realm of Fionn Mac Cumhaill. There Dark learns of Matha, a young man who is on a weirdly similar quest to his own.As Dark gets sucked into robbery, hacking hospital records and talking to birds, Matha's doomed mission is obstructed by bewitched cats, disgruntled warriors and unhelpful herons. Time is running out and Dark slowly comes to understand the truth of his uncle's words: 'They walk among us.'Comments on O'Neill's previous title: Old Friends: The Lost Tales of Fionn Mac Cumhaill'Tom O'Neill brings hundreds of heroes, villains, and fabulous creatures to us in a tour de force of story telling.' —Gemma Hussey, former Minister for Education'There is nothing... Views: 43
The young victim
had been pregnant, her body washed up on the rocks. Twenty years on
the murder remains unsolved; her father is now dead, and her mother
refuses to talk about what went on all those years ago. Detective
Inspector Marjory Fleming is called in to reopen the case that her late
father, a policeman, was unable to put to rest. As Fleming digs deeper
it becomes clear that her father had struggled to keep secret some of
the shameful details around the young girl's death.Can she handle the truth she will unearth, not just about her father but about herself? Views: 43
Patti doesn't want to be here. Would you?She's made something of herself. Rich and well-respected, she's got everything going for her.Except for her past.An awkward, awkward geek in high school, she was the butt of every joke. And Nancy – the all American, blonde, got-it-all prom queen – was the ring leader.Now Patti's back at her reunion. Why? God, she doesn't know. To prove something?Well, proving she's changed is going to be easy. Proving who murdered the guy in the rose bushes – that's going to be hard. Half way through the reunion, someone winds up dead in the garden, and Patti's pulled into the case.Someone's killing people from her senior class, and she's got to find out who before she's the next victim.She can't solve this on her own. She needs help. Help that comes in the chiseled jaw and perfect abs of Denver bloody Scott. Back in the day, he was way out of her league. Now he's an FBI agent with a personality like a baseball bat. Together, they have to find the murder... Views: 43
One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following among readers and critics alike. TEACHER SEEKS PUPIL. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person. It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime. So begins an utterly unique and captivating novel. In Ishmael, the recipient of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems, Daniel Quinn parses humanity's origins and its relationship with nature, in search of an answer to this challenging question: How can we save the world from ourselves? Praise for Ishmael "As suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction you are likely to read this or any other year."—The Austin Chronicle "Before we're halfway through this... Views: 43
Shreve, a dead-end town next to the UK’s largest landfill. There’s nothing the bored residents won’t stoop to in an attempt to spice up their pedestrian lives. All wannabe model Aggie Smithfield wants is to escape before Shreve swallows her ambition along with a million tons of rubbish and dirty little secrets. Desperate, Aggie asks renowned but reclusive ex-photographer, Mason Brand, for help. The deal they make might be the only thing that can save her when the town’s fate catches up with it. Beneath everyone’s feet, something born of the things we throw away is awakening. And when the past is reborn, there will be no escape.About the AuthorJoseph D'Lacey is the author of The Kill Crew. Views: 43
The River Wife is a grave, tender and gentle love story and an environmental fable for our times, a true original. This is the story of a river and the keeping of magic and the making of water and the nature of love. Some would say that any story of water is always a story of magic and other would say that any story of love was the same ... One day love laid down by the river. It slept in a blue patterned shirt and through the afternoon, though I watched, it did not stir but dreamed with the river and when it woke it saw me. Love was not the pattern of leaves and the texture of bark, it was not the underbelly of river or the way of fish, though all that was here was part of it and has gone on beyond it. Love was the passing of the sky across a face, it was the arc of conversation, the yearning to go on and never look back, the desire to be something other than I was ... I never thought to ask what belonging was, nor how I might be free of it, until I loved Wilson James.The River Wife is a simple and subtle fable of love. It tells the story of the river wife - part human, part fish - whose duty is to tend the river, but instead falls in love with a man. Tender and melancholy, it speaks of desire and love, mothers and daughters, kinship and care, duty and sacrifice, water and wisdom. There is a great sternness and sadness here, coupled with gentleness. A love story, an environmental fable, a retelling of the Orpheus myth, The River Wife is grave, tender and otherworldly - a true original. Views: 43
Logan Cordell, the Earl of Remington, had wanted Winter Stevens with a fire that burned deep in his soul. There was nothing he wasn’t willing to do to possess the icy cold Miss Stevens, including blackmailing her with a nude painting of herself. If she wished to keep her reputation intact, she had to submit to his every demand, for only then would he release her from her bondage… Views: 43
We live in a world that all too often operates under the overriding template of self-promotion, embracing a "hooray for me" attitude, and which measures success in increasingly small timeframes dotted with markers of temporal value. Millions of viewers know James Brown as a sports commentator and former athlete. With ROLE OF A LIFETIME, James reveals a different side of his character. Brown rose from a middle-class home to earn a scholarship to Harvard and a chance at a professional sports career before moving on to broadcast journalism. Part memoir and part self-help, this book draws on James's lessons from his faith and life experiences to guide readers to find fulfillment and significance. He offers values and encouragement to others of all generations, assisting them in their search for meaning in navigating a world that increasingly promotes transient values, if any at all. His message that shortcuts and gimmicks are counterproductive to a person's success ... Views: 43
In the fourth and final volume of The Doom-Quest of Ara-Karn, a deadly game plays out in the halls of the doomed citadel of Elna. The beautiful Empress is caught between her betrothed and her lover, who are deadly enemies. And if the citadel should fall, what then? Only the mythical Darkbridge might offer some escape from Ara-Karn. At long last the classic epic fantasy is reissued and concluded to mark its 30th anniversary. Views: 43
