Review"Once again, Ron Hansen has proved that he has no peer in the writing of fiction about biographical characters. No one writing today is better at re-creating the past than Hansen, and no one gives better insight into his characters. In this instance, Ron Hansen re-creates the Roaring Twenties with a sense of immediacy and authenticity that I haven't seen since the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara. James M. Cain once said that the greatest of human tragedies usually takes place when people get what they want. That's the story we find in A WILD SURGE OF GUILTY PASSION. Could this happen to us, we ask ourselves. The question is a haunting one. Ron Hansen takes us into the heart of America, and the journey never allows us to stop turning the page." —James Lee Burke“A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion is by turns blackly comic, irresistibly seductive, and implacably devastating. As a tour of the Seven Deadly Sins, it’s pretty much unsurpassed in recent literature.” —Jim Shepard, whose most recent story collection is You Think That's BadAbout the AuthorRon Hansen is the author of eight novels and three collections, the most recent of which is She Loves Me Not (Scribner July 2012). He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha, and went on to the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop where he studied with John Irving. He is now Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University in northern California. Views: 29
A rise in stroke-like cases has CDC
analyst Mike Shafer on alert. Patients in every demographic in the Great Plains
area, from toddlers to healthy adults to the elderly, are succumbing to rapid
deterioration – and death.Veterinarian Donna Bailey, meanwhile, is
dealing with an outbreak of her own. It looks like mad cow disease. But to be
affecting so many species? Impossible.Whatever it is, it’s spreading.
Fast. As state and federal agencies race to contain the growing threats,
Mike and Donna’s searches for Patient Zero intersect at a big-game compound in a
remote corner of North Dakota. There they find their answer buried in a secret
thought extinct for 10,000 years. A secret entrepreneur Walt Thurman will kill
to protect.But even if Mike and Donna can escape the compound with the
secret of Sector C, it may already be too late.Because after today,
extinct no longer means forever.___________________Ripped from
today’s research and tomorrow’s headlines, SECTOR C is a near-future medical
mystery / ecothriller fans of Michael Crichton and Daniel Kalla are sure to
enjoy. Views: 29
Product DescriptionAs Montana Grant struggles to lead her late father's company, her estranged mother suddenly reappears, spouting nonsense about Mount Olympus, immortal warriors, and curses. But after an event that puts the company's future-and Montana's life-at risk, she decides to take her mother's last but of advice. Quinn Tanner is Montana's security specialist-and a Taurus Warrior. With worldwide peace hanging in the balance, it's up to Quinn to help Montana rise to her destiny-even as they're falling in love. Views: 29
Some people can make being bad seem so very good. Lee Hayes, the critically acclaimed author of Passion Marks, A Deeper Blue: Passion Marks 2, and The Messiah, returns with a delightfully wicked spin on what constitutes a "bad seed." The wildly entertaining duo of novellas are sure to intrigue and titillate readers with their exploration of risqué themes. "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" is about a cosmetically beautiful but emotionally damaged young man who marries a wealthy older man to go from rags to riches. After beginning an illicit affair with his husband's attorney, he decides that he would rather enjoy the amenities of limitless money minus the husband. He will stop at nothing to see his husband six feet under so that he can dance on his grave, toasting with expensive champagne. In "Crazy in Love," a hyper-sexual seventeen-year-old high school boy develops a fatalistic crush on his reclusive high school English teacher. When... Views: 29
Fourteen-year-old Ace starts a band and learns a tough lesson about plagiarism. Views: 29
