Setting out to find sanctuary in an America plagued by greed, social decay, and environmental disaster, Evan Walker stumbles upon a country store in the Sierra Nevada mountains run by a family of refugees. Reissue.

The Edge of the Earth

Hill, Russell

Literature & Fiction

Ballantine Books

History teacher Jack Rabbit gets a shot at his academic breakthrough when he meets a dying woman who worked in the White House through five administrations and who, for a price, promises to share her memoirs with Rabbit. 50,000 first printing.

Lucy Boomer

Humor & Satire

A down-and-out college professor in search of a future drives a ninety-three-year-old woman through a highway culture of bars and motels and back across a century of unrecorded American history. Reprint.

The city of Lubbock began as a compromise between two smaller settlements known as Lubbock and Monterey. These settlements agreed to combine on December 19, 1890, and by 1891, the combined settlement was elected the new county seat as farmers, ranchers, and settlers began to arrive. In 1909, Lubbock incorporated as a city, and the Santa Fe Railroad sent its first train south from Plainview. The Texas legislature authorized the establishment of Texas Technological College in 1923, and Lubbock won the regional contest for the new university's location. Today Lubbock is the 10th largest city in Texas with an estimated population of 230,000. The Lubbock economy thrives on agriculture, education, manufacturing, and health industries.

Lubbock (Postcard History Series)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

To overcome writer's block, as well as his failed career and marriage, Jack Stone spends six months in the remote English countryside, where he succumbs to forbidden temptation with the wife of the man who is putting him up. Original.

Robbie's Wife

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Hard Case Crime

IN A FARM ON THE EDGE OF NOWHERE LIE THE SEEDS OF MURDER Jack Stone fled Los Angeles, a failed marriage, and a failing career as a screenwriter to spend six months in the remote English countryside, hammering out the new script that would put him back on top. But what he found wasn't solitude and peace - it was temptation. Because Maggie Barlow, the wife of the man putting him up, had something irresistible about her. Something that could drive a man to kill...

Robbie's Wife (Hard Case Crime)

Tom Hall is one of those rare books which qualifies as a Young Adult novel as well as a challenging read for adults. In this coming-of-age work, twelve-year-old Tom Hall must accompany his sick father to a tuberculosis sanitarium in Arizona. The year is 1945, and Eddie, Tom's father, calls the magic mountain "a place where a bunch of men wait to die." Tom discovers the world of the Arizona back country, witnesses a savage beating of an American Indian friend, and comes to recognize the awful finality of a terminal illness. He and his father move to Los Angeles with Larry, Eddie's nurse from the sanitarium, and Tom encounters new experiences. He learns about beach life, about survival on the streets, about carnivals and horse races; he skips school and rides the electric streetcars, searching for meaning in a life that seems to be on hold, both frightening and exciting. The startling conclusion of this story will stay with the reader long after the final page is turned.

Tom Hall, & The Captain of All These Men of Death

Contemporary

Pleasure Boat Studio

Fiction. A hit and run driver pinwheeled his daughter's car into the waters of Tomales Bay and his life is turned upside down. Then the sheriff's detective tells him he may have found the driver, a rich man who lives nearby. Fueled by his anger and an overwhelming desire for revenge, he plots ways to make his daughter's killer suffer and die. Like the predatory egret, he stalks his victim, waiting for the right moment to strike. Drowning in the sea, rattlesnakes and crude bombs are parts of his obsessive pursuit, leading to the inevitable violence of what he imagines to be the final strike of the egret's sharp beak. "I was so engrossed by THE EGRET that I read it in one straight sitting. It's brilliant, concise, poetic, gritty and deceptively simple with all the dark undercurrents of anger and nostalgia."--Max Jourdan, London filmmaker "In Russell Hill's THE EGRET, a grieving father wreaks vengeance on the hit-and-run driver who caused his daughter to die. This father, never named in the book, begins stalking the uber-rich and conscienceless Earl Anthony Winslow. As the tension escalates, so do the attempts on Winslow's life, moving up from a gunshot to a poisonous snake bite to a Molotov cocktail and even to a hastily assembled IED. Although the book is deadly serious, this escalation of violence is faintly reminiscent of Wile E Coyote's constant attempts to kill the Road Runner. Winslow somehow survives everything the grieving father throws at him, although several bystanders aren't as fortunate. The father sees himself as an egret: patient, and deadly. Finally confronting his daughter's killer, he says, 'There's a bird that is a stalker. It moves silently and when it finds the thing it wants to eat, it remains motionless until the thing is right where it wants it and then it strikes. Right now I have you right where l want you.' It isn't the final act of revenge itself that makes this 161 page novella so fascinating, it's the look deep inside the mind and soul of a man who compares himself to a bird...In this deftly handled novel, an egret delivers a lesson on how to kill."--Betty Webb, Mystery Scene magazine "In his novella, THE EGRET, science fiction writer turns to realistic--all too realistic--fiction. In this suspense tale, Hill writes in a lean, mean prose style that I associate with some of my favorite writers, including those household names of fame, Chandler and Hemingway...I also admire Hill's use of a daring device--1st person POV, where it becomes ominously more and more clear the narrator, who has suffered what he believes is a terrible injustice, may not survive his obsession with revenge, that his elaborate plans to get even may end in ways he did not foresee."--Edward Harkness

The Egret

United States

Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press

Here is the highly readable account of one of the remarkable achievements of the 19th century: how a remote tree-covered area of northern Minnesota became America's greatest source of iron ore. It is 1891. An improbable team of American businessmen and European immigrants hunt for iron ore in a formidable expanse of dense pine forest. Fighting isolation, harsh winters, and mosquito-infested summers, they find it. What follows is an extraordinary tale of both personal and technological achievement. Mesabi Pioneers brings the pursuit of iron ore to vivid life, illuminating the men and women mostly forgotten by history, who built an industry, carved towns from trees, and created a rich culture that lasts to this day.

Mesabi Pioneers

Smith, Jeffrey

Lempi Publishing

Fiction. THE LORD GOD BIRD is a startling novella filled with dark images of America in the South in 1949. Jake Hamrick, a 19-year-old who has been obsessed since childhood with the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a bird that is on the verge of extinction, leaves Illinois for Louisiana to find the creature, accompanied by Robin, his tiny girlfriend. They search in the bayous where the bird was last reported, and Robin, as obsessed as Jake, dresses like the bird, smearing her naked body with white clay, wearing a cloak of black crow feathers, her hair in a red crest. She is discovered by local hunters and Robin and Jake are pursued deep into the bayous, where they are harbored by Robert, an ancient black man. It is a cinematic novella of obsession, passion, violence, love and loss that you won't forget.

The Lord God Bird

Thrillers & Suspense

Caravel Mystery Books

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The Edge of the Earth

Lucy Boomer

Lucy Boomer

Lubbock (Postcard History Series)

Robbie's Wife

Robbie's Wife (Hard Case Crime)

Tom Hall, & The Captain of All These Men of Death

The Egret

Mesabi Pioneers

The Lord God Bird