Why the Tree Loves the Ax

Literature & Fiction

Lewis,Jim

Contemporary

Berkeley Hills Books

WHY THE TREE LOVES THE AXE

Literary

HARPER/COLLINS

VHDL-2008: Just the New Stuff, as its title says, introduces the new features added to the latest revision of the IEEE standard for the VHDL hardware description language. Written by the Chair and Technical Editor of the IEEE working group, the book is an authoritative guide to how the new features work and how to use them to improve design productivity. It will be invaluable for early adopters of the new language version, for tool implementers, and for those just curious about where VHDL is headed.

VHDL 2008: Just the New Stuff (Systems on Silicon)

Computers & Technology

Ashenden, Peter J.

Computer Science

Morgan Kaufmann

Forensic Odontology: Principles and Practice details the aspects necessary to become an accomplished forensic odontologist, including an illustration of the skills necessary to become an expert witness. The book is ideal for both the experienced and novice forensic odontologist, covering many fields of expertise, including civil and criminal matters. The civil side involves standard of care and personal injury matters, while the criminal side involves not only dental identification, but management of mass fatality incidents, age assessment, child and elder abuse, and bitemark analysis.

Forensic Odontology: Principles and Practice

David, Thomas J.

Reference

Academic Press

Those who have had their astrological chart read know that specific momentous events are destined to take place at specific times in their lives. This eye-opening introduction to the practice of astrology uses vivid, in-depth case studies to demonstrate how geography impinges on the fundamental properties and influences of each planet and analyzes their influences.

The Psychology of Astro*Carto*Graphy (Contemporary Astrology)

Irving, Kenneth

Self-Help

Penguin??Books

A powerful novel of love, madness, murder, and redemption, of politics and justice, Jim Lewis’s The King Is Dead is the story of two men–a father and a son–whose contrasting lives reflect the dramatic shifts in the last half century of American life. It is a gripping narrative that combines the resonance of nineteenth-century fiction with the dazzling inventions of twenty-first-century storytelling: a book that brings Jim Lewis to the forefront of contemporary literature. Walter Selby is a hero of World War II who has come home from the Pacific to a heady career in politics, as an aide to the new governor of Tennessee. In Memphis, he meets the witty and beautiful Nicole Lattimore in an enchanted encounter after a baseball game. They fall in love. They marry. They have two children and lead a charmed life among the well-to-do. Walter takes his place in American politics, experiencing up close the changes of his age. And then–when he must follow the governor’s orders to evict a homesteading black family from their land–we see his disillusionment. Walter resigns his post, only to come home to an even more devastating blow. The virtuous man snaps and commits a shocking crime. But this is more than simply a story of crime and punishment. Now we turn to our own times–from the father to his son, Frank. Haunted by the great affair of his youth, which ended when the girl he loved lost her hold on reality, Frank has never come to terms with his own good fortune. He is a reluctant movie actor–a star, even–but finds his work increasingly unfulfilling. That is, until a mysterious director offers him an intriguing new role, and Frank sets out across the country–from New York to Tennessee to Texas, from Oklahoma City to Kansas City, and, finally, to Los Angeles–in pursuit of the true story of his family, of what has brought him to this fork in the road. The King Is Dead is a tale of generations, of the true meaning of origins. In a novel of startling originality–compassionate, deeply affecting, gorgeously descriptive, full of the rhythms of a changing America–Jim Lewis brings the mythic compellingly to life.

The King Is Dead

Genre Fiction

KNOPF

Returning a hero from the battlefields of World War II, Walter Selby settles into a charmed domestic life in Memphis. But in a few brief moments, Walter sees his life and his world fracture and split apart, driving him to commit a terrible crime. Many years later, Frank Cartwright ponders his next move. His film career has left him wealthy but incomplete. When a director approaches him with a script that has a riddle for a plot Frank is intrigued by its resonance. In his search for an answer to the riddle, Frank embarks on a journey that will lead him into a past he doesn’t remember. Jim Lewis, acclaimed author of Why the Tree Loves the Ax, returns with a novel stunning in its originality and scope. And as he tells the stories of two men and the conflicts that shape them, he delivers a powerful portrait of America and the treacherous currents that run through it.

United States

Vintage

After a car accident in quiet Sugartown, Texas, drifter Caroline Harrison decides to settle down, but her hidden past cannot be ignored, her anger and fear build, and a small house in upstate New York will not be forgotten. Reprint.

Berkley Trade

After an astounding debut with his novel Sister, Jim Lewis once again proves his remarkable talent with Why the Tree Loves the Ax. Caroline Harrison is a young woman drifting across the country from a secret past to an uncertain future. Stranded by accident in a small Texas city, she decides to settle down and stay, only to have her peace destroyed by a moment of inspired fury. From there she's on the run, to New York City to confront her ex-husband, and then upstate, where she lands in a small house in the woods inhabited by three men and an eight-year-old boy--a tiny criminal community. But will they help her or hurt her? And what exactly are they scheming? This is a story of female violence, fear, and resourcefulness. It is a meditation on identity and memory. Lewis's writing is deft and haunting, and the story establishes a new model for women's narrative. Why the Tree Loves the Ax is sure to put Lewis in the pantheon of important young American writers.

Crown

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