A small midwestern town is thrown into upheaval when beautiful lawyer Sandy is left in a coma after a terrible car crash, and questions about her seemingly devastated husband, Will, come up when it is revealed that Sandy had an affair and her ex-lover has been murdered.

The Waking: A Novel of Suspense

Literature & Fiction

Nichols, Mike

Contemporary

William Morrow

To neighbors in the small Midwestern town, Will and Sandy Dunby are a golden couple -- wealthy, attractive, selfless, and very much in love. But when a treacherous skid on the March ice sends Sandy's car over a bluff, plunging her into a coma, the facade of their "perfect" marriage is shattered, revealing a complex web of lies and betrayals underneath. Suddenly everything Will believed about the woman he loves must be questioned, as his life spirals quickly downward into a terrifying eddy of guilt and treachery, suspicion and murder. A once-devoted husband, now the target of vicious accusations and slander, must divine what is truth, what can destroy a love ... and what can kill.

The Waking

HarperTorch

A newspaper columist and humorist offers fresh and funny insights on life, death, and everything in between, in 125 of his finest columns

Life, and Other Ways to Kill Time

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

LYLE STUART +

About the Young Idea: The Story of the Jam 1972-1982

Arts & Photography

Music

Proteus Pub Co

In the character Balaam Gimble, Mike Nichols has created a knight-errant of contemporary rural Texas: a Joe Don Quixote. Granted, Balaam's trusty steed may be only a rusty Frankenford-a twenty-three-year-old Ford pickup, reanimated time and again by the transplantation of parts from pickup cadavers, but the giants that Balaam tilts against are real enough to him-a ruthless businessman, a masseur-turned-dirty trickster, a money-mad hometown, and, most of all, plain old change. 
For months the mayor and city council of the small town of Willoughby have been seeking a way to revitalize their town, to return it to the oil-and-cotton prosperity that it had enjoyed during the 1920s. They need an angle, something to put Willoughby on the map. When Balaam discovers a spring of health-giving mineral water on his two hundred acres of "woods and weeds," the town leaders suddenly see their angle. 
As Willoughby's merchants begin selling Mason jars of Balaam's wonder water, the town's economic future looks much greener: Howard J. Liggett, the millionaire developer of a chain of upscale mineral spring resorts, offers to buy Balaam's land at many times its market value and build a resort on it, bringing even more people and prosperity to Willoughby. Residents soon forget how much they had cherished the "in our own sweet time" pace of their languishing little town. 
Only Balaam sees that the town is beginning to change for the worse and is determined to save Willoughby from itself. Balaam is adamant-he won't sell the land that has been in his family five generations. But Liggett is just as adamant-he will acquire Balaam's land by hook or crook. 
That crook is Ernie Ruiz, a young masseur with a criminal record. Liggett dispatches Ruiz to Willoughby to "persuade" Balaam to sell. Balaam remains serenely nonviolent in the face of Ruiz's campaign of terror. 
When Ruiz cannot coerce Balaam to sell, Liggett stoops even lower: He resorts to perfectly legal means, informing Balaam that he has bought the mineral rights. Now the people of Willoughby know that even fool-headed Balaam, bless his heart, can't keep Willoughby off the map. Desperate, Balaam the knight-errant saddles up his Frankenford to make one final head-down, neck-bowed, full-gallop, Lone Star-spangled tilt at the windmills that threaten his hometown.

Balaam Gimble's Gumption

Humor & Satire

John m Hardy Pub Co

Just a Few Sleeps Away is a true story of devastating heartbreak. It is also an inspiring story of courage and faith and the pursuit of justice amid overwhelming grief after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It is a book of discovery about both the endless reverberations of 9/11 and what one victim's family came to see as the fundamental goodness of America.

Just a Few Sleeps Away

Parenting & Relationships

Mike Nichols LLC

Lost Fort Worth

From the humble beginnings of a frontier army camp, Fort Worth transformed into a city as cattle drives, railroads, oil and national defense drove its economy. During the tremendous growth, the landscape and cultural imprint of the city changed drastically, and much of Cowtown was lost to history. Witness the birth of western swing music and the death of a cloud dancer. See mansions of the well-heeled and saloons of the well-armed. Meet two gunfighters, one flamboyant preacher, one serial killer and one very short subway carrying passengers back in time to discover more of Fort" "Worth. Author Mike Nichols presents a colorful history tour from the North Side to the South Side's Battle of Buttermilk Junction.

History

Americas

History Press Library Editions

A Writers Guild Award nominee for Best Screenplay, here is the complete script and special section "Talking with Nichols," with the director's comments on actors, directing, comedy, collaborations and more; commentaries on the production by Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and others involved in the film, stills, and complete cast and crew credits. 50 b/w photos.
The Newmarket Shooting Script Series features an attractive 7 x 9 1/4 inch format that includes a facsimile of the film's shooting script, as chosen by the writer and/or director, exclusive notes on the film's production and history, stills, and credits.

The Birdcage: The Shooting Script

May, Elaine

Movies

NEWMARKET PRESS

Men of the 1990s face a dilemma when it comes to manners. Nichols takes a humorous look at how today's man should behave in a variety of circumstances.

Real Men Belch Downwind: Modern Etiquette for the Primitive Man

Summit Group

Sometimes it seems that women and men are so different that we surely must come from separate planets. Women are form Pluto, Men are fromUranus examines what happens when worlds collide, taking an irreverent look at our differences adn similarities, our needs and values, our approaches to communication, conflict, and love, our attempts to find- and keep- Mr. or Mrs. Right or at least Mr. or Mrs. Reasonable Facaimile.

Women Are from Pluto Men Are from Uranus: The Big Bang and Other Premature Theories of Love

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