To cap it all , Ethel Tucker had no mother . She was poor indeed . The Tucker family had established itself in the little shack next to the blacksmith shop a block up the street from the school . This was handy for Mr. Tucker ...
On the Edge, even as it excoriates, pulsates with robust life, and its rhythmic, torrential style marks the novel as an indelible masterpiece.
On the Edge is an engaging leadership manual that provides concrete insights garnered from various extreme environments ranging from Mt Everest to the South Pole.
Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge.
These are life changing adventure stories about a group of risk takers and adrenaline junkies who lived a life of stimulating, physically challenging activities by always being on the edge.
After growing up surrounded by bodyguards because of her position as the daughter of a wealthy businessman, Jillian Kincaid, a successful TV journalist, is determined to refuse all protection, even after she begins to receive frightening ...
Living on the Edge offers an intimate glimpse into not just the history of our country, but the feelings, dreams, and fears of a generation remarkably kindred to the present day.
This is the story of a boy and a family, besieged. Intimate in scope and wrenching in its vision of lost innocence, City on the Edge is a mystery and spy story from the past, and a coming of age story for our time.
The National Book Award-winning novel of a young girl’s coming of age, from the author of Send Me Down a Miracle.
"Karen Dietrich can stop your heart with a sentence.
I would like to thank the following for their support and inspiration: Gloria Crayton, Mary Douglas French, Ilene (she knows why) Waterstone, Buck Henry, Melissa Mathison, Mike Nichols, Maxene and Ray Reynolds, Constance Freiberg, ...