The only way for Clarissa to get the house she loves, a beautiful Tudor manor, is to marry Thomas, a man she doesn't love, and share the house with him, two eccentric aunts, and various ghosts
When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them.
A panorama of contemporary life and an endlessly surprising tour de force: penetrating and magical, ominous and comic, this is the most astonishing book yet in Joy Williams's illustrious career.
Ellen McKenzie returns to Redemption, where her father had been marshal before outlaws took over the town, to enter the quick draw contest and to kill the leader, and encounters Cort, a former gunman turned preacher who has been brought to ...
A collection of the finest stories from the Irish author of The Dirty Dust, published fifty years after his death These colorful tales from renowned Irish author Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970) whisk readers to the salty western shores ...
In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp takes readers into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale.
The Quick and the Dead
Few people remained unscathed. The Quick and the Dead pays tribute to the families who were left behind while their husbands, fathers and sons went off to fight, and the generations that followed.
... in both situations , the best views were accorded to high - ranking academicians.to Karen Knorr deals with the formal architecture of Uppsala's historic anatomy theatre in her photograph A Model of Vision , 1994-97 ( cat .
Others hold that, while rules of evidence were first made explicit then, some were being implicitly observed by individuals within the Greek world sometime before (Lloyd, 1966). However, students of early medical history outside of ...
Ordered to assassinate a suspected spy in Saigon, Vietnam War operative Benjamin Wingfoot discovers that his mission has more widespread significance and is forced to confront his ethical beliefs in order to expose dangerous local ...