But as a descendant of Mormon pioneers and polygamists, I had a personal impulse to unravel it. I instinctively sensed that the ... Shortly before I began working as a reporter for Anderson, the nationally renowned Mormon muckraker had ...
"A bittersweet coming of age account of John Bowers' year and a half at a highly unconventional writer's colony run by James Jones and Lowney Handy in Marshall, Illinois."--Goodreads.com
Some months after “The Lepers of Molokai” was published, Jack London started a story titled “Koolau the Leper.” It had emerged from shipboard talks with Herbert Stolz. Although London had shown restraint in his depiction of the disease ...
An expertly woven portrait of character and place, a stirring investigation into yearning to find one’s way, and an unflinchingly political critique of the long, seething cost of imperialism, Audrey Magee’s The Colony is a novel that ...
A.J. Colucci's debut novel is a terrifying mix of classic Michael Crichton and Stephen King. A thriller with the highest stakes and the most fascinating science, The Colony does for ants what Jaws did for sharks.
Anne Hatley is a sharp-witted and acerbic young teacher in need of a reprieve from the drudgery of work and a tedious relationship.
A groundbreaking history of the colony of Sydney in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city's political elite, from the impact of its geology to its economy.