Anyone who loves to play with words, who delights in finding out why we say the things we do, will place Brewer's Dictionary of phrase and fable in a prominent position on the bookshelf. Writers, speakers, and students will use it as a ready and accu-rate reference tool when the exact meaning of a word or phrase is needed. Those interested in the history of fable and literature will discover th…
Matthew Hope, the suave Florida lawyer, is back in the latest of McBain's series of cynically titled nursery-rhyme and fairy-tale themed novels... McBain is an undisputed master of the genre-slick, wry and satisfying.
Herman Manslaughter, hunchbacked singer and recluse is having a bad day. He's being stalked, his agent wants him to go public, his doctor wants to operate on his hump and now everyone thinks he's dead. What more could go wrong? His world is turned upside down in a breaneck series of events that will leave him changed forever.
Michael Fea, Manu Littler, and the elegant Jane Eglinton come from opposite ends of the wealth and social spectrum. A Divided Nation recounts the adventures, romantic, commercial and physical, of the main characters. The story becomes, as well as an absorbing novel, an exciting and unnerving tour-de-force on race relations and pressures in New Zealand.
Julius Caesar walks to the podium to address the senate on the Empire. As he begins his address, a senator sitting near the the back leans across to two others senators and says "You know, Caesar's parents nearly lost him as a child. Unfortunately they didn't take him far enough into the desert."
On a desolate Cornish moor stood Jamaica Inn. Once warmly hospitable, it was now avoided by decent folk. To this forbidding place came young Maru Yellan, seeking the protection of her uncle and aunt, the inn's proprietors. She Found instead an atmosphere of hars brutality, and became fright-eningly aware of stealthy nighttime visitors to the crumbling edifice. Then into her strange new life cam…
In the summer of 1969, a disillusioned Berkeley graduate leaves behind a world of protests and riots to follow a wild, inner calling. Sam Altman is an intense young man whose unleashed and increasingly unhinged imagination takes him first to Seattle and then father north, to the remote Alaskan wilderness.