Author: Jim Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982737736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From powerful and moving to knee-knocking suspense and troubled love, these darkly comic tales of lives on the edge represent some of the best of recent seasons of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts. Michael Imperioli performs a thrilling Stephen King adventure tale with a chilling kicker. Anjelica Huston reads Aimee Bender’s moving story about the life of an artist and what he must sacrifice for his work. Jefferson Mays hilariously relates Nathan Englander’s tale of a pious man’s misadventures and his angst over trying to make his marriage a happier one. Christine Ebersole gives a madcap reading of a far-out fairy tale rewrite featuring the seven dwarves sharing a Soho loft and waiting to be saved from dereliction by Snow White. Harris Yulin performs George Saunders’ scary yet heartwarming story of a grandfather and grandson in a futuristic New York City in which consumer marketing has been taken to a dangerous extreme. With misdeeds covering a range of topics—drug use, vampires, kidnapping, and general mayhem—this assorted collection of memorable stories is sure to keep listeners rapt.
Ride the Jawbone
Mind is the Ride
Author: Jet McDonald
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783526920
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn’t want to write a straightforward account. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. The age of the travelogue is over: today we need to travel inwardly to see the world with fresh eyes. Mind is the Ride is that journey, a pedal-powered antidote to the petrol-driven philosophies of the past. The book takes the reader on a physical and intellectual adventure from West to East using the components of the bike as a metaphor for philosophy, which is woven into the cyclist's experience. Each chapter is based around a single component, and as Jet travels he adds new parts and new philosophies until the bike is 'built'; the ride to India is completed; and the relationship between mind, body and bicycle made apparent.
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783526920
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn’t want to write a straightforward account. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. The age of the travelogue is over: today we need to travel inwardly to see the world with fresh eyes. Mind is the Ride is that journey, a pedal-powered antidote to the petrol-driven philosophies of the past. The book takes the reader on a physical and intellectual adventure from West to East using the components of the bike as a metaphor for philosophy, which is woven into the cyclist's experience. Each chapter is based around a single component, and as Jet travels he adds new parts and new philosophies until the bike is 'built'; the ride to India is completed; and the relationship between mind, body and bicycle made apparent.
Wind River
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765359360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Barnaby Skye agrees to act as a scout and translator for the U.S. Army at a meeting of the tribal chiefs, but his mission is threatened by an army officer's outrageous threats.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765359360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Barnaby Skye agrees to act as a scout and translator for the U.S. Army at a meeting of the tribal chiefs, but his mission is threatened by an army officer's outrageous threats.
Sundance
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812513066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Robbed of his daughter and his horses by a war party of Lakota Sioux, Con Brann relies on guide and scout Skye to lead him across the Great Plains in search of his child.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812513066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Robbed of his daughter and his horses by a war party of Lakota Sioux, Con Brann relies on guide and scout Skye to lead him across the Great Plains in search of his child.
Yellowstone
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812508949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The saga of Mr. Skye continues when he heads a wagon train through the Great Plains and into trouble. But what else could he expect with this group of misfits, prostitutes, gamblers, runaways, and mail-order brides?
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812508949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The saga of Mr. Skye continues when he heads a wagon train through the Great Plains and into trouble. But what else could he expect with this group of misfits, prostitutes, gamblers, runaways, and mail-order brides?
Cain's Jawbone
Author: Edward Powys Mathers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781460765395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations... but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? 'If James Joyce and Agatha Christie had a literary love child, this would be it.' The Daily Telegraph In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written. The pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order, but it is possible - through logic and intelligent reading - to sort the pages into the only correct order, revealing six murder victims and their respective murderers. Only three puzzlers have ever solved the mystery of Cain's Jawbone: do you have what it takes to join their ranks? Please note: this puzzle is extremely difficult and not for the faint-hearted. 'A unique hybrid of word puzzle and whodunnit.' Literary Review
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781460765395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations... but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? 'If James Joyce and Agatha Christie had a literary love child, this would be it.' The Daily Telegraph In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written. The pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order, but it is possible - through logic and intelligent reading - to sort the pages into the only correct order, revealing six murder victims and their respective murderers. Only three puzzlers have ever solved the mystery of Cain's Jawbone: do you have what it takes to join their ranks? Please note: this puzzle is extremely difficult and not for the faint-hearted. 'A unique hybrid of word puzzle and whodunnit.' Literary Review
To Live is to Die
Author: Joel McIver
Publisher: Jawbone Press
ISBN: 190600224X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
A portrait of Metallica's late bassist traces his San Francisco upbringing, influence on the group's development and song-writing practices, and tragic death in the wake of a tour bus accident. Original.
Publisher: Jawbone Press
ISBN: 190600224X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
A portrait of Metallica's late bassist traces his San Francisco upbringing, influence on the group's development and song-writing practices, and tragic death in the wake of a tour bus accident. Original.
The Freeman
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Little magazines
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Little magazines
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The Hood-Winked
Author: Forest Flewellen
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533153640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"Strange how change brings no change." Explosive satirical novel indicting the System and '40s and '50s number kings- the folks who bankrolled Black businesses, then turned them into "legal state lotteries."
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533153640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"Strange how change brings no change." Explosive satirical novel indicting the System and '40s and '50s number kings- the folks who bankrolled Black businesses, then turned them into "legal state lotteries."
The Far Tribes
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765359353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
There are many legends of great mountain men, hunters and trappers who manage to survive on their own in the harsh landscapes and forests of the West. The frontier is full of adversity, from blood-hungry natives to the vicious beasts of the mountains, and the one name that all men of the frontier praise and whisper as if in prayer is Barnaby Skye. Elkanah Morse came west from Lowell, Massachusetts with one goal in mind: to study the ways of the far tribes. But entrance into their world is not easy. Only one man is capable of bringing him to the natives safely, only one man who knows exactly what to bring for trade. But Skye's advice is not enough. When rumors begin to spill that Morse is being held captive by one of the most vicious tribes in the mountains, Barnaby Skye feels compelled to take to the mountains and rescue the man . . . but he must face his most brutal battle yet.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765359353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
There are many legends of great mountain men, hunters and trappers who manage to survive on their own in the harsh landscapes and forests of the West. The frontier is full of adversity, from blood-hungry natives to the vicious beasts of the mountains, and the one name that all men of the frontier praise and whisper as if in prayer is Barnaby Skye. Elkanah Morse came west from Lowell, Massachusetts with one goal in mind: to study the ways of the far tribes. But entrance into their world is not easy. Only one man is capable of bringing him to the natives safely, only one man who knows exactly what to bring for trade. But Skye's advice is not enough. When rumors begin to spill that Morse is being held captive by one of the most vicious tribes in the mountains, Barnaby Skye feels compelled to take to the mountains and rescue the man . . . but he must face his most brutal battle yet.