After months of playing the lottery and hoping for an uptick in her dog-boarding business, Janet’s friend Annie must face the inevitable: the bank is foreclosing on her family farm. But thanks to the
I was beating the life out of Bibhuti with a baseball bat when my first monsoon broke...John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impres
I was beating the life out of Bibhuti with a baseball bat when my first monsoon broke...John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impres
Southlea Bay's favorite sweethearts, Flora and Dan, are getting married and the members of the Rejected Writers' Book Club are excited to help. Especially the group's head honcho, Doris Newberry, who,
A trucker passes through a town he used to know and a local tries to sell him his sister; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a Principal and his associate exami
In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the “paranoid style” from the “proper” domain of
It's Saint Patrick's Day at the Clubhouse, and Mickey and the gang are ready to celebrate with a party, but when Pete's shenanigans threaten to ruin their celebration, it will take some help from a le
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Ch
Josie needs to get the mail, but her mailbox is all theway across the street. How will she get to the other side? Luckily for herSpecial Agent Oso is ready to make a special delivery to Josie's house.
The papers dubbed beautiful Thea Harper??Westport a Black Widow. They said she lured Senator Simon??Gallatin to her home for a night of deadly??passion. But psychiatrists insisted it was a short??circ
"New Orleans' Mississippi levee, as Kelman explains in this fascinating study, is more than a pile of dirt. It is the key to unraveling the historical dialectic between a great river and an essentiall
Everyone on Rand's Island swore Eva Haskel was crazy. Ever since the well-publicized, unsolved kidnapping of her baby, she was a tragic figure on the tiny island off the Connecticut coast, wildly mour
Winner of the 1994 Booker Prize, this witty, controversial, and brilliant bestselling novel has been compared to the works of Joyce, Beckett, and many other masters. A raw, wry vision of human surviva
Interviewing a reformed child molester on her show, Dana Sanders becomes convinced that he is still a dangerous predator and fears that her own daughter, whom she has protected from the spotlight, cou
James Kelman, the Man Booker Prize–winning author of How Late It Was, How Late, tells the story of Helen—a sister, a mother, a daughter—a very ordinary young woman. Her boyfriend said she was quirky b
A landmark novel, set in an unnamed territory that seems to be under military rule and narrated by anonymous characters, is filled with a wealth of dispatches, firsthand accounts, and transmissions de
This comprehensive encyclopedia is specially designed for the active preschool learner, eager to explore the Earth they live on, the animals they share the planet with, and the elements of nature that
John Lock has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England--decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss, and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his
Kelman (public management, Harvard U.'s John F. Kennedy School of Government) analyzes the process of reform in the realm of government procurement in the United States. Although he served as the admi
