Set in medieval Norway, The Snake Pit follows Olav and Ingunn, who, though raised as brother sister, have become lovers in a world caught between the fading sphere of pagan worship and vendettas and t
It is December of 2007 just outside Antwerp, Belgium, when Richard Van Pelt storms out of the dining room of his father's residence. Time is running out for their family's copper-tubing company. With
Snake Eyes I mark time with a rhythmic step. Someone cosigns 'cause I can't write the check. A pathetic trip in my mind; the obstacle I cannot find, A trail of money left behind. And with a crooked sp
Jared's Song "S- sometimes I dream special dreams." Alisha nodded her hand on her daughters shoulder. "I dreamed that he was a snake in his wagon at night, and he was talking to rats riding wolves. I-
Irini Spanidou's highly praised first novel, God's Snake, introduced a writer of rare perception and a character, Anna Karystinou, with whom readers fell in love.??In Fear, the author returns to Anna
Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These a
From Thomas McGuane on Idaho's Snake River to Louise Erdrich on the tallgrass prairies of her native North Dakota to Carl Hiaasen combing the imperiled fishing grounds of the Florida Keys, some of the
Anna, a young girl growing up in a Greek military family in the years after the civil war, encounters a general's betrayal, the lust of young boys, and an unyielding mother, while living according to
In a remote Chilean valley in 1997, an Indian village vanishes. Not at the hands of the military, as could have happened and did happen to others, but beneath millions of tons of tailings from a coppe
In a remote Chilean valley in 1997, an Indian village vanishes. Not at the hands of the military, as could have happened and did happen to others, but beneath millions of tons of tailings from a coppe