Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: novel, crossing, last
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-01-20
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 087113912X
ISBN-13: 9780871139122

A novel of ruggedness and salvation, an epic masterpiece set in a time when worlds collided, were destroyed, and were built anew A #1 best-seller in Canada and winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association’s Fiction Book of the Year Award, The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Master storyteller Guy Vanderhaeghe—hailed by Richard Ford as "simply a wonderful writer"—takes us on an exhilarating journey from the ivy-covered towers of Oxford in Victorian England to the dusty whiskey trading posts of the nineteenth-centu

Author: Lea Harper
Publisher: Black Moss Press
Keywords: crossing, shadow
Number of Pages: 78
Published: 2000-10-07
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0887533469
ISBN-13: 9780887533464

In this second collection after the successful All That Saves Us, praised by critics as being "timely and unique," and winner of the LaPointe Prize, Lea Harper turns her attention to the subtleties in how experience shapes our attitudes. The signature of the past bares witness in the present. For example, a life is overshadowed by the sudden appearance of one’s birth mother. Or a daughter grapples with her origins of ’mixed’ blood, or a country struggles with dual allegiances. Harper, a Juno nominee two years ago for her songwriting, has performed all over Canada, the U.S.,

Author: Z. A. Maxfield
Publisher: Loose Id, LLC
Keywords: borders, crossing
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2008-09-08
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 1596327839
ISBN-13: 9781596327832

Tristan’s got issues; he knows he does. So when his most recent girlfriend dumps him via messenger, and he can’t stop staring at the messenger’s cock while he’s breaking the news, Tristan figures it’s about time he makes some changes. He formulates a foolproof plan to get himself someone who can show him what he’s been missing -- until who should crash his little adventure but Officer Michael Truax, the man who gave him a really expensive ticket for boarding without a helmet back when he was in high school. Michael has been trying to catch Tristan for yea

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Keywords: crossing
Number of Pages: 425
Published: 1994-06-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0394574753
ISBN-13: 9780394574752

In the 1930s, Billy and his family come to Hidalgo County, New Mexico, where he becomes obsessed with a wild wolf that lives a precarious existence threatened by the region’s ranchers. By the author of All the Pretty Horses. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: crossing
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1995-03-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679760849
ISBN-13: 9780679760849

In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth.In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as

Author: Winston Churchill
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: crossing
Number of Pages: 612
Published: 2003-07-26
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0766169987
ISBN-13: 9780766169982

1908. This book was named The Crossing because Churchill tried to express in it the beginnings of that great movement across the mountains which swept resistless over the Continent until at last it saw the Pacific itself. The Crossing was the first instinctive reaching out of an infant nation which was one day to become a giant. No annals in the world’s history are more wonderful than the story of the conquest of Kentucky and Tennessee by the pioneers. Illustrated.

Author: Will Hobbs
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: wire, crossing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0060741406
ISBN-13: 9780060741402

When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads north in an attempt to "cross the wire" from Mexico into the United States so he can find work and send money home. But with no coyote money to pay the smugglers who sneak illegal workers across the border, Victor must struggle to survive as he jumps trains, stows away on trucks, and hikes grueling miles through the Arizona desert. Victor’s journey is fraught with danger, freezing cold, scorching heat, hunger, and dead ends. It’s a gauntlet run by millions attempting to cross the b