Author: Pete Hamill
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: novel, river, north
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-06-04
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316007994
ISBN-13: 9780316007993

One snowy New Year’s Day, in the midst of the Great Depression, Dr. James Delaney--haunted by the slaughters of the Great War, and abandoned by his wife and daughter--returns home to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep, left by his mother in Delaney’s care. Coping with this unexpected arrival, Delaney hires Rose, a tough, decent Sicilian woman with a secret in her past. Slowly, as Rose and the boy begin to care for the good doctor, the numbness in Delaney begins to melt. Recreating 1930s New York with the vibrancy and rich detail that are his trademarks, Pete Hamill

Author: Patrick Cave
Publisher: Atheneum
Keywords: north, sharp
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2006-04-11
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1416912223
ISBN-13: 9781416912224

In a futuristic world, will everyone be replaceable?Mira had always lived quietly until the day a stranger is shot and killed in front of her. The woman’s body is quickly removed, leaving bloodstained snow and a crumpled piece of paper on the ground as the only clues to her murder. Mira discovers that the paper contains a list of names, including her own -- but why? Terrified, she begins to view everyone with suspicion, and attempts to follow the clues that the dead woman left behind, unaware of the danger she is stumbling into.For Mira lives in an environmentally damaged and socially da

Author: Ross Kay
Publisher: Nag Press
Keywords: mines, sea, north, dodging
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2009-12-09
List price: $29.45
ISBN-10: 1444685643
ISBN-13: 9781444685640

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: home, north
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2000-08
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0375724605
ISBN-13: 9780375724602

With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country’s finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. In North Toward Home, Morris vividly recalls the South of his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact. He chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texas in the 50s and 60s, and New York in the 1960s, where he became the controversial editor of Harper’s magazine. North Toward Home is

Author: Richard North Patterson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Keywords: eclipse
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0805087729
ISBN-13: 9780805087727

The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case—the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government’s charge of murderDamon Pierce’s life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he’s being divorced by his wife and his work often seems soulless. Then he receives a frantic e-mail from Marissa Brand Okari—a woman he loved years ago—and decides to risk everything to respond to her plea for help. Marissa’s husband, Bobby Okari, is the charismatic leader of a freedom movement in the volatile west African na

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: south, north
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1605205303
ISBN-13: 9781605205304

It was curious how the presence of Mr. Thornton had power over Mr. Hale to make him unlock the secret thoughts which he kept shut up even from Margaret. Whether it was that her sympathy would be so keen, and show itself in so lively a manner, that he was afraid of the reaction upon himself, or whether it was that to his speculative mind all kinds of doubts presented themselves at such a time, pleading and crying aloud to be resolved into certainties, and that he knew she would have shrunk from the expression of any such doubts-nay, from him himself as capable of conceiving them-whatever was th

Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, north, theophilus
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0060088923
ISBN-13: 9780060088927

Marking the thirtieth anniversary of Theophilus North, this beautiful new edition features Wilder’s unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. The last of Wilder’s works published during his lifetime, this novel is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventure of his twin brother who died at birth. Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in