Author: Barry Eisler
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: rain, thrillers, storm, john
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-06-28
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0451215508
ISBN-13: 9780451215505
John Rain flees to Brazil to find peace-but inevitably finds himself with a new assignment: take out an arms dealer in Southeast Asia.
Author: Barry Eisler
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: rain, thrillers, john, hard
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-07-06
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0451212460
ISBN-13: 9780451212467
In his critically acclaimed Rain Fall, Barry Eisler introduced half Japanese-half American freelance hit man John Rain, a "dashing and dangerous hero...as likable as he is lethal."* Now Eisler’s back. So is Rain, the master of death by "natural causes" whose new target threatens the fragile political balance of an entire country.
Author: Richard Greenberg
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: three, rain, days, hurrah, last, voice, american, plays, plan, author
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1999-09-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0802136362
ISBN-13: 9780802136367
Richard Greenberg is the winner of the Newsday’s George Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Playwright, the Molly Kazan Playwriting Award, the Pen/Laura Pels Award, and his play Three Days of Rain was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize. He has been called "a major new playwright" who has "mastered the art of telling a simple story with such grace and skill that it becomes startlingly new" (Fintan O’Toole, New York Daily News). Greenberg’s plays have developed a reputation for being "intelligent, whimsical, always powerful pieces of theatre that are profound without being p
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Publisher: Blue Sky Press
Keywords: rain
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0439050219
ISBN-13: 9780439050210
An unexpected rain shower causes quarreling among the members of a small community.
Author: Arturo Islas
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: god, rain
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1991-09-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0380763931
ISBN-13: 9780380763931
Already a Southwestern classic as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself Arturo Islas’s The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature. Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the children and grandchildren of Mama Chona the indomitable matriarch of the Angel clan who fled the bullets and blood of the 1911 revolution for a gringo land of promise. In bold creative strokes, Islas paints on unforgettable family portrait of souls haunted by ghosts and madness--sinners torn by loves, lu
Author: Tan Twan Eng
Publisher: Weinstein Books
Keywords: novel, rain, gift
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1602860742
ISBN-13: 9781602860742
The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng’s debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits.In 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton-the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang’s great trading families-feels alienate
Author: Vanessa Miller
Publisher: Urban Books
Keywords: rain, former
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1601629648
ISBN-13: 9781601629647
When it Rains it pours, just ask Elizabeth Underwood or Nina Lewis. They thought the unfaithful men in their lives caused their storms, but as they are forced on a journey of self-examination, they realize that something greater than a "do right" man is needed to heal the hurts that trouble their souls.
