In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full ...

Octavian, nineteen and newly orphaned by Julius Caesar’s murder, becomes the heir to Rome and begins the fight to remake the republic into an empire.Set in ancient Rome from 44 B.C. to A.D. 14, Augustus follows Octavian as he becomes Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor.After the murder of Julius Caesar, Augustus moves through power struggles, bloody wars, and family strife as Rome is transformed.Building on impeccable research and vivid charact...

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife an...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM**BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting to be taken by a team of men brave and crazy enough to find them. Will makes up his mind to be one of thos...

(Piano Solo Composer Collection). Over 40 beautiful piano solo arrangements of beloved John Williams themes, including: Theme from Angela's Ashes * Cantina Band * Catch Me If You Can * Theme from E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial) * Harry's Wondrous World * Hedwig's Theme * Hymn to the Fallen * The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) * Theme from "Jaws" * Theme from "Jurassic Park" * The March from "1941" * The Mission Theme * Olympic Fanfare and Theme * Raiders March * Rey's Theme * Scherzo fo...

(Piano Solo Sheets). Piano solo sheet music of the haunting theme from John Williams for director Steven Spielberg's award-winning film.

(Easy Piano Songbook). Star Wars composer John Williams returned to compose the soundtrack to this final installment of this blockbuster franchise, and he has approved the easy piano arrangements in this songbook. Includes 12 selections: Ahch-To Island * The Battle of Crait * Canto Bight * Fun with Finn and Rose * The Last Jedi * Main Title and Escape * Old Friends * Peace and Purpose * The Rebellion Is Reborn * The Sacred Jedi Texts * The Spark * The Supremacy. The book also includes 8 pa...

(Beginning Piano Solo). Piano students will love these easy arrangements that will let them play the themes they recognize from all of the Star Wars movies! Ten songs in all: Across the Stars * Cantina Band * Duel of the Fates * The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) * Luke and Leia * May the Force Be with You * Princess Leia's Theme * Star Wars (Main Theme) * The Throne Room * Yoda's Theme.

(Piano Solo Songbook). 8 beautiful piano solos from the Oscar-winning movie. Pieces include: Theme from Schindler's List * Give Me Your Names * I Could Have Done More * Stolen Memories * and more. Features photos from the film.

‘A compelling 10-step escape from corporate life that could spell a rash of resignation letters’– Sunday TimesStuck in a job that’s boring you to tears? Slogging away at a business that’s never quite taken off? Still can’t decide what you’d rather do? It’s time to say ‘enough’.The world has changed. It’s now possible for anyone to make a living from doing the things they love. The only problem is that no one has shown you how. Until...

This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read.William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, ...

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossin...