For decades, Cark has been the greatest Mech fighter alive, earning legendary status by facing murderous machines in front of roaring crowds. Age has slowed his reflexes, but not his reputation, and every appearance still fills the arena with spectators eager to watch man battle steel. What should have been another afternoon against a standard opponent quickly becomes something far more dangerous, forcing the aging champion to rely on experience, instinct, and sheer determination when the ...

The only place in the United States that Hemingway could really call home after he started writing was the tropical island of Key West. During his decade here in the 1930s, he acquired his famed macho persona as Papa, the biggest Big Daddy of them all. This vivid portrait of Ernest Hemingway's Key West reveals both Hemingway, the writer, and Hemingway, the macho, hard-drinking sportsman. His Key West years turned out to be his most productive: he finished A Farewell to Arms, start...