‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – The New YorkerCraig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow worse, and he secretly fears he’s inherited his mother’s insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead takes his LP of Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology” and flees.A dazzling tale of madness, confinement and the need for escape, Sude...

‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ The New YorkerOn a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. In Watershed, Percival Everett turns his focus once again to the injustice...

A well-known and respected standard reference, this fifth edition provides a thorough treatment of the properties of building materials and their manufacture, both on-site and in the factory.

First published in 1932 and revised in 1956 by Everett J. Edwards' daughter Jeannette Edwards Rattray with a new Foreword, this is a well-researched account on American shore-whaling, with special focus on the small-boat whaling carried on off the eastern end of Long Island from 1640 to 1918—the first and last whaling of this sort done anywhere in America.

Bob Tuesday is back! Having survived his encounters with Earnest Fell and reunited with his wayward dad Jim, Tuesday is again scumming his way through life. This time aboard the Carpe Astrum the most advanced starship in the Unison.Tuesday is joined by Jimmy Slummer, Nutrasweet addict and fry cook. Trace, a psychotic Enforcer with a dark secret and Lana an eager and naïve cadet on her first posting.When the Carpe Astrum is crippled in a freak accident it j...

The story of Everett Prewitt's life could have been titled "From the Poolroom to the Boardroom," but that would tell only part of the story. Everett's journey - from the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, to the war in Vietnam, from pool halls to corporate America, to CEO - is a vivid tapestry of growth, resilience, and insight.As a Vietnam War veteran and former Army officer, Prewitt draws on a wealth of life experiences: confronting racism, building lasting relationships, facin...

Traumatized as a child after witnessing a hanging, the first black reporter at a southern newspaper, attempts to solve the mysterious abandonment of a small town and the disappearance of fourteen townspeople. Snake Walkers won first place at the Los Angeles Black Book Expo, was a winner of the Best Books 2005 Awards by USA BookNews.com, won first place in the Fresh Voices Book Award, was a winner of the Book Award for Best Fiction by Cheryl’s Choice, received the Fiction Honor Award by the...

Growing up Bob Tuesday had few expectations of life. Well, how many expectations can a boy have, when your father is a waste of space and your mother is a genetically enhanced super soldier on the run from the authorities? But even in the irradiated wastelands of the Nevada desert, evil stalks Bob's world; in the form of criminal mastermind Earnest Fell.Thrust alone into the vast galactic empire known as the Unison, Bob must learn quickly how to navigate worlds of interspecies pimple poppi...

Henrietta Dorothy Huskisson was born in January 1851 in Gillingham, Kent.Little reliable information on her life is available and almost nothing on her early life.The first concrete information concerns her marriage at age 18 to the solicitor Isaac Edward Everett.It was only at the age of 44 that she began her literary career under the pseudonym of Theo Douglas, a popular device in a society that still frowned upon women writing for income.During her lifetim...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When a reporter for the Washington Post sees a group of wounded, half-starved, black troops disembark from a helicopter in Cu Chi during the height of the Vietnam War, he senses a story, but receives no cooperation from the army or the soldiers.The men, mostly noncombat soldiers, are the remnant of a squad sent on an illegal mission to Cambodia as punishment for their participation in a race riot at Cu Chi base camp. Le...

Mrs Henrietta Dorothy Everett (1851-1923) was one of the most renowned Victorian horror writers, often publishing her spine-tingling tales under the pen name Theo Douglas. The Death Mask is one of the weirdest and most chilling of her short stories. It tells the tale of a widower who had made a peculiar promise to his late wife on her deathbed. At face value it had seemed such a simple thing... just to cover the dead woman's face with a particular cloth. But the events which follow this ac...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The story of Everett Prewitt’s life could have been titled From the Poolrooms to the Boardrooms, but that would only tell part of the story. His journey—from the streets of his neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, to the war in Vietnam, from school hallways to corporate offices—is a vivid tapestry of growth, resilience, and insight.A Vietnam War veteran and former Army officer, Prewitt draws on a wealth of life exp...