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Mathias, an unsuccessful traveling salesman, returns to the island of his birth after some thirty-five years' absence. Two days alter, a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned, her body mutilated by spider crabs. The reader's attention is invaded by Mathias's perceptions, movements, and visions, until he finds himself inside the mind of a homicidal maniac. Yet even when the story reaches its terrible climax of rape and murder, there is still some...

This is a close-up view of eight years in the history of America and the man whose legacy is now only beginning to be clarified.

Essays by nine Southern historians.

It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy--and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.

"For as long as man has dwelt on this planet, spring has been the season of rebirth, and the singing of birds. Now in some parts of America spring is strangely silent, for many of the birds are dead - incidental victims of our reckless attempt to control our environment by the use of chemicals that poison not only the insects against which they are directed but the birds in the air, the fish in the rivers, the earth which supplies our food, and, inevitably...

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11. Lawrence Wright conducted on five years of research and hundreds of interviews to tell the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal. As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern...