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The narrator is Henry Worthington, founder and head of an eminently successful management consultant firm. Come to be sixty-odd, and moved to wonder what if any meaning his life may have, he undertakes a review of it.

Young hotel clerk is advised to invest his inherited fortune in Broadway theatricals.

Setting out to arrest a trader accused of killing a horse thief, young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard finds the case complicated by the trader's honor-bound nature, a situation that makes Andy wonder if he is fighting on the right side.

Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece, in a collection that includes "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," "Mono No Aware" and "The Waves."

"In this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and The Poisonwood Bible, weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the lush countryside, this novel's intriguing protagonists-a reclusive wildlife biologist,...

Joseph Viek, Bardo99's protagonist awakens to learn there has been an accident. But what kind of accident? The massive coronary that ends his own life, or a much more dread accident, the kind we associate with places like Chernobyl? On his way to the disaster zone, a road accident strands him in a deserted tundra. Rescued by an unholy trinity of American GIs, more adventures await him: quarantine in a cancer ward -- or is it an AIDS ward? -- a resurrection...

Color illustration on front cover of three superimposed vignettes: man in white shirt and brown coat behind woman with blond hair wearing white shirt; man with whip in his hand standing next to seated woman wearing brown pants and white shirt; scene with four horses pulling a wagon, other wagons behind.

Tells of a father-son relationship in the North Carolina mountains. It is of a family whose men work in the paper mill.