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A house near Hampstead Heath. Night. Two men in a room... Do Hirst and Spooner know each other or is each performing an elaborate charade of recognition?

Follows the narrator through various levels of drunken semi-consciousness. Loosely written around the Irish ballad of Tim Finnegan, who, roused by spilled whiskey, came to at his wake.

In this moving sequel to "Big Rock Candy Mountain", Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City for a family funeral and instead encounters the ghosts of his past.

"From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men - stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century." "Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives." "As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In "The Ark Builder," he shares with her the story of his...

Relates the lives of identical twins Lewis and Benjamin Jones, born 1900, who farm "The Vision," a property in the Welsh Borders.

The play is about two vaudeville performers that have fallen out 11 years earlier and are asked to reunite for a TV special.

"In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of...

The Sigma Protocol, a new breakneck novel of intrigue, conspiracy, and terrifying deception. American investment banker Ben Hartman arrives in Zurich for a ski holiday, the first time he's been back to Switzerland since his twin brother died there in a tragic accident four years earlier. But his arrival in Zurich triggers something far more sinister than his brother's fate. When Ben chances upon Jimmy Cavanaugh, an old college friend, Cavanaugh promptly...

The Southern Plains, 1873: The bison-rich grass lands of the Texas Panhandle prove the ultimate test of Plains protagonists Logan Fletcher, a young skinner from Kentucky, and Cuts Something, an aging Comanche war chief seeking to revive his badger medicine. Their confrontation, fuelded by equally arrogant, expansionist cultures, draws in an assortment of characters cast of the harsh land itself and just as gripping.

A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man.