How could he murder a brother, his sister-in-law, his young niece and nephew as they slept in their beds? Jerry Mark was a Peace Corps volunteer, lawyer, 4-H leader, vice-president of his Cedar Falls H.S. senior class when he graduated in 1960.
His eyes were blue, the bluest I'd ever seen. A soft powdery blue, the color of carpenter's chalk. If you touched them you could imagine the color coming off on your fingers. “Frau Pelletier—” he began but then stopped abruptly.
Thomas, a thirty-two year old conscripted soldier, homeward bound to the small frontier town of Barkley after fighting in a devastating civil war, is filled with hope at the thought of being reunited with his wife, Sarah, and daughter, Mary ...
Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner’s story delves into the illicit ...
That , in one of our planks , made of live oak , and it in a craft that is going to run out every storm and already glides over the waters as gracefully as the barge of Cleopatra . This I say in one article of our creed that it is ...
An extraordinary narrative of love and deep affection, as well as deceit, betrayal, and violence, this story is a window into the public and private lives of two of our greatest national icons, and the tumultuous period in American history ...
Alternating between the perspectives of each brother (with occasional interludes from their youngest sibling, Frankie), Blood is an epic narrative of the Jonas journey as each of them remembers it.
uinn the usual Black eased barrage her at Mini the Cooper interchange. off the exit Pancake ramp and House, hit Wendy's, McDonald's, KFC. With great affection, she thought of a Quarter Pounder, with a side of really salty fries, ...
Morgan made to spit at the word, and then remembered where he was. One of the boys couldn't help but snigger when Morgan swallowed. 'The Walkin'. An evil the likes this land has never seen before. I don't have to tell you men.
The Voice of My Brother's Blood is such a story. David Shepherd is a picture of the perfect son—handsome young teacher in an evangelical Christian ministry. Once caught up in the hedonistic gay lifestyle in San Francisco, ...
The Apache chief, Cochise, and Tom Jeffords, government scout, succeed in achieving peace after the army fails