Access to present and former think tank luminaries, including Robert Kagan, Strobe Talbott, Michelle Flournoy, Francis Fukuyama, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Condoleeza Rice, may help to open other doors for office-holders or for those ...
rosemary BROWN Interviewed by Joan Green “ It never occurred to me during my formative years that I should be weak or that I should defer to anyone . ” Rosemary Brown , former New Democratic Party Member of Parliament in British ...
Northern Lights
Here Burke shone. Is being “naff” all bad? Anyway, he suggested, our hesitation about talking about our passions has more to do with being English, with how we were brought up, than the gospel, which talks endlessly about love.
I am drawing here on David Brown, ed., Durham Cathedral: History, Fabric, and Culture, filled with essays by scholars in all kinds of fields, and its coffee-table companion, John Field's Durham Cathedral. 46.
Sometimes a client will later confess that , at the time that the romantic preoccupation began , she did not even know the man's last name .... Adrien sat bolt upright and stared out the window . Northern Lights 55.
“Is it ttrue, Miss Caldwell?” His stutter is back. “Is what true, Robby?” “Buddy Warella says you're leaving forever. He says you're not coming back.” His little hands grab at my skirt, breaking my heart. “Yes, it's true, Robby.
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED Originally published in 1975, Tim O'Brien's debut novel demonstrates the emotional complexity and enthralling narrative tension that later earned him the ...
In O'Brien's dynamic first novel, a Vietnam vet and his brother vie for the same gal, a native of their dwindling Minnesota hometown. Culminating in a disastrous road trip which...
Northern Lights
One looked barely old enough to vote, and the other looked old enough to have voted for Kennedy. Both wore heavy wool pants, sturdy boots, and flannel shirts with badges pinned to them. The younger one was native Alaskan, with black, ...
This book, Northern Lights, belongs to an epoch which is a generation later than that in which Pierre and His People moved. The conditions under which Pierre and Shon McGann lived practically ended with the advent of the railway. . . .
This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
As 2002 marks the peak viewing time of the northern lights in an eleven-year cycle, this book brings the elusive magic of the northern lights to stargazers near and far.
Mutations now walk the planet under the emerald colored sky as the battle between good and evil ensues, who will prevail in this story of love and disaster? Editors comments: The pleasure of this novel is that it is vividly imagined.
Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die on the street-and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts...
An anthology of essays, memoirs, and poetry by some of America's finest twentieth-century western writers includes works by Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, Gretel Ehrlich, Jim Harrison, Linda Hogan, and...
Set in the Arrowhead country of Minnesota, Paul and Harvey Perry act out the dreams of their dead father. Their rivalry spins out of control and ends in a final...
Josef Erdman arrives in Maribor, Slovenia, on the eve of World War II. Though claiming to be a salesman, it soon becomes apparent that Josef has no purpose in the town, and that a newcomer can expect nothing but distrust from the ...