This stark novel is set in an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution....

At once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice in the Reconstruction South, Intruder in the Dust stands out as a true classic of Southern literature. A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.

"Packed full of projects for the crafty cyclist to spruce up their beloved bicycle, choose from crocheted saddle and helmet covers; a vintage fabric skirt guard and all manner of nifty bags and pouches for carrying your crafty kit." --Back cover.

Publisher description: In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General's beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat...

Translates twentieth-century Nobel Prize-winning German writer Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice," as well seven of his short stories: "Tonio Kroger," "Mario and the Magician," "Disorder and Early Sorrow," "A Man and His Dog," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "Tristan," and "Felix Krull." These short stories, originally published in the 1930s in various German collections, present Mann's belief that "a story must tell itself."--Adapted from back...

"The third novel in the internationally bestselling White City Trilogy sees Kraken on the hunt for a murderer whose macabre crimes are lifted straight from history. Kraken is charged with investigating the death of a businessman murdered with a medieval poison. But when the bodies of two sisters are found sealed behind a wall--with evidence indicating they'd been closed in alive--and another person is killed using a torturous method known as "barreling,"...

This disc contains a kaleidoscope of musical memories, it features interviews with stars from the mid- to late-'60s, with vintage clips, classic footage, concert performances, complete songs, and stars galore. Plugging in: When Bob Dylan plugged in his guitar and began to play rock 'n' roll at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, he nearly caused a riot. This program recounts how rock reinvented itself in the mid-'60s. My generation: Recounts the giddy...