Early Autumn is Louis Bromfield's masterful Pulitzer Prize winning novel, which gives an insightful look into the struggles and extravagance of everyday life in Jazz Age America. After twenty years of inexplicable absence, Sabine Callendar returns to her hometown of Durham, New England. Equipped with a fiery personality, a strong-will, and an 18-year-old daughter ready to present to society, Sabine is not the downtrodden woman her family expected...

It is summer at River Cottage and the vegetables are thriving, so much so that Hugh decides to enter The Beaminster Horticultural Society's annual competition, with the Tomatillo as his secret ingredient. Hugh also fishes for spider crabs.

Hugh discovers that mice are a formidable pest to contend with. Spurred on by this experience, he joins Jan Andrews on a hunt for deer. Hugh then strolls down memory lane with the Cheeseman family and creates a Japanese prawn tempura dish.

Hugh arrives at River Cottage to begin his dream life away from the city sprawl and immediately sets to work preparing the land for his new vegetable garden and finding livestock. Hugh also attempts spearfishing and meets his new landlord.

When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.

Quick Escapes From Portland, OR takes the work out of trip planning and features easy-to-follow, carefully planned itineraries for 36-to 48-hour getaways from the metropolitan area.

From dining and lodging to attractions and events, with maps for two or three day itineraries, this book is the ticket for the perfect getaway.

It is December 1944 and Europe is still gripped by war. In the densely forested mountains of Belgium one of the conflict's most brutal battles is raging. Cut off from the front, a ragtag group of young British and American soldiers finds itself being hunted by a patrol of elite German Special Forces, including a newly commissioned officer called Kreuz-a teenage boy who will grow up to become Warden Cross (the fearsome prison director who will one...

How often do you get a chance to change the future of mankind? Are you willing to start by trying to save Iceland?"I just might be wrong. But if you view change as a problem rather than an opportunity you'll always be too late. Visionaries and crackpots are always too soon and pay a price for their insight. I'll accept that." Allan WallaceEscape with Sparrow and Sparrowette in Sparrow Swift #5. The conclusion of the Sparrow Swift (International Intrigue)...

Sparrow Swift #4, Swift Moves. Sometimes you get a choice, sometimes there's no time to consider, both times your best move may be to move. Sparrow and Sally Swift are there to help -- just ask for Sparrow Swift at any airport bar. These stories are short and sweet, just what you need when trouble is approaching your door with a battering ram. Take that second exit all pack rats have from their nest. You have prepared an emergency exit haven't you?...