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Richard Winslow is in a rut. His wife is leaving him, he drinks too much, his once-acclaimed poetry has sunk into obscurity, and he hasn’t written anything worth reading for eighteen months. In truth, he hasn’t even tried. The offer of a visiting professorship at a small college in Montana hardly seems like the best way to renew his artistic glory, but with his options and his bank account rapidly dwindling, Winslow makes the move. Once there, he rediscovers the forgotten pleasures of fly-fishing and meets a girl in worse shape than he is.Erica is a painfully thin student with a dragon tattooed on her neck. She is also sharp, confrontational, and fiercely intelligent. Their relationship, formed over paper cups of Jim Beam in Winslow’s office, escalates when they impulsively take off on a road trip in Winslow’s one prized possession, a classic Lincoln Town Car. Traveling through Utah and Arizona, they forge a bond neither anticipated. Winslow, haunted by thoughts of death, begins to embrace the promise of love and life.From breathtaking descriptions of fly-fishing in cold Montana streams to pitch-perfect renditions of intimate conversations, WINSLOW IN LOVE is a work of extraordinary beauty. AsNewsweek wrote in a review ofNine Below Zero,“Canty’s forte is to examine human relationships with the precision of a Sue Miller or Louise Erdrich within the context of a fast-moving narrative. Once he's got you in his thrall, you're as helpless as his lovers in the hands of fate."
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Jennifer Merrick is bored at her convent school, but she never dreamed that warrior Royce Westmoreland would abduct her from the school, and even worse, that she would find herself falling in love with him.
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Native American do-gooder Jane Whitefield has a knack for helping people escape their troubled lives. In BLOOD MONEY, she once again comes to the rescue when Rita, an 18-year-old house servant, requests that Jane help her and her accountant-for-the-mob boss, Bernie Lupus, to disappear and resume life under assumed names. For years, Bernie has been the keeper of the mob family's ill-begotten stash of 10 billion dollars. But for some reason, the family is beginning to distrust their money-minder--a feeling that could result in some fatal accidents if Rita and Bernie don't get out of town fast. Assisting them in their disappearance proves simple for Jane. But now the twosome wants her to snatch the cash away from the mob's clutches and their dirty deeds. So begins a suspenseful game of cat and mouse, in which Jane must dole out the cash to various charities before the mob catches her.
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Essays on W. E. B. DuBois and THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK on the centenary of its publication. Crouch and Playthell both appreciate and critique the man and his work.
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The narrator of this literary mystery is a man named Thomas Shield, who teaches at a school in London. One of his pupils is the young American Edgar Allan Poe, who is living in England with his foster parents after the death (or mysterious disappearance) of his own. When the father of Edgar's good friend, Charles Frant, is murdered, Shield accompanies the lad back to London as his tutor, living in the household of a banker friend of the Frants, where young Charlie's beautiful sister is also living. Gradually, Shield is drawn into solving a mystery: is Frant really dead? And will there be another murder? And what might Poe's missing father have to do with it all?
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