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The follow-up to My Family and Other Animals and the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist's memoir of his family's time on a Greek island. In the years before World War II, Gerald Durrell's family left the gloomy shores of England for the sun-drenched island of Co…
"In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young gir…
The creator of Perry Mason's Edgar Award-winning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals. In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed Califo…
"In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young gir…
La page de présentation indique : "Explore earth's most precious, mysterious resource--the ocean--with the author of Silent Spring. With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in 1951 and cemented Ca…
From the New York Times ?bestselling author of The Color Purple : A "moving, tender" novel of a Deep South tenant farmer's quest for a new life ( Publishers Weekly ). Grange Copeland, a deeply conflicted and struggling tenant farmer in the Deep South of the 1930s, leaves his fam…
?A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement? in 1960s Atlanta by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple (Ms.). As she approaches the end of her teen years, Meridian Hill has already married, divorced, and given birth to a son. She's looking for…
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: From They Shall Inherit the Laughter to To The End of the War; Over the Hill; Night Train; Back Home in Endymion; Johnny Meets Sandy; Surely Not the Red Cross; Air Raid; Wild Festivity in Evansville; You Are AWOL; Every Time…
Never-before-published fiction by one of the finest war authors of the twentieth century In 1943, a young soldier named James Jones returned from the Pacific, lightly wounded and psychologically tormented by the horrors of Guadalcanal. When he was well enough to leave the hospit…
Writing lessons from the crown prince of suspense For more than five decades, Lawrence Block has written novels. He has produced hard-boiled detective stories, taut suspense thrillers, literature, and erotica, and has succeeded in all these genres because he knows how to grab a …
Something deadly lurks in the stifling shadows of stylish Paragon Walk in Victorian LondonWhen innocent Fanny Nash of exclusive Paragon Walk dies in the arms of her exquisite sister-in-law, Jessamyn, Inspector Pitt is assigned to investigate her rape and murder. Every man of Par…
The stylish gentlemen of London's Paragon Walk are suspects in a novel that "combines murder with a profile of the morals and manners of Victorian society" ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) . When innocent Fanny Nash of exclusive Paragon Walk dies in the arms of her exquisite…
Cover; Title Page; Contents; ONE; TWO; THREE; FOUR; FIVE; SIX; SEVEN; EIGHT; NINE; TEN; ELEVEN; Preview: Paragon Walk; Copyright. Everyone on Callander Square has something to hide-but someone will kill to keep a secret When two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square g…
Everyone on Callander Square has something to hide--but someone will kill to keep a secretWhen two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square gardens, the upper-class residents dismiss the burials as the desperate act of a low-born girl and resent the intrusion of Inspector…
The first book in Perry?s bestselling Victorian crime series, bringing together Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Ellison.
In the debut of the New York Times ?bestselling Victorian crime series, Inspector Thomas Pitt seeks an elusive strangler among upper-class British society. Panic and fear strike the Ellison household when one of their own falls prey to the Cater Street murderer. While Mrs. Ellis…
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixtee…