"This compelling novel about a small town black family living not far from Chicago is distinguished by the river of lucid and poetic language in which it is told. Through a powerful flow of vernacular speech and the varied rhythms of memory, a story emerges that is as moving as it is true, as individual as it is American." "Opening in the midwest region of 1950's America, the story draws us into the intricate relations among the troubled members of a singular, haunted, African-American family. Sex, love, betrayal, violence - all these collide to result in a tragedy as well as the coming of age of the young woman, Hassalia, who is the novel's protagonist. Now, more than 25 years later, in a reckoning with the past, and an awful replaying of it, Hassalia may be facing her own death." "She pulls the reader along as she pieces together how and why her world began to spin out of control with the death of her grandmother, the much feared, warily respected family matriarch: Ma Rhetta. For it is this shattering event that resurrects long-buried anguish and, in the process, triggers Hassalia's delayed transformation from tree-climbing tomboy to womanhood."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

An unending chain of surveillance crosses countless dimensions in this brilliant, disturbing, and groundbreaking “antinovel” by one of science fiction’s greatest practitioners Mr. Mary and his wife are being observed from at least three vantage points as they go about their mundane home lives. G, the former gardener, watches them from a garden shed. Mr. Mary’s dismissed secretary, S, watches them from the top room of a brick outhouse in the back. The chauffeur, C, who no longer drives, watches the Marys from the garage. Each observer must file a report with his superiors in another continuum, pausing in his surveillance only long enough to eat identical meals alone at the deserted café across the street. But the watchers are themselves being observed by others who are, in turn, being watched across vast and infinite dimensional planes in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of the world known as Probability A. This brilliant, experimental work by Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss is a perplexing and devastatingly haunting masterwork of speculative fiction, considered by many to be the greatest work in the long, prolific career of a true giant of the genre. Thought-provoking, confounding, and stylistically brilliant, Report on Probability A will burn its way into the reader’s mind and memory.

Charley's Rope was about frayed out. The caribinieri were after him, he had a bullet in his hip and no goddamn passport. Charley needed a passport bad. He needed that intricate piece of paper—signed, sealed, and innocent looking—the way only a G.I. in italy could need one. A G.I. deserter with a sweet fortune in blackmail lire and the carabinieri lusting to lay hands on him...

This is a fiction suspense thriller spellbinding read with a lot of twists and turns that Will keep you on the edge of your seat. A MUST READ.

On the run after shooting a dangerous trafficker, Cali needs help and must find the Orb Lady—but will it be too late? Cali McGraw, on the verge of eighteen, is in a dead-end job as a waitress in a Missouri truck stop, dreaming of a better life. But her dream is shattered when a wealthy man targets her for his own personal pleasure and hires associated traffickers to kidnap her. Cali fights back and escapes, but not before she kills one of her attackers. Now she's on the run and must find the Orb Lady, the one woman her mama never wanted her to meet again. As she flees, with the law and traffickers on her tail, Cali runs into Fish, a struggling musician who’s on his way to Nashville. As they travel the country roads together, she connects with him on a deeper level, but she struggles with her emotions, knowing she can’t fall in love. How can she put Fish in danger or have a future with him if she’s caught? In this action-filled romantic suspense novel, Cali is desperate to reclaim her life, to learn the secrets of previous generations, and to find the Orb Lady before it’s too late.