A Fortune 500 founder and CEO tells the story of his life, from victim of war to victor on Wall Street. Cousin to ALFRED SLANER, formerly of Hobart, Ok.

In a remote Albanian village, a place of banishment, a stranger appears, claiming to be Viktor Dragoti and looking for his long-lost love. That Viktor Dragoti has been dead for nine years, killed by the Albanian coast guard while trying to swim to freedom, only adds to the stranger's mystery--and to the suspense of this curiously real and yet otherworldly work by one of Albania's most distinguished writers. With echoes of The Return of Martin Guerre and Kafka's The Trial, with allusions to The Odyssey and the Albanian folktale of Ago Ymeri, a legendary hero released from the underworld for one day, Shehu's novel blends the autobiographical and the historical, the personal and the political into a powerful tale--a story that conveys the terrors, small and large, of a totalitarian state while capturing all that is surreal and even lyrical in life in such a deeply distorted world.

Seventeen songs arranged for choirs containing new texts to traditional folk and contemporary melodies as well as several African American spirituals, the settings of which are for unaccompanied solo and soprano-alto-tenor-bass voices. The rest are for voice with instrumental accompaniment (flute, oboe, cello, piano or organ).

A close friend of physicist Richard Feynman chronicles his relationship with the scientist and describes their ten-year quest to reach the remote country of Tannu Tuva.

From the author of Mauve comes a dramatic and hugely readable account of the day which saw the dawning of the railway age - and the first railway accident