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A wildly entertaining homage to the best 60s Heinlein juveniles, from a multiple Nebula finalist (Publishers Weekly).   Jak Jinnakas teenage life in the thirty-sixth century has been nothing but funignoring school, partying outrageously with his beautiful girlfriend, Sesh, and spending his uncle Sibs huge fortune. But then, while they are out for a wild night of post-graduation clubbing, Sesh is kidnapped by the dangerous, enigmatic Duke of Uranium.   Bruised and battered, Jak wakes up to a whole new reality. Sweet, superficial Sesh is actually Princess Shyf of Greenworld, daughter of the rulers of a powerful faraway spaceport. Kind and slightly dotty old Uncle Sib is a legendary spymaster. And Jaks whole life has been preparation for the world of espionage . . .   Now, his maiden mission is to rescue his girlfriend from one of the most powerful aristocrats in the solar systemor is it? The world Uncle Sib has plunged him into has wheels within every wheel and hidden forces in every shadow, in this action-packed tale by the acclaimed author of Directive 51 and the Timeline Wars series.   Rollicking space opera with outlaws, space travel, kidnappings, rescues, chases, and the abrupt coming of age of the protagonist. Science Fiction Chronicle   Barnes plays with old-fashioned space opera in this far-future SF adventure. . . . This is a fun romp. Locus  

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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Sherman Alexies darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation.  The twenty-four linked tales in Alexies debut collectionan instant classicpaint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where Survival = Anger x Imagination, where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth.   We follow Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the longwinded storyteller no one really listens to; his half-hearted nemesis, Victor, the basketball star turned recovering alcoholic; and a wide cast of other vividly drawn characters on a haunting journey filled with humor and sorrow, resilience and resignation, dreams and reality. Alexies unadulterated honesty and boundless compassion come together in a poetic vision of a world in which the gaps between past and present are not really gaps after all.   The basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film Smoke Signals,the Chicago Tribune noted, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven . . . is for the American Indian what Richard Wrights Native Son was for the black American in 1940.   The collection received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction.   This ebook edition features a new prologue from the author, as well as an illustrated biography and rare photos from Sherman Alexies personal collection.  

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Stunning short stories by the National Book Awardwinning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).  In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce us to the one-hundred-eighteen-year-old Etta Joseph, former co-star and lover of John Wayne, and to the unnamed narrator of the title story, a young Indian journalist searching for togetherness one hitchhiker at a time.  Countless other brilliant creations leap from Alexies mind in these nine stories. Upwardly mobile Indians yearn for a more authentic life, married Indian couples push apart while still cleaving together, and ordinary, everyday Indians hunt for meaning in their lives. The Toughest Indian in the World combines anger, humor, and beauty into radiant fictions, fiercely imagined, from one of Americas greatest writers.  This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the authors personal collection. 

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A stellar collection of stories about navigating life off the reservation, filled with laughter and heartbreak (People). In these lyrical, affectionate tales from the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, characters navigate the crossroads of culture, battle stereotypes, and find themselves through everything from politics to basketball. Richard, the narrator of Lawyers League, grows up in Seattle, the son of an African American giant who played defensive end for the University of Washington Huskies and a petite Spokane Indian ballerina. A woman is caught in a restaurant when a suicide bomb goes off in Can I Get a Witness. And Estelle Walks Above (nee Estelle Miller), studies her way off the Spokane Indian Reservation and goes on to both enjoy and resent the company of the white women of Seattlewho see her as a shamanic genius, and look to her for guidance on everything from sex and fashion to spirituality.   These and the other warm, revealing, invitingly roundabout stories in Ten Little Indians run the gamut from earthy wit to sobering emotional truth, mapping the outer reaches of the human heart (The New York Times Book Review).   From a New York Timesbestselling and National Book Awardwinning author, these tales, rambunctious and exuberant, bristle with an edgy and mordant humor (Chicago Tribune).  This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the authors personal collection. 

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The story of how one man wound up fighting the Vietnam War from a Chicago hospitalYoung slacker Jim Holder wants no part of the draft, the army, or Vietnam. So he registers as a conscientious objector and gets ready for alternative service. Hes assigned to work as a unit manager at a downtown Chicago medical center, worlds apart from his rural roots. A wild assortment of patients and colleagues awaits him at Metropolitan Hospital. As Jims life swings from the chaos of his job to the fervor of a revolutionary moment, he balances his beliefs with the everyday business of life and death.In this richly comic novel, Paul Hoover crystallizes the strange days of the conflict in Vietnam with a memorable cast of characters.

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This New Mexico pottery dealer skirts the lawand solves crimes: Very humorous and delightful . . . with a questionable hero the reader cant help but love (Kings River Life Magazine).   Although his work is technically illegal, Hubie Schuze has no qualms with digging up ancient Native American artifacts. The government calls him a thief, but Hubie thinks of himself as a treasure hunterand his latest quest could be his last. After lowering himself into a cave in search of Anasazi pottery, Hubie uncovers a long-dead corpse, buried where the Anasazi would never have left a body. As he puzzles over this discovery, he hears a chilling sound: his truck, left behind on the cliff face, being driven away. Stranded in the cave, the pot thief has only a corpse to keep him company.  After a narrow escape, Hubie returns with his best friend, Susannah, to try to identify the dead man. What they find instead is a mystery that takes them back not to the days before Columbus, but to the Wild West of Billy the Kid.The Pot Thief Who Studied Billy the Kid is the 6th book in the Pot Thief Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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With a traitor in her midst, Rachel faces losing her life and her heartall in one semesterAt Blackthorn Academy, a peculiar prep school in the mountains of Pennsylvania, students are concerned with all the usual things: homework, hookups, and how to save the world. For Rachel, studying has taken a backseat to a little problem shes having with a supervillain named Simon Blankenship, who is convinced that hes an ancient Roman god and shes a reincarnated goddess whom he must destroy. Theyve tangled twice before, and Rachel has beaten him narrowly both times, but now Blankenship has done something completely unexpected: Hes stolen an important ancient artifact from Blackthorn Academy . . . and disappeared.She and her fellow spies in training wait for Blankenship to show himself while contemplating the possibility of a turncoat in their midst. And as if that werent enough, Rachel must tangle with a different kind of problem: a totally cute new student, whose eyes are just a little too pretty, and who seems to know just a little too much about Rachel and her past. She must decide quicklyis he boyfriend material, or a traitor? 

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First in the lively, laugh-filled series featuring a New Mexico pottery dealer with a side job as an amateur sleuth. A dealer of ancient Native American pottery, Hubert Schuze has spent years combing the public lands of New Mexico, digging for artwork that would otherwise remain buried. According to the US government, Hubie is a thiefbut no act of Congress could stop him from doing what he loves. For decades, Hubie has worn the title of pot thief proudly. Outright burglary, though, is another story. But an offer of $25,000 to lift a rare pot from a local museum proves too tempting for Hubie to refuse. When he sees how tightly the relic is guarded, he changes his mind, but the pot goes missing anyway. Soon a federal agent suspects that Hubie is the culprit. After things take a turn for the serious, Hubie knows he must find the real thief quickly, or risk cracking something more fragile than any pothis skull. The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras is the 1st book in the Pot Thief Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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A Southwestern sleuth tries to retrieve some relicsand solve a murderin a novel by an author who knows how to hook the reader from the get-go (Albuquerque Journal).   Pot thief Hubie Schuze is back, and this time his larceny is for a good cause. He wants to recover sacred relics lifted from San Roque, a mysterious pueblo that is closed to outsiders. Usually Hubie finds his pottery a few feet undergroundbut these artifacts are one hundred fifty feet above the New Mexico soil, on the top floor of the Rio Grande Lofts.  Hubie will need all his deductive skills to craft the perfect planwhich is thwarted when he encounters the beautiful Stella. And then he is arrested for murder. That tends to happen when you are in the room with the body, with blood on your hands. Follow Hubie as he stays one step ahead of security toughs, one step behind Stella, and never too far from a long fall.The Pot Thief Who Studied Ptolemy is the 2nd book in the Pot Thief Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. 

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 A shady pottery collector is murdered in sunny New Mexico in this mystery in a winning series (Susan Wittig Albert).  Maybe it was the chance to make an easy $2,500. Or maybe it was the opportunity to examine a treasure trove of Anasazi potsor maybe it was just a slow day at the antiques shop that convinced Hubie Schuze to agree to a strange proposition. A reclusive collector wants a confidential appraisal, with one catch: Hubie must be blindfolded and driven to an unknown location by a chauffeur. Sure, its an odd setup, but what could possibly go wrong?  Hubies nonchalance fades fast when he finds three replicas among the genuine antiquities. Worse, after returning home, he cant seem to find the $2,500 cash that the collector gave him. Incensed at the rip-off, Hubie is determined to recoup the money, but Detective Whit Fletcher interrupts his scheme, dragging him instead to the morgue to identify a John Doe. When the sheet is pulled back, Hubie is shocked to see the body of the unknown art collector. Hubie is not a suspectyet. But the longer he pursues this mystery, the more tangled he will become in the dead mans shadowy life. The Pot Thief Who Studied Einstein is the 3th book in the Pot Thief Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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The Pot Thief Who Studied D. H. Lawrence

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A pottery mystery thats perfectly delightful and funny . . . full of engaging characters, fast dialogue, and tasty descriptions of the New Mexico culture (Kings River Life Magazine).   Eighty years ago, D. H. Lawrence moved to Taos to make a home for himself in the mountains of New Mexico. To welcome the famed writer, his neighbor brought over a stew and left the container as a gift. But this was no Tupperwareit was a handcrafted pot made in the ancient tradition by one of the finest craftswomen of her generation. Decades later, the neighbors great-grandson wants it back, and there is no one in New Mexico better at stealing artifacts than Hubie Schuze.  In exchange for three priceless pots, Hubie agrees to search the Lawrence ranch for the long-lost stew vessel. But when a blizzard descends on the estate, trapping Hubie and other guests indoors with a killer, the pot thief finds himself facing a mystery so shocking it would make Lady Chatterley blush.The Pot Thief Who Studied D. H. Lawrence is the 5th book in the Pot Thief Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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The pot thief discovers that archaeology is not nearly as cutthroat as the restaurant business A treasure hunter, pottery dealer, and occasional manufacturer of imitation American Indian artifacts, Albuquerques Hubie Schuze knows quite a bit about throwing clay. But ancient Native American pottery is not really intended for dining, so he is puzzled when a restaurateur comes to him asking for dinner plates. The job sounds boring, but the fee does not: $25,000 for one hundred plates for a new Austrian restaurant in Santa Fe. The owner insists Hubie relocate to the area for the duration of the job in order to soak in the restaurant atmosphere as he works. Hubie has dealt with his fair share of grave robbers, museum burglars, and cold-blooded killers, but nothing could prepare him for the infighting that goes on behind a kitchens doors. When the cooks start croaking, the pot thief will have to move quickly to collect his fee, save the restaurant, and escape Santa Fe alive.The Pot Thief Who Studied Escoffier is the 4th book in the Pot Thief Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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A captivating experiment in traditional poetic form, from one of the most untraditional American poets ever to set pen to paperAt first glance, John Ashberys Shadow Train seems to embrace the constraints of traditional poetic formbut closer reading reveals that this work is Ashbery at his revolutionary best. In fifty poems, each consisting solely of four connected quatrains, Ashbery apparently plays by the rules while simultaneously violating every single one. Over and over again, the familiar, almost sonnet-like sixteen-line form creates an outline of a poem within which, one would expect, poetry is meant to arriveas a station waits for a train. And yet, as with many of the worlds greatest poems, the act of creating poetry also relies on the reading and the readerin other words, as this collections signature poem Paradoxes and Oxymorons puts it, the poem is / you. In Shadow Train, Ashbery demonstrates how language influences our experience of reality, creating it and sustaining it while also remaining mysterious and ineffable: constantly arriving, but impossible to catch.

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John Ashberys first published book of poems, handpicked from the slush pile by none other than W. H. AudenAshberys Some Trees narrowly beat out a manuscript by fellow New York poet Frank OHara to win the renowned Yale Series of Younger Poets prize in 1955after the book had been rejected in an early screening round. Competition judge W. H. Auden was perhaps the first to note, in his original preface to Some Trees, the meditative polyphony that decades of readers have come to identify as Ashberys unique style: If he is to be true to nature in this world, he must accept strange juxtapositions of imagery, singular associations of ideas. But not all is strange and associative here: Some Trees includes The Instruction Manual, one of Ashberys most conversational and perhaps most quoted poems, as well as a number of poems that display his casually masterful handling of such traditional forms as the sonnet, the pantoum, the Italian canzone, and even, with The Painter, the odd tricky sestina. Some Trees, an essential collection for Ashbery scholars and newbies alike, introduced one of postwar Americas most enduring and provocative poetic voices, by turns conversational, discordant, haunting, and wise. 

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One of Ashberys most important masterworks: Widely studied, critically admired, and essential to understanding one of the modern eras most revolutionary poetsThe Double Dream of Spring, originally published in 1970, followed the critical success of John Ashberys National Book Awardnominated collection Rivers and Mountains and introduced the signature voicereflective, acute, and attuned to modern language as it is spokenthat just a few years later would carry Ashberys Pulitzer Prizewinning masterpiece Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashbery fans and lovers of modern poetry alike will recognize here some of the centurys most anthologized and critically admired works of poetry, including Soonest Mended, Decoy, Sunrise in Suburbia, Evening in the Country, the achingly beautiful long poem Fragment, and Ashberys so-called Popeye poem, the mordant and witty Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape. The Double Dream of Spring helped cement Ashberys reputation as a must-read American poet, and no library of modern poetry is complete without it. 

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World War II comes to a small Pennsylvania town in this thought-provoking novel about a peace-loving Quaker family War may be raging in Europe, but in Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, peace is being waged. Bud Shoemaker is vehemently opposed to the war when he registers for the draft as a conscientious objector. No one except his Quaker family shares Buds pacifist viewsalthough his thirteen-year-old brother, Jubal, wonders what kind of Quaker hell be when it comes time for him to enlist. Jubal loves and believes in his brother, even if the whole townincluding Daria Daniel, the girl Jubal secretly lovesdoesnt.With everyone calling Bud a coward, Jubals family is slowly being torn apart. But when an unexpected, vicious act forces Jubal to grapple with mans penchant for violence, he has to grow up fast in a community in which killing becomes the measure of a man.Slap Your Sides is a riveting tale of courage and conscience that delivers a timeless, universal message about what makes a hero and what it really means to be a patriot.This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the authors collection.

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A deadly plague rages through Aksum, and only one boy can uncover the traitor who spreads the disease and threatens to destroy the kingdomTelemakos, a descendant of both British and Aksumite rulers, has always been an outcast, but his resolve, loyalty, and bravery have never failed his royal heritage. When a plague spreads through the kingdom of Aksum, his aunt Goewin, British ambassador to Aksum, calls upon Telemakos to travel to the Afar desert and discover who has been a traitor to the crown, spreading the plague through the shipment of salt from port to port.Traveling in disguise as a deaf-mute slave, Telemakos is captured and subjected to cruelty and suffering. Now more than ever, he must call on his extraordinary courage and his gift for silencefor if he fails, it will cost him his life.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Wein including rare images from the authors personal collection.

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A Manhattan woman visits a Soho gallery and stumbles into a mystery in this novel by an Edgar Award winner who can build suspense to a sonic peak (Los Angeles Times).  It starts innocently enough. Julie Hayes and her husband have just returned to Manhattan from a month in Paris. Julie looks forward to spending quality time with Jeff, whose career as a journalist takes him away from home for months on end. Now if they could just find the perfect work of art to hang over their mantel.  Julies quest takes her to a trendy SoHo gallery where she meets an itinerant artist named Ralph Abel. Julie instantly falls in love with one of his paintings, Scarlet Night, and is stunned to discover that itcan be hersfor a mere one hundred dollars. But then the artist disappears and it becomes apparent that somebody else wants the painting . . . and will do whatever it takes to possess it.Scarlet Night is the second novel in Dorothy Salisbury Daviss Julie Hayes mystery series, which also includes A Death in the Life, Lullaby of Murder, and The Habit of Fear, as well as the stories The Puppet and Justina in the collection In the Still of the Night. 

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Praised by the New Yorker as excellent, this mystery novel that features a cat as a murder suspect launched the acclaimed literary career of Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury DavisFor generations, bitter old Andy Mattson terrified the children of Hillside and puzzled his adult neighbors. How did the scowling old codger, who seemed to spend his life stroking his cat on the front porch, support himself? How did he pass the days? And why did he die such a gruesome death?The police find Andy dead on his sofa, covered in blood, eyes wide with fear. The most likely suspect is the dead mans cat, a howling beast that resembles a trapped badger. But as Chief of Police Waterman digs into the strange death, he finds that beneath Hillsides sunny surface runs a river of hate. An old man was murdered, and it seems many people in town had motives to commit the crime.

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Telemakos may have survived his capture in Afar, but his dangerous journey is far from over . . .Twelve-year-old Telemakosthe descendant of British and Aksumite royaltyis still recovering from his ordeal as a government spy in the Afar desert, where he uncovered the traitor who spread the plague through Aksum. But before Telemakos is fully healed, tragedy strikes. For their own safety, Telemakos and his infant sister, Athena, are sent to live with Abreha, the ruler of Himyara longtime enemy turned ally of the Aksumites. Telemakoss aunt Goewin, British ambassador to Aksum, warns him that Abreha is kind but dangerous. Telemakos promises he will be mindfulbut he does not realize just how serious Goewins warnings will prove to be.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Wein including rare images from the authors personal collection.