A collection of writings by Douglas Adams, creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," including short stories, speeches, articles, interviews, letters, and the unfinished novel "The Salmon of Doubt."

"As Mary reveals what experiences helped shape her novels, she shares vivid memories of her family, the pain of losing her father and brother, and the joy of marrying the man she secretly loved for years. She also considers the importance writing has had on her life: when her husband died, writing became not only a passion, but a way of survival"--Container.

In a startling departure, James Lee Burke has written an epic story of love, hate and survival set against the tumultuous background of the Civil War and Reconstruction. At the center of the tale are James lee Burke's own ancestrors, Robert Perry, who comes from the slave-owning family of wealth and privliege, and Willy Burke, born of Irish immigrants, a poor boy who is as irreverent as he is brave and decent. Despite personal and political conflicts,...

Former New Orleans policeman Burke Basile kidnaps a mobster's beautiful wife in revenge for the death of his partner. Unforeseen problems begin almost immediately as Basile, hiding with her in a secluded cabin, realizes he is falling in love. The lady is no gangster's moll, her marriage a sacrifice for her family. By the author of Exclusive.

Assigned to locate land in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma that can be converted into pig farms for his employer, a young man meets the residents of Woolybucket and comes to respect their fierce desire to retain their land.

The five-week New York Times bestseller, now in paperback.

Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as

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"A semi-autobiographical account of the author's experiences in the Valley of the Typees on the island of Nuku Hiva, told through the character of Tommo, a sailor who jumps ship and lives for months among the valley's happy people."--

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great empires—from the Byzantine to the Habsburg and Ottoman—the Balkans are often called Europe's tinderbox and a seething cauldron of ethnic and religious...

In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country. In what is sure to become a classic, the bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy. Along the way, he offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer...

When Qwilleran decides to do a newspaper feature about Junktown, he thinks he'll be writing a heartbreaking story about a dangerous, run-down neighborhood. To his surprise, however, Junktown turns out to be a haven for Moose County's eccentric antique dealers and collectors. Qwill is almost ready to give up on his story when one of Junktown's leading citizens is killed in a mysterious "accident."