"The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it is poked. The sparks spiralled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. Twisters of brightness against grey sky."
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year. Is this a miraculous message from God, or a spectacular sign of climate change. Entomology expert, Ovid Byron, certainly believes it is the latter. He ropes in…
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From Pulitzer Prize nominee and award winning author of Homeland, The Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy.
Born in America and raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. When he starts…
Chafed by the "sivilized" restrictions of his foster home, and weary of his drunkard father's brutality, Huck Finn fakes his own death and sets off on a raft down the Mississippi River. He is soon joined by Jim, an escaped slave. Together, they experience a series of rollicking adventures that have amused readers, young and old, for over a century. The fugitives become close friends as they weather storms together aboard the raft and spend idyllic days swimming, frying catfish suppers, and enjoying their independence. Their peaceful existence comes to…
Padraic Egan and three IRA comrades-in-arms are on the run from the British Army. They’ve loaded the entire hashish crop of Afghanistan and most of Central Asia aboard a Soviet freight train. Chechen gangsters, fierce Kazakh bandits, Soviet police, and the DEA—not to mention mother nature—oppose them. As they are twisted by continual obstruction, they adapt and join forces with Afghan mujahidin who face a Soviet Army of monumentally superior force. Though The Irish Smuggler spans a stretch of time from 1975 in Ireland to 1991 in New York, much of the story takes place in the heart of 1990 Afghanistan and across the USSR in its final weeks and days in 1991. Driving Padraic Egan’s ambition to survive and win out—even in the throes of despair—is a talented violinist, a Miss USSR, Irina Vyrubova. Daring young American women bring suspense, romance, and abundant humor to a sometimes-raw tale of men risking everything for homeland, or glory, or riches, and often for all three.
