At the End of the Road

Author: Grant Jerkins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101545623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
From the critically acclaimed author of A Very Simple Crime, a chilling story of a young boy coming to grips with genuine evil. A red dirt road on a sweltering day. A car loses control, flips through the air. A woman crawls out, bloody and battered, staggers toward the boy on the bike, the one she swerved to avoid. But he runs away... Kyle is ten in the summer of 1976, and his world is all about secrets-secrets hidden in the maze of cornfields, in caves, in the embers of scorched earth, behind creaking doors and down basement stairs...and in the darkest of hearts. But there's a policewoman at the front door. The Paralyzed Man watches him from a neighboring porch. And no matter which way Kyle turns, no place seems safe anymore...

Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins

Author: Robert Drewe
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742531458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139

Book Description
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.

A Very Simple Crime

Author: Grant Jerkins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101444762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
A twisting debut novel of murder and dark family secrets from a riveting new voice in crime fiction. A murdered woman. A grieving husband. And their son-a mentally handicapped adult with a history of violent outbursts. A very simple case. Or is it? Leo Hewitt, an Assistant DA once blamed for setting free a notorious child-killer, is eager to redeem himself with this intimate and grisly crime. As he digs below the surface he discovers more than he ever anticipated-including an emotionally disturbed wife, a husband who'd do anything to escape his disastrous marriage, and an accused young man with no apparent means of defense. But with each shocking new revelation, Leo is only led deeper and deeper into the darkness-an inescapable trap of blood bonds and twisted family secrets.

A Long Road to Justice

Author: Sylvia Yu Friedman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789814954341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description

The End of the Road

Author: Tom Bodett
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553287578
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
The Alaskan author's radio show is the basis for his observations of the characters who live in the place where the land ends and the sea begins.

Penguin Special

Author: Jeremy Lewis
Publisher: Viking Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520

Book Description
Biography of Alan Lane, publisher of Penguin books, who has had a major influence on the cultural and political life of post-war Britain. He revolutionized our reading habits by his insistence that the best writing in the world should be made available for the price of a packet of cigarettes.

The Road Ahead

Author: Bill Gates
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring

The Floating Opera and The End of the Road

Author: John Barth
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385240899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466

Book Description
The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth's first two novels. Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on the emotions. Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama. Together they illustrate the beginnings of an illustrious career.

Penguin Highway

Author: Tomihiko Morimi
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 1975383303
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
I may only be in fourth grade, but I know more than most adults. I take notes every day and read all kinds of books, so I have a solid grasp on the world around me. But suddenly, there are penguins in my town! I know it has something to do with the lady at the dentist and her weird powers, so I'm going to get to the bottom of it...

Parade's End

Author: Ford Madox Ford
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307744213
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 914

Book Description
This monumental novel, divided into four separate books, celebrates the end of an era, the irrevocable destruction of the comfortable, predictable society that vanished during World War I.