A lost classic of the historical thriller genre by beloved mystery writer Joseph Heywood. The Berkut revolves around an elite Soviet team--Special Operations Group--tasked in 1945 with tracking down Hitler, attempting to escape Berlin with the aid of SS Colonel Gunter Brumm, a man considered the best of the best among Nazi Germany's most highly ......
Trueman Bradley is a genius detective with a difference, he hasAsperger's Syndrome (AS).Trueman leaves his hometown of Heartville, Illinois, and arrivesin New York City, hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming aprivate detective, like his comic book heroes. He is soon toldthat a guy with AS could not possibly succeed as a detective.Undeterred, ......
Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln annotated and wrote the introduction to the 1915 edition of Susan Glaspell's novel Fidelity, the only edition published during Glaspell's lifetime.
Like all revolutions, this one too has led to a regime more despotic than the one it replaced." So observes an omniscient narrator in Ghazaleh Alizadeh's monumental novel The House of the Edrisis, offering a darkly comedic glimpse at the aftermath of an unnamed twentieth-century uprising. In this concluding volume, the revolutionary tumult that ......
The Auspicious Time is a novel focusing on life in Beijing before and after the founding of New China, observing the earthshaking changes around them from the perspective of a child named Auspicious. It is a children's novel with deep Beijing charm and Chinese feelings. With restrained and peaceful brushstrokes and poetic and tender narratives, ......
As the Great War rages across Europe, Rand Brandt, an idealistic young forester in the northwoods of Wisconsin, discovers a remarkable gift: his touch can grow any plant in minutes. Overjoyed, he dreams of devoting his life to conservation, restoring to its former glory a landscape devastated by lumbering. At night, Rand tests his powers, pushing ......
Volume 3: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation
Don BartolomE de Alva was a mestizo who rose within New Spain's ecclesiastical hierarchy when people of indigenous heritage were routinely excluded from the priesthood. In 1640 and 1641 he translated several theatrical pieces from Spanish into Nahuatl, yet this prodigious accomplishment remained virtually unknown for centuries.Nahuatl Theater, ......
Tam the Bamford is the most reviled football fan on the Isle of Guff, but when his mother dies, he buys a 50% share in the Guff Rovers and becomes their gaffer.
Orville, Illinois, is bucolic, charming, and almost Norman Rockwellesque-if you're white. But like many midwestern cities in the 1960s, it is a "sundown" town-a place where Black Americans are prohibited from entering or remaining after dark. The town's most adventurous woman, Cassie Zeul, is an outcast because she has no husband and takes an ......
