One Man's Journey Through 50 Years of Rock 'n' Roll
Rites of Rock is the riveting saga of a sensitive musician's initiation into rock and roll and his ultimate struggle to remain true to himself. The novel burns with passion as it explores the most potent musical hybrid--rock in all its variegated forms. This fast-paced, biographical novel takes us from South Africa through Europe to the U.S., ......
A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa
"The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years also coincided with our own personal springtime, in the sense that we were all in our youthful ......
When the governor of New Mexico is found drowned in the Bath House at Jemez Springs, Albuquerque private eye Sonny Baca is called in to investigate. As he soon learns, murder is only the beginning of the evil that Sonny must sort out. Someone has planted a bomb in the Valles Caldera, not far from the Los Alamos National Laboratories, and it is set ......
Called home to a funeral in Monte Alto, a small ranching community in New Mexico, journalist Maggie Chilton finds herself face to face with everything she left behind when she graduated from high school. Against the harsh beauty of the landscape and the memories it holds, three generations of women -- Maggie, her mother, and her teenage daughter ......
The girl Huesn and the boy Ask are betrothed to each other as children. But Huesn violates the custom of the tribe by falling in love with him, and Ask must undergo the trials of a journey to the Diyar-i Kalp, Land of the Heart, to prove himself worthy-a journey to realization of both his and Huesn's true nature. The Turkish verse romance Huesn ......
The girl Beauty and the boy Love are betrothed to each other as children. But Beauty violates the custom of the tribe by falling in love with him, and Love must undergo the trials of a journey to the Land of the Heart to prove himself worthy-a journey to realization of both his and Beauty's true nature. The Turkish verse romance Beauty and Love, ......
Dr Matt Dorgan felt there was something wrong with the baby even before it was born. He detected an abnormal foetal heart rate and when the baby boy arrived he just didn't look right. Little Calvin was born with profound cerebral palsy. His depressed mother has fantasies of killing him. His father, Junior Shiflett, a small-time drug dealer with an ......
In this key text from the French decadent movement, an aristocratic young woman becomes enamored of a young man who makes artificial flowers for a living.
