Detective Sugar Ray Hinton has a dead prostitute on his hands; a woman he'd just had sex with hours earlier. Who killed Casandra Dupree and why is a question Detective Ray has to investigate. His prime suspect is Frederick Williamson, the owner of two clothing stores in Nashville, a rich man and a philanderer who was involved with Casandra. Sugar Ray is shot at and witnesses are killed but the detective prods on and eventually the killer is unmasked.

Madeline Dubois is fifty years old and pregnant and the people in the village of Hastings are shocked. Everyone speculates about who the father might be and they're wrong. No one believes Madeline when fourteen years later she finally tells the people that Richard La Doc, the richest man in Hastings is the father of her son, Francis (aka Two-Pea). But Richards wife, Melba La Doc believes her story and she is deadly angry. Madeline is murdered and Police Chief Abbott must investigate the fi...

US Army Sergeant First Class Randy Mosley is about to retire after twenty years of service. He expects his transition to civilian life to go smoothly but the sudden death of Private Perry Dickson, a clerk in the personnel office of the infantry unit to which Randy is assigned devastates him. The Army concludes that Perry's death is a result of a DUI but the swastika on the hood of his car, coupled with the fact that Perry did not drink alcohol because it made him sick, convinces Randy that...

This is the story of a boy, Peter Flomo, born on a small plantation on a Caribbean island to middle class parents. His mother, BeBe is a school teacher and his father Robert, works for the government. All is not well in the Flomo household as Robert has a terrible disease that tortures his wife. He is a womanizer who fathers so many children he does not know how many he has. BeBe dies of Tuberculosis at age 27 and Robert immigrates to the America and leaves behind his middle class status a...

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story,Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance."Like the novelists he admires-Melville, D...

In Enid Blyton's bestselling school series Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been.In book six, the school goes camping and the Naughtiest Girl means to be well-behaved. But horrible Arabella is sleeping in the very same tent and busy stirring up trouble for Elizabeth's best friend, Joan ...Between 1940 and 1952, Enid Blyton wrote four novels about Naughtiest Girl, Elizabeth Allen. B...

Now a major film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and co-starring Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and John Lithgow, this classic Western novel captures the devastating realities of early frontier life through the eyes of one extraordinary woman.Now a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and m...

Q: Where was the Declaration of Independence signed? A: On the bottom.Q: What did the flag say to the pole? A: Nothing, it just waved.Q: Why did the belt go to jail? A: It held up a pair of pants.1100+ Clean Jokes For Kids (and adults of all ages!) is the ultimate collection of laugh out loud jokes for anyone aged from 7-70!Chock full of over 1100 Knock Knock jokes, Questions and Answers, Doctor Doctor, Riddles, One liners and more, this giant book wi...

One of them came to Gunner's Creek at the end of a long search.The other had simply drifted into the town.Fate drew them together. Two Texans who found a town in trouble, and being who they were, had to throw in their hands to helpChet Ballard and Jess McCall.Texicans down to the tips of their boots. Big men with hard fists and fast guns, who saw trouble and refused to back away from it.This is the long "lost" novel by best-selling Western writer Neil Hun...

"Woodrell writes about violence and dark deeds . . . in compact, musical prose. . . . once you begin reading [these short stories ]you can't stop." — New York TimesDaniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation--both material and psychological—motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for ...

In this highly acclaimed novel, the author of Permanent Midnight channels fallen early-Hollywood star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Fatty tells his own story of success, addiction, and a precipitous fall from grace after being framed for a brutal crime-a national media scandal that set the precedent for those so familiar today.

The novel that might have been called Piney, Go Home! delivers a fast-paced story, a terrific cast of characters, and dozens of memorable, laugh-out-loud moments. This 50th anniversary edition restores Richard Powells New York Times bestseller and includes a previously unpublished preface by the author. Pioneer, Go Home! ranks among the most entertaining of Powells 19 published novels. Originally released by Scribners in 1959, it was the immediate follow-up to the authors best-known novel,...