A young woman's race against the clock to find her parents' killers - before the killers find her...Shannon Fairchild's life has spectacularly derailed. Shelving her PhD to clean the homes of the rich and famous, and spending her evenings in low-rent bars, Shannon rebels against everything her academic family stands for. But when her parents are tortured and murdered, Shannon is consumed by guilt and vows to find out who was responsible. With her mother's enigmatic...

Randall Wilkes, his big-city journalism career in ruins, has returned after twenty years to Pilgrim's Rest, the Tennessee hill town where he grew up. He has taken on a lucrative but low-prestige writing job for Sonny McMahan, a former governor and Randall's boyhood friend, whose own career is under a shadow and who needs a ghost-written autobiography to ease his way back into politics.Randall encounters Faye McMahan, Sonny's mother, who is addled with age, imagining that her dead hu...

Don't We Wish:we could travel on the interstate at really high speed...safely, comfortably,stress-free...with no worries about a speeding ticket...and at less cost...Find out how this can happen in this excellent new novel by Gullah and Wright.Don't We Wish!

Set in LA at the time of the McCarthy witchhunts, an evocative thriller set against a backdrop of murder and corruption in HollywoodLos Angeles, late 1940s: all over Hollywood, the U.S. government is ordering people to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee as part of the crusade to uncover Communist influence in the movies.John Ray Horn has little use for politics, but as a former B-movie cowboy star who fell into prison and disgrace, he ...

Evocative post-World War II crime novel set in LA, starring ex-movie-star and now debt-collector, John Ray HornOnce he was Sierra Lane, hero to countless youngsters in a series of B-movie westerns. Now, after two years in prison, John Ray Horn lives on the margins of post-World War II Los Angeles. His wife has left him, and, blacklisted by the studios, he makes ends meet by collecting debts for his old Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. Then an old friend, Scotty, co...

A stunningly atmospheric contemporary stand-alone - about murder, madness and dangerous secrets in a small townRandall Wilkes, his big-city journalism career in ruins, has returned after twenty years to Pilgrim's Rest, the Tennessee hill town where he grew up. He has taken on a lucrative but low-prestige writing job for Sonny McMahan, a former governor and Randall's boyhood friend. Faye McMahan, Sonny's mother, is addled with age, imagining that her dead husband is...

Begun by Shirley Wright with interviews of Blanche Wright and family, expanded with contributions of Brown family members, and assembled by Edward Wright and Elizabeth Alexander, this Anthology tells of the unique lives and contributions of a special family.

In 1937 the author, then aged 19, found the remains of an ancient boat at Ferriby on the Humber shore. This book is his own account of his discoveries, excavations and research over 50 years since the first boat find. The importance of this and the subsequent finds was only fully recognised after World War II, when the new technique of carbon-14 dating revealed that the Ferriby Boats were built before 1000 BC. This makes them the oldest plank-built boats found anywhere in the world apart f...

A powerfully evocative post-World War II thriller set in LA, starring former B movie star John Ray Horn.John Ray Horn knows all about regret. One-time hero in a series of cheap westerns, he now scrapes a living collecting debts for his old Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow.Then his past resurfaces in the form of an old flame and forgotten movie star. Rose Galen once had a talent that lit up the screen. Now she is a shattered creature, drink-sodden and haunted...

A study of contemporary pilgrimage through the elastic history of a shrine in Oaxaca, Mexico.For many, pilgrimage conjures ideas about ancient traditions and somber journeys of self-discovery—an escape from modern life. In Devotion in Motion, Edward Wright-Ríos argues that we misunderstand pilgrimage (past and present) if we ignore its dynamic relationship with the rhythms of daily life and community.Through the story of a centuries-old, ever-changi...

In "The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage," Almroth Edward Wright articulates a controversial position against the movement for women's voting rights in early 20th-century Britain. The book is characterized by its incisive rhetorical style, combining a blend of scientific reasoning, sociopolitical analysis, and anecdotal evidence that reflects the era's patriarchal paradigms. Wright employs a variety of sources, critically examining the implications of enfranchisement on societal st...

Born in 1836, Edward "Ned" Wright led a life of vice and crime. His days were filled with drinking, smoking, wife-beating, and stealing-even stealing from the dead. It seemed impossible that he could ever reform. But then one night something happened. Out of curiosity, Ned and his wife went into a fancy theater for an "all seats free" program. There they were unexpectedly and powerfully affected by a Gospel presentation during which Ned was carried away into a waking vision of "the most aw...