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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville.Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he rises above the physical and human squalor with de...

No discussion of great modern authors is complete without mention of Cormac McCarthy, whose rare and blazing talent makes his every work a true literary event. A grand addition to the American literary canon, Suttree introduces readers to Cornelius Suttree, a man who abandons his affluent family to live among a dissolute array of vagabonds along the Tennessee river. "Suttree contains a humor that is Faulknerian . and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor."-Times Lit...

"You must come at once if you want to stop the suttee from happening again." A phone call summons Kumud Kuthiyala back to Neela Nagar, the town of her youth that she had vowed never to return and the shackled life she thought she had left behind forever.As a nine-year-old, Kumud witnesses the brutal and horrifying suttee ritual when her beloved aunt immolates herself on the burning pyre of her dead husband. Years later, Kumud summons the courage to escape the isolated and primitive...

A Black man wrongly convicted of murder attempts to rebuild his life and bring the real killer to justice, in this historical novel based on a true story.In the summer of 1932, Ben Jordan was wrongfully accused of killing a white pastor in Georgia. After a hasty trial, he was sentenced to a life of grueling labor on a chain gang and abuse at the hands of brutal wardens. But now, with his forty-year prison sentence completed, Ben is finally returning home.As h...

Henry and Lindsay have both been burned in love, and a no-strings-attached fling is the perfect balm… but what happens when the attraction refuses to fade?Lindsay Miller has sworn off men until her son is old enough not to be hurt when her relationships fail. But a casual romp with willing cowboy Henry Hammond on her kid-free vacation to see her best friend married off isn’t out of the question. And Henry has ideas about how to remind her that she’s more t...

Jim Reynolds, newly divorced, is headed to Sutter's Bay just before Christmas. Wanting a new start after the broken marriage, Jim has accepted a new attorney position at a law firm after the holidays. He's leaving behind Los Angeles, but also his new baby daughter, Hope. He'll miss her first Christmas.Edward Cross came back to Sutter's Bay a few years back after a relationship grew abusive. A fire at the salon where he worked sends him to Mabry's restaurant with a chance to begin a...

They have gathered now on Damien and are about to witness the last rising of a man-made nova. They are sixteen humans in a distant world about to be enveloped by an eruption of violence—horror and murder, oddly complemented by a bizarre, unforgiving love. But justice is not all that they're about to find. Judgment is coming, and the sixteen unsuspecting ones are on the threshold of the murdered star.

In the Northern California seaside town of Sutter's Bay, the path of love is sometimes mixed with tragedy, but these couples find their way to happiness together.This box set collects all five stories of Shawn Lane's best-selling series, Sutter's Bay into one box set. Contains the stories:Sweet Reunion: Jason Sweet hasn't been back to his hometown, Sutter's Bay, for years. With his mother dying, Jason returns to make peace his past, including forme...

Manager of the Sutter Ranch, Fitz Sutter's roots run deep in Apple Pie Creek, Montana. But when hometown girl turned hotel renovation expert, Caroline Sparks comes roaring back into town, she threatens to burn down everything he thought he wanted out of life.As Fitz sets out to remind her why she once loved living in a small town, all bets are off...or rather on! In this rollicking story of friends to lovers, the only question is who will take the biggest dare of all and fall in lo...

Annabelle Winters is sick of the big city. She hates her job, hates her boss, and hates her life. And then she receives a letter informing her she’s inherited a slice of land in someplace called Apple Pie Creek, Montana.Jack Sutter has just retired from the army and plans to renovate an old grist mill he just inherited back home in Apple Pie Creek.But when his feisty city-slicker neighbor shows up, everything that can go wrong suddenly does. Is it her? Or is it just that he...

Originally called Camas Swale, Sutherlin was incorporated on June 24, 1911, and renamed for Fendel Sutherlin at the behest of his daughter, Anne Sutherlin Waite. What started as an agricultural community of orchard homesites later transitioned into a timber boomtown during World War II. Although the Sutherlin valley had its share of visionaries, most of its people were basic, hardworking folks who persevered despite the roadblocks in their way. They survived floods, fires, destruction of t...

Jaded by too many close calls in her professional life, Josie Raintree returns to her roots with dreams of a simpler, less complicated life.Before long, she accepts the position of acting sheriff, but only until the mayor can find a replacement - something he doesn't try very hard to do. Ten months later, she is still the sheriff, but the quiet little town is shattered by a gruesome discovery!Jack Rawlings grew up in Rawlings, Oklahoma, a community named for one of his dista...