Down Along the Piney is John Mort's fourth short-story collection and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction. With settings in Florida, California, Mexico, Chicago, the Texas Panhandle, and, of course, the Ozarks themselves, these thirteen stories portray the unsung, amusing, brutal, forever hopeful lives of ordinary people. Mort chronicles the struggles of "flyover" people who live not just in the Midwest, but anywhere you can find a farm, small town, or river wind...

In late fall of 1892 outlaw Eddie Mole gallops down the main street of Jericho Springs, Kansas, where he robs and shoots dead the freighter Barney Kreider. Some urge Barney's son Ulysses (“Euly”) to take revenge, but Euly is a Mennonite and Mennonites don't seek revenge. Instead, Euly plots how to make his fortune with the aid of his half-Osage sister, Kate, and his friend Johnny, an Osage farmhand. The three make a plan to sell goods and livestock to the settlers converging on Caldwell, K...

These twelve stories reflect the combat infantry experience of the Vietnam War--in the gritty “Tanks,” “Called of God,” and “Incubation Period.” There’s also the woman’s perspective of Arlene, a naive Red Cross volunteer or “Doughnut Dolly,” in “A Man’s World.” Mort captures veterans’ experiences in “Rest Stop,” a woeful, divorced man’s tale; “Hallelujah By and By,” a dark, almost supernatural story set in the Arkansas Ozarks; and “Behind Enemy Lines,” the story of a homeless, damaged man ...

John Mort’s compelling first novel embodies both the Vietnam combat experience and the sad aftermath for those who underwent it. Alternating between “stateside” chapters after the war and the Vietnam chapters dramatizing it, the novel creates a tension back and forth in time as well as geography. We participate in the trauma of combat in crisp and authentic detail, and we witness the effect of that experience on “Irish” Donnelly, a bookish, reluctant soldier, and his fellow infantrymen in ...

Silver Medal for the 2023 Will Rogers Medallion AwardNamed a 2022 Great Group ReadsIn late fall of 1892 outlaw Eddie Mole gallops down the main street of Jericho Springs, Kansas, where he robs and shoots dead the freighter Barney Kreider. Some urge Barney’s son Ulysses (“Euly”) to take revenge, but Euly is a Mennonite and Mennonites don’t seek revenge. Instead, Euly plots how to make his fortune with the aid of his half-Osage sister, Kate, and his friend Joh...

Peut-on mourir empalé par une paille, tué par une limace, écrasé par une vache tombée du ciel, empoisonné par une carotte, ou s'étouffer de rire ? NON ? Eh bien si, c'est possible... Malheureusement. Vous allez découvrir les 100 façons les plus absurdes et tragiques, parfois cocasses, de mourir, qui vous feront froid dans le dos et sourire à la fois. À chaque fois, c'est un rappel de l'insoutenable fragilité de l'existence et de la nécessité d'éviter les comportements à risque.

Vampires...fearful undead creatures of myths and legends, supernatural terrors from our darkest nightmares, the inspiration for so many tales of tragedy and horror.Explore the birth of vampires and their evolution in Vampire Classics.Vampire Classics brings together many classic tales of vampires in a single volume.In this horror anthology, undeath abounds in:Dracula by Bram StokerDracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker (ano...

Neste clássico da teologia reformada, John Owen apresenta uma defesa poderosa e bíblica da doutrina da redenção eficaz, destacando que a morte de Cristo foi destinada a garantir plenamente a salvação de seu povo eleito. Com argumentos claros e embasados nas Escrituras, Owen refuta a ideia de uma redenção universal e oferece uma visão abrangente sobre a glória de Deus revelada na cruz. Além de ser uma exposição teológica bíblica e brilhante, este clássico é uma convocação para que os cristã...

« Tom et Judy ne sentirent pas les créatures arracher leurs membres un à un. Ils n’entendirent pas leurs os craquer, leurs cartilages se rompre, leurs articulations se déchirer, leur chair croustiller sous les dents de leurs assaillants. Ils ne hurlèrent pas de terreur lorsque leur cœur, leurs poumons, leurs reins, leurs intestins servirent de festin à une meute de zombies dénués de toute conscience. »D’après le film culte de George A. Romero, un classique de l’horreur dans une édi...

Les laboratoires nous trompentPour la première fois, un haut dirigeant d'une grande firme internationale témoigne de l'intérieur et se révolte.Ce livre criant de vérité se lit comme un roman policier, un roman noir, mais ce n'est pas un roman. Il décrit, pièces en main, la falsification des études cliniques, la dissimulation des accidents mortels aux agences de contrôle, les mensonges systématiques aux généralistes par les visiteurs médicau...

Partagez les émotions des compétiteurs de l'America's Cup !Un coup de feu ! L'océan Pacifique se fige dans le port d'Auckland...Qui en voulait à Martha McClane ?A la barre du Spirits of Scotland, la jeune navigatrice était sur le point de remporter la prestigieuse Coupe de l'America. Et de battre à domicile l'équipage du Néo-Zélandais Tom Read.Une fois de plus, les vents changeants de la baie d'Hauraki se montrent imprévisibles...Jalousi...

L’ultima, drammatica vicenda di condanna a morte per sodomia nella “civilissima” Inghilterra del 1835. James Pratt e John Smith vennero sorpresi in atteggiamento intimo in un locale dove si erano appartati. Spiati da una fessura che si apriva sul tetto, vennero denunciati, arrestati e a lungo detenuti prima di essere processati e condannati alla pena capitale. Nonostante le molte proteste e le prese di posizione a favore di un gesto di clemenza, i due furono impiccati per «reato contro la ...