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First published in 1976, this autobiography contains Forrest Carter's--Little Tree's--remembrances of life with his Eastern Cherokee Hill country grandparents in the 1930s. There are 21 chapters, recounting humorous and serious episodes from a 5-year period and dealing with the themes of growing up, Indian life and values, family relationships, and the relationship of man and the earth. The book begins when the author is 5 years old and goes to live with his grandparents after the death of his parents. The first chapter tells how he was given the name of Little Tree by his grandmother and describes the mountain hollow and the cabin where he will live with his grandparents. In the second chapter, Little Tree learns to hunt wild turkey with his grandfather and learns the Cherokee ethics of hunting. Other chapters tell of borrowing great books from the library, fox hunting, friends and friendships, grandfather's trade of whiskey-making, gathering food, family history, planting, religion and going to church, and boarding school. The final chapter relates the deaths of Little Tree's grandfather and grandmother and his decision to head west on his own. (Jhz)

Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets … The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. Before long, Frieda is at the centre of the race to track the kidnapper. But her race isn't physical. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts. And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself.

John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential.He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation.Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don't demand or expect the empathy he's unable to offer. Perhaps that's what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there's something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat---and to appreciate what that difference means.Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he can't control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could.Dan Wells' debut novel is the first volume of a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams.

East Texas, 1916 In the great mansions of Houston Avenue, Howbutker, live the town's founding families: Toliver, Warwick and DuMont. Over generations they have settled their differences by exchanging roses: a red rose to ask for forgiveness and a white rose to accept. But when precocious teenager Mary Toliver inherits cotton plantation Somerset from her father Vernon, the first seeds of discontent are sown. And it is not the last time Mary will sell her soul for the sake of the family soil. When she declines the proposal of handsome timber magnate Percy Warwick, it is a shattering choice that will spell heartbreak for generations to come.

TV voditeljici Kim Lange, istog dana kada dobija prestižnu televizijsku nagradu, padne na glavu komad umivaonika iz ruske svemirske stanice. Bizarna smrt glavne junakinje vodi nas na novu razinu priče zagrobnog ili onostranog života na kojoj Kim spoznaje da je tijekom života skupila previše loše karme. Naplata za sve grijehe je trenutačna. Kim se ponovno vraća u život, ali ovog puta se budi u rupici s dva ticala na glavi, šest nogu i natprosječno velikim stražnjim dijelom tijela – Kim je mrav. Bezvoljno skuplja kuhinjske mrvice i raznosi ih uokolo. Život joj nije baš ludnica, a osim toga gleda kako njezin suprug traži utjehu na ramenu novog komada. Kao ženka mrava teško da može konkurirati novoj suprugovoj partnerici. Međutim, nije sve izgubljeno. Postoji rješenje, treba skupljati dobra djela kako bi popravila vlastitu karmu i kako bi se uspela na reinkarnacijskoj ljestvici te opet postala ono što je nekad bila.