A Long Way From Chicago (Puffin Modern Classics)

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The Sex Connection

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In this fast-paced and thoroughly gripping story, we meet two criminals, the appositely named Moon and Sky, without being given any indication originally of what their crime has been. We get to know them and begin to understand them only gradually as we see them through the eyes of Linda Maddison, a young and innocent secretary to a bank official. The crimes they commit against Linda are certainly real and reprehensible enough--but the thoughtful reader will want to know what forces drove them to this de

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In this fast-paced and thoroughly gripping story, we meet two criminals, the appositely named Moon and Sky, without being given any indication originally of what their crime has been. We get to know them and begin to understand them only gradually as we see them through the eyes of Linda Maddison, a young and innocent secretary to a bank official. The crimes they commit against Linda are certainly real and reprehensible enough--but the thoughtful reader will want to know what forces drove them to this de

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Long Mountain Odyssey

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Richard and Sandra Antony were upwardly mobile young professionals in the late 1970s. Richard worked for the Department of the Army while pursuing his PhD in electrical engineering; Sandra worked as a contract specialist for the National Cancer Institute. They lived in a cozy house they had painstakingly remodeled, just a stone’s throw from the confluence of Interstate-95 and Washington Beltway. At least that’s where they lived until Richard convinced his new wife they needed to find more fulfilling careers and a quieter place to raise their future family. His recommendation: They should start a wholesale azalea nursery in the foothills of the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains.

What began as an earnest, if unrealistic, attempt to simplify their lives turned into a remarkable thirty-year long odyssey. Even after discovering that the simple life is a lot more complicated than they had imagined, the two remained committed to their dream. Staying the course forced them to face seemingly endless challenges, heart-breaking losses, and periods of self-doubt. Nursery work was hard and the hours long, but they ultimately achieved their goal of growing high quality specialty azaleas, shipping more than ten thousand each year to premier garden centers in Northern Virginia. Far more important to them, their lifestyle change allowed them to raise their children where the days and nights were more serene, in a place where they could watch the sun set each evening over one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world.

Living in a small rural community and operating their own business set the stage for numerous adventures as well as at least as many misadventures, the latter typically involving various combinations of storms, equipment failures, power outages, and ill-conceived decisions. The couple met scores of interesting people and had close encounters with all manner of animals, both great and small. They learned a great deal on the less traveled road; perhaps chief among them was that the journey truly is more important than the destination.

Long Mountain Odyssey is funny, sweet, sad, sensitive, provocative, honest, disturbing, tender, and absolutely true. A story about commitment and self-discovery, it’s also a love story. Hundreds of vignettes weave a remarkably inspirational tale, bringing to mind the writings of such perennial favorites as James Herriot, May Sarton, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Uplifting, riveting, and intimate, it is a story the reader will not soon forget.

Hundreds of book photos can be found at http://www.longmountainnursery.com/book_site/Mountain_of_My_Dreams/Welcome.html

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Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking (<I>AFTERALL</I>)

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In 1967, Richard Long, then twenty-two years old and a student at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, walked back and forth along a straight line in the grass in the English countryside, leaving a track that he then photographed in black and white. The resulting work, A Line Made by Walking, was not only the starting point for Long's career as an artist but also a landmark for a new kind of art emerging in Europe and the Americas. The formal simplicity of Long's artwork suggested a relation to minimalism, but its location outside the gallery context and its suggestion of bodily actions also connected it to a new generation of artists whose work combined the organic, the temporary, the nonmaterial, and the performative to offer a critique of the art system and its language, forms, and values. Long's work bridged the concerns of his North American and European counterparts, connecting the industrial scale of Robert Smithson to the modesty of Gilberto Zorio, the exercises in dematerialization of Robert Morris with the organic forms of Alighiero e Boetti, and the performance of Yvonne Rainer with that of Joseph Beuys.Although A Line Made by Walking is an instantly recognizable work, no detailed analysis of this foundational piece has yet been published. At a time when Richard Long's career is being celebrated and reassessed, this study by writer and curator Dieter Roelstraete could not be more timely.

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The Bachman Books : Four Early Novels by Richard Bachman (Rage / The Long Walk / Roadwork / The Running Man)

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Four of Richard Bachman's eerie works are gathered here in a posthumous edition. They are Rage, a story of stunning psychological horror about an "estra" ordinary high school student; "The Long Walk," a contest with death; "Roadwork, a strange variation on the theme of "Home Sweet Home"; and "The Running Man," where you bet your life--literally.

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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)

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By the best selling author of The Selfish Gene 'This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days.' Science 'The Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene ...he writes so clearly it could be understood by anyone prepared to make the effort' John Maynard Smith, London Review of Books 'Dawkins is quite incapable of being boring this characteristically brilliant and stimulating book is original and provocative throughout, and immensely enjoyable.' G. A. Parker, Heredity 'The extended phenotype is certainly a big idea and it is pressed hard in dramatic language.' Sydney Brenner, Nature 'Richard Dawkins, our most radical Darwinian thinker, is also our best science writer.' Douglas Adams 'Dawkins is a superb communicator. His books are some of the best books ever written on science.' Megan Tressider, Guardian 'Dawkins is a genius of science popularization.' Mark Ridley, The Times

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