Crossing the Mexican border to dig up five million dollars in buried gold, four soldiers of fortune, along with a beautiful woman, must go up against ruthless comanchero guerillas, hostile Yaqui Indians, and Benito Juarez's army, all of who...
This novel is the story of Siegmund, a musician in an unhappy marriage who pursues a former pupil, Helena. He persuades Helena to accompany him on a vacation. Although she accepts his company, she fails to respond to his passion and Siegmun...
With craggy Celtic metaphysics and perfect linguistic pitch, R. T. Smith evokes the landscape, culture, and history of Ireland and the New World through the eyes and ears of an outsider. Words matter to Smith, and the language of these poem...
Portrays the experiences of nineteenth and twentieth-century spies, soldiers, explorers, missionaries, mystics, and mountain climbers as they traveled through Tibet to reach the city of Lhasa.
An old house, still full of furniture but devoid of people, becomes the playground of 10-year-old Neely and her seven-year-old brother, Grub. Trouble arises, however, when Grub seems to be able to communicate with the ghost of a former occu...
Traces the author's comic misadventures of growing up as the daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher in Kentucky, a youth shaped by such influences as a blue-jeans baptism, foreign missions projects, and the Kentucky Wildcats.