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Set in 14th century Norway, The Wreath begins the life story of Kristin Lavransdatter. Starting with Kristin's childhood and continuing through her romance with Erlend Nikulausson, a dangerously charming and impetuous man. Defying her parents and stubbornly pursuing her own happiness, Kristin emerges as a woman sho loves with power and passion.

The Cross finds Kristin Lavransdatter returning to her husband, Erlend, and their sons to her childhood home, Jorundgaard. As the boys grow older, Kristin is increasingly worried about their prospects, and she and Erlend become estranged. The Cross chronicles the trials and losses Kristin must bear, and how she finds the strength to endure them. This final chapter in her story emphasizes the medieval belief that the spiritual world has primacy over the material.

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Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of Charles Cleasby, a man unable to see himself separately from the hero - Lord Horatio Nelson - he mistakenly idolizes. But in his research he has come upon an incident of horrifying brutality in Nelson's career that stumps all attempts at glorification. Moreover, his new assistant, Miss Lily, render a steady assault on Nelson and on Cleasby's isolated life.

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As the harsh winds hold the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis waiting to sail to Troy, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood of a young and innocent woman - blood that will appease the gods and allow the troops to set sail. In this retelling of ancient Greek myth, King Agamemnon's beloved daughter is brought to the coast expecting to be married to a leading warrior, not to meet her death. When a ceremonial knife is fashioned out of the finest and most precious materials, her fate seems sealed by the hands of men. But can a father really go to these lengths to secure political victory, and can a daughter willingly give up her life for the worldly ambitions of her father?

The hero of Updike's 'Rabbit, Run', ten years after the events described in 'Rabbit Redux', has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as chief sales representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. the time is 1979,. Skylab is falling, gas lines are long, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of nation confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last - until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's mid-life, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.

This is the journal of a 66-year-old man, Ben Turnbull...the wanderings of his wits....So what if he jumps from a United States in the next century, disintegrating after a war with China, to ancient Egypt, or to virtual reality? So what if characters appear and disappear like phantoms in a drewa?...Turnbull's journal is like Walden gone haywire...If Ben's ruthlessness is evenhanded, so is his alarming intelligence: it falls on every scene, person, object, and thought in the book, giving it an eerie ambiance. - The New York Times Book Review.

Terrorist is the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town he calls home. Turning to the words of the Holy Qur'an as expounded to him by the pedantic imam of a local mosque, Ahmad devotes himself fervently to God. But neither the world-weary guidance counselor at Ahmad's high school nor his mischievously seductive classmate Joryleen will succeed in deflecting him from his course, as the threads of an insidious plot gather around him.

Contents: Five Wheelchairs: Shoes, Dreams, Charity, Gift, The Drawing Master; Storm Glass; The Death of Robert Browning; Seven Confessions: Merry-go-round with Approaching Storm, Bossu, Her Golden Curls, The Boat, Artificial Ice, Venetian Glass, Hotel Verbano; John's Cottage; Italian Postcards. 127 Pages.

Ester O'Malley Robertson gazes out at Lake Ontario from her home for perhaps the last time. This house, highly charged with memories and history, is part of a landscape this is now being swallowed by industry. The story of her family's past has its beginnings in the 1840's off the northern coast of Ireland where a young woman embraced a semi-conscious sailor, who had washed in with the tide, and, later with her husband and young son, fled the famine for Canada, eventually settling in Ontario

A year after Andrew Woodman's body is found encased in ice on a remote island at the mouth of the St Lawrence River, Sylvia Bradley - a withdrawn, sheltered woman - finds herself in the unfamiliar city of Toronto in search of the young artist Jerome, who discovered Andrew's body. When she encounters Jerome, she shares with him the story of her unusual, insular childhood and of her devastating affair with Andrew, which changed her world forever. As they talk, Jerome is brought face to face with his own past.