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Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Part #1 of "Letters" series by Hunter S. Thompson
Nonfiction / Entertainment / Gonzo Journalism
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors--Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.
The Highway
C. J. Box
Mystery & Thrillers
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the New York Times bestselling author of Back of Beyond and Breaking Point and the creator of the Joe Pickett series is back.
"If CJ Box isn't already on your list, put him there." - USA Today
When two sisters set out across a remote stretch of Montana road to visit their friend, little do they know it will be the last time anyone might ever hear from them again. The girls--and their car--simply vanish. Former police investigator Cody Hoyt has just lost his job and has fallen off the wagon after a long stretch of sobriety. Convinced by his son and his former rookie partner, Cassie Dewell, he begins the drive south to the girls' last known location. As Cody makes his way to the lonely stretch of Montana highway where they went missing, Cassie discovers that Gracie and Danielle Sullivan aren't the first girls who have disappeared in this area. This majestic landscape is the hunting ground for a killer whose viciousness is outmatched only by his intelligence. And he might not be working alone. Time is running out for Gracie and Danielle…Can Cassie overcome her doubts and lack of experience and use her innate skill? Can Cody Hoyt battle his own demons and find this killer before another victim vanishes on the highway?
Highway to Hell
Rosemary Clement-Moore
Young Adult / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers
Maggie Quinn was expecting to find plenty of trouble with Lisa over Spring Break. Destination: South Padre Island! Give a girl a bikini, a beachfront hotel, and an absent boyfriend, and it’s as good as a road map to the dark side. And Maggie and Lisa plan to enjoy every bit of it--just like nice, normal college freshmen. Fire, brimstone, and demonic sorority girls: these ladies are officially off the clock.
But Maggie doesn’t have to go looking for trouble. Trouble has started looking for her. One dead cow and a punctured gas tank later, she and Lisa are stuck in Dulcina, Texas—a town so small that it has an owner. And--you guessed it--lately life in this small town hasn’t been all that peaceful. An eerie predator is stalking the ranchland. Cattle are dying mysteriously, with strange bite marks on their hides. And judging by the rising body count, whatever's doing the killing is getting bolder by the day.
Everyone in town has a theory, but not even Maggie’s psychic mojo can provide any answers. And the longer the girls are stranded, the more obvious it becomes that something is seriously wrong. Only no one—not even Maggie’s closest ally—wants to admit that they could have been forced on a detour down the highway to hell.
It looks like fighting evil isn'at a job with vacation time.
"A first-rate mystery."--* School Library Journal *
From the Hardcover edition.
Highway to Hell
M.T. Acquaire
Young Adult / Mystery & Thrillers / Horror
Serial killers aren't made, they're born. This is a fact that each of their victims fights helplessly against as they draw their final breath. The Roadside Slasher is just that type of evil. Would you survive an encounter with the ultimate evil, or simply become another notch on his bloodied belt?In a classic game of cat and mouse, the thin line between prey and predator becomes a blurred shadow at best. Serial killers aren't made, they're born. This is a fact that each of their victims fights helplessly against as they draw their final breath. Death is a battle fought by all, but when in the skilled hands of a killer, death becomes a carefully baited performance to be savored in tantalizing bites. The Roadside Slasher is just that type of evil. He is a skilled predator who hunts his prey with a single determination, toying with the minds of the defenseless, as well as the far from innocent. Would you survive an encounter with the ultimate evil, or simply become another notch on his bloodied belt?
Wandering Highway
Ike Warren
A young married couple, with a five year old daughter and a baby boy on the way, set out on a shopping trip to an out of town mall. Just as they reach the mall an EMP blast knocks out every electronic device in sight including every cell phone, automobile, and every plane flying in the sky. Their only choice to reunite with their family is to embark on a long and desperate walk home. As the hordes of refugees pour out onto the highways, some seek to merely survive while others seek to profit amidst the chaos. Out there on the road they face challenges and obstacles that they could never have imagined as they witness the collapse of society happening all around them.
Pale Highway
Nicholas Conley
Gabriel Schist is spending his remaining years at Bright New Day, a nursing home. He once won the Nobel Prize for inventing a vaccine for AIDS. But now, he has Alzheimer's, and his mind is slowly slipping away.When one of the residents comes down with a horrific virus, Gabriel realizes that he is the only one who can find a cure. Encouraged by Victor, an odd stranger, he convinces the administrator to allow him to study the virus. Soon, reality begins to shift, and Gabriel's hallucinations interfere with his work.As the death count mounts, Gabriel is in a race against the clock and his own mind. Can he find a cure before his brain deteriorates past the point of no return?
Tangled Threats on the Nomad Highway
MariaLisa deMora
Romance / Suspense / Contemporary
Einstein didn't allow himself to believe in fate. Wouldn't give it a moment of consideration because if he thinks for a single instant there are wizened crones tugging at the fabric of his existence, he'll have to locate them and deal back the hand they sent his way. He believes his wife and daughter deserve more than that. Fate has nothing to do with the holes in his heart and life. No, those are due entirely to a world he tries to keep in his past. Tries and fails, and now all he has is cold granite to embrace.As the only nomad for the Bama Bastards MC, he takes pride in policing all potential threats to the club that's become his home and family. This includes trespassing shadows from his past.Mariam Threadgill still isn't used to her new life. After resigning herself to a reality as a broken prisoner in her childhood home, liberation had come in the form of unconventional champions: Rough and tumble bikers who proved to her how deceiving appearances could be....
No Highway
Nevil Shute
Fiction / Nonfiction
Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous engineer whose eccentric interests are frowned upon in aviation circles. When a passenger plane crashes in Newfoundland under unexplained circumstances, Honey is determined to prove his unorthodox theory about what went wrong to his superiors, before more lives are lost. But while flying to the crash scene to investigate, Honey discovers to his horror that he is on board one of the defective planes and that he and his fellow passengers, including a friendly young stewardess and an aging movie actress, are in imminent peril.
Four Afoot: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Highway
Ralph Henry Barbour
Children's Books / Romance
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
Fiction
“[T]ransporting . . . a rollicking cross-country adventure, rife with unforgettable characters, vivid scenery and suspense that will keep readers flying through the pages.” —TIME“An absolute beauty of a book. Every character is a gem, the many locations spring to vivid life, the book is an intricate and moving exploration of journeys and the infinite unexpected turns they can take—and somehow Towles makes it all seem effortless. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again.” —Tana French, bestselling author of The Searcher The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s AmericaIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for...
The Trouble on Highway One
Part #2 of "Traiteur" series by Anne McClane
Things are looking up for Lacey Becnel. A new job on
the beautiful Central Coast of California and a budding
relationship are the perfect escape from her tumultuous summer in New Orleans. She can’t run from everything, though, and when she’s sucked into a decades-old mystery, she scrambles to understand the limits of her traiteur power. Who else has supernatural abilities, and who will go to nefarious ends to obtain them?
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
Luis Alberto Urrea
Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction / Poetry
The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out.
Highway of the Dead | Book 1 | Uprising
Part #1 of "Highway of the Dead" series by Stutsman, Bethany
Highway Blue
Ailsa McFarlane
A road trip. A love story. A tale of discovery. This is a hypnotic debut of broken love on the run, from a blazingly original writer. "In front of me the long length of the road wound out, wound out and wound on under hot sky. And I drove..."Highway Blue tells the story of Anne-Marie and Cal: the story of their brief marriage, and also of their long estrangement. And when a violent ambush hurls the two of them cross-country on the road, it becomes the story of their search for salvation. On their ill-at-ease odyssey along the darker seams of the country—from sweaty motel rooms and darkened parking lots, encountering other whisky-soaked souls along the way—Anne-Marie sifts through the consequences of their crime. But this is also the story of love, in all its broken forms, and how the pursuit of love is, in turn, a kind of redemption.Written in spare, shimmering prose, this is a novel of tragedy and transcendence, of being...
Highway of Eternity
Clifford D. Simak
Science Fiction
Time travel involves dangers—from saber-toothed tigers to killer robots—but it may be humanity’s only hope in this novel by a Nebula Award–winning author.
What is the price of eternal life? Secret agent Jay Corcoran is about to learn the answer when his investigation into an inexplicable disappearance carries him and journalist friend Tom Boone hundreds of years into the past. Corcoran and Boone’s powerful extrasensory abilities lead them to an advanced transportation system through time, and back to the bucolic eighteenth-century English countryside. There, they discover a family from the distant future that is hiding from the Immortals—an alien race that, many centuries on, is seducing human subjects with the promise of immortality. But the cost of life eternal is the corporeal self, and there is no place in the aliens’ future for anyone unwilling to exist as mind alone. Now that the Evans family’s sanctuary has been breached, escape is the only answer—for Tom Boone and Jay Corcoran as well—and the only way out is forward . . . far forward. But racing through space and time can be a hazardous occupation, especially with monstrous beasts, killer robots, and Immortal body-destroyers waiting at every juncture.
The last novel from acclaimed science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and numerous other awards, Highway of Eternity combines breathtaking action with provocative ideas and unparalleled ingenuity, the hallmarks of Simak’s exceptional art. It is a fitting finale for the man who stands alongside Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke as one of the true giants of speculative fiction’s Golden Age.
New Highway
Dave Alvin
Celebrated singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Alvin is, first and foremost, a storyteller. The Grammy winning artist's disarmingly well-crafted lyrics represent just one of the many expressions of his unique ability to capture the gritty and beautiful moments of life with the written word. This anthology of his writing is a companion piece to Dave's considerable musical output, and presents a staggering cross section of his work. New Highway includes a generous selection of his celebrated poetry; excerpts of his moving prose; newspaper articles and essays on artists including Frank Zappa, Bo Diddley, and Ray Charles (which earned Dave a Grammy nomination); tributes to influences such as Merle Haggard; a long-lost interview with Buck Owens; and, of course, a carefully curated representation of his inimitable lyrics. Packed with rich imagery and poignant observations, New Highway follows Dave's previous collections Nana, Big Joe & the Fourth of July, and...
Wild Highway
Devney Perry
Gemma Lane built an empire. Not a small feat, considering her home as a teenager was a makeshift tent in a California junkyard. She's dedicated her life to turning pennies into millions. She has power, fortune and prestige. And she's leaving it all behind. Gemma is headed across the country in her best friend's Cadillac when a detour in Montana reunites her with old acquaintances and a man who hasn't changed. Easton Greer challenges her every word and tests her every limit because he doesn't believe she's really abandoned her riches. She ignores his snide remarks and muttered censure—until the day she's ready to return to the wild highway, and Easton taunts her to stay. She'll prove to him she's not just running back to her wealthy life, that she's more than her money. She'll unlock her guarded heart and hope that this time around, he'll treasure the key.
Death Freaks on Hell's Highway
Carl John Lee
Roy Cobb is transporting his sick wife across state lines when they stop to pick up a hitchhiker. Carter Parx is his name, and he’s been killing all his life. He does it for fun. But Roy is no stranger to death. And when Carter takes a shine to Roy’s wife, the stage is set for the most outrageous carnage the Mojave desert has ever seen. From the author of Psychic Teenage Bloodbath, Death Freaks on Hell’s Highway is Carl John Lee’s most unhinged story yet. Twisted, depraved, and utterly sadistic, you’d better buckle up... For a one way trip straight to hell!
Highway to Homicide
Part #9 of "Secret Seal Isle Mystery" series by Lucy Quinn
Cookie James has put her past behind her and is settled in for the long haul on her island with the love of her life… or has she? After a barge blows up just off the coast of Secret Seal Isle, Rain and the Pussycat Posse, who were protesting a new condo construction project, become the prime suspects. Now Rain is being held without bail and Cookie will do anything to prove her innocence, even if it means facing the DeMasi mob and blowing her cover.
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Long Quiet Highway
Natalie Goldberg
Language / Writing / Nonfiction
A moving memoir of a journey of self-discovery through Zen BuddhismIn this autobiographical work, Natalie Goldberg takes us on a journey from her suburban childhood to her maturation as a writer. From the high-school classroom where she first listened to the rain, to her fifteen years as a student of Zen Buddhism, Natalie Goldberg's path is by turns illuminating, disciplined, heartbreaking, hilarious, and healing. Along the way she reflects on her life and work in prose that is both elegant and precise, reminding the reader of what it means to be fully alive.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Natalie Goldberg, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
Spirit of the Highway
Part #2 of "Highway Trilogy" series by Deborah Swift
Historical Fiction / Literature & Fiction / Poetry
Highway Girl
Valerie Wilding
It's 1670. When Susannah and her brother are orphaned she is forced to live on the charity of distant relations in England while he seeks his fortune in America. But when news arrives that her brother is dangerously ill Susannah will stop at nothing to get the money she desperately needs to save his life...
Broken Highway: A Thomas Highway Story
Brian Springer
Mystery & Thrillers / Horror / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Thomas Highway is a broken man. 6 months ago he was on top of the world, busting heads and taking names as a Navy SEAL. Then disaster struck. Now he spends his nights alone, drinking himself into oblivion, just trying to make it through the day. Until he gets a call from an old friend asking for help taking down a fugitive. By the end of the night he may just find himself with a reason to live.
Sunrise Highway
Peter Blauner
Mystery & Thrillers
In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer.
That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in to track the serial killer. She discovers a deep and sinister web of connections between the victims and some of the most powerful political figures in the region, including JT himself. Now Lourdes not only has to catch a killer, but maybe dismantle an entire system that's protected him, possibly at the cost of her own life.
Highway Cats
Janet Taylor Lisle
When three kittens are thrown off the back of a truck, none of the highway cats knows what to make of them. They seem to have an appeal?an energy, even'that Khalia Koo, Jolly Roger, and the rest of the mangy, feral cats don't understand. But there are bigger issues to figure out when the bulldozers start coming, threatening to demolish their homes as well as several historical landmarks. Can three little kittens be the answer to saving the town?
Highway Trade and Other Stories
John Domini
A collection of stories set in Oregon's Willamette Valley—many of the protagonists having moved west to start their lives anew.PRAISE“Streetwise and pain-acquainted, John Domini's new story-collection is a good rich read indeed." —John Barth
The Damned Highway
Nick Mamatas
A hilarious, shocking, terrifying thrill ride across the American landscape, The Damned Highway pays homage to the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the uncanny terrors of H. P. Lovecraft!Horror legend Brian Keene (The Rising) and cult storytelling master Nick Mamatas (Move Under Ground) dredge up a tale of drug-fueled eldritch madness from the blackest depths of the American nightmare. On a freaked-out bus journey to Arkham, Massachusetts, and the 1972 presidential primary, evidence mounts that sinister forces are on the rise, led by the Cult of Cthulhu and its most prominent member—Richard M. Nixon!* Brian Keene is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winner.* Nick Mamatas has been nominated for Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, World Fantasy, and Hugo Awards.*
Highway to Vengeance: A Thomas Highway Thriller
Brian Springer
Mystery & Thrillers / Horror / Science Fiction & Fantasy
An ex-Navy SEAL . . . A daring raid on a heavily fortified stronghold . . . A clandestine operation to take out a reclusive international terrorist . . . Join us on a high-octane thrill ride as ex-navy SEAL Thomas Highway sets out to kill the man who murdered his wife while simultaneously negotiating a pair of covert government agencies each with their own hidden agenda.
The Silver Highway
Marian Wells
North meets South with a mighty clash of wills, each side clinging stubornly to political ideals destined to separate families, ruin fortunes, and touch off a war that would devastate an entire nation. Some men and women, driven by principle, joined together, risking everything in order to protect a race of people that were considered to be less than human—a race that could be bought and sold as slaves, subject to the whims and abuses of their masters. This movement became known as the Underground Railroad.The Silver Highway portrays the lives of Alexander Duncan and Matthew Thomas as they are exposed to the abolitionist movement, quickly drawn into the cause, and lend a hand of helping slaves escape from their masters to the freedom of Canada.Meanwhile, Matt's sister Olivia befriends Crystal, a young Creole, while attending a boarding school out East. When Crystal is called home, dark rumors break out as to the reason. Once home, Crystal tries to piece...
The Devil's Highway
Gregory Norminton
Three journeys. Three thousand years. One destination. The Devil's Highway is a thrilling, epic and timely tale of love, loss, fanaticism, heroism and sacrifice. His fingers fastened about Her stone. He brought it to the light and held it to his nose. There was lightning locked inside. He rolled the stone in his palm to give it the heat of his body. She had come to him, catching his eye where she lay among dull flints. She alone among the stones had spoken. An ancient British boy, discovering a terrorist plot, must choose between his brother and his tribe. In the twenty-first century, two men – one damaged by war, another by divorce – clash over their differing claims on the land, and a young girl is caught between them. In the distant future, a gang of feral children struggles to reach safety in a burning world. A Roman road, an Iron Age hill fort, a hand-carved flint, and a cycle of violence that must be broken. As gripping as it is dazzling, The Devil's Highway is a bold and...
Suicide Highway
Don Pendleton
TARGET ACQUIREDMack Bolan arrives in war-torn Afghanistan in answer to the murders of UN relief workers--and walks into the crossfire of an international crisis that includes Mossad, Hamas and American Special Forces. All are hunting a coalition of rogue Israeli agents calling themselves Abraham's Dagger. This killing squad is on a rampage of wanton slaughter.Every day Bolan walks the fine line between being a soldier on a mission and a vigilante. He fights by a strict code: civilian losses are unacceptable and he strikes only when dead certain of the prey's guilt. Abraham's Dagger has violated the rules of war, confusing justice with revenge. The Executioner plans to show them the fine print...in blood.
Heartbreak Highway 1
Harper Whitmore
Come with Eva and Marshall on a lifechanging road trip.
Sometimes people need a little help to find the right direction in life.
What better way than to be guided by a man who knows both of them better than they know one another.
But that man has just died.
Or has he?
You will laugh, you will cry and you will watch the most beautiful romance unfold before your eyes.
Wandering Highway: A Desperate Journey Home
Ike Warren
A young married couple, with a five year old daughter and a baby boy on the way, set out on a shopping trip to an out of town mall. Just as they reach the mall an EMP blast knocks out every electronic device in sight including every cell phone, automobile, and every plane flying in the sky. Their only choice to reunite with their family is to embark on a long and desperate walk home. As the hordes of refugees pour out onto the highways, some seek to merely survive while others seek to profit amidst the chaos. Out there on the road they face challenges and obstacles that they could never have imagined as they witness the collapse of society happening all around them.
Highway to Hell
Max Brallier
The sequel to the "pick-your-own-path" adventure Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?—the Jacksonville Florida-Times Union hailed, "may just be the best thing to happen to literary zombies since Max Brooks."You've probably read your fair share of zombie stories. But this time it's different. In a horrific and hilarious cross-country road trip (or rather, suicide mission), you must overcome obstacles of every kind to save zombified America from utter collapse. The book begins with you inside your prison cell, waiting to be released. Your name is Jimmy el Camino, and you're a badass—in fact, you're a supreme badass. Rambo with style. Snake Plissken with a failing liver. You've killed more men than cancer. But more men than the zombie apocalypse? That's questionable... Your mission? Drive your heavily armed 1967 el Camino from New York City to San Francisco. Along the way, you'll encounter Mr. Death's Undead Circus and Animal...
On Highway 17
B. Z. R. Vukovina
On Highway 17 by B. Z. R. Vukovina where passion burns brighter than fame as an idealistic guitarist makes his way to California, and the young musician is suddenly forced to question his destiny.
Highway to Heaven
Harley McRide
Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. Extreme violence. Ménage – MFM. In book three of the Devil Savages: The battle is coming to a head against the Diablos, bringing the Ops Warriors and the Devil Savages together to fight the common enemy that has wreaked havoc over both MCs. They bury old hatchets and join forces.
Acheron Highway: A Jonathan Shade Novel
Gary Jonas
"He stole my heart, Mr. Shade. I want you to find him and steal it back." The dead won't stay buried in Denver, so Jonathan Shade isn't too surprised when a dead woman shows up wanting to hire him. A necromancer stalker has stolen her heart--literally--and she needs it if she's going to live. But Shade's jobs are never simple. The dead won't leave him alone. They work for a lovesick goddess who wants Shade to turn over her former lover. Chased by zombies, and then by an army of skeletons, Shade and his magically-engineered partner, Kelly Chan, fight to stay alive. Keep your hands and feet in the vehicle at all times, and hang on, because there are no safe exits on the Acheron Highway...
Hell's Highway
Gerri Hill
FBI Agents Cameron Ross and Andrea Sullivan found the unexpected when they met amongst the warm red rocks and cliffs of Sedona—each other. That commitment, along with their ingenuity, courage and resolve, will be tested along the most barren of stretches in California's Mojave Desert.Someone is using the bleak highways to dump women's bodies. But in a landscape where an inviting road can curve into a sand-choked mirage, and a true oasis can be invisible under a white-hot sun, clues can blow away in the wind.In this sequel to Devil's Rock, Gerri Hill pits two remarkable women against the harsh and bitter desert and an implacable killer.
Highway of Lost Hearts
Mary Anne Butler
A woman. A dog. A campervan. And 4,500 kms of wide open road. Mot wakes up one morning to find that her heart is missing from her chest. She can breathe; she has a pulse—but she feels... nothing. So, she decides to go and look for it. With her Dog enlisted as co-pilot, Mot heads down the Highway of Lost Hearts: into the deepest core of the Australian outback—navigating red dirt landscapes, fire and flood, brittle dry-ness, vast salt lakes, age-old mountains and murky waters filled with lost souls. An allegory for a country that's lost its heart, Highway of Lost Hearts is half gritty road journey, half magic realism and all heart. It leaves you pondering the question: when your heart goes missing, what lengths will you go to, in order to find it again?
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The King's Highway (Days of Dread Trilogy Book 1)
Part #1 of "Days of Dread Trilogy" series by Caryl McAdoo
Highway Revenge
Millard, Nadine
Evelyn Spencer has spent the last ten years living in her uncle’s house and longing for the day when she can leave and make her own way in the world. When she finds out her uncle’s terrible, hidden secret, Evelyn decides that she will first get revenge then leave and never set eyes on her wicked uncle again. Everything is going according to plan…until Viscount Andrew Ashdon comes along.
Proud Highway
Hunter S. Thompson
Nonfiction / Entertainment / Gonzo Journalism
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors--Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.
Highway or Belief
J. Scott Brownlee
The violence of men, the delicacy of their broken bodies, the religiosity of the town that raised them: all of these influence Highway or Belief, which documents an America we rarely see. In J. Scott Brownlee's Llano, Aron Anderson is the king of baseball and meth. High school football heroes become PTSD-affected war vets. The rural dead sing from the hollow flutes their bones leave in the dust. These are poems whose language begins with the body and the land. For Brownlee, the two are inseparable. -Dorianne Laux, author of The Book of Men
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The Glass Highway
Television newscaster Sandy Broderick seems to be the type of guy who has it all: good looks, good hair, a deep voice, and great ratings. Unfortunately, he's also got a son who, more often than not, tends to find himself in the sort of trouble that only someone like private eye Amos Walker can fix. Walker takes the case, with two objectives: find Bud before all the drugs and women make for a fatal combination; and keep Bud's actions from ruining Broderick's sterling reputation. What Walker finds, though, is more than he bargained for -- in a case that tests this terrific P.I. to his very limits.Review"Estleman's intriguing, frequently malignant or low-life characters are richly drawn, truly three-dimensional. Mystery aficionados compare his prose to Ross Macdonald's and Raymond Chandler's. As a Macdonald fan, I can testify this writer does that master one better".-- FORBES From the Inside FlapThe Bookcassette® format is a special recording technique developed as a means of condensing the full, unabridged audio text of a book to record it on fewer tapes. In order to listen to these tapes, you will need a cassette player with balance control to adjust left/right speaker output. Special adaptors to allow these tapes to be played on any cassette player are available through the publisher or some US retail electronics stores.
Highway 61 Resurfaced (v5)
Bill Fitzhugh
FM rock deejay and private investigator Rick Shannon is back in a big way in the second novel of a series that began with the rollicking Radio Activity. Highway 61 Resurfaced kicks off when a woman named Lollie Woolfolk sashays into the offices of Rockin' Vestigations and says she wants to find her long lost granddaddy, blues producer Tucker Woolfolk. Before it's over, Rick Shannon has crisscrossed the sweltering Mississippi Delta in search of the thread that connects a dead man in Yazoo City found with a fork stuck in his back to an old man known as Pigfoot Morgan who was just released from Mississippi State Penitentiary after serving fifty years for murder. Further complicating matters is the lovesick Crail Pitts, onetime Ole Miss football star who is driving around the Magnolia State with a noisy lawyer in his trunk, and Cuffie LeFleur, one of four generations of a cotton dynasty that may be on its last legs. In the end, everything points to one of the great mysteries in blues lore: whether Blind Buddy Cotton, Crippled Willie Jefferson, and Crazy Earl Tate ever recorded together. When Rick starts a rumor that he's found the tapes from the legendary Blind, Crippled, and Crazy sessions, a killer is sent to collect them and Rick starts singing the PI blues.
Highway to Hell
Clinton Walker
The definitive account of AC/DC's rise to fame, when the ribald lyrics and charismatic stage presence of singer Bon Scott, along with the guitar work of Angus and Malcolm Young, defined a new, highly influential brand of rock and roll. Drawing on many interviews and featuring a gallery of rare photos, Clinton Walker traces the band's career through the life of their original front man, from small-time gigs to international success, up to Scott's shocking death in 1980. AC/DC's undiminished superstar status (they're the fourth-bestselling band of all time), and their indelible influence on a succession of genres from metal to grunge to rap, ensure that Bon Scott's presence continues to be felt strongly. HIGHWAY TO HELL offers the full story of this seminal rock figure. A consistent seller since it was first published here in 2001, HIGHWAY TO HELL has been updated for this edition. New details that have come to light in recent years about the last hours of Scott's life have been...
