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Known for wrapping readers in his historical web, Paul West, in his marvelous novel Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun, turns his attention to the 4th Dynasty (approx. 2680 BC) of ancient Egypt. Here, we find the pharaoh Cheops, building the great pyramids at Giza, surrounded by workers and solar boats. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, "a hundred thousand men were made to toil constantly for him, " and, as Herodotus claimed, Egypt was "...

Joe knows a secret: how to raise the world's best pumpkins! His expertise leads to a comic adventure among fairies, mermaids, and a crew of hungry pirates who crave pumpkin pie.

Seventeen year old Mark Wilkerson has no memory of the fiery crash that killed his family on the Carquinez Bridge... Living with his grandmother and burdened with guilt, Mark vows to find the hit-and-run driver and take his revenge. The only detail he remembers is round taillights swerving in front of his family's car, and he's shocked when he notices the car of the high school's bully, Jeff Marino, has identical taillights-and a suspicious...

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In A Fifth of November, Paul West describes the events surrounding the English Gunpowder Plot (1605). Instigated by thirteen Catholic conspirators, most famously Guy Fawkes, the Plot was a failed attempt to blow up the English Parliament and King James I. At the heart of West's novel are the trials of Father Henry Garnet, superior of the English Jesuits, who is hidden from the king's henchmen behind the walls of English mansions. Shielding him...

Adequacy lawsuits have emerged as an alternative strategy in pursuit of improved public education in America. Plaintiffs allege insufficient resources to provide students with the quality of education promised in their states constitution, hoping the courts will step in and order the state to increase its level of aid. Since 1980, 45 of the 50 states have faced such suits. How pervasiveand effectiveis this trend? What are its ramifications, at...

Simon Hardman is back in the sequel Old Tides. He finally feels like he has won life's lottery. With his home on the western tip of the Choctawhatchee everyday is just another day in paradise. His daughters are now living with him and their mother has accepted his marriage proposal. Paradise is interrupted when two of his closest friends are brutally murdered. It doesn't take Simon long to understand someone is out for revenge and that the pas...

Simon Hardman is back in the sequel Old Tides. He finally feels like he has won life's lottery. With his home on the western tip of the Choctawhatchee everyday is just another day in paradise. His daughters are now living with him and their mother has accepted his marriage proposal. Paradise is interrupted when two of his closest friends are brutally murdered. It doesn't take Simon long to understand someone is out for revenge and that the pas...

An inspiring testament to a great writer's recovery of ebullient expression from speechlessness and near oblivion.

John Henry "Doc" Holliday was Southern gentry by birth, a dentist by training, sharp shooter and lawman by design, and gambler by default, being by disposition and circumstance -- he contracted tuberculosis soon after graduating from dental school -- unable to practice dentistry formally. In this remarkable historical novel, Paul West breathes new, thrilling life into Doc and his cohorts, including "Big Nose" Kate Elder and the infamous brothe...

Shows the church how to help teens create a powerful, positive form of peer pressure through discipleship (the "D" factor) and leading cell groups.

Paul West creates a glorious, powerful Sun King of Egypt, bent on a death worthy of his great pyramid at Giza. Known for wrapping readers in his historical web, Paul West, in his marvelous, new novel, turns his attention to the 4th Dynasty (approx. 2680 BC) of ancient Egypt. Here, we find the pharaoh Cheops, building the great pyramids at Giza, surrounded by workers and solar boats. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, "a hundred thousa...

Mr. West is a writer for whom words are a projectile (if you remember Alley Jaggers) - freewheeling, hectic, rumbustious, percussive and imaginatively prolix. Mandy, his daughter, here glimpsed in a few of her early years, is deaf - also "exceptional" which might mean autistic - and also a hooligan who might be eating nail varnish or drinking from a potty or staring unblinking at 150 watt bulbs or running, everywhere, "heedless of gesticulatin...

In this deeply beguiling novel that is both sensational and serious, West fills in the missing details to offer an explanation of the people and the motive behind the savage murders of five East End prostitutes in 1888. Disturbing and graphic, this novel summons up fresh for us the genuine horror in heinous deeds.

Called "one of the most original talents in American fiction" by The New York Times Book Review, Paul West is a continuously surprising and satisfying writer, whose oeuvre stands as one of the most important in American literature in recent decades. With these reissues, Overlook and Tusk continue its program of publishing the brilliantly lyrical fiction of Paul West.In The Universe, and Other Fictions, Paul West embraces galaxies and molecular...

Called "one of the most original talents in American fiction" by The New York Times Book Review, Paul West is a continuously surprising and satisfying writer, whose oeuvre stands as one of the most important in American literature in recent decades. With these reissues, Overlook and Tusk continue its program of publishing the brilliantly lyrical fiction of Paul West.In The Universe, and Other Fictions, Paul West embraces galaxies and molecular...

Booth and Clegg are two U.S. Air Force spy-plane pilots, the elite of an elite, men confident in their skills, men who know each other as well as they know themselves. Or so they think. When their spy plane inexplicably plummets from the sky over Saharan Africa, they find themselves thrust onto a journey to the far poles of late-twentieth-century human experience.Reminiscent in its own way of The Right Stuff, Waiting for Godot, and Gravity's R...

Taking as his point of departure the sexual obsessions and initiation of the poet John Milton, Paul West elucidates the psychology of an artist who would come to create the most enduring and compelling work of Western civilization on the subject of Original Sin. But that all comes later. Now, young Milton is a Cambridge student, a virgin, intoxicated by the power of words and the stories of myth - and especially the myth of Amaryllis, the shep...

Slums of the American city of New Babylon provide an all-too-real setting for this prescient novel of homelessness, noble intentions, moral corruption, and social castoffs. Tenement of Clay tells of Papa Nick, a dwarf wrestler named Lazarus, and a derelict called Lacland.

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