Marshall: 1961 books

In Cold Harbor, fear creeps in from many sources. Acidic rain falls from the sky. Packs of wild dogs haunt the streets. Poverty makes even the strong desperate. Seven-year-old Kay refuses to let fear claim her. Even while hiding in her bedroom with her little brother. Protecting him from their...

The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace's contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating "The Wallace Effect†?-the aura of literary competition that Wallace routinely summoned in his fiction and...

The novel understanding of the physical world that characterized the Scientific Revolution depended on a fundamental shift in the way its protagonists understood and described space. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, spatial phenomena were described in relation to a presupposed central...

As a romantic tale, The Chance is as twisty as a corkscrew. Each turn, driving deeper toward a daring destination. This suspenseful journey promises to bring you back ready for a manicure, and glad to be alive.The Chance, is your ticket to another world… just up the road, where miracles of happenstance greet the weary traveler.

County Limerick is a place of kings and commoners. It is where Donn Fírinne, king of the Munster fairies, is said to have once roamed, and where Sean na Scuab, a poor broom seller from the wrong side of the river, was chosen to be mayor of the city. It is a land filled with stories, poetry, music,...

Leona Marshall Libby was a pioneer in modern climatic research, a field that gained great impetus in the late twentieth century because of the promise it holds for predicting future climatic trends. Libby’s work led to remarkable new procedures for investigating long-term changes in precipitation and...

Reading To Jane Part I - Widower Winston (Win) Barrett, showing signs of dementia, is being moved across the country at the insistence of his daughter. Grandson Edward plans to put Win on a plane and drive his grandfather's car from NJ to WA. Win Barrett plans, instead, to drive with Edward and the...

Sweet Romance He's stuck in his past. She shows him their future... The brooding Jason Rogers prefers to keep people at a distance and his pain tucked safely inside. So what if he's a grouch? He doesn't care. Claire Albright isn't afraid to waltz into her new boss's office and give her...

'Members of the jury, the case is now before you to decide on the evidence . . . There is no alternative plea of manslaughter or justifiable homicide; your verdict varies only between innocence and guilt . . .' It is the final day of the Claude Levy murder trial, about which everyone has an...

You think you know the world you live in, but you're wrong. the life of 15 year-old city kid, Barnabas Bopwright, is turned upside down when he discovers a transit map that includes a subway line he's never seen before! The map leads Barnabas deeper and deeper into secrets that have been closely guarded...

Michaela Muller is twenty four years old and an aspiring Accountant in a prestigious Accounting Firm in East London. When she was thirteen years old, she lost both her parents in a horrific car accident in Queenstown and her Grandparents took her into their home in East London. She has never completely...

In The Romantic Imperative,young Vida Cleary says,"Every woman believes in the possibility of the Great Romance. It is her birthright." Marshall says, "Our birthright is always at risk in the face of reality." Vida marries her romantic ideal, Dorsey Danzie: rich, flamboyant, brilliant, and elusive. The...

ANNUS 1993"The Queen. Of England. I read that last year she looked back on the year before, the one with Princess Diana and Charles separating, the fire and stuff, and said it was her 'annus horribilis.'"I like that because it not only sounds somewhat anatomically funny but it describes...

"Something for the Ladies, and something for the Gents. 'Hard Money' has a bit of both. It pulls back the covers and reveals all the naughty bits you always wanted to know about, but were too afraid to ask . . . . " "Hard Money" takes you behind the scenes and closed doors at a Sydney brothel,...