Owen: 1427 books

Set during the medieval Crusades and intended for adults as well as children, this humorous 1892 medieval fantasy/fairy-tale was variously described by the author as a “likely story” and “a romance.” Subtitled “His Rise, His Voracity, and His Downfall” in other editions, it baffled some reviewers but amused many others.

Creating Yoknapatawpha is a study of the crucial interplay of reading and writing processes involved in constructing the textual environment of William Faulkner’s work, and the nature and significance of the world created by these many forces. Yoknapatawpha County, the author contends, is the product...

From the beginning, life shows that it could be unbelievably cruel to Tilly, a young girl born in Bilston in the Black Country of the English Midlands. Orphaned at the age of ten, Tilly is sent to live in a convent before being placed into service on a dairy farm. When she turns eighteen, she meets...

Tillman explores the psychopathy of serial murderers. Abused early on, the killer shoots his maternal grandparents in cold blood. Later arrested and tried, hes found insane and committed to a mental institution. Deemed cured, the killers released and returns to his mothers house. There, he transfers...

Ian, an accountant, has become embittered and workaholic following his divorce. Sent to Mid-Wales to investigate a small subsidiary company, he is transformed into a caring, spiritually aware person after finding and falling in love with his twin soul, Olwen. Together they come under the mystic spell...

The Wrong Side of an Illness: A Doctor's Love Story is a non-fiction novel based on the memoirs of a general hospital psychiatrist whose life is turned upside down by physical signs of his wife's silent illness. What follows is his extraordinary account of their journey through her battle with ovarian...

The five authoritive papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through several of them. Literary text is used to interpret...

THEY HIRED CORD AND CHI TO PROTECT THE GOLD. Now the freedom-loving outlaw and his tough lady partner must fight for their lives. A hardscrabble Dakotas mining town struggles to keep its glittering payload from the murderous grasp of thieving road agents. And that, by luck, is where Cord and Chi come...

THE OUTLAW’S CODE IS SEALED IN BLOOD Blackjack Kinsolving was once an outlaw. Now he wears a sheriff’s badge. But whether he can stay on the honest side of the law depends on how far a greedy lady and her desperado friends can push him. Cord and Chi must help decide Kinsolving’s fate ... before the bullets start flying.

CORD AND CHI WON’T STAND FOR RANCHERS THROWING HOMESTEADERS OFF THEIR LAND Freewheeling outlaw Cord and his female partner Chi pull into a small Nevada town to help Cord’s brother set up his ranch. But they don’t expect to find themselves involved in an all-out war between ruthless ranchers,...

When you work with a man, ride with him, eat the same food and even love the same woman, you are loyal to him. That was the way Corey Keogh had always believed it should be. But when his gun-happy partner, Andy Givens, turned killer and set his sights on robbing banks and then tried to force his unwanted...

After being released from death row, Jack Leon Purdy assumes a new identity and sets out to avenge the death of his wife and her two sons. What follows is a tangled web of interlocking, yet apparently random murders that baffle the police. With nothing more than a vague description of someone seen...

Morgan Cole is as egotistical as they come. A successful businessman obsessed with power, Cole is accustomed to using whatever methods he likes to get what he wants. But as middle age and disillusionment begin to close in on him, Cole needs a way out. He finds his salvation in a revolutionary new...

You're setting out on a sightseeing safari, looking for real adventure. But are you really ready to cross paths with hungry lions, venomous snakes, and dangerous poachers? Wildlife could turn out to be a lot wilder than you expected!