Katharine Hepburn: grande dame of American actresses, fierce individualist, and living legend. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards and winner of four, Hepburn achieved stardom against formidable odds. The woman behind the legend emerges in this sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of her exceptional life and loves. Filled with accounts of her relationships with Spencer Tracy, Howard Hughes, and many others, here is the fascinating story of a determined and invincible woman. From her ferociously guarded private life to Broadway's lights and Hollywood's Golden Age, A Remarkable Woman reveals a star whose courage and magnetism knew no bounds. Throughout her life Hepburn spoke her mind, mixing a native Yankee forthrightness with the social conscience she learned from her parents and her own brand of stubbornness. This book is a fascinating look not only at the invincible Katherine Hepburn but at a whole era—the golden age of Hollywood set against the struggles for women's equality...

Now back in print after more than a decade, Robbins' classic series continues with this second novel. Blade, leader of the Alpha Triad warriors, is on a mission to acquire vital medical supplies for the Home when he becomes entangled in a ferocious battle that will determine the fate of his fellow survivors.

The young sleuth travels to Cornwall, England to uncover a mysterious coven of witches plaguing an old friend.

A master storyteller and unrivaled visionary, Clive Barker has mixed the real and unreal with the horrible and wonderful in more than twenty years of fantastic fiction. The Inhuman Condition is a masterwork of surrealistic terror, recounting tragedy with pragmatism, inspiring panic more than dread and evoking equal parts revulsion and delight.

Going on a quest with a handsome prince might sound like a dream, but Prince Rupert's cousin Carole comes to feel it isn't all it's cracked up to be. Carole agrees to accompany her hunky cousin to Miragenia to christen his baby niece. But it is really hard to even explain the situation to anyone; how the little Princess was stolen from her mother's side by Miragenians . . .

A compelling and disturbing alternate sequel to Miami Blues, Charles Willeford's little-known attempt to torch his career in less than 200 pages is a small masterpiece of pitch black humor, existential dread and true absurdist horror.Hoke Moseley has simplified his life. Following the bloody climax of Miami Blues he has run as far away as he can from the second bullet he put in Freddy Frenger, the one that took the killing past self-defense. He's quit the Miami Police Department and relocated to Singer Island to work in his father's hardware store and live a monastic life of rigid routine. He has two poplin yellow jumpsuits, $100 a week income, a small apartment, no booze, no cigarettes, a stew for dinner every night and a beachfront exercise regimen. A simple existence. Until the arrival of his two teenage daughters, the girls he hasn't seen in ten years, who permeate and complicate every aspect of his streamlined austerity -- which turns out to be the only thing holding him together.Grimhaven was Charles Willeford's initial response to the solicitation of a sequel to the surprise success of Miami Blues. Not even shown to publishers before calmer heads prevailed and Willeford steered Hoke through three subsequent novels, it remains a fascinating portrait of a writer who arrived at a commercial and artistic crossroads and took the dark and crooked path before doubling back and proceeding down safer lanes. But for a brief moment Willeford made his most popular, most commercial creation over in the tradition of some of his most complex and morally ambiguous characters, placing him squarely in his darkly drawn rogues gallery alongside Russell Haxby, Harry Jordan, Sam Springer, Jacob Blake, James Figueras, Johnny Shaw and finally, by the end, Freddy Frenger.Ray Banks called it "the ultimate transgressive novel." Lee Goldberg called it "a calculated fuck you to the character, the publisher, the readers and his career." Betsy Willeford simply called it "the black Hoke Moseley" novel. It's an often chilling, often hilarious, nearly lost act of aggression from one of American literature's authorities on the subject.

A first-hand journal about the Goldings' travels through Egypt, soon after winning the Nobel Prize, living on a motor cruiser on the Nile. Nothing went quite as planned, but William Golding's vivid and honest account of what actually happened, and of what he saw and felt about ancient Egypt and the exasperations of the living present, will delight his innumerable admirers and everyone who visits Egypt. 'One of the funniest anti-travel books I have ever read.' Daily Telegraph 'No previous book brings you so close to Golding the man. It bulges with abstruse knowledge . . . and is often screamingly funny . . . Hugely enjoyable.' The Times

A veteran of the Viet Nam war returns to Georgia, drives across the country and has his car break down in Wyoming. He ends up sticking around this extremely small town with its odd population.

Maigret’s longest-running case involves two decades of jewelry heists, a generation of conspiracy, and the revelation of a long-buried secret from World War II. “[Simenon could] turn the simplest of romans policiers into a moving and memorable form of art.” — The Times (London) “[Maigret’s investigation] is a bittersweet elegy for the glory days of both thief and cop.” — Chicago Sun-Times 

My Mother's Body, Marge Piercy's tenth book of poetry, takes its title from one of her strongest and most moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of Poems to her mother. Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the mother / daughter relationship in all its complexity and intimacy, it is at the same time an affirmation of continuity and identification. "The Chuppah" comprises poems actually used in her wedding ceremony with Ira Wood. This section sings with powerfully female love poetry. There is also a sustained and direct use of her Jewish identity and faith in these poems, as there is in a number of other poems throughout the volume. Readers of Piercy's previous collections will not be surprised to encounter her mixture of the personal and the political, her love of animals and the Cape landscape. There are poems about doing housework, about accidents, about dreaming, about bag ladies, about luggage, about children's fears of nuclear holocaust; about tomcats, insects in the rafters, the influence of a name, appleblossoms and blackberries, pollution, and some of the ways women objectify one another. In "Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light?" Piercy writes with lacerating honesty about our relationships with the elderly and about hers with her father. Some of the most moving poems are domestic, as in the final sequence, "Six underrated pleasures," which finds in daily women's tasks both pleasure and mystery, affirmation of serf and connection with the mother. In all, My Mother's Body is one of Piercy's most powerful and balanced collections.

Rainey had met her in Nam. Nancy Williams was a doctor, an angel of mercy; he was a killer, a cold-eyed angel of death. Yet somehow they became lovers for a brief and stormy period. Now Rainey had learned of her death in Central America at the hands of the Nicaragua National Guard. Enraged, he invades the rebel stronghold, a one-man demonstration of concentrated firepower and white-hot hatred. This is one job Rainey will do for free.