Fleming Community Library

A collection of four short works includes the title novella and "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American composer John Morton."

From the author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a new novel exploring one of English literature's most beloved and controversial figures—George Orwell—and the early years as an officer in colonial Burma that transformed him from Eric Blair, the British Raj policeman, into Orwell the anticolonial writer. At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other...

Dickens' own childhood and youth are reflected in his novel of David Copperfield's early adventures and marriage

Young Gillom Rogers has just given the coup de grace to a famous gunfighter involved in a bloody saloon shootout in 1901 El Paso. After swiping J.B. Bookss matched Remington pistols off his body, Gillom thinks he may be able to ride this spectacle to fame and glory as the last shootist. But he's an eighteen-year-old with lots of growing up to do, and showing off his new pistols quickly gets him into a gunfight he didnt bargain for. Gillom sets out...

On July 1st, 1913, four very different men are leading four very different lives. Exactly three years later, it is just after seven in the morning, and there are a few seconds of peace as the guns on the Somme fall silent and larks soar across the battlefield, singing as they fly over the trenches. What follows is a day of catastrophe in which Allied casualties number almost one hundred thousand. A horror that would have been unimaginable in pre-war...

"Two western stories--'Black Rock Desert' and 'The Desert Rider'--find two young men returning to the towns where their hopes were shattered. Each one finds that past experiences have prepared him to face the challenges waiting for him as he helps expose and stop shady characters"--Provided by publisher.

Leaving her stale job in Washington, D.C., to take a reporter position with a newspaper in Cape Cod, Claire encounters the newspaper publisher's son, with whom she shares a summer affair against the political turbulence of 1968.