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At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life

by Wade Rouse

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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We all dream it. Wade Rouse actually did it. Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life and a job he hates, Wade Rouse decided to make either the bravest decision of his life or the worst mistake since his botched Ogilvie home perm: to uproot his life and try, as Thoreau did some 160 year...

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At Risk

by Alice Hoffman

Published: 1998-11-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS... "Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending." --Chicago Tribune "Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale ...

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At Risk: A Novel

by Stella Rimington

Published: 2006-05-30

Paperback: 398 pages

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A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it’s an “invisible”--someone traveling under a British passport. Virtually impossible to find before it’s too late.The job falls to Liz Carlyle, the most resourceful counter terror agent in British intelli...

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At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel

by Jamie O'Neill

Published: 2002-04-01

Kindle Edition: 576 pages

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Praised as “a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement” by Entertainment Weekly, Jamie O’Neill’s first novel invites comparison to such literary greats as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Charles Dickens.Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916—Ireland’s ...

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At the Drive-In Volcano

by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Published: 2007-05-30

Perfect Paperback: 85 pages

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"I can think of no other poet-except Neruda-who has inscribed the sensual world with such accurate charm. . . . Her poems are seriously delicious: toothsome and saucy, wise and mischievous."-Alice Fulton, author of Cascade Experiment This eagerly anticipated second collection of elegant ...

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At Weddings and Wakes

by Alice McDermott

Published: 2003-05-05

Paperback: 224 pages

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Twice a week, Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. Aunt Veronica, with her wounded face and dreams of beauty, drowns her sorrows in drink. Aunt Agnes, an acerb...

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At What Cost?: A Whistleblower's Story

by PAUL GRAUBER

Published: 2010-01-12

Hardcover: 108 pages

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In late 2004, an inspector in the aeronautical industry made a life-changing decision to inform his employer about defective fuel line brackets being shipped for installation on commercial jets. As he left his superior's office, he was grabbed from behind, punched in the head, and forced t...

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At Your Own Risk: An American Chronicle of Crisis and Capitivity in the Middle East

by Tom Sutherland, Jean Sutherland

Published: 1996-02-20

Hardcover: 448 pages

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Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp

by Gwen Roland

Published: 2006-04-15

Hardcover: 176 pages

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In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people?Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin?decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a...

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The Athena Project

by Brad Thor

Published: 2010-11-23

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The world's most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon . . .From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged.�Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues,...