In a novel that memorably evokes a rural American countryside and its wildlife, Daniel P. Mannix leads us into the magical existence of a boy groping toward maturity in a primitive but exciting environment. The story unfolds among the woods and farms of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, where the boy Billy comes from an unhappy city home to live with his great-uncle, Abe Zook, a "braucher" or hex doctor skilled in herbal healing and widely feared as a powwow man and master of magic.Under the tutelage of old Abe, Billy begins to learn the secrets of collecting herbs, running a farm and otherwise making a living from nature. His companions are the farm dog Wasser, the tame raven Grip, the trained owl Dracula. Important in his new life are two outcast animals, the bitch Blackie and the coyote Wolf, abandoned pets now gone to the wild and so elusive and savage that they are feared throughout the countryside and hunted by the superstitious farmers as werewolves. When the farmers start losing sheep and chickens, Billy joins them and their hounds in trying to run down the coyote and its mate.As season follows season the "werewolves" come to play a steadily more important role in the boy's emotional world. Billy's life is in grave danger when he meets the "werewolves" in the winter woods, and later their marauding coydog offspring. Yet his instinctive sympathy for rejected creatures makes him the ally and defender of Wolf and Blackie. At the same time, he and his great-uncle are forced to defend their own right to wrest a living from nature against the restrictions of civilization as typified by government regulations and game wardens. Gradually, surviving conflict and near-disaster, the boy develops a new maturity and purpose.This sensitive and poetic novel is distinguished by Daniel P. Mannix's talent for recreating the lives of animals and of people who live in close contact with the outdoors. Seldom does a novel so naturally combine powerful suspense, subtle humor, little-known nature lore, and a preception that reaches deep into the ways of men, boys, and animals.

"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review).Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall Freeman won his second Pulitzer Prize for his new and dramatic reexamination of George Washington. For years biographies had gone from idolatry to muckraking in their depictions of this somewhat marbleized Founding Father. Freeman's new interpretation was a fresh step, making Washington a living, breathing individual, flawed but heroic. An able commander who defeated the British Empire against incredible odds, Washington proved to be just as adept at wielding political power, and adroitly steered our new loosely called nation through the first stormy years of our unproven federal stewardship and the first two presidential administrations. Here with an introduction by...

THE WALTONS A NEW NOVEL STARRING JOHN-BOY WALTON, BASED ON THE TELEVISION SERIES CREATED BY EARL HAMNER, JR. John-Boy had no special plans for spring vacation. Then he saw a flicker of light in the deserted old Pendleton house. That was how it all began . . . He fell in love. He got mixed up with the law. He got involved in a wholesale bootlegging operation. Where would it all end?

Won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Nebula Award for best Novelette in 1970.

Love lost doesn't mean love lost forever. Can unexpected romance deliver a second chance for two deserving widows?Full of resolve, young widow Willow Peterson decides to pursue her dreams to be an artist as she settles into a new life in the growing mountain town of Cripple Creek. When she lands a job working as a portrait painter with handsome entrepreneur and photographer Trenton Van Der Veer, the road before Willow seems to be taking a better-than-anticipated turn. With questions tugging at several hearts in town, including the Sinclair Sisters' beloved Miss Hattie, change is traveling down the tracks as several unexpected visitors make their way out West. Will the new arrivals threaten the deep family bonds of the Sinclair sisters and the roots of love that are just taking hold for Willow? Filled with the resonating questions that all women face, this romance awakens hope against grief, love against loss, and dreams...

Parts of this book were published before 1965 as separate titles. 1. Tiger by the Tail (1951) 2. The Warriors from Nowhere (1954) 3. Honorable Enemies (1951) 4. Hunters of the SkyCave , also known as A Handful of Stars and We Claim these Stars (1960) Flandry, here a captain, undergoes a series of adventures: He is abducted by the Scothians, an alien race hoping to invade the Terran Empire; rescues the Emperor’s kidnapped granddaughter; meets Aycharaych, his nemesis in league with the Merseians; and investigates a previously unencountered alien race that has invaded the distant colonial world of Vixen.

Review"Sparkling and triumphant, Isaac Bashevis Singer's stories are filled with wonder, gratitude, humor, irony and a wry eroticism that manages to exalt the pleasures of the flesh and the soul at the same time."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "There are whole fistfuls of masterpieces in this one volume: a cornucopia of invention . . . When all is said and done, [it] is an American master's 'Book of Creation.'"—Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review Product DescriptionThe forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the East Side of New York to California and Miami.

The author’s knowledge and experience of psychology are indisputable, and her ability to expound the modus operandi of magic is second to none.’OCCULT REVIEWPRISONER OF THE OPAL‘I saw the world as a vast opal in which I stood. An opal luminously opaque, so that I was dimly aware of another world outside mine.Obsessed and tormented by a desperate inner need, Hugh Paston strove to appease and fulfil his questing soul.But the course of action on which he embarked risked both mind and body. His invocations to the Great God Pan opened up his sub-conscious, revealed memories belonging to a former self. A self that slowly took control, compelling him to relive another’s emotions and to encounter their succuba in the utopian vales of Arcady.‘Shoots with remarkable success at a most ambitious target.’GUARDIAN