Author: Tami Hoag
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: dust
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2002-03-26
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553582526
ISBN-13: 9780553582529

Minneapolis has more than its share of interesting cops (Lucas Davenport of the John Sandford thrillers, for one), and Tami Hoag’s homicide dicks, Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska, join the club in this thoughtful and surprisingly moving novel of dirty cops and cover-ups. Internal Affairs investigator Andy Fallon is a suicide--or is he? The word around the department is that Andy, son of Iron Mike Fallon, an old hero of Sam’s, killed himself because Mike turned his back on him when Andy told him he was gay. Or maybe it was because a lover dumped him, or even (snicker, snicker) a perverted

Author: Ma Jia
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: china, path, dust, red
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-11-12
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0385720238
ISBN-13: 9780385720236

Chinese dissident and sometimes vagabond Ma Jian offers a sharp-edged, often surprising portrait of his native land, one that takes his readers into corners that few non-Chinese travelers have seen. In 1983, Ma, tired of life in a China that, he writes, "feels like an old tin of beans that, having lain in the dark for forty years, is beginning to burst at the seams," grew his hair, quit his job, and took to the road. As he recounts in his able--and, at times, very strange--memoir, over the next three years he wandered into the western desert, through the mountains of Shaanxi, down the steamy s

Author: A.S. King
Publisher: Flux
Keywords: dogs, dust
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-01-13
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0738714267
ISBN-13: 9780738714264

A Spring 2009 Children’s Indie Next List Pick for Teens! In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches when she was slain and cursed with "the dust of one hundred dogs," dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning to a human body-with her memories intact. Now she’s a contemporary American teenager and all she needs is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica. Exciting, fascinating, spellbinding. I’d follow Saffron into the briny deep.�Heather Brewer, author

Author: Charles R. Pellegrino
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: dust
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0380787423
ISBN-13: 9780380787425

In an idyllic Long Island community, paleobiologist Richard Sinclair is one of the first to suspect that the environment has begun to wage bloody, terrifying war on humanity. What initially appear to be random, unrelated events are actually violent eruptions in a worldwide biological chain reaction. Along with a brave group of survivors, Sinclair must learn to understand the catastophe while it roils around them, slowly crumbling a panicked world and threatening apocalypse. The survival of humankind depends on finding an answer immediately--or else they will face the final, tragic dentiny of t

Author: Albert Marri
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Keywords: dust, years
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-08-20
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 0525420770
ISBN-13: 9780525420774

Before global warming, there was dust. In the 1930s, dangerous black storms swept through the Great Plains. Created by drought and reckless farming, these lethal storms were part of an environmental, economic, and human catastrophe that changed the course of American history. In riveting, accessible prose, an acclaimed historian explains the causes behind the disaster and explores the Dust Bowl�?s impact, from a rich cultural legacy to the visionary conservation that would finally offer hope to the Plains.

Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: dust, handful
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316926051
ISBN-13: 9780316926058

"All over England people were waking up, queasy and despondent." Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny expos� of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars. Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda’s boredom with the stately rhythms of co

Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: dust, intruder
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1991-10-29
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0679736514
ISBN-13: 9780679736516

At once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching potrait of racial injustice in the Reconstruction South, Intruder in the Dust stands out as a true classic of Southern literature.