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At 34 years of age, Scarlet has come home for the passing of her famous mother, the bird artist Addie Kavanaugh The year is 2002. Though Addie and her husband, the world-renowned ornithologist Tom Kavanaugh, have made their life in southeastern Pennsylvania, Addie has chosen to die at the home of her dearest friend, Cora. This is because their ramshackle cottage in Burnham, Pennsylvania, is filled with so much history and because, in the last ten years or so, even birdsong has seemed to make Addie angry, or sad, or both. These are the things that Scarlet needs to understand. Cora and Lou (the third woman in Addie's circle) will help Scarlet to see her mother in full. In addition, Scarlet carries her own secret into these foggy days-a secret for Addie, one that involves Cora, too. Joyce Hinnefeld's debut novel is rich in so many ways beyond the taut mother-daughter dynamic and the competition among even the closest of women. The natural world, an artist's vision, the intensity of long-lasting love, the flight of a bird's song and the sighting of an extinct-or perhaps illusory-samll creature all work to shape the plot of the novel. Even the prose seems filled with birdsong-at once raucous and transporting. In its structure and style, In Hovering Flight follows in the tradition of writers like Virginia Woolf, Harriet Doerr and Carol Shields: musical and dramatic, with myriad stories and voices. But the evocative language of this soaring novel is Hinnefeld's own..
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Against a backdrop of Immigration, Prohibition, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the new millennium, the Verbicaro family make their way from Southern Italy to San Francisco to the Yucatan, finding ways to reinvent themselves as each of them brushes up against some aspect of the divine, or the profane. The family matriarch, Rosari, is a little girl whose family flees Italy because her prodigality is exploited by illiterate kidnappers. When she and her father reach San Francisco, she meets the man she ll marry, a handsome, fiercely strong peasant named Giuseppe Verbicaro. Rosari and Giuseppe s oldest son, Narciso, a handsome and dim-witted dandy, barely evades disaster by his simple-minded innocence and luck. His passionate brother Ludovico, a talented third-baseman in the old San Francisco minor leagues, falls prey to the illicit dreams of a wise guy from the Gambino family. Their youngest brother, Joe, a brilliant child and shrewd businessman, is ashamed of his ethnicity and, in particular, his father, in part because Giuseppe, wandering North Beach, believes that God directs him to marry a teenage, pregnant Mexican prostitute named Maria. Further senility, faith, or vermouth convinces the old man that Maria s child, Jesus, is the product of an immaculate conception. The event is both a family disgrace and a bizarre blessing. The child s life and death have a profound effect on Giuseppe s progeny, particularly Joe s children: Penelope, who flees the country following involvement in deadly anti-Vietnam War activities, and her brothers Paulie and Angelo, who are inspired by the young Jesus to embark upon a quest of several thousand miles to heal old wounds and recover the family s lost, but most-prized spiritual treasures..
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At the age of seven a mulatto slave boy with an indomitable spirit, Jimmy Gates, is freed by his owner-father, separated from his mother and everything he holds dear, and sent to England for an education Four years later when his father drowns at sea, leaving him bereft, Jimmy is apprenticed to a London workhouse where he spends six hard years making saddles, reading heroic novels to his companions, finding the comfort of prostitutes, and discovering the inspirational speeches of an Irish revolutionary name Cornelius O Keefe, or O Keefe of the Sword. At eighteen, dreaming himself a warrior and a hero, he returns to the states intending to rescue his mother. Both blessed and cursed by his late father s words-to-live-by and armed with his free papers and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, Jimmy grows into manhood while he s on the battlefields of the Civil War and in the gold camps of the American West, repeatedly forced to reckon the joys, terrors, and ironies of his freedom. He also discovers chameleon-like ability to shift identities and re-invent himself along the way. Freeman Walker is an adventure story filled with contradictory epiphanies, ironies, and paradoxes rolled into one man s quest to discover a defining inner truth that might allow him to survive a life of terrible misadventures-gritty, sublime, fantastical-and to finally understand the true meaning of moral freedom..
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Imogene Marshall has everything a girl could want--and she's miserable To her, the perfect life is made of horses and cowboys and round-ups. When she's sent east to finishing school, Imogene disembarks on the way and ends up convincing Buffalo Bill himself to give her a chance in his Wild West Show. Imogene Marshall becomes "Liberty Belle," trick rider, and the object of attention from two cowboys who have very different ways of trying to win her heart. Determined to live her own dream, Liberty Belle travels across the country with one of them--but ends up in a place she couldn't have imagined even in her wildest dreams..
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When twenty-one-year-old Michael Corbitt joined the police force in the Chicago suburb of Willow Springs, he was already in the pocket of Illinois's most powerful mob boss. By the time he was appointed chief of police, Corbitt had moved steadily up the ranks of the Outfit and was living the high life of a respected mobster. Now, with the assistance of bestselling author Sam Giancana -- godson of the legendary underworld kingpin who recruited Corbitt into a double life of crime and crime fighting -- a man who was both saint and sinner tells a shocking true story of forty years of corruption, conspiracy, racketeering, and murder . . . and rips the lid off a clandestine criminal operation whose evil tentacles reach into every corner of our world..
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Unbridled Cowboy is a riveting firsthand account of a defiant hell-raiser in the wild and tumultuous American Southwest. At the age of fourteen, Joe Fussell hopped trains to escape from school and the authority he scorned. Joe became a roving cowpuncher across the Texas territory, tilling the land, wrangling cattle, and working in livery stables, moving on whenever his feet began to itch. In a time and place with no law, Joe took it upon himself to exact revenge on those who trespassed him or those who were abusing authority. Joe recounts tales of cowboy adventures, narrow escapes, undercover work as a Texas Ranger, and life on the railroads. Even after he was married, Joe maintained a spark of his wild cowboy spirit as he continued his work as a railman during the rise of the railroad in the Southwest. In his time on the railroads, Joe worked up from switchman to yardmaster, traveling everywhere from New Orleans to San Francisco. Joe's unadorned prose is as exposed and simple as the wide, open Texas plains. Joe presents an unpretentious, unique voice that embodies the spirit of the old West..
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Until the dot-com bubble burst, George Bailey never gave much thought to why his grandfather seemed so happy, but then George's wealth vanished, rocking his self-confidence, threatening his family's security and making his adolescent son's difficult life even more painful. Returning to the little Central Illinois farm town of Abbeville, where his grandfather had prospered and then fallen into ruin, flattened during the Depression, Feorge seeks out the details of this remarkable man's rise, fall and spiritual rebirth, hoping he might find a way to recover himself. Abbeville sweeps through the history of late-19th through early 21st century America-among loggers stripping the North Woods bare, at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, with French soldiers at the Battle of Verdun, into the abyss of the Depression, and finally toward the new millennium's own nightmares. At the same time it examines life at its most intimate. How can one hold onto meaning amidst the brutally indifferent cycles of war and peace, flood and drought, boom and bust, life and death? In clean, evocative prose that reveals the compexity of people's moral and spiritual lives, Fuller tells the simple story of a man riding the crests and chasms of the 20th century, struggling through personal grief, war, and material failure to find a place where the spirit may repose. An American story about rediscovering where we've been and how we've come to be who we are today, Abbeville tells the tale of the world in small, of one man's pilgrimage to come to terms with himself while learning to embrace the world around him..
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