 | Four short novellas by H. P. Lovecraft. The title piece is the story of an expedition to Antarctica that leads a group of scientists to the edge of the known universe. The work contains the origins for much of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, which was... |
 | In 1996, on a magazine assignment, Krakauer joined an expedition up Mount Everest led by the New Zealand climber Rob Hall. He arrived at the summit just before a blizzard struck in which Hall and nine other climbers were killed. This book is... |
 | A widowed surgeon with a terminal illness takes a trip through the American West, intending to end his life. Instead, he finds himself, improbably, in the midst of a full-fledged identity crisis. |
 | Describes the conditions and terrain of Mount Everest, attempts that have been made to scale this peak, and general information about the equipment and techniques of mountain climbing. |
 | This is the second work in author L'Amour's extensive family saga about the Sacketts. |
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 | With her father away fighting in the Civil War and her mother struggling to keep their Vermont dairy farm despite increasingly hard times, ten-year-old Rosalie tries to come up with a plan that will save their home without selling her beloved Morgan... |
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 | In turn-of-the-century Appalachia, Julie Harmon marries and faces a hard life of subsistence farming: a constant struggle against not only nature but the unpredictable humans who inhabit her world. |
 | A Tennessee family returns to the bedside of their dying patriarch, Randall Stargill. The Stargills must confront many issues, including an unknown dead sibling as well as individual and passionate ties to the family land. |
