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In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues - the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, "Terrorist" traces the journey of one young man, from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism...
A devilishly attractive man who can charm anyone arrives in town where three women are looking for Mr. Right, at a very suspicious time.
A collection of fifty-five important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century features masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, and other notable writers.
Ahmad, who feels his faith is threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security.
Contains four witchcraft films, including The Witches (2020), The Witches of Eastwick, Practical Magic, and The Witches (1990).
Practical magic: Two sisters hexed by a centuries-old curse resume age-old witchcraft taught by two doting aunts.
Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie return to the old Rhode Island seaside town where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne. Darryl is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but enchantment remains in the familiar streets an...
"In this posthumous collection of John Updike's art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed "Just Looking "(1989) and "Still Looking" (2005), readers are again treated to "remarkably elegant essays" ("Newsday") in which "the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the ...
Follows Owen Mackenzie from his birth in semi-rural Pennsylvania to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts.
Traces one family's journey over four generationas and across the spiritual landscape of twentieth-century America.
A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.
A collection of short fiction includes tales set in the author's native Pennsylvania, the New England suburbs, and foreign countries, all depicting different facets of the American experience from the Depression through the aftermath of 9/11.