Legendary figures of Mississippi's past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Welty's [the author] own imagination in an exuberant fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Berry-stained bandit of the woods Jamie Lockhart steals Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of pioneer planter Clement Musgrove, to set in motion this frontier fairy tale.- Back cover.

In the year 1824, not far from what is now Indianapolis, Indiana, five white men killed a group of nine innocent, peaceful Indians who were camped nearby. Fall Creek, a settlement about 100 miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio, was on the frontier of white civilization. The people who lived there had pushed westward to find their own land, enduring hardships, including Indian raids, before reaching their goal. For many years whites had been killing...

A man has been stabbed in a blind alley. It appears a humdrum crime, the result of a drunken brawl.  But it is Monday and such stabbings rarely occur on Monday's, and Maigret is struck by one salient fact:all who knew the dead man saw him sitting on one of the Paris Boulevard benches. As Simenon readers know, the true culprit may not be the murderer but often is some innocent who provoked the situation. This crime story is also a story of marriage...

"A repackaged edition of the revered author's definitive collection of short fiction, which explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind. From C.S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics--comes...

Recounts the life and career of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.