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Written with a storyteller's grace and a poet's touch, John Reed's powerful first novel is a true adventure of the heart -- at once a passionate love story and a sweeping historical saga set against a vivid backdrop of the Civil War....

The year is 1859 as seven-year-old Alma Flynt arrives in the Kentucky town of Cotterpin Creek to begin a new life. There, Alma will have as friends, neighbors, and benefactors the magnificent Cleveland family.

With their sprawling mansion and gleaming thoroughbred horses, the Clevelands are a wonder. But from the beginning, one Cleveland draws all of Alma's attention: the youngest son, John Warren.

Alma knew they were meant for each other from their first meeting. But everything changes as war descends on Cotterpin Creek, taking John Warren to battle and sweeping his family into the chaos.

Against this turbulent backdrop, Alma will come of age. And when the fighting is over, the story of a brave young man riding off to battle becomes a haunting journey of vengeance and redemption. And for Alma, yet another journey begins on the day a tormented young soldier staggers back into her life.
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Is there nothing new under the sun? In All the World’s A Grave, John Reed gives his answer. Reed has taken lines from the works of William Shakespeare, and reconstructed them into a new five-act tragedy. The language is Shakespeare’s, but as these familiar characters act out their fatal flaws, virtues, jealousies and betrayals, the drama that unfolds is as fresh as the blood on the stage.

Having captured Juliet as his bride—by reckless war—Prince Hamlet returns home to find that his mother has murdered his father and married Macbeth. Enter the ghost of the murdered King, and Iago, who further inflames the tormented Prince, persuading him that Juliet is having an affair with Romeo. As the Prince goes mad with jealousy, King Lear mounts his army …
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The opening chapters of Snowball’s Chance trace the events leading up to Animal Farm’s transformation into “Animal Fair.” Napoleon, the old boar who once ruled the farm with an iron hoof, has died. Now Snowball, the pig ousted for his democratic ideas, can make a triumphant return. With him he brings a new concept: capitalism. Snowball and his team of educated goats convert the farm into a thriving carnival, replete with hucksters of every stripe and species, critter celebrities and spectacular sideshows where the Fair’s jailbirds are put on display. Not everyone, however, is delighted by Animal Fair’s success. Over-development, pollution, and the Fair’s increasing encroachment into the nearby Woodlands begin to tarnish its glory. Foreign wars become commonplace. When the pigs begin bombing beaver dams to redirect water toward the Fair, the Woodland animals, led by the beavers, start to plot a terrible revenge…

In a pre-publication feature dedicated to the book, the New York Press called Snowball’s Chance “A pretty vicious parody,” and a courageous project at a time when copyright holders are increasingly attempting to “legislate and litigate [parody]…out of existence.” ]]> 541947 4.25 103 24 2002 623228 0743485017 9780743485012 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176410622m/623228.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176410622s/623228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/623228.The_Whole 4.39 18 541947 4.25 103 24 2005