Too Like the Lightning

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that

In a future where convicts like Mycroft Canner must wander the world being useful to all he meets, he encounters Carlyle Foster, a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed religion, and a young boy named Bridger with the ability to make his wishes come true.

When hotshot smoke jumper Silas Kent gets his own fire crew, he thinks he's achieved what he's always wanted. But a lightning-sparked fire in the Desolation Wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas has his team in a plane before they can even train together. Pilot Elle Westmore has been called up to drop t

A New Nonstop Action Thriller from Shawn Grady When hotshot smoke jumper Silas Kent gets his own fire crew, he thinks he's achieved what he's always wanted. But a lightning-sparked fire in the Desolation Wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas has his team in a plane before they can even train together.

Five seconds. Apparently that's how long it takes to come to the realization that your girlfriend of five years is nothing but an illusion. And once that illusion is stripped away all that remains is an ugly soul crammed inside a filthy hateful psycho. Sam Cooper is a down to earth kind of guy.

In **Like Life** ’s __ eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore’s characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can’t quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apart