Robert Redford

"Based on [the author]s own experiences as a young man, the books two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in [the author]s own words, 'a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.'y--...

Explores the life and career of real life "horse-whisperer" Buck Brannaman.

Instead of retiring to a quiet life with his wife and family, Bill Bryson decides to hike the Appalachian Trail and the only companion he can find is his old friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer.

An open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the...

A talented but self-involved downhill skier claims victory at the expense of emotional and family attachments.

In Season Two, Lt. Joe Leaphorn reunites with Jim Chee, his former deputy turned private eye when their separate cases bring them together in pursuit of the same suspect. They find themselves in the high desert of Navajo Country chasing a killer.

An examination of the prehistoric remains found in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, which functioned as "a complex ceremonial center, harmonized by extraordinary astronomical alignments of buildings and roads, and elegant light and shadow markings."--Container.

An executive is kidnapped and held for ransom by one of his employees.

General Irwin is a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to a maximum security military prison, The Castle. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter, who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an action that the...