Cool Hand Hank

Sally Drexler was always running. The proprietor of the Double D Ranch and wild mustang sanctuary had her hands full keeping health, hearth and horses on an even keel. And though she approached every challenge with her chin high and her spirits even higher, it could get lonely. That's when Hank Night Horse came along, singing her tune. Hank couldn't help noticing the bride's irresistible sister at his best friend's wedding. But this physician's assistant put rodeo riders back together for a living, and could sense that something about Sally was broken. Was his healing touch what it would take to soothe Sally mind, body and soul…and stop her running?

"Cool hand Hank: Sally Drexler is always running. As proprietor of the Double D Ranch and wild mustang sanctuary, she has her hands full keeping health, hearth and horses on an even keel. And though she approaches every challenge with her chin high, it gets lonely. Until Hank Night Horse comes along. Could his healing touch soothe her mind, body and soul ... and stop her running?"--Page 4 of cover.

This chronicle of life on the nickel is full of danger and misadventures, skullduggery and romance. It is packed with talk--clever, rough, and real--quite real, considering the slippery reality of Sidney's mind. There are laughs and tears as well, and a strong, compassionate awareness of the humanity.

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is a fun read. But beneath its effervescent tone, more complex themes are at play.” —San Francisco Chronicle In his wildly entertaining debut novel, Hank Green—cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow—spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. The Carls just appeared. Roaming through New York City at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor—April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world—from Beijing to Buenos Aires—and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on the world, April now has to deal with the consequences her new particular brand of fame has on her relationships, her safety, and her own identity. And all eyes are on April to figure out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us. Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changing fame, rhetoric, and radicalization; how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty; and how vilification and adoration spring for the same dehumanization that follows a life in the public eye. The beginning of an exciting fiction career, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is a bold and insightful novel of now.

Mark Kincaid is a successful New York City stockbroker, who has accomplished everything he set out to do. His life is completely shattered when his wife, Becky, walks out on him, and he leaves everything and everyone he knew to find a purpose in his life. Down at the end of a long dirt road in the wilderness of the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico, he finds spiritual healing with new friends. Raul and Rosa give him a home. Padre Luis, a Tarahumara Shaman, guides Kincaid to find his purpose. Esperanza, after a rocky beginning, becomes his soul mate. He runs a marijuana business with his friends, until organized narco-terrorists come to take over. There is too much violence and mayhem being committed by the dopers, as they systematically enslave the primitive Tarahumara Indians to grow their drugs. Kincaid and Padre Luis, align to rid the Sierra of drug dealers. Padre Luis organizes thousands of his Tarahumara to aid in Kincaid's six month adventure of sabotage, deceit and murder. The scenery and the history of the Sierra Madre and the culture of the Tarahumara are explored as Kincaid gradually learns: The Tarahumara are not primitive. We are.

Set in the 1979 outside Atlanta, this "thoroughly enjoyable" ("Publishers Weekly") debut tells the story of 16-year-old Luke Fulmer, who grows up in a difficult family with a stockcar-racing, absentee father, an alcoholic mother, and a delinquent brother.

Follows hapless private eye Easy Taylor as he investigates an eco-terrorist plot to stop development in the Catskill Mountains. When Pardee Mountain and Pardee Hollow, protected tracts of land in the Catskill Mountains, are threatened by a multimillion dollar development plan, trouble brews. The locals are against Deyl MacGreedy’s vision of Crestline Estates and the construction site experiences some minor hassles—missing construction material, machinery diverted to another job, and money issues with labor subcontractors. After the problems escalate to several bombs detonated during a high profile public relations parade, private investigator Edward Zachary Taylor, better known as Easy, is assigned to investigate. On the verge of losing his job with Lauder & Donovan Investigations, Inc., Easy heads to the Catskills to get to the bottom of the troubles plaguing the Crestline development. As he digs around, he discovers a young, attractive veterinarian who is doing more than treating the local animals. Dr. Henrietta Van Vonderhueeks, who goes by Doc Hank, is doing secret research in the area and despite Easy’s best efforts to find another suspect, all the evidence points to the lovely Doc Hank.

The 525 notable works of 19th and 20th century American fiction in this reference book have many stage, movie, television, and video adaptations. Each literary work is described and then every adaptation is examined with a discussion of how accurate the version is and how well it succeeds in conveying the spirit of the original in a different medium. In addition to famous novels and short stories by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Willa Cather, many bestsellers, mysteries, children's books, young adult books, horror novels, science fiction, detective stories, and sensational potboilers from the past two centuries are examined.