Wylie's Tale

Wylie's Tale
Author: Lorna Chant
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 149076013X

The fairy princess is happy in her patch of wilderness until the ogre arrives and cuts everything down, sending her into a long sad sleep. The ogre builds a fine house and is proud, but starts to feel something is missing. As nature slowly returns to his property, his heart softens. The ogre rebuilds the beauty that once was. The fairy princess wakes up and is delighted. Magic returns to the land and the ogre finds companionship and happiness and true love.

Gladiator

Gladiator
Author: Philip Wylie
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2023-06-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Gladiator, first published in 1930, tells the story of Hugo Danner, who is given superhuman speed, endurance, strength, and intelligence by his father as an experiment in creating a better human. We follow Hugo throughout his life viewed from his perspective, from childhood, when Hugo first discovers he’s different from others, to adulthood, as Hugo tries to find a positive outlet for his abilities around the time of the first World War. Gladiator has been made into a 1938 comedy movie, and is thought to be the inspiration for the Superman comic books—though this has not been confirmed.

Rab and his Friends

Rab and his Friends
Author: John Brown
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2024-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385358450

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Crunch & Des

Crunch & Des
Author: Philip Wylie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1629140120

Philip Wylie’s enthralling tales of saltwater fishing have been entertaining readers of the Saturday Evening Post since 1939. Captain Crunch Adams, skipper of the charter boat Poseidon , and his friend and partner Des Smith adventure high and low in the waters of Florida, coming face to face with big fish and bigger personalities along the way. Featuring 22 of Wylie’s best Crunch and Des stories, this is a delightful compendium of every thrill fishing has to offer. These beloved adventures include: • "Widow Voyage" • "Light Tackle" • "Fifty-four, Forty and Fight" • "The Way of All Fish" • "The Affair of the Ardent Amazon" • "Smuggler’s Cove" • And more favorite classics! With each Crunch and Des story selected by the author’s daughter, these tales begin a journey of saltwater nostalgia, marine adventure, and warmhearted personalities that will last far beyond the last page. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Buried

Buried
Author: Ken Wylie
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1771600284

On January 20, 2003, at 10:45 a.m., a massive avalanche in the Selkirk Range of British Columbia struck three members of two guided backcountry skiing groups and buried them. After a frantic hour of digging by those still standing, an unthinkable outcome became reality: seven people were dead. The tragedy made international news, splashing photos of the seven dead Canadian and US skiers on television screens and newspaper pages. The official analysis was that guide error was not a contributing factor in the accident. This interpretation was insufficient for some of the victims’ families, the public and some members of the guiding community. Buried is the assistant guide’s story. It renders an answerable truth about what happened by delving deep into the human factors that played into putting people in harm’s way as well as the peace that comes from accountability and the personal growth that results from understanding.

Triumph

Triumph
Author: Philip Wylie
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780803260139

In the world?s upper hemisphere, only one small group has survived World War III: fourteen people, sheltered deep within a limestone mountain in Connecticut and with enough supplies and equipment to maintain their subsistence for upwards of two years. The group includes a forward-thinking millionaire and his family, a levelheaded Jewish scientist, a playboy, an aging African American servant and his daughter, a gigolo and the glamorous woman who has been his mistress, a beautiful Chinese girl, a young meter reader, two children, and a Japanese engineer. Fully aware of the outcome of the war that had raged briefly above them, the survivors seethe with hatred, fall into depression over their losses, rise to moments of superhuman bravery, and lapse into behavior that reflects their human weaknesses. Philip Wylie mercilessly predicts the inevitable end of a world that continues to function as selfishly and as barbarously as our own.

Last Bus to Wisdom

Last Bus to Wisdom
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110198256X

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and Kirkus Review The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old’s imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for “female trouble” in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate–bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical—is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can’t seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But as it turns out, Donal isn’t traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way. Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.

The Disappearance

The Disappearance
Author: Philip Wylie
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780803298415

?The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of Februaryøat four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o'clock, Eastern Standard Time. The event occurred universally at the same instant, without regard to time belts, and was followed by such phenomena as might be expected after happenings of that nature.? ø On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in very different ways for men and women, boys and girls. An explosion of violence sweeps one world that still operates technologically; social stability and peace in the other are offset by famine and a widespread breakdown in machinery and science. And as we learn from the fascinating parallel stories of a brilliant couple, Bill and Paula Gaunt, the foundations of relationships, love, and sex are scrutinized, tested, and sometimes redefined in both worlds. The radically divergent trajectories of the gendered histories reveal stark truths about the rigidly defined expectations placed on men and women and their sexual relationships and make clear how much society depends on interconnection between the sexes. ø Written over a half century ago yet brimming with insight and unsettling in its relevance today, The Disappearance is a masterpiece of modern speculative fiction.

The Murderer Invisible

The Murderer Invisible
Author: Philip Wylie
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2015-05-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575133872

Two lovers rush toward doom, as an unseen killer stalks the world. A novel of the fourth dimension's conquest of Earth.