Product Description: Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1819) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century and the first great modern painter of Switzerland whose styles straddled the mainstream as they also ventured boldly and courageously into the innovative and the untried...read more

Product Description: When a catastrophic tornado strikes his North Texas hometown, a young man caught in the deadening routines of blue collar work is shocked into rediscovering the importance of his life. This mesmerising novel explores the phenomenon of stormchasing as a search for meaning, for the experience of being intensely alive...read more

Product Description: Known chiefly for his role as a teacher of the leading Impressionists, Charles Gleyre (1806-1874) won great acclaim for his own paintings at home in Switzerland and abroad, eventually gaining recognition as the most eminent Swiss painter between Fuseli and Hodler...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Nine stories deal with an Elvis impresonator, an aspiring actor, a hang glider, a drifter with big plans, a struggling family, the sixties, and divorce

Dramatizes the experiences of Huck Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi River.