Kevin: 5344 books

Isaac and Abe were completely different, but together they traveled from an orphanage in St. Louis, Missouri to the Willamette River in Oregon in 1848. Their six-month adventure, with the help of the Herzog family, became a journey into their own hearts. They faced dangers and hardships to realize their dreams - dreams they were willing to walk halfway across a continent to attain.

Fear of bears seems almost to be part of what it is to be human. Our species emerged out of the depths of time into a world already populated by these great carnivores. Before we mastered iron and later developed firearms, we had few defences against bears—only watchful caution and elaborate ceremonies...

Kevin Annett's story is a David/Goliath epic of one man's fight against the establishment of church and state in support of a subjugated people.

Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts his time...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

* Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Book Award in the First Novel category * A blazingly original, wildly stylish, and pulpy debut novel "City of Bohane, the extraordinary first novel by the Irish writer Kevin Barry, is full of marvels. They are all literary marvels, of course: marvels...

From the author of City of Bohane and Dark Lies the Island, a debut collection that "could easily have been titled ‘These Are Little Masterpieces'" (The Irish Times) This award-winning story collection by Kevin Barry summons all the laughter, darkness, and intensity of contemporary...

From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the butt ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible men. In the dark...

Why should you read this book? Because it's really about you. You have a story that is worth careful consideration. Do you ever feel like life gets a little crazy and hard to handle sometimes? You're not alone. And you're not without hope. Each morning my wife Angelica and I like to enjoy our...

Who is Conrad Hirst? Knowing the answer could get you killed. Not knowing could get him killed. Conrad Hirst is a hired killer working for a German crime boss. Disturbed by the death of his girlfriend ten years earlier and still bearing the scars of post-traumatic stress after serving as a...

Before the creation of mankind there were angels. You either believe in the realm of spiritual and supernatural beings, or you don’t. There is no middle ground, really, is there? Even as a young boy I believed. Before my conversion to Christianity I had a huge imagination for this sort of thing. After...

Synopsis - The Ultimate SHOWDOWNS President Brian Connelly enlists Inspector Warren’s aid. Warren and his team hack into the U.S. FED and Treasury, and the world’s biggest banks with ease. While trying to enter the largest Swiss back, they get back-hacked, then the next time they try it,...

A century after humankind lost a futile war to the immortal vampires, werewolves, and elves who rule the world, the young and handsome John lives in the castle of the legendary vampire Belle Helène the Conqueror, as a pampered pet and sexual servant to Helène’s two sisters. In the conclusion...

Six strange and haunting stories, set in isolated communities inland and by the sea, where insiders stick together, and outsiders - a girl outlawed for her illegitimate child, a wild man who walks out of the sea - are regarded with suspicion. Kevin Crossley-Holland has a genius for reinventing folk...