Best Selling Books by Michael Cadnum

Kingdom brings together for the first time the animal poems of Michael Cadnum. Cats, ants, whales-even the stubborn, lowly louse-here are thirty astonishing celebrations of the most intriguing and often overlooked creatures of the animal kingdom.Even the familiar creatures, like the Eagle and the Elephant, get new life in Cadnum''s unusual book.As Rosemary Deen, the poetry editor of Commonweal Magazine, assures us in her introduction, "Paradoxically, the better the animals are seen, the more they are transformed."The Raccoon makes an appearance, and the Peacock, and the Giraffe. So do the Jack Rabbit and the covertly assertive Roe Deer. Thirty poems in all celebrate the open secrets of the lives around us.Rosemary Deen says "Anyone who really wants to see the world will read and reread these animal poems: Kingdom."

When two teenage brothers bungle a bank robbery, their attempt to hide the evidence is witnessed—aurally—by Terrence, a legally blind neighbor. Terrence tells his girlfriend, Nina, and her brother, who then disappears with a handgun. Nina is afraid of what he might do to the brothers. But she also has every reason to fear what the brothers will do to Terrence. Flash ingeniously interweaves the stories of two who are hellbent on a destructive path, two who stand in their way, and one whose actions may be the spark to set the whole thing off.

Michael Cadnum is the author of thirty-five books, both fiction and poetry, including Saint Peter''s Wolf and the National Book Award Finalist The Book of the Lion. This Early Dark presents micro-poetry and ultra-flash fiction written over a forty-year period, and brings to further life Cadnum''s fascination with desire and discovery.

Zachary, living with his divorced mother in California, finds violence gradually invading his life and making significant changes in his day-to-day existence.

Red Patterson, an evangelical television psychiatrist torn between his desires to heal and control, comes between artist Curtis Newns, who is devastated over the loss of his painting, and Curtis''s wife Margaret.

Stratton Fields leads a seemingly happy life, but he is plagued by occupational jealousy, the madness of his mother, and the gambling debts of his brother. By the author of Saint Peter''s Wolf. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

Hamilton Speke is an artist of mythic proportions. Into his fabulously successful world comes a disquieting presence from his youth--Timothy Asquith, a fellow artist long thought dead. Asquith claims that Speke is a counterfeit whose success is based on Asquith''s life and work. And he wants it all back . . . including Speke''s very life.