Young Barbara, without a best friend, loved to play with her doll at tea parties in the woods; and it was there that she offered her bread and butter to a hungry looking Indian. Although they couldn't understand each other's language, a strong bond of friendship grew between them, and one day Barbara's bread-and-butter Indian repaid her kindness in an extraordinary way.

    the prison... the doctors... they were all part of the past. Charlie was free and getting well now -So no one had to know how much time Charlie spent around the school yard, watching. No one did - until the night 9-year-old Jessie Brant disappeared...

    A manic epic, "Reuben, Reuben" is really three books in one, tied together by a 1950s suburban Connecticut setting and hyper-literate cast of characters. A corruptible chicken farmer fearful for the fate of his beloved town, a womanizing poet from Wales (Dylan Thomas in disguise), and a hapless British poet-cum-actor-and-agent all take turns as narrator, revealing different, even conflicting views. But alcoholism, sexism, small-mindedness, and calamity challenge the high spirits of De Vries's well-read suburbanites. Noted as much for his verbal fluidity and wordplay as for his ability to see humor through pain, De Vries will delight both new readers and old in this uproarious modern masterpiece.

    Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands of the Comanches, Jed Smith and his partners had drawn the map of the west on a beaver skin.