Thomas Head Raddall

"In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power"-- "A memoir from the former Vice President of the United States"--

The Wings of Night presents a rather prickly character in Neil Jamieson, forester and veteran, who spent a major part of the war in a German prison camp, and who came back to a remote town in his native Nova Scotia to attempt to wipe his mind free of the claims of an unhappy childhood. But he finds it not so easy to do; his grandmother, who brought him up, is living in dire poverty, on a tiny pension, all the trappings of ancient grandeur gone, but still sturdily independent and proud. Neil starts an investigation of the forest areas that had been the Jamieson woods and unearths some seamy doings. He finds, too, that an adolescent love still has its hold - though the girl, Louise, is married to the scion of the Big Shot in town, Senator Quarrender. The story, with its odd ramifications, builds up to Stephen Quarrender's death in hunting, to Neil's trial as the accused.

History of Canada's fortress city on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia, from the fifteenth century to the present, and its plans for the future.

A story of the early struggle of the American Loyalists to find a foothold in dissension torn Nova Scotia. Mr. Raddall shows a country divided against itself, with the Whigs, perhaps, in the majority, but unequipped, scattered, unprepared to stand off the power of the mother country unless aid comes from the other colonies, with which they consider themselves allied. Most of them are New Englanders who have won this soil by fighting and perserverance. They expect help from Massachusetts -- and it does not come. From Congress, meeting in Philadelphia -- and they are ignored. From Washington -- and he has all he can do to keep his own tiny force together. Families are divided. Conflicting plans bring confusion. Through the story, the plot centers chiefly around young Dave, vigorously anti-Tory, and at the end disillusioned, willing to accept the inevitable and turning against the Rebels who have themselves turned pirates. Nova Scotia, particularly Halifax and Liverpool section; New Brunswick; and the Cumberland section -- these form the chief scenes of conflict. Fascinating reading to anyone to whom details of an unfamiliar phase of the struggle are of interest.

The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat The open boat / Stephen Crane My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes The little Bouilloux girl / Colette The ruby / Corrado Alvaro Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer [The boarding house]( / James Joyce The brute / Joseph Conrad A double game / Alberto Moravia Maternity / Lilika Nakos Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme [The lottery]( / Shirley Jackson The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht The overcoat / Sally Benson Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore The end of the party / Graham Greene Modern children / Sholom Aleichem Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley The Mezzotint /Montague R. James The alligators / John Updike Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko Haircut / Ring Lardner The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman The drover's wife / Henry Lawson The huntsmen / Paul Horgan The guest / Albert Camus Patience / Nigel Balchin Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote Admiral's night / Machado de Assis The bet / Anton Chekhov The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells A country love story / Jean Stafford A worn path / Eudora Welty The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy The cop and the anthem / O. Henry Marriage á la mode / Katherine Mansfield The nightingale / Maxim Gorky The launch / Max Aub The wreath / Luigi Pirandello The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker Luzina takes a holiday / Gabrielle Roy

Contains: [The Firm]( by John Grisham Wedding Gift by Thomas Head Raddall A Piece of Steak by Jack London

Blandings' way / by Eric Hodgins. Operation Cicero / by L.C. Moyzisch. [Two soldiers]( / from collected stories of William Faulkner. The nymph and the lamp / by Thomas H. Raddall.