Identifying and Evaluating Arguments.

Product Description: Praise for Dingley Falls "Witty, intelligent, deeply felt, and vividly narrated." -New York Times Book Review "A wonderous achievement. Malone's novel is as lusty, whimsical, tragic- even as bizarre-as life itself. It is a triumph of the highest order...read more

"There's humor and action aplenty, but Four Corners is also a warm-hearted look at how we love and forgive. Five hundred and forty-four pages never seemed so short." People Magazine 4-Star Review In small towns between the North Carolina Piedmont and the coast the best scenery is often in the sky. On flat sweeps of red clay and scrub pine the days move monotonously, safely, but above, in the blink of an eye, dangerous clouds can boil out of all four corners of the sky…The flat slow land starts to shiver and anything can happen. In such a storm, on Annie Peregrine's seventh birthday, her father gave her the airplane and minutes later drove out of her life. Twenty years is a long time to be without a father, and, for Navy pilot Annie Peregrine-Goode, the sky has become a home the earth has never been. So when her father calls out of the blue to ask for a dying wish—one both absurd and mysterious—no is the easiest of answers. Until she hears that the reward is the one thing she always wanted … Thus begins an enchanting novel that bursts with energy from the first pages, and sweeps you off on a journey of unforgettable characters, hilarious encounters, and haunting secrets. The Four Corners of the Sky is master storyteller Michael Malone's new novel of love, secrets, and the mysterious bonds of families. Malone brings characters to life as only he can, exploring the questions that defy easy answers: Is love a choice or a calling? Why do the ties of family bind so tightly? And is forgiveness a gift to others…or a gift we give ourselves? PRAISE FOR THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE SKY: "Devoted Michael Malone fans have been waiting more than 20 years for another Handling Sin, perhaps the greatest road novel since Tom Jones. The wait is over… The cast of characters is as large as it is rich. Malone is an absolute master of Dickensian character building…Don't miss it." Bill Ott, editor-in-chief, Booklist "Fried Green Tomatoes with copious draughts of Shakespeare… Malone (Theater Studies and English/Duke Univ.; The Last Noel, 2002, etc.) knows that the small-town South is a subject all unto itself, and no matter how eccentric the characters, they're wholly believable in that context… Secrets and intrigues among the honeysuckle: a sun-washed yarn of the New South, affectionately told." Kirkus starrred review "A father-daughter story that will have young adult readers (and you) laughing and crying and rooting for Annie, now 26 years old and still stinging from her father's abandonment of the family when she was just seven. Malone's titles have broad adult appeal, and Four Corners has the potential for being a gateway novel for maturing fiction readers." School Library Journal "This book is so complex and so beautifully done, it sort of outclasses Dickens (and I may have just committed literary heresy here). The Four Corners of the Sky is the best thing I have read in years and you can imagine how much I read. Truly, I couldn't put it down. I loved it." Kathy Ashton, The King's English Bookshop PRAISE FOR MICHAEL MALONE: "Malone... delights the reader with his witty eye for the kind of detail that proclaims with humor and confidence, 'This is true!'" Los Angeles Times Book Review "Malone shows a knack for colorful characters, snappy dialogue and tragicomic human foibles." Salt Lake Tribune "Brilliant and entertaining... Wonderfully shrewd... Mr. Malone's characters have dimension and scope." New York Times Book Review "Michael Malone has a true narrative gift, the true eye for the character in action, and a fluent prose wrought carefully and well…." Robert Penn Warren (on Dingley Falls) "Terribly funny, emotionally engaging and almost impossible to set aside…a heartwarming tour de force." Newsweek (on Handling Sin) "Satisfying, deeply pleasurable…brilliant and entertaining. One remembers Mr. Malone's idiosyncratic creations the way one remembers those of another brilliant social caricaturist, Charles Dickens." New York Times Book Review (on Foolscap) "[Malone] combines humor, compassion and literate writing with a storytelling ability that is rare in contemporary fiction." The Houston Chronicle (on Uncivil Seasons) "A superbly stylish author whose books deserve the widest audience." The New Yorker (on The Delectable Mountains) "Like Charles Dickens—the comparison isn't farfetched—the author isn't afraid of stretching the truth to encompass it." San Francisco Chronicle (on Time's Witness) "Malone creates a gallery of Southern portraits with compassion, humor and more than a little blood. Highly recommended." Chicago Tribune (on First Lady) "Malone writes with such quiet authority and clear understanding of the world his characters inhabit that the story strikes deep emotional chords...." Washington Post Book World (on The Last Noel) (20090401)

Product Description: On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent, and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible...read more

Product Description: Professor Theo Ryan lives a quiet life teaching drama at Cavendish University in North Carolina, but everything gets turned upside down when he meets Ford Rexford—America's best-known playwright. Ford is the most talented and the most impossible man Theo has ever met...read more

Product Description: Centrally located with easy access to both the Triangle and the Triad in North Carolina, the community of Hillsborough has a lot of history. The downtown historic district boasts more than 100 homes, churches, and buildings from the late 18th and 19th centuries, thus earning it a listing on the National Register of Historic Places...read more

Product Description: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RESIDENTIAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS AND CLIENTS Written by a successful practitioner of both residential and commercial architecture, this hands-on resource enables you to transfer and expand your architectural design skills and successfully integrate single-family residential design into your professional practice...read more

Product Description: Ink & watercolor masterpieces by Michael "Rollo" Malone, inspired by American and Asian tattoo traditions. Malone has influenced world tattooing for decades with his tattoo style, commercial flash sheets, and topnotch custom built machines...read more

Jamie Ferrara returns to her New Jersey hometown to attend the funeral of an old friend and to launch an investigation into a death that bears a strange resemblance to a fictional murder she and her fellow misfits had come up with years earlier.

An ambitious young detective, Jamie Ferrara returns to her small New Jersey hometown and to the secrets, friends, and betrayals she left behind to attend the funeral of an old friend who died in a grotesque holiday accident and to launch a personal investigation into a death that bears a strange resemblance to a fictional murder she and her fellow misfits had come up with years earlier. Reprint.

Product Description: Suspenseful, romantic, and filled with humor, The Killing Club is a mystery “written” by popular One Life to Live character Marcie Walsh with award-winning writer Michael Malone. Over a decade ago in the small town of Gloria, New Jersey, feisty, red-headed outcast Jamie Ferraro and eleven friends from Gloria Hart High School started a club...read more

On Christmas Eve, 1963, Noni Tilden and Kaye King--one from a prominent white family, the other from a poor black family--begin a friendship that lasts through four decades of change in their small North Carolina town.

Product Description: This resource helps adults explore the issues of discipleship and theology through guided interaction from selections of American literature. Listening for God includes excerpts from the works of eight contemporary American authors supplemented by author profiles, and discussion and reflection questions...read more

In Dingley Falls, Connecticut, in the summer of 1976, all seems well until Beanie Dingley Abernathy runs off with visiting poet Rich Rage, setting off shock waves which soon engulf everyone.

On Christmas Eve, 1963, Noni Tilden and Kaye King--one from a prominent white family, the other from a poor black family--begin a friendship that lasts through four decades of change in their small North Carolina town.

Coming of age in the summer of 1968, Devin Donahue heads to Floren Park, Colorado, to work as a set designer in a summer theater owned by his former high school girlfriend, after his love of his life decides to marry his brother.

A snowstorm has enveloped Hillston, North Carolina, covering a shocking murder. Detective Savile is expected to arrest the usual scapegoat, but encouraged by his partner and beautiful psychic he starts asking dangerous questions, in a town where family and money speak louder than justice.

Product Description: Critically acclaimed novelist and award-winning short story writer Michael Malone is the smart, literate, compassionate voice of the American south. His gift for crafting the great American comedy, as he did in Handling Sin, is matched only by his ability to create mystery novels ripped with tension, twists and humanity...read more

Presents a collection of twelve stories, each centered around the life of a southern woman, including 'Marie,' an account of a beautiful blonde's seduction and robbery of a high-tech sales representative. (view table of contents)

Cuddy Magnum, police chief of Hillston, North Carolina, reopens a ten-year-old murder case that involves important politicians and police corruption.

Detective Justin Savile, the charming, black-sheep scion of one of Hillston's ruling families, investigates the murder of a state senator's wife and finds his life threatened when his pursuit becomes awkward.

Prosperous insurance agent, leading citizen, and forgetful husband and father Raleigh Whittier Hayes runs off to New Orleans in search of his aging and eccentric father, his murky family history, Confederate gold, and some peace and quiet. (view table of contents)