Author: J.A. Jance
Publisher: Avo
Keywords: cause, improbable
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1988-02-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380754126
ISBN-13: 9780380754120

Perhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain was murdered in his own chair. The question is not who wanted Dr. Frederick Nielsen dead, but rather who of the many finally reached the breaking point. The sordid details of this case, with its shocking revelations of violence, cruelty, and horrific sexual abuse, would be tough for any investigator to stomach. But for Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont, the most damning piece of the murderous puzzle will shake him to his very core -- because what will be revealed to him is nothing less than the true meaning of unrepen

Author: Adam Fawer
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: novel, improbable
Number of Pages: 403
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0060736771
ISBN-13: 9780060736774

A compulsive gambler who is plagued by epileptic seizures, David Caine has dropped out of society, spending his time trolling underground poker clubs. When he agrees to try an experimental drug, Caine finds himself with the ability to foresee the consequences of his actions and the probabilty of various outcomes.

Author: Adam Fawer
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: novel, improbable
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 006073678X
ISBN-13: 9780060736781

From a brilliant new talent comes a riveting novel of chance, fate, and numbers, and one man’s strange journey past the boundaries of the possible. David Caine inhabits a world of obsession, rich rewards, and rapid, destructive downfalls. A compulsive gambler and brilliant mathematician prone to crippling epileptic seizures, he possesses the uncanny ability to calculate odds of any hand in the blink of an eye. But one night at an underground poker club, Caine makes a costly mi scalculation, sending his life spinning out of control. Desperate, he agrees to test an experimental drug with

Author: Tristan Jone
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: voyage, improbable
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1998-10-25
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 1574090623
ISBN-13: 9781574090628

The Improbable Voyage is the astonishing account of master sailor and storyteller Tristan Jones’ 2,307-mile voyage across Europe in an oceangoing trimaran, Outward Leg. Continuing his round-the-world journey, Tristan traveled from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine and Danube. Tristan welcomed each difficulty-including a Bulgarian gunboat-as a challenge to be met and overcome. Battling ice and cold, life-threatening rapids and narrow defiles, German bureaucrats and Romanian frontier police, the indomitable Tristan made his way through eight countries and emerged triumpha

Author: Helen Fogarassy
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: improbable, mission
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-03-25
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 0739100203
ISBN-13: 9780739100202

Helen Fogarassy, editor-in-chief of the UNOSOM "Weekly Review" in Somalia during the 1994 crisis, describes the overwhelmingly positive effect of multinational intervention in the wartorn country. Based on her first-hand observations, Fogarassy argues forcefully in defense of such humanitarian ventures, while simultaneously decrying the oversimplification of the Somalian situation by the world media. She demonstrates how our widespread perception that humanitarian missions in developing countries are doomed to failure is directly related to the images of dead American soldiers being dragged th

Author: Judith, B. Glad
Publisher: Zumaya Embraces
Keywords: solution, improbable
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-01-12
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1934135402
ISBN-13: 9781934135402

Welcome to Whiterock, Oregon, where peculiar happenings are taken for granted. Where Sally Carruthers nurses her dying father. Where Gus Loring seeks forgetfulness. To find it, he’d have to do the impossible and forgive himself. Whiterock is a town where people are from, because there’s nothing to hold them there. Every year more of the stores on Main Street close, and every year more of its young people leave to find their fortunes somewhere else; yet somehow it endures. So perhaps there’s something more to Whiterock than dusty streets, shabby buildings, and discouraged r

Author: Charles P. Roland
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: war, world, south, era, improbable
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1976-12-31
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0813101395
ISBN-13: 9780813101392