May 21st, 1818 On the Island of Santiago, the ruthless pirate, “The Surgeon,” is searching for Blackbeard’s hidden treasure. Little does he know, his quest will entangle him with the Cowboy Kid, discovering a darkness that the world has not seen for thousands of years.

May 21st, 1818 On the Island of Santiago, the ruthless pirate, "The Surgeon, " is searching for Blackbeard's hidden treasure. Little does he know, his quest will entangle him with the Cowboy Kid, discovering a darkness that the world has not seen for thousands of years.

Johnson M. Rutheford In honor of our sheriff, 1883 The house is the key and under the "wood panel" is your answer. But be careful, for on the day that you use the key, your mind will be open, and your life will be changed forever!

"Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer—so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible." —Tom Bissell Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning with his sickly childhood and concluding with McKinley’s assassination, the novel positions Roosevelt as a “perfect bull in a china shop,” a fearless crime fighter and pioneering environmentalist who would grow up to be our greatest peacetime president. With an operatic cast, including “Bamie,” his handicapped older sister; Eleanor, his gawky little niece; as well as the devoted Rough Riders, the novel memorably features the lovable mountain lion Josephine, who helped train Roosevelt for his “crowded hour,” the charge up San Juan Hill. Lauded by Jonathan Lethem for his “polymorphous imagination and crack comic timing,” Charyn has created a classic of historical fiction, confirming his place as “one of the most important writers in American literature” (Michael Chabon).

He's got a yellow shirt and a red neckerchief, unruly locks and a sprig of grass in his mouth. He maintains law and order at the Nothing Gulch School, and he runs faster than his shadow as soon as there's even the slightest hint of chores to be done. It's Kid Lucky, a young cowboy knee-high to a grasshopper, always ready to discover the customs of the Wild West, and, most of all, to muck about with his buddies. This is the birth of a legend: the greatest (but still quite small) cowboy of the Wild West! In this second album, Kid Lucky learns more cowboy lessons.

Hank the Cowdog almost loses his job as Head of Ranch Security when he develops a case of Eye-crosserosis.