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  • Second Generation

    by Howard Fast ...
    "A novel of satisfying depth and breadth, written in good, clean, forceful prose."—Chicago TribuneA new edition of the New York Times bestselling second book in Howard Fast's powerful historical family saga, Second Generation follows the Lavette immigrants through the challenges of the Great Depression and World War II.Desperate for independence and scornful of the hypocrisy of the upper class, ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Literature and Reality

    by Howard Fast ...
    Howard Fast's controversial essay on the proper role of literature, offering insight into his life and worksIn this 1950 essay, Howard Fast argues that all writers have a duty to reflect the truth of the world in their works, particularly regarding social justice. Fast's treatise on literary criticism allows for a fuller understanding of his early novels, in which his political beliefs remain ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizen Tom Paine

    by Howard Fast ...
    The New York Times bestseller that's "so glowingly human a picture of Tom Paine and America in the revolutionary days" ( The New York Herald ).Thomas Paine's voice rang in the ears of eighteenth-century revolutionaries from America to France to England. He was friend to luminaries such as Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and William Wordsworth. His pamphlets extolling democracy sold in the million ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Establishment

    by Howard Fast ...
    She'll stand up for her family, no matter the costFormer socialite Barbara Lavette is unconcerned about the gossip that surrounds her new marriage. However, her husband Bernie, a poor mechanic whom she met in the midst of World War II, is willing to do anything to prove his worth to her as well as the society that shuns him.Barbara will support her husband in any way she can, but when she becomes ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Phyllis

    by Howard Fast ...
    Two scientists—one American and one Russian—form a pact for nuclear disarmament that threatens to bring civilization to its kneesThe physicists met during a nuclear conference in London. Wanting to hurry America and the Soviet Union into nuclear non-proliferation, they each construct a crude atomic bomb, hiding one in New York and one in Moscow, and then they disappear. The United States and the ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The General Zapped an Angel: New Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction

    New Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction

    by Howard Fast ...
    “The General Zapped an Angel was written for fun, and offers me a chance to smile at the absurdity of human existence. Therefore, these stories of fantasy and science fiction are among the most serious writing I have done.” —Howard FastNearly forty years after the publication of his first story, “The Wrath of Purple,” in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, Howard Fast returned to the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Millie

    by Howard Fast ...
    A PR man investigates the tortured life of a mysterious acquaintance—and winds up knee-deep in the wrong kind of troubleFor a public relations guru like Al Brody, witnessing death is not part of the job description. But that is just what the call from Andrew Capestone requires. When Brody arrives at his old friend's bedside, it's not long before the man dies. Brody has not thought of Capestone, ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silas Timberman

    A Novel

    by Howard Fast ...
    As the Red Scare grips America, a midwestern literature professor becomes an unlikely hero in the struggle for freedomProfessor Silas Timberman has never been one for theatrics. A quiet American literature professor at a mid-sized college, Timberman decides to build a semester's course around the democratic ideals of Mark Twain—a subject that under normal circumstances would not arouse the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Redemption

    A Novel

    by Howard Fast ...
    When the love of his life is accused of murder, a university professor will stop at nothing to prove her innocenceOn a late night drive home, Ike Goldman, a retired Columbia University law professor, saves a woman from killing herself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. The woman’s name is Elizabeth Hopper, and Ike, a widower, unexpectedly finds himself falling in love. But everything ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Immigrants

    by Howard Fast ...
    "A most wonderful book...there hasn't been a novel in years that can do a job on readers' emotions that the last fifty pages of The Immigrants does."—Los Angeles TimesThe first book in bestselling author Howard Fast's beloved family saga, The Immigrants is a transcendent work of historical fiction.In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the family saga ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Thirty Pieces of Silver

    A Play in Three Acts

    by Howard Fast ...
    A couple in Washington, DC, is torn apart when a friend is accused of treasonJane and David Graham live upper-middle-class lives in mid-century Washington, DC. Jane minds the home with the help of a fulltime maid, and David works at the Treasury Department. But when the FBI visits their house one evening to ask questions about a friend's political beliefs, the answers the two give separately cause ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peekskill USA

    Inside the Infamous 1949 Riots

    by Howard Fast ...
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author's firsthand account of the civil rights benefit concert attacked by a violent mob in upstate New York.In 1949, author Howard Fast found himself in the middle of a violent and terrifying anticommunist riot in Peekskill, New York. Fast was the master of ceremonies at a civil rights benefit concert featuring Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, and others. But local ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus