Books with author K Garrett

WHEN the reviewers must review a popular book about oil, or the history of the automobile, or the development of water power, they have a way of saying that they found it more interesting than fiction. There is a new novel called The Cinder Buggy, by Mr. Garet Garrett, which gives particular point to this way of saying. The Cinder Buggy is an epic of steel, to borrow another convention of the reviewers; together with a disclosure of various fictional human minds there runs the true story of the development of steel in this country, and it is the latter is the absorbing, exciting part of Mr. Garrett’s book; indeed, it is perhaps not too enthusiastic to say that there is not anywhere else in literature an account of the Pittsburg Era so compelling, so dramatic as is here. Reading, we had the feeling that the author held an immense grip on the history of steel, knew it as he knows the inside of his pocket; the steel sections of this novel were so good that they quite overwhelmed the story sections; we found ourselves bending back the pages which continued the plot to see how far it was until there would be more description of ore or pig iron or wrought iron or steel, just as in the opposite way in other novels we have sometimes turned the long pages describing “scenery” to see when the story would begin again. And as we finished The Cinder Buggy we asked ourselves whether it was not inevitable that any book, no matter by however able a writer, which aimed to reveal human minds and emotions and to tell the story of a thing at the same time, as this novel does, would end by doing the latter and not the former. In a novel, as in life itself, “the thing runs wild, and doth the “man unking.” In the novel, Le Maitre de Forges, Georges Ohnet set forth characters which, like Mr. Garrett’s characters, cannot bend or be bent, and so must break or be broken. But Ohnet decided to make his principal character into an iron-master after he had conceived him as a man. It is our guess that Mr. Garet Garrett conceived his men and women as part of the history of steel first and made them flesh and blood.

At last there is peace in the city. A shipment of vicious creatures will be exported faraway. Their containers rattle, howl and smell of death. But not everyone is keen to see them leave. Shouldn't the place that makesthemonsters keep them?Ewan has returned to the city for his father's trial. May has joined a school for special talents. Andrew wants only to keep out of trouble. But trouble is sure to find them. It has their scent.

This fun rhyming kids book tells the story of a monster who is afraid to go to sleep because he is afraid that little boys or girls are hiding beneath his bed. Once upon a time in a land called Tiga Riga RooLived a young monster named Bippy Boppy BooBippy Boppy Boo was sweet as sweet could beHe never tried to scare anyone or to even make them screamBippy had a secret that he didn't want to tellBippy's secret was that he was very scared

Star’s biggest problem used to be homework. Now she’s targeted by vicious head-bangers, and she’s not good at fighting. She just wants a boyfriend, her father home more often, and a trip to the Mall that doesn’t involve giant killer robot dinosaurs or ninja. Plagued with horrible visions out of time, Star knows the HARVEST OF SOULS is coming. The screaming and dying will soon begin, as dimensional barriers collapse and the Dark Lords of Nightmare devour humanity. Star finds hope in her dreams, befriending the Phoenix Prince, an ancient warrior whose eyes hold kindness, but whose sword can devastate time and space. She's shocked to discover that the waking world is just another dream — one of his.

Remeon's Quest is a prequel in the Realms of Chaos series.A young man struggling to forge his own path… A priestess forced to conceive an heir… A forbidden love…Captured in a sweep of beings from Earth to aid planet Remeon’s dying society, Jack is plagued by deep ceded deception and mind control from those on the planet who seek to dictate the end of life choices of their citizens.Sides are chosen as ancient magical powers thought to be long dead align to intervene in the fate of the two young lovers forcing a chain of events in motion that cannot be undone.Truths will be destroyed. Myths will find life. Whose ultimate power will reign?

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Star’s biggest problem used to be too much homework. Now, she’s plagued with vicious head-bangers, and she’s not good at fighting. She just wants a boyfriend to crush on, her father home more often, and a trip to the Mall that doesn’t involve giant robot dinosaurs or ninja. Plagued with horrible visions out of time, Star knows the HARVEST OF SOULS is coming. The screaming and dying will soon begin as dimensional barriers collapse and the Dark Lords of Nightmare devour humanity. In her dreams, Star reaches for hope, befriending the Phoenix Prince, an ancient warrior whose eyes hold kindness, but whose sword can devastate time and space. She's shocked to discover that the waking world is just another dream—one of his.

A boy seeking adventure… A world that's dying… A war that may have no winners…Thomas longs to escape the drudgery of farm life, dreaming of adventure and running away from his demanding parents.Planet Remeon is on the brink of destruction, fighting a crippling disease that threatens to wipe out their civilization.Thrust into their world, Thomas is caught in the middle of telepathic mind games between the Day Watchers and the Night Dwellers.Alliances will be broken. Thoughts will be controlled. Will anyone survive?

Garet Garrett's fiction deals with the social impact of economic transformations. In The Driver, he deals with railroads, while Satan's Bushel examines agricultural. The Cinder Buggy, his second in the trilogy, is the longest of the three and his true epoch novel and unforgettable masterpiece. With a great story, and tremendous literary passion, it chronicles the transformation of America from the age of iron to the age of steel. It covers the period between 1820 and 1870 and its dramatic technology march. The plot concerns an ongoing war between two industrialists, one the hero who is beaten in the first generation and the other who is malevolent but initially wins a first round in the competitive drive. The struggle continues through the second generation, which leads to a titanic battle over whether steel or iron would triumph and why. Garrett does not portray the market as some idealized utopia. We have here the full range of human emotion and motivation at work: arrogance, pride, malice, love, compassion, jealousy, rage, and everything else. What is striking is that all these emotions play themselves out in a setting that is ultimately peaceful. No one can fully control price movements, and it is these that act to reward virtues and punish vices. There has never been, before or since, economic fiction that can compare with this super high quality standards set by Garrett in these smashing novels. The Cinder Buggy could easily be considered the best of his work in this area. It is a wonderful novel for anyone who loves, or wants to more deeply understand, American history, economic theory, and the place of technology in the molding of society. 365 page paperback 2007