A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon's Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise,...

Three cowboys of different races battle for a bronco busting title. The time is the 1910s, the setting a small town in Oregon swollen to bursting for the rodeo. One of the cowboys is black, one is an Indian and one is white. Lots of detail on roping, riding and bronco busting. By the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression.

Wartime heroics of a courageous British woman who captures a Nazi pilot, cares for her children, and endures the loss of her home and family; as three friends try to find work in Paris, two of them fall in love with the same woman; a rebellious patient battles Nurse Ratched and the mental institution he has been sent to; story of a friendship between a headstrong refined Southern woman and her patient chauffeur; rookie cop Billy Costigan infiltrates...