Edited by Michael R. Booth and Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. — Prentice-Hall, Inc, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1964. First printing 1960. — xii, 368 p. The book is composed of British, American, and Canadian stories. It is provided with a few lines of bibliographical information for each author, including the date and place of first publication of the story. Conrad Aiken. Mr. Arcularis,...
Ed. by Edward J. O'Brien. — Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. — XII, 870 p. During this one short generation American writing has evolved from the point at which it could only be described as extremely provincial English writing to the point where it has achieved dignity and substance as a rich literature in its own right.1915. The Yellow Cat. Wilbur Daniel Steele.1916....
Julianne's Summer Rules: Finish all art projects by August Survive summer job surrounded by cute boys Hit the beach every day Avoid the new neighbors (even though their son is hot!) When Julianne falls for Remi at a bonfire party, her summer is off to a perfect start. Sure, her obnoxious new neighbours are muscling her family off their beachfront property, but she has weeks of...
Reagan Arthur Books, 2012. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0316097772 (ISBN13: 9780316097772). Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad,...
Vintage; Reissue, 1991. — 310 KB. The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he...
Vintage, 1964. — 165 p. Translated from the Japanese by E. DALE SAUNDERS. With drawings by MACHI ABE. The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a...
Vintage; Reissue, 1991. — 376 KB. The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he...
Vintage; Reissue, 1991. — 534 KB. The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he...
Dr. Frank Clevenger, a brilliant forensic psychiatrist, is eager to leave the world of the criminally insane behind-until he receives a chilling phone call. Close friend and former colleague North Anderson, now the Chief of Police on the exclusive island of Nantucket, is desperate for help in solving a shocking case: One of the infant twin daughters of billionaire Darwin Bishop...
Publication details are not specified 416 p. Andy Abramowitz lives in Center City Philadelphia with is wife and two daughters. He practices law by day and various artistic endeavors by night. Thank You, Goodnight Night, his first novel, is the product of frequent bouts of insomnia.
New York, Anchor Books, 2014. — 96 p.— ISBN: 1-4000-7638-7 Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria 1930 . He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in eastern Nigeria, and is a graduate of University College, Ibadan.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. — 248 p. Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting...
A lushly romantic novel from the author of call me by your name. Eight White Nights is an unforgettable journey through that enchanted terrain where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: "I am...
Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines by Alice Adams with Katrina Kenison. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. - 426 p. Introduction by Alice Adams. Rick Bass. The Legend of Pig-Eye. Charles Baxter. The Disappeared. Amy Bloom. Love is not a Pie. Kate Braverman. Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta. Robert Olen Butler. The Trip Back. Charles d'Ambrosio, Jr. The Point....
David Adams, 2012. — (Lacuna 3). — ASIN B0088HOY54 Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to." - Toralii Proverb Hundreds of years before the Toralii attacked Earth, destroying the cities of Beijing, Tehran and Sydney, before they developed the voidwarp technology and destroyed their homeworld, they warred amongst themselves. The hills of the occupied Kaater...
The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples. As a display of...
God's Debris is the first non-Dilbert, non-humor book by best-selling author Scott Adams. Adams describes God's Debris as a thought experiment wrapped in a story. It's designed to make your brain spin around inside your skull. Imagine that you meet a very old man whoâ€you eventually realizeâ€knows literally everything. Imagine that he explains for you the great mysteries of...
London: The Reprint Society, 1961. - 144 p. Heart-warming autobiographical book about a European game warden and his wife, Joy Adamson, who adopt and raise a lioness cub in Kenya during the 1950s. The story is emotional, but the writing is matter-of-fact. The reader is provided with an intimate look into the activities of wildlife in that part of Africa, and the life of a game...
Great Britain,London. Published in 2002 - 2008 in Anthology book of English literature. From The Edexcel Anthology for GCSE English (Literature) The focus of the short story is the contrasting experiences of young Africans, one male and one female, in the second half of the twentieth century in African society. The story focuses especially on the constraints that confine...
The War of the Roses tells the story of Jonathan and Barbara Rose, and their descent from a picturesque family life into a world of macabre self-destruction. The novel begins quietly, introducing us to Jonathan and Barbara as they are introduced to each other for the first time. Fast forward some years, and they are living the good life in a Washington, D.C. suburb. They have...
Illinois: Northwestern University Press,.2000.—119 p.—ISBN: 0-8101-6081-1 Ali Ahmad Said Esber (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر, romanised: ʿAlī Aḥmad Saʿīd Aṣbar, born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس, Adūnīs), is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator who is considered one of the most influential and dominant Arab poets of the modern...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 886 p. Aeschylus ( c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is also the first whose plays still survive; the others are Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy, critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.—168 p.—ISBN: 0-691-11745-4 There are nine poets in this book. Their dates of birth range from the mid-nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth. All are German-speaking. Their places of origin are from as far north as Bukowina and as far south as Carinthia. Their places of exile range from Sweden to South America. All...
390 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2000. 1958 James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death In The Family is the powerful, moving story of a universal human situation. It tells of a loving and closely-knit family-and of their great courage when tragedy changes senselessly and suddenly the lives of those who are left behind. "Maturely and...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2015. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-0399171611. Age Range: 12 and up A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So...
Delphi Classics. 2015. — 8036 p. William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 – 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Ainsworth briefly...
The Zoo Story, originally titled Peter and Jerry, is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written in 1958 and completed in just three weeks. The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a commercial world. Initially the play was rejected by New York...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick. It was directed by Alan Schneider. Subsequent cast members included Henderson Forsythe, Eileen Fulton, Mercedes McCambridge,...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1962 play by Edward Albee. It examines the breakdown of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. After a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests late one evening and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship. The play is in three acts, normally taking a...
Balzer + Bray, 2018. — ISBN10: 9780062643803; ISBN13: 978-0062643803. In this sequel to the acclaimed Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda — now a major motion picture, Love, Simon — we follow Simon’s BFF Leah as she grapples with changing friendships, first love, and senior year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat — but real life isn’t always so...
Balzer + Bray, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0062348701; ISBN13: 978-0062348708. “Heart-fluttering, honest, and hilarious. I can’t stop hugging this book.” —Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss "I have such a crush on this book! Not only is this one a must read, but it's a must re-read." —Julie Murphy, New York Times bestselling author of...
Balzer + Bray, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0062348701; ISBN13: 978-0062348708. “Heart-fluttering, honest, and hilarious. I can’t stop hugging this book.” —Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss "I have such a crush on this book! Not only is this one a must read, but it's a must re-read." —Julie Murphy, New York Times bestselling author of...
New York: Hyperion, 2003. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you’ve ever thought about the afterlife — and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure. Eddie...
An old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago....
Maggie Alderson (born 1959) is a London-born Australian author, magazine editor and fashion journalist. She is the former editor of ES, the Evening Standard magazine (British Society of Magazine Editors, Editor of the Year, Colour Supplements 1989) and British Elle magazines. In Australia, she was acting editor of Cleo and editor of Mode. The internationally bestselling Girls...
Penguin Classics, 2013. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-0-143-10687-6. One of the great World War I antiwar novels - honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. — 222 p. — ISBN10: 0393336867; ISBN13: 978-0393336863. Translated by Julia and Robin Whitby With Introduction by Larry Heinemann. From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties?and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage...
Project Gutenberg, 2006. "Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evidences of favor that it has been rewritten and considerably enlarged, and is now presented to the public as the first volume of a series intended to...
The Cash Boy, by Horatio Alger, Jr., as the name implies, is a story about a boy and for boys. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken from his relatives and given into the care of a kind woman. Not knowing his name, she gave him her husband's name, Frank Fowler. She had one little daughter, Grace, and showing no partiality in the treatment of her...
A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the spirit world frustrates and tests his resolve. For a time, he is rewarded with the Eden of a lost oasis, but eventually, as new settlers crowd in, its destiny mimics the rise of human civilization. Over the sands and the years,...
Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna. There, he says farewell to the mount who has been his companion through...
Isan, the novel s protagonist, is either Seth himself or a latter-day avatar. A desert-wandering seer and proponent of desert life, he settles for an extended stay in a fertile oasis. If Jack Frost, the personification of the arrival of winter, were to visit a tropical rain forest, the results might be similarly disastrous. Not surprisingly, since this is a novel by Ibrahim...
"Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison." — The Philadelphia Inquirer. When it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Renard Allen's debut novel, Rails Under My Back, earned its author comparisons to some of the giants of twentieth-century modernism. The publication of Allen's equally ambitious second novel, Song...
A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era. At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. Song of the Shank opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to...
Publication details not specified. 202 p. Dates on My Fingers : is a novel written by the Iraqi author Muhsin Al-Ramli, was published in Spanish (Dedos de dátiles, 2008), in Arabic (Tamr al-asabiÊ¿, 2009) and in English, 2014. The English translation was done by Luke Leafgren and was published by the American University Press in Cairo. The Arabic version was selected as one of...
Sybilla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For fifteen years she has been excluded from society and, as one of the homeless in Stockholm, she takes each day as it comes, keeping all her possessions in her rucksack – apart from a knife and salami which she stores in a smart briefcase. She is always well-dressed and displays impeccable manners. One night, in The Grand Hotel, she charms a...
In a nondescript apartment block in Stockholm, most of the residents are elderly. Usually a death is a sad but straightforward event. But sometimes a resident will die and there are no friends or family to contact. This is when Marianne Folkesson arrives, employed by the state to close up a life with dignity and respect. Gerda Persson has lain dead in her apartment for three...
Longmans, Green and Co., 1921. — 334 (352) p. New impression. Selected and edited with an introductory essay on the short story by Charles Sears Baldwin, A.M., Ph.D. Washington Irving - Rip Van Winkle (1820). William Austin - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man (1824). James Hall - The French Village (1829). Albert Pike - The Inroad Of The Nahajo (1833). Nathaniel Hawthorne - The White...
Motivation (Psychology) Businesswomen. New business enterprises. Success in business. New York : Portfolio/Penguin, Putnam, 2014 A #GIRLBOSS is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it." The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion-it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving....
Portfolio Hardcover, 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 039916927X, ISBN13: 978-0399169274. The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn’t fashion — it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving. By twenty-two, she had resigned herself to employment, but was still broke, directionless, and working a mediocre day job she’d taken for...
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1955. — 272 p. The Man-Eater of Jowlagiri The Spotted Devil of Gummalapur The Striped Terror of Chamala Valley The Hosdurga-Holalkere Man-Eater The Rogue Elephant of Panapatti The Man-Eater of Segur The Man-Eater of Yemaydoddi The Killer of Jalahalli The Hermit of Devarayandurga Byra, the Poojaree The Tigers of Tagarthy
A Book Of Impressions From American Life In Tales And Poems: The dumb man. I want to know why. Seeds. The other woman (). The egg. Unlighted lamps. Senility. The man in the brown coat. Brothers. The door of the trap. The new englander. War. Motherhood. Out of nowhere into nothing. The man with the trumpet. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Like Samuel Clemens, by whom, in fact, he...
A Book Of Impressions From American Life In Tales And Poems: The dumb man. I want to know why. Seeds. The other woman (). The egg. Unlighted lamps. Senility. The man in the brown coat. Brothers. The door of the trap. The new englander. War. Motherhood. Out of nowhere into nothing. The man with the trumpet. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Like Samuel Clemens, by whom, in fact, he...
210 p. Introduction by Irving Howe. Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man. It is...
Amulet Books, 2012. — 304 p. — ISBN: 1-4197-0176-2 Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time — when not playing video games and avoiding Earl’s terrifying brothers — making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Greg would be the first one to tell you his movies...
Amulet Books, 2012. — 304 p. — ISBN: 1-4197-0176-2 Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time — when not playing video games and avoiding Earl’s terrifying brothers — making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Greg would be the first one to tell you his movies...
Amulet Books, 2016. — 336 p. — ISBN: 1-4197-2078-3 From Jesse Andrews, author of the New York Times bestselling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and screenwriter of the Sundance award–winning motion picture of the same name, comes a groundbreaking young adult novel about music, love, friendship, and freedom as three young musicians follow a quest to escape the law long enough to...
St. Martin's Press, 2018. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1250126061; ISBN13: 978-1250126061. An instant New York Times bestseller (May 2018) from the author of The Weekenders - a delightful new novel about new love, old secrets, and the kind of friendship that transcends generations. When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons attorney Brooke Trappnell to her...
St. Martin's Press, 2018. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1250126061; ISBN13: 978-1250126061. An instant New York Times bestseller (May 2018) from the author of The Weekenders - a delightful new novel about new love, old secrets, and the kind of friendship that transcends generations. When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons attorney Brooke Trappnell to her...
Edmonton — Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1998. — 132 p. Translated by Marko Pavlyshyn. Однією із складових частин проблематики роману Юрія Андруховича "Рекреації" є новий, порівняно із звичайним народницьким розумінням у попередній літературній традиції, погляд на феномен творчості. Використовуючи постмодерністське й карнавальне світосприйняття, автор...
Edmonton — Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1998. — 132 p. Translated by Marko Pavlyshyn. Однією із складових частин проблематики роману Юрія Андруховича "Рекреації" є новий, порівняно із звичайним народницьким розумінням у попередній літературній традиції, погляд на феномен творчості. Використовуючи постмодерністське й карнавальне світосприйняття, автор...
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963. — 500 p. Translated from Ukrainian by C.H. ANDRUSYSHEN and Watson KIRKCONNELL. Anthology of Ukrainian poetry from 1189 to 1962 translated into English.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963. — 500 p. Translated from Ukrainian by C.H. ANDRUSYSHEN and Watson KIRKCONNELL. Anthology of Ukrainian poetry from 1189 to 1962 translated into English.
Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her...
Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her...
Bantam Books, Unadapted text. Autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to...
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller, 2015. — ASIN B015YVOT8I. An Englishwoman falls for a Russian wanted by Intelligence on both sides of the Iron Curtain in this classic tale of Cold War espionage As executive assistant to a senior diplomat at the UN, widow Judith Farrow spends most of her working hours handling classified information. When her boss insists she take some time...
Doncaster: Bayda books, 1980. — 173 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. "За ширмою" — один з найвизначніших творів української літератури, соціально-психологічний роман про кровний взаємозв'язок людини і суспільства, людини і нації. Ще в повісті "Смерть" Антоненко-Давидович виявив себе майстром зображувати в малому велике. В "За ширмою" він дійшов вершини цього...
Doncaster: Bayda books, 1980. — 173 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. "За ширмою" — один з найвизначніших творів української літератури, соціально-психологічний роман про кровний взаємозв'язок людини і суспільства, людини і нації. Ще в повісті "Смерть" Антоненко-Давидович виявив себе майстром зображувати в малому велике. В "За ширмою" він дійшов вершини цього...
Melbourne: Lastivka Press, 1986. — 136 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. These are the first years of the new Soviet Ukrainian state, the period of militant communism. Kost Horobenko, an upstanding young communist, is forever duelling with his alter ego, the Ukrainian nationalist. A gripping, psychological novel. Повість "Смерть" належить до низки творів Бориса...
Melbourne: Lastivka Press, 1986. — 136 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. These are the first years of the new Soviet Ukrainian state, the period of militant communism. Kost Horobenko, an upstanding young communist, is forever duelling with his alter ego, the Ukrainian nationalist. A gripping, psychological novel. Повість "Смерть" належить до низки творів Бориса...
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1977. — 69 p. Translated by Mark Rudman and Paul Nemser with Bohdan Boychuk. Збірка поезій Богдана-Ігоря Антонича у перекладах англійською мовою.
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1977. — 69 p. Translated by Mark Rudman and Paul Nemser with Bohdan Boychuk. Збірка поезій Богдана-Ігоря Антонича у перекладах англійською мовою.
University of California Press, 2007. - 474 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 25). The Argonautika, the only surviving epic of the Hellenistic era, is a retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, probably the oldest extant Greek myth. Peter Green's lively, readable verse translation captures the swift narrative movement of Apollonios's epic Greek. This expanded...
Finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize. A twenty-five-thousand-copy bestseller in Quebec, Arvida, with its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips heading nowhere, is unforgettable. Like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy, Samuel Archibald's portrait of his hometown, a model town design by American...
Biography. New York, Kensington Publishing Corp, 2004, 256 p. A treat for every hip hop fan, this book presents a rare and indispensable look into the private life of the iconic Tupak Shakur, complete with original letters and poems.
Transworld Publishers, 2017. — ISBN: 978-085-7-52418-8. It’s not the journey that counts, but who is at your side Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where to. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved Satoru in the front of his silver van. Satoru is keen to visit three old friends from his youth, though Nana doesn’t know why and Satoru won’t say. Set...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 884 p. Aristophanes ( c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion , was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are used to define the genre.
Glasgow: W. Collins Son & Co, 1926. — 342 p. The Green Hat perfectly reflects the atmosphere of the 1920s — the post-war fashion for verbal smartness, youthful cynicism, and the spirit of rebellion of the "bright young things" of Mayfair. Iris Storm, femme fatale, races around London and Europe in her yellow Hispano-Suiza surrounded by romantic intrigue, but beneath the glamour...
London: William Heinemann, 1920. Drawings by Michel Sevier. — 178 (202) p. A semi-autobiographical book by the author of the worldwide bestselling novel The Green Hat (1924). He adopted his pen name after its publication.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1921. — 297 (312) p. A book of 4 short stories by the author of the bestseller The Green Hat. The Romantic Lady – The story of a beautiful Italian woman who chooses her new husband by inviting a man home and forbidding him to ever see her again. Fay Richmond – A man finds himself a frequent guest and friend in the house of the beautiful Fay...
1997 Man Booker Prize winner. "They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much." The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family. Their lonely, lovely...
The God of Small Things (1997) is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book is a description of how the small things in life affect people's behaviour and their lives. The book won the Booker...
London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2017. — 753 p. — ISBN: 9780241980774. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent — from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a...
Biography. Purple Inc Press ,2011, 350, EPUB Diana Dors is a legend. Her fame has survived the adored fifties's celebrity to today's cult figure. She is arguably the biggest star the U.K. has produced, not only for her acclaimed body of work but for her generosity, incredible bravery, lack of airs and graces, her compassion, wit and intelligence. From the age of eight Diana's...
Razorbill, 2007. — 304 p. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he...
Razorbill, 2017. — 336 p. “You can’t stop the future.” “You can’t rewind the past.” “The only way to learn the secret...is to press play. “Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier....
London: Avon Books, 2011. – 145 p. Another deliciously seasonal and heart-warming tale from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Twelve Days of Christmas and Chocolate Wishes. In the pretty Lancashire village of Middlemoss, Lizzy is on the verge of leaving her cheating husband, Tom, when tragedy strikes. Luckily she has welcome distraction in the Christmas Pudding Circle,...
New York: HarperCollins, 2010. – 181 p. Christmas has always been a sad time for a young widow Holly Brown, so when she's asked to look after a remote house on the Lancashire moors, the opportunity to hide herself away is irresistible — the perfect excuse to forget about the festivities. Sculptor, Jude Martland, is determined that this year there will be no Christmas after his...
HarperCollin Young Adult, chick lit. Sixteen-year-old Adrienne Lewis is in charge of eight-year-old Emma Warner, the youngest member of the snooty Warner family. Emma is an evil genius who has gotten all five previous nannies fired, and she's the good news. Because then there's Emma's half brother, Graydon, who goes to college, yet always seems to be lurking around waiting to...
HarperCollin Young Adult, chick lit. Sixteen-year-old Adrienne Lewis is a nanny in the fabulous Warner penthouse high above Manhattan. Every day, Adrienne watches eight-year-old Emma after school and constantly tangles with Emma's beautiful but wicked teenage half sister, Cameron. In the meantime, Adrienne's best friend, Liz Braun, has also gotten caught in the seductive web of...
HarperCollin Young Adult, chick lit. A secret just isn't juicy unless it's shared... Teen nannies Adrienne Lewis and Liz Braun finally have it all...or so they think. Adrienne is so over her ex-boyfriend, who dumped her for Cameron Warner. But it's Cameron's half brother who is hitting on Adrienne. Are his charming ways sincere? Liz's relationship with her boyfriend is going...
Glasgow: Bloodaxe Books Ltd,.2004.—498 p. Poetry..."My hope is that having discovered a much fuller understanding and appreciation of contemporary poetry through Staying Alive, you will then want to go on to explore the full riches held in so many other books. Until you discovered Staying Alive, the problem was that you didn't know where to look, but after you've read and...
A novel. “To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten” Thomas Chandler. Story about understanding and true love.
Monarch, 2002. — 32 p. Atticus is a Canadian poet whose work has become popular via social media. His true identity is not disclosed. "It may strike you as the kind of poetry that might feel more at home in a greeting-card store than a library – but can 387,000 Instagram followers be wrong?"
Random House, 1962. — 544 p. — ISBN: 0679724842. In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations — on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The...
New York: Random House, Vintage Books, 1979. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0679724834. This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other...
New York: Random House, Vintage Books, 1979. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0679724834. This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975. — 459 p. Auezov studied Abai all his life. And not merely as the future hero of his novels and plays. He spent no little time and effort on pure research, and published a number of monographs on Abai. What is more, he had a special course of Abai studies included in the university programme. He was one of those writers who make their own...
Publication details not specified. 146 p. Even in the slaughterhouse of boyhood, I was dimly aware that I should have some jolly, wink-eyed uncle or gramp with whom to share private jokes and hatch terrorist outrages against the state. But all I recall is Uncle Snapper, who liked to go shooting in the woods and had a theory about squirrels. ‘They always run round the other side...
S.e., 2014. — 272 p. "Akbilek" - a well-known novel of the Kazakh writer Zhusipbek Aymauytov. For the first time published in 1927 this novel was under a ban till 1989, and only in 2007 was translated into Russian. All researchers of Aymauytov’s creativity admire fine language of the writer, his ability to give precisely feelings and moods of the heroes. On the first pages of...
First published as a serial in the newspaper El Paso del Norte, in October and November of 1915, then as a book published by the same newspaper, the novel «Los de abajo» has been translated into all the main languages of the world. Mariano Azuela's masterwork came out one hundred years after José Loaquín Fernández de Lazardi's «El Periquillo Sarniento» created the genre of the...
Paperback: 1072 p. Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (November 17, 2005) Language: English ISBN10: 0393328244 ISBN13: 978-0393328240 Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David...
Transl. by Annette Susannah Beveridge. — New Delhi: Oriental books, 1979 (reprint edition). — 810 p. Bāburnāma (Chagatai/Persian: بابر نامہ;´, literally: "Book of Babur" or "Letters of Babur"; alternatively known as Tuzk-e Babri) is the name given to the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur....
Dell, 1989. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0440204887; ISBN13: 978-0440204886. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach. First published in 1977, the story questions the reader's view of reality, proposing that what we call reality is merely an illusion we create for learning and enjoyment. Illusions was the author's followup to 1970's...
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1957. — 245 p. A political prisoner, on route to the grimmest and brashest corner of eastern Siberia, escapes the closely guarded slave train and finds himself in a wild and primitive land. In this remote outpost of Communist Russia are freedom loving nomads who hunt, fish and are apart from the political pressures and terrors that grip other...
It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, that a different drama unfolds. In it, he...
In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new...
Alison and Charlie, Claire and Ben seem like two picture-perfect couples. Alison and Charlie have a beautiful family and a home in the suburbs, while Claire and Ben's marriage revolves around their careers and city-based lives. Despite their differences, the two couples have remained close friends for ten years. But one terrifying moment in the dead of a New Jersey night will...
The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) . With an Introduction by John Harrington Smith Los Angeles. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. University of California. 1950 In the first decade of the eighteenth century, with comedy in train to be altered out of recognition to please the reformers and the ladies, one of the two talented writers who attempted to keep the comic muse alive in...
Grand Central Publishing, 2015. — 416 p. — (Amos Decker series). Amos Decker's life changed forever-twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field...
Series: Will Robie Series (Book 3). Paperback: 464 p. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (September 16, 2014). Language: English. ISBN10: 1455521183. ISBN13: 978-1455521180. The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain...
New York: Laurel, 1985. — 224 p. James Baldwin's stunning first novel (published in 1953) is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through...
N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1966. — 226 p. Born in New York and raised in Harlem, where his father was a minister, James Baldwin wrote his first three books, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and Giovanni's Room, as an expatriate. Returning to America, he received wide public recognition for his collection of brilliant essays, Nobody Knows My Name, and the...
New York: Laurel, 1988. — 214 p. In this honest and stunning novel, first published in 1974, James Baldwin gave America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get...
Short story. — 13 p. Previous Condition was originally published in 1948 in “Commentary”. Collected in Going to Meet the Man. Peter, the main character, is a black man in his mid-twenties who works as an actor in New York where he is living in a small flat rented for him by a friend. In his everyday life he is very much concerned of discrimination against him and blacks in...
New York: Grove Press, 2004. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0802141226; ISBN13: 978-0802141224 — (Grove Press Poetry) March Book is a wonder and a revelation. A shockingly assured first collection from young poet Jesse Ball, its elegant lines and penetrating voice present a poetic symphony instead of a simple succession of individual, barely-linked poems. Craftsmanship defines this...
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2011. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1571314423; ISBN13: 978-1571314420. The Village on Horseback features mesmerizing new work from the author of Samedi the Deafness and The Way Through Doors, one of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2009. This collection of new pieces by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend....
Delacorte, 2013. — 242 p. — ISBN: 0385741588 (ISBN13: 9780385741583). My friends and I are spending prom weekend at a remote wooded cabin on the Dead. The Dead River. I thought it was going to be just us. I was wrong. Nothing is what it seems in this creepy paranormal thriller by Cyn Balog.
Orbit, 2017. — 371 p. Mild-mannered headmaster, Thomas Senlin prefers his adventures to be safely contained within the pages of a book. So when he loses his new bride shortly after embarking on the honeymoon of their dreams, he is ill-prepared for the trouble that follows. To find her, Senlin must enter the Tower of Babel - a world of geniuses and tyrants, of menace and wonder,...
California: University of California Press,.1989.—254 p.—ISBN: 0-520-06090-3 Bilingual (english-portugal) Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Flag Son was born in Recife, on 19 April 1886. He was a poet, literary critic and art, literature professor and Brazilian translator.
Text copyright (c) 2011 by Tyra Banks Jacket and endpaper art copyright (c) 2011 by The Tyra Banks Company Books, LLC. Jacket art and design by Perry Harovas and James Schmitt/Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy. Endpaper art by Hebru Brantley. Random House, Inc. eISBN: 978-0-375-89944-7 Tyra Banks is a supermodel, television show creator and host, proud displayer of her ass,...
2005 Man Booker Prize winner. Published: Picador, 2005. In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met...
Bangkok: Thai Modern Classics, 2009. — 421 p. Barang Marcel (ed.) The Twenty Best Novels of Thailand (In English) Books in a Bind. Before the Novel. Legacies of the Past. Marie Who? The Birth of the Novel. The Pioneers. The Lost Generation. The Baby Boomers. Arkartdamkeung Rapheephat, The Circus of Life. Seeboorapha, Behind the Picture. Dorkmai Sot, Noblesse Oblige. K....
Bangkok: Thai Modern Classics, 1994. — 290 (491) p. Barang Marcel (ed.) An Anthology of the Thai Novel (In English) Books in a bind. Before the novel. Legacies of the past. Marie who? The birth of the novel. The pioneers. The lost generation. The baby boomers. Arkartdamkeung Rapheephat, The circus of life. Seeboorapha, Behind the picture. Dorkmai Sot, A person of quality. K....
2008/2010 English Digital Edition The Elegance of the Hedgehog ( French: L'élégance du hérisson) is a novel by the French novelist and professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery . The book follows events in the life of a concierge, Renée Michel, whose deliberately concealed intelligence is uncovered by an unstable but intellectually precocious girl named Paloma Josse. Paloma is the...
The Rosary is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She loves him back, but does not trust his love, as is known to be a great lover of beauty, and she – alas – is very plain. Just as she decides to trust him, she receives news that he has been blinded in a hunting accident. She wants to go visit him, but he will not receive her,...
433 p. From the award-winning author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit. Reading other people’s letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for two West Yorkshire policemen — contemplating a cache of 26 undelivered missives, retrieved from a back alley behind the hairdresser's in Skipton — it's also a job of work. The quaint moorside...
A novel about stripping off layers of prejudice and lies, about the possibility of redemption, and laying bare the truth. It is also about coming to terms with the past, and about the fantasies people construct in order to protect their fragile inner selves.
NY: New Directions Publishing, 1937. — ISBN: 978-0-8112-1671-5. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and...
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, “a master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal), comes a powerful new novel of duty and family set against the American Indian and Civil Wars. Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to...
From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America. Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to...
A gorgeous new novel from the author of the Man Booker finalist A Long Long Way As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is a patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and she decides to record the events of her life. As Roseanne revisits her past, hiding the...
Harper Collins Entertainment, 2009. — 182 p. — ISBN: 0-00-711005-7 Hello there, friend, and welcome to Bart Simpson's Guide to Life. If you didn't swipe this book, and it wasn't a gift, then we here at the Bart Simpson Foundation for Personal Enrichment must assume that you actually paid money for this merchandise. Therefore we must assume that you are a concerned and sensitive...
Copyright 2009 by The Plough Publishing House. Pages -213. PDF. It is summer, 1940. As Hitler’s armies turn mainland Europe into a mass graveyard, his feared Luftwaffe rain bombs on England. Meanwhile, amid the green hills of the Cotswolds, a nest of enemy aliens has been discovered: the Bruderhof, a Christian commune made up of German, Dutch, and Swiss refugees, and growing...
New York: Anchor, 1992. — 573 p. — ISBN10: 0385422202; ISBN13: 978-0385422208. The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor is a postmodern metafictional story of a man who jumps overboard a modern replica of a medieval Arab ship and is rescued by sailors from the world of Sinbad the Sailor. Eventually he makes his way to "Baghdad, the City of Peace", and finds himself in the stories...
Harper, 2013. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0062277359; ISBN13: 978-0062277350. The Body Farm is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now he's being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in...
A dazzling collection of award-winning stories with the emotional punch, sharp wit, and disarming charm of Rebecca Lee, Karen Russell, Neil Smith, and Jessica Grant. Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Step right up and prepare to be dazzled by this delightful debut from Claire Battershill, winner of the CBC Literary Award, co-winner of the Canadian Authors Association’s...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2006.—527 p.—ISBN: 0-226-03923-4 Laura Battiferri (1523–1589), also called Laura Battiferri Ammanati, was an Italian poet during the Renaissance period. She was born in Urbino, Italy as the illegitimate daughter of Giovanni Antonio Battiferri and Maddalena Coccapani of Carpi. She published two books of poetry: The First Book of Tuscan...
To create this tremendously affecting memoir, Jean-Dominique Bauby used the only tool available to him--his left eye--with which he blinked out its short chapters, letter by letter. Two years ago, Bauby, then the 43-year-old editor-in-chief of Elle France, suffered a rare stroke to the brain stem; only his left eye and brain escaped damage. Rather than accept his "locked in"...
Spanning 1940s to 2020s America, a Pynchon-esque saga about rock music, art, politics, and the elusive nature of love. Meet everyman Moses Teumer, whose recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia has sent him in search of a donor. When he discovers that the woman who raised him is not his biological mother, he must hunt down his birth parents and unspool the intertwined...
From the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Rea Award for the Short Story: a gorgeously rendered, passionate account of a relationship threatened by secrets, set against the backdrop of national tragedy. When Natasha, a talented young artist working as a congressional aide, meets Michael Faulk, an...
When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters' drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation. Her name became an adjective: Beattiesque. Subtle, wry, and unnerving, she is a master...
PAUL BEATTY is the author of the novels Slumberland, Tuff , and The White Boy Shuffle , and two books of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce . He is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African American Humor . He lives in New York City. Winner of 2016 Booker Prize
PAUL BEATTY is the author of the novels Slumberland, Tuff , and The White Boy Shuffle , and two books of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce . He is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African American Humor. He lives in New York City. Winner of 2016 Booker Prize
This is the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Iseult. It is a tale of love, honour, intrigue, betrayal and jealousy, ending ultimately in tragedy. This story predates that of Lancelot and Guinevere, and is one of the most influential romances of the medieval period, inspiring many artists, from story-tellers to painters to composers.
Thirty-one-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year. She can't remember when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a painful breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real...
Aris & Phillips, 1980. — 104 p. — (Approaches to Arabic Literature 2.) Arabic text, based on the Istanbul MS, with translation and commentary of the 9th century writer's Risalat al-Qiyan . The Epistle, which ironically purports to be a defence of the practices of singing-girls and their masters, is a vivid account, touched with humour, of this aspect of the social habits of the...
Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1476725829; ISBN13: 978-1476725826. The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior — using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion. Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something...
Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1476725829; ISBN13: 978-1476725826. The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior — using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion. Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something...
Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation — a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside tavern. But when reality shifts, so does Jacob, mutating into another person entirely.
W&N, 2005. 294 p. — ISBN10: 0297847821, ISBN13: 978-0297847823. Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story.From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a frank, funny and award-winning web diary. Now, in her Intimate Adventures, Belle elaborates on those diary...
As soon as it appeared in 1953, this gem by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Bold, expansive, and keenly humorous, The Adventures of Augie Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A "born recruit," Augie is himself for hire by plungers, schemers, risk takers, and operators, compiling a record of choices that is-to say the least-eccentric.
Mona Gray was ten when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandoning each of her talents just as pleasure became intense. The only thing she can’t stop doing is math: She knocks on wood, adds her steps, and multiplies people in the park against one another. When Mona begins teaching math to second-graders, she finds a ready audience. But the...
After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory--even if it means traveling the globe, alone. Suzy's achingly heartfelt journey explores life, death, the astonishing wonder of the universe...and the potential...
Delphi Classic. 2013. Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film.
HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2016. — 214 p. — ISBN: 0062002724, 1410490521. The nationally bestselling author of Delilah's Daughters and The Amen Sisters returns with a moving story about a single mother who discovers the woman she can be in one unforgettable summer. As a single mother, Destiny makes sacrifices for her children-including saying goodbye for the summer so they...
Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"—as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't...
Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"—as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't...
Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"—as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't...
Viking Juvenile 2013 — 166 p. — ISBN13: 9780670786152 Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years ago, only Judith returned, permanently mutilated, reviled and ignored by those who were once her friends and family. Unable to speak, Judith lives like a ghost in her own home, silently pouring out her thoughts to the...
USA: American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., 2010. — 86 p. Berryman John. 77 dream songs (In English) Old Pussy-cat if he won't eat, he don’t feel good into his tum’, old Pussy-cat. He wants to have eaten. Tremor, heaves, he sweaterings. He can’t. A dizzy swims of where is Henry at; somewhere streng verboten. How come he sleeps & sleeps and sleeps, waking like death: locate the...
Print, 2013. — ISBN10: 1440329869; ISBN13: 978-1440329869. What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped...
Corgi, 2012. Omnibus edition Two volumes of memoirs about war and post-war life through the eyes of an Irish woman living in Nazi Germany. The publication includes two volumes. Christabel Bielenberg, an Englishwoman of Irish descent, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived through the war in Germany as a German citizen under the horrors of Nazi rule and Allied bombings. The...
Corgi, 2012. Omnibus edition Two volumes of memoirs about war and post-war life through the eyes of an Irish woman living in Nazi Germany. The publication includes two volumes. Christabel Bielenberg, an Englishwoman of Irish descent, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived through the war in Germany as a German citizen under the horrors of Nazi rule and Allied bombings. The...
Corgi, 2012. Omnibus edition Two volumes of memoirs about war and post-war life through the eyes of an Irish woman living in Nazi Germany. The publication includes two volumes. Christabel Bielenberg, an Englishwoman of Irish descent, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived through the war in Germany as a German citizen under the horrors of Nazi rule and Allied bombings. The...
Corgi, 2012. Omnibus edition Two volumes of memoirs about war and post-war life through the eyes of an Irish woman living in Nazi Germany. The publication includes two volumes. Christabel Bielenberg, an Englishwoman of Irish descent, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived through the war in Germany as a German citizen under the horrors of Nazi rule and Allied bombings. The...
1899 Edition. The Moral Principle and the Material Interest The Crimson Candle The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine The Ingenious Patriot Two Kings An Officer and a Thug The Conscientious Official How Leisure Came The Moral Sentiment The Politicians The Thoughtful Warden The Treasury and the Arms The Christian Serpent The Broom of the Temple The Critics The Foolish...
Penguin, 1996. Righteous Gentile, first published in 1981, is the first book to tell the full story of Raoul Wallenberg's shining wartime exploits and shameful post-war incarceration. The author's conclusion: the Wallenberg file has been destroyed, and we may never learn the truth. John David Bierman, journalist and author, born January 26 1929; died January 4 2006
Penguin, 1996. Righteous Gentile, first published in 1981, is the first book to tell the full story of Raoul Wallenberg's shining wartime exploits and shameful post-war incarceration. The author's conclusion: the Wallenberg file has been destroyed, and we may never learn the truth. John David Bierman, journalist and author, born January 26 1929; died January 4 2006
Penguin, 1996. Righteous Gentile, first published in 1981, is the first book to tell the full story of Raoul Wallenberg's shining wartime exploits and shameful post-war incarceration. The author's conclusion: the Wallenberg file has been destroyed, and we may never learn the truth. John David Bierman, journalist and author, born January 26 1929; died January 4 2006
Da Capo Press. — ISBN10: 0306809907; ISBN13: 978-0306809903. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy...
London: An Hachette UK Company, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1472218965; ISBN13: 9781472218964. Brand new novel from Jenny Blackhurst, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of How i lost you, which Clare Mackintosh called ‘utterly gripping’. If you don’t know who is walking through the door, how do you know if you should let them in? Perfect for fans of Lisa Hall’s The sister and Claire...
London: An Hachette UK Company, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1472218965; ISBN13: 9781472218964. Brand new novel from Jenny Blackhurst, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of How i lost you, which Clare Mackintosh called ‘utterly gripping’. If you don’t know who is walking through the door, how do you know if you should let them in? Perfect for fans of Lisa Hall’s The sister and Claire...
London: An Hachette UK Company, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1472218965; ISBN13: 9781472218964. Brand new novel from Jenny Blackhurst, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of How i lost you, which Clare Mackintosh called ‘utterly gripping’. If you don’t know who is walking through the door, how do you know if you should let them in? Perfect for fans of Lisa Hall’s The sister and Claire...
Novel. The sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. These are the words that have followed me always. This is the curse which has fallen on my life.
Reprobatio, Ltd., 2015. — 269 p. — ASIN B012EJJ7DK. Artemis Black's world is coming apart in the days leading up to Christmas. His relationship is on the rocks, he's struggling to make ends meet, he's gone days without sleep, and when he's called in to investigate a brutal murder at a big box store in Long Beach, he's at the end of his rope. Racing the clock to clear a young...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 3291 p. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This monumental volume presents for the first time ever the complete works of William Blake, featuring all of the poetry and the entire corpus of engravings and paintings, as well as the usual Delphi bonus material. Poetical Sketches An...
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992. — 64 p. — ISBN: 0-486-27051-3. As both painter and poet, William Blake (1757-1827) was a powerful and visionary artist whose two early collections of poetry, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience , contain memorable lyric verses embodying the emerging spirit of Romanticism. The two works were published together in 1794 with the...
Third Edition by W.H. Stevenson. William Blake (1757 - 1827) is one of the great figures in literature, by turns poet, artist and visonary. Profoundly libertarian in outlook, Blake's engagement with the issues of his day is well known and this - along with his own idiosynratic concerns - flows through his poetry and art. Like Milton before him, the prodigality of his allusions...
Anchor, 1982, 990 p., ISBN-10: 0385152132, ISBN-13: 978-0385152136. Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, it includes up-to-date work on variants, a chronology of poems, and critical commentary by Harold Bloom. An "Approved Edition" of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the...
ISBN: 9781513282558. ISBN-10: 1513282557. Publisher: Mint Editions. Publication Date: May 21st, 2021. Pages: 388. Martín Rivas (1862) is a novel by Alberto Blest Gana. Regarded as the first Chilean novel, Martín Rivas is a powerful story of romance, class, and national unity from an author who served for decades as a diplomat and ambassador for Chile. Inspired by the social...
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1972. — 386 p. — ISBN10: 0080121853; ISBN13: 978-0080121857. Translated by Avril Pyman. The book first presents verses from the collection “Ante Lucem“ and poems of the 1905 revolution. Verses lifted from the two collections are presented. The poems cover various topics and were accomplished in different time frames. Although portions of the poems are...
Toothy Chum Press, 2011. — 410 p. — ISBN: 978-0615509341 (paperback), ISBN: 0615509347 (Kindle). Gird yourself for adventure on a massive scale! This is the riveting account of the first Fumu ascent. What is Fumu? It is the tallest mountain in the world, a fact long kept from the public. Join two pompous American climbers as they navigate the perils of their respective parent...
Ed. by Loren R. Graham and Richard Stites. Transl. by Charles Rougle. — Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1984. — 262 p. — ISBN: 978-0-253-17350-8; ISBN: 978-0-253-20317-5. Bogdanov Alexander (1873–1928). The first edition of Red Star appeared in St. Petersburg in 1908. It was reissued in Petrograd and in Moscow in 1918, and again in Moscow in 1922. A stage...
Ed. by Loren R. Graham and Richard Stites. Transl. by Charles Rougle. — Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1984. — 262 p. — ISBN: 978-0-253-17350-8; ISBN: 978-0-253-20317-5 Fantasy and Revolution: Alexander Bogdanov and the Origins of Bolshevik Science Fiction. Richard Stites Red Star: A Utopia Engineer Menni: A Novel of Fantasy A Martian Stranded on Earth: A...
Translation by Natasha Wimmer. — Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 2666 is the last novel by Roberto Bolaño. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. Its themes are manifold, and it revolves around an elusive German author and the unsolved and ongoing murders of women in Santa Teresa, a violent city inspired by Ciudad Juárez and its epidemic of female homicides.
Blaise Fortune, also known as Koumaïl, loves hearing the story of how he came to live with Gloria in the Republic of Georgia: Gloria was picking peaches in her father’s orchard when she heard a train derail. After running to the site of the accident, she found an injured woman who asked Gloria to take her baby. The woman, Gloria claims, was French, and the baby was Blaise. When...
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic,...
The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century — a true literary sensation — with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson. The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered,...
A Bantam Book, 1971. - 211 p. Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s killer, and a man awaiting his...
The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’s whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination. This unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together the fantastical inventions drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Confucius, Shakespeare,...
History Press, 2013. — 155 p. ISBN: 1609499042 The story of the Mississippi Golden Gulf Coast can’t be told without a few tall tales–pirates, buried treasure, ghosts and colorful characters pepper its diverse past. From incredible stories of the pirate Jean Lafitte to iconic legends like Barq’s Root Beer, travel from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula and every nook and cranny in...
New York, Knopf, 1952. — ISBN: 0-385-72014-9. The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical...
"... the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls 'cabin fever.'... Bud Moore, ex-cow-puncher and now owner of an auto stage that did not run in the winter, was touched with cabin fever and did not know what ailed him. His stage line ran from San Jose, California, up through Los Gatos and over the Bear Creek road across the...
Penguin Group, 2006. — ISBN: 978-0-14-102342-7, 978-0-14-102342-7 Some journeys are best left unmade. Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an alien...
Penguin Group, 2006. — ISBN: 978-0-14-102342-7, ISBN: 978-0-14-102342-7. Some journeys are best left unmade. Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an...
Discover the surreal world of the Wraethworld in Kody Boye’s new dark fantasy novella. Mary Matthews is a sweet little autistic girl living a very ordinary life until the fish girl appeared to her one night in her bedroom. The bizarre creature’s prophecies that Mary alone can save the fish girl’s world terrifies her. The following day, Mary is on a fieldtrip with her special...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2015. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0547939418, 054793940X. In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius...modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on....
From Nâmehâ, a collection of nine stories. — 8 p. Alevi Bozorg. Irenechka (In English) Bozorg Alavi’s Ireneczka, it should be clear, is deep in conversation with a famous episode of one of the great epic poems of Persian literature, the Haft Paykar of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 1209). The story is entitled “The Tale of the Princess of the Black Dome,” and revolves around a King who is...
Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels".The plot centres on "accidental bigamy" which was in literary fashion in the early 1860s.The plot was summarised by...
Delphi Classic. 2013. — 10091 p. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s first novel, Lady Audley’s Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at the beginning of the novel, and who conceals a scandalous secret from her new husband and his family. The plot, which includes madness, bigamy, attempted murder,...
Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 18 Post Office Square. 1898. From the Original Manuscript, with a report of the proceedings incident to the return of the manuscript to Massachusetts. Printed under the direction of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, by order of the General Court.
Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2010. — 137 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8195-6943-1. Born in Barbados, Caribbean poet and scholar Edward Kamau Brathwaite was educated at Harrison College in Barbados and Pembroke College in Cambridge. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Sussex.
It was very difficult to find this book, when, after many months of searching, I found it, I decided to share it so that others would not have such problems. Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (born June 27, 1920) is a Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people. He was born in...
Bram Stoker did not invent the vampire story, but he popularized it with his classic 1897 novel. In form Dracula is an epistolary novel, told through a series of journal entries, letters, newspaper articles, and telegrams. It begins with lawyer Jonathan Harker's perilous journey to Castle Dracula in Transylvania, and chronicles the vampire's invasion of England, where he preys...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2014. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0425272710. A moving and eloquent novel about love, grief, renewal - and the powerful language of flowers. Ruby Jewell knows flowers. In her twenty years as a florist she has stood behind the counter at the Flower Shoppe with her faithful dog, Clementine, resting at her feet. A customer can walk in, and with just a glance or a...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2014. — 186 p. — ISBN: 0425272710. A moving and eloquent novel about love, grief, renewal - and the powerful language of flowers. Ruby Jewell knows flowers. In her twenty years as a florist she has stood behind the counter at the Flower Shoppe with her faithful dog, Clementine, resting at her feet. A customer can walk in, and with just a glance or a...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2014. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0425272710. A moving and eloquent novel about love, grief, renewal - and the powerful language of flowers. Ruby Jewell knows flowers. In her twenty years as a florist she has stood behind the counter at the Flower Shoppe with her faithful dog, Clementine, resting at her feet. A customer can walk in, and with just a glance or a...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2014. — 222 p. — ISBN: 0425272710. A moving and eloquent novel about love, grief, renewal - and the powerful language of flowers. Ruby Jewell knows flowers. In her twenty years as a florist she has stood behind the counter at the Flower Shoppe with her faithful dog, Clementine, resting at her feet. A customer can walk in, and with just a glance or a...
Delacorte Books, 2005. The Pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don’t wear the Pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful when summer comes. (There was the time this...
Delacorte Books, 2003. The story continues the adventures of four best friends who own a magical pair of jeans that fit all of them, even though they are different sizes. With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer.
Delacorte Books, 2001. Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they’re great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they’re fabulous. Lena decides that they should all try them...
New York: Continuum International Publishing Group,.2003.—194 p.—ISBN: 0-8264-1504-0 Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht ( 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. - 2003. - 800 c. K-PAX. K-PAX II - On A Beam of Light. K-PAX III - The Worlds of prot. Prot's Report. When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. However, this patient is unlike anyone psychiatrist Dr. Gene Brewer has met before. Clever, inscrutable and...
Movie Tie-In Edition. — Berkley, 2016. — 170 p. — ISBN10: 0399584692. — ISBN13: 9780399584695. First it was a media sensation. Then it became the №1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Now it's Lion, the major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara-nominated for six Academy Awards! This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a...
New York: Simon Pulse, 2017. — 406 p. — ISBN: 9781481499187. Ryn has one unread text message on her phone. And it’s been there for almost a year. She hasn’t tried to read it. She can’t. She won’t. Because that one message is the last thing her best friend ever said to her before she died. But as Ryn finds herself trapped in the Denver International Airport on New Year’s Eve...
Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) was an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition, winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts. This novel tells about hard woman's fate. The heroine went a long way from chambermaid to woman of the high world, who was not broken by circumstances.
Random House, 2012. 320 p. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. Geraldine Brooks takes the few facts that survive of his extraordinary life and works this little-known shard of history into a luminous tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure. The voice of "Caleb's Crossing" belongs to Bethia Mayfield,...
280 p. New York : Viking, 2005. 2006 From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With"pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows...
Penguin Books, 2007. 272 p. As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women. Nine Parts of...
Penguin Books, 2008. 372 p. The new novel from the author of ‘March’ and ‘Year of Wonders’ takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript which has been recovered from the smouldering ruins...
Montlake Romance, 2016. — 300 p. After seven years of misery and abuse, it’s all over — Hannah O’Malley is officially divorced. Hallelujah. It’s like every Christmas in her life all rolled up into one glorious day. Not only does Hannah get to keep her grandmother’s spacious old house, but she has full custody of her sparky five-year-old daughter. All Hannah has to do now is put...
McClure Phillips & Co - 1902 - 357 p. (no other information available). The House with the Green Shutters is a novel by the Scottish writer George Douglas Brown, first published in 1901 by John MacQueen. Set in mid-19th century Ayrshire, in the fictitious town of Barbie which is based on his native Ochiltree, it consciously violates the conventions of the sentimental kailyard...
Delphi Classics. 2012. — 3960 p. Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2015 (mobile phone virsion 1749 p.), 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0393244816. Part One: The World We’re Creating.1. Data as a By-product of Computing.2. Data as Surveillance.3. Analyzing Our Data.4. The Business of Surveillance.5. Government Surveillance and Control.6. Consolidation of Institutional Control. Part Two: What’s at Stake.7. Political Liberty and...
260 p. New York : Pocket Books, [1990?], 1958. 1932 Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, most often stationed in China, and from childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She returned to China shortly after graduation from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg,...
From The Washington Post. Reviewed by Judy Budnitz. Does government-sanctioned suicide offer the same potential for satire as, say, the consumption of children? Possibly. One need only look to Kurt Vonnegut's story 'Welcome to the Monkey House,' with its 'Federal Ethical Suicide Parlors' staffed by Juno-esque hostesses in purple body stockings. Or the recent film 'Children of...
Buckley uneasily combines elements of the satirical comic caper and the action drama in this tale of a billionaire's personal vendetta against drug lords.
New York: Viking Press, 1979. — 439 p. A major autobiographical novel by Vladimir Bukovsky, a living legend of the Soviet dissenter movement, telling about the persecution of dissenters with the help of psychiatric prisons. (Translation from the Russian edition, And the wind returns.
Ivan R. Dee, 2007. — 399 p. — ISBN: 1566637589. "The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years a great many of them have been freshly and brilliantly translated by Graham Hettlinger. Together, along with...
There's No Sex in the City. Avon, 2009. English. Anti-romantic comedy. "The Dating Detox" is a book that I enjoyed because on the one hand it's a hilarious chick-lit story that made me laugh a lot and on the other book it's about a woman who learns to trust into herself. Gemma Burges is an English writer based in London.
There's No Sex in the City. Avon, 2009. English. Anti-romantic comedy. "The Dating Detox" is a book that I enjoyed because on the one hand it's a hilarious chick-lit story that made me laugh a lot and on the other book it's about a woman who learns to trust into herself. Gemma Burges is an English writer based in London.
There's No Sex in the City. Avon, 2009. English. Anti-romantic comedy. "The Dating Detox" is a book that I enjoyed because on the one hand it's a hilarious chick-lit story that made me laugh a lot and on the other book it's about a woman who learns to trust into herself. Gemma Burges is an English writer based in London.
A Novel. — Simon & Schuster, 2016.— (A Holland Family Novel). — ISBN10: 1501107208; ISBN13: 978-1501107207. From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke — an atmospheric, coming-of-age story set in 1952 Texas, as the Korea War rages. On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their...
Simon & Schuster, 2016. - 400 c. - (A Holland Family Novel) - ISBN10: 1501107208; ISBN13: 978-1501107207. From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke — an atmospheric, coming-of-age story set in 1952 Texas, as the Korea War rages. On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their...
Simon & Schuster, 2016. - 400 c. - (A Holland Family Novel) - ISBN10: 1501107208; ISBN13: 978-1501107207. From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke — an atmospheric, coming-of-age story set in 1952 Texas, as the Korea War rages. On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 2149 p. Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his...
New York: J. C. Derby, 1855. — 1996 p. A Scottish Bard, proud of the name, and whose highest ambition is to sing in his country’s service, where shall he so properly look for patronage as to the illustrious names of his native land: those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their ancestors? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did...
Random. 2001. (1887) Language: English. Introduction: Byatt A.S. Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld...
Random. 2001. (1887) Language: English. Introduction: Byatt A.S. Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld...
1993 Pulitzer Prize winner Published: Perseus Books, 2012 Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living...
Delphi Classics. 2015. — 4912 p. Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of...
1872 308 p. It may be readily understood that when once Europeans set foot upon this territory they were not slow to take advantage of its capabilities. Sheep and cattle were introduced, and bred with extreme rapidity; men took up their 50,000 or 100,000 acres of country, going inland one behind the other, till in a few years there was not an acre between the sea and the front...
A thinly disguised account of Samuel Butler's own childhood and youth, The Way of All Flesh is a savagely funny indictment of nineteenth-century English values and beliefs. It chronicles several generations of the Pontifex family - especially Ernest, the awkward but likeable son of a remote and tyrannical clergyman father and a priggish mother. Destined to follow his father...
New York: Random House, 1990. — 555 p. A. S. Byatt has earned a unique reputation as a novelist who manages to combine not only passion and intellect but the life of the emotions with that of the mind. Thjs skill is shown at its triumphant best in Possession, a tour de force of wit and intelligence, romance and scholarship. Like John Fowles's The French Lieutenants Woman,...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire —...
After an unsuccessful search for her dream job in architecture, Emma Mayson becomes a maid for an incredibly handsome, wealthy entrepreneur. But Russell Carrick is also a total workaholic who has lost his zest for life - or has he just misplaced it? Setting aside her feather duster and her inhibitions, Emma rekindles her employer's passion with a fantasy world of boundless...
University of Manitoba Press, 2015. — 308 p. — ISBN10: 0887556825. ISBN13: 978-0887556821. The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue, instead, that it is a region with an evolving culture and history. This...
Paperback: 184 p. Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society; Reprint edition (March 1, 2014). Language: English. Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites...
The short-story. Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American author. He wrote about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South
Mariner Books, 2014. Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Poignant, fantastical, and wise, these thirty-four dazzling stories — collected here in...
Penguin, 2013. — 148 p. The book explores the concepts of Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful essays that reveal Calvino's debt to the comic strip and the folktale. With his customary imagination and grace, he sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the...
Penguin, 2013. — 288 p. Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an absorbing collection of Italo Calvino's witty and...
Indiana University Press, 2010. — 222 p. — ISBN: 978-0-253-35463-1. Sana Camara is Associate Professor of French at Truman State University. The Mandinka griot, known locally as jali, sees himself as the keeper of values that are deeply rooted in the oral traditions of the Senegambian peoples, including the Fulani, the Soninke, and the Wolof. These peoples share a vast region...
Forge Books, 2011. — 333 p. — ISBN10: 0765330342; ISBN13: 978-0765330345. A Novel for Humans (Book 1)―the #1 New York Times bestseller — is heading to the big screen! Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, from director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, Dear John, The 100-Foot Journey), shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog...
Forge Books, 2011. — 333 p. — ISBN10: 0765330342; ISBN13: 978-0765330345. A Novel for Humans (Book 1)―the #1 New York Times bestseller — is heading to the big screen! Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, from director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, Dear John, The 100-Foot Journey), shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,. 2008.—213 p.—ISBN: 0-226-09286-0 Luís Vaz de Camões , sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns (e.g. by Byron in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers), c. 1524 or 1525 – 20 June 1580), is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel,...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2011.—260 p.—ISBN: 0-226-09205-4 Tommaso Campanella ( 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was a Dominican friar, Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2009.—74 p.—ISBN: 0-226-09310-7 Campion Peter is assistant professor of English at Auburn University and editor of Literary Imagination. His first book of poems, Other People, was published in the Phoenix Poets series by the University of Chicago Press in 2005.
Illinois: Northwestern University Press,.2007.—431 p.—ISBN: 0-8101-2029-1 Haroldo de Campos - Brazilian poet, translator and translation theorist, essayist versatile, powerful figure of the Latin American avant-garde
Vintage books. New York, 1946. Albert camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria, in 1913. After winning a degree in philosophy, he worked at various jobs, ending up in journalism. In the thirties he ran a theatrical company, and during the war was active in the French Resistance, editing an important underground paper, Combat. Among his major works are four widely praised works of...
322 p. Although this novel by the author of the charming children's book Understood Betsy first appeared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the problems of a family in which both husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the perfect, compulsive housekeeper and home-maker (a word that is in...
Dream of the Red Chamber (simplified Chinese: 红楼梦；traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢；pinyin: Hóng Lóu Mèng; Wade–Giles: Hung Lou Meng), composed by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was composed in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing Dynasty. It is considered to be a masterpiece of Chinese vernacular literature and is generally acknowledged to be a...
UK: Egg Box Publishing,.2009.—96 p.—ISBN: 978-0-9559399-0-7 Vahni Capildeo , to her credit, clearly doesn't give a fig about fashion or prestige. Her poetry is utterly divorced from that unfortunately prevalent tendency to write poems where the words give way to an (imagined) applauding audience at the next prestigious poetry awards. Her poetry is sassy, sometimes scary; dark,...
Longlisted for the German Book Prize. A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Léon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus' French grandfather. It charmed readers in Germany, where it sold nearly two hundred thousand copies and, in the year following publication, never left the Der Spiegel bestseller list. Summer 1918. The First World War is...
Longlisted for the German Book Prize. A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Léon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus' French grandfather. It charmed readers in Germany, where it sold nearly two hundred thousand copies and, in the year following publication, never left the Der Spiegel bestseller list. Summer 1918. The First World War is...
Longlisted for the German Book Prize. A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Léon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus' French grandfather. It charmed readers in Germany, where it sold nearly two hundred thousand copies and, in the year following publication, never left the Der Spiegel bestseller list. Summer 1918. The First World War is...
Henry Holt, 2019. — 288 p. From the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin, a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private and the past is never really past. Hunter’s Moon is set in Michigan’s wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other’s lives, building...
Henry Holt, 2013. — 320 p. In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large. Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled that its Inupiat Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance...
George Carlin's been working the crowd since "the counterculture" became "the over-the-counter culture" around 1967 or so; his new book, Brain Droppings, surfs on three decades of touring-in-support. It's the purest version of book-as-candy that one could imagine, serving up humor in convenient, bite-sized packages. Snack on chewy one-liners like "A meltdown sounds like fun....
Play. — New York: Abrams Artists, 1999. — 22 p. Tormented by the memories of a past love, John comes to Connie, a prostitute, to get her to reenact certain scenes that have etched themselves in his mind and that have become the symbol for all that was ethereal and beautiful in his life. He makes her wear certain clothing. He applies make-up to her. He makes her say the lines, etc
Twenty-five years after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead, paralysing the city of Los Angeles, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture and sadistic murder. Philip Carlo's US bestseller The Night Stalker, based on three years of meticulous research and extensive interviews with Ramirez, revealed the killer and his horrifying crimes to be even more chilling than anyone...
Penguin Classics, 2006. — 608 p. — (Penguin Classics). — ISBN10: 0140424679, 13 978-0140424676. This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from "The Song of Deborah" to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of piyut, or liturgical poetry, and retell episodes from the Bible and exalt the glory of...
Penguin Classics, 2006. — 1343 (conv) p. — (Penguin Classics). — ISBN10: 0140424679, 13 978-0140424676. This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from "The Song of Deborah" to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of piyut, or liturgical poetry, and retell episodes from the Bible and exalt the...
321 p; Hodder & Stoughton; Export; 1st edition (September 29, 2011) Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle - the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey - eight years ago. In that time she's become fascinated by the rich history of Highclere, and by the extraordinary people who lived there over the centuries. One person particularly captured Fiona's...
MIRA; Original edition, 2020. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0778309053; ISBN13: 978-0778309055. (Sullivan's Crossing - Book 5) #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr delivers an emotional and triumphant novel about the fierce power of a mother’s love. A summer rental, a new beginning… Hannah Russell’s carefully crafted plans for her life have been upended without warning. When...
MIRA; Original edition, 2020. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0778309053; ISBN13: 978-0778309055. (Sullivan's Crossing - Book 5) #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr delivers an emotional and triumphant novel about the fierce power of a mother’s love. A summer rental, a new beginning… Hannah Russell’s carefully crafted plans for her life have been upended without warning. When...
MIRA, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0778319679; ISBN13: 978-0778319672. #1 New York Times bestselling author brings together a poignant novel with a rich tapestry of characters. A moving story that will leave the reader laughing and crying, as two friends confront their pasts and move towards their futures. In the aftermath of her financier husband’s suicide, Emma Shay Compton’s...
MIRA, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0778319679; ISBN13: 978-0778319672. #1 New York Times bestselling author brings together a poignant novel with a rich tapestry of characters. A moving story that will leave the reader laughing and crying, as two friends confront their pasts and move towards their futures. In the aftermath of her financier husband’s suicide, Emma Shay Compton’s...
New York: Random House, Inc.,2005.—266 p. Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She...
London: Virago, 2003. - 200 c. One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and...
London: Cox & Wyman Ltd., 1992. A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
Short stories and essays. — Edited by William L. Stull & Maureen P. Carroll. — Library of America, 2009. — 1019 p. — (Library of America Series, N° 195). — ISBN: 978-1-59853-046-9. Raymond Carver’s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ’80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be...
Short stories and essays. — Edited by William L. Stull & Maureen P. Carroll. — Library of America, 2009. — 1019 p. — (Library of America Series, N° 195). — ISBN: 978-1-59853-046-9. Raymond Carver’s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ’80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be...
Oberon Books, 2017. — 48 p. He's just your type. But hold on. He's about to tell you he's got HIV. How will you respond emotionally? Brush it aside and practice safe sex? Go on to a deeper relationship? Or do you walk away?
A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 p. report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a...
A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador. But is it really a dream or a nightmare? When he decides to treat his liver pain with hypnosis, his few impulse-control mechanisms rapidly dissolve....
Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny. The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez — known as the Warlock — who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April, 1944, failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office....
Series: Nikki Heat (Book 5). Mass Market Paperback: 416 p. Publisher: Kingswell; Reprint edition (September 30, 2014). Language: English. ISBN10: 0786891483. ISBN13: 978-0786891481. Picking up where Frozen Heat left off, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat pursues the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered the execution of her mother over a decade ago.. For the hunt,...
Bartley Alexander, a construction engineer, is a middle-aged man torn between Winifred, his demanding American wife, and Hilda Burgoyne, his alluring British mistress. Alexander's relationship with Hilda erodes his sense of honor and eventually proves disastrous when a bridge he is constructing begins to collapse. Alexander's Bridge is an instructive, thought-provoking study of...
459pp; Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004 1923 This stirring novel about World War I won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. In the lucid, unadorned prose that were her hallmark, Cather brings to life the simple Nebraska farm folk and their tranquil rural lifestyle, showing how the Great War, seemingly so far away on the Old Continent, eventually touches them all.
Epic novel about the New Zealand goldrus. Intricately crafted shaggy dog story. The stellar and planetary positions in this book have been determined astronomically. This is to say that we acknowledge the celestial phenomenon known as precession, by which motion the vernal equinox, the astrological equivalent of the Greenwich meridian, has come to shift. The vernal equinox...
Winner of 2013 Booker Prize Epic novel about the New Zealand goldrus. Intricately crafted shaggy dog story. The stellar and planetary positions in this book have been determined astronomically. This is to say that we acknowledge the celestial phenomenon known as precession, by which motion the vernal equinox, the astrological equivalent of the Greenwich meridian, has come to...
Reagan Arthur, 2010. - 320 p. A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. - 160 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Catullus’ life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar’s Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul’s wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young...
New York: Oxford University Press,.2007.—288 p.—ISBN: 978-0-19-921292-7 Poems in Greek and in English translation. Constantine P. Cavafy (also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes, April 29 , 1863 – April 29, 1933) was a Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He wrote 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete...
Transl. by David R. Slavitt. — Edmonton, AB: AU Press, 2012. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1926836847; ISBN13: 978-1926836843 — (Mingling Voices) The fact that Cavlacanti's friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti's own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the ""sweet new style"" that emerged in...
Penguin Books Ltd (September 12, 2013) — 292 p. Australian rock musician, lyricist and actor Cave's first novel is an innovative, if wildly idiosyncratic, tall tale satirizing religious fanaticism. Euchrid Eucrow, despised ungainly son of a trapper father and "slobstress" mother, grows up mute but divinely inspired during the 1940s and '50s in fundamentalist Ukulore, a rural...
A novel. Translated from the French by Ralph Manheim. — New Directions, 2006. — 464 p. — (New Directions paperbook, 1036). — ISBN: 978-0-8112-1654-8. Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language,...
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes. The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels, that he decides to set out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his...
The Pennsylvania State University, 2007. — 884 p. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes. The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels, that he decides to set out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote. He...
EBD (E-BooksDirectory.com), 1040 p. Translated by John Ormsby The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quixano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don...
Translated by John Ormsby Don Quixote is universally regarded as Cervantes' masterwork and one of the greatest novels of all time. The novel is actually two separate books that cover the adventures of Don Quixote, also known as the knight or man of La Mancha, a hero who carries his enthusiasm and self-deception to unintentional and comic ends. On one level, Don Quixote works as...
Penguin Group, 2016. — (Signet Classics). Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature. In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the...
Penguin Group, 2016. — (Signet Classics). Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature. In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the...
Speak, 2004. — ISBN10: 0142401455; ISBN13: 978-0142401453. Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died during World War II. He expects to go, set flowers on his grandfather's tombstone, and explore the city. But nothing goes as planned. Jacob isn't prepared for love&150or to face questions...
Before the Storm is the first of two books about the Lockwood family. Their story is continued in Secrets She Left Behind. It’s often difficult for me to characterize my books, and Before the Storm is no exception. It’s part suspense, part mystery, and one hundred percent family drama. It’s about how far family members will go to protect one another. It’s about the choices...
Contemporary prose. — 2011. — 222 p. The book describes a near-future world that, to a significant degree, already exists. This is a China in which a dictatorial Communist Party has guided the country safely through a global economic meltdown that has weakened the liberal democratic West but strengthened the appeal and prestige of an authoritarian Chinese model, enabling China...
City of Ash': Megan Chance's novel of two 'frenemies' in the days before Seattle's Great Fire Seattle-area author Megan Chance's new novel, "City of Ash," set in the days leading up to Seattle's Great Fire, is about two "frenemies," the wife and mistress of the same man, joining forces against him. Chance reads at several Western Washington locations this month. book in english
HarperCollins, 2007. — 929 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-125855-8. A best-seller dealing with the nexus between Mumbai underworld, films and politics. Recently a TV adaptation is being shown on Netflix India.
William Morrow, 2012. — 288 p. Here at last is the sensational sequel to PAPILLON - the great story of escape and adventure that took the world by storm. Banco continues the adventures of Henri Charrière - nicknamed 'Papillon' - in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man,...
Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious...
William Morrow, 2012. — 544 p. Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was...
Adyar, Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1939. — 110 p. Chattopadhyaya Harindranath. Dark Well, Poems (In English) Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1898–1990) was a multi-talented personality as an Indian English poet, a dramatist, an actor, a musician and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha from Vijayawada constituency. He was the younger brother of Sarojini Naidu, the second woman President...
London: Vintage, 1998. — 262 p. On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local...
2000, 652 p. The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years' War. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together...
"Troilus and Criseyde" (Modern English: /ˈtrɔɪləs ən ˈkrɛsɪdə/) is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime royale and probably completed during the mid 1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet's finest work....
Publication date: February 1, 1999 Pages: 224 ISBN: 0-671-02734-4 Standing on the fringes of life… offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction. This is the story of what it's like to...
Publication date: February 1, 1999 Pages: 224 ISBN: 0-671-02734-4 Standing on the fringes of life… offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction. This is the story of what it's like to...
Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do not, but a deep-seated horror and dread accompany him through his self-destructive...
RosettaBooks, 2004. First published 1969. — 202 p. During a writing career which spanned forty years, John Cheever won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award. John Cheever among his eleven books was perhaps best known for his short stories dealing with upper middle class suburban life. In Bullet Park , Eliot...
RosettaBooks, 2004. First published 1977. — 172 p. During a writing career spanning forty years, John Cheever won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award. John Cheever among his eleven books was perhaps best known for his short stories dealing with upper middle class suburban life. Falconer is set in a...
Knopf, 1979. — 914 p. Goodbye, My Brother - The Common Cay - The Enormous Radio - O City of Broken Dreams - The Hartleys - The Sutton Place Story - The Summer Farmer - Torch Song - The Pot of Gold - Clancy in the Tower of Babel - Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor - The Season of Divorce - The Chaste Clarissa - The Cure - The Superintendent - The Children - The Sorrows of...
Albany, OR: Books for the Ages, 1996, 1997. (In file 161 p.). Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality...
Rupa & Co, 2008. — 258 p. In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind dreamt of having a business. To accommodate his friends Ish and Omi's passion, they open a cricket shop. Govind's wants to make money and thinks big. Ish is all about nurturing Ali, the batsman with a rare gift. Omi knows his limited capabilities and just wants to be with his friends. However,...
London, Transworld Publishers, 1998. - 528 p. 'Killing Floor' is the first book in the phenomenal bestselling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Useful and easy reading.
The Yangquan Women Writers Group,.2010.—98 p. Interesting poetry work modern Chinese poetesses Maggi Carstairs, Marguerite Carstairs, Wenjin, Lan, Qiu Tingyu, Guo Xiuying, Yang Huiqin, Kongyunge, Han Yue, Wu Yan, Guo Guangshu and other
Publication details not specified. — 16 p. Choi Yoon. Under the supervision of the father (In English) Ch'oe Hyon-mu (born 1953), better known by her pen name Ch'oe Yun, is a South Korean writer and professor of French literature. Her writing merges the psychological impact of political/historical events, including the Kwangju massacre (1980) and the dictatorship of Park...
Basic Books, 2005. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0465011047 (ISBN13: 9780465011049) North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education." Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one...
Publication details not specified. The Story of an Hour," is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894. It was originally published in Vogue on December 6, 1894, as "The Dream of an Hour". It was later reprinted in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895, as "The Story of an Hour". The title of the short story refers to the time elapsed between the moments at which the...
New York: M.P.Kots Publishing, 2009. — 164 p. Translated by Anatole Bilenko and Roma Franko. Збірка сатиричної прози Олега Чорногуза у перекладах англійською мовою.
New York: M.P.Kots Publishing, 2009. — 164 p. Translated by Anatole Bilenko and Roma Franko. Збірка сатиричної прози Олега Чорногуза у перекладах англійською мовою.
Frances, a Chinese-American student at an academically competitive school in San Francisco, has always had it drilled into her to be obedient to her mother and to be a straight-A student so that she can go to Med school. But is being a doctor what she wants? It has never even occurred to Frances to question her own feelings and desires until she accidentally winds up in speech...
A novel. Choy does a fine job of orchestrating the narrative voices and showing how family patterns and themes operate in diverse, often unpredictable ways, in the individuals' lives. Within the three main stories, the stories of other characters are also embedded, and this is where Choy truly excels. His "secondary" characters are not secondary at all. The most notable of...
London: The Athlone Press, 1978. – 356 p. Leo Tolstoy was unquestionably the most prolific letter-writer of all the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. R.F. Christian selected and translated into English only the most important, from his point of view, part of the huge number of Tolstoy’s letters. In this two-volume edition, he divided Leo Tolstoy's letters into...
Copyright 2007 by Plough Publishing House. Pages -217. PDF. Cries from the Heart answers a specific hunger millions share - a longing for a personal connection to the divine. In times of crisis, all of us reach for someone,or something, greater than ourselves. Some call it prayer. Others just do it. For many, it’s often like talking to a wall. People are looking for assurance...
Han Alister thought he had already lost everyone he loved. But when he finds his friend Rebecca Morley near death in the Spirit Mountains, Han knows that nothing matters more than saving her. The costs of his efforts are steep, but nothing can prepare him for what he soon discovers: the beautiful, mysterious girl he knew as Rebecca is none other than Raisa ana’Marianna, heir to...
Love and Other Things I'm Bad At: Rocky Road Trip and Sundae My Prince Will Come – Catherine Clarke (2011). What’s a girl to do when there are two guys who seem like The One? Just when Courtney has found the Best Boyfriend Ever (aptly named Grant Superior), she has to leave him to go to college, because apparently the universe doesn’t want her to be happy. Now that she’s three...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2016. - 400 c. - ASIN: B0176M3RR2. A fierce, feisty, and “wonderfully entertaining” (Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies) debut with a magical twist about three ordinary, regular girls who suddenly have their fantasies come true…or do they? Best friends Evie, Krista, and Willow are just trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York. They’re...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2016. - 400 c. - ASIN: B0176M3RR2. A fierce, feisty, and “wonderfully entertaining” (Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies) debut with a magical twist about three ordinary, regular girls who suddenly have their fantasies come true…or do they? Best friends Evie, Krista, and Willow are just trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York. They’re...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2016. - 400 c. - ASIN: B0176M3RR2. A fierce, feisty, and “wonderfully entertaining” (Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies) debut with a magical twist about three ordinary, regular girls who suddenly have their fantasies come true…or do they? Best friends Evie, Krista, and Willow are just trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York. They’re...
1874 723 p. Sir Richard Devine, knight, shipbuilder, naval contractor, and millionaire, was the son of a Harwich boat carpenter. Early left an orphan with a sister to support, he soon reduced his sole aim in life to the accumulation of money. In the Harwich boat-shed, nearly fifty years before, he had contracted — in defiance of prophesied failure — to build the Hastings sloop...
2006, Black Swan, London. In his second comedy of errors, Paul West continues to sabotage the entente cordiale. A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss’s mistress?...
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the 2004 first novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. An alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centring on the relationship between these two men, the novel...
Gallery Books, 2013. — 229 p. — ISBN: 978-1476741222. Grace Sheridan is back. Ten years after discovering that looks and talent are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles, she’s wriggling into a pair of badass jeans and ready to show the film industry that there’s way more to her than just a head of gorgeous red curls. And Hollywood’s newest Brit super-hunk Jack Hamilton certainly sees...
221pp, Wordsworth Editions Ltd (December 30, 2001) Fanny Hill, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral and without literary merit, even earning its author a jail sentence for obscenity. The tale of a naïve young prostitute in bawdy eighteenth-century London who...
Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful...
Penguin, 2011. 352 p. Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in even though he has 74 friends on Facebook. He's not even sure whether he's got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way which involves a long journey to the Shetland Isles - and a voyage into his...
Penguin Books Ltd., 2008. — 501 p. A hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe. It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueler by the year. Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound...
Tor, 2014. — ISBN: 1447256239. Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently. Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already...
Publisher: AmazonCrossing, 2007. – 151 p. J'aurais préféré vivre. Translator: Summer Robinson. When childhood friend Victoria rejects his love, Jeremy takes his life on his twentieth birthday. On his twenty-first birthday, he wakes to find Victoria holding his hand, blissfully in love with him. Jeremy can't remember the previous year, but he savors the miracle of waking up...
Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 9781618731517; ISBN13: 978-1618731517 The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to bring peace to their new home, and they have a plan for how to achieve it. They will tear Native families apart and provide re-education to those who do not understand why they should submit to their betters. Peace...
Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012. — 188 p. — ISBN: 978-1-405-52278-6. Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal follows the story of outcast high school senior Carson Phillips who blackmails the most popular students in his school into contributing to his literary journal to bolster his college application; his goal in life is to get into Northwestern and...
Penguin Books, 2009. 275 p. "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how one...
Publisher: Aegypan (August 1, 2008) ISBN10: 1606647113 Horror chilled me to the marrow; for never before, I verily believe, had mortal eyes beheld so awful an apparition. Broad over the port bow, at an elevation of some forty degrees above the horizon, I beheld a great white-hot flaming mass, emitting a long trail of brilliant sparks, coming straight for the ship... That's the...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2008.—310 p.—ISBN: 0-226-11400-7 Vittoria Colonna (April 1492 – 25 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. She developed an artistic friendship with Michelangelo Buonarroti, with whom she exchanged verse. The early death of her husband, in 1525, gave Colonna the opportunity to develop and maintain her...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2005.—231 p.—ISBN: 0-226-11392-2 Vittoria Colonna (April 1492 – 25 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. She developed an artistic friendship with Michelangelo Buonarroti, with whom she exchanged verse. The early death of her husband, in 1525, gave Colonna the opportunity to develop and maintain her...
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. — 361 c. Arranged along national themes, the 181 poems in this unique anthology were expertly selected by the most esteemed Irish-American poet, professor and critic of his generation.
Pages: 4. Laurie Colwin’s story Mr. Parker is a wonderful and down to earth short story. The use of characters, the structure of the plot, and the style of the story makes it believable and interesting. Mr. Parker shows the physical and emotional effect of becoming an adult. In addition, it gives the idea that people should not be in a hurry to grow up because they will miss...
USA:Tan Hinh Thuc Publishing,.2006 .—309 p.—ISBN: 0-9778742-0-6. Bilingual We have managed to bring this anthology to publication only through the generous contributions of our readers, and we would like to thank each and every one of you for your support and dedication. With your continued help, we can look forward to many more future publications. Finally, we apologize for...
Audire est operae pretium, prcedere recte Qui maechis non vultis.--HOR. Sat. i. 2, 37. - Metuat doti deprensa.--Ibid. The Way of the World is a play written by the English playwright William Congreve. It premiered in early March 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies and is still occasionally...
William Morrow Paperbacks 2013 — 430 p. — ISBN13: 978-0062207517 The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia. Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina...
Wakefield Press, 2013. By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution and so, over the following two years, more than 4000 Irish girls are shipped across vast oceans to an unimaginable world in the new colony. On Sunday 28 October 1849, one of these ships, the Thomas...
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a...
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and...
Oxford: UP, 2013. - 396 c. Translation: Sasha Dugdale. A collection of stories from different eras and very different authors united by one, Moscow, theme. Musa. Ivan Bunin. A Couple in December. Yury Kazakov. Kashtanka. Anton Chekhov. The Red Gates. Yuri Koval. Transition. Tatyana Schepkina-Kupernik. Poor Lisa. Nikolai Karamzin. Scar. Evgeny Grishkovets. Lady with a Little...
In "Acres of Diamonds," Russell Conwell shows success is a spiritual idea--the result of spiritual principles. Though not a "get rich guide," Conwell's book shows how to find a fortune-if you know where to look. There are as many opportunities for success today as in Conwell's time, if not more so, because they are found first and foremost in one's own conscience. Through his...
Allen&Unwin, 1997. - 236 p. ISBN: 1-86448-315-6 On the surface it's funny, but the humour is wry. Kaz writes brilliant stuff and, if you want a real insight into Australia and the life style, it's here. There is a lot of deeper stuff in the book that is very accurate and mind stretching. Kaz Cooke (born 1962) is an Australian author and cartoonist. Her books include Real...
Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler’s luck. From the day he was born, his mother had known that Rory would be the one to make something of his life. At seven years old he was earning money from odd jobs and by fourteen, he was in full-time work. By the time he was nineteen, he had escaped the factory to become a rent-collector.Now, at twenty-three, ambition was...
Beyond the Chocolate War (1985) is the sequel to the award-winning book The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. The sequel received an Honor List citation from the Horn Book Magazine in 1986. The story continues a few months after The Chocolate War ends. As the school year draws to an end, many students look forward to leaving for the summer but Carter and Obie, leading members of...
It is the summer of 1938 when young Paul Moreaux discovers he can fade. First bewildered, then thrilled with the power of invisibility, Paul experiments. But his gift soon shows him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act. Imagine what might happen if Holden Caufield stepped into H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, and you’ll have an idea how good Fade is...I was...
Ember, 2004. — 99 p. — ISBN: 978-0385731331. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he’s looking for some tenderness — tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for...
Atria Books, 2016. - 368 c. - ISBN10: 1501121146; ISBN13: 978-1501121142. A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler’s List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they...
Atria Books, 2016. - 368 c. - ISBN10: 1501121146; ISBN13: 978-1501121142. A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler’s List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they...
Sex Under the Stars by Jane Green, Birthday Sex She’ll Never Forget by Jennifer Weiner, Falling in Lust at the Jersey Shore by Meg Cabot. The world’s best-selling magazine for young women asked three best-selling authors to each write a story steamy enough for the pages of Cosmo — a tall order, but these ladies so delivered. The trio of tantalizing tales was such a hit that...
Sex Under the Stars by Jane Green, Birthday Sex She’ll Never Forget by Jennifer Weiner, Falling in Lust at the Jersey Shore by Meg Cabot. The world’s best-selling magazine for young women asked three best-selling authors to each write a story steamy enough for the pages of Cosmo — a tall order, but these ladies so delivered. The trio of tantalizing tales was such a hit that...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. Language: English. In 1939, as Hitler cast his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, hatred of a similar kind took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language - English, the language spoken by those who had sent the Afrikaners to the world's first...
Cousin's best known hymn, "The Sands of Time are Sinking", is known and sung over the English-speaking world. It is also known as "Immanuel's Land", the phrase that is repeated at the end of each stanza. This poem was inspired by Samuel Rutherford's last words. It was first published in 1860s, with extracts from Rutherford's works, under the title: Last words of Reverend Samuel...
Methuen, 2012. A play. The play was first seen in the West End in 1941. Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward which takes its title from Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" ("Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! / Bird thou never wert"). The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to...
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946. — 205 p. At the time of his death, Hart Crane had prepared for publication a volume to be called Key West: An Island Sheaf. This collection, with the poems as arranged by Crane, figures as Part Three of this volume. The Uncollected Poems were found in manuscript among the poet's papers, and were written for the most part in the...
Harper Perennial, 2004. — ISBN10: 0380731061; ISBN13: 978-0380731060. A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been collected in one...
2007. In a powerful debut novel that moves between the crowded streets of London and the desolate mountains of Iran, Yasmin Crowther paints a stirring portrait of a family shaken by events from decades ago and worlds away. On a rainy day in London the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam Mazar surface violently, with tragic consequences for her daughter, Sara, and her newly...
Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by Martin Cruz Smith set in the Soviet Union. Gorky Park is the first book in a series which also includes Polar Star and Red Square which are set during the Soviet era. Four more books with the character Arkady Renko, which all take place after the fall of the Soviet Union, have been published. These are Havana Bay, set in communist...
Gallery Books, 2013, ISBN: 1476702918, 336 p. A writer and his demons. A woman and her desires. A wife and her revenge. Inspired by literature’s most haunting love triangle, award-winning author Lynn Cullen delivers a pitch-perfect rendering of Edgar Allan Poe, his mistress’s tantalizing confession, and his wife’s frightening obsession. in this intelligent, sexy, and utterly...
This centennial edition of E. E. Cumming's Complete Poems, published in celebration of his birth on October 14, 1894, contains all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime. At the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the...
Introduction by Richard Curtis. Film Family Tree. Love Actually - The Screenplay. 'Christmas Is All Around' - The Lyrics. Deleted Scenes - The Ones That Didn't Make It. Behind the Scenes. Love Actually - The Quiz. Love Questionnaires. Some Strange Posters. Cast and Crew. And Finally. Unforgettable, ungettable, regrettable, ecstatic, exciting, unexpected, unwelcome,...
Trust your agent and God, in that order. That is Dave Bolt's First Law, and it ought to be engraved on the heart of every professional athlete seeking representation. Sure, we players' agents are fallible, but our judgment in money matters is infinitely superior to that of most athletes, believe me. Jimmy Quinn didn't believe me, and he paid through the nose. Jimmy was...
Trust your agent and God, in that order. That is Dave Bolt's First Law, and it ought to be engraved on the heart of every professional athlete seeking representation. Sure, we players' agents are fallible, but our judgment in money matters is infinitely superior to that of most athletes, believe me. Jimmy Quinn didn't believe me, and he paid through the nose. Jimmy was...
James Oliver Curwood was a pioneering figure in the action-adventure genre. Over the course of his career, he penned dozens of novels and stories that detailed the exploits of rugged outlaws and misfits who roamed the foreboding woods of northern Canada. In The Hunted Woman, a beautiful lass finds herself at the center of a raging feud.
Washington, DC: Department of Education, 1984. — 73 p. (in English and Korean) Daeshik Yoo (ed.) Mini-Anthology of Korean-American Literature (English and Korean) Let's Find a Place to Stand, by Kun Hong Park. A Word About the Korean Language School, by lckhwan Lee. Your Tomorrow, by Tong-han Pae. Let's Eliminate the Smoldering Coal of Discord, by Chang Soo Kim. Nationality and...
4th Estate, 2018. A utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class suburban fringe - from one of Australia's most exciting new writers. Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. — 532 p. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. Introduction Vladimir Solovyov . Field Marshal Kutuzov. Translated into English Blank verse by J. J. Robbins Leonid Leonov . The Orchards of Polovchansk Translated by J. J. Robbins Alexander Afinogenov . On the Eve Translated by Eugenia Afinogenova The Tur Brothers and L. Sheinin . Smoke of the...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. — 532 p. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. Introduction Vladimir Solovyov . Field Marshal Kutuzov. Translated into English Blank verse by J. J. Robbins Leonid Leonov . The Orchards of Polovchansk Translated by J. J. Robbins Alexander Afinogenov . On the Eve Translated by Eugenia Afinogenova The Tur Brothers and L. Sheinin . Smoke of the...
House of Leaves is the debut novel by the American author Mark Z. Danielewski. The format and structure of the novel is unconventional, with unusual page layout and style, making it ergodic literature. It contains copious footnotes, many of which contain footnotes themselves, and some of which reference books that do not exist. Some pages contain only a few words or lines of...
Pantheon, 2000. — 709 p. Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians,...
Pantheon, 2000. — 709 p. Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians,...
London: John Lane, 1896. — XII + 147 p. «Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Luís de Camões. CXXIV Sonnets» is a compilation of sonnets by Dante Alighieri, famous Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His "Divine Comedy" is widely considered the greatest Italian literary work ever composed and a major contribution to world literature. This book of sonnets offers the reader a better...
Canada: D&M Publishers,.2009.—232 p.—ISBN: 0-374-17429-6 Poetry. Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: محمود درويش, 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of...
694 p.2003 A novel of Rembrandt's most secret seduction. Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art. In January, 1662, the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage, he must paint the Captain's portrait. For himself, he paints a portrait of the...
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He...
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He...
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He...
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He...
Usborne Publishing Ltd., 2011, 48 p., ISBN: 13: 9781409522201. The well-known Bible story, is specially written for children just beginning to read alone. Part of the Usborne Reading Program developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.
The first novel in Davies's celebrated "Deptford Trilogy" introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide.
A romance of America’s nascent imperial power, Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune recounts the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and...
Douglas & McIntyre; Fourth Impression edition, 2007. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1553652673, ISBN13: 978-1553652670. Book-report on the work of paleontologist Wade Davis. For more than 30 years, a renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought...
240 p. In the dead of night, Lily Waite and her 5-year-old son, Matthew, arrive at their new home on a council estate in East London; their only possessions, two suitcases and a bag of charred remains. Their past is a mystery, Matthew's father nowhere in evidence, and Lily resolute in her need for privacy. But Lily has to come to terms with the events that precipitated her...
He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily. Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other's most private...
Usborne Publishing Ltd.; 2014; 48 p.; ISBN: 9781409550778. A classic English folk tale specially retold for young children and illustrated with bright, stylish pictures.
No Longer Human（人間失格 Ningen Shikkaku）is a 1948 Japanese autobiogaphical novel by Osamu Dazai. It is considered Dazai's masterpiece and ranks as the second-best selling novel in Japan, behind Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro.[1] The literal translation of the title, discussed by Donald Keene in his preface to the English translation, is "Disqualified From Being Human". (The Italian...
The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His...
The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His...
The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His...
Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there’s nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn’t belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay. Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff. She’s hiding something from Kidd — but could they ever be together anyway? Devon is mean,...
What if saying hello to an old friend meant saying good-bye to life as you know it? It's been six years since Pen Calloway watched her best friends walk out of her life. And through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and the vicissitudes of single motherhood, she has never stopped missing them. Pen, Cat, and Will met on their first day of college and formed...
"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" were first published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, then released in book form in 1822, and again in 1856, in an edition revised by De Quincey. It is an autobiographical account about De Quincey's opium and alcohol addiction and its effect on his life.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Robert Morrison. — Oxford University Press, 2006. — 240 p. — (Oxford World’s Classics). The titular essay in this volume of work by Thomas De Quincey centers on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End. De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on...
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2007. – 130 p. Language: English. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th...
St. Martin's Press, 2007. - 295 c. - ISBN: 0312370830; ISBN13: 9780312370831. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's...
St. Martin's Press, 2007. - 295 c. - ISBN: 0312370830; ISBN13: 9780312370831. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's...
The Blue Lagoon is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1908. The novel is the first of the Blue Lagoon trilogy, the second being The Garden of God (1923) and the third being The Gates of Morning (1925). The Blue Lagoon is the story of two cousins, Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, stranded on a remote island with a beautiful lagoon. As children, they are...
A surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention & A life-altering break-in triggers insomniac introspection in a desperate actor & Streetwise New York City neighbors let down their guard for a naOve puppeteer and must suffer the consequences & In this stunning collection of short stories five of which are being published for the very first time...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 378 p. Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is claimed by some critics as the first novel in English, although there are multiple candidates for this title. 'Robinson Crusoe' is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer) — a castaway who...
Here is the story "Without You" from the Del James book "The Language of Fear". This is the story that Guns N Roses made the video about and it explains what happened to the bride. As it's stated at the end of the video, "November Rain" is based on the short story "Without You" by Del James, available in James' 1995 book The Language of Fear. That short story would have an...
Delta, 1991. — 336 p. Doors drummer Densmore, who had a love-hate relationship with lead singer Morrison, sympathetically chronicles the self-destructive Lizard King's rise and fall. Such is the mystique, the iconoclastic reverence, the enduring commercial success and marketability of Jim Morrison, enigmatic lead singer of the Doors, 19 years after his death, that Densmore,...
Take a journey into the world of China's most feared Empress. This true story was the first eyewitness account of the Imperial Court written by a Chinese aristocrat for Western readers. It provides an up-close personal view of the notorious Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi in the final years of her reign. Enhanced with rich imagery and additional historical notes, "Two Years in the...
Cambion, #1 Kindle Edition, Published August 7th 2011 by Wicked Truth Publishing. Everyone dreams of that first kiss. Of that magic moment when your lips finally meet those of that special person you’ve waited your whole life for. A little awkward, a little scary, a little hot and every bit amazing. We speculate that the whole world will shake and time will just stop. No one,...
Grove Press, 2006. - 333 p. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York...
New York: Viking, 2009. — 142 p. A coming-of-age novel by a best-seller author Sarah Dessen as brilliant and caprivating as her previous books: 'That Summer', 'Someone Like You', 'Dreamland'
Speak, 2004. — 345 p. When it comes to relationships, Remy doesn't mess around. After all, she's learned all there is to know from her mother, who's currently working on husband number five. But there's something about Dexter that seems to defy all of Remy's rules. He certainly doesn't seem like Mr. Right. For some reason, however, Remy just can't seem to shake him. Could it be...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. — 214 p. This volume heaps the anthological Pelion upon the Ossa of translation. It aims to present the lyrical poetry of Russia for the last hundred years by a selection of poems translated by the editors. Within the fences thus set up lay a wide foreign field to pick from: the old-fashioned garden overrun by the rank growth of...
Described as the most well-executed literary sex comedy of our time by Salon.com, and a wickedly smart satire that deserves to be a classic by Bookforum, Helen DeWitt’s Lighting Rods is a novel that will leave you laughing for more. Follow one steady rise to power in corporate America as down-and-out salesman Joe curtails sexual harassment in the office and increases...
Amazon.com Review Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular attitude to education, develops into a prodigy of learning. Ludo reads Homer in the original Greek at 4 before moving on to Hebrew, Japanese, Old Norse, and...
Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award winner Paris Trout and of God's Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, The Paperboy, and Train. He was born in Michigan and raised in Georgia, Illinois, and easter South Dakota. He lives on Puget Sound, Washington. Other books written by this author: Train. The Paperboy. Brotherly Love. Paris Trout. God's Pocket.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2008. — 339 p. It's been 11 years since Junot Díaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who...
New York : Riverhead Books, 2008. — 339 p. It's been 11 years since Junot Díaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who...
New York : Riverhead Books, 2008. — 339 p. In the format opf. It's been 11 years since Junot Díaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for...
Delphi Classic. 2012. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time....
2nd printing – Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1960 – 770 p. Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson’s poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations. Here is the real Emily Dickinson – the only comprehensive and reliably authoritative trade...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 170 p. Denis Diderot (1713–1784) was born at Langres in Champagne, the son of a master cutler who wanted him to follow a career in the Church. He attended the best Paris schools, took a degree in theology in 1735 but turned away from religion and tried his hand briefly at law before deciding to make his way as a translator and writer. In 1746,...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 215 p. Denis Diderot (1713–1784) was born at Langres in Champagne, the son of a master cutler who wanted him to follow a career in the Church. He attended the best Paris schools, took a degree in theology in 1735 but turned away from religion and tried his hand briefly at law before deciding to make his way as a translator and writer. In 1746,...
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid...
Melbourne: Bayda books, 1989. — 199 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. These deeply psychological stories are about the ordinary people, their suffering and survival.
Melbourne: Bayda books, 1989. — 199 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. These deeply psychological stories are about the ordinary people, their suffering and survival.
Novel, Chicago: Belford, Clarke, and Co., 1881. 422 p. 101 chapters. It was the last novel Disraeli published before his death. Like most of Disraeli's novels, Endymion is a romance, although Disraeli took the unusual step of setting it between 1819 and 1859. This meant that the hero of the novel–Endymion Ferrars–had to be a Whig, rather than a Tory. The time period that...
Novel. London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, Farringdon Street. 1859. — 435 p. Vivian Grey follows its eponymous hero from childhood through his attempt to succeed in the world of politics. The various systems of education through which Vivian Grey passes are analysed. The final system of education is experience, which proves the most instructive and the most shattering....
Sri Lanka, 2003. — 157 p. Dissanayake Daya. Rejected Goddess (In English) The story is about three women, mother Prema, daughter Teja and granddaughter Mahima. The story is also about Woman. Prema is first under her father's domination, then under her husband and then her son. She is the daughter, the wife the house slave, the passive onlooker as life goes on around her. Teja...
Peliyagoda, Sri Lanka, 2004. — 70 p. Dissanayake Daya. Thirst (In English) Daya Dissanayake (born March 8, 1947) is an award-winning bilingual Sri Lankan novelist, poet and blogger. His work spans nine novels in English, six novels in Sinhala and a collection of poems, and numerous articles in newspapers, journals and magazines. He is the author of the first e-novel in Asia,...
Djian's five novels have won acclaim in Europe, and the present one was a bestseller later adapted into an offbeat film. It's not likely, however, that this tedious and melodramatic on-the-road novel of the most formless kind will have much impact here. The story revolves around the love affair between a drifter with an unpublished novel to his credit and a beautiful girl with...
Djian's five novels have won acclaim in Europe, and the present one was a bestseller later adapted into an offbeat film. It's not likely, however, that this tedious and melodramatic on-the-road novel of the most formless kind will have much impact here. The story revolves around the love affair between a drifter with an unpublished novel to his credit and a beautiful girl with...
Djian's five novels have won acclaim in Europe, and the present one was a bestseller later adapted into an offbeat film. It's not likely, however, that this tedious and melodramatic on-the-road novel of the most formless kind will have much impact here. The story revolves around the love affair between a drifter with an unpublished novel to his credit and a beautiful girl with...
Book 1 of 4 in the Knight and Devlin Thriller Series Amid the flash and din of Boston's raucous Chinese New Year's celebration, an elderly man is shot while watching the parade from his window. Anthony Bradley, the son of an African-American judge, is standing across the street at the time and is immediately arrested for the crime.Michael Knight, a young lawyer who's going...
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a novel by Alfred Döblin, published in 1929. The story concerns a small-time criminal, Franz Biberkopf, fresh from prison, who is drawn into the underworld. When his criminal mentor murders the prostitute whom Biberkopf has been relying on as an anchor, he realizes that he will be unable to extricate himself from the underworld into which he has sunk....
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a novel by Alfred Döblin, published in 1929. The story concerns a small-time criminal, Franz Biberkopf, fresh from prison, who is drawn into the underworld. When his criminal mentor murders the prostitute whom Biberkopf has been relying on as an anchor, he realizes that he will be unable to extricate himself from the underworld into which he has sunk....
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a novel by Alfred Döblin, published in 1929. The story concerns a small-time criminal, Franz Biberkopf, fresh from prison, who is drawn into the underworld. When his criminal mentor murders the prostitute whom Biberkopf has been relying on as an anchor, he realizes that he will be unable to extricate himself from the underworld into which he has sunk....
Scribner, 2014. — 544 p. Language: English. The most acclaimed and beloved novel of 2014, over a half year on the New York Times bestseller list — hauntingly beautiful (The New York Times), incandescent, luminous, enthralling (O, The Oprah Magazine). Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes...
Little, Brown and Company, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0316393878; ISBN13: 978-0316393874. In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna...
Little, Brown and Company, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0316393878; ISBN13: 978-0316393874. In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna...
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2012 Translated by Antonina W.Bouis Imbued with a comic nostalgia overlaid with Dovlatov’s characteristically dry wit, The Suitcase is an intensely human, delightfully ironic novel from the finest Soviet satirist to appear in English since Vladimir Voinovich. In these stories, Dovlatov describes the contents of the suitcase he brought out of the USSR in...
Berkley: Counterpoint, 2012. Translated by Anne Frydman Written in Sergei Dovlatov’s unique voice and unmatched style, The Zone is a satirical novelization of Dovlatov’s time as a prison guard for the Soviet Army in the early 1960s. Snapshots of the prison are juxtaposed with the narrator’s letters to Igor Markovich of Hermitage Press in which he urges Igor to publish the very...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1982. — 72 p. The Enchanted Desna. A film story by Olexandr Dovzhenko. Translated from the Ukrainian by Anatole Bilenko. Illustrated by Olexandr Ivakhnenko. Translation of Zacharovana Desna. The unsigned one-page introduction about Dovzhenko and his films says, among other things: "In 1942, in his diary, Dovzhenko made the first entries about his...
Before I Die / While I'm alive. Year: 2007. Author: Jenny Downham / Jenny Downham. Language: English. Format: PDF. Number of pages: 296. Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of...
Short Stories Reader. Part I: News & Events.El Verdugo – Honore de Balzac La Grenadiere - Honore de Balzac The Atheist’s Mass - Honore de Balzac The Conscript - Honore de Balzac The Elixir of Life - Honore de Balzac A Physiologist’s Wife – Arthur Conan Doyle A Scandal in Bohemia - Arthur Conan Doyle Lot no. 249 - Arthur Conan Doyle The Brown Hand - Arthur Conan Doyle The Case...
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1989. — 71 p. Translated by Daniel Halpern, Stanley Kunitz, Paul Nemser, Mark Redman, Paula Schwartz and others. Edited and introduced by Stanley Kunitz. With woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky. Збірка поезій Івана Драча у перекладах англійською мовою.
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1989. — 71 p. Translated by Daniel Halpern, Stanley Kunitz, Paul Nemser, Mark Redman, Paula Schwartz and others. Edited and introduced by Stanley Kunitz. With woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky. Збірка поезій Івана Драча у перекладах англійською мовою.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1800. — 472 p. A miscellany of poems, essays and short stories, many of the latter being supernatural or Gothic. Observations on the Writings and Genius of Lucretius with Specimens of a New Translation. The same concluded. On the Government of the Imagination ; on the Frenzy of Tasso and Collins. On the Tender Melancholy which usually follows...
London: Avon, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0008320454 (ISBN13: 9780008320454). When her stepmother dies unexpectedly, Caro returns to her childhood home in the rural English countryside. She hadn’t seen Elizabeth in years, but the remote farmhouse offers refuge from a bad relationship, and a chance to start again. But going through Elizabeth’s belongings unearths memories Caro would...
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. — 200 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-547-15258-5. A sweet and gentle comedic novel in which Mr Malik does ornithological battle for the hand, heart and rock and roll skills of the delectable Rose Mbwika. Funny, sweet, and humane, and more germane than you could possibly imagine, it's from the school of Alexander McCall Smith. A perfectly relaxing...
London: Penguin Books, 2009. - 208 p. ISBN13: 978-0141035963. A sweet and gentle comedic novel in which Mr Malik does ornithological battle for the hand, heart and rock and roll skills of the delectable Rose Mbwika. Funny, sweet, and humane, and more germane than you could possibly imagine, it's from the school of Alexander McCall Smith. A perfectly relaxing read.
London: Penguin Books, 2009. — 208 p. — ISBN13: 978-0141035963. A sweet and gentle comedic novel in which Mr Malik does ornithological battle for the hand, heart and rock and roll skills of the delectable Rose Mbwika. Funny, sweet, and humane, and more germane than you could possibly imagine, it's from the school of Alexander McCall Smith. A perfectly relaxing read.
Boston: Wisdom Publications,.199S.—217 p.—ISBN: 0-86171-063-0 In Tibet, sacred texts, called pe-cha. arc traditionally regarded as the actual tcachin~ of the Buddha, and as such arc treated with reverence. Texts arc kept high above the ground and carefully wrapped in cloth covers, called pe-re, to protect them from dust and damage. Here, a brocade doth covers a book of daily...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1929. — 676 p. It is only in recent years that in studying English in our universities we have thought of literature as a continuous process, like the growth of an organism, proceeding with change but without cessation until the culture of which it is a part ends and is forgotten. This curious incomprehension has been due, of course, to the...
Penguin Books, 1995. — 112 p. This anthology of romantic poetry contains poems on the subjects of the human spirit, time, love, art and beauty. It includes work by William Blake, John Clare, John Keats and William Wordsworth,Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
This is one of the best pieces of classic literature ever written. It is not quite clear why hardly anyone has ever heard about in the United States. The novel, by Nobel Prize winning du Gard, is revered in Europe. It is not to be missed by any serious reader. Beware, though, that this is not the complete work. The English translation is divided in two volumes. This one, The...
This is one of the best pieces of classic literature ever written. It is not quite clear why hardly anyone has ever heard about in the United States. The novel, by Nobel Prize winning du Gard, is revered in Europe. It is not to be missed by any serious reader. Beware, though, that this is not the complete work. The English translation is divided in two volumes. This one, The...
This is one of the best pieces of classic literature ever written. It is not quite clear why hardly anyone has ever heard about in the United States. The novel, by Nobel Prize winning du Gard, is revered in Europe. It is not to be missed by any serious reader. Beware, though, that this is not the complete work. The English translation is divided in two volumes. This one, The...
This is one of the best pieces of classic literature ever written. It is not quite clear why hardly anyone has ever heard about in the United States. The novel, by Nobel Prize winning du Gard, is revered in Europe. It is not to be missed by any serious reader. Beware, though, that this is not the complete work. The English translation is divided in two volumes. This one, The...
Little A, 2016. - 152 c. - ISBN10: 1503933393; ISBN13: 978-1503933392. An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police. Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police — especially...
Little A, 2016. - 152 c. - ISBN10: 1503933393; ISBN13: 978-1503933392. An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police. Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police — especially...
Little A, 2016. - 152 c. - ISBN10: 1503933393; ISBN13: 978-1503933392. An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police. Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police — especially...
Translated from the Russian by Nino Gojiashvili and Nastya Valentine. — Inpatient Press, 2017. — 130 p. — ISBN: 978-0991332175. Text PDF Spanning decades of Russian history - From the repressive stagnation of the gerontocracy to the confused restructuring of the market to the global financial crisis of 2007, "Almost Zero" is at once a satire, a mystery and a confession. Most...
Duggan was for many years in the 1930s and 1940s the best known poet in New Zealand, but recently has been almost unacknowledged and most of her work is now out of print. She is important in Catholic and New Zealand Irish writing. Her lyrical gift and her evocation of atmosphere was very popular at the time she was writing, so this volume serves as an example of that phase of...
New York, "Random House", 2014, -265 p. From the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls comes a hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays that establishes Lena Dunham as one of the most original young talents writing today. In Not that Kind of Girl, Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making one's way in the world: falling...
New York, "Random House", 2014, -265 p. From the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls comes a hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays that establishes Lena Dunham as one of the most original young talents writing today. In Not that Kind of Girl, Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making one's way in the world: falling...
Barbara Dunlop. A Secret Life. As far as Joan Bateman is concerned, life as she's known it is over. For years she's lived with a dual identity. The people of Indigo know her simply as their neighbor, but to crime-mystery readers, she's the bestselling author Jules Burrell. But once her secret is leaked, the media, her fans and Anthony Verdun, her New York agent, all descend on...
Hardcover, 205 p. Published October 1st 2001 by MacAdam/Cage. Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the...
Hardcover, 205 p. Published October 1st 2001 by MacAdam/Cage. Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the...
Screenplay by Marguerite Duras. Hiroshima mon amour concerns a series of conversations (or one enormous conversation) over a 36-hour long period between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva), referred to as She, and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), referred to as He. They have had a brief relationship, and are now separating. The two debate memory and forgetfulness as She...
A novel by Marguerite Duras. Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (pronounced: [maʁ.ɡə.ʁit dy.ʁas]) (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director.
Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine (1957) Balthazar (1958) Mountolive (1958) Clea (1960). Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events in Alexandria before World War II. In Clea, the story continues into the years during the war. One L.G....
In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to...
Translated by Patrick Bowles In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her. From its subtle...
Translated by Patrick Bowles In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her. From its subtle...
Hodder & Stoughton, 2007. It's 1989 and Rae is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint off-green bath suite and a larder Rae can't keep away from. This is the hilarious and touching real-life diary she kept during that fateful year - with characters like her evil friend Bethany,...
The deeply shocking story of a mother's neglect and a father's betrayal Sally East's heartwrenching story starts when she was only three. It was then that her father first touched her inappropriately, as he started to groom her for the future. Sally's mother, a woman who suffered from manic depression, neglected her on her 'bad days', as Sally called them. She would turn her...
The deeply shocking story of a mother's neglect and a father's betrayal Sally East's heartwrenching story starts when she was only three. It was then that her father first touched her inappropriately, as he started to groom her for the future. Sally's mother, a woman who suffered from manic depression, neglected her on her 'bad days', as Sally called them. She would turn her...
The deeply shocking story of a mother's neglect and a father's betrayal Sally East's heartwrenching story starts when she was only three. It was then that her father first touched her inappropriately, as he started to groom her for the future. Sally's mother, a woman who suffered from manic depression, neglected her on her 'bad days', as Sally called them. She would turn her...
The deeply shocking story of a mother's neglect and a father's betrayal Sally East's heartwrenching story starts when she was only three. It was then that her father first touched her inappropriately, as he started to groom her for the future. Sally's mother, a woman who suffered from manic depression, neglected her on her 'bad days', as Sally called them. She would turn her...
Copyright 2007 by Plough Publishing House. Pages - 310. Everyone’s looking for true love, but few people seem willing to work at making it last. With separation and divorce so commonplace that most people see them as inevitable, it seems the very idea of marital commitment is fast becoming a foreign one. What’s gone wrong? On Good Friday 1907, in the German university town of...
Warner Books, 1986. The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon — all...
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements
This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down's syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline,...
273 pp; Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. From Publishers Weekly 2011 Starred Review. Readers will be pleased to discover that the star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre-bending new school is alive in well in this graceful yet wild novel. We begin in contemporaryish New York with kleptomaniac Sasha...
Corsair, 2011. — 351 p. Is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction by American author Jennifer Egan. The book is a set of thirteen interrelated stories with a large set of characters all connected to Bennie Salazar, a record company executive, and his assistant, Sasha. The book centers on the mostly self-destructive characters, who, as they grow older, are sent in...
Knopf, 2006. 240 p. Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep-–the tower, the last stand-–is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in...
Picador; Reprint edition 2007 — 249 p. — ISBN: 978-0312425937. Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious...
Europa Editions, 2006. — 139 p. Europa Editions; First American Edition edition, 2005. — 188 p. Europa Editions, 2016. — 400 p. Europa Editions, 2008. — 125 p. Europa Editions, 2016. — 176 p. Europa Editions, 2012. — 196 p. Europa Editions, 2014 — 186 p. Europa Editions, 2013 — 194 p. Europa Editions, 2014 — 213 p. Europa Editions, 2014 — 263 p. Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous...
Delphi Classic. 2012 Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix...
2008 (in English) Perfect Chemistry is a touching story that demonstrates that love knows no boundaries, but that humanity knows far too many. A modern tale of star-crossed lovers with a fresh urban twist. At Fairfield High School, on the outskirts of Chicago , everyone knows that south-siders mixing with north-siders can be explosive. So when Brittany Ellis and Alejandro Alex...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 0718081013; ISBN13: 978-0718081010. “Sara Ella’s debut novel is a stunning journey into a fascinating new world of reflections. Intricately plotted, the story is complex, but not difficult to follow. Eliyana is a strong heroine, yet also has a vulnerable side that readers will definitely identify with. The other characters are also...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 0718081013; ISBN13: 978-0718081010. “Sara Ella’s debut novel is a stunning journey into a fascinating new world of reflections. Intricately plotted, the story is complex, but not difficult to follow. Eliyana is a strong heroine, yet also has a vulnerable side that readers will definitely identify with. The other characters are also...
Weinstein Books, 2007. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1602860070. For decades the world has credited renowned explorer Sir Edmund Hillary with being the first person to reach the peak of Mount Everest. But was he? Evidence to the contrary arrives one day on the doorstep of Chris Elliott--an anonymous package that contains the diary of his Great Uncle Percy Brackett Elliott, an adventurer...
Glamorama is set in and satirizes the 1990s, specifically celebrity culture and consumerism. Time describes the novel as "a screed against models and celebrity. "
The book "The Informers" follows the lives of interconnected characters. Each chapter in this book of short stories has a different first person, or narrator. The characters involved with the narrators are often repeated through a few chapters while the secondary characters in one chapter could appear as the narrator in another.
Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership. Winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living writer, he is the only scenarist ever to win the Writers Guild of America award three times for...
Invisible Man is a 1952 novel written by Ralph Ellison. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
Barnes & Nobles, 2004. With an introduction and notes by Peter Norberg. From the Pages of Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The World of Ralph Waldo Emerson. A Note on the Text. ESSAYS. Nature. Chapter II - Commodity. Chapter III - Beauty. Chapter IV - Language. Chapter V - Discipline. Chapter VI - Idealism. Chapter VII - Spirit. Chapter VIII -...
Taplinger Publishing Company, 1980. — 316 p. — ISBN: 0800871863. Silence is a novel of historical fiction by Japanese author Shusaku Endo. It is the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution in the time of Kakure Kirishitan ("Hidden Christians") that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion. Written mostly in the form of a...
The Man Booker Prize . The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him – although that certainly helped – it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister, Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, just...
New York USA : Putnam and Sons.,1977. — 312 p English. Opiates and Political Power in America. The Story of How the Drug Enforcement Administration Came to Be. This book is based on the view that the American president under ordinary circumstances reigns rather than rules over the government of the United States. To be sure, the president is nominally in command of the...
Abrams, 2016. — 160 p. — ISBN: 9781419724428. The only tie-in book for USA's award-winning series MR. ROBOT, Elliot's journal--Red Wheelbarrow--is written by show creator Sam Esmail and show writer Amin Hammani. Before and during the events of season two, Elliot recorded his most private thoughts in this journal--and now you can hold this piece of the series in your hands....
Anchor, 1995. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 038542017X; ISBN13: 978-0385420174 The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre...
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1996. - 290 p. ISBN10: 0-85668-609-3 ISBN13: 9780856686092 Classical Texts. With an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Richard Seaford. Greek Text Oxford University Press. Reproduced from the Oxford Classical Texts. Edition of Euripides Fabulae by James Diggle by permission of Oxford University Press. Euripides’s remarkable variety of...
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1996. - 290 p. ISBN10: 0-85668-609-3 ISBN13: 9780856686092 Classical Texts. With an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Richard Seaford. Greek Text Oxford University Press. Reproduced from the Oxford Classical Texts. Edition of Euripides Fabulae by James Diggle by permission of Oxford University Press. Euripides’s remarkable variety of...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 160 p. — (Greek Tragedy in New Translations). — ISBN: 0195125983 Transl. by Reginald Gibbons, introduction and notes by Charles Segal. Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010. – 325 p. Tom Bedford lives alone in the wilds of Montana. Distanced from his own troubled past, he rarely sees his son, Danny, who is now deployed in Iraq. Tom hasn't always been so isolated. As a boy, his mother was a rising movie star in the glitzy, enchanted world of 1960s Hollywood. She fell in love with young Tom's onscreen cowboy...
New York: Dell, 2009. – 347 p. His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the girl's savage horse, and her own wounded heart. She comes for hope. She comes for her child. And beneath the wide Montana sky, she...
A teenage girl and her horse get in an accident that leave them both with physical and emotional scars. The mother of the girl travels with the girl and the horse from New York to Montana for some help from a Horse Whisperer. This is a once in a lifetime experience for the teenage girl and her mother. The Horse Whisperer was No.10 on the list of bestselling novels in the United...
New York, "Simon & Schuster", 2014, -368 p. Richard Paul Evans’ novels are generally formulaic and cheesy… but I absolutely love them and can’t get enough! This is my 6th RPE book and it was just as good as all his others. As usual, the characters endure some kind of hardship to find hope. In this story, we meet Elise Dutton, a broken woman with a secret past that eats at her...
New York, "Simon & Schuster", 2014, -368 p. Richard Paul Evans’ novels are generally formulaic and cheesy… but I absolutely love them and can’t get enough! This is my 6th RPE book and it was just as good as all his others. As usual, the characters endure some kind of hardship to find hope. In this story, we meet Elise Dutton, a broken woman with a secret past that eats at her...
Penguin Books Ltd, 2019. — 453 p. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and...
School and Home - Girlhood and Youth - Pluck, Peril, and Adventure - In the World of Faery - Romance in History School and Home - Gloria Dene's Schoolfellows by Nora Ryeman - My Year at School by Margaret Watson - The Silver Star by Nellie Holderness - Uncle Tone by Kate Godkin - A Night on a Road by Margaret Watson - The Missing Letter by Jennie Chappell - "The Colonel" by...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1995. — 340 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics). — ISBN 10 9783110145861, ASIN 3110145863. The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The...
Hodder & Stoughton, 2013. — 416 p. — ISBN: 1444765884 A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey, Alex's story treads the fine line between light and dark, laughter and tears. And it might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you've ever read. 'It's Mark Haddon meets Kurt Vonnegut' ( Observer ). 'An eccentric...
Liverpool — Dhaka: Antivirus Productions, 2015. — 80 p. Paradise Falguni. Television of the corrupted soul, poems (In English) Falguni Roy, or Ray (1945–1981) was an anti-establishment Bengali poet. Along with Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury, Subimal Basak, Debi Roy (Haradhon Dhara), Utpal Kumar Basu, Binoy Majumdar, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Basudeb...
USA, NY: Brooklyn, Melville House, 2009. — 583 p. — ISBN: 1933633638. This never-before-translated masterpiece — by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn’t join the Nazi Party — is based on a true story.It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to...
USA, NY, Brooklyn, Melville House Publishing, 2009. — 384 p. — eISBN 978-1-61219-064-8. Translation by Susan Bennett, 1996. Since its first publication in 1933, this novel has become a world classic. It provides a vivid, poignant picture of life in Germany just before Hitler's takeover and focuses on a young married couple struggling to survive in the country's nightmarish...
NY, Brooklyn: Melville House, 2009. — 350 p. — eISBN: 978-1-61219-065-5. This astonishing, autobiographical tour de force was written by Hans Fallada in an encrypted notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death, it tells the tale — often fierce, often poignant, often extremely funny — of a small businessman losing control as he fights...
USA, NY, Brooklyn, Melville house, 2010. — 803 p. — eISBN: 978-1-935554-89-9. Wolf Among Wolves is a sprawling saga of the collapse of a culture - its economy and government - and the common man's struggle to survive it all. Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany's catastrophic loss of World War I, the story follows a young gambler who loses all in Berlin, then flees the...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0399158928; ISBN13: 978-0399158926. A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring. “A gripping, cleverly plotted...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0399158928; ISBN13: 978-0399158926. A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring. “A gripping, cleverly plotted...
Harper Perennial, 2007. — 189 p. Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But...
2004, Vintage Books, 503 pp A novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters, and Stephen volunteers...
New York: Oxford University Press,.2002.—302 p.—ISBN: 0-19-511561-9 The sonnet was one of the leading poetic forms of the Romantic period, and many of the best-known poems of the period are sonnets, including Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias," John Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," and William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge." Most of the sonnets...
Pages: 2247 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Shorter 5th edition (2005) Quality: good: PDF Offering over one thousand years of verse from the medieval period to the present, The Norton Anthology of Poetry is the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English. The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology,...
Random House, Inc., New York. 2007. eISBN: 978-0-307-51255-0. Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to America, was a pimp in his youth and a magus in his maturity. This astonishing transformation was part of his relentless self-reinvention, from which sprang a dazzling succession of career moves and what the celebrity press now calls makeovers. From his late twenties or...
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the...
Lupi Editore 2024, Sulmona, Italy - 180 p. The eight stories in this collection share the thought of George Eliot contained in the epigraph: just as there are great personalities in the world, there are also ordinary people deserving as much attention. People like you, like me, like everyone. Each story has a different style, although they belong to my genre that I call the...
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. First published on 28 February 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel. The novel, totaling 346,747 words, is divided into 18 smaller books, each preceded by a discursive chapter, often on topics...
William Morrow, 2018. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 0062678418, 13 978-0062678416. This book is in the New York Times Best Seller list: Fiction - February, 2018 “Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing.” —Gillian Flynn “Unputdownable.” —Stephen King “A dark, twisty confection.” —Ruth Ware “Absolutely gripping.” —Louise Penny For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s...
William Morrow, 2018. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 0062678418, 13 978-0062678416. This book is in the New York Times Best Seller list: Fiction - February, 2018 “Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing.” —Gillian Flynn “Unputdownable.” —Stephen King “A dark, twisty confection.” —Ruth Ware “Absolutely gripping.” —Louise Penny For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s...
William Morrow, 2018. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 0062678418, 13 978-0062678416. This book is in the New York Times Best Seller list: Fiction - February, 2018 “Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing.” —Gillian Flynn “Unputdownable.” —Stephen King “A dark, twisty confection.” —Ruth Ware “Absolutely gripping.” —Louise Penny For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s...
The Madonna of the Almonds’ by Marina Fiorato. The year is 1525. A gifted young artist, Bernardino Luini of the Da Vinci school, is commissioned to paint a religious fresco in the hills of Lombardy. His eye is caught by the beautiful Simonetta di Saronno, recently widowed by the Italian Wars. Captivated by her beauty and her sadness Bernardino paints her likeness, immortalizing...
Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2011. — ISBN10: 1849833648; ISBN13: 978-1849833646. ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry ** `I don't think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.' Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like `something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting'. Immersed...
This sequel to the bestselling Postcards from the Edge contains Carries Fishers trademark intelligence and wit that brought Postcards to the Hollywood movie screen When we left Suzanne Vale at the end of Carrie Fishers bestselling Postcards from the Edge she had survived drug abuse rehab and Hollywood celebrity The Best Awful takes Suzanne back to the edge with a new set of...
Welcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation, where nothing is what it seems: Ancient relics emit technologically advanced powers, members of the old Order are hunted by the governing Watch yet revered by the people, and the great energy that connects all seems to also be destroying all. The only hope for the world lies in Galen, a man of the old Order and a...
The Penguin Group Inc., 2012. — 581 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-57522-2. A transporting debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another. "One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time." The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy,...
Random House, 2013. — ISBN: 978-1741666700. The book tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by memories of a love affair with his uncle's wife and of his subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war. Post-war, he finds his growing celebrity as a war hero at odds with his sense of his own failings and guilt. Taking its title from 17th-century haiku poet...
The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others...
The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others...
The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others...
Isabella, Three Sailing Ships and a Con Man is a 1963 two-act play by Italian playwright Dario Fo, the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. The play is considered "an attempt to demystify and debunk the traditional history-book image" of Christopher Columbus. Fo said: "I wanted to attack those Italian intellectuals who, with the centre-left and the Socialist Party...
Love at first sight - based on the true story of one girl and her 'train man'... The note changed everything... One very ordinary day, Maya Flowers sees a new commuter board her train to London, and suddenly the day isn't ordinary at all. Maya knows immediately and irrevocably, that he is The One. But the beautiful man on the train always has his head in a book and never seems...
The lives of masterpiece hunters, forgers and thieves. In the modern art world of intrigue and competition, rumours had long flourished about the existence of a lost masterpiece by Modigliani. Now, with the prize for uncovering the work higher than ever, a chase begins across Europe to see who can get the painting first.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2006.—525 p.—ISBN: 0-226-25678-2 Moderata Fonte, pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto), (1555–1592) was a Venetian writer and poet. Besides the posthumously-published dialogue, Il merito delle donne (The Worth of Women, 1600) for which she is best known, she...
Delphi Classic. 2012 Ford Madox Ford (17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939), born Ford Hermann Hueffer , was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. Ford is now remembered for his publications The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End...
J. B. Lippincott Company. 1935. — 334 p. Written in 1911, published under Ford's common pseudonym Daniel Chaucerand, and extensively revised in 1935 (this version) under his name. Although it has a time travel theme, it's usually classed as mainstream literature rather than science fiction. As its author explicitly stated, "(...)Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King...
Canada is a 2012 novel by American author Richard Ford. The novel follows 15-year-old Dell Parsons, who must learn to fend for himself after his parents are arrested for robbing a bank. The book also re-visits Great Falls, Montana, a setting that Ford frequently uses in his work. First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later....
464 p.; Publisher: Vintage; First Edition edition (May 7, 1996) 1996 Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved along with their children to Connecticut. But Frank is happy enough in his work and pursuing various civic and...
Algonquin Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ASIN: B01B3VMD4U. Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she...
Algonquin Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ASIN: B01B3VMD4U. Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she...
Algonquin Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ASIN: B01B3VMD4U. Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she...
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1985. First edition: 1947. The Story of a Panic. The Other Side of the Hedge. The Celestial Omnibus. Other Kingdom. The Curate's Friend. The Road from Colonus. The Machine Stops. The Point of It. Mr Andrews. Co-Ordination. The Story of the Strength. The Eternal Moment. Dr Woolacott. The Life to Come. The Other Boat. The Life to Come. Edward...
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1985. The Story of a Panic. The Other Side of the Hedge. The Celestial Omnibus. Other Kingdom. The Curate's Friend. The Road from Colonus. The Machine Stops. The Point of It. Mr Andrews. Co-Ordination. The Story of the Strength. The Eternal Moment. Dr Woolacott. The Life to Come. The Other Boat. The Life to Come. Edward Morgan Forster (1...
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1985. The Story of a Panic. The Other Side of the Hedge. The Celestial Omnibus. Other Kingdom. The Curate's Friend. The Road from Colonus. The Machine Stops. The Point of It. Mr Andrews. Co-Ordination. The Story of the Strength. The Eternal Moment. Dr Woolacott. The Life to Come. The Other Boat. The Life to Come. Edward Morgan Forster (1...
Delphi Classic. 2013. Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the...
The prologue. The y s ay i die d. My heart stopped, and I was not breathing-in the eyes of the world I was really dead. Some say I was gone for three minutes, some say four; personally, I am beginning to think. death is mostly a matter of opinion. Being Juliet, I suppose I should have seen it coming. But I so wanted to believe that, this time around, it would not be the same...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. — (Harper Perennial : Fifty-Two Stories). Forty Stories is the first long-form work published under the aegis of Fifty-Two Stories, the short fiction blog of Harper Perennial. Since its inception in 2009, Fifty-Two Stories (www.fiftytwostories.com) has hosted work by writers both new and established, including Neil Gaiman, Louise Erdrich, Mary...
SULLY AND KLEINTEICH, 1913 - 232 p. This book contains more than one thousand facts, many of which are not generally known to the average person; but all of them are of interest to humankind, and a knowledge of many of them is essential. The author has used the simplest English, and has avoided, as far as possible, all technical or scientific terms. He has endeavored not to...
SULLY AND KLEINTEICH, 1913 - 232 p. This book contains more than one thousand facts, many of which are not generally known to the average person; but all of them are of interest to humankind, and a knowledge of many of them is essential. The author has used the simplest English, and has avoided, as far as possible, all technical or scientific terms. He has endeavored not to...
SULLY AND KLEINTEICH, 1913 - 232 p. This book contains more than one thousand facts, many of which are not generally known to the average person; but all of them are of interest to humankind, and a knowledge of many of them is essential. The author has used the simplest English, and has avoided, as far as possible, all technical or scientific terms. He has endeavored not to...
A useful book for those who want to improve their knowledge of the styles of English, understand the difference between American and British varieties. Introduction – Anthropology at Home Conversation Codes The Weather Grooming-talk Humour Rules Linguistic Class Codes Emerging Talk-rules: The Mobile Phone Pub-talk Behaviour Codes Home Rules Rules of the Road Work to Rule Rules...
Delphi Classic. 2015. — 4621 p. Anatole France ( born François-Anatole Thibault, 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the...
Doubleday, 2019. — 288 p. Launching an intelligent, perceptive new voice in fiction, Shelf Life is the exquisite, heart-wrenching story of a woman rebuilding herself on her own terms. Ruth is thirty years old. She works as a nurse in a care home and her fiancé has just broken up with her. The only thing she has left of him is their shopping list for the upcoming week. And so...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.1998.—328 p.—ISBN: 0-226-25987-0 Veronica Franco (1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice
William Morrow, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0062390821; ISBN13: 978-0062390820. The Lowcountry of South Carolina is where By Invitation Only begins at a barbecue engagement party thrown by Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents to celebrate her son’s engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride’s father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker whose...
William Morrow, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0062390821; ISBN13: 978-0062390820. The Lowcountry of South Carolina is where By Invitation Only begins at a barbecue engagement party thrown by Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents to celebrate her son’s engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride’s father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker whose...
Fiction (fiction). - DK Publishing, 2001, 277 p. Joy's just started high school and already her life's a mess. She can't seem to find a date who resembles a human being. Ever since her great-uncle Max moved into her family's tiny apartment, Joy has had to share a room with her little brother. Now Uncle Max has decided to play matchmaker and set her up with every boy he can find.
2005. — 306 p. "Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to...
New York: Flatiron Books, 2017. — 639 p. — ISBN: 978-1-250-11852-3. "It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think." —Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how...
Harper Perennial, 2000. — 208 p. In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching-a world...
Oxford: Faber and Faber, 2008 The Russian Interpreter is the story of a British academic based at Moscow University who becomes embroiled in an piece of minor espionage through no fault of his own. It’s funny, quirky and entertaining. Unlike most spy stories the focus is on character rather than plot but then Michael Frayn is not a writer of genre fiction but a literary...
Penguin, 2004. — 288 p. This book by Esther Freud consists of 42 chapters and has an intriguing plot as lives of two heroes of different periods are described simultaneously.
The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life, despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his life and work. Poring over Klaus's letters to Elsa, Lily pieces together the story of their lives. And alone in...
Published in September 22nd 2005 by Anchor (first published 2003); 432 p. ISBN: 0307276902 Description At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a treatment...
Anchor, 2005. — 432 p. ISBN: 0307276902 Description At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was told he...
Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Madeline is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing...
The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948–2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel — awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978 — she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called “The Fortress,” creating over her lifetime elaborate colorful diagrams and...
Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions, 2004 Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.[1] His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
Garden City, 1939, Halcyon House, 469 p. First edition of this collection of Frost’s verse. This collection includes all the poems published in North of Boston, New Hampshire and A Further Range , as well as selected poems from A Boy’s Will, Mountain Interval, West-Running Brook and in published in the 1930 Collected Poems . Frost’s introduction, The Figure a Poem Makes , is...
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. — 648 p. This is the only comprehensive volume of Robert Frost's published verse; in it are the contents of all eleven of his individual books of poetry-from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism If It had been the onglnality It was mistaken for by Its young converts....
Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra. Originally published in Spanish, copyright . 1975 by Editorial Joaquin Mortiz, S.A., Mexico. Translation by Margaret Sayers Peden copyright. 1976 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Afterword copyright. 1983 by Milan Kundera. First Dalkey Archive edition, 2003. Rarely in the history of the contemporary novel has a writer singularly embodied a...
NY: NYRB Classics, 2009. — 200 p. Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the school, nature, nutrition, spiritual health and life itself. He joins the healing of the land to the process of purifying the human spirit and proposes a way of life and a way of farming in which such healing can take place. Call it “Zen and the Art of...
New York: Atheneum, 1960. — 305 p. — ISBN10: 1125183306; ISBN13: 978-1125183304. Translated from German by Richard and Clara Winston René Fülöp-Miller, born Philip Müller (17 February 1891 – 17 May 1963) was an Austrian cultural historian and writer. He was born to an Alsatian immigrant and a Serbian mother in Caransebeş (in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and died...
Berkley books, 2016. — 313 p. — ISBN: 0425281388. The New York Times bestselling author of The Russian Concubine returns with a stunning new novel set in Mussolini's Italy. Isabella Berotti is an architect, helping to create showpieces that will reflect the glory of her country's Fascist leaders. She is not a deeply political sort, but designing these buildings of grandiose...
A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most...
Introduction 2012 by Rick Moody. — First Dalkey Archive edition, 2012 J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions, that tremendous book which, in the twenty years since its publication, has come to be acknowledged as an American masterpiece. And J R is a book of comparable magnitude, substance, and humor — a rushing, raucous look at money and...
First Dalkey Archive edition, 2012. The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both”—The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and...
School Survival: Keeping Your Cool at School. Tina Gagliardi, Vicki F Panaccione. ABDO, Jul 1, 2008 - 112 p. School Survival features fictional narratives paired with firsthand advice from a licensed psychologist to help preteen and teen girls find new ways to face everyday challenges at school. Situations include handling test anxiety, dealing with bullies, and struggling with...
Simon & Schuster, 2009. — ISBN10: 1439148872. A trade paperback reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill's debut collection, Bad Behavior--powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. - Now a classic: Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first...
The Rugby Press, 2016. - 201 p. A Spring Morning. A World for Love. Address to Plenty. Approach of Spring, The. Autumn. Autumn Robin, The. Ballad. Crab Tree, The. Decay. December. Effusion. Gipsy Camp, The. Graves of Infants. Harvest Morning, The. Home Yearnings. I am! Yet what I am. June. Love. Love Lives beyond the Tomb. Meeting, The. Milton, To John. My Early Home. My Love,...
Classic novel, originally published in 1958. In the United Kingdom, it was published as "Flowers for Mrs Harris". The plot revolves around Ada Harris, a London charwoman, who is so enchanted by her employer's couture wardrobe that she becomes determined to go to the House of Dior in Paris to purchase an evening gown of her own.
The Snow Goose is a simple, short written parable on the regenerative power of friendship and love, set against a backdrop of the horror of war. It documents the growth of a friendship between Philip Rhayader, an artist living a solitary life in an abandoned lighthouse in the marshlands of Essex because of his disabilities, and a young local girl, Fritha.
A collection of stories, Harper, 1st ed., 2004, 144 p. These six stories by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian transport the reader to moments where the fragility of love and life, and the haunting power of memory, are beautifully unveiled. In "The Temple," the narrator's acute and mysterious anxiety overshadows the delirious happiness of an outing with his new wife on their...
Novel, Harper,1st ed., 2002, 464 p. One Man's Bible is the second novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian to appear in English. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain, this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and beauty. In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories of...
The third installment in the Old Filth trilogy, Last Friends will surprise and delight Gardam fans and appeal to new readers as it concludes a portrait of a marriage equal to any in the English language. Of Edward Feathers, a.k.a. Old Filth, the New York Times wrote, “he belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters.” Filth, which stands for Failed in London Try...
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an...
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and wisdom: The Man in the Wooden...
Farrar, Straus, Giroux. — 233 p. This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. This book is so truthful and honest, it has been banned from many school libraries and even publicly burned in...
Vintage Books Edition, 1989. — 110 p. John Gardner's philosophical fiction reveals his characters’ inner conflicts. Grendel, the first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his side of the story in a book William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions." Get another four tales of fantasy from a...
The Beach (1996) is a novel by Alex Garland about backpackers in Thailand. Influenced by such literary works as Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies, it describes the adventures of a young Englishman in search of and on a legendary, idyllic beach untouched by tourism. A furiously intelligent first novel … a book that moves with the kind of speed and grace many older writers...
The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop on the backpacker trail. On Richard's first night there a fellow traveller slits his wrists, leaving Richard a map to "the Beach". The Beach is a legend among young travellers in Asia: white as sands circling a lagoon hidden from the sea, coral gardens and freshwater falls surrounded by jungle. In this earthly paradise, it is rumoured, a...
The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop on the backpacker trail. On Richard's first night there a fellow traveller slits his wrists, leaving Richard a map to "the Beach". The Beach is a legend among young travellers in Asia: white as sands circling a lagoon hidden from the sea, coral gardens and freshwater falls surrounded by jungle. In this earthly paradise, it is rumoured, a...
Canada: Penguin Random House, 2022, ISBN: 9780385697378, 462 p. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely,...
Susan and Colin have been sent to their mother’s nurse for 6 months. The two children rapidly adjust to life in the country around Alderley Edge, but find an unusual interest in Susan’s “Tear”, a stone hanging from a bracelet passed to their mother by Bess Mossack, the nurse. They find that this stone has been the object of a prolonged search by both light and dark forces....
Susan and Colin have been sent to their mother’s nurse for 6 months. The two children rapidly adjust to life in the country around Alderley Edge, but find an unusual interest in Susan’s “Tear”, a stone hanging from a bracelet passed to their mother by Bess Mossack, the nurse. They find that this stone has been the object of a prolonged search by both light and dark forces....
Tracey Garvis-Graves, 2011. – 369 p. When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day. T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having...
Geek High - 2 English. Miranda Bloom's life has never been better. She finally has an almost-quasi-boyfriend, Dex McConnell, the star lacrosse player of Orange Cove High. But when holiday break rolls around, she jets off to visit her mother in London, and Dex suddenly seems to lose all interest in her. Then there's Henry, the very cute and very available British guy who...
At this school, everyone's a geek. And Miranda Bloom still can't fit in.Miranda is a math genius with divorced parents, an evil stepmother, and no boyfriend in sight. She can't even fit in with the other geeks at the Nottingham Independent School for high-IQ students, because they actually have useful talents. Miranda, on the other hand, is known as "The Human Calculator,"...
Geek High - 4 English. Some people have to learn the hard way — don't mess with a geek.Miranda Bloom, girl genius, is totally psyched to start her junior year at Geek High. Too bad her boyfriend, lacrosse player Dex McConnell, is off to boarding school in Maine. Miranda thought she could count on her best friends, Finn and Charlie, to cheer her up, but they're caught up in...
Geek High - 3 English. The third compulsively readable book in the smart and witty series about a high school for gifted students. Miranda Bloom has scored an adorable, lacrosse-playing boyfriend, Dex McConnell, and an awesomely easy summer job looking after a ten year old mini-genius, Amelia. This summer is going to be sweet. Then reality puts the brakes on everything. Though...
Canada, New Society Publishers, 2002. — 106 p. — ISBN: 0-86571-448-7 With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years. Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow...
Prize-winning author Anna Gavalda has galvanized the literary world with an exquisite genius for storytelling. Here, in her epic new novel of intimate lives-and filled with the "humanity and wit" (Marie Claire) that has made it a bestselling sensation in France-Gavalda explores the twists of fate that connect four people in Paris. Comprised of a starving artist, her shy,...
Hailed by Voici as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker," prize-winning Anna Gavalda has caused an international sensation with this dazzling collection of short stories selling over 700,000 copies in her native France. With arresting naturalism, a lively variety of perspectives, Gavalda writes simply-and beautifully-of human beings longing to connect. Gavalda has a knack...
The prize-winning author of I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere returns with a novel of an abandoned wife, and the profound relationship that unfolds between her and her father-in-law. Anna Gavalda's Someone I Loved is a hauntingly intimate look at the intolerably painful, yet occasionally valuable consequences that adultery can have on a marriage and the individuals...
Harper, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0062362593; ISBN13: 978-0062362599.From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran...
Harper, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0062362593; ISBN13: 978-0062362599.From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran...
David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer’s block. He stares at the blank page, and the blank page stares back — until inspiration strikes in the form of a ghost story that captivated him as a child. With his pregnant wife and young daughter in tow, he sets out to explore the myth of Virginia Beale, Faery Queen of the Haunted Dell....
In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine — until he learns of it first-hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose,...
Pocket Books, 2009. — 353 p. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life — and her relationship with...
When Alice finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease she is just fifty years old. A university professor, wife, and mother of three, she still has so much more to do - books to write, places to see, grandchildren to meet. But when she can't remember how to make her famous Christmas pudding, when she gets lost in her own back yard, when she fails to...
Islamabad: The Army Press, 2014. — 459 p. (in Pashto and English) Ghani Khan Abdul. Pilgrim of Beauty, Poems (Pashto and English) Ghani Khan (Pashto: غني خان) (1914–1996) was an Afghan Pashto language poet, artist, writer, politician and Philosopher of the 20th century. Aside from a few poems of his youth and early manhood, Ghani Khan’s poetry, like his temperament, is...
Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies. The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided...
Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and...
First published 1899 by Small & Maynard, Boston, MA., 21 p. (no other information available). "The Yellow Wallpaper" tells the story of a young woman’s gradual descent into psychosis. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is often cited as an early feminist work that predates a woman’s right to vote in the United States. The author was involved in first-wave feminism, and her other works...
Grand Central Publishing, 2016. — ISBN10: 1455595055; ISBN13: 978-1455595051. In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan when Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. Taken in by an...
1947-1997 Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. The chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with the creation of open, vocal, spontaneous, and energetic postmodern...
Little, Brown and Company. — 432 p. ISBN13: 9780316075848 What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth...
Delacorte Press, 2016. - 416 c. - ISBN10: 1101934719; ISBN13: 978-1101934715. For fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places comes a novel Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything, calls "a haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page." Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s...
Delacorte Press, 2016. - 416 c. - ISBN10: 1101934719; ISBN13: 978-1101934715. For fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places comes a novel Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything, calls "a haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page." Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s...
Delacorte Press, 2016. - 416 c. - ISBN10: 1101934719; ISBN13: 978-1101934715. For fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places comes a novel Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything, calls "a haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page." Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s...
A novel Publisher: Faber and Faber, LTD; (2011) Language: English A burnout at thirty-five, months behind on his book, low on cash, and something of a loser, Eddie Spinola could use a shot in the arm. One day he randomly runs into Vernon, his ex-wife’s brother, and his ex-dealer. Now employed by a shadowy pharmaceutical company, Vernon has something that might help: a new...
Already an internet phenomenon, these wise and insightful lessons by popular newspaper columnist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Regina Brett will make you see the possibilities in your life in a whole new way. When Regina Brett turned 50, she wrote a column on the 50 lessons life had taught her. She reflected on all she had learned through becoming a single parent, looking for...
Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularisation of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise Political Justice Godwin uses Caleb Williams to show how legal and other...
Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he completed in 1788. In contrast to the earlier work, the portrait in Egmont of the downfall of a man who trusts in the goodness of those around him appears.
Boston: MIT Press, 2009 — 156 p. — ISBN10: 0262013096; ISBN13: 978-0262013093. Introduction by Gordon L. Miller. The Metamorphosis of Plants , published in 1790, was Goethe’s first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend “the truth about the how of the organism.” Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of...
Delphi Classics, 2013. The Novels. The Sorrows Of Young Werther. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. Elective Affinities. Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years. The Short Stories. A Tale. The Good Women. The Plays. The Wayward Lover. The Fellow Culprits. Goetz Von Berlichingen. Clavigo. Egmont. The Brother And Sister. Stella. Iphigenia In Tauris. Torquato Tasso. Faust: Part One. The...
Tailor Institution, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1840. — 486 p. Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how these are perceived by humans. It was published in German in 1810 and in English in 1840.[2] The books contains detailed descriptions of phenomena such as coloured...
Lee Goldberg. King City. 246 p. Published May 15th 2012 by Thomas & Mercer. Major Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption…turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he’s exiled to patrol a beat in King City’s deadliest neighborhood… with no back-up, no resources, and no hope of survival. Now Wade...
From Publishers Weekly In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. Translated ably enough to keep up with the colloquial tone, most tales are told with straightforward familiarity, drawing readers into small...
In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold...
Published: Harbinger Books, 1962 Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 246 p. The Vicar of Wakefield, novel by Oliver Goldsmith, published in two volumes in 1766. The story, a portrait of village life, is narrated by Dr. Primrose, the title character, whose family endures many trials — including the loss of most of their money, the seduction of one daughter, the destruction of their home by fire, and the vicar’s...
Johannesburg: Penguin Books, 1999. — 260 p. — ISBN10: 0140290265; ISBN13: 9780140290264 From the title story of the aardvark and his poetic justice to the fears inspired by technology in the last days of the twentieth century, from the car hijackers who never quite get away with it to the politicians who do, the full spectrum of South Africa's subconscious fears, desires and...
Penguin Group USA, Inc., 2010. Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy — a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found...
Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy — a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic...
Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy — a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic...
London: Penguin Classics, 2005 Translated by David Magarshak Ilya Ilich Oblomov belongs to a line of outsized comic heroes who make us laugh and yet touch our sympathies – Don Quixote is an archetype. His monumental indolence has led Russians to turn him into a symbol of this supposed vice of the national character. Upon the novel’s appearance in 1859, a critic diagnosed his...
In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life. Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon....
Transl by Andrew Bromfield. — New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. — 232 p. — ISBN: 9780231546027 (electronic); ISBN: 9780231185141; ISBN: 9780231185158. — (Russian Library) It is New Year’s Eve 1945 in a small Soviet town not long liberated from German occupation. Sashenka, a headstrong and self-centered teenage girl, resents her mother for taking a lover after her...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. — 252 p. His style is always vivid and definite. The influence of his early life and of his revolutionary sympathies is seen in all his works. Such intense bitterness, a spirit so critical and anarchistic, combined with touches of tenderness, a keen sense of natural beauty, and a very human code of morals, could be united only in a man of strong...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. — 252 p. His style is always vivid and definite. The influence of his early life and of his revolutionary sympathies is seen in all his works. Such intense bitterness, a spirit so critical and anarchistic, combined with touches of tenderness, a keen sense of natural beauty, and a very human code of morals, could be united only in a man of strong...
Translated from the Russian by J. M. Shirazi and Others. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. — New York: Boni & Liveright, 1918. A collection of short stories by the popular and influential Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote stories, plays, memoirs and novels which...
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. — 640 p. Makar Chudra. At the Salt Marsh. Old Izergil. Chelkash. About a Little Boy and a Little Girl Who Did Not Freeze to Death. Song of the Falcon. Exposure. A Mite of a Girl. Kolusha. The Woman with the Blue Eyes. How Semaga Was Caught. The Poet. Konovalov. Vanka Mazin. Mischief-maker. The Orlovs. For Want of Something Better To...
Ebury Press , 2015. — 352 p. Language: English ISBN10: 0091928508 ISBN13: 978-0091928506 It’s hard to imagine a world where anything you could possibly want to know about – and everything you don’t even know you want to know about – isn't accessible 24-hours a day, seven days a week, with just a few taps of our fingers. But that world once existed. And Dave Gorman remembers it....
Fiction, Romance, Thriller After being acquitted of murdering his high school girlfriend 15 years ago, a man returns to Miami. While there, he encounters another former girlfriend and discovers that they still share feelings for one another. But before the couple can rekindle their relationship, they must confront the past. Old high school friends -- connected to the events...
Last Orders is a quiet but dazzling novel about a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. When one of them dies, the survivors drive his ashes from London to a seaside town where they will be scattered, compelling them to take stock in who they are today, who they were before, and the...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2015. — 400 p. — (The Poldark Saga #1). — ISBN: 1492622079, ISBN13: 9781492622079. In the first novel in Winston Graham’s hit series, a weary Ross Poldark returns to England from war, looking forward to a joyful homecoming with his beloved Elizabeth. But instead he discovers his father has died, his home is overrun by livestock and drunken servants, and...
Poldark series, novel 5 A Novel of Cornwall 1794–95. The Black Moon is the enthralling fifth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner. Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. And when Morwenna...
Book 2 of the 'Danzig Trilogy'. — Translated by Ralph Manheim. — First published in German under the title 'Katz und Maus'. 'Cat and Mouse' was the book Günter Grass wrote immediately after 'The Tin Drum', and it shares its setting with that earlier novel: Danzig during World War II. But while 'The Tin Drum' achieves its extraordinary cumulative effect through the sprawling and...
Random House, 1965. — 312 p. Abigail was the last keeper of the house and the last to know the Howland family's secrets. Now in the name of her family, she must take bitter revenge on the small-minded Southern town that shamed them but could not destroy them.
In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green - co-creator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers and SciShow - spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realising she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m.,...
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is...
Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1958. — 276 p. — Memories of the people of the shore and the stories they told; sand and dunes and treasure, seabirds and creatures of the sea; and personal impressions of certain islands in African waters. South African Beachcomber is a gripping book revealing the life and fascination of the beaches around South Africa, the pageant of this long...
Lee Boudreaux Books, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0316316121; ISBN13: 978-0316316125. A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review). Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding...
Lee Boudreaux Books, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0316316121; ISBN13: 978-0316316125. A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review). Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding...
Are you willing to indulge into your wildest fantasy? Bria had just one wish, one desperate desire, and the only place she would be able to have it come true would be at the annual Midnight Fantasies Masquerade Ball. It would be interesting to see if, given enough money, the hosts truly granted everyone's wildest fantasy, as they promised, or if it was just meaningless hype....
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. That the subsequent Letters were written by a tender father, in a declining state of health, for the instruction of his daughters, and not intended for the Public, is a circumstance which will recommend them to everyone who considers them in the light of admonition and advice. In such domestic intercourse, no sacrifices are made to...
London: r T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. That the subsequent Letters were written by a tender father, in a declining state of health, for the instruction of his daughters, and not intended for the Public, is a circumstance which will recommend them to everyone who considers them in the light of admonition and advice. In such domestic intercourse, no sacrifices are made to...
Touchstone, 2009. — 608 p. — ISBN10: 1439101124; ISBN13: 978-1439101124. From award winner Julia Gregson, author of Jasmine Nights, this sweeping international bestseller brilliantly captures the lives of three young women on their way to a new life in India during the 1920s. As the Kaisar-I-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate...
Delphi Classics. 2014. — 6005 p. Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the commercial success of his...
Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown. Picture the Dead A ghost will find his way home. Jennie Lovell's life is the very picture of love and loss. First she is orphaned and forced to live at the mercy of her stingy, indifferent relatives. Then her fiancé falls on the battlefield, leaving her heartbroken and alone. Jennie struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, but is...
Penguin, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN: 9780718182953. An English translation of the Dutch bestseller. The book shows, inter alia, how the modern world treats its senior citizens. It ‘s a masterpiece of observation, replete with black humour and subdued pathos
We were young. We were in love. We were rollicking in those sublime early days of marriage when life seems about as good as life can get. We could not leave well enough alone. And so on a January evening in 1991, my wife of fifteen months and I ate a quick dinner together and headed off to answer a classified ad in the Palm Beach Post. Why we were doing this, I wasn't quite...
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog is a New York Times bestselling autobiographical book by journalist John Grogan, published in 2005, about the thirteen years he and his family shared their life, home, and heart with Marley, a possibly neurotic, and certified "untrainable", yellow Labrador Retriever with a heart of gold.
New York: NYRB, 2012. Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler Title of the Russian original: Welcome to you! The book was published in Russian in 1962. Vasily Grossman, remembered for the terrifying clarity with which he wrote about the Holocaust and the Battle of Stalingrad. An Armenian Sketchbook is by far the most personal and intimate of Grossman's works, and is...
New York Review Books Classics, 2006. — 896 p. Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century. Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an...
George Grossmith 1847-1912 The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first ‘blog’; being a record of the simplicities and humiliations in the life of this mundane, but upright, city clerk, who...
Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Post Office Box 2225 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515-2225 a division of Workman Publishing 225 Varick Street New York, New York 10014 2006 by Sara Gruen. All Rights Reserved ISBN: 9781565125605 An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of...
An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of "Riding Lessons". When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making...
2012, 38 p. Edgar Guest began his career at the Detroit Free Press in 1895, where he first worked as a copyboy. He was soon promoted to police writer and later to exchange editor, and in 1904 he began writing verse for the Free Press under the heading "Chaff." Those columns evolved into an immensely popular daily feature entitled "Breakfast Table Chat," which, at the height of...
Claudia Guggenbühl - Mircea Eliade and Surendranath Dasgupta. (The History of their Encounter Dasgupta’s Life, his Philosophy and his Works on Yoga. A Comparative Analysis of Eliade’s Chapter on Patañjali’s "Yogasūtra" and Dasgupta’s "Yoga as Philosophy and Religion".) - Zürich, 2008 p. 234. This study is one of the products of a three-year-long scientific research project...
Anchor, 2008. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0307278409 Language: English Category: Novel Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang - or "Z," to tongue-tied foreigners - has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of...
Anchor, 2008. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0307278409 Language: English Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores.Zhuang - or "Z," to tongue-tied foreigners - has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and...
Night Shade Books, 2016. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 1597808385, ISBN13: 978-1597808385. Once upon a time, the stories that came to be known as “fairy tales” were cultivated to entertain adults more than children; it was only later that they were tamed and pruned into less thorny versions intended for youngsters. But in truth, they have continued to prick the imaginations of all ages....
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 206 p. Translated by Eve Manning. The present collection includes Yevgen Gutsalo's best stories. His main attention is given to nature in his native Ukraine, the bright, happy world of childhood, and people who work, usually village people with their cares and worries, their memories of the past and dreams of the future.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 206 p. Translated by Eve Manning. The present collection includes Yevgen Gutsalo's best stories. His main attention is given to nature in his native Ukraine, the bright, happy world of childhood, and people who work, usually village people with their cares and worries, their memories of the past and dreams of the future.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986. – ISBN: 978-0-8262-0602-2. Robert Samuel "Sam" Gwynn, a University Professor at Lamar University, is an American poet and anthologist associated with New Formalism. Dana Gioia, poet and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, about the author wrote: "Gwynn is ingeniously funny and an effortless master of verse forms. No...
Gallery Books, 2018. — 144 p. — (The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany ). — ISBN 9781501181825, ASIN 1501181823.The book is in winners of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. Goodreads releases nominees for the best books of the year in genres like fiction, nonfiction, poetry, romance, sci-fi and several others. Readers vote! From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip,...
Mark Haddon is a writer and illustrator of numerous award-winning children's books and television screenplays. As a young man, Haddon worked with autistic individuals. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and at Oxford University. He lives in Oxford, England. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title quotes the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "Silver Blaze". Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the...
Harper-Collins,.—129 p.—ISBN: 978-0-06-178488-0 Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ Ḥāfeẓ; 1325/26–1389/90), was a Persian poet who "laud[ed] the joys of love and wine [but] also targeted religious hypocrisy." His collected works are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature and are to...
1892. Nada the Lily is an historical novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard, published in 1892. It is said to be inspired by Haggard's time in South Africa (1875–82). It was illustrated by Charles H. M. Kerr.
New York: Nyrb/Poets, 2014. — 126 p. Hagiwara Sakutaro. Cat City, Poems (In English) Howling at the Moon. Bamboo and Its Pathos. Sad Moonlit Night. Rotten Clam. Lonely Lust. Two Long Poems. Blue Cat . Illusory Bed. Melancholy Cherry. The Lonely Blue Cat. Appetite of Quiet Refinement. Will and Darkness. Sensuous Soul. Other Poems and Prose Poems . Cat Town.
Rutland, Vermont — Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Publishing, 1969. — 55 p. Hagiwara Sakutaro. The Face at the Bottom of the World and other poems (In English) Ai Ren. Bamboos. Blue Flame. Cafe of the Drunken Moon. Dawn. Death of a Frog. Death of an Alcoholic. Duel. Dwarf Landscape. Eggs. Elegant Appetite. Enchanten Graveyard. Face at the Bottom of the World. Fieldmouse. Green...
Ace Books, 1999. — 230 p. The third volume of Haldeman's (three) Forever War books. The story is a direct sequal to the first volume, Forever War, and follows the lives of William Mandella and wife, and other war veterans, deciding to leave their dissatisfied lives on the planet Middle Finger, for the far future in the search of a better life.
St. Martin's Press, 1974. — 147 p. The first volume of Haldeman's (three) Forever War books. Briefly, reading as a commentary on the Vietnam War, William Mandella is a physics student conscripted for an elite task force in the United Nations Exploratory Force being assembled for a war against the Taurans, an alien species discovered when they apparently attacked human...
Ace Books, 1974. — 290 p. The second volume of Haldeman's (three) Forever War books. The story is not a direct sequel to the first volume but takes place on a different future of Earth much closer to our own time. The main protagonist, Julian Class, is a physicist and a mechanic who operates a soldierboy, nearly invincible remote-controlled robots. An Alliance military fights...
Vanguard Books, 2004. — 844 p. The 30th anniversary edition. With a special introduction by Michael Eric Dyson and Alex Haley on the writing of Roots . Widely known for the book and miniseries Roots as well as The Autobiography of Malcolm X , Alex Haley was a U.S. writer whose works of historical fiction and reportage depicted generations of African-American lives. One of the...
The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the British author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is...
Stories. — Harper, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0062354701; ISBN13: 978-0062354709. In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories, edited by two masters of the form, a diverse group of contemporary writers probes the nature and connection between two of the most powerful, exhilarating, and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience. “What else is...
Harper, 2016. - 336 c. - ISBN10: 0062354701; ISBN13: 978-0062354709. In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories, edited by two masters of the form, a diverse group of contemporary writers probes the nature and connection between two of the most powerful, exhilarating, and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience. “What else is there?”—Alice...
Harper, 2016. - 336 c. - ISBN10: 0062354701; ISBN13: 978-0062354709. In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories, edited by two masters of the form, a diverse group of contemporary writers probes the nature and connection between two of the most powerful, exhilarating, and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience. “What else is there?”—Alice...
Riverhead Books; 1st edition, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0735212171; ISBN13: 978-0735212176.“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” –Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review “Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.” –Entertainment Weekly, “A” rating “A...
Riverhead Books; 1st edition, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0735212171; ISBN13: 978-0735212176.“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” –Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review “Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.” –Entertainment Weekly, “A” rating “A...
Riverhead Books; 1st edition, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0735212171; ISBN13: 978-0735212176.“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” –Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review “Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.” –Entertainment Weekly, “A” rating “A...
Viking, 2016. — 183 p. — ISBN: 0451477537 "You will cheer for Amani the whole way as she escapes the bonds of oppression and finds her own power, and you will mark your calendar for the sequel."-Rae Carson, bestselling author of the Fire & Thorns trilogy Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that...
First published in 1958. A man inherits a plot of land in the mountains from his grandfather who was sure there was oil there. A hydroelectric station is going to be built not far from the plot and the landc will bed floooded. Will he find oil? Will he be able to prevent flooding the valley?
Simon & Schuster eBook, 2016. — 142 p. — ISBN: 1451660030. — Edited and translated Xin Liu Alice, Martisen Joel Satirical essays from China's most popular young troublemaker about growing up millennial and causing social and political scandal today. Han Han is the most influential (and provocative) young person in China, equally beloved and reviled for the satirical wit with...
To All the Boys I've Loved Before is a 2014 young adult romance novel by American author Jenny Han. Han was inspired to write the book based on her own habit of writing long letters to boys she had crushes on as a teenager. The novel was followed by two sequels, P.S. I Still Love You, released on May 26, 2015, and Always and Forever, Lara Jean, released on May 2, 2017. Lara...
Atria/Keywords Press, 2017. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1501178326; ISBN13: 978-1501178320. Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children’s verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and...
Atria/Keywords Press, 2017. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1501178326; ISBN13: 978-1501178320. Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children’s verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and...
Vintage, 2011. — 162 p. — ASIN B005U3Z5MA. "Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family...
An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, George Washington Crosby drifts in and out of consciousness, back to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in Maine. As the clock repairer’s time winds down, his memories intertwine with those of his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler and his grandfather, a...
218 pp; [Sydney, Australia] : Accessible Pub. Systems, 2008.; ISBN: 1458765970 9781458765970; From Publishers Weekly 2010 Starred Review. Harding's outstanding debut unfurls the history and final thoughts of a dying grandfather surrounded by his family in his New England home. George Washington Crosby repairs clocks for a living and on his deathbed revisits his turbulent...
London: Faber and Faber, 2008. — 480 p. — ISBN13: 978-0571241132 This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including "Skylight" (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), "Amy's View", "The Judas Kiss", and "My Zinc Bed"
2012. — ASIN B0082ORHUW. He slept with the Sheriff's wife. Could he pay the price? Newcomer Martin has been sleeping with Sheriff Potter's wife Jenny, and the law-man is none too pleased when he finds out. He offers the young man a choice: leave town, or join his household. Martin chooses the latter, only to find out that he's going to end up Sheriff Potter's bitch. This 3000...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. — 194 p. — ISBN: 1-502-83082-5 If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear. You will know it’s coming, and it will hurt. But you’ll be able to prepare. Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They...
London: Mulholland Books, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN: 1473642191 (ISBN13: 9781473642195). Three women have been found dead in East Anglia. The police deny a connection. TV news reporter Frankie smells a story... Ava knows that the threat is real. She's been kidnapped by someone claiming to be the killer: a stranger who seems to know everything about her. As Frankie follows the case,...
2018. — 384 p. — ISBN: 9781743549100. Three brothers, one death, a fenceline stretching to the horizon. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. — 338 p. — ISBN: 1444731459 (ISBN13: 9781444731453). Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on earth. When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime. But things are not what...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. — 338 p. — ISBN: 1444731459 (ISBN13: 9781444731453). Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on earth. When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime. But things are not what...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. — 338 p. — ISBN: 1444731459 (ISBN13: 9781444731453). Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on earth. When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime. But things are not what...
John Lane, London - New York, 1916. - 240 p. Harrison K. W. Malayan magic (In English). Pawang Helai. The Place of Death. Romance is Dead. The Hallucinations of Mat Palembang. Without Benefit. The Room of the Captain. Ah Heng. The Sinking of the Schooner. Exceedingly Venomous. The Malay Servant. The Bullock-Cart Driver. The Shoal of the Skull. Malacca. A Beri-Beri Hospital. On...
James "Jim" Harrison (born December 11, 1937) is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their...
Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1986. — 813 p. ISBN: 0-520-04842-3 This book attempts to introduce a body of American poetry written in Yiddish in the twentieth century, its cultural background, achievments, and concerns to a larger audience. We hope that readers of poetry as well as those interested in American literature and history will find some...
For the first time, the complete short fiction of L.P. Hartley is included in one volume. A novelist whose work has been acclaimed for its consistent quality, he also produced a number of masterly executed short stories. Those stories, written under the collection titles of The Travelling Grave , The White Wand , Two for the River , and Mrs. Carteret Receives are in this...
Leslie Poles Hartley, an English novelist and the son of a solicitor was educated at Oxford's College and for more than twenty years he was a fiction viewer for magazines. He wrote many novels and made a good contribution to English fiction. According to his novels films were casted. Hartley was a highly skilled narrator. Vayne populates his garden with statues of gods,...
Leslie Poles Hartley, an English novelist and the son of a solicitor was educated at Oxford's College and for more than twenty years he was a fiction viewer for magazines. He wrote many novels and made a good contribution to English fiction. According to his novels films were casted. Hartley was a highly skilled narrator and we can see that in his literary work "W.S." The main...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, 411 p. (no other information available). National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner, 2019. The Publishing Triangle AwardWinner, 2020. A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in...
14 Japanese rhythms. — San Francisco: Author's Edition, 1916. — 40 p. Carl Sadakichi Hartmann was born in 1867 in Japan to a Japanese woman, Osada, and Carl Herman Oscar Hartmann, a German government and business official. Since his mother died a few months later, the young Hartmann was sent to Hamburg, Germany, with his brother Tanu, to be raised by his paternal grandmother...
The ghost story comes alive in a spellbinding first novel. Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson, as a young boy in Mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother's room. There he finds a manuscript, and from the moment his mother catches him in the act, Gerard Freeman's life is...
London: Heinemmann, 1973. - 752 c. Translated by Cecil Parrott. First published in Czech in 1923. Searchable PDF (clearscan) with contents in bookmarks, accurate pagination and metadata, etc. Classic Czech novel about military insanity; supposedly a major inspiration for Catch-22. This translation is the one currently available as a Penguin paperback. There is an older...
HarperCollins, 2016. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0062421905; ISBN13: 978-0062421906. Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimi’s first novel for young readers is a coming-of-age journey set in modern-day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posh — a preteen girl dressed as a boy. Obayda’s family is in...
HarperCollins, 2016. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0062421905; ISBN13: 978-0062421906. Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimi’s first novel for young readers is a coming-of-age journey set in modern-day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posh — a preteen girl dressed as a boy. Obayda’s family is in...
Nan A. Talese, 2010. — ASIN B003829FSK Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.
384 p. Language: English. The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior...
Baltimore: Publish America,.2008.—253.—ISBN: 1-60563-123-X Poetry dedicated to the god. Iinspired by the scripture Hebrew 11:1, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.
Allen & Unwin, 2010. - 286 p. Everyone knows at least one limerick. Here are all the limericks you can remember, and many you can't recall but wished you could — from childhood ones to some very adult ones. Jim Haynes has arranged more than a thousand limericks according to type — witty and whimsical, childish and charming, linguistic and logical, fair dinkum and funny, barmy...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1990. — 237 p. Мова: англійська. Упорядник: Анатолій Костецький. Перекладачі: Олесь Коваленко та Василь Баришев. Ілюстрації: Олександр Застанченко. It wouldn't be inaccurate to say that it is the story-writers who actually introduce children to the world they live in. Using words, they paint a bizarre yet convincing pattern of the essential human...
Grove Press, New York, 1994. - 130 p. Translated by D.P. Costello. Hedayat S. Blind Owl (in English) Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, "The Blind Owl" is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece details a young man's despair after losing a...
Bashiri Working Papers on Central Asia and Iran: 1st edition 1974, 2nd 1984, 3rd 2013. — 104 p. Translated and commented by I. Bashiri. Hedayat S. Blind Owl (In English) Sadeq Hedayat's Life. The Blind Owl. The Blind Owl: A Personal Note. The Message of The Blind Owl: An Analysis. Select Bibliography.
Sorayya Publishers, Minneapolis, Minn.: 1984. — 185 p. Translated by Iraj Bashiri, etc. Hedayat S. Blind Owl. Stories. Comments (in English) The Blind Owl was originally published in a limited edition in Bombay, during Hedayat’s year-long stay there in 1937, stamped with Not for sale or publication in Iran. It first appeared in Tehran in 1941 (as a serial in the daily Iran),...
HarperCollins, 2009. — ISBN: 0060926864. At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to...
Dr Anita Heiss is the author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women's fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel articles. She is a regular guest at writers' festivals and travels internationally performing her work and lecturing on Indigenous literature. She is a Lifetime Ambassador of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and a proud member of the Wiradjuri...
An international literary sensation about an arsonist on the loose in rural Norway and the young man haunted by the story. In 1970s Norway, an arsonist targets a small town for one long, terrifying month. One by one, buildings go up in flames. Suspicion spreads among the neighbors as they wonder if one of their own is responsible. But as the heat and panic rise, new life finds...
1991. Catch-22 is a satirical historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century.
Simon & Shuster, 1994. Closing Time is a 1994 novel by Joseph Heller, written as a sequel to the popular Catch-22 . It takes place in New York City in the 1990s, and revisits some characters of the original, including Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder and Chaplain Tappman.
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf. — ISBN: 0-394-46568-7. Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel (published in 1974, thirteen years after Catch-22 ). Its main character and narrator is Bob Slocum, a businessman who engages in a stream of consciousness narrative about his job, his family, his childhood, his sexual escapades, and his own psyche.
Knopf Publishing Group, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0525521879 (ISBN13: 9780525521877). Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is smaller, more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under...
In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer's block finds a new — and very lucrative — stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this...
In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer's block finds a new — and very lucrative — stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this...
In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer's block finds a new — and very lucrative — stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this...
In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer's block finds a new — and very lucrative — stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this...
Play. — New York, Penguin classics, 1934. — 71 p. The Children's Hour is a 1934 American play by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and to avoid being sent back she tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian...
Villard Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, New York, 2006. — 177 p. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a satirical book written by Bobby Henderson that embodies the main beliefs of the parody religion the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism. It is Bobby's first religious tome.The Flying Spaghetti Monster was created by Bobby...
Publisher: James Henderson, 2012. – 147 p. Language: English. A fractured family’s dirty laundry is aired, soiled, stained, muddied, fumigated and declared a health hazard when their patriarch succumbs to barbecued neck bones laced with arsenic.
Razorbill (2017), 132 p., ISBN: 9780448493985. In their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, the O'Donnells and the Angerts have mythic legacies. But for all the tall tales they weave, both founding families are tight-lipped about what caused the century-old rift between them, except to say it began with a cherry tree. Eighteen-year-old Jack “June” O’Donnell doesn't need a...
At the end of the 13th century, the people of Scotland suffered cruelty under the heavy hand of their English ruler, Edward Longshanks. This stirring tale recounts their valiant struggle for freedom under the legendary leadership of William Wallace and Robert Bruce. Time has burnished the feats of these great Scots heroes to mythic proportions, but both were real people, and...
William Morrow, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0062659626; ISBN13: 978-0062659620. “Captivating [...] Herrick weaves a rich tapestry of family lore, dark secrets, and love.” —Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Fifth Petal Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a...
William Morrow, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0062659626; ISBN13: 978-0062659620. “Captivating [...] Herrick weaves a rich tapestry of family lore, dark secrets, and love.” —Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Fifth Petal Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a...
William Morrow, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0062659626; ISBN13: 978-0062659620. “Captivating [...] Herrick weaves a rich tapestry of family lore, dark secrets, and love.” —Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Fifth Petal Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a...
45th stereotype edition. — Brunswick : George Westermann, 1880. — 708 p. Select Specimens of the National Literature of England with Biographical and Critical Sketches. Poetry and Prose. The Elizabethan era Poets. Prose-writers The age of transition Poets Philosophical, historical and miscellaneous writers. From the reign of queen Anne till the year 1780 The wits of queen...
Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis of Jared Diamond, a leading social scientist offers an unprecedented look inside our complex and often paradoxical relationships with animals. Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What can we learn from biomedical research with mice?...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 212 p. Hesiod was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with establishing...
New York: Oxford University Press,.2002.—217 p.—ISBN: 0-19-514875-4 Kabir's poems have been sung and recited throughout North Indiaby learned pandits and illiterate villagers, by wandering ascetics and classical musicians — for 500 years. He is famed for his rough and powerful voice, his uncompromising challenge to individuals to shake off their delusions, their stiff...
The file contains two texts (English and Russian). There was silence in the book-room, not the silence of intimacy but a silence fraught with tension. My lady's blue eyes, staring across the desk into my lord's cool gray ones, dropped to the pile of bills under his hand. Her fair head was hung, and her nervous hands clasped one another tightly.
When Grace Emerson's ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she's seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? Someone...exactly unlike her renegade neighbor, Callahan O'Shea. Well, someone with his looks,...
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary American classic, a book that still captivates and inspires readers twenty years after its first publication. Now, in Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to this indelible story, to tell it from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria. She's the great Cuban beauty who stole...
When it was first published in 1989, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love became an international bestselling sensation, winning rave reviews and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that changed the landscape of American literature returns with a new afterword by Oscar Hijuelos. Here is the story of the memorable...
The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist turns his pen to the real people and places that have influenced his life and, in turn, his literature. Growing up in 1950's working-class New York City to Cuban immigrants, Hijuelos journey to literary acclaim is the evolution of an unlikely writer. Oscar Hijuelos has enchanted readers with vibrant characters who hunger for success,...
Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise , by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the real-life, 37-year friendship between two towering figures of the late nineteenth century, famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Hijuelos was fascinated by the Twain-Stanley connection and eventually...
Seabiscuit: An American Legend is a non-fiction book written by Laura Hillenbrand published in 2001 about the thoroughbred race horse, Seabiscuit. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and was adapted as a feature film in 2003. It has also been published under the title: Seabiscuit - The True Story Of 3 Men & a Race Horse. The author has been praised for her ability...
Random House, 2010. — 497 p. — ISBN: 1400064163. Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to...
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary...
New York: Random House, 2010. — 678 p. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So...
First published on January 1, 1938 by Hodder & Stoughton. A collection of short stories featuring Hilton's beloved character Mr. Chips (from the classic Goodbye Mr. Chips) and an essay on education.
Delacorte Press, 1975. — 122 p. — ISBN: 0-440-05919-4. A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2014. 127 p. ISBN: 9780811221511. A wonderful sui generis novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a couple's life in Tokyo A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of...
The Island by Victoria Hislop held the number one slot in the Sunday Times paperback chart for eight concecutive weeks and has sold one million copies. Victoria was the newcomer of the year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007 and won the Richard & Judy Summer Read competition. The Island has been translated into over twenty languages. On the brink of a life-changing...
New York: Dover, 1967. — 470 p. This Dover edition is a new selection of ten stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The material has been reprinted without abridgment. Introduction (E. F. Bleiler). The Golden Flower Pot. Automata. A New Year’s Eve Adventure. Nutcracker and the King of Mice. The Sand-Man. Rath Krespel. Tobias Martin, Master Cooper, and His Men. The Mines of Falun. Signor...
New York: Dover, 1967. — 470 p. This Dover edition is a new selection of ten stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The material has been reprinted without abridgment. Introduction (E. F. Bleiler). The Golden Flower Pot. Automata. A New Year’s Eve Adventure. Nutcracker and the King of Mice. The Sand-Man. Rath Krespel. Tobias Martin, Master Cooper, and His Men. The Mines of Falun. Signor...
Counterpoint LLC, 2015. - 176 p. ISBN: 1-61902-564-7. This is a novel about the persistence of longing in which the twin lives of the title character blur and overlap. Bird puts her child on the bus for school and passes the day with her baby. Interwoven into the passage of the day are phone calls from a promiscuous, unmarried friend, and Bird’s recollection of the feral,...
Random House Value Publishing. ISBN13: 978-0-517-15826-5, ISBN: 0-517-15826-4. There was a time when the longest story in this book was known by the title of this book — for in a certain sense that story concerns the fabulous costume nature can construe from us when it has made up its mind to unravel us down to the last stitch of thread. But whenever Noy Holland went to read...
Noy Holland’s second collection of stories, What Begins with Bird , once again finds her pushing the boundaries of language and rhythm with her writing. Delving into family relationships, frequently with female protagonists, Holland’s writing develops a tension, both in the situations written of, and in the writing itself.
2004 Man Booker Prize winner Published: Picador Books, 2004 In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions....
The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps. For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more. Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife...
2006, 838 p. The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 1488 p. — (Oxford World's Classics). — ISBN: 0199235481, 0199645213. Translated by Verity Anthony, With an Introduction and Notes by Graziosi Barbara. War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years, the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. It is a tale of many truths, speaking of...
HarperCollins e-books, 2007. — 489 p. Translated into English by Richmond Lattimore. The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English. The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1982. — 463 p. Кращі твори українських поетів радянського періоду. The first edition of its kind and caliber, this anthology covers the past 65 years, representing 73 Soviet Ukrainian poets of different generations in all of their thematical, technical, and temperamental diversity. Selected with taste and attention, their poems create a vast panorama of...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1982. — 463 p. Кращі твори українських поетів радянського періоду. The first edition of its kind and caliber, this anthology covers the past 65 years, representing 73 Soviet Ukrainian poets of different generations in all of their thematical, technical, and temperamental diversity. Selected with taste and attention, their poems create a vast panorama of...
Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0735220697; ISBN13: 978-0735220690.A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance...
Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0735220697; ISBN13: 978-0735220690.A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance...
Holly. I hope you won't mind me buying you this. I think it's the sort of thing you'll like. Am I right? And I think it matches your eyes. This comes with best wishes from (and I know it's corny). A Friend.' And that was how it all started. Holly starts receiving anonymous gifts at the café where she works. She can't believe it - how romantic can you get? But when Holly finds...
Holly. I hope you won't mind me buying you this. I think it's the sort of thing you'll like. Am I right? And I think it matches your eyes. This comes with best wishes from (and I know it's corny). A Friend.' And that was how it all started. Holly starts receiving anonymous gifts at the café where she works. She can't believe it - how romantic can you get? But when Holly finds...
Holly. I hope you won't mind me buying you this. I think it's the sort of thing you'll like. Am I right? And I think it matches your eyes. This comes with best wishes from (and I know it's corny). A Friend.' And that was how it all started. Holly starts receiving anonymous gifts at the café where she works. She can't believe it - how romantic can you get? But when Holly finds...
Holly. I hope you won't mind me buying you this. I think it's the sort of thing you'll like. Am I right? And I think it matches your eyes. This comes with best wishes from (and I know it's corny). A Friend.' And that was how it all started. Holly starts receiving anonymous gifts at the café where she works. She can't believe it - how romantic can you get? But when Holly finds...
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession What would you do for the love of a good book? For John Charles Gilkey, the answer is: go to prison. Unrepentant book thief Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the country. Yet unlike most thieves, who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for love — the love...
Hoover Ink, 2015. — 185 p. Charlize Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning.they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love.every memory has vanished. Charlize and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to...
Atria Books 2014 — 429 p. — ISBN: 1476753164 At twenty-two years old, aspiring musician Sydney Blake has a great life: She’s in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her good friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers Hunter cheating on her with Tori — and she is left trying to decide what to do next. Sydney...
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the...
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the...
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the...
The Fisher family of Alluvia, New York, is coming undone. Evelyn spends her days tending to her husband, Henry — an acclaimed and reclusive novelist slowly losing his battle with Alzheimer’s. Their son, Benji, onetime star of an ’80s sitcom called Prodigy, sinks deeper into drunken obscurity, railing against the bit roles he’s forced to take in uncelebrated regional theater....
University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. - 206 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). The Odes of Horace are a treasure of Western civilization, and this new English translation is a lively rendition by one of the prominent poet-translators of our own time, David R. Slavitt. Horace was one of the great poets of Rome’s Augustan age, benefiting (as did fellow poet Vergil) from the...
Simon & Schuster UK, 2017. — 205 p. — ASIN B06Y5SQ5GZ. Julie Houts has cultivated a devoted following as 'Instagram's favourite illustrator' (Vogue) by lampooning the conflicting messages and images women consume and share with the world every day. A collection of darkly comic illustrated essays, Literally Me chronicles the daily exploits of 'slightly antisocial heroines'...
A New Directions Classic, 1989. — 252 p. First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon...
This inspiring book tells the story of a young Belgian girl, gifted and strong-willed, who became a nun; the story of a life dedicated to the care of the sick, and of her personal struggle to reconcile the demands of her Order with her pride as a nurse. She faced the heart-breaking and terrifying task of nursing the insane; and spent long, arduous years in the Congo. She...
Boston - Toronto: Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1956. — 339 p. This inspiring book tells the story of a young Belgian girl, gifted and strong-willed, who became a nun; the story of a life dedicated to the care of the sick, and of her personal struggle to reconcile the demands of her Order with her pride as a nurse. She faced the heart-breaking and terrifying task of nursing the...
Penguin, 1986. - 305 p. Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction. The Man Booker Prize 1985
Macmillan, 2004. 384 p. What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and...
Biography, Christopher Hutchins Ltd, 2014, 370 p. Even before Lady Diana Spencer married into the most revered family on earth, she had her suspicions that the kith and kin of Prince Charles were not all they seemed-to-be. No sooner had she become the Princess of Wales and moved into Kensington Palace than her fears were confirmed: the House of Windsor constituted a flawed...
Penguin Books, 2013. — ISBN10: 9780143123200; ISBN13: 978-0143123200. This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild — and to hatch an egg of her own. An...
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place. Chapters: Wings The Cellar King Jordy's Hometown Defenseless Out in the Beautiful World Jingle Bells Joy eISBN: 978-0-375-89142-7 [1. Homeless persons — Fiction. 2....
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879), written while Ibsen was in Rome and Amalfi, Italy, was conceived at a time of revolution in Europe. Charged with the fever of the 1848 European revolutions, a new modern perspective was emerging in the literary and dramatic world, challenging the romantic tradition. It is Ibsen who can be credited for mastering and popularizing the realist drama...
Delphi Classic. 2013. — 13944 p. Henrik Johan Ibsen ( 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler,...
New York: Scribner 1923. — 546 p. Pillars of Society. A Doll's House. Ghosts. The Wild Duck. Rosmersholm. The Lady from the Sea. Hedda Gabler. The Master Builder. Lilttle Eylof. John Gabriel Borkman. When We Dead Awaken.
Titan Books, 2010. — 352 p. For twenty-five years the colossal battle between Megatron and Optimus Prime has captivated Transformers fans around the world. Now, for the first time, here is the thrilling saga of Optimus and Megatron before they were enemies, before they arrived on Earth, before they even knew each other. On the caste-bound planet of Cybertron, Megatron, an...
Reminiscent of Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of 20th-century Africa that is passionate in vision and breathtaking in scope.
Set in Southern California during 1962, it depicts one day in the life of George, a middle-aged Englishman who is a professor at a Los Angeles university.
The Berlin Stories is a book consisting of two novellas by Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin and Mr Norris Changes Trains. It was published in 1945. The two novellas are set in Berlin between 1930 and 1933, just as Adolf Hitler was moving into power. Berlin is portrayed by Isherwood during this transition period of cafes and quaint avenues, grotesque nightlife and...
HarperCollins, 1997. — 1048 p. At times pious, at times profane but always unashamedly honest, "The Diaries of Christopher Isherwood" provide an inside look at the life and times of one of the most celebrated writers of the century. Chronicling Isherwood's life from 1939, when he emigrated to the United States, until 1960, these entries cover some of the most turbulent years of...
Harper, 2012. — 928 p. Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the period of his life when he wrote Kathleen and Frank, his first intensely personal book, Liberation: Diaries 1970–1983 intimately and wittily records Isherwood's immersion in the 1970s art scene in Los Angeles,...
HarperCollins, 2010. — 800 p. This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York and to...
Play. — New York: Abrams Artists, 2012. — 75 p. Venus in Fur is a two-person play by David Ives set in modern New York City. The play had its premiere off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company in 2010 and on Broadway in 2011. Venus in Fur opened off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company on January 13, 2010. The play was originally set to close on February 21, 2010, and was...
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002. — 217 p. — ISBN: 1-84310-098-3. Have you ever been called a freak or a geek? Have you ever felt like one? Luke Jackson is 13 years old and has Asperger Syndrome. Over the years Luke has learned to laugh at such names but there are other aspects of life which are more difficult. Adolescence and the teenage years are a minefield of emotions,...
New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1894. — 131 p. (in the file). The Pied Piper. Hereafterthis. The Golden Ball. My Own Self. Black Bull of Norroway. Yallery Brown. Three Feathers. Sir Gammer Vans. Tom Hickathrift. The Hedley Kow. Gobborn Seer. Lawkamercyme. Tattercoats. The Wee Bannock. Johnny Gloke. Coat o' Clay. The Three Cows. The Blinded Giant. Scrapefoot. The Pedlar of...
The fourth book in the Karen Vail series. Norwood Press, 2011, - 466 p. National Bestselling Author Alan Jacobson brings back renowned FBI Profiler Karen Vail in an intelligent thriller that bridges time and space. When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and her former task force...
2010 Man Booker Prize winner. Published: Bloomsbury. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor...
Publication details not specified. Lost Hearts" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, originally published in 1895. It was later collected in his 1904 book Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The tale tells the story of Stephen Elliott, a young orphan boy, who is sent to stay with his much older cousin, Mr Abney, at a remote country mansion, Aswarby Hall, in Lincolnshire....
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next...
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December...
Akashic Books, 2005. — ISBN: 1888451823. This stunning debut novel tells the story of a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957. With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, Marlon James reveals his unique narrative command that will firmly establish his place as one of today's freshest, most...
Riverhead Books, 2009. - 448 p. A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will...
White Oleander by Janet Fitch is a bildungsroman novel consisting of 481 p. It was first published in New York City by Back Bay Books in April, 1999. There are 32 chapters in this novel that narrate the story of our young protagonist Astrid, who ends up becoming an orphan after her mother murders an ex-boyfriend with whom she had fallen in love with, after being dumped...
An inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe. From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable — yet hopelessly earnest — narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher...
It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long - at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD in the mail,his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer....
The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet...
The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet...
The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet...
Uncanny is the fourth in a series of collections of short stories by Australian author Paul Jennings. It was first released in 1988. The stories On the Bottom Good Tip for Ghosts frozen Stiff UFD Cracking Up Greensleeves Mousechap Spaghetti Pig-out Know All
Uncovered is the eighth in a series of collections of short stories by Australian author Paul Jennings. It was first released in 1995. For Ever A deliberately humourless melancholic drama about a terminally-ill boy who wants nothing more than to see snow. His non-verbal brother is obsessed with toilet paper and honey and says nothing but "Aargh". Could this obsession be linked...
London: Odhams, 1922. - 256 c.Edgar Jepson’s new novel "A PRINCE IN PETROGRAD" is the first romance of the Bolshevist Terror. It tells of a retired stockbroker who comes to Petrograd at its reddest in search of a missing son-in-law, and is driven into hiding by the Terrorists, discovers a safe lair, and issues from it to kill the persecutors and rescue their victims. It is a...
London: Odhams, 1922. - 256 c.Edgar Jepson’s new novel "A PRINCE IN PETROGRAD" is the first romance of the Bolshevist Terror. It tells of a retired stockbroker who comes to Petrograd at its reddest in search of a missing son-in-law, and is driven into hiding by the Terrorists, discovers a safe lair, and issues from it to kill the persecutors and rescue their victims. It is a...
A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize. Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince...
A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize. Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince...
Viking, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 110198161X; ISBN13: 978-1101981610. Instant New bestseller As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing...Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking...
Viking, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 110198161X; ISBN13: 978-1101981610. Instant New bestseller As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing...Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking...
If the people who came to town had wanted Bible readings, we’d have given ’em that. But nobody ever asked for Bible readings. They wanted booze, broads, and gambling, so that’s what we gave ’em. — Murray Fredericks. Nelson Johnson, whose family’s presence in Atlantic County predates the founding of Atlantic City, is a lifelong resident of Hammonton, New Jersey. He practiced law...
Delphi Classics. 2013 Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished...
N.-Y.: Hesperus Press, 2014. - 480 p. The incredible true story of two WWI POWs who used amateur magic to convince their captors that they were in touch with the spirit world Captured during World War I, Lieutenant E. H. Jones, a Welsh officer in the Indian Army, and Lieutenant C. W. Hill, an Australian serving in the R.A.F., were prisoners of war at the Yozgad prison camp in...
432 p.; Publisher: Amistad (May 25, 2004) 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in...
Amistad, 2004. — 432 p. One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never...
Laurinburg, NC: St Andrews College Press, 2008. — 69 p. — ISBN: 978-1599481388. St. Andrews College Press of Laurinburg has just released The Birds of Djakarta , a new collection of poems by Wilmington author Jean Jones. The title poem includes an oblique reference to the author’s Indonesian ancestry. A longtime Wilmington resident, Jones graduated from the University of North...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1250083826; ISBN13: 978-1250083821. About the book: Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Hard Rules, the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively sexy new Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. How bad do you want it? The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass,...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 304 c. - (Book 1) - ISBN10: 1250083826; ISBN13: 978-1250083821. About the book: Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Hard Rules, the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively sexy new Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. How bad do you want it? The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 304 c. - (Book 1) - ISBN10: 1250083826; ISBN13: 978-1250083821. About the book: Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Hard Rules, the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively sexy new Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. How bad do you want it? The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral...
Algonquin Books; Oprah's Book Club edition, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 9781616208776; ISBN13: 978-1616208776. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by...
Algonquin Books; Oprah's Book Club edition, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 9781616208776; ISBN13: 978-1616208776. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by...
Knopf, 2019. — 272 p. One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year A Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus, AV Club National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard prize Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined...Thrilling" --Simon...
Bristol: Intellect Books, 2007. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1841500305; ISBN13: 978-1841500300. The first international anthology to document a radically new poetry which takes language beyond the confines of the printed page into a non-linear world of digital interactivity and hyperlinkage. The work of the poets discussed in this book challenges even the innovations of experimental...
Waltenberg is a riveting novel of espionage and a major work of literature. The Hotel Waldhaus in the Swiss mountain village of Waltenberg is central to the action of this epic novel, which takes in Europe from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Waltenberg tells the story of the love between Hans Kappler, a German novelist, and Lena Hotspur, an American...
New York: Ecco, 2010. — 592 p. — ISBN10: 0061583243; ISBN13: 978-0061583247. Edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris of Words Without Borders, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry offers a selection of the finest international poetry from the 20th century in the best English translations available. Providing in many cases the first and only English language translations...
Glagoslav Publications, 2012. Перевод с белорусского (1964). Название оригинала: Дзікае паляванне караля Стаха Uladzimir Karatkevich (November 26, 1930 - July 25, 1984) created a profoundly macabre and emotive story. King Stakh's Wild Hunt tells the tale of Andrey Belaretsky, a young folklorist who finds himself stranded by a storm in the castle of Marsh Firs, the seat of the...
Funny, clever, surreal, and thought-provoking, this Kafka-esque masterpiece introduces the unforgettable Bjorn, an exceptionally meticulous office worker striving to live life on his own terms. Bjorn is a compulsive, exacting bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works-a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0399183736; ISBN13: 978-0399183737. (A Mitford Novel - Book 14) #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0399183736; ISBN13: 978-0399183737. (A Mitford Novel - Book 14) #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a...
London, Melburn: Angus and Robertson Publishers, 1976. - 447 c. Translated by Moira Budberg and Gordon Latta. These recollections of turn-of-the-century Russia by the distinguished author of Squaring the Circle, The Grass of Oblivion and many other works, are an enchanting experience, evoking with rare charm and humor a world that is now lost and was even then in the process of...
London, Melburn: Angus and Robertson Publishers, 1976. - 447 c. Translated by Moira Budberg and Gordon Latta. The book was published in Russian in 1972 under the title "Broken Life or Oberon's Magic Horn." 600dpi file. These recollections of turn-of-the-century Russia by the distinguished author of Squaring the Circle, The Grass of Oblivion and many other works, are an...
Moscow: Progress, 1973. - 279 c. Translated from the Russian by Leonard Stoklitsky. Illustrated by Vitali Goryaev. First edition: 1954. Russian title: The Lonely Sail Whitens (1936). From the author's preface: At the time of the Russian revolution of 1905 I was just a boy of eight, but I clearly remember the battleship Potemkin, a red flag on her mast, sailing along the coast...
Moscow: Progress, 1973. - 279 c. Translated from the Russian by Leonard Stoklitsky. Illustrated by Vitali Goryaev. First edition: 1954. Russian title: The Lonely Sail Whitens (1936). From the author's preface: At the time of the Russian revolution of 1905 I was just a boy of eight, but I clearly remember the battleship Potemkin, a red flag on her mast, sailing along the coast...
США, Avon Printing, 1996, 324 p. A novel about an idealistic young honors college graduate who becomes an English teacher in a New York City high school and deals with the gritty realities of her colleagues and students; it was based on Kaufman's own teaching experiences.
A novel about an idealistic young honors college graduate who becomes an English teacher in a New York City high school and deals with the gritty realities of her colleagues and students; it was based on Kaufman's own teaching experiences.
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2018. — 123 p. — ISBN10: 1449486797, 13 978-1449486792. From Rupi Kaur, the №1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into...
Two captains (abbreviated by the author). Third edition. Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1989. - 398 p. Translation into English by Bernard Isaacs. The translation was first published in 1945. Scanned at 600dpi. For the English edition of 1945, the novel was abbreviated by the author himself. Veniamin Alexandrovich Kaverin (Russian: Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin; real name -...
Two captains (abbreviated by the author). Third edition. Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1989. - 398 p. Translation into English by Bernard Isaacs. The translation was first published in 1945. Scanned at 600dpi. For the English edition of 1945, the novel was abbreviated by the author himself. Veniamin Alexandrovich Kaverin (Russian: Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin; real name -...
Jackie Kay's story My Daughter, The Fox gives the reader an unusual view of the mother/child relationship. As the title suggests, the narrator's daughter isn't human, but the feelings generated between mother and daughter are universal and so the scene is set for the paradox to be played out. My Daughter, The Fox is the first in a series of four kits written by school and...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8041-5107-8. Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone "study," the culture he encounters. From his struggles with the local cuisine to his affair with...
1994, ISBN: 0679746048, 192 p. In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles - as for...
Scribner; First Edition edition, 2019. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1982106980; ISBN13: 978-1982106980.How much can a family forgive? A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian...
Scribner; First Edition edition, 2019. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1982106980; ISBN13: 978-1982106980.How much can a family forgive? A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian...
Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1986. — 60 p. ISBN10: 0-207-15297-7 What dictionary definitions fail to point out is that hugging feels good and that, among its many benefits, a hug can dispel loneliness, overcome fear, help curb appetite and even slow down aging. With a cheerful mix of whimsy and seriousness, Kathleen Keating provides in this collection a small armoury of...
1988. — 66 p. ISBN10: 0-207-15297-7 We have learned to speak to each other in many ways – with words, gestures, actions, postures, looks, and touch. The 'Little Book of Hugs' shows how one form of touching – the giving and receiving of warm, supportive hugs – promotes health and well-being. In the 'Second Little Book of Hugs' discover a new dimension of hug therapy: hugs have...
Clarendon Press, 1909. - 259 p. The text of this edition is a reprint (page for page and line for line) of a copy of the 1820 edition in the British Museum. For convenience of reference line-numbers have been added; but this is the only change, beyond the correction of one or two misprints. The books to which I am most indebted for the material used in the Introduction and...
Grosset & Dunlap, 1961 - 85 p., (no other information available). The Mystery at Lilac Inn is the fourth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1930 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Mildred Wirt Benson was the ghostwriter of the 1930 edition. The story involves Nancy Drew helping her friend Emily Crandall find out who stole her heirloom...
Conjuring slavery and witchcraft, and with bewitching powers all its own, Counternarratives continually spins history — and storytelling — on its head. Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarrative’s novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction...
New York: University of New York Press,.2008.—379.—ISBN: 978-0-7914-7685-7 What is so unique about Hebrew poetry? Why would a poetry reader be interested in a selection of Israeli poets? Partially, at least, such questions remain rhetorical: Israel has always elicited great curiosity and polarized emotions, and it is safe to assume that its poetry would as well. Poetry, W. H....
An unforgettable story of faith, forgiveness and second chances, Man on Fire is a powerful and touching novel from the Booker and Guardian-shortlisted author of Pigeon English. John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England: decades wasted in...
Cas Lowood, armed with his late father's athame knife, kills ghosts. In Thunder Bay, Anna, forever 16, drips blood on her white dress from throat slit in 1958, and rips apart anyone who enters her house - except Cas. He makes new friends - high school queen Carmel, jock Will, admiring nerd Thomas and Tom's voodoo grandpa Morfran - to fight this demon
Sidney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. – 184 p. Language: English. Winner of the Booker Prize, Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction Schindler’s Ark (released in America as Schindler's List) is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story. It was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg. In the shadow of...
Sceptre, 2009. — 436 p. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Language: English. Thirty-seven-year-old American journalist Sally Goodchild quite literally married her hero. Both foreign correspondents, both on assignment in Cairo, they quickly fell in love and settled into domestic life in London. From the outset, Sally’s relationship with both Tony and his hometown was an uneasy one — as she found both...
London: Arrow Books, 2002. Manhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The war is over, and Eric Smythe’s party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara, an independent, outspoken young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked Jack Malone, a U.S. Army journalist just back from a defeated Germany, a man...
Beth Kephart "Undercover" 288 p., National Book Award nominee Beth Kephart's first young adult novel is a stunning debut.Like a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac, Elisa ghostwrites love notes for the boys in her school. But when Elisa falls for Theo Moses, things change fast. Theo asks for verses to court the lovely Lila — a girl known for her beauty, her popularity, and a cutting...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2014. — 432 p. When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck...
Piper Kerman.Orange is the New Black:My Year in a Women’s Prison. Biographiy & Memoir - Spiegel & Grau,2011 - 137 p. With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. It is set in an Oregon asylum, and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind. The novel was written in 1959 and published in 1962. The novel was adapted into a 1975 film, which won five Academy Awards. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from...
Translation from russian by Sarah Vitali. — Columbia University Press, 2019. — 304 p. — (The Russian Library). — ISBN: 978-0-231-54696-6. Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russia’s...
New York: Philosophical Library, 1960. — 234 p. Five short stories by the leading Ukrainian writer who committed suicide in 1933. The stories freshly translated in this collection show the transformation of the talented revolutionary into an embittered cynic — from the early tales of drama and symbolism to the final savage satires on Soviet officialdom and the Ukrainian Communists.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1960. — 234 p. Five short stories by the leading Ukrainian writer who committed suicide in 1933. The stories freshly translated in this collection show the transformation of the talented revolutionary into an embittered cynic — from the early tales of drama and symbolism to the final savage satires on Soviet officialdom and the Ukrainian Communists.
Japan: Autumn Press, 1974. — 113 p. Kim Jiha. Lamentations of the People and Other Poems (In English) Excerpts from Conversations with Kim Chi Ha. The Yell ow Dust Road. The Sea. The Road to Seoul. April Blood. Parting. Hunger. The Sun. No Return. Blue Suit. Five Bandits. Groundless Rumors. Cry of the People. Excerpts from Kim Chi Ha's Statement before the Military Tribunal.
Publication details not specified. — 21 p. Kim Dong-ni. Legends of the red earth (In English) Kim Tong-ni (1913-1995) was a Korean writer. Kim’s work deals with traditional and native Korean themes from a 20th-century perspective . As a right-wing writer and advocate of “pure literature,” Kim Dongri produced a series of critical essays opposing ideological literature, including...
Publication details not specified. The badly splintered commissioners court of a remote Texas border county declares its independence from both Texas and the United States... and is then immediately formally recognized by nearly 60 foreign nations. The resulting tension and conflict that follows between the state of Texas and the federal government — as well as with the newly...
New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. — 349 p. The second book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling mystery may now...
New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. — 299 p. The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. National best-selling and award-winning author Lily King’s new novel is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying a tribe on...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. National best-selling and award-winning author Lily King’s new novel is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying a tribe on...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. National best-selling and award-winning author Lily King’s new novel is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying a tribe on...
University Of Minnesota Press, 2013. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0816689814; ISBN13: 978-0816689811. Winner of the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year and the Aboriginal Fiction Book of the Year — a collection of twenty short stories told in Thomas King's classic, wry, irreverent, and allegorical voice.
Bantam Books, 1993. — 469 p. — ASIN: B01N07LF3Z. Thomas King is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, and photographer. His many books include the novels Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; Truth and Bright Water; two short story collections, One Good Story, That One (Minnesota, 2013) and A Short History of Indians in Canada (Minnesota, 2013);...
The first edition of this book is dated 1851. The edition used is dated 1851. The publisher was George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., London (NY EP Dutton) The number of pages is 395. A long book--nineteen hours--full of adventure and tense situations. I was a bit disappointed to find that the Pirate was a Greek who preyed mostly upon Italian, Greek and Turkish vessels in the Eastern...
A bestseller in the author’s native country of Estonia, where the book is so well known that a popular board game has been created based on it, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is the imaginative and moving story of a boy who is tasked with preserving ancient traditions in the face of modernity. Set in a fantastical version of medieval Estonia, The Man Who Spoke Snakish follows a...
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary!" Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society - a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their...
William Morrow Paperbacks 2013 - 356 p. — ISBN13: 978-0061950728 Orphan Train is a gripping story of friendship and second chances from Christina Baker Kline, author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be. Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to aging out out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only...
The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask....
Harvill Secker, International Edition, 2015. — 419 p. Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself – or in any other job for that matter, his sole aim is to save money and start writing. All goes well to begin with but as the nights grow longer, his life takes a darker turn. Drinking causes him...
Novel, Fiction, Children's literature. Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse. Chicago, USA. The John C. Winston Company, 1940. 248-p. Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of...
Publisher: Books For Library Press, New York, 1902 (First Publication), 1969 (Reprint). 456 p. Language: English. A compilation of witty, facetious, and satirical verse selected from the writings of British and American poets. Adams, Charles Follen Leedle Yawcob Strauss Aldrich, Henry Reasons For Drinking Aytoun, William Edmondstoune The Biter Bit Ballard, Harlan Hoge In The...
The publication's imprint details are unknown. Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war...
Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of...
Edmonton — Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2001. — 168 p. ISBN: 1-895571-34-0 Translated by Mary Skrypnyk. The novel is based on the traditional Ukrainian folk song "Oi, ne khody Hrytsiu". The tragic story of a young man torn between two women and poisoned by one of them lends itself readily to literary interpretations. But in Kobylianska's...
Edmonton — Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2001. — 168 p. ISBN: 1-895571-34-0 Translated by Mary Skrypnyk. The novel is based on the traditional Ukrainian folk song "Oi, ne khody Hrytsiu". The tragic story of a young man torn between two women and poisoned by one of them lends itself readily to literary interpretations. But in Kobylianska's...
Chernivtsi: Misto, 2000. — 35 p. Translated by Lesya Budna. Природа є органічним світом Гуцула з новели "Природа". Однак вона не є тлом, на якому розгортається любовна пригода двох пройнятих чуттєвим потягом істот; це дійова особа психологічного ряду, яка співпереживає з ними найтонші порухи душевного пориву. Природа, як і Гуцул, відкрита, горда і неприступна; вона непоборена,...
Chernivtsi: Misto, 2000. — 35 p. Translated by Lesya Budna. Природа є органічним світом Гуцула з новели "Природа". Однак вона не є тлом, на якому розгортається любовна пригода двох пройнятих чуттєвим потягом істот; це дійова особа психологічного ряду, яка співпереживає з ними найтонші порухи душевного пориву. Природа, як і Гуцул, відкрита, горда і неприступна; вона непоборена,...
Hogarth; Reprint edition, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0385346859; ISBN13: 978-0385346856. Now a major motion picture starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, and Chloë Sevigny "A European Gone Girl." —The Wall Street Journal An internationally bestselling phenomenon, the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the...
New York: Alfred Knopf,.2005.—110 p. Kenneth Koch (27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry, a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant,...
New York: Alfred Knopf,.2005.—783 p. Kenneth Koch (27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry, a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant,...
New York: Alfred Knopf, 2005. — 158 p. Kenneth Koch (27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry, a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant,...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1982. — 129 p. Translated from the Ukrainian by Walter May. У творі розповідається про один із найскладніших періодів історії Київської Русі, про діяльність князя Ярослава.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1982. — 129 p. Translated from the Ukrainian by Walter May. У творі розповідається про один із найскладніших періодів історії Київської Русі, про діяльність князя Ярослава.
New York: Bantam Books, 1941, - 77 p. Koestler's best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he had helped to create. The novel is set in 1938 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events, the novel does not name either Russia or the...
India: Pras,.2001.—62 p. Poetry. Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (Marathi: अरुण बालकृष्ण कोलटकर) (1 November 1932 – 25 September 2004) was a poet from Maharashtra, India. Writing in both Marathi and English, his poems found humor in many everyday matters. His poetry had an influence on modern Marathi poets. His first book of English poetry, Jejuri, is a collection 31 poems pertaining...
The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the same name, which was based on the book written by Mark Toby. It tells the story of a widower, Tom Corbett, who is a magazine publisher, and his son, Eddie, who believes his father should marry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in. ABC had...
"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II. Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world,...
Risking sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. Love love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. - 536 p. OCR. In English. Translated by Suzanne Rozenberg, Helen Altschuler, Raissa Bobrova. Korolenko Vladimir. Selected works. From Reminiscences of V. G. Korolenko by Maxim Gorky. Translated by Suzanne Rozenberg In Bad Company. Translated by Suzanne Rozenberg The Blind Musician. Translated by Helen Altschuler The Strange One. Translated by...
Translation by Suzanne Rozenberg, Helen Altschuler, Raissa Bobrova. - Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. - 536 p. Korolenko Vladimir. Selected works. From Reminiscences of V. G. Korolenko by Maxim Gorky. Translated by Suzanne Rozenberg. In Bad Company. Translated by Suzanne Rozenberg. The Blind Musician. Translated by Helen Altschuler. The Strange One. Translated by Suzanne...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. - 391 c. From remeniscences of V.G. Korolenko by Maxim Gorki (Translated by Suzanne Rozenberg). In Bad Company (Translated by Suzanne Rozenberg). The Blind Misician (Translated by Helen Altschuler). The Strange One (Translated by Suzanne Rosenberg). Makar's Dream (Translated by Suzanne Rosenberg). The River Plays (Translated by Suzanne...
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives...
Translated by Bohdan Melnyk. —Canada, Toronto: The Basilian Press, 2004. — 278 [264] p. Мови: українська, англійська. Містить в собі: Передмова, 6 Частин, Словничок. Відсутні сторінки: 120-121, 142-143, 208-209. Повна версія та вихідні дані розшукуються.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1980. — 407 p. Kotsiubyns'kyi's works, according to Kalenichenko, "happily combine deep lyricism, vivid imagery and keen psychological insight. He was at his best in the socio-psychological short story with its tense, energetic beginning and abrupt end. Skillful representation of human motives and feelings brings his stories in line with best modern...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1980. — 407 p. Kotsiubyns'kyi's works, according to Kalenichenko, "happily combine deep lyricism, vivid imagery and keen psychological insight. He was at his best in the socio-psychological short story with its tense, energetic beginning and abrupt end. Skillful representation of human motives and feelings brings his stories in line with best modern...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1973. — 226 p. Kotsiubyns'kyi's works, according to Kalenichenko, "happily combine deep lyricism, vivid imagery and keen psychological insight. He was at his best in the socio-psychological short story with its tense, energetic beginning and abrupt end. Skillful representation of human motives and feelings brings his stories in line with best modern...
Ukrainian Academic Press for the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1981. - 33 p. Translated by Marco Carynnyk. (translation from Ukrainian into English. story "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors").
John Wiley & Sons, 2009. — 224 p. Praise for The Smart Investor's Money Machine "Kraft writes in a style that is easy to read with attention to a large audience of investors and retirees (current and soon-to-be) that may have avoided some financial market opportunities because of perceived complexities. Bill makes clear sense of investor and retirement income possibilities....
Anchor Books, 2018. — 137 p. — ISBN: 978-0525562733 (ebook). The gripping articles in Classic Krakauer, originally published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian, display the singular investigative reporting that made Jon Krakauer famous — and show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects...
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters. Shortly after the discovery of the corpse, I was asked by the editor of Outside magazine to report on the puzzling circumstances of the boy’s death. His name...
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters. Shortly after the discovery of the corpse, I was asked by the editor of Outside magazine to report on the puzzling circumstances of the boy’s death. His name...
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body...
Gyula Krúdy is a marvelous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are among the masterpieces of modern literature. Krúdy conjures up a world that is entirely his own — dreamy, macabre, comic, and erotic — where urbane sophistication can erupt without warning into passion and madness....
What you have loved remains yours.” Thus speaks the irresistible rogue Sindbad, ironic hero of these fantastic tales, who has seduced and abandoned countless women over the course of centuries but never lost one, for he returns to visit them all — ladies, actresses, housemaids — in his memories and dreams. From the bustling streets of Budapest to small provincial towns where...
A compelling, haunting novel about a man experiencing gaps in time, and the pain of living inside an anxious mind. Felix wakes up one day to find he has a girlfriend he doesn’t recognize. He finds a novel, with his name on the cover, that he doesn’t remember writing. He’s been losing time since university. Sometimes these gaps are minutes, sometimes months. But now he begins...
NY: NYRB Classics, 2013. — 230 p. The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky's most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his...
Claire and her mother are running out of time, but they don't know it. Not yet. Claire is wrapped up with the difficulties of her bourgeoning adulthood — boys, school, friends, identity; Claire's mother, a single mom, is rushed both at work and at home. They rarely find themselves in the same room at the same time, and it often seems that the only thing they can count on are...
N.p., 2015. — 100 p. «Kara Sozder» [Book of Words] (prose) created by the great thinker constitute an ethnic philosophical work. This creation of his is an exploration of Kazakh national life in the second half of the 19th century. He influenced social affairs in the country where he lived.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1956 (?). - 382 c. Translated from the Russian by Stepan Apresyan. Moloch Olesya Night Duty The White Poodle I Was an Actor The Gambrinus Emerald The Garnet Bracelet
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1956 (?). - 382 c. Translated from the Russian by Stepan Apresyan. Moloch Olesya Night Duty The White Poodle I Was an Actor The Gambrinus Emerald The Garnet Bracelet
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia",...
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia",...
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia",...
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia",...
Scribner, 2018. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive;...
Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1101981083; ISBN13: 978-1101981085. From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1101981083; ISBN13: 978-1101981085. From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 399 p. FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, a member of a prominent French aristocratic family, was born in Paris in 1613. He was married at the age of 14 and took part in his first military campaign the following year. For the next quarter of a century he participated actively in military life, supporting the interests of the hereditary French...
2014. — 109 p. Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. Her...
Come back, my dear Vicomte, come back; what are you doing, what can you be doing with an old aunt, whose whole property is settled on you? Set off at once; I have need of you. I have an excellent idea, and I should like to confide its execution to you. (page 15) I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the...
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with...
1823 - Edward Moxon; ISBN: 9780742620933; 1833 - Edward Moxon; ISBN: 9780243810925. The essays in the collection first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. Lamb's essays were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions throughout the nineteenth century. The personal and conversational tone of the essays has charmed many readers;...
1780: Seventeen-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine. So much so that his callous father believes a bit of navy discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne, Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas, finding — rather unexpectedly — that he is a born sailor, equally at home with the randy pleasures of the port and the...
After the edition of Longmans, Green and Co, 1918 (1898). The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898) Selected and Edited by Andrew Lang; generously Illustrated By Rene Bull and H. J. Ford. Andrew Lang is best known as one of the most important collectors of folk and fairy tales. The twelve fairy tale books he edited contain stories from around the world, collected from various...
Published: 1898 language: English wordcount: 111,078 / 296 pg genres: Fantasy, Banned Books, Fiction and Literature A medieval Middle-Eastern literary epic which tells the story of Scheherazade, a Sassanid Queen, who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent husband, the King, to delay her execution. The stories are told over a period of one thousand and one nights, and...
London: Faber & Faber, 1983. — 315 p. — ISBN10: 0571131204; ISBN13: 978-0571131204 The appearance of Philip Larkin's second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a considerable literary event. Stamped by wit,...
Haas, 1986. — 224 p. This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.E. Lawrence in 1910. This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index; and reassesses in light of recent scholarship Lawrence's...
Penguin, 2000. — 704 p. 'I am not much of a hero-worshipper, but I could have followed T.E. Lawrence over the edge of the world.' John Buchan Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war....
Tauris Parke, 2016. — 240 p. In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though methodical and restrictive, life there seemed to suit Lawrence: "The Air Force is not a man-crushing humiliating slavery, all its days. There is sun & decent treatment, and a very real measure of happiness, to those...
Flatiron Books, 2015. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-1250077004. In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid...
Flatiron Books, 2015. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-1250077004. In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid...
St.Martin's Press, 2013. In The Ghost Horse, Joe Layden tells the inspiring true tale of a one-eyed, club-footed thoroughbred racehorse and a journeyman trainer, Tim Snyder, who scraped together every penny he had to purchase the broken and unwanted filly. Snyder helped the horse overcome its deficiencies, eventually naming her in part after his deceased wife, Lisa, the great...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 8491 p. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu ( 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost...
New Canadian Library. First published 1912. A funny series of essays. Although published in 1910, some of these are as funny and fresh now as they were back then.Leacock's stories, first published in magazines in Canada and the United States and later in novel form, became extremely popular around the world. It was said in 1911 that more people had heard of Stephen Leacock than...
Penguin, 2007. The suave adventures of a gentleman rogue — a French Thomas Crown Created by Maurice LeBlanc during the early twentieth century, Arsene Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries...
Penguin, 2007. The suave adventures of a gentleman rogue — a French Thomas Crown Created by Maurice LeBlanc during the early twentieth century, Arsene Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries...
Penguin, 2007. The suave adventures of a gentleman rogue — a French Thomas Crown Created by Maurice LeBlanc during the early twentieth century, Arsene Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries...
Penguin Group USA. — ISBN: 9781594480706. At 59, Jerry Battle is coasting through life. His favorite pastime is flying his small plane high above Long Island. Aloft, he can escape from the troubles that plague his family, neighbors, and loved ones on the ground. But he can't stay in the air forever. Only months before his 60th birthday, a culmination of family crises finally...
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2014. — 16 p. Lee Hyoseok. Sick Rose (In English) “The Sick Rose,” published in Samcheonli munhak (Three Thousand Li of Literature) in 1938, is the first of two short stories that Lee Hyoseok names using the title of a poem in English. This one, of course, is named after a poem by William Blake. The other is “Leaves of Grass”...
London: World Books, 1970. - 254 c. Скан 600dpi In the mid-1930s, the nineteen year-old Lee sets out on foot from his Gloucestershire home, with a tin of biscuits and a violin, on his way to London via a hundred mile detour to the coast as I’d never yet seen the sea. Two years later he is fortuitously rescued off the coast of southern Spain by the Royal Navy trawling the...
London: World Books, 1970. - 254 c. Скан 600dpi. In the mid-1930s, the nineteen year-old Lee sets out on foot from his Gloucestershire home, with a tin of biscuits and a violin, on his way to London via a hundred mile detour to the coast as I’d never yet seen the sea. Two years later he is fortuitously rescued off the coast of southern Spain by the Royal Navy trawling the...
A novel. Orion Books, 2003 Queenie Todd is evacuated to a small town on the Welsh coast with two others when the war begins. At first, the girls have a wonderful time until something happens, so terrifying, that it will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Maureen Lee’s award-winning novels have earned her many fans. Maureen was born in Bootle and now lives in Colchester.
Scribner, 2016. — 744 p. — (The Best American Poetry series). — ISBN10: 150112756X. — ISBN13: 978-1501127564. The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues-guest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Best American Poetry series...
The Oxford Book of American Poetry. (English.) Chosen and Edited by David Lehman. Associate Editor John Brehm. Oxford, University Press, 2006. Anthology of American Poetry in the original. Including: Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Henry Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, T. S. Eliot. Anne Bradstreet (C. 1612-1672). Philip Freneau (1752-1832). Phillis Wheatley (C. 1753-1784). Joel Barlow...
Castle by J. Robert Lennon is a mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence. In the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.” So begins, innocuously enough, J. Robert Lennon’s gripping, spooky, and brilliant new novel. Unforthcoming, formal, and more than a little defensive in his...
Finally available in the United States, a singular story collection that Time Out declared “unsettlingly brilliant”. Astudent’s suicide note is not what it seems. A high school football rivalry turns absurd — and deadly. A much-loved cat seems to have been a different animal all along. A pair of identical twins aren’t identical at all — or even related. A man finds his own...
A comedy on the world of comics featuring Tim Mix, a struggling artist. Opportunity knocks when Mix's father dies and Mix is offered to take over the father's successful, syndicated cartoon. Question is will the son match his father's sense of humor, part of the cartoon's popularity being that it pokes fun at the oddball Mix family. By the author of The Light of Falling Stars.
Gloss Publishing, 2014. — 369 p. From New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo comes an epic love story about rewriting destiny. Mikki and Crush have crossed paths twice before, but they've never met. Their first encounter changed Mikki's life forever, but their second meeting left them both scarred from a violent attack. Three years after the attack, Mikki and Crush both...
Roman M.Yu. Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time" in English. - Network publication, 2008 - 164 p .: ill. This complete e-text is based on the translation from the Russian into English by Martin Parker, published by Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1947, 1951, in the public domain in the United States of America. (A translation that has also been reprinted by but not copyrighted by the...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. — 304 p. From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class...
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without body. Everybody is afraid of him - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers. But who has actually seen him?
The Golden Notebook (1962) is a novel by Doris Lessing. It, like the two books that followed it, enters the realm of what Margaret Drabble in The Oxford Companion to English Literature called Lessing's "inner space fiction"; her work that explores mental and societal breakdown. It contains powerful anti-war and anti-Stalinist messages, an extended analysis of communism and the...
Doubleday, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0385539908; ISBN13: 978-0385539906. The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from...
Doubleday, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0385539908; ISBN13: 978-0385539906. The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from...
Doubleday, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0385539908; ISBN13: 978-0385539906. The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from...
Sceptre, 1995. — 368 p. Where the Heart Is follows the lives of Novalee Nation, Willy Jack Pickens, and their daughter Americus Nation for a period of seven years in the 1980s and early 1990s. Above all, the book is detailing of the tribulations of lower income and foster children in the United States. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in December 1998. A 2000...
Language: English Genre: Young adult novel Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication date: September 2003 Pages: 192pp ISBN: 0-375-82400-6 Boy Meets Boy is a young adult novel by David Levithan, published in 2003. It is set in a gay-friendly small town in America, and describes a few weeks in the lives of a group of high school students. As the title suggests, the...
Text Publishing Melbourne Australia, 2011. – 224 p. There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it-you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even...
1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of the night. On the...
Harcourt, 1926. — 459 p. A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a physician and researcher who dedicates himself to the pursuit of scientific truth even in the face of personal tragedy, corruption and greed. Voted "Exceptional Recording" by Talking Books magazine. As the son and grandson of physicians, Sinclair Lewis had a store of experiences and imparted knowledge to draw upon...
Edited by John Hersey Library of America This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We...
London: Fig Tree, 2012. Set half in Doncaster, half in London, this is a very funny riff on modern values, featuring hamsters, cockroaches, poodles, a chicken and multiplying rabbits, told by Marina Lewycka in her unique and brilliant combination of irony, farce and wit.
Simon and Schuster, 2003. — 403 p. The 1st book from Gemma Doyle. A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy — jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel. Sixteen-year-old Gemma has had an unconventional upbringing in India, until the day she...
Vintage, 1998. Picnic at Hanging Rock is an Australian historical fiction novel by Joan Lindsay. Set in 1900, its plot focuses on a group of female students at an Australian girls' boarding school who inexplicably vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine's Day picnic. It also explores the outlying effects the disappearances have on the school and local community. The novel...
Avid Liss’s bestselling historical thrillers, including A Conspiracy of Paper and The Coffee Trader, have been called remarkable and rousing: the perfect combination of scrupulous research and breathless excitement. Now Liss delivers his best novel yet in an entirely new setting–America in the years after the Revolution, an unstable nation where desperate schemers vie for...
First Edition. — Delacorte Press, 2014. — 87 p. — ISBN: 978-0385741262. Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 7 and up"Haunting, sophisticated...a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents."-Wall Street Journal "A rich, stunning summer mystery with a sharp twist that will leave you dying to talk about the book with a pal or...
Delphi Classic. 2012. — 2414 p. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets.
Lang: en, 112 p. The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841....
If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, Arkansas, the not-so-dumb blonde who knew that diamonds are a girl's best friend. Outrageous, charming, and unforgettable, she's been portrayed on stage and screen by Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe and has become the archetype of the footloose,...
Dramatic Publishing, 1996. — 40 p. — ISBN10: 0871297256, ISBN13: 978-0871297259. Cast 5w. Set in a tiny sewing factory in East L.A., this is the outrageously funny story of five full-figured Mexican-American women who are racing to meet nearly impossible production deadlines in order to keep their tiny factory from going under. And while they work, hiding from the INS...
Library of Congress, United States of America. Published 1895 by The Rodgers company in Philadelphia. 'All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge A Ditty On a Girdle Love alters not At the Church Gate Britain's Ida Romeo and Juliet To Celia Why so Wan and Pale? A...
Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2015. — 584 p. — ISBN10: 077662315X; ISBN13: 978-0776623153. The 1940 Under the Volcano — hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece — differs from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself. Joining the...
Harmondsworth, 1974, Penguin Modern Classics, 185 p. Ultramarine, the first published novel by Malcolm Lowry, tells the story of a young man's disillusioned coming of age at sea. Much of the raw material for the novel comes from notebooks Lowry kept during his own stint as a deckhand. Dana Hilliot, the young Lowryesque hero, faces the contempt of many of his fellow seamen, who...
Hutchinson of London, 1964. — 255 p. Lubis Mokhtar. Twilight in Jakarta, novel (In English) Mochtar Lubis (1922 – 2004) was an Indonesian Batak journalist and novelist. His novel Senja di Jakarta (Twilight in Jakarta in English) was the first Indonesian novel to be translated into English. Senja di Jakarta has been seen as drawing a parallel of 1950s Indonesia. The corruption,...
Jersey City, New York: Svoboda Press, 1964. — 328 p. This volume of Ukrainian short stories is a welcome addition to the literature on Ukraine in English. The stories cover a wide range of styles and subjects and they will give the reader the opportunity to acquaint himself with still another facet of Ukrainian literature and of the genius of the Ukrainian people.
Jersey City, New York: Svoboda Press, 1964. — 328 p. This volume of Ukrainian short stories is a welcome addition to the literature on Ukraine in English. The stories cover a wide range of styles and subjects and they will give the reader the opportunity to acquaint himself with still another facet of Ukrainian literature and of the genius of the Ukrainian people.
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 327 p. — (Oxford World's Classics). The late-Victorian Gothic was a revival of the Gothic form that in a few short years produced some of the most enduring characters of the genre: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray (1891), H. G. Wells’s Dr Moreau (1896), and Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula (1897). The...
New York: Quixote, 1969. — 84 p. Translated by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak and Danylo S. Struk. Збірка поезій Івана Драча, Віталія Коротича, Ліни Костенко і Василя Симоненка в оригіналі та у перекладі англійською мовою.
New York: Quixote, 1969. — 84 p. Translated by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak and Danylo S. Struk. Збірка поезій Івана Драча, Віталія Коротича, Ліни Костенко і Василя Симоненка в оригіналі та у перекладі англійською мовою.
Englewood, Colorado: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1995. — 230 p. Revised First Edition. Ukrainian/English parallel text. The fifteen Ukrainian stories collected here were written over the last seventy years. This is done not so much for the sake of historical perspective but rather to bring out similar literary features. In different ways these stories are all "modern", regardless...
Englewood, Colorado: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1995. — 230 p. Revised First Edition. Ukrainian/English parallel text. The fifteen Ukrainian stories collected here were written over the last seventy years. This is done not so much for the sake of historical perspective but rather to bring out similar literary features. In different ways these stories are all "modern", regardless...
Knopf, 2019. — 400 p. From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity. A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0804843937. — ISBN13: 978-0804843935 The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty, when China broke into three competing kingdoms and over half...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0804843945. — ISBN13: 978-0804843942 The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty, when China broke into three competing kingdoms and over half...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0804843953. — ISBN13: 978-0804843959 The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty, when China broke into three competing kingdoms and over half...
Transl. from the Russian. With a preface by Elmer Rice. — New York: Greenwood Press, 1968. — 488 p. To understand the contemporary Russian theatre, it is necessary to have some acquaintance with the essential facts of the Russian Revolution. But it is perhaps equally true that in order to under- stand the Russian Revolution, one must have some knowledge of the role which the...
Bloomsbury Publishing (2018), 133 p., ISBN 978-1-68119-906-1 Feyre is a huntress. And when she sees a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she kills the predator and takes its prey to feed herself and her family. But the wolf was not what it seemed, and Feyre cannot predict the high price she will have to pay for its death... Dragged away from her family for the murder...
Bloomsbury Publishing (2015), 190 p., eISBN: 978-1-61963-445-9 Feyre is a huntress. And when she sees a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she kills the predator and takes its prey to feed herself and her family. But the wolf was not what it seemed, and Feyre cannot predict the high price she will have to pay for its death... Dragged away from her family for the murder...
Bloomsbury Publishing (2016), 287 p., eISBN 978 1 4088 5788 Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's...
Bloomsbury Publishing (2017), 357 p., ISBN 978-1-61963-449-7 Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit - and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well. As war bears down upon them...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. — 297 p. ’’The Flight of the Shadow’’ is a novel written by George Macdonald. Macdonald was a prolific author, and while under-appreciated by the public of the time, is now considered a favourite of many within the literary world. This novel provides the opportunity to read one the author's less 'fantastical' works. ’’The Flight of the...
Delphi Classic. 2013. — 5085 p. Arthur Machen ( 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror (Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best [horror story]...
"The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn’t give you the date and it didn’t give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. It let people know how...
New York: Norton and Company, 1979. — 1794 p. —ISBN: 0-393-95036-0 Literature of Western Culture through the Renaissance. Masterpieces of the Ancient World. Masterpieces of the Middle Ages. Masterpieces of the Renaissance . A selection of literature containing only works written originally in the ancient and modern foreign languages. The world literature selections presented...
New York: Norton and Company, 1979. — 1794 p. — ISBN: 0-393-95036-0 Literature of Western Culture through the Renaissance. Masterpieces of the Ancient World. Masterpieces of the Middle Ages. Masterpieces of the Renaissance . A selection of literature containing only works written originally in the ancient and modern foreign languages. The world literature selections presented...
New York USA: Norton and Company,.1979.—2236 p.—ISBN: 0-393-96142-7 English. Volume II. Literature of Western culture since the Renaissance. Masterpieces of the Enlightenment. Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Naturalism, and the New Poetry. Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Explorations. A selection of literature containing only works written...
New York USA: Norton and Company,.1979.—2236 p.—ISBN: 0-393-96142-7 English. Volume II. Literature of Western culture since the Renaissance. Masterpieces of the Enlightenment. Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Naturalism, and the New Poetry. Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Explorations. A selection of literature containing only works written...
Oxford. 1998 (1995). Language: English. From the Oxford World Classics series Another "adult" translation of fairy tales from the Thousand and One Nights. No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the...
At the age of fifty-seven, after nearly four decades in Hollywood, Academy-Award-winning actress and entertainer Shirley MacLaine is still moving us to laughter and tears in major film roles, still high-kicking on stage in live performances - and still searching for the truth within herself. In this, her most intimate memoir yet, she examines with courage and candor her...
You can see absolutely no one in the audience. It is alienatingly black. Then you realize it is all up to you. You are a performer. The long years were worth it. The miraculous magic of expression overrides everything. Once again you realize you are everything you are aware of. You are part of the audience. They are part of you. You and they are one expressing talent. The...
At last Shirley MacLaine reveals the secrets of her intimate journey of transformation. In three international bestsellers, Out on a Limb, Dancing in the Light, and It's All in the Playing, multi-talented Shirley MacLaine described her own ongoing spiritual journey in search of inner harmony and self-transcendence. Now this celebrated actress, social activist, and outspoken...
The fifth volume in one of the most extraordinary personal odysseys of the twentieth century. Don't Fall Off the Mountain, You Can Get There From Here, Out on a Limb, Dancing in the Light and now the most intimate and compelling book of all, It's All in the Playing. Oscar-winning actress, social activist, singular entertainer, best-selling author Shirley MacLaine has the...
London: Oberon Books, 2011. — 70 p. — ISBN13: 978-1849431453 In a time of global anxiety, terrorism, erratic weather, and political unrest, a young couple wants to have a child but are running out of time. If they over think it, they'll never do it. But if they rush, it could be a disaster. DUNCAN MACMILLAN is formerly Writer in Residence at Paines Plough and the Royal...
PageTurner, 2005. 88 p. "Fast-paced, attention-grabbing, comical!" That's how Fallen Angel Reviews describes the work of humorist Larry Maddock. Now from the same years when he was writing the hilarious misadventures of that time-traveling symbiot Webley and his sidekick Hannibal Fortune, come nine serio-comic capers only Larry Maddock, Webley and Hannibal's creator, and the...
Language: English. Hardcover: 352 p. Publisher: Dey Street Books (June 23, 2015). ISBN10: 0062372106. ISBN13: 978-0062372109. The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion — and, finally, the secret truth about the man who holds the key — from one of the few people who truly knows: Hef’s former #1 girlfriend and star of The...
London, Egmont UK Limited. - 1991. At 17, Rose has resigned herself to the fact that she is the ugly duckling, the academic one who always seems to be in the shadow of her beautiful sister. But this year, the summer of 1943, things are going to be very different.
"Goodnight Mister Tom" (also "Good Night, Mr.Tom") is a 1981 novel by Michelle Magorian. It follows a young boy named William Beech who is evacuated from London during the air-raids of World War II, and put into the care of an elderly reclusive man named Tom Oakley.
Penguin Books, 2016. — ISBN10: 9780143109273; ISBN13: 978-0143109273. For readers of Mohsin Hamid, Dave Eggers, Arundhati Roy, and Teju Cole, The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in its empathy, dazzling in its acuity, and ambitious in scope. When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up...
1072 p. Publisher: Vintage; 1980 The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the crimes and punishment of a 20th-century murderer and thief, is what the author calls a "true-life novel." It is a horrifying, sad, scrupulously detailed look at the events leading up to the moment Gary Gilmore was killed by a firing squad in Utah State Prison...
478 p. Norman Mailer was one of the most original and powerful writers of the twentieth century. He became a celebrity at the age of twenty-five, with the publication, in 1948, of The Naked and the Dead. Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since become...
Bernard Malamud’s second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who “wants better” for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent,...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. First edition, 1997. Edited and introduced by Robert Giroux. — 639 p. Bernard Malamud (1914-86) is considered a modern master of the short story, ranked with Chekhov and Isaac Babel. The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud brings together all of Malamud's published stories--from the classic early story "The Magic Barrel," in which he...
335 p. 22 cm.; Farrar. 1967 The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel. Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells...
Translator: Florence Crewe-Jones. — 1878. — 229 p. "Nobody's Boy," published in France under the title "Sans Famille," has become justly famous as one of the supreme juvenile stories of the world. In the midst of its early popularity, it was crowned by the Academy as one of the masterpieces of French literature. A few years later, it was followed by "En Famille," which is...
New York: International Publishers, 1957. — 350 p. Albert Maltz's (1908-1985) highly dramatic autobiographical novel (1957; Russian translation, 1958), written while in self-imposed exile in Mexico and based on his own nine-month incarceration in a Federal prison camp. A flatly realistic portrayal of the lives of prisoners in a Washington, D.C. jail, it voices Maltz’s plea for...
2012 Translation: Sidney Monas Osip Mandelstam, who died anonymously in a Siberian transit-camp in 1938, is now generally considered to be among the four or five greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent Mandelstam's major poetic themes and his...
2004 Mandelstham is at least within the top three Russian poets of the twentieth century but for english speaking readers he is perhaps the best- translations of others are often abominable. The poems themselves are something unique- think of the prismatic and delicate mallarme and splash a modernistic style that transforms at each step without looking behind- a courage of...
Transl. with Critical Essays by Clarence Brown. San-Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. — 260 p. A Note on the Illustrations. A Note on the Transliteration. Introduction: The Prose of Mandelstam. Introduction to the North Point Press Edition. The noise of time . Music in Pavlovsk. Childish Imperialism. Riots and French Governesses. The Bookcase. Finland. The Judaic Chaos. The...
New York: Vintage Books, 1954 — 238 p. Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that ''a story must tell itself,'' highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.
Yale: Yale University,.2001.—97 p.—ISBN: 0-300-08998-8 The opening lines of Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions give us an idea of what to expect from this vivid collection. Authority, daring, a language of color and sure movement, first of all, and a high style of great speed and resource that can range, without apparent change of step, from irony and farce to clear lyrical...
A novel. — New York Review Books, 2010. — 924 p. — (NYRB Classics). — ISBN: 978-1-59017-331-2. The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military siege to vibrant life. Manning’s focus is not the battlefield but the...
A novel. — New York Review Books, 2014. — 584 p. — (NYRB Classics). — ISBN: 978-1-59017-721-1. It’s the spring of 1941 and the German army’s eastward march appears unstoppable. In the Egyptian desert, the young officer Simon Boulderstone, twenty years old and wet behind the ears, waits in dreadful anticipation of his first experience of combat. The people of Cairo are waiting,...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 3092 p. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of writers such...
HarperPerennial, 2007. 1094 p. It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden--and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and...
The prevalent trend of classifying Manto’s work into a) stories of Partition and b) stories of prostitutes forcibly enlists the writer to perform a dramatic dressing-down of society. But neither Partition nor prostitution gave birth to the genius of Saadat Hasan Manto. They only furnished him with an occasion to reveal the truth of the human condition. My Name Is Radha is a...
An ancient fortune has lain hidden for thousands of years, one so powerful that men will kill to protect it. And only one man can unearth it & Ex-SAS operative Ben Hope is living a peaceful life in rural France until a phone call from an old army comrade turns his world upside down. Eminent Egyptologist Morgan Paxton has been brutally murdered while working on the mysterious...
An ancient murder! A clandestine society! A conspiracy that will end in death &Former SAS operative Ben Hope is running for his life. Enlisted by the beautiful Leigh Llewellyn world famous opera star and Ben`s first love to investigate her brother`s mysterious death, Ben finds himself caught up in a centuries-old puzzle. The official line states that Oliver died whilst...
Ben Hope was an elite soldier before his troubles forced him to quit the army. Now he`s using his skills to rescue kidnapped children. But when Ben is approached by a millionaire businessman to trace an ancient lost manuscript whose secret could save a dying girl, he finds himself embarking on the strangest mission of his life. With fiendish codes to crack and dangerous enemies...
Sometimes trouble just follows a man! An electrifying and utterly gripping must-read for fans of Dan Brown, Sam Bourne and Ludlum`s Bourne series. When ex-SAS operative Ben Hope decided to give up his life rescuing kidnap victims and return to the Theology studies he abandoned years before, he should have known that fate would decide differently. When his old professor begs him...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2009.—507 p.—ISBN: 0-226-50548-0 Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was an Italian poet, author, and an advocate of women's rights in Italy late Middle Ages. She is best known for her writing The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2009.—230 p.—ISBN: 0-226-50545-6 Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was an Italian poet, author, and an advocate of women's rights in Italy late Middle Ages. She is best known for her writing The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men.
Harlequin Books, 2009. — 176 p. Every emergency doctor dreaded recognising someone in Casualty – even cool-headed consultant James Morrell. But he was doubly shocked when the unconscious patient he was asked to treat was instantly familiar. It was his ex-wife!
Kindle Edition. - 2017. - 299 p. - (David and Martin Yerxa. Book 3). - ASIN B06XCDQDDC. The billionaire founder of an Internet empire is dead. No one can explain what killed him. Another tech industry titan is missing. No one can explain how he disappeared. The FBI assigns David and Martin Yerxa to investigate. But father and son are outside their comfort zone among the...
Kindle Edition. - 2017. - 299 p. - (David and Martin Yerxa. Book 3). - ASIN B06XCDQDDC. The billionaire founder of an Internet empire is dead. No one can explain what killed him. Another tech industry titan is missing. No one can explain how he disappeared. The FBI assigns David and Martin Yerxa to investigate. But father and son are outside their comfort zone among the...
Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2015. — 277 p. — (David and Martin Yerxa. Book 2). No two madmen are alike... Fourteen-year-old Carson Affeldt wakes in a subterranean room. He has vague recollections of a man in a forest, but everything else about his abduction is hazy. As he looks at his new surroundings, he can't make sense of what he sees. What Carson doesn't know: Three boys...
Alva: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. — 924 p. One of the first English anthologies of modern Russian verse, treating pre-revolutionary, emigre and Soviet poetry as a whole, edited by Vladimir Markov, a preeminent scholar who pioneered the study of Russian avant-garde literature, Markov was responsible for such classics of the field as "The Longer Poems of Velimir Khlebnikov" (1962),...
New York: Penguin Classics, 2007. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0143104950; ISBN13: 978-0143104957. Though best known for his plays - and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist - Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric works - from...
London: Oxford. 1910. — 680 p. This book collected plays — Tamburlane, Doctor Fauatus, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, Dido, The Massacre of Paris, Hero and Leander, also Lyric Poems, Ovid's Elegies, Sir John Davies Epigrams and The First Book of Lukan. Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and...
Hogarth 2013 — 438 p. — ISBN13: 978-0770436407 A National Book Awards Longlist Selection A New York Times and Washington Post bestseller A story of the transcendent power of love in wartime, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion, and lasting significance. Two doctors risk everything to save the life of a hunted child in this...
Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest, and for a widely used system of maritime flag...
The Phantom Ship (1839) is a Gothic novel by Frederick Marryat which explores the legend of the Flying Dutchman and, in one chapter, features a werewolf. The legend of the Flying Dutchman forms the background to the story and makes regular appearances throughout the novel, while Marryat adds many other supernatural details. He introduces as the heroine, Amine, the daughter of...
Sky Pony Press, 2016. - 312 c. - ISBN10: 1510703489; ISBN13: 978-1510703483. Some secrets are better left at the bottom of the ocean. Sixteen-year-old Bridey Corkill longs to leave her small island and see the world; the farther from the sea, the better. When Bridey was young, she witnessed something lure her granddad off a cliff and into a watery grave with a smile on his...
Sky Pony Press, 2016. - 312 c. - ISBN10: 1510703489; ISBN13: 978-1510703483. Some secrets are better left at the bottom of the ocean. Sixteen-year-old Bridey Corkill longs to leave her small island and see the world; the farther from the sea, the better. When Bridey was young, she witnessed something lure her granddad off a cliff and into a watery grave with a smile on his...
Sky Pony Press, 2016. - 312 c. - ISBN10: 1510703489; ISBN13: 978-1510703483. Some secrets are better left at the bottom of the ocean. Sixteen-year-old Bridey Corkill longs to leave her small island and see the world; the farther from the sea, the better. When Bridey was young, she witnessed something lure her granddad off a cliff and into a watery grave with a smile on his...
Publication details not specified. 685 p. I’m not sure that I can claim to have taken my place in the human alphabet, even as its honorary twenty-seventh letter. I’m more like a specialized piece of punctuation, a cedilla, umlaut, or pilcrow, hard to track down on the keyboard of a computer or typewriter. Pilcrow is the prettiest of the bunch, assessed purely as a word. And at...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914. — 224 p. Martindale K.K. Twilight Waters (In English) Pervigilium. A Cup of Water. The Palimpsest. The Golden Myth. Two and Two Make Five. The Master-Song. A Good-Friday Spell. Regeneration.
A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER. Zachary Mason’s brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer’s classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative...
In the beginning there was Lucette, who is the mother to three children — Sammy, a gentle giant, almost blind, but a genius with locks; Corinne, a flighty beauty who cannot keep a job; and the child, an afterthought, who strives to make sense of her fractured Egyptian — Jewish immigrant family. Lucette's children would like a kinder, warmer home, but what they have is a...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 272 p. — ISBN: 9780385340434. Life in Gaddafi's Libya seen through the eyes of a boy who is forced to experience it all, cruelty and betrayal.
"I want to live my own life" But Olivia's bid for independance was swiftly rejected. Richard replied with the hard assurance of a successful businessman. "I've paid for your upbringing,Olivia, and everything you possess. I expect to collect the dividends from my investment" Olivia gazed at him in disbelief. She was his stepsister, the only person he truly loved. She had always...
Paperback, Mills & Boon #858, 189 p. Published January 4th 1974 by Mills & Boon. Patrick had warned her: "If you marry me there's no going back. If you decide you don't like Venezuela, I doubt if I could ever bear to let you go. Our marriage is a contract, and our commitment to that marriage can be based on nothing less than a lifetime." But that was before he knew that Ruth...
Publisher: unknown. – 78 p. Language: English. Maupassant's second novel, Bel Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened ''Bel Ami'' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siècle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It...
A book from a bestselling author. A young reporter in 1923, Alma Reed accompanies archaeologists to the ruins of Chichen Itza, where a fortune in Mayan artifacts has been stolen from a sacrificial well. It's believed a curse was unleashed by the theft — yet the career-making story it offers the ambitious journalist seems a godsend. It also leads her to a passionate love affair...
Misque Press, 2010. Tara Maya’s previously published short stories, most of them no longer available in print, are gathered together here for the first time. A number of the tales are short shorts or flash fiction, including the poignant, "Ghosts on Red Strings, " and the biting alternate history, "Best of All Possible Worlds. " Longer stories and two novelettes round out the...
USSR: Raduga, 1985. — 307 p. — ISBN: 5-05-00001-7-3. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (July 19 1893 – April 14 1930) was a Russian Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor. During his early, pre-Revolutionary period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement; being among the signers of the Futurist...
Moscow: Progress. — 217 p. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (July 19 1893 – April 14 1930) was a Russian Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor. During his early, pre-Revolutionary period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement; being among the signers of the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face...
Harper Perennial, 2005. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-112186-9. Conceived in a moment of mad passion by a randy Irish priest and his temporary housekeeper -- and abandoned on a doorstep in a Rinso box as an infant -- her ladyship "Pussy" (né Patrick) Braden grew up fabulous and escaped tiny Tyreelin, Ireland, to start life anew in London. In blousy tops and satin miniskirts she...
McCall Smith Alexander. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (Pantheon Books, 2005. 272 p. English) About the Book In this second novel in the Sunday Philosophy Club, Isabel Dalhousie’s niece, Cat (she of the unsuitable boyfriends) is invited to a wedding in Italy. This means that Isabel is left in charge of Cat’s delicatessen – a task to which the redoubtable moral philosopher proves...
Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Colum McCann set in New York City in the United States. The book won the 2009 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative prizes in the world. Its title comes from the poem "Locksley Hall" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The plot of the book revolves around two central...
The story is well known. In May 2007, Kate and Gerry McCann and their three children went on holiday to a resort in Portugal, along with several friends and their children. The first few days of the holiday passed uneventfully, with the children spending most of their days in the kids club while the parents had tennis lessons and relaxed. In the evenings, the parents all got in...
The story is well known. In May 2007, Kate and Gerry McCann and their three children went on holiday to a resort in Portugal, along with several friends and their children. The first few days of the holiday passed uneventfully, with the children spending most of their days in the kids club while the parents had tennis lessons and relaxed. In the evenings, the parents all got in...
The story is well known. In May 2007, Kate and Gerry McCann and their three children went on holiday to a resort in Portugal, along with several friends and their children. The first few days of the holiday passed uneventfully, with the children spending most of their days in the kids club while the parents had tennis lessons and relaxed. In the evenings, the parents all got in...
Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off...
The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy — acclaimed author of Remainder and C — Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast — dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut — as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to...
"A stunningly strange book about the rarest of fictional subjects: happiness." – Jonathan Lethem "One of the great English novels of the past ten years." – Zadie Smith *** Traumatized by an accident which ‘involved something falling from the sky’ and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder’s hero spends his...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2012. – 121 p. Language: English. A mesmerizing debut about a young girl whose steadfast belief and imagination bring everything she once held dear into treacherous balance. In Grace McCleen’s harrowing, powerful debut, she introduces an unforgettable heroine in ten-year-old Judith McPherson, a young believer who sees the world with the clear...
An astonishing PUSH novel about pain, release, and recovery from an amazing new author.Fifteen-year-old Callie isn’t speaking to anybody, not even to her therapist at Sea Pines, the residential treatment facility where her parents and doctor sent her after discovering that she cuts herself. As her story unfolds, Callie reluctantly become involved with the other guests at Sea...
Play. — New York, Collins classics, 2003. — 104 p. The Pillowman is a 2003 play by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995. It tells the tale of Katurian, a fiction writer living in a police state, who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their...
Vintage Books, 1998. About 254 p. From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under...
Random House Publishing, 2011. 336 p. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and...
(2002). English original text. Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin (both born 1974) are American writers who met each other while studying at university and working as nannies. A modern Mary Poppins, a 20-year-old student gets a job as a nanny and thus gets into the world of the rich and observes it from the inside. WANTED: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must...
(2002). English original text. Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin (both born 1974) are American writers who met each other while studying at university and working as nannies. A modern Mary Poppins, a 20-year-old student gets a job as a nanny and thus gets into the world of the rich and observes it from the inside. WANTED: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must...
(2002). English original text. Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin (both born 1974) are American writers who met each other while studying at university and working as nannies. A modern Mary Poppins, a 20-year-old student gets a job as a nanny and thus gets into the world of the rich and observes it from the inside. WANTED: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must...
2013, 240 p. If you are looking to get married and you are not, there is most likely a very good reason: you. Hey, you’re certainly not a bad person! You just haven’t yet become the woman you need to be in order to have the partnership you want. That’s where this book comes in. Based on her wildly popular Huffington Post article, Tracy McMillan’s Why You’re Not Married...Yet...
A short novel. 2000, 144 p. Boone’s Lick presents an unadorned look at a Missouri family in the years just after the Civil War. This is not a story of slick gunfighters, wealthy farmers, or cattle barons. Rather it is the tale of the Cecil family. The Cecil’s are your typical mule-riding, cow chip-cooking, baby-birthing folk. The stalwarts who inhabited that tenuous space...
A novel. Dead Man's Walk is a 1995 novel by Larry McMurtry. It is the third book published in the Lonesome Dove series but the first installment in terms of chronology. McMurtry wrote a fourth segment to the Lonesome Dove chronicle, Comanche Moon, which describes the events of the central characters' lives between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove. The second novel in the...
Simon & Schuster, 1986. — 858 p. Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the...
The classic story of the man who robbed from the rich to give to the poor comes alive with vibrant illustrations from celebrated artist Greg Hildebrandt. Escape to Sherwood Forest and join the jolly Fellowship of the Greenwood with these rollicking tales of the celebrated archer and gentleman thief. Lively episodes introduce each of the famous merry men and other colorful...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. —312 p.— ISBN: 0-226-80854-8. Lucrezia Tornabuoni (22 June 1427[1] – 25 March 1482) was a writer and influential political adviser. Connected by birth to two of the most powerful families in 15th-century Italy.
Grand Central, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN: 9781455559497. When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad's tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0385350594, 978-0385350600. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a...
Prosper Mérimée (28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. "Carmen" is a novella by Prosper Mérimée, written and first published in 1845. It has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous...
Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG, 2010. — 65 p. — ISBN: 9956-578-02-9. Reign of the Quisling-Rodents is, at once, a lament and a call to resistance couched in modern prose-poetry. It is a volume in two parts; the first entitled “Treasons of Malversation” seeks to uncover a society at the brink of socio-economic autoannihilation through the nefarious human phenomena of egoism and...
Atria Books, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1501131346; ISBN13: 978-1501131349. A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall. Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce’s belly from the moment they meet as...
Atria Books, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1501131346; ISBN13: 978-1501131349. A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall. Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce’s belly from the moment they meet as...
Atria Books, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1501131346; ISBN13: 978-1501131349. A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall. Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce’s belly from the moment they meet as...
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the...
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the...
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the...
Fern Michaels (born Mary Ruth Kuczkir) is an American author of romance and thriller novels, including nearly 50 best selling books with more than 70 million copies in print. Her USA Today and New York Times best selling books include Family Blessings, Pretty Woman, and Crown Jewel, as well as the Texas quartet and the Captive series. Four classic holiday tales from beloved,...
New York Times, 2005. — 179 p. Rosie Gardener and Vickie Winters were best friends, closer than sisters. Partners in a successful mail-order company, both women lived comfortably in lush Savannah, Georgia. Svelte and single Vickie only wanted the best for her friend - and she couldn't stay quiet when Rosie, overweight and unable to see her own worth, fell under the spell of...
Mira Books, 1980. — 117 p. Suitcase? Check. Boarding pass? Check. Meeting sexy stranger upon arrival? Destination: trouble. Cathy Bissette thought she had left everything behind - the publishing job, the glamour of New York, the broken heart - for a quiet three-month getaway on the shores of North Carolina. But the moment Jared Parsons sailed the lavish Sea Gypsy into Pamlico...
New York Publishing, 2006. — 318 p. The fifth in the Revenge of the Sisterhood series. Isabelle Flanders had everything: her own architectural firm, her fiance Bobby, a life she deserved. Until Rosemary Hershey came and stole it all. Took her reputation, her clients, her man, and even framed her for drunk driving, killing three innocent people in the process. The loyal...
New York: Macmillan, 1948. — 384 p. This collection of tales is set against the background of the South Pacific, the endless ocean, the coral specks called islands, the coconut palms, the reefs, the lagoons, the jungles, and the full moon rising against the volcanoes.The tales are told by a young naval officer whose duties on an admiral's staff take him up and down the islands....
Penguin Books, 1986. Actually, the book consist of the three books by George Mikes: - How to Be an Alien - How to Be an Inimitable - How to Be an Decadent Illustrations by Nicolas Bentley
Penguin Books, 1986. Actually, the book consist of the three books by George Mikes: - How to Be an Alien - How to Be an Inimitable - How to Be an Decadent Illustrations by Nicolas Bentley
How to be an Alien (1946) was the second book by George Mikes and is the most famous of the 44 he wrote. It is a classic of British humour and by its 32nd impression in 1966 had sold over 300,000 copies. It pokes gentle fun at the English and their relationship with foreigners, "alien" meaning in this context any non-English person. The book is characterised by much humour,...
Sofia: Foreign Languages Press, 1961. — 41 p. Milev Geo. September (In English) Geo Milev (1895-1925) is a Bulgarian poet affiliated with Expressionism, journalist, and translator. "September" is his most famous poem, which was published in the magazine "Flame" (Flame) in 1924. It describes the brutal suppression of the Bulgarian uprising of September 1923 against the military...
Pure by Andrew Miller is a story set in Paris in 1785, pestilence and revolution are in the air. The problem? The cemetery, Les Innocents, in the centre of Paris is full, it stinks and it's poisoning Paris. The task - to empty the cemetery and to make it pure. A story about destruction - destruction of much more than the church of Saint Innocents and its graveyard. It tackles...
Pure by Andrew Miller is a story set in Paris in 1785, pestilence and revolution are in the air. The problem? The cemetery, Les Innocents, in the centre of Paris is full, it stinks and it's poisoning Paris. The task - to empty the cemetery and to make it pure. A story about destruction - destruction of much more than the church of Saint Innocents and its graveyard. It tackles...
Penguin Books, 1998. — ISBN: 0140481346 / 0-14-048134-6. Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman has sold 11 million copies, and Willy Loman didn't make all those sales on a smile and a shoeshine. This play is the genuine article-it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. It's a sturdy...
A play in 4 acts. In English. The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself...
"Mary Renault lives again!" declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller's thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer's enduring...
1997 Pulitzer Prize winner. Published: 1996. Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters-one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder...
Spike Milligan is a British poet who wrote verse, considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. His poetry has been described by comedian Stephen Fry as "absolutely immortal - greatly in the tradition of Lear". His most famous poem, On the Ning Nang Nong, was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poets including...
Krakow Poland: Wydawnictwo Literackie Kraków,.1996.—461 p.—ISBN: 83-08-02593-5 Czesław Miłosz ( 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of twenty "naïve" poems. Following the war, he served as Polish cultural attaché in Paris and Washington, D.C., then in 1951 defected to...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 4060 p. This is the fourth volume of a new series of publications by Delphi Classics, the best-selling publisher of classical works. Many poetry collections are often poorly formatted and difficult to read on eReaders. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the...
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, changed into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification....
Edited by Barbara K. Lewalski. — Wiley Blackwell, 2007. — 388 p. In this authoritative edition of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost is presented in the original language of its 1674 publication, with explanatory annotations and word glosses. Edited by one of the world's leading Milton scholars, the author of the acclaimed The Life of Milton (Blackwell 2000), which won the...
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. It is...
Viking Adult, 2014. — 928 p. A landmark new translation of the ancient Chinese Oracle and book of wisdom. Pose a question, then toss three coins (or cast your yarrow stalks) to access the time-honored wisdom of the I Ching. The I Ching, or Book of Change, has been consulted through the ages, in both China and the West, for answers to fundamental questions about the world and...
Publication details not specified. 302 p. The instant New York Times bestseller is “astonishing…In one novel, Miranda July tells us more about our universal need to be loved, and our ability to love and be loved, than most earthbound authors will in a lifetime” (Vanity Fair). In The First Bad Man, Miranda July tells the story of Cheryl, a vulnerable, uptight woman in her early...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1990. — 330 p. Translated from the Ukrainian by Oles Kovalenko. Роман "Хіба ревуть воли, як ясла повні?" став першою в нашому письменстві монументальною селянською епопеєю, усебічним змалюванням життя українського села. Автори сміливо утверджують важливу в усі віки ідею — народ жив би мирно, якби не нестерпне гноблення (воли б не ревли, якби ясла були...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1990. — 330 p. Translated from the Ukrainian by Oles Kovalenko. Роман "Хіба ревуть воли, як ясла повні?" став першою в нашому письменстві монументальною селянською епопеєю, усебічним змалюванням життя українського села. Автори сміливо утверджують важливу в усі віки ідею — народ жив би мирно, якби не нестерпне гноблення (воли б не ревли, якби ясла були...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1986. — 237 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Oles Olexiv. "Сіверяни" - історичний роман про відцентрові тенденції на північно-західній периферії хозарського каганату, що занепадав внаслідок тривалих арабо-хозарських воєн.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1986. — 237 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Oles Olexiv. "Сіверяни" - історичний роман про відцентрові тенденції на північно-західній периферії хозарського каганату, що занепадав внаслідок тривалих арабо-хозарських воєн.
Texas: University of Texas Press, 2002. — 263 p. —ISBN: 0-292-75260-1. Bilingual. Gabriela Mistral ( 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. She was the first Latin American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she did in 1945 "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful...
London: Oberon Books, 2006. — 133 p. Long ago, in the days to come, Hamelin was a small town with a large market on the edge of the River Weser. During the day the town was cheerful enough. But as darkness fell each night, the streets and alleys and drainpipes and cellars were invaded by an army of horrible, hairy rats. Rats! They tought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit...
Gone with the Wind, first published in May 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1937. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every...
Gone with the Wind, first published in May 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1937. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every...
14 year-old Rachel and her witchy family are back. Miri, Rachel's sister, is busy zapping up ways to save the world. But the luscious love spell that she finally persuades Miri to cast doesn't have quite the intended effect - now Raf, Rachel's one true love, hates her, and the Prom is about to cancelled because of a herd of cows.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. Translated by Richard Willbur. Two classical plays of Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) in which the entertaining character of Sganarelle appears - in The School for Husbands as a guardian, and in Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold as a duped and jealous husband. Introductions by Richard Wilbur. While these ludicrous farces should really be...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. Translated by Richard Willbur Two classical plays of Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) in which the entertaining character of Sganarelle appears - in The School for Husbands as a guardian, and in Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold as a duped and jealous husband. Introductions by Richard Wilbur. While these ludicrous farces should really be seen...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. Translated by Richard Willbur Two classical plays of Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) in which the entertaining character of Sganarelle appears - in The School for Husbands as a guardian, and in Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold as a duped and jealous husband. Introductions by Richard Wilbur. While these ludicrous farces should really be seen...
A story of a woman that is sent to China to appraise a large "just found" collection of porcelain - and the people she meets while there. Lots of interesting historical facts built into the story. Quick moving and interesting.
A novel of searing intelligence and startling originality, Lost in Translation heralds the debut of a unique new voice on the literary landscape. Nicole Mones creates an unforgettable story of love and desire, of family ties and human conflict, and of one woman's struggle to lose herself in a foreign land--only to discover her home, her heart, herself.
Penguin Books 2003 — 199 p. — ISBN13: 9780142001745 Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free....
Gallery Books, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 150112546X; ISBN13: 978-1501125461.(The Beach House Book 4) Bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach house. When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer,...
Gallery Books, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 150112546X; ISBN13: 978-1501125461.(The Beach House Book 4) Bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach house. When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer,...
Gallery Books, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1501193295; ISBN13: 978-1501193293. (The Beach House) Whisking you back to the shores of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina. Beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight, this is an illuminating tale of...
Gallery Books, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1501193295; ISBN13: 978-1501193293. (The Beach House) Whisking you back to the shores of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina. Beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight, this is an illuminating tale of...
Heribert Juliá and Humbert Herrera are opposites: the one can no longer paint, and doesn't much care, the other wants to create the sculpture to end all sculptures, the film of all films, the exhibit of all exhibitions. One couldn't care less about his mistress, the other swoops in. A fun-house mirror through which Monzó examines the creative process.
Penguin, 2007. — 480 p. The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (in an earlier 1963 edition Modern Poetry from Africa), is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. It consists mainly of poems written in English and English translations of French or Portuguese poetry; poems written in African languages were included only in the authors' translations. The...
Salt Publishing, 2012. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1907773177, ISBN13: 978-1907773174. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 "The Lighthouse" begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the...
Harper Perennial, 1996. — 554 p. Sam Hunter has spent twenty years escaping his past. Now it has caught up to him in the weirdest of all possible ways. As a boy growing up in Montana, he was Samson Hunts Alone - until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a...
New York: William Morrow, 2004. — 694 p. Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise — a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he...
Spike, 1999. — 527 p. Autumn in the sleepy California town of Pine Cove is turned upside down by the arrival of a Mississippi Delta blues musician, a huge sea serpent drawn to the sound of the steel guitar, the explosion of a tanker truck at a gas station, and a mysterious trailer that shows up in the local trailer park.
New York: William Morrow, 2004. — 370 p. Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. 'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are...
The archive consists of two parts: "A Story-Teller's Holiday" 1918. This work contains the story later re-published in the collection Celibate Lives, 1927, as the short story "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs" which was made into a 2011 movie, Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close. "Celibate Lives London" 1927. This collection and his previous work A Story-Teller's Holiday both...
Riverhead Books, 2019. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0525540679; ISBN13: 978-0525540670.A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing. In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in...
Riverhead Books, 2019. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0525540679; ISBN13: 978-0525540670.A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing. In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in...
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. — 752 p. The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor...
Knopf, 2014. — ISBN13: 978-0307594136. These eight masterly stories reveal Lorrie Moore at her most mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind, and bewitched spirit, as she explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In “Debarking,” a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. — 311 p. — ISBN: 0-226-53669-6. Olimpia Fulvia Morata (1526 – 26 October 1555) was an Italian classical scholar. She was born in Ferrara to Fulvio Pellegrino Morato and a certain Lucrezia (possibly Gozi). Her father, who had been tutor to the young princes of the ducal house of Este, was on intimate terms with the most learned men...
Edited by George M. Logan and Robert M. Adams. — Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 340 p. — (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). — ISBN: 978-0521403184. This is a fully revised edition of what is already one of the most successful volumes in the entire series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. This revision incorporates...
1516. 148 p. Henry VIII., the unconquered King of England, a prince adorned with all the virtues that become a great monarch, having some differences of no small consequence with Charles the most serene Prince of Castile, sent me into Flanders, as his ambassador, for treating and composing matters between them. I was colleague and companion to that incomparable man Cuthbert...
64 p. This book recounts the adventures of a horse as he moves from life on a farm into the battles of World War I, the story of a friendship lasting through the toughest of tests. Through the eyes of the war horse, Joey, Michael Morpurgo tells this moving and powerful story of survival on the Western Front. His novels have been adapted for film and stage (including, Kensuke's...
Willie Bledsoe, once an idealistic young black activist, is now a burnt-out case. After leaving a snug berth at Tuskegee Institute to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he has become bitterly disillusioned with the civil rights movement and its leaders. He returns home to Alabama to try to write a memoir about his time in the cultural whirlwind, but the words...
Morrison saw poetry as an art form used to push the boundaries of convention and of reality. The concerts of the Doors were infamous for Jim's wild Dionysian use of poetry to incite his audience into a state of reckless abandonment and transcendence. More than the power of words to uplift people and to change their lives, he also saw poetry as a means of continuing tradition,...
Written from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother, Marcel is a striking debut novel describing the vivid history of a family in a Flemish village. The mysterious death of Marcel, the family favourite, has always haunted the young boy. With the help of his schoolteacher, he starts to discover the secrets of Marcel’s ‘black’ past. The story of...
My Fellow Skin is a beautiful, affectionate novel told from the point of view of an impressionable young boy. The novel opens before the boy can talk, and we follow Anton’s first, tentative steps on the path to adulthood. He gradually begins to grasp an understanding of time and death, and when he goes to school he falls in love for the first time — not with the schoolgirls his...
A wonderful, balanced novel about how the remains of the past reverberate in the present, Shutterspeed sensitively and delicately describes the powerful emotions which lie just beneath the surface of the unruffled sheen of village life. Joris’ father died young, and his mother moved to Spain, so he has lived with his aunt and uncle since early childhood. He is quiet and...
While the Gods Were Sleeping is a novel about the magnitude and impact of the First World War, the recollections of which are recorded in the notebooks of the elderly Helena. The young Helena is sent to her uncle’s country house before the war, and from here she witnesses scenes of indescribable horror. But it is also where she meets Matthew again, a British Army photographer...
The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A time machine has just transported you back into the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? And more important, where will you stay? The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England is...
"I like to collect knives," says Angelina Jolie, "but I also collect first edition books." At first glance, she might seem to be someone without any secrets, talking openly about her love life, sexual preferences, drug use, cutting, and tattoos — and why she kissed her brother on the lips in public. And yet mysteries remain: What was really going on in her brief, impulsive...
2018. — 608 p. Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter.
Atria Books, 2018. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 9781451649390; ISBN13: 978-1451649390. A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House — the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadow across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day. My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the...
The Distant Hours is the third novel by Australian author Kate Morton. Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Millderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen year...
Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award (nominee) Aka "The Shifting Fog" Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a...
Perennial, 2008. — ISBN10: 0061375403; ISBN13: 978-0061375408. Collects the correspondence of the six Mitford sisters--Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah--to shed light on their private lives and the broader British aristocracy, offering vivid insights into such factors as their career and lifestyle choices, the impact of World War II on their political beliefs,...
Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction - Sally Rooney meets Sarah Perry, Elmet is an unforgettable novel about family, as well as a beautiful meditation on landscape. Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built...
Bharati Mukherjee's work illuminates a new world of people in migration that has transformed the meaning of "America." Now in a Grove paperback edition, The Middleman and Other Stories is a dazzling display of the vision of this important modern writer. An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to...
London: Chatto & Windus, 2014. — 314 p. Mukherjee Neel. The Lives of Others, novel (In English) Neel Mukherjee (born 1970) is an Indian writer writing in English. The novel "The Lives of the Others" (2014) is set in 1967 Calcutta and follows the life of a family fractured by extremist political activism. The book deals with the chasm between generations, and is set against a...
London, Wordsworth Classics - 410 p.- 1990 (first published 1909). The theme of these stories is irregularity, "wrong notes" and sometimes misbehaviour within a conventional social setting. Each story is about four pages long. H.H.Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916) is popularly known as " Saki ". His first book was "The Rise of the Russian Empire" (1900).
Vintage, 1995. — ISBN10: 0679753796; ISBN13: 978-0679753797. Dance,Dance Dance — a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase — is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of...
A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey’s younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one...
A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey’s younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one...
In small-town suburban Australia, three young men from three different ethnic backgrounds — one Samoan, one Macedonian, one not sure — are ready to make their mark. Solomon is all charisma, authority, and charm, a failed basketball player down for the moment but surely not out. His half-brother, Jimmy, bounces along in his wake, underestimated, waiting for his chance to...
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides - First Love and Other Sorrows by Harold Brodkey - The Lady with the Little Dog aby Anton Chekhov - Love by Grace Paley - A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner - The Dead byJ ames Joyce - Dirty Wedding by Denis Johnson - Natasha by David Bezmozgis - Some Other, Some Otto by Deborah Eisenberg - The Hitchhiking Game by Milan Kundera - Lovers and...
Michael Cunningham, Francine Prose, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, and more than thirty other extraordinary writers celebrate fairy tales in this thrilling new volume. Inspire by everything from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" and "The Little Match Girl" to Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" and "Cinderella" to the Brothers Grimm's "Hansel and Gretel" and...
Allison & Busby Limited, 2018. — 356 p. — ISBN: 9780749022471. A well-known pair of private detectives set out to solve a crime committed way back in 1963 leading them to the chaotic world of post-war Europe.
Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets; a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in...
2014, EISBN: 1612306349, ASIN: B009R5FURC, 95 p. When she took off on her epic flight around the world on June 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart had already earned her place in twentieth-century history. She was the first woman (and second person) to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean. She set more than a dozen records in the hazardous early days of aviation: She was the first pilot to fly...
2001, Vintage, 281 p. This file is a purely electronic version of the book. The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some...
Winner of 1971 Booker Prize «V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times «A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.» – John Updike, The New Yorker «The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.» – The New...
Winner of 1971 Booker Prize «V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times «A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.» – John Updike, The New Yorker «The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.» – The New...
For millions of years, humankind has used a brilliantly successful survival strategy. If we like something, we chase after more of it: more status, more food, more info, more stuff. Then we chase again. It’s how we survived famine, disease and disaster to colonise the world. But now, thanks to technology, we’ve suddenly got more of everything than we can ever use, enjoy or or...
The Dial Press, 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 198485478X; ISBN13: 978-1984854780.#ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • A “dazzling” novel that “will break your heart and put it back together again” (J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy “A reading experience that leaves...
The Dial Press, 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 198485478X; ISBN13: 978-1984854780.#ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • A “dazzling” novel that “will break your heart and put it back together again” (J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy “A reading experience that leaves...
New York Times Ten Best Books of 2012 Riveting…The Patriarch is a book hard to put down. – Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review The Penguin Press, New York, 2012 - 896 p. ISBN: 1594203768 In this magisterial new work The Patriarch, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous...
Botchan（坊っちゃん）is a novel written by Natsume Sōseki in 1906. It is considered to be one of the most popular novels in Japan, read by most Japanese during their childhood. The central theme of the story is morality.The story is based on the author's personal experience as a teacher being transferred to Matsuyama, which sets the stage for this novel. Natsume was born in Tokyo, and...
Black Coat Press, 2011. Enemy Force (1903) is a ground-breaking, surrealistic novel about a poet who is locked in a lunatic asylum and who mysteriously becomes possessed by an "Enemy Force," possibly an alien being from a hellish planet orbiting the star Aldebaran. Both tragic and satirical, emotional and visionary, it is considered by many scholars to be a forgotten...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1985. — 162 p. Translated from the Ukrainian by Oles Kovalenko. Illustrated by Volodimir Poltavets. Реалістична повість про життя українського села другої половини XIX ст., що належить перу класика української літератури.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1985. — 162 p. Translated from the Ukrainian by Oles Kovalenko. Illustrated by Volodimir Poltavets. Реалістична повість про життя українського села другої половини XIX ст., що належить перу класика української літератури.
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2003. Originally electronic quality. A collection of stories by Russian classics of the 19th century. The stories in this collection represent a varied range of style and subject matter, but each offers a fascinating glimpse of the factors that shaped modern Russia. These insights offer an unvarnished portrait of the pre-Stalinist Russian...
SUNY Press, 2008. - 387 p. "The Mountain Men" celebrates the brave men and women who explored, trapped, and traded across the Old West during the early decades of the nineteenth century. From the Missouri River to the Great Salt Lake, the Yellowstone River to Spanish California, their moving and inspiring stories are deftly told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt. It...
SUNY Press, 2008. - 126 p. "The Twilight of the Sioux" is essential reading for understanding the unforgettable world and majestic sweep of events and people in "Black Elk Speaks". The magnificence and tragedy of the Old West is here, as told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt: the courage of settlers in the American West; the valiant resistance by the Native peoples...
Kindle Edition. — 112 p. — (Chicagoland Vampires №10.5). In this thrilling new novella from New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill, vampire Merit bites off more than she bargained for when she takes a trip to a secluded Colorado town filled with feuding supernaturals. Merit and Ethan are in desperate need of some alone time, far from the worries of Cadogan House, but...
Hamburg: Tredition, 2011. — 348 p. — ISBN10: 3842472005; ISBN13: 978-3842472006. There are few literate persons in Russia who do not know whole pages of this poem by heart. It will live as long as Russian literature exists ; and its artistic value as an instrument for the depiction of Russian nature and the soul of the Russian people can be compared only with that of the great...
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917. — 376 p. There are few literate persons in Russia who do not know whole pages of this poem by heart. It will live as long as Russian literature exists ; and its artistic value as an instrument for the depiction of Russian nature and the soul of the Russian people can be compared only with that of the great epics of Homer...
Independently published. — 2018. — 179 p. — ISBN10: 1723908754, ISBN13: 978-1723908750. Lily is a teen girl in Central Pennsylvania. She and her little autistic brother have big problems. Their mother has fallen for a man who is pure evil. They meet a Native American man, Iron Joe, who takes them through a time portal, where they find peace and happiness in the 1900's logging...
Independently published. - 2018. - 179 p. - ISBN10: 1723908754, ISBN13: 978-1723908750. Lily is a teen girl in Central Pennsylvania. She and her little autistic brother have big problems. Their mother has fallen for a man who is pure evil. They meet a Native American man, Iron Joe, who takes them through a time portal, where they find peace and happiness in the 1900's logging...
Independently published. - 2018. - 179 p. - ISBN10: 1723908754, ISBN13: 978-1723908750. Lily is a teen girl in Central Pennsylvania. She and her little autistic brother have big problems. Their mother has fallen for a man who is pure evil. They meet a Native American man, Iron Joe, who takes them through a time portal, where they find peace and happiness in the 1900's logging...
Boston: Beacon Press,.1993.—245 p.—ISBN: 0-8070-6489-0 Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973). He derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda.[2] Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16,...
Penguin Books Ltd, 2017. Everything that’s happening to us — yes, everything — is to be regarded as a lark. See? This is my last word. This. Is. Going. To. Be. A. Lark.” It’s 1919, and Jane Quested and her cousin Lucilla are pulled suddenly from school by their guardian, who sets them up in a cottage on the fringes of London and informs them (by letter, since he’s already fled)...
As tense as a thriller, as vivid as an undercover documentary, a brilliant first novel from Argentina takes readers right into the streets and slums of Buenos Aires as one young man fights for his life. In Buenos Aires the economy has collapsed and people are protesting on the streets. But in the barrio, life goes on — the slums of the city are ruled by gangs, drugs, and guns....
ISBN: 978-0-7636-3931-0 Year: 2008 Publisher: Candlewick Press Series: Chaos Walking Series Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee — whose thoughts Todd can hear, too, whether he wants to or not —...
Pan Books, 2011. — 418 p. — ISBN: 978-0-330-51497-2. Summary: When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled...
Ballantine Books. 2008. 674 p. ISBN: 9780345366238. A fabulous, bejeweled chess set that belonged to Charlemagne has been buried in a Pyrenees abbey for a thousand years. As the bloody French Revolution rages in Paris, the nuns dig it up and scatter its pieces across the globe because, when united, the set contains a secret power that could topple civilizations. To keep the set...
New York: Collier Books, 1979. - 310 p. Language: English. Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon Ilya Varshavsky. The Violet. The Duel. Plot for a Novel. Escape. Kirill Bulychev. Share It with Me Dvitri Bilenkin. Personality Probe Gennady Gor. Theocrates Blue Window Vladlen Bahnov. Cheap Sale. Beware of the Ahs! Anatoly Dneprov. Formula for Immortality Vladimir Savchenko. Success...
New York: Collier Books, 1979. - 310 p. Language: English. Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon Ilya Varshavsky. The Violet. The Duel. Plot for a Novel. Escape. Kirill Bulychev. Share It with Me Dvitri Bilenkin. Personality Probe Gennady Gor. Theocrates Blue Window Vladlen Bahnov. Cheap Sale. Beware of the Ahs! Anatoly Dneprov. Formula for Immortality Vladimir Savchenko. Success...
P.H. Newby's seventeenth novel Something To Answer For was assured of a place in literary history when it won the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969. It was 1956 and Townrow was in Port Said - of these two facts he is reasonably certain. He had been summoned by the widow of his deceased friend Elie Khoury. She is convinced Elie was murdered, but nobody seems to agree with her. What...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0735224293; ISBN13: 978-0735224292.Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Must-Read Book for Fall * Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Selection * #1 Library Reads Pick * September IndieNext Pick “I am loving Little Fires Everywhere. Maybe my favorite novel I've read this year.”—John Green "I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting."...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0735224293; ISBN13: 978-0735224292.Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Must-Read Book for Fall * Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Selection * #1 Library Reads Pick * September IndieNext Pick “I am loving Little Fires Everywhere. Maybe my favorite novel I've read this year.”—John Green "I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting."...
St Petersburg, 1994. — ISBN: 5-88143-010-7. Instead of an introduction: a warning St. Petersburg; Petersburgers Zamorochki Luba Ushakova A short guide to the St Petersburg hangover Walking on Nevsky Prospect Encounters Drunken walks More encounters A conversation Bulgakov's zamorochki A poetic use of eau-de-Cologne Koktebel Podarki: the Podarok Principles The new St Petersburg
2015. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0385755880. An exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school — six stories above the ground — it's unclear who saves whom. And when the unlikely pair teams up on a class project to discover the "natural wonders" of their state,...
Spiegel & Grau, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0399588175; ISBN13: 978-0399588174. The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor...
Calgary: University of Press,.2006.—81 p.—ISBN: 1-55238-226-5 Since 1972, Charles Noble has been publishing poetry in a modest Canadian literary underground. A few of the titles that have emerged are Doubt’s Boots (U of C Press), hearth wild post cardiac banff (Thistledown Press), and Wormwood, Vermouth, Warphistory (Thistledown Press), which won the 1996 Writers Guild of...
St. Martin's Press, 2009. — ASIN B00GX3X56E. In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country’s corrupt and autocratic leader. Pierce is in a race against time, and as the complex trial — involving terrorism and the geopolitics of oil, missing...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. — 152 p. Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, intent only on wrapping up that dismal part of her life. There is nothing here for her; she wonders if there ever was. The house of her childhood is stuffed full of useless things, her mother’s presence already fading. And perhaps, had she not found the small stash of...
2016. — 463 p. Paris, 1888. Foot-soldiers in the shadowy army of ‘scrubs’ that come down out of the mountains every winter to sweep the capital’s chimneys, thirteen-year-old Séraphin and his younger sister, Sophie, are on the run. Fleeing their brutal master, they take shelter in an abandoned mansion, but quickly realize that they are not alone... Thus begins a journey into a...
2016. — 463 p. Paris, 1888. Foot-soldiers in the shadowy army of ‘scrubs’ that come down out of the mountains every winter to sweep the capital’s chimneys, thirteen-year-old Séraphin and his younger sister, Sophie, are on the run. Fleeing their brutal master, they take shelter in an abandoned mansion, but quickly realize that they are not alone... Thus begins a journey into a...
Harcourt, 1998. — 149 p. Driven out of their cozy house by the rat catcher, the Borrowers find themselves homeless. Worse, they are lost and alone in a frightening new world: the outdoors. Nearly everything outside -- cows, moths, field mice, cold weather -- is a life-threatening danger for the Borrowers. But as they bravely journey across country in search of a new home and...
New York: Mc.Pherson,.1988.—53 p.—ISBN: 0-914232-90-8 Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), a poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism. Hardenberg's professional work and university background, namely his study of mineralogy and management of salt mines in Saxony, was often ignored by his...
Hyperion Books, 2008. — 146 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4013-0337-2 Myanmar novelist in her first work translated into English, gives a fascinating glimpse into the life of a gay, transvestite spirit medium caught up in a midlife crisis amid the currents of an annual summer Buddhist festival. A full array of pilgrims, along with their attendant pickpockets, musicians and peddlers, gather...
I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no. Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands and...
New York: Liberty Pub. House, 2013. — 767 p. — ISBN: 978-1-932-686-95-1 Nurpeisov's novel is valuable for its integrity of the national character. Describing the popular movement of 1916–1918's by terms of socio-psychological method, based on the developing of inner monologues the novel became a true epic of that period of time. In due course there were those who put the genre...
New York: Liberty Pub. House, 2013. — 767 p. — ISBN: 978-1-932-686-95-1 Nurpeisov's novel is valuable for its integrity of the national character. Describing the popular movement of 1916–1918's by terms of socio-psychological method, based on the developing of inner monologues the novel became a true epic of that period of time. In due course there were those who put the genre...
New York: Lіberty Pub. House, 2013. — 411 p. — ISBN: 978-1-932-686-96-8 "Final Respects" is about people standing face-to face with one of the world's most devastating man-made ecological disasters - the tragedy of the shrinking and dying Aral Sea. The dramatic lives of two childhood friends eloquently unfold as they find themselves on opposite sides of the issues surrounding...
New York: Lіberty Pub. House, 2013. — 411 p. — ISBN: 978-1-932-686-96-8 "Final Respects" is about people standing face-to face with one of the world's most devastating man-made ecological disasters - the tragedy of the shrinking and dying Aral Sea. The dramatic lives of two childhood friends eloquently unfold as they find themselves on opposite sides of the issues surrounding...
Nineteen-year-old Cheyenne tries to portray the perfect life to mask the memories of her past. Walking in on her boyfriend with another woman her freshman year in college threatens that picture of perfection. Twenty-one-year-old Colt never wanted college and never expected to amount to anything, but when his mom's dying wish is for him to get his degree, he has no choice but to...
Dalkey Archive Press, 2005. — 239 p. — ISBN10: 156478181X; ISBN13: 978-1564781819. In a 1938 letter to a literary agent, Flann O'Brien described his first novel as "a very queer affair, unbearably queer perhaps." The book in question was At Swim-Two-Birds--and if we take queer to mean diabolically eccentric, then truer words were never spoken. The author, whose real name was...
London. Lawrence&Wishart. 1957. - 319 c. PLUTONIA was first published in the U.S.S.R in 1924. This is a ranslation by Brian Pearce from the edition issued by the State Publishing House for Geographical Literature, Moscow, 1955. Originally published in 1924, "Plutonia" is a hollow-earth-type of science fiction novel set in an underground world of rivers, lakes, volcanoes, and...
London. Lawrence&Wishart. 1957. - 319 c. PLUTONIA was first published in the U.S.S.R in 1924. This is a ranslation by Brian Pearce from the edition issued by the State Publishing House for Geographical Literature, Moscow, 1955. Originally published in 1924, "Plutonia" is a hollow-earth-type of science fiction novel set in an underground world of rivers, lakes, volcanoes, and...
London: Tinder Press, 2013. – eISBN 978-0-7553-8683-3 The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976. It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. — 234 p. — eISBN: 978-0-385-34941-3. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Thursday - 15 July 1976. Highbury, London. Stoke Newington, London....
Fredonia Books (NL), 2001. — 536 p. — ISBN10: 158963604X; ISBN13: 978-1589636040 A treasury of modern soviet poetry. Works of 50 modern - post 1920 - Russian poets with text in Russian on one side and English on the other. Illustrated with photographs of the poets and capsule biographies. Includes Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Boris Pasternak, Boris Slutsky, Alexander Prokofiev, Nikolai...
New York: Vintage Books, 1982. — xii, 242 p. O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate...
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. — viii, 442 p. Three novels (Butterfield 8, Pal Joey, Hope of Heaven) and twenty short stories (Where's the Game? — The King of the Desert — Radio — Can You Carry Me? — The Magical Numbers — The Doctor's Son — Trouble in 1949 — Price's Always Open — Days — Are We Leaving Tomorrow? — Lunch Tuesday — Sidesaddle —...
London: Abelard-Schuman, 1973. - 214 c. Translated by Heather Maisner. Скан 600dpi. The Russian original first appeared in the magazine Druzhba Narodov in 1971. This is the first book by Bulat Okudzhava to be translated into English, but its elegant construction - encompassing broad humour and delicate fantasy - should ensure him a prominent place in the ranks of modern...
London: Abelard-Schuman, 1973. - 214 c. Translated by Heather Maisner. Скан 600dpi. The Russian original first appeared in the magazine Druzhba Narodov in 1971. This is the first book by Bulat Okudzhava to be translated into English, but its elegant construction - encompassing broad humour and delicate fantasy - should ensure him a prominent place in the ranks of modern...
Tor.com, 2016. — 384 p. English (original) Series: The Centenal Cycle (Book 1) It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the...
Tor.com, 2016. — 384 p. English (original) Series: The Centenal Cycle (Book 1) It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the...
Tor.com, 2016. — 384 p. English (original) Series: The Centenal Cycle (Book 1) It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the...
Lincoln: Bison Books; University of Nebraska Press, 2013. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0803245777; ISBN13: 978-0803245778 A century after her birth, Tillie Olsen’s writing is as relevant as when it first appeared; indeed, the clarity and passion of her vision and style have, if anything, become even more striking over time. Collected here for the first time are several of Olsen’s...
Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983. — 479 p. — ISBN: 0520055950 NB! Electronic publication. Pagination is preserved according to the paper edition of 1983, Preface, Introduction, etc. are omitted. Educated at Wesleyan and Harvard Universities and the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, Charles Olson had a distinguished career in academia and...
Vintage, 1993. 320p. (in the Word - 73). ISBN: 0-679-74520-4. With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972. — 380 p. This book has been compiled to provide a representative selection of mid-twentieth century American drama. The first play. Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), dates back to 1941. The Autumn Garden, by Lillian Hellman (b. 1905), was written a decade later. Orpheus Descending, by Tennessee Williams (b. 1911),...
Yale University Press, 1989. — 176 p. — ISBN: 0300046014. Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winning play Long Day's Journey into Night, written in 1940 and released in 1956 after the playwright's death, is now available in a newly designed edition. The restoration of several previously missing lines of dialogue and stage direction, recently discovered by scholars, makes this...
Knopf;, 2018. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0525520376; ISBN13: 978-0525520375. “This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book — a revelatory, controlled chaos. Tommy Orange writes the way a storm makes landfall.” —Omar El Akkad, author of...
Knopf, 2018. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0525520376; ISBN13: 978-0525520375. “This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book — a revelatory, controlled chaos. Tommy Orange writes the way a storm makes landfall.” —Omar El Akkad, author of...
First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The story is a precursor to the "disguised superhero" tales such as Zorro and Batman.
Planet eBook, 2008 - 343 p. The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The story is a precursor to the "disguised superhero" tales such as Zorro, Superman and Batman. The play was produced and adapted by Julia Neilson and Fred Terry. It first opened on 15...
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917. — 305 p. is considered by some to be one of the great Russian storytellers, metaphorically standing beside by the likes of Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy. While these famed authors detailed the lives of Russian nobility, Ostrovsky tackled the stories of the commoners, the homespun merchants, and the Russian masses....
Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as picture brides nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by...
London. Faber and Faber. 1971 (1947). - 324 c. If you had a chance to live your life again, what would you do with it? P.D. Ouspensky’s only novel, set in Moscow, on a country estate, and in Paris, tells what happened to Ivan Osokin when he was sent back twelve years to his stormy schooldays, early manhood, and early loves. The story realizes ‘eternal recurrence’, a theory of...
London. Faber and Faber. 1971 (1947). - 204 c. Title of the Russian original: "The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin." 1915. The only science fiction novel by the mystic philosopher Pyotr Demyanovich Uspensky (1878-1947). If you had a chance to live your life again, what would you do with it? P.D. Ouspensky’s only novel, set in Moscow, on a country estate, and in Paris, tells what...
Delphi Classics. 2012. — 2790 p. Publius Ovidius Naso ( 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last...
He made promises to give support and respect. He chose a group of men to be brothers, and created bonds as strong as blood ties. What happens when the oaths he swore as a teenager are resurrected a decade later? Lee Sutton is working his way through his Ph.D. at a new college, his old life left behind years ago. He's become independent, solitary and driven toward impending...
Detective Shane Mullin is used to domestic investigations. So when Janet Brint hires him to tail her husband, City Councilor Daniel, he doesn't think much of it. Everyone has something to hide, and Janet thinks Daniel's problem is drugs. It's not drug abuse that has Daniel hiding out, though. As Shane follows Daniel about, he realizes the politician is having lots of sex. Gay...
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed new work by "one of Israel's most gifted and prolific authors" (Helen Epstein, The Forward) is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the...
Viking Adult 2013 — 558 p. — ISBN13: 9780670026630 Ruth Ozeki's third novel, shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2013. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A...
Viking, 2013. “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s...
London, Penguin Books, 2004. — 146. Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in her parents' farm in Idaho since she ran away when she was fifteen. Now, twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter - and now a struggling single mother of three - is returning home, desperate to win back the love of her ailing father and to confront her best friend and her conflicted past. Still spirited...
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and as a young man went to work as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. Jimmie Dale was a...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 400 c. - ISBN10: 1250056187; ISBN13: 978-1250056184. When Byrd Whalen returns to her family’s ancestral home to uncover secrets threatening to destroy a legacy she holds dear, she gets more than she bargained for. Over the course of one harrowing weekend, the dark haunted histories of the Amore women reveal themselves, leading Byrd to question...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 400 c. - ISBN10: 1250056187; ISBN13: 978-1250056184. When Byrd Whalen returns to her family’s ancestral home to uncover secrets threatening to destroy a legacy she holds dear, she gets more than she bargained for. Over the course of one harrowing weekend, the dark haunted histories of the Amore women reveal themselves, leading Byrd to question...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 400 c. - ISBN10: 1250056187; ISBN13: 978-1250056184. When Byrd Whalen returns to her family’s ancestral home to uncover secrets threatening to destroy a legacy she holds dear, she gets more than she bargained for. Over the course of one harrowing weekend, the dark haunted histories of the Amore women reveal themselves, leading Byrd to question...
"My Name Is Red" is a Turkish novel by Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk. A wonderful novel, dreamy, passionate and august, exotic in the most original and exciting way. It is at once a fantasy and a philosophical puzzle, a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex, and power.
The main characters in the novel are miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire, one of whom is murdered in the first chapter. From this point, Pamuk — in a postmodern style reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges — plays with the reader and with literary conventions. The novel incorporates metafiction in such ways as making frequent reference to the reader and to the narrators' awareness...
Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980. In a crumbling mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, the old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, and idealistic young doctor, first...
Kemal has been engaged to a pretty girl named Sibel for two months when he meets a shop girl, Füsun, while buying a handbag for his fiancee. What follows in the next month and a half is an intense and secretive physical and emotional relationship between them. Kemal's happiest moment of life comes while making love the day Füsun confesses her deep love for him. Though it is...
Book for learning English (Intermediate). Three Is a Lucky Number Margery Allingham. Full Circle Sue Grafton. How's Your Mother? Simon Brett. At the Old Swimming Hole Sara Paretsky. Slowly, Slowly in the Wind Patricia Highsmith. Woodrow Wilson s Tie Patricia Highsmith. The Absence of Emily Jack Ritchie. The Inside Story Colin Dexter.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 199 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9893607-0-8 What does it take to rise from life’s depths, swim against the current, and breathe? Weighted down by the loss of her parents, Blythe McGuire struggles to keep her head above water as she trudges through her last year at Matthews College. Then a chance meeting sends Blythe crashing into...
Such a Pretty Little Picture - Too Bad - Mr. Durant - A Certain Lady - The Wonderful Old Gentleman - Dialogue at Three in the Morning - The Last Tea - Oh! He’s Charming! - Travelogue - Little Curtis - The Sexes - Arrangement in Black and White - A Telephone Call - A Terrible Day Tomorrow - Just a Little One - The Mantle of Whistler - The Garter - New York to Detroit - Big...
Such a Pretty Little Picture - Too Bad - Mr. Durant - A Certain Lady - The Wonderful Old Gentleman - Dialogue at Three in the Morning - The Last Tea - Oh! He’s Charming! - Travelogue - Little Curtis - The Sexes - Arrangement in Black and White - A Telephone Call - A Terrible Day Tomorrow - Just a Little One - The Mantle of Whistler - The Garter - New York to Detroit - Big...
Such a Pretty Little Picture - Too Bad - Mr. Durant - A Certain Lady - The Wonderful Old Gentleman - Dialogue at Three in the Morning - The Last Tea - Oh! He’s Charming! - Travelogue - Little Curtis - The Sexes - Arrangement in Black and White - A Telephone Call - A Terrible Day Tomorrow - Just a Little One - The Mantle of Whistler - The Garter - New York to Detroit - Big...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2008.—136 p.—ISBN: 0-226-64792-7 Elise Partridge was born in Philadelphia and educated at Harvard and Cambridge, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and at Boston University and the University of British Columbia. Her poems have appeared in American, Canadian, and Irish journals, including Poetry, the New Yorker, the New Republic, the...
Berkeley: Double Dance Press, 1980. — 139 p. Pasolini Pier Paolo. Divine mimesis. Poetry in the Shape of a Rose (In English) The Divine Mimesis: I publish these pages today as a "document", but also to spite my "enemies": in fact, offering them another reason to despise me, I offer them another reason to go to Hell. Faded iconography: these pages want to have the logic, better...
2005. "Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront...
RL: Ages 8 and up; Mass Market Paperback: 208 pp; HarperTeen (December 28, 2004); ISBN10: 0060734019 Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class. He's been practicing all summer and he's sure he's going to win. But when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any of the girls in...
Hardcover, 329 p. Published December 7th 2010 by Ace Hardcover (first published October 25th 2010). ISBN. 0441019579 (ISBN13: 9780441019571). edition language. English. literary awards. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2011). Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain-which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it...
Novell. "Plausible, taut, this survival story is a spellbinding account." —Kirkus (starred review) Thoughts of his parents' divorce fill Brian Robeson's head as he flies in a single-engine plane to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness. When the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies, Brian must somehow land the plane by himself and then, left with only the clothes...
Storybook Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. - c. Translated from the Russian by Susanna Rosenberg. Russian original title: Golden Rose Scanned 600dpi PDF Precious Dust Inscription on A Rock Artificial Flowers My First Short Story Lightning Characters Revolt The Story of A Novel The Heart Remembers Treasury of Russian Words Vocabulary Notes Incident At Alshwang Stores...
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long-suffering husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that...
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long-suffering husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that...
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long-suffering husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that...
Transl. by Sidney Shapiro. — [Peking]: [The Theatre], 1953. — 22 p. — (Supplement to «China reconstructs» No. 6, 1953) A play in one act, written collectively by the Peking people's art theatre.
Transl. by Sidney Shapiro. — [Peking]: [The Theatre], 1953. — 22 p. — (Supplement to «China reconstructs» No. 6, 1953) A play in one act, written collectively by the Peking people's art theatre.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0547491166; ISBN13: 978-0547491165. Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have built their lives around the same man find themselves moving toward an inevitable reckoning. Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0547491166; ISBN13: 978-0547491165. Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have built their lives around the same man find themselves moving toward an inevitable reckoning. Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their...
London: Libraries Unlimited, 2005.—272 p.—ISBN: 1-59158-222-9 In using the term “drawing stories”, I am referring to those stories in which the teller (or an assistant) actually draws a figure or figures while narrating the story. I do not refer to stories in which the figures or pictures are drawn in advance, and the teller then points to them while narrating. We do not know...
New York: Schocken Books, 1975. — 159 p. Introduction by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg 7 Berl the Tailor 20 The Magician 25 Thou Shalt Not Covet 29 The Hermit and the Bear 34 If Not Higher 38 Three Gifts 41 The Shabbes-Goy 49 A Pinch of Snuff 58 Motl Prince 65 Bontsha the Silent 70 Joy Beyond Measure 78 Between Two Peaks 83 Ne'ilah in Gehenna 96 Devotion Without End 103 A...
New York: Schocken Books, 1975. — 159 p. Introduction by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg 7 Berl the Tailor 20 The Magician 25 Thou Shalt Not Covet 29 The Hermit and the Bear 34 If Not Higher 38 Three Gifts 41 The Shabbes-Goy 49 A Pinch of Snuff 58 Motl Prince 65 Bontsha the Silent 70 Joy Beyond Measure 78 Between Two Peaks 83 Ne'ilah in Gehenna 96 Devotion Without End 103 A...
Moscow: Glas, 1992. — 238 p. — (New Russian Writing, Volume 3). — ASIN B000H7OAY8. The women's movement and women's literature are relatively new phenomena in Russian cultural life. Before perestroika there was only one organization for women, and that was the government-controlled Soviet Women's Committee. In the last few years sixty-two have been registered, six newspapers...
AuthorHouse, 2011. — ISBN10: 1456747592; ISBN13: 978-1456747596. Roger and Carolyn Perron purchased the home of their dreams and eventual nightmares in December of 1970. The Arnold Estate, located just beyond the village of Harrisville, Rhode Island seemed the idyllic setting in which to raise a family. The couple unwittingly moved their five young daughters into the ancient...
AuthorHouse, 2013. — ASIN B0170L1K0K. Roger and Carolyn Perron purchased the home of their dreams and eventual nightmares in December of 1970. The Arnold Estate, located just beyond the village of Harrisville, Rhode Island seemed the idyllic setting in which to raise a family. The couple unwittingly moved their five young daughters into the ancient and mysterious farmhouse....
Custom House, 2018, 222 p., ISBN: 978-0-06-285641-8. For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters-and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent , it is heading in our direction. It has been years since Helen Franklin left...
Penguin Books, 2007. — ISBN: 978-0143112129. "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" is a mesmerizing debut. As teenager Blue van Meer tells her story, we are hurled into a dizzying world of murder and butterflies, womanizing and wandering, American McCulture, The Western Canon, political radicalism and juvenile crushisms. Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of...
Lisbon Portugal: Monteiro,.1918.—32 p. Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira Pessôa ( June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935), was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and...
UK: Shearsman Books Ltd,.2009.—196 p.—ISBN: 978-1-905700-25-7 Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira Pessôa ( June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935), was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He...
Unadapted book in English, 217 p. another of the journals of Mrs. Amelia Peabody Emerson, Egyptologist, adventurer, wife, and mother. Editing her prose is no easy task, for the original text contains some misinformation, a great deal of repetition, and certain omissions. In order to repair the latter fault, the Editor has, as before, inserted sections from Manuscript H, begun...
Knopf, 2016. — 404 p. — ISBN10: 0307959627. — ISBN13: 978-0307959621. From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers.. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic...
Hardcover: 277 p. Publisher: Jonathan Cape; First American Edition edition (2 Aug 2007) Language English ISBN10: 0224081314 ISBN13: 978-0224081313 Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 2.8 x 22.4 cm Gods Behaving Badly is a novel by the British author Marie Phillips. It was first published by Johnathan Cape in 2007. Set in London, it tells the tale of the twelve gods of Mount Olympus...
The author of City of Refuge returns with a startling novel of race, violence, and identity. The year is 1855. Blackface minstrelsy is the most popular form of entertainment in a nation about to be torn apart by the battle over slavery. Henry Sims, a fugitive slave and a brilliant musician, has escaped to Philadelphia, where he lives by his wits and earns money performing on...
Ubu Classics,.2004.—41 p. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso ( 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.
Published: 1987. One of the top 100 novels in the BBC's Big Read. The Shell Seekers is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The Shell Seekers is filled with real people-mothers and daughters, husband and lovers-inspired with real values. The Shell Seekers centers on Penelope Keeling-a woman...
The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-winning author Doris Pilkington traces the captivating...
Orion Publishing Co, 2016. - 248 c. - ISBN10: 057509723X; ISBN13: 978-0575097230. I was dead for 13 minutes. I don’t remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this – it wasn’t an accident and I wasn’t suicidal. They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you’re a teenage girl, it’s hard to tell them apart. My friends love me, I’m...
Orion Publishing Co, 2016. - 248 c. - ISBN10: 057509723X; ISBN13: 978-0575097230. I was dead for 13 minutes. I don’t remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this – it wasn’t an accident and I wasn’t suicidal. They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you’re a teenage girl, it’s hard to tell them apart. My friends love me, I’m...
Orion Publishing Co, 2016. - 248 c. - ISBN10: 057509723X; ISBN13: 978-0575097230. I was dead for 13 minutes. I don’t remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this – it wasn’t an accident and I wasn’t suicidal. They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you’re a teenage girl, it’s hard to tell them apart. My friends love me, I’m...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 215 p. Pindar lived in the Boeotian city of Thebes, about 40 miles northwest of Athens. Born in 518 BC (he died some time after 446) and a contemporary of the tragedian Aeschylus, he lived during the Persian Wars and subsequent growth of the Athenian empire, and was ranked in antiquity as Greece’s greatest lyric poet. What we know about him is...
Gardners Books, 1996. — 240 p. The second volume of Harold Pinter's collected work includes The Caretaker. The Caretaker It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success. The obsessive caretaker, Davies, is a classic comic creation, and his uneasy relationship with the enigmatic Aston and Mick a landmark in twentieth-century drama. The Collection This...
The New World Order was first performed on 19 July 1991 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London. Des and Lionel stand and discuss what they are going do with the prisoner who sits blindfolded on a chair before them. They taunt the'silent victim with speculatory chit-chat that intimates the torture that is to follow. Lionel breaks down in tears because he loves his job so...
One of the most important & influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerfully moving & penetrating examination of how we live, a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation, an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's...
Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books - but we are real. Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one,...
Continuation of the book "I am the fourth". Number 4 is no longer alone. Escaping Paradise with little more than their lives John, Six, and Sam are now on the run. Hunted as fugitive terrorists by the FBI…and hunted as an ancient enemy by the Mogadorians death could be around any corner. With John and Six fighting together the charm that keeps all but the next number safe has...
The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawfield's beloved, dying son is not their child. Now they must face Peter's death and the shock of having a son they have never met. Grieving, yet compelled, they begin a search that will tear two families apart.
From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a great New York City hospital, this is a powerful epic of three generations of doctors in one magnificent family. The Farrells--dedicated, brilliant.. and driven to the edge of destruction by a love no human force could suppress.
From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a great New York City hospital, this is a powerful epic of three generations of doctors in one magnificent family. The Farrells--dedicated, brilliant.. and driven to the edge of destruction by a love no human force could suppress
Plath Sylvia Collected poems. - Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. - New York, 1981. - p. 351. The complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath's poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to set...
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under-maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experiece as going to the movies....
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning...
William Heinemann Ltd. 1960. — 70 p. Prominent journalist, poet and literary critic for The Observer newspaper, Al Alvarez, called the posthumous re-release of the book, after the success of Ariel, a "major literary event" and wrote of Plath's work: "She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, supersensitivity and the act of being a poetess. She simply writes...
Delphi Classics. 2014. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger , was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.
New York: State University of New York Press,.2009.—223 p.—ISBN: 978-0-7914-9391-5 The Sattasaê, or The Seven Hundred, is an anthology of short poems about love and marriage in the villages of the Indian countryside. The selection is attributed to the Satavahana king Hala, who reigned briefly in the first century AD in what is now the state of Maharashtra. The poems are indeed...
308 pp; Macmillan (May 17, 1917) 1918 1916. Poole worked as a journalist campaigning for social reforms including an end to child labor. On the outbreak of the First World War he worked as a war correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post. His Family won the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918. His Family, a portrait of a New York family, begins: He was thinking of the...
Delphi Classics, 2013. Collection of works of an outstanding poet of the 18th century. The Poetry Collections. Early Poems. Pastorals. Windsor Forest. An Essay On Criticism. Poems, 1708–17. The Rape Of The Lock. Eloisa To Abelard. Poems: 1718–27. The Curll Miscellanies. Poems Suggested By Gulliver. Later Poems. Epigrams And Epitaphs. An Essay On Man. Moral Essays. Satires. The...
Delphi Classics, 2013. Collection of works of an outstanding poet of the 18th century. The Poetry Collections. Early Poems. Pastorals. Windsor Forest. An Essay On Criticism. Poems, 1708–17. The Rape Of The Lock. Eloisa To Abelard. Poems: 1718–27. The Curll Miscellanies. Poems Suggested By Gulliver. Later Poems. Epigrams And Epitaphs. An Essay On Man. Moral Essays. Satires. The...
The title character is named Pollyanna Whittier, a young orphan who goes to live in Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern and cold spinster Aunt Polly, who does not want to take in Pollyanna, but feels it is her duty to her late sister. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers on what she calls "The Glad Game," an optimistic and positive attitude she learned from her...
352 p. Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the Academy Award winning 2010 version starring Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name...
Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0316274046; ISBN13: 978-0316274043. Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society. Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins...
Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0316274046; ISBN13: 978-0316274043. Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society. Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins...
A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle...
Original book "On Stranger Tides" by Tim Powers. Abstract: 1718: Puppeteer John Chandagnac has set sail for Jamaica to recover his stolen inheritance, when his ship is seized by pirates. Offered the choice to join the crew, or be killed where he stands, he decides that a pirate's life is better than none at all. Now known as Jack Shandy, this apprentice buccaneer soon learns to...
Annette Prehn Kjeld Fredens Play Your Brain. Adopt a Musical Mindset and Change Your Life and Career. First published in 2011 by Marshall Cavendish Business. 241 P. Introduction Setting the tone. Thoughts Tuning your mind for success. Values Appreciating the core of interplay. Body Mastering your physical instrument. Perception Directing your interpretations. Vision Rehearsing...
A tale of love, heroism and resistance set against the stunning backdrop of 1930s Florence, In Love and War weaves fact and fiction to create a sweeping portrait of a city under siege. The novel is told through the eyes, letters and journals of Esmond Lowndes, who comes to Italy a lonely young man in the shadow of his politician father. On the cobbles of Florence’s many-storied...
A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark world. The Course, a religious movement led by a charismatic priest, seem to offer everything they have been looking for: a community of bright, thoughtful, beautiful people. But as they are drawn deeper into the Course, money, sex and God collide, threatening to rip them apart.
Grand Central Publishing, 2018. — 242 p. — (Agent Pendergast series). — ISBN10: 1455536946, 13 978-1455536948. This book is in the New York Times Best Seller list: Fiction - February, 2018 From Book... When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure....
Writing as Harry Brandt, Richard Price has adopts a transparent pseudonym for this heart-stopping thriller about a rogue NYPD detective dragged back into the past by a murder in the present. 'Every cop has a personal ‘White’: a criminal who got away with murder — or worse — and was able to slip back into life, leaving the victim’s family still seeking justice, the cop plagued...
A novel based on the major motion picture. Adapted by James Ponti Based on the screenplay written by Doug Miro & Carlo Bernard From a screenstory by Jordan Mechner and Boaz Yakin Executive producers Mike Stenson, Chad Oman, John August, Jordan Mechner, Patrick McCormick, Eric McLeod Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Directed by Mike Newell Disney Press, New York, 2010 ISBN:...
Oxford University Press, 2010. – 547 p. V. S. Pritchett has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years. Masters such as, Sir Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, James Joyce, and V. S....
Monique Proulx’s work might best be described as curiously flawed fiction filled with prose of inflated exuberance. Wildlives, her new novel, is no exception. With each new chapter we are gradually introduced to a densely packed landscape of contradictions (variously described either as an abyss or a paradise), as well as a wide array of its inhabitants, whose foreboding...
First published in French 1913. — 1,280 p. For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say ‘I’m going to sleep.’ And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to...
1919. 783 p. My mother, when it was a question of our having M. de Norpois to dinner for the first time, having expressed her regret that Professor Cottard was away from home, and that she herself had quite ceased to see anything of Swann, since either of these might have helped to entertain the old Ambassador, my father replied that so eminent a guest, so distinguished a man...
2008. — ASIN B00213KFZE. It is a world where men wake up with laser beams for eyes and wives play sadistic practical jokes. It is a world where body parts randomly fall off and fathers turn into antelopes. In this world, vampires and spontaneous combustions are a constant threat. THE OVERWHELMING URGE is a collection of bizarro flash fiction, containing ridiculous characters...
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1915. — 402 p. Przybyshevsky Stanislav. Homo sapiens (In English) Homo Sapiens is a trilogy. The novels were originally published in German as Über Bord (1896, "Overboard"), Unterwegs (1895, "By the Way") and Im Malstrom (1895, "In the Maelstrom"). It deals with the question of deviance and sexuality, and is counted among Przybyszewski's most important...
Seattle, Lake Union Publishing, 2016. — 466 p. — ISBN: 1522639292 (ISBN13: 9781522639299). When Althea Leary abandons her nine-year-old son, Jasper, he’s left on his uncle’s farm with nothing but a change of clothes and a Bible. It’s 1952, and Jasper isn’t allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. He’s lucky to even have a home and must keep his mouth shut and his ears open to...
Seattle, Thomas & Mercer, 2015. — 470 p. — ISBN: 1477820876 (ISBN13: 9781477820872). It’s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world. Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland’s largest bank in the middle...
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched and sumptuous – both literally and metaphorically." I couldn't stop reading this wonderful book and...
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched and sumptuous – both literally and metaphorically." I couldn't stop reading this wonderful book and...
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched and sumptuous – both literally and metaphorically." I couldn't stop reading this wonderful book and...
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched and sumptuous – both literally and metaphorically." I couldn't stop reading this wonderful book and...
Picador, 2015. - 272 p. - ISBN10: 125006662X A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 335 c. Translated by Nabokov Vladimir. The novel in verse Eugene Onegin, by Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), was begun in 1823 and completed in 1831. It came out in parts between February, 1825, and January, 1832; this accumulation of eight chapters (the first two of which are represented by two editions of their own) is considered to form a...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 547 c. Translated by Nabokov Vladimir. The novel in verse Eugene Onegin, by Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), was begun in 1823 and completed in 1831. It came out in parts between February, 1825, and January, 1832; this accumulation of eight chapters (the first two of which are represented by two editions of their own) is considered to form a...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 540 c. Translated by Nabokov Vladimir. The novel in verse Eugene Onegin, by Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), was begun in 1823 and completed in 1831. It came out in parts between February, 1825, and January, 1832; this accumulation of eight chapters (the first two of which are represented by two editions of their own) is considered to form a...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 435 c. Translated by Nabokov Vladimir. The novel in verse Eugene Onegin, by Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), was begun in 1823 and completed in 1831. It came out in parts between February, 1825, and January, 1832; this accumulation of eight chapters (the first two of which are represented by two editions of their own) is considered to form a...
Translated by Vladimir Nabokov. — New York: New Directions, 1944. — 38 p. A collection of classic short poems by Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev, translated by Vladimir Nabokov. Pushkin: Exegi Monumentum. The Upas Tree. A scene from The Covetous Knight. A Feast During the Plague. Mozart and Salieri. Lermontov: Farewell. My Native Land. The Tripple Dream. Tyutchev: Nightfall....
Fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. — 352 p. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. — 352 p. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
1883. 395 p. The shaft flew straight; the archer fell forward with a cry, and lay on his face upon the ground, his arrows rattling about him from out of his quiver, the gray goose shaft wet with his; heart’s blood. Then, before the others could gather their wits about them, Robin Hood was gone into the depths of the Greenwood. Some started after him, but not with much heart,...
New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999. — 202 p. — ISBN: 0-609-80536-3. In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter...
Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman's wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it – and themselves – afloat. Fifty years and many changes have ensued since the paper was founded by an enigmatic millionaire, and now, amid the...
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers begins in a dusty bookshop. What follows is an abduction, heated political debate, glimpses into strangers’ homes, and travel around the globe. It’s a novel of curious personalities, mystery, and lots of books: volumes that the characters collect, covet, steal. Tooly Zylberberg, owner of a bookshop in the Welsh countryside, spends most of her...
Delphi Classic. 2013. — 2856 p. Ann Radcliffe (née Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel. Her style is Romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes and long travel scenes, yet the Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural. It was her technique "the explained supernatural", the final revelation of...
Free-spirited psychologist Dr. Olivia Bayer suspects she’ll need a miracle to help the four wildly different women in her anger management class. Grace, a single working mother, can barely find a moment’s rest. Jane, a high-profile real estate agent, is struggling in the recession. Kit, in her fifties, has had it with her taunting older brothers. And Leah, a young mother of...
In the sequel to the acclaimed The Girl of Fire and Thorns, a seventeen-year-old princess turned war queen faces sorcery, adventure, untold power, and romance as she fulfills her epic destiny. Elisa is the hero of her country. She led her people to victory against a terrifying enemy, and now she is their queen. But she is only seventeen years old. Her rivals may have simply...
Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can't see how she ever will. Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king — a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a...
Atria, 2016. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1476749078; ISBN13: 978-1476749075. In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae — “a singular voice with the verve and vivacity of uncorked champagne” (Kirkus Reviews)—waxes humorously on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits...
2012. Scholastic. 64 p. 127 Hours is the extraordinary true story of Aron Ralston who, after a canyoneering accident in Utah, was forced to amputate his own arm to survive. Level 3 (Intermediate): For students with 3+ years of English – CEF Stage B1. 1500 headwords (story: up to 10,000 words)
The story, of English origin, has little tradition of being read in Belgium, but is becoming more known because of the tourists it attracts to Antwerp. There is a small statue of Nello and Patrasche at the Kapellestraat in the Antwerp suburb of Hoboken, and a commemorative plaque in front of the Antwerp Cathedral donated by Toyota. The story is widely read in Japan, and has...
2nd Ed. — Broadview Press, 2009. — 608 p. — ISBN10: 1551119773, 13 978-1551119779. Concert of Voices combines poetry, fiction, drama, and essays in an anthology of world literature in English. This second edition preserves the first edition's breadth and its balance of established and less widely known authors, while including a large selection of exciting new material....
Graywolfe Press, 2014. — 169 p. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the...
Transl. by Frances Padorr Brent and Carol J. Avins. — Bilingual ed. — Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1987. — 121 p. — ISBN10: 0810107481; ISBN13: 978-0810107489 Beyond the Limit is a cycle of forty-seven poems written during the first portion of Irina Ratushinskaya’s term in the “strict regime” camp for women political prisoners at Barashevo in Mordovia. The poems...
513 p. ; 20 cm. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2001. 1939 A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet
Published in 2001. An electrifying psychological thriller about a mother and daughter pushed to their limits. Shelley and her mom have been menaced long enough. Excused from high school where a trio of bullies nearly killed her, and still reeling from her parents' humiliating divorce, Shelley has retreated with her mother to the quiet of Honeysuckle Cottage in the countryside....
G.P. Putnam's Sons; Reissue edition, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 052554190X; ISBN13: 978-0525541905.A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising...
G.P. Putnam's Sons; Reissue edition, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 052554190X; ISBN13: 978-0525541905.A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising...
London: Alexander Gardner,1894. — XXI + 264 p. Combining a devout love for his homeland and a fierce dedication to the Celtic lilt and dialect, Robert Reid (Rob Wanlock) hypnotizes audiences with his vivid descriptions of the heathers and moors of Scotland in his seminal work, «Poems, Songs, and Sonnets». Compared to his contemporaries, Andrew Lang and Austin Dobson, Reid...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 425 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5011-4443-1. "A sweet, funny, and moving tribute to nerds and misfits everywhere." —Seth Grahame-Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Until May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies,...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 425 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5011-4443-1. "A sweet, funny, and moving tribute to nerds and misfits everywhere." —Seth Grahame-Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Until May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies,...
Amazon. - 2015. - ASIN B00ROMI6M6. - 135 p. The new town and new school has more to offer Clara then just a high school diploma as it comes to light that a murder four years ago in a bathroom stall has gone unsolved. Can Clara solve a murder others have failed to solve? Can she stop a killer before he tries again?
Amazon. - 2015. - ASIN B00ROMI6M6. - 135 p. The new town and new school has more to offer Clara then just a high school diploma as it comes to light that a murder four years ago in a bathroom stall has gone unsolved. Can Clara solve a murder others have failed to solve? Can she stop a killer before he tries again?
Reading level: Ages 13 and up Paperback: 304 p. Publisher: HarperTeen (April 24, 2007) Language: English ISBN10: 0060853867 ISBN13: 978-0060853860 On the rack of romance. And also in the oven of luuurve. Woe is Georgia: Dave the Laugh has declared his love for her (at least she thinks he was talking about her), and she has finally given Masimo an ultimatum to be her one and...
Did you ever wonder what happens deep within a Psychiatric Hospital — where average people who go violently insane are suddenly swept away? Where their fate is decided by a valiant corps of young doctors and nurses — and by other staff who may be worse off than the patients. No doctor has ever before dared to tell the amazing and horrifying - yet sometimes tender and...
The Pemberly Variations by Abigail Reynolds is a series of novels exploring the roads not taken by Jane Austen in Pride & Prejudice. Be that as it may, Elizabeth saw Darcy go with regret; and in this early example of what Lydia’s infamy must produce, found additional anguish as she reflected on that wretched business. The tragedy of that fateful moment at the Lambton Inn is one...
A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist. "Romance fans will be carried along by the smallest beat between Cassie and Calder." - Booklist. Marine biologist Cassie Boulton has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab on Cape Cod. Proud, aloof Calder Westing III is the scion of a famous political family, while Cassie’s success is hard-won in spite of a...
Published in 1999 by HarperCollins (first published 1971); 541 p. ISBN: 0006513905. Description In the beginning was Chance, and Chance was with God and Chance was God . There was a man sent by Chance, whose name was Luke . And Chance was made flesh . and he dwelt among us, full of chaos, and falsehood and whim. - from The Book of the DieSo begins this 1970s classic of sex,...
W.W.Norton, 1996. — 176 p. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the...
Tall, blond, and willowy, this twenty-two-year-old seems to have everything going for her — she’s rich and gorgeous, a talented singer, and has just returned to her Park Avenue penthouse after a year studying in Paris. But since her mother’s tragic death years ago, her father, an extremely successful financier, has been her only family — and if she’s being honest, her only true...
Copyright 2007 by Plough Publishing House. Pages -81. PDF. Peter Riedemann (1506-1556) wrote this confession as a 23-year-old while imprisoned in Austria on account of his faith. At the time, the Anabaptists were being drowned, beheaded, and burned at the stake as heretics by the thousand for their commitment to baptism of believers, economic sharing, nonviolence, and the...
Series: In Death (Book 40). Hardcover: 416 p. Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition first Printing edition (February 10, 2015). Language: English. ISBN10: 0399170871. ISBN13: 978-0399170874. Eve Dallas has solved a lot of high-profile murders for the NYPSD and gotten a lot of media. She — and her billionaire husband — are getting accustomed to being objects of attention,...
Leisure Books, 1989. — ISBN10: 0843928816 ISBN13: 978-0843928815. Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This fifth book in the Blade series was published in 1989. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the Endworld series, and David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years...
Published: Pocket Books, 1961. The Carpetbaggers. Jonas Cord coveted his father's fame, fortune, even his young, beautiful wife. When his father died, Jonas swore to possess them all. But Rina Marlow was the celebrated screen goddess no man could master. Her sizzling sensuality might inflame and enthrall millions, but her personal boudoir was no Hollywood fantasy. She consumed...
A novel. — New York: Bantam Books, 2003. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0-553-89792-0. Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and...
Scribe Publications. — 1258 p. Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Pentridge Prison flees to India. The novel is commended by many for its vivid portrayal of tumultuous life in Bombay.
Griffin, 1997. Shantaram is a novel influenced by real events in the life of the author, Australian Gregory David Roberts. In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to 19-year imprisonment in Australia after being convicted of a series of armed robberies of building society branches, credit unions, and shops. In July 1980, he escaped from Victoria’s Pentridge Prison in broad daylight,...
Scribe Publications, 2003. Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Pentridge Prison flees to India. The novel is commended by many for its vivid portrayal of tumultuous life in Bombay.
Picador Australia, 2015. The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything. Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of...
Paperback, 252 p. Published 2002 by Penguin (first published 1970). Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has...
Oxford, New York, UK, USA: Oxford University Press, 2016. — 90 p. — ISBN: 9780199689255. In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man.' In this Very Short...
IN all English history, be it true or be it legendary, no hero stands out in bolder, clearer relief than the outlaw Robin Hood. Copyright, 1903. By Little, Brown, and Company
An international sensation — with more than 1 million copies sold in Germany, and rights snapped up in 26 countries — Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world. Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious...
An international sensation — with more than 1 million copies sold in Germany, and rights snapped up in 26 countries — Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world. Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious...
An international sensation — with more than 1 million copies sold in Germany, and rights snapped up in 26 countries — Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world. Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious...
An international sensation — with more than 1 million copies sold in Germany, and rights snapped up in 26 countries — Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world. Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious...
The Man Booker Prize The 1993 Booker Prize-winner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.
"Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels." — Gabriel García Marquez "Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances. . an almost voluptuous vulnerability." — Natasha Wimmer, The Nation "It is a total mystery to me why [Rodoreda] isn't widely worshipped; along with Willa Cather, she's on...
Independently published, 2019. — 145 p. — ISBN10: 1097421821; ISBN13: 978-1097421824. This full-color selection of Nicola Rogers’ works sparkles with beautiful and delicate magic. It is a kaleidoscope of everyday and philosophical aspects of life, which provides a glimpse into a hidden world of a rare sensitivity and charm, enhanced by the vibrant paintings of the upcoming...
11,002 Things to Be Miserable About is a list of all the reasons NOT to wake up in the morning. Ironically enough, when you put all of them under one cover, it’s actually very funny. This decidedly absurd inventory of misery is perfect for sardonic and disaffected youth, for people seeking gifts for Traumatic Event Birthdays (like 21, 25, 30, 40, and, well, anything after 40),...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024 - 464 p. It is an exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family — but especially love — from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties — successful, competent, and u. But in the wake of their father’s death,...
Tempus Pub Ltd, 2001 Wales is a Celtic country and the Celts have always treasured oral learning and recitation. Indeed they have a passion for committing facts to memory rather than relying on the written word. So it is no surprise, as we can see from Anne Ross' study, that Welsh folklore and story-telling is so rich and varied. In addition to examining the part played by the...
Cousin's best known hymn, "The Sands of Time are Sinking", is known and sung over the English-speaking world. It is also known as "Immanuel's Land", the phrase that is repeated at the end of each stanza. This poem was inspired by Samuel Rutherford's last words. It was first published in 1860s, with extracts from Rutherford's works, under the title: Last words of Reverend Samuel...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. — ISBN: 978–0–19–280715–1. Oxford World’s Classics Series. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Simon Humphries. This edition contains Rossetti's strongest and most distinctive work: poetry (including 'Goblin Market', 'The Prince's Progress', and the sonnet sequence 'Monna Innominata'), stories (including the complete text of Maude),...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. — 220 p., ISBN: 978-1463754372. With few muscles to flex, I have had a wealth of time to flex my mind. When I was courting Mona, trying to convince her that I would be a good spouse despite my disability, fate conspired with me: it kept giving her signs that I was the right man. Like magic, the good omens accumulated, prompting...
Eric Muller has been trying to hack the girlfriend problem for half his life. As a teenage geek, he discovered his gift for programming computers-but his attempts to understand women only confirm that he's better at writing code than connecting with human beings. Brilliant, neurotic, and lonely, Eric spends high school in the solitary glow of a screen. By his early twenties,...
New Directions, 2015. — 278 p. The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: on hotels; pains and pleasures; personalities; and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the First World War, and end in Paris near the outbreak of the Second World War. Roth, the great journalist...
Peter Owen Publishers, 2011.— 176 p. Long out of print in English, this dizzying hybrid of novel, essay, and polemic has less to do with religion than with what Roth sees as the disintegrating moral fabric of the modern world Written while Roth was in exile from Germany and his native Austria following the rise of Nazism, this work was composed in cafés across free Europe after...
Norton, 2000. — 169 p. Every few decades a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Wiesel's Night or Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. But in 1927, years before these works were written, Joseph Roth (1894-1939) composed The Wandering Jews. In these stunning dispatches written when Roth was a correspondent in Berlin during the whirlwind period of Weimar...
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, ELEANOR AND PARK is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love – and just how hard it pulled you under. Edition ISBN: 1-250-01257-0 Year: 2013 Publisher: St. Martin's Press
London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2017. — 753 p. — ISBN: 9780241980774. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent — from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a...
Series: The Chase Brides, Book 6. Style: Humorous historical romance. Former Title: The Baron’s Heiress Bride. Length: 95,000 words (about 380 standard pages). Bonus Material: Author’s Note, preview of next book, link to giveaway. PG-rated Content: Kisses only, no love scenes! Series: The Chase Brides, Book 6. Style: Humorous historical romance. Former Title: The Baron’s...
Return to the gothic universe of the Cemetery of the Forgotten Books and the winding streets of Barcelona’s old quarter. In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man – David Martin – makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights...
Freeditorial. — 94 p. Gabriel García Márquez has said that he felt blocked as a novelist after writing his first four books and that it was only his life-changing discovery of Pedro Páramo in 1961 that opened his way to the composition of his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Moreover, García Márquez claimed that he "could recite the whole book, forwards and backward....
Frances Lincoln, 2000. — 109 p. — ISBN: 0-7112-1509-X. New interpretations by Raficq Abdullah. Sublime verses from a great world mystic and modern bestseller – enriched for the first time ever by the art of his time and culture We are drunk on love, blatant with hope and adoration of the beloved… In such passionate lines complemented by exquisite Persian miniatures, Words of...
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2015. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 144947425X; ISBN13: 978-1449474256. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and...
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2015. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 144947425X; ISBN13: 978-1449474256. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2018. — 345 p. — ASIN B06WLJ3QXN, ISBN 1629144878, 1510729003. I’m a gust on the sea, I’m a footfall of a wave, I’m a roar of the sea … I’m a hawk on a cliff, I’m a tear of sunlight, I’m a cry of love, I’m a boar in rage … I’m the god who kindles fire in your head Who makes smooth the mountain’s stones? Who can count the ages of the moon? Who finds the...
London: Free Compilation, 2014. This is a compilation of Russian short stories of the end of Xix and beginning of the Xx centuries.. The stories are borrowed mainly from various contemporary British short stories compilations and in many cases translators are anonymous for some reason. (The only exception is Odoyevsky stories which are borrowed from Raduga Publishers and...
Knopf, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1101947748; ISBN13: 978-1101947746. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different...
Knopf, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1101947748; ISBN13: 978-1101947746. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different...
495 p.; Publisher: Vintage; ISBN: 0307275132; Richard Russo — from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man — has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has...
Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with dramas set in motion by loneliness and displacement and revealing stories of passion and desire where less astute observers might fail to detect the humanity that roils beneath the surface. Sometimes these dramas are found in ordinary, mundane...
London, Melbourne: Hutchinson, 1988. - 261 p. Translation from Russian: Harold Shukman. Children of the Arbat in part examines a group of young people who having grown up together, have lives that as the story unfolds, dramatically diverge. It also examines the machinations of Stalin, to overthrow the Pro-Zinoviev block in Leningrad via a longline of small and seemingly...
London, Melbourne: Hutchinson, 1988. - 261 p. Translation from Russian: Harold Shukman. Title of the Russian original: Children of Arbat. The scan was made from a book signed and donated by the author. The first part of the trilogy. Children of the Arbat in part examines a group of young people who having grown up together, have lives that as the story unfolds, dramatically...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1980. — 165 p. / К.: Дніпро, 1980. — 165 p. У збірці представлена громадянська, філософська та інтимна лірика Максима Рильського. This collection contains only a small part of Maxim Rylsky's creative heritage and is an attempt to convey the profundity of content and highly artistic form of writing which may be found in the works of one of the classic...
Ginninderra Press,.1992.—48 p. Wadih Saadeh is an Australian-Lebanese poet. He has published 12 poetry books. Wadih Sa'adah was born in the village of Shabtin, in northern Lebanon. In his own words he describes it as "a place were the people, fields, trees, rocks, birds and animals were one family. Nature was part of our being. The soil and the people were one. I grew up among...
Cambridge MA, USA: Da Capo Press, 2011. - 273 p. - ISBN: 0306819449 From the NBCC Award winning author of "My Father's Paradise": a book of true stories about ordinary people brought together by the strange romantic workings of New Yorks landscape. A Note on Method Green: Central Park Collision: the Street Navigation: Grand Central Terminal Freestanding: Liberty Enlichtening...
HarperCollins, 2011. — 396 p. — ISBN: 9781443406840. A novel on the troubled days of Argentina and a film, “El secreto en sus ojos” based on the story was made and it won an award.
London: Michael Joseph, 1939. — 128 p. In her day, Vita Sackville-West was most famous, not for her poetry or love affairs, but for a gardening column that she wrote. Based on experiences at Sissinghurst, her fabulous house in Kent, she produces a fine eulogy to the English Countryside and a traditional way of life that has now disappeared.
The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinism (Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage) is a novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade. Described as both pornographic and erotic, it was written in 1785. It tells the story of four wealthy male libertines who resolve to experience the ultimate sexual gratification in...
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1442408936; ISBN13: 978-1442408937. This Printz Honor Book is a “tender, honest exploration of identity” (Publishers Weekly) that distills lyrical truths about family and friendship. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When...
Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats — and how they scheme to conceal them — fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid,...
London: Pan Macmillan, 2017. — 99 p. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the other hand it is a thought-provoking allegory of the human condition.
London: Putnam & Company, 1929. "This little book concerns the professional activities of one Lent Putt, a specialist in the simpler forms of sanitary engineering. Written in Lem's vernacular, it takes the form of an explanation of his methods to one of his customers. Lem, we gather, is an artist in his own way, with a knowledge of human nature which enables him, in his...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014 — 184 p. — ISBN10: 1107023599; ISBN13: 978-1107023598. Translated by Diane J. Rayor. Introduction by André Lardinois. Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is...
Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers on the doctors wife, her husband, several of his patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance....
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2006.—492 p.—ISBN: 0-226-73508-7 Margherita Sarrocchi (c.1560-1617) was born to a well-off family in Naples; after her father’s death, care of her education was undertaken by Cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto, who placed her in the convent of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome. There she received a humanist education in classical languages,...
The idea for these volumes of one-act scripts came from my many years of experience as a high school English teacher of minority students and Hispanic students taking English as a second language. While teaching these students, I discovered there were few resources in drama which I felt could provide them with role-playing motivational experiences about people and events of...
Stranded in upstate New York with just seven days to go until Christmas, a lonesome boy comes up with an ingenious way to bring Christmas to the equally lonesome inhabitants of his small mountain community, all of whom were spending the winter far from home. Visiting each in turn, David befriends his neighbors and delights in hearing the Christmas stories they share with him,...
With his New Directions debut in 1938, the twenty-five-year-old Delmore Schwartz was hailed as a genius and among the most promising writers of his generation. Yet he died in relative obscurity in 1966, wracked by mental illness and substance abuse. Sadly, his literary legacy has been overshadowed by the story of his tragic life. Among poets, Schwartz was a prototype for the...
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover — then she...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 437 p. Arthur Schnitzler was born in 1862 into the Jewish professional bourgeoisie of Vienna and somewhat reluctantly followed his father, a distinguished laryngologist, into a medical career. After his father’s death in 1893, however, Schnitzler devoted himself largely to literature. Thanks to his love-tragedy Flirtations and his series of...
Summertown Publishing, 2009. Timothy and Nicholas Aldridge are identical twins but their lives could not be more different. Whilst Timothy runs the family farm in the rural South West of England, Nicholas is a high-powered but exhausted advertising executive in London. When circumstances force Timothy to take his brother's place for the day will he be able to ensure that...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 480 p. In the year 1880, James Willard Schultz left the comfort of his home in St. Louis, bound for adventure in the Far West. Fired by the writings of Lewis and Clark’s "Journal", "The Oregon Trail", Fremont’s expeditions, Schultz travelled across the breadth of the American continent to see some of the land and the tribes of which they told. As a...
Jillian Westfield has the perfect suburban life straight out of the upscale women's magazines that she obsessively reads. She's got the modern-print rugs of Metropolitan Home, the elegant meals from Gourmet, the clutter-free closets out of Real Simple, and the elaborate Easter egg hunts seen in Parents. With her successful investment banker husband behind the wheel and her...
Instead of returning “home” when he retired, Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, and his wife Lily chose to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire.
Short Story. The Pieces of Silver is a story about the devastating effects of poverty, and the way in which one group of society can be ruthlessly exploited by another higher group
September 1st, 2009 October "Toby" Day is a former street kid and half-breed Daoine Sidhe who's practically made a career out of running away from things. She was raised in the Summerlands, last of the true fae realms, only to flee to the mortal world when she was a teenager, looking for a life she could call her own. For a while, it looked like she might even succeed. She...
Shambhala Publications, 2006. — 272 p. In traditional Chinese culture, poetic artistry held a place that was unrivaled by any other single talent, and was a source of prestige and even of political power. In this rich collection, J. P. Seaton introduces the reader to the main styles of Chinese poetry and the major poets, from the classic Shih Ching to the twentieth century....
Shambhala Publications, 2006. — 272 p. In traditional Chinese culture, poetic artistry held a place that was unrivaled by any other single talent, and was a source of prestige and even of political power. In this rich collection, J. P. Seaton introduces the reader to the main styles of Chinese poetry and the major poets, from the classic Shih Ching to the twentieth century....
White Pine Press, 1995 - 200 p. This anthology gathers over 1500 years of Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry, from the earliest writing including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the Third Patriarch to the poetry of monks living in this century. Drawn together by the Zen thread, this ragged line of poet-hermits forms a profound lineage for many contemporary poets. Pre-Tang Tang Sung Yuan...
Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: "Stunning and strange. . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . It glows with the radiance and resilience of the human spirit." — Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review "Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East...
Transl. by Jo Catling. — New York: Modern Library, 2015 — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0812979540; ISBN13: 978-0812979541 This extraordinary collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of five authors and one painter. In his masterly and mysterious style — part critical essay, part memoir — Sebald weaves their lives and art with his own...
New York: Modern Library, 2013 — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0812981103; ISBN13: 978-0812981100. German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Now comes the first major collection of this literary master’s poems. Skillfully...
New York: Modern Library, 2003 — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0375756582; ISBN13: 978-0375756580. After Nature , W. G. Sebald’s first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind’s place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, “an order arises, in places beautiful and...
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz — having avoided all clues that might point to his origin — finds the past...
Random House, 2005. — 269 p. A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for an unforgettable novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives. This absorbing novel – with a storyline unlike anything Lisa See has written before – takes place in 19th century China when girls had their feet bound, then spent the rest of...
Scribner, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1501154826; ISBN13: 978-1501154829. A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever...
Scribner, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1501154826; ISBN13: 978-1501154829. A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever...
This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its details - a revelation of the plight of...
Lonely widow Sara Goldfarb nutures fantasies about appearing on prime-time television, while her son Harry, along with girlfriend Marion and buddy Tyrone C. Love, plans his break into big-time drug dealing. Hubert Selby, Jr Requiem for a Dream This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure — Faith in a Loving God
This book is about four individuals who pursued The American Dream, and the results of their pursuit. They did not know the difference between the Vision in their hearts and the illusion of the American Dream. In pursuing the lie of illusion, they made it impossible to experience the truth of their Vision. As a result everything of value was lost.
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2000. — 288 p. Lonely widow Sara Goldfarb nutures fantasies about appearing on prime-time television, while her son Harry, along with girlfriend Marion and buddy Tyrone C. Love, plans his break into big-time drug dealing. Over twenty years after its first publication in 1978, Requiem for a Dream makes it to the big screen in a major motion picture...
Best Russian Short Stories" was initially published in 1917 and edited by Thomas Seltzer. The introduction praises the Russian sensibility for its "simplicity, naturalness, veraciousness." A collection of short fiction by Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Turgenev, Chekhov, Gorky, and many others, each selection is the work of a master. The Queen of Spades. A.S. Pushkin. The Cloak....
Publication details not specified. Thomas Seltzer was a Russian-American translator, editor and book publisher. A very comprehensive anthology of the Russian short stories in the English language, which gives a fair notion of the achievement in that field. Contains over 20 stories written by various Russian authors, including stories by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky,...
Penguin UK, 2014. — 160 p. Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Susheila Nasta. At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in...
Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette is the book that comes closest to matching Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'. It's the highly charged story of a high achieving child, her genius Microsoft star employee father and her reclusive award-winning mother Bernadette. The family trip to Antarctica may well be their undoing. This is a hilarious novel...
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of....
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of....
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of....
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,. 2005.—139 p.—ISBN-I-89708-00-X Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer currently living in Toronto, Canada. Honours she has received include, among others, a Musgrave Gold Medal awarded in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature.
Publication details not specified. — 244 p. Sepamla Sipho. Riding the Whirlwind (In English) Sydney Sipho Sepamla (1932 - 9 January 2007) was a contemporary South African poet and novelist. Born in a township near Krugersdorp, Sipho Sepamla lived most of his life in Soweto. He studied teaching at Pretoria Normal College and published his first volume of poetry, "Hurry Up to...
A cat. A seagull. An impossible task. A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL. is finally out in paperback! Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. She extracts three extraordinary promises from him: that he...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2006.—465 p.—ISBN: 0-226-74878-2 Vittorio Sereni (27 July 1913 – 10 February 1983) was an Italian poet, author, editor and translator of Jewish heritage. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th-century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat in World War II, and its postwar resurgence.
NYRB Classics, 2008. Translator: Richard Greeman Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer’s works. The book is arranged into four sections,...
Ranked 95 in the BBC's Big Read. Published: 1954. This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history — that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs...
Xix, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.; McKay 1975 This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in...
Pub. by Dial Press in 2008, ISBN: 978-0-385-34099-1, eISBN 978-0-679-64458-3. A delightful epistolary novel about a writer who connects with the vibrant residents of Guernsey. Set during World War 2, this novel is both romantic and hopeful.
Dial Press, 2009. 290 p. “I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s...
Drama / 3m, 2f / Comp. Int. The first stage success from the author of Equus and Amadeus, this taut family drama centers on a young German student who, coming to England to tutor the daughter of well-to-do family is drawn into the various individual dramas of these fractured, isolated people. "A powerful and absorbing drama." - New York Post The play is set at a weekend cottage...
Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. — ISBN: 0-671-02844-8. His takent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic - a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable - remaining vibrant and alive. Here now, newly discovered, are Tupac's most honest and intimate thoughts conveyed through the pure art of...
Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York Times The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation...
Publication details not specified. — 9 p. Shariati Ali. One, before countless zeros (In English) ...Among the wolves, among the foxes, among the mice, which "rise up", which "stand", rise, stand, among the zeros, Like "1". Yes, Only "1" is a figure, It is the only unit figure, The number of stars, the universes, The earths and the heavens, The number of all the things in...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in 1983 in England. 174 p. Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown, a bumbling British public schoolboy, has a penchant for taking the most innocent commands literally. His adventures whisk him to a French castle, where he commits murder and mayhem. British humor is rarely captured as effectively as this. Fry accomplishes an incredible range of accents...
250 p. A secret love which has a whole town talking... and a small boy very worried. Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean Markham, her life is turned upside down. Charlie tells his secrets to no one but the bees, but even he can't keep his mother's friendship to himself. The locals...
2013. In 1977, Jack Sheffield was appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire and this collection contains six of his funny, heart-warming and semi-autobiographical novels. The books cover the length of his roller-coaster career at Ragley-on-the-Forest School, where he encountered such characters as Ruby, a 20-stone caretaker with an acute spelling...
Delphi Classics. 2012. — 2993 p. Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew...
Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns — they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile...
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play, Jenny’s seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken. As the months pass,...
New York: Penguin Classics, 2000. — 96 p. — ISBN10: 0141183268; ISBN13: 978-0141183268 Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the First World War, published in Penguin Classics. Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a...
Hailed as a perfect miracle, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is a suspenseful, inspiring story about second chances and the liberating power of love. The tale begins with a young man narrowly surviving a car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries separating life and death. Charlie...
Toronto: Taras Shevchenko Museum, 2014. — 231 p. Introduction by Andrew Gregorovich. Ukrainian poetry of Taras Shevchenko in Ukrainian, English and French.
Toronto: Taras Shevchenko Museum, 2014. — 231 p. Introduction by Andrew Gregorovich. Ukrainian poetry of Taras Shevchenko in Ukrainian, English and French.
[transl. of Shevchenko's poetry in Engl. by Vera Rich ; introd. article and an essay on Vera Rich by Roksolana Zorivchak]. - Kyiv : Mystetstvo publ., 2013. - 336 p. ISBN: 978-966-577-129-6 To the 200th birth anniversary of Taras Shevchenko Kobzar is a book of poems by Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko, first published by him in 1840 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Taras...
Kyiv: Mystetstvo Publishers, 2007. — 607 p. К.: Мистецтво, 2007. — 607 p. Поетична і малярська спадщина Тараса Шевченка давно стала набутком світової культури. Дане видання вибраних поезій мовою оригіналу та в перекладах англійською мовою (здійснене лауреатом премії імені Івана Франка Вірою Річ із Великої Британії) доповнюється репродукціями найкращих зразків живописних та...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1977. — 333 p. / К.: Дніпро, 1977. — 333 p. Illustrated with reproductions of drawings, sketches, outlines, etchings and paintings by Taras Shevchenko. A parallel text edition, richly illustrated with reproductions of Shevchenko's own artistic works, a few self-portraits and some autographs of his poems. The introduction by Yevhen Kirilyuk appears both...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1989. — 559 p. К.: Дніпро, 1989. — 559 p. Translated by John Weir, Irina Zheleznova, Olga Shartse and Gladys Evans. Illustrated with reproductions of drawings, sketches, outlines, etchings and paintings by Taras Shevchenko. A parallel text edition, richly illustrated with reproductions of Shevchenko's own artistic works, a few self-portraits and some...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1989. — 559 p. К.: Дніпро, 1989. — 559 p. Translated by John Weir, Irina Zheleznova, Olga Shartse and Gladys Evans. Illustrated with reproductions of drawings, sketches, outlines, etchings and paintings by Taras Shevchenko. A parallel text edition, richly illustrated with reproductions of Shevchenko's own artistic works, a few self-portraits and some...
Moscow.: Progress Publishers, 1964. - 468 p. Poetry and prose with reproductions of paintings by T. Shevchenko. Compiled by the Ukrainian Shevchenko Jubilee Committee. Edited by John Weir. Published on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Shevchenko's birth. According to its editor, "the book aims to comprehensively acquaint the English-language reader with the life, works...
Moscow.: Progress Publishers, 1979. — 533 p. Poetry and prose with reproductions of paintings by T. Shevchenko. To this end, in addition to his most important poetic works, the volume includes Taras Shevchenko's autobiography, one of his novels, excerpts from his diary and specimens of his painting.
Moscow.: Progress Publishers, 1979. — 533 p. Poetry and prose with reproductions of paintings by T. Shevchenko. To this end, in addition to his most important poetic works, the volume includes Taras Shevchenko's autobiography, one of his novels, excerpts from his diary and specimens of his painting.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1988. — 339 p. Translated by John Weir. До книги увійшли твори великого українського поета (1814 — 1861), спрямовані проти соціального та національного гноблення (поеми "Катерина", "Сон", "Кавказ" та інші), а також лірика, повість "Художник", уривки з "Журналу" та "Автобіографія".
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1988. — 339 p. Translated by John Weir. До книги увійшли твори великого українського поета (1814 — 1861), спрямовані проти соціального та національного гноблення (поеми "Катерина", "Сон", "Кавказ" та інші), а також лірика, повість "Художник", уривки з "Журналу" та "Автобіографія".
London: The Mitre Press, 1961. — 128 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Vera Rich. The present selection by Vera Rich contains thirty-eight poems, among which are some of Shevchenko's most important works.
London: The Mitre Press, 1961. — 128 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Vera Rich. The present selection by Vera Rich contains thirty-eight poems, among which are some of Shevchenko's most important works.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964. — 563 p. Translated from the Ukrainian by C.H. ANDRUSYSHEN and Watson KIRKCONNELL. If Shevchenko had been a mere folk bard, his fame by this time would have suffered a partial eclipse, and his significance reduced to that of a simple balladeer and a creator of verses with lilting rhythms and melodies in a romantic vein. The...
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964. — 563 p. Translated from the Ukrainian by C.H. ANDRUSYSHEN and Watson KIRKCONNELL. If Shevchenko had been a mere folk bard, his fame by this time would have suffered a partial eclipse, and his significance reduced to that of a simple balladeer and a creator of verses with lilting rhythms and melodies in a romantic vein. The...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1989. — 303 p. Роман "На полі смиренному" — це вікно в далеку епоху, своєрідна психологічна травестія відомої літературної пам’ятки Київської Русі "Патерика Києво-печерського".
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1989. — 303 p. Роман "На полі смиренному" — це вікно в далеку епоху, своєрідна психологічна травестія відомої літературної пам’ятки Київської Русі "Патерика Києво-печерського".
Doncaster: Bayda books, 1980. — 288 p. У романі "Побратими…" сталі ознаки сюжетної схеми зумовили домінування динамічності (побудова лаконічних сцен за принципом градації, використання мовних ресурсів для створення темпоритму, дискретність часопросторових координат тощо). Психологізм як стильова риса окреслюється в суб’єктних формах вираження авторської позиції. Пригода у творі...
Doncaster: Bayda books, 1980. — 288 p. У романі "Побратими…" сталі ознаки сюжетної схеми зумовили домінування динамічності (побудова лаконічних сцен за принципом градації, використання мовних ресурсів для створення темпоритму, дискретність часопросторових координат тощо). Психологізм як стильова риса окреслюється в суб’єктних формах вираження авторської позиції. Пригода у творі...
Simon & Schuster, 2013, ISBN: 1471130371, 704 p. Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company-The Private War of J.D. Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most...
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2014. — 35 p. Shin Chae-ho. Dream sky (In English) Shin Chae-ho’s nationalist novella Dream Sky, written in 1916, reads like a cross between The Apocalypse of St. John and Pilgrim’s Progress. The first several lines depict the protagonist Hannom seeing a divine figure revealed in the heavens who announces the necessity of...
Vintage, 2012. — 272 p. — (Vintage Contemporaries). — ISBN10: 0307739511; ISBN13: 978-0307739513. When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they...
2007. 79 p. A tale of two people, Toono Takaki and Shinohara Akari, who were close friends but gradually grow farther and farther apart as time moves on. They become separated because of their families yet continue to exchange contact in the form of letters. Yet as time continues to trudge on, their contact with one another begins to cease. Years pass and the rift between them...
352 p. Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (April 1, 2014). ISBN10: 1416993932. ISBN13: 978-1416993933. Family secrets cut to the bone in this mesmerizing debut novel about a teen whose drug-addicted brother is the prodigal son one time too many. There is a pecking order to every family. Seventeen-year old Clare is the overprotected baby; Peter is the typical,...
1924. — 38 p. The novel is written by Armenian writer Alexander Shirvanzade. This is a sad love story fill with sorrow and pain. But also it is a love story about beauty and romance, and the main character of the novel, "the artist", can love the way no one can.
Quercus, 2013 This novel, by award winning Russian author Mikhail Shishkin, takes the form of letters between Sashsa (or Sashenka) and Vovka (or Volodenka/Volodya). However, what at first appears to be a typical love affair soon has the sense of something quite out of the ordinary. Sasha and Vovka are separated by war, as Vovka is in the army - "the only thing still left to do...
Quercus, 2013 This novel, by award winning Russian author Mikhail Shishkin, takes the form of letters between Sashsa (or Sashenka) and Vovka (or Volodenka/Volodya). However, what at first appears to be a typical love affair soon has the sense of something quite out of the ordinary. Sasha and Vovka are separated by war, as Vovka is in the army - "the only thing still left to do...
Quercus, 2013 This novel, by award winning Russian author Mikhail Shishkin, takes the form of letters between Sashsa (or Sashenka) and Vovka (or Volodenka/Volodya). However, what at first appears to be a typical love affair soon has the sense of something quite out of the ordinary. Sasha and Vovka are separated by war, as Vovka is in the army - "the only thing still left to do...
Penguin Books, 1967. — 616 p. — (Penguin Modern Classics). And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Quiet Don, lit. "The Quiet Don") is a 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to '32 & published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished in 1940. The English...
Fredonia Books, 2003. — 72 p. There is restraint and a trace of sadness in the way Mikhail Sholokov begins his story, as if to warn the reader that it is not an easy tale he has to tell. One postwar spring the author met a tall man with stooping shoulders and big rugged hands. And perhaps for the first and last time soldier Andrei Sokolov told a chance acquaintance the story of...
Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990. - 375 p. OCR. Translation: Robert Daglish, Holly Smith, Andrew Bromfield, Kathleen Mary Cook. Shukshin Vasily. Collection of the main stories of the writer and actor Vasily Shukshin (1929-1974) FOREWORD. Vassily Shukshin. Morality Is Truth. Translated by Andrew Bromfield Country Dwellers. Translated by Robert Daglish Stephen in Love. Translated...
Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990. - 375 p. OCR. Translation: Robert Daglish, Holly Smith, Andrew Bromfield, Kathleen Mary Cook. Shukshin Vasily. Collection of the main stories of the writer and actor Vasily Shukshin (1929-1974) FOREWORD. Vassily Shukshin. Morality Is Truth. Translated by Andrew Bromfield Country Dwellers. Translated by Robert Daglish Stephen in Love. Translated...
Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990. - 375 p. OCR. Translation: Robert Daglish, Holly Smith, Andrew Bromfield, Kathleen Mary Cook. Shukshin Vasily. Collection of the main stories of the writer and actor Vasily Shukshin (1929-1974). Foreword. Vassily Shukshin. Morality Is Truth. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. Country Dwellers. Translated by Robert Daglish. Stepan in Love....
New York: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. — 148 p. — ISBN10: 1440401454; ISBN13: 978-1440401459. Eugene L. Shvarts is the world known playwright. His plays are considered to be the classical literature, and, subsequently, exist in two realities: the time of their appearance, and our contemporary life. However, his best plays have not ever before been...
New York: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. — 148 p. — ISBN10: 1440401454; ISBN13: 978-1440401459. Eugene L. Shvarts is the world known playwright. His plays are considered to be the classical literature, and, subsequently, exist in two realities: the time of their appearance, and our contemporary life. However, his best plays have not ever before been...
A home view. Making happiness for mamsie. Mamsie'S birthday. Trouble for the little brown house. More trouble. Hard days for polly. The cloud over the little brown house. Joel'S turn. Sunshine again. A threatened blow. Safe. New friends. Phronsie pays a debt of gratitude. A letter to jasper. Jolly days. Getting a christmas for the little ones. Christmas bells! Education ahead....
Penguin, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 9780143442301. A reprint of a 2008 novel based on a real story with the background of Indo-Pak conflict. Recently a fillm, “Raazi” has been produced with the same plot based on the book.
Publisher: Silhouette , 1990. – 139 p. Language: English. An omnibus of novels by Ann Major (Santa’s Special Miracle), Rita Rainville (Lights Out!), Lindsay McKenna (Always and Forever), Kathleen Creighton(The Mysterious Gift). All widowed Noreen Black's son wanted for Christmas was a daddy, but even Santa couldn't bring the man she loved into their family. Grant Hale's...
New York Review of Books, 2013. - 572 p. Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization: a distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature, he was one of the first Westerners to expose the horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Leys’s interests and expertise are not, however, confined to China: he also writes about European art, literature, history,...
RTF - 100 p. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (foreword by C.Banington) Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as...
Penguin, 2014. — 326 p. — ISBN13: 978-1405912792 An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of...
Publication details not specified. — 13 p. Shin Chae Ho. Dragon Battle (In English) Shin Chae-ho (1880–1936) was a Korean independence activist, historian, anarchist, nationalist, and a founder of Korean ethnic nationalist historiography (민족 사학, minjok sahak; sometimes shortened to minjok). He is held in high esteem in both North and South Korea. Two of his works, A New Reading...
Downriver is a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair. The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of industry and rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers, high-rent lowlife, broken criminals and reborn...
London: Hamish Hamilton (an inprint of Penguin Books), 2011. — 442 p. — ISBN10: 978-0-141-90262-3; ISBN13: 9780241144350. Ghost Milk is a chronicle of a city turned upside down: corner diners have given way to grandiose shopping centers; gated pleasure domes have replaced public parks; and the casual diversity of a neighborhood with centuries of history is being eradicated. In...
London: Hamish Hamilton (an inprint of Penguin Books), 2011. — 442 p. — ISBN10: 9780141902623; ISBN13: 9780241144350. Ghost Milk is a chronicle of a city turned upside down: corner diners have given way to grandiose shopping centers; gated pleasure domes have replaced public parks; and the casual diversity of a neighborhood with centuries of history is being eradicated. In this...
London: Penguin Books Limited, 2015. - 272 p. - ISBN: 978-0-241-97150-5 The completion of the full circle of London Overground provides Iain Sinclair with a new path to walk the shifting territory of the capital. With thirty-three stations and thirty-five miles to tramp - plus inevitable and unforeseen detours and false steps - he embarks on a marathon circumnavigation at...
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that...
Harmony, 2015. - 272 c. - ISBN10: 080414110X; ISBN13: 978-0804141109. From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes the astonishing true-life story about what happens when you just let go. A thriving spiritual community on over six hundred acres of pristine forest and meadows in Florida, a cutting-edge software package that transformed the...
Harmony, 2015. - 272 c. - ISBN10: 080414110X; ISBN13: 978-0804141109. From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes the astonishing true-life story about what happens when you just let go. A thriving spiritual community on over six hundred acres of pristine forest and meadows in Florida, a cutting-edge software package that transformed the...
Random House, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0399592865; ISBN13: 978-0399592867. “Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible “I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll...
Random House, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0399592865; ISBN13: 978-0399592867. “Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible “I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll...
Random House, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0399592865; ISBN13: 978-0399592867. “Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible “I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll...
Moscow.: Progress Publishers, 1982. - 327 p. panas Mirny. The Mother Tongue. Queen of the Meadow (From the novel Do the Oxen Low When Mangers Are Full?). Marko Vovchok. The Cossack Girl. Marko Cheremshina. The Cure. A christmas Carol. Yuriy Fedkovich. Lileya’a Grave or Dovbush’s Treasure. Hrihoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko. Stretching the Lie. Yevhenia Yaroshynska. Faithful Love....
Moscow.: Progress Publishers, 1982. - 327 p. Panas Mirny. The Mother Tongue. Queen of the Meadow (From the novel Do the Oxen Low When Mangers Are Full?). Marko Vovchok. The Cossack Girl. Marko Cheremshina. The Cure. A Christmas Carol. Yuriy Fedkovich. Lileya’a Grave or Dovbush’s Treasure. Hrihoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko. Stretching the Lie. Yevhenia Yaroshynska. Faithful Love....
Gollancz, 2002. — 192 p. — (Sf Collector's). — ISBN10: 0575072350.; ISBN13: 978-0575072350. Something has gone very seriously wrong with Tik-Tok's "asimov circuits." They should keep him on the straight and narrow, following Asimov's first law of robotics: A robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. But, that's not what's...
Jersey City: "Svoboda", Ukrainian Daily, 1956. — 63 p. Eleven sketches of Ukrainian poets killed by communists and twenty-two translations of their poems.
Jersey City: "Svoboda", Ukrainian Daily, 1956. — 63 p. Eleven sketches of Ukrainian poets killed by communists and twenty-two translations of their poems.
Edmonton: Slavuta Publishers, 1992. — 64 p. Three narratives. Translated by Roman Orest Tatchyn. Six poems. Translated by Orysia Ferbey and Watson Kirkconnell. Збірка поетичних творів Яра Славутича українською та у перекладах англійською мовою.
Edmonton: Slavuta Publishers, 1992. — 64 p. Three narratives. Translated by Roman Orest Tatchyn. Six poems. Translated by Orysia Ferbey and Watson Kirkconnell. Збірка поетичних творів Яра Славутича українською та у перекладах англійською мовою.
384 p.; Publisher: Anchor; 1992 A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late...
Named by the New York Public Library as "one of the books of the century", A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan — and her erratic, eccentric family — in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. Originally published in 1943, this true American classic has sold millions of copies worldwide, and includes a foreword...
Named by the New York Public Library as "one of the books of the century", A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan — and her erratic, eccentric family — in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. Originally published in 1943, this true American classic has sold millions of copies worldwide, and includes a foreword...
Named by the New York Public Library as "one of the books of the century", A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan — and her erratic, eccentric family — in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. Originally published in 1943, this true American classic has sold millions of copies worldwide, and includes a foreword...
Named by the New York Public Library as "one of the books of the century", A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan — and her erratic, eccentric family — in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. Originally published in 1943, this true American classic has sold millions of copies worldwide, and includes a foreword...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — ISBN10: 148209777X ISBN13: 978-1482097771. Poker Boy somehow finds himself facing an imitation of his girlfriend, Patty Ledgerwood. Within a fraction of a second he somehow saves himself and maybe the world from another war. Or maybe he helps set up a new waR.
Dodie Smith's first novel transcends the oft-stodgy definition of "a classic" by being as brightly witty and adventuresome as it was when published nearly fifty years ago. The novel relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying castle during the 1930s. The first person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, an...
New York: New Directions, 1988. — 162 p. — ISBN: 0-8112-1067-7; ISBN: 0-8112-1068-5 Collected in this volume are the wholly individual poems, accompanied by many of her equally ideosyncratic drawings, of Stevie Smith, one of the few English modern poets to reach a wide general audience - although she had to wait until 1962 to be highly regarded as a serious poet.
New York: New Directions, 1988. — 162 p. — ISBN: 0-8112-1067-7; ISBN: 0-8112-1068-5 Collected in this volume are the wholly individual poems, accompanied by many of her equally ideosyncratic drawings, of Stevie Smith, one of the few English modern poets to reach a wide general audience - although she had to wait until 1962 to be highly regarded as a serious poet.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. — 600 p. — ISBN: 0-19-519816-6 “On gray days when most modern poetry seems one dull colorless voice speaking through a hundred rival styles, one turns to Stevie Smith and enjoys her unique and cheerfully gruesome voice. She is a charming and original poet.” — wrote Robert Lowell about Stevie Smith. Beloved by British old and young,...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. — 600 p. — ISBN: 0-19-519816-6 “On gray days when most modern poetry seems one dull colorless voice speaking through a hundred rival styles, one turns to Stevie Smith and enjoys her unique and cheerfully gruesome voice. She is a charming and original poet.” — wrote Robert Lowell about Stevie Smith. Beloved by British old and young,...
Edited by Jack Barbera & William McBrien. Preface by James MacGibbon. — New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. — 392 p. — ISBN10: 086068217X; ISBN13: 978-0860682172 Stevie Smith is most famous as a poet and for one of her three works of fiction, Notes on Yellow Paper, but throughout her most productive years she was also writing in many other forms. Stories, essays, drawings,...
Edited by Jack Barbera & William McBrien. Preface by James MacGibbon. — New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. — 392 p. — ISBN10: 086068217X; ISBN13: 978-0860682172 Stevie Smith is most famous as a poet and for one of her three works of fiction, Notes on Yellow Paper, but throughout her most productive years she was also writing in many other forms. Stories, essays, drawings,...
An anthology of stories edited by Zadie Smith. A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character. The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book...
An anthology of stories edited by Zadie Smith. A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character. Judith Castle by David Mitchell Justin M. Damiano by Daniel Clowes Frank by A. L. Kennedy Gideon by ZZ Packer Gordon by Andrew O’Hagan Hanwell Snr by Zadie Smith J. Johnson by Nick Hornby, with illustrations by Posy Simmonds Lélé by Edwidge Danticat...
HarperCollins, Egmont UK., 1999 – 2006. Genre: Gothic fiction, Absurdist fiction, Steampunk, Mystery. A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of children's novels (or novellas) by Lemony Snicket (the pen name of American author Daniel Handler) which follows the turbulent lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire after their parents' death in an arsonous house fire. The...
Dear Reader, I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on...
Inside Out Paperback – April 1, 2010 Keep Your Head Down. Don't Get Noticed. Or Else. I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own…until I...
Outside In (Inside) Paperback – February 15, 2011 Me? A leader? Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion — between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free. I thought that meant I was off the hook,...
Ardis, 1976. — 228 p. By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unreliable” narrators: the young man who is a student at the “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest...
Colorado: Outskirts Press,.2011.—122 p.—ISBN: 978-1-4327-7366-3 Donna Solitario is an Award Winning Author with four published Poetry books. She taught Special Education for ten years, and is currently a Substitute Teacher. She is also a Senior Writer for the Community. Donna enjoys sharing her love of poetry & poems
IDW Publishing, 2010. — 224 p. — ISBN: 1600106838. The AllSpark Almanac II captures the magic of the most whimsical TRANSFORMERS series ever with a wondrous examination of this amazing universe. This volume is packed with behind-the-scenes sketches, interesting facts, production artwork, and musings from the characters themselves. Relive the thrill of the final season of...
Idea & Design Works Llc, 2009. ISBN: 1-60010-487-8. ISBN13: 978-1-60010-487-9. 220 p. Transformers Animated: The Allspark Almanac is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind atlas to an amazing new universe. It allows you to: discover behind-the-scenes secrets directly from the show's creators; marvel at the gorgeous settings where Autobots and Decepticons do battle; and, admire the...
Day of the Oprichnik is a 2006 novel by the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin. The narrative is set in the near future, when the Russian Empire has been restored, and follows a government henchman, an oprichnik, through a day of grotesque events. Sorokin in one of the later interviews[1] confessed that he did not anticipate his novel to come to life so true in many ways, even...
NY: NYRB Classics, 2012. — 256 p. One of the central masterpieces of 20th-century Japanese literature, The Gate describes the everyday world of the humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone, living in quiet obscurity in a house at the bottom of a cliff. Seemingly cursed with the inability to have children, the couple find themselves having to take responsibility for Sosuke's...
Contemporary African Plays. — Methuen, 1999. — p. 303-382. Death and the King's Horseman is a play by Wole Soyinka based on a real incident that took place in Nigeria during British colonial rule: the horseman of a Yoruba King was prevented from committing ritual suicide by the colonial authorities. In addition to the British intervention, Soyinka calls the horseman's own...
Publisher: Ecco Press, 1999. - 193 p. Language: English. Description: The classic novel that has been translated into over twenty languages and has sold more than two million copies worldwide. One of the most celebrated novels of its time, Endless Love remains perhaps the most powerful novel ever written about young love. Riveting, compulsively readable, and ferociously sexual,...
One of the most celebrated novels of its time, Endless Love remains perhaps the most powerful novel ever written about young love. Riveting, compulsively readable, and ferociously sexual, Endless Love tells the story of David Axelrod and his overwhelming love for Jade Butterfield. David's and Jade's lives are consumed with each other; their rapport, their desire, their...
A wild, erotic novel — a daring debut — from the much-admired, award-winning poet, author of Flying Inland, A History of Yearning, and With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and Others. A strange, haunting novel about survival and love in all its forms; about sexual awakenings and dark secrets; about European refugee...
Picador USA, 2011. — 265 p. — (Patrick Melrose #5). — ISBN: 0330435906 (ISBN13: 9780330435901). As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor, Patrick Melrose finds himself questioning whether a life without parents will be the liberation he has so long imagined. Yet as the memorial service ends and the family gathers one last time,...
Picador USA, 2012. — 680 p. — (Patrick Melrose #1-4). — ISBN: 0312429967 (ISBN13: 9780312429966). For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This single volume collects the first four novels — Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope,...
Oxford University Press, 1984. — 389 p. Presenting 250 selections, the author has arranged the poems chronologically by conflict to produce a literary history of warfare as seen by the most eloquent observers of its effects, and consequences.
Scribner, 2012. — 343 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4516-8173-4; ISBN: 978-1-4516-8176-5. After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at...
Scribner, 2012. — 343 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4516-8173-4; ISBN: 978-1-4516-8176-5. After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at...
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971. — 164 p. Translated from the Ukrainian by Joseph Wiznuk in collaboration with С. H. Andrusyshen. The Stone Cross is a collection of 32 short stories by the Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk, the centenary of whose birth is being celebrated in 1971. The stories — honest, realistic, earthy — touch and explore the lives of fellow countrymen and...
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971. — 164 p. Translated from the Ukrainian by Joseph Wiznuk in collaboration with С. H. Andrusyshen. The Stone Cross is a collection of 32 short stories by the Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk, the centenary of whose birth is being celebrated in 1971. The stories — honest, realistic, earthy — touch and explore the lives of fellow countrymen and...
"A heartaching love story and moving tale of redemption.as only a dog could tell it." The author of two novels, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets and Raven Stole the Moon, and a play, Brother Jones, GARTH STEIN has also worked as a documentary filmmaker. He lives in Seattle with his family. WWW.ARTOFRACINGINTHERAIN.COM "The Art Of Racing In The Rain" Copyright 2008
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975. — 271 p. Translated by Eve Manning and Olga Shartse. Автор ставить важливе філософське питання з великим загальнолюдським сенсом: невже земля й багатство дорожчі за людину, і як можна заради власності наважитися на злочин? "Не проливати кров людську!" - цей пристрасний заклик, сповнений гуманізму й любові до життя, проймає весь твір.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975. — 271 p. Translated by Eve Manning and Olga Shartse. Автор ставить важливе філософське питання з великим загальнолюдським сенсом: невже земля й багатство дорожчі за людину, і як можна заради власності наважитися на злочин? "Не проливати кров людську!" - цей пристрасний заклик, сповнений гуманізму й любові до життя, проймає весь твір.
A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community by the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable Book The Book of Mischief. It's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and shelving books — until he learns he...
Munich: 2005. — 695 p. As its title suggests, the book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his life story. But it is one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply, that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale, to the extent that Tristram's own birth is not even reached until Volume III. Consequently, apart from...
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1971. — 543 p. Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in...
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1951. — 178 p. Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in...
Hodder & Stoughton. Year: 1970. Pages: 464. Merlin Trilogy -1. Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity.Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses a great...
Hodder & Stoughton, 1973. Merlin Trilogy - 2. The countryside of England and Wales in the Dark Ages forms an almost tangible background to this wonderfully and powerfully realised picture of an ancestral hero coming to manhood. The Hollow Hills is the brilliant portrayal of the young Arthur from his birth to accession to the throne of Britain. And behind and around him is the...
Hodder & Stoughton, 1979. Merlin Trilogy - 3. With the great sword Caliburn in his hand and Merlin the enchanter at his side, Arthur comes out of hiding to claim the crown he was born to wear. Merlin, Arthur's protector, sees the glories and horrors that await the new king. and to save him Merlin musters all his power to weave one last enchantment. He is showing signs of age...
New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. — 464 p. — ISBN: 0-399-15534-1. Written quite a time ago about the middle of last century, this wonderful novel is still topical nowadays. Twenty two year old Skeeter has graduated from school and wants to proceed education, but according to the principles and traditions of that time her mother first of all wants to see her married. Girl used...
The Help is a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett. The story is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. A USA Today article called it one of 2009's "summer sleeper hits". An early review in The New York Times notes Stockett's "affection and intimacy buried beneath even the most seemingly impersonal...
The Adventures of Captain Horn is an 1895 adventure novel by Frank R. Stockton that was the third-best selling book in the United States in 1895. A sequel, Mrs. Cliff's Yacht, was released in 1897. Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely...
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing....
Irving Stone (born Tannenbaum, July 14, 1903, San Francisco, California – August 26, 1989, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities, including Lust for Life, a biographical novel about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biographical novel about Michelangelo. At the early age...
The Man Booker Prize Set in South Yorkshire, this is the story of Colin's struggle to come to terms with his family – his mercurial, ambitious father, his deep-feeling, long-suffering mother – and to escape the stifling heritage of the raw mining community into which he was born. This book won the 1976 Booker Prize.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970. — 304 p. Ukraine, one of the oldest and largest nations in Europe, speaks to you here of its present and its past. Listen to what it has to say. Збірка оповідань українських авторів у перекладах англійською мовою.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970. — 304 p. Ukraine, one of the oldest and largest nations in Europe, speaks to you here of its present and its past. Listen to what it has to say. Збірка оповідань українських авторів у перекладах англійською мовою.
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009. — 189 p. — ISBN: 978-0-545-05474-4. *The term "cognitive disorder" implies there is something wrong with the way I think or the way I perceive reality. I perceive reality just fine. Sometimes I perceive more of reality than others.* Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear it's part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been...
270 pp; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ISBN: 9781400062089 140006208X; 2009 Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (_Abide with Me_, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior...
Random House, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0812996542; ISBN13: 978-0812996548. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these...
Random House, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0812996542; ISBN13: 978-0812996548. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these...
"Clearing in the Sky" is the story of a man who is an embodiment of determination and strong will to live an active life to the age of seventy despite medical advice with regard to his weak heart. It is a first person narrative. The father of the narrator is the hero of the story. It runs parallel to or in contrast with the advice of the doctors. The father wants to show...
Anchor, 2011. — 320 p. ISBN10: 030747691X ISBN13: 978-0307476913 Balthazar Jones has lived and worked in the Tower of London for the past eight years. Being a Beefeater is no easy job, and when Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie of the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes go...
McBooks Press, 2004. First published 1972. The author's real name is Violet Vivian Finlay (1914-1983). The fifth book about Phillip Hazard. To break the stalemate in the Crimea, the British must search for unlikely help among the self-reliant mountain people of Circassia. Commander Phillip Hazard of HMS Huntress is dispatched with a select handful of his crew to seek out the...
McBooks Press, 2004. First published 1972. The author's real name is Violet Vivian Finlay (1914-1983). The fourth book about Phillip Hazard. The Crimean War rages on, and determined to break the stalemate, the British decide to send a spy into Odessa. And who better for this perilous mission than Captain Phillip Hazard, newly promoted to command of the steam-powered Huntress...
A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences she barely feels. For her, time and identity blur, and all action is reaction. She can’t quite understand what motivates others to take life seriously enough to focus on anything — for her existence is a loosely woven tapestry of fleeting concepts. From losing her virginity to...
The story spins along like an ancient tale out of the Arabian Nights with both suspense and horror growing steadily… A tour de force of the imagination, a spell weaving experience… "People"
An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion — his sense of smell — leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift — an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he...
[A] hilarious novel' - Independent 'Very, very funny...Sutcliffe asks why crowds of well brought-up young teens leave their duvets and ready-made meals to go to Delhi, with zero knowledge of the sub-continent and half of Milletts in their Karrimors. He draws his characters stylishly' - The Times 'Very funny' - GQ 'Sutcliffe deploys a fine talent for social satire, brilliantly...
New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi,.2009.—104 p.—ISBN: 81-260-2435-6 Sridala Swami is surprisingly mature as a poet, not only in her outlook or the way she approaches a poem, but the surefooted way she can select and handle the most difficult of themes. A Reluctant Survivor is Ms. Sridala Swami’s first book, and hence is being published under the Navodaya Scheme of the Sahitya Akademi....
New York : Vintage, 1997. – 470 p. Language: English. Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize. Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and...
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. – 586 p. Language: English. From the prizewinning author of the acclaimed Last Orders, The Light of Day, and Waterland a powerfully moving new novel set in present-day England, but against the background of a global "war on terror" and about things that touch our human core. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton-once a...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 3359 p. Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press,.2010.—105 p.—ISBN: 978-0-8195-6933-2 Afzal Ahmed Syed holds a unique place among contemporary poets of the Urdu language, as an acknowledged master of both the classical and modern Urdu poetic forms. The poems in Rococo and Other Worlds explore the mythology and historical realities of South Asia and the Middle East; their bold imagery...
Picador, 2000. — 224 p. ISBN10: 0312263767 ISBN13: 978-0312263768 Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious prize — the Palme d’Or. On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin’s...
Picador, 2000. — 224 p. ISBN10: 0312263767 ISBN13: 978-0312263768 Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious prize — the Palme d’Or. On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin’s...
Picador, 2000. — 224 p. ISBN10: 0312263767 ISBN13: 978-0312263768 Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious prize — the Palme d’Or. On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin’s...
The eight stories contained in Antonio Tabucchi's Letters from Casablanca introduce to an American audience a rising Italian writer (born 1943) whose intriguing narrative strategies make the reader an active participant in his work. Each story can be seen from at least two perspectives, and each protagonist can be seen as experiencing an objective "reality" or having his own...
Review “A masterpiece of compression. A political history of 1930s Portugal, a love story between a man and his dead wife, a gloriously successful formal experiment, and an irresistible thriller — and it can be read with enormous pleasure in a single afternoon.” — Mohsin Hamid “Pereira Maintains is small only in size. Its themes are great ones — courage, betrayal, fidelity,...
In this enchanting and evocative novel, Antonio Tabucchi takes the reader on a dream-like trip to Portugal, a country he is deeply attached to. He spent many years there as director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. He even wrote Requiem in Portuguese; it had to be translated into Italian for publication in his native Italy. Requiem's narrator has an appointment to...
Translated from Bengali to English by the author. — New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. — 59 p. Collected here are three hundred twenty short poems by Rabindranath Tagore. They were written in Bengali before being translated into English by Tagore. These poems are beautiful, thought provoking, and somewhat reminiscent of Haiku. Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing...
TokyoPop, 2007. — 248 p. The novel that inspired the manga and anime! Twenty-two-year-old Satou, a college dropout and aficionado of anime porn, knows a little secret — or at least he thinks he does! Believe it or not, he has stumbled upon an incredible conspiracy created by the Japanese Broadcasting Company, N.H.K. But despite fighting the good fight, Satou has become an...
Riverhead Books, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0735211175; ISBN13: 978-0735211179. "Impossible to put down." —NPR "A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.” —The Washington Post "The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." —Stephen King A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's...
Riverhead Books, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0735211175; ISBN13: 978-0735211179. "Impossible to put down." —NPR "A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.” —The Washington Post "The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." —Stephen King A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's...
Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her...
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. The author presents the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share that vision with her daughter. The daughters try to understand and appreciate their mothers' pasts, adapt to the American way of life, and...
Lex Sakai never had time for dating until her crafty grandmother insisted she bring a date to her cousin's wedding. The always-in-control Lex uses Ephesians to compile a huge list of traits for the perfect man - but God seems to have a much more unlikely candidate in mind.
Vintage, 1994. 111 p. ISBN: 9781407073903. Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. But her story is unsettlingly at odds with her image. it is a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered husband. At is centre - seductive, manipulating, enslaving - is one of Tanizaki's most...
Vintage Books, 1996. — 317 p. Junichiro Tanizaki’s Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of voluptuous cruelty. A Portrait of Shunkin Terror The Bridge of Dreams The Tattooer The Thief Aguri A Blind Man's Tail
Tuttle Publishing, 2011. 107 p. ISBN: 978-1-4629-0350-4. The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged by the influence of a new and alien culture, and so attempts to heal the breach by educating his...
Vintage Books, 2000. 376 p. ISBN: 9781407053752. Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of pride, and brings a vanished...
High-school senior Mary Gilhooley and her friends have spent their entire lives-but especially the last four years-feeling like underdogs and also-rans. Having suffered constant ridicule from Oyster Point's resident bully king and superjock, Jake Barbone, they are all just dying to go away to college and never come back. But with only a week until graduation, there's one last...
336 pp; Doubleday 1919 Largely overshadowed by Orson Welles’s famous 1941 screen version, Booth Tarkington’s novel The Magnificent Ambersons was not only a best-seller when it first appeared in 1918 — it also won the Pulitzer Prize. Set in the Midwest in the early twentieth century — the dawn of the automobile age — the novel begins by introducing the richest family in town,...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 773 p. — ISBN: 0316055433; ISBN13: 9780316055437. It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how...
(Norton Critical Editions). First edition, 1999 - Total pages: 394 Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable. This Norton Critical Edition collects forty-four fairy tales, from the fifth century to the present. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood,"...
HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. - 252 p. Seeking some much-needed rest and relaxation after a long stint as a TV-news war correspondent in Bosnia, 33-year-old Bill Fitzgerald travels to Venice. There he is struck by the dark beauty of a young American woman, Vanessa Stewart, a 27-year-old glass designer from New York.Unhappily married, she welcomes a no-strings friendship with...
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American lyrical poet. Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's beauty, and death, and her poems were much loved during the early 20th century. She won the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for her volume, Love Songs. Her style and lyricism are well illustrated in her poem, Spring Night (1915), from that collection. She was...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction...
NYRB Classics, 2016. — 224 c. — ISBN10: 159017996X; ISBN13: 978-1590179963. Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest...
NYRB Classics, 2016. — 224 c. — ISBN10: 159017996X; ISBN13: 978-1590179963. Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest...
Baltimore, Toronto: Smoloskyp Publishers, 1977. — 134 p. Compiled and translated by Orysia Prokopiw. Упорядкувала й переклала Орися Прокопів. Щоб увічнити незвичайну особистість Олени Теліги і віддати їй належне місце серед велетнів української літератури, видавництво "Смолоскип" видає її поезії в українській MOBI й англійському перекладі. Немає сумніву, що це видання наша...
Delphi Classics, 2013. A collection of works by an outstanding English poet of the 19th century. The Poetry Collections. Poems, By Two Brothers. Timbuctoo: A Poem. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. Poems, 1832. The Lover’s Tale. A Fragment. Poems, 1842. Miscellaneous Contributions To Periodicals, 1831-1868. The Princess: A Medley. In Memoriam A. H. H. Maud, And Other Poems. Idylls Of The...
Delphi Classics, 2013. A collection of works by an outstanding English poet of the 19th century. The Poetry Collections. Poems, By Two Brothers. Timbuctoo: A Poem. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. Poems, 1832. The Lover’s Tale. A Fragment. Poems, 1842. Miscellaneous Contributions To Periodicals, 1831-1868. The Princess: A Medley. In Memoriam A. H. H. Maud, And Other Poems. Idylls Of The...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1400205875; ISBN13: 978-1400205875. The enemy wants us to feel rejected...left out, lonely, and less than. In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection--from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father. She leans in to...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1400205875; ISBN13: 978-1400205875. The enemy wants us to feel rejected...left out, lonely, and less than. In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection--from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father. She leans in to...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1400205875; ISBN13: 978-1400205875. The enemy wants us to feel rejected...left out, lonely, and less than. In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection--from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father. She leans in to...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1981. — 232 p. У збірці оповідань визначного українського письменника Архипа Тесленка (1882 — 1911) реалістично відтворено життя найбідніших верств українського селянства кінця XIX — початку XX століття.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1981. — 232 p. У збірці оповідань визначного українського письменника Архипа Тесленка (1882 — 1911) реалістично відтворено життя найбідніших верств українського селянства кінця XIX — початку XX століття.
New York: Dell Publishing, 1983. — 359 p. Beth Harmon was a child, struggling in a cold and terrifying world of caretakers and institutions, when she discovered her gift... and the elegant, deadly game, difficult for some, but strangely easy for her. It gave her strength and power, as long as she won. But as she grew from child to woman, from prodigy to celebrated professional,...
HQN Books, 2016. - 336 c. - ISBN10: 0373803907; ISBN13: 978-0373803903. There's no place like Haven Point for the holidays, where the snow conspires to bring two wary hearts together for a Christmas to remember It's been two rough years since Andrea Montgomery lost her husband, and all she wants is for her children to enjoy their first Christmas in Haven Point. But then Andie's...
HQN Books, 2016. - 336 c. - ISBN10: 0373803907; ISBN13: 978-0373803903. There's no place like Haven Point for the holidays, where the snow conspires to bring two wary hearts together for a Christmas to remember It's been two rough years since Andrea Montgomery lost her husband, and all she wants is for her children to enjoy their first Christmas in Haven Point. But then Andie's...
Collection of stories, 433 p. Edited by Alexander Jessup, editor of Representative American Short Stories, The Book of the Short Story, The Little French Masterpieces Series, etc. The present document was derived from text provided by Project Gutenberg (document 10947), available free of charge. This document is also free of charge.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Daniel Alarcón. The Provincials. Charles Baxter. Bravery. Michael Byers. Malaria. Junot Díaz. Miss Lora. Karl Taro Greenfeld. Horned Men. Gish Jen. The Third Dumpster. Bret Anthony Johnston. Encounters with Unexpected Animals. Sheila kohler. Magic Man. David Means. The Chair. Steven Millhauser. A voice in the Night. Lorrie Moore....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Daniel Alarcón. The Provincials. Charles Baxter. Bravery. Michael Byers. Malaria. Junot Díaz. Miss Lora. Karl Taro Greenfeld. Horned Men. Gish Jen. The Third Dumpster. Bret Anthony Johnston. Encounters with Unexpected Animals. Sheila kohler. Magic Man. David Means. The Chair. Steven Millhauser. A voice in the Night. Lorrie Moore....
Edited by John Updike. — Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. — 860 p. — ISBN: 0395843685. The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of the The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in contemporary American literature. In 1999, John...
Mariner Books, 2014.1915. Benjamin Rosenblatt. Zelig.1916. Mary Lerner. Little Selves.1917. Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers.1920. Sherwood Anderson. The Other Woman.1922. Ring Lardner. The Golden Honeymoon.1923. Jean Toomer. Blood-Burning Moon.1927. Ernest Hemingway. The Killers.1929. Willa Cather. Double Birthday.1929. Grace Stone Coates. Wild Plums.1930. Katherine Anne...
Mariner Books, 2014.1915. Benjamin Rosenblatt. Zelig.1916. Mary Lerner. Little Selves.1917. Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers.1920. Sherwood Anderson. The Other Woman.1922. Ring Lardner. The Golden Honeymoon.1923. Jean Toomer. Blood-Burning Moon.1927. Ernest Hemingway. The Killers.1929. Willa Cather. Double Birthday.1929. Grace Stone Coates. Wild Plums.1930. Katherine Anne...
1915. Benjamin Rosenblatt. Zelig.1916. Mary Lerner. Little Selves.1917. Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers.1920. Sherwood Anderson. The Other Woman.1922. Ring Lardner. The Golden Honeymoon.1923. Jean Toomer. Blood-Burning Moon.1927. Ernest Hemingway. The Killers.1929. Willa Cather. Double Birthday.1929. Grace Stone Coates. Wild Plums.1930. Katherine Anne Porter. Theft.1931....
The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature, Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century Year 2016 by Yunte Huang ISBN: 978-0393239485 Award-winning literary scholar and poet Yunte Huang here gathers together an intimate and authoritative selection of significant works, in outstanding translations, from nearly fifty Chinese writers, that together express a search...
Odyssey Press: New York, 1948. — XX + 396 p. Edited by Harry W. Hastings. The short story has been defined facetiously as a story that is short; it may be described more seriously as a story which aims at the maximum of effect with the minimum of means. The good writer has the talent to discover the latent narrative value in many a combination of people and places and events...
Translated by Craig Williamson. With an introduction by Tom Shippey — University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 1248 p. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ...
Translated by Craig Williamson. With an introduction by Tom Shippey — University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 1248 p. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ...
Harper Collins Entertainment, 2004. - 99 p. - ISBN: 0-00-719168-5 - (The Simpsons library of wisdom) Homer Simpson is a man's man, an Average Joe, a loving father and husband, and a devoted beer drinker. But do you know the "real" Homer? Find out what's on Homer's mind, discover the mysteries of Homer's fridge, hang out in Homer's haunts, meet his friends and enemies, and spend...
A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy — combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry works of Isabel Allende.
Study guide. grades 6 and up. by Charlotte S. Jaffe and Barbara T. Doherty. Summary. Comprehension and Vocabulary questions of each unit and answer key.
Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1953. — X, 694 p. Introduction and notes by J. G. E. Hopkins. Of the twenty-two stories offered in this volume, eleven made their earliest appearance in Scribner's Magazine, and all were published by Charles Scribner's Sons as individual volumes. The stories have, indeed, but one point of unity (excluding the fact of original publication by a...
Boston: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1972. — Reprint edition, 2013. — 251 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4629-0332-0, 1462903320. Revered as one of the great literary classics of Japan, The Tales of Ise is an anonymous tenth–century collection of Japanese poems and prose. First published in 1608 as Ise–monogatori, the work is a product of court life in which the romantic assignations, intrigues,...
Donner is dead by Cynthia Kaplan - Blue Christmas: The Tour by John Marchese - Eight by Any Krouse Rosenthal - That's Just about Enough Figgy Pudding, Actually by Catherine Newman - Birthday by Ann Patchett - The Accidental Santa by Joni Rodgers - Christmas 2001 by Anne Giardini - The Bite before Chrismas by Stanley bing - Survivor by Louis Bayard - I'll Have Christmas with the...
Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 0345810422; ISBN13: 978-0345810427. Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this extraordinary novel tells the story of three musicians in China before, during...
Balzer + Bray, 2019. On the Come Up is a 2019 young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It tells the story of Bri, a sixteen-year old rapper hoping to fill the shoes of her father and 'make it' as an underground hip-hop legend. Overnight, Bri becomes an internet sensation after posting a rap hit which sparks controversy.
Penguin Books, 1993. — ISBN: 0140231730. It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical...
A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dream world called the Troposphere? Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists--especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith,...
Title: Candleford Green (the third novel in the trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford") Author: Thompson, Flora Jane (1876-1947) Date of first publication: 1943 Edition used as base for this ebook: London: Oxford University Press, 1957 [reprint of the 1954 edition, volume 542 of the OUP's The World's Classics series. Thompson's "Lark Rise to Candleford" trilogy of novels was first...
London: Oxford University Press, 1957. Trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford", part 1. Lark Rise is Flora Thompson's childhood memories of a north Oxfordshire village, the people who lived and worked in it, and a way of life that has totally disappeared. The story is built around Laura and her brother Edmund, through whose eyes are seen "old Sally," whose grandfather built the house...
Title: Over to Candleford (the second novel in the trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford") Author: Thompson, Flora Jane (1876-1947) Date of first publication: 1941 Edition used as base for this ebook: London: Oxford University Press, 1957 [reprint of the 1954 edition, volume 542 of the OUP's The World's Classics series. Thompson's "Lark Rise to Candleford" trilogy of novels was...
2009. Miss Charity Finch returns to her village Restharrow following an absence of 24 years. It's now post-World War II, but the sleepy little village has hardly changed at all since her childhood in the 1880s. Only the faces have changed. So many people she once knew and loved are now lying under the tall unkempt grass in the churchyard. As she walks the meadow path she...
A Savage Journey to the Heart Of the American Dream. Second Vintage books Edition, June 1998 copyright 1971. - The Seizure of $300 from a Pig Woman In Beverly Hills - Strange Medicine On the Desert... A Crisis Of Confidence - Kill the body and the head will die - Rude Music and the Sound Of Many Shotguns...Rude Vibes on a Saturday Evening In Vegas - Covering the Story... A...
Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans.
Fiction, USA, Fawcett Popular Library, 1980, 405 p. Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor,...
Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and...
Walden is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. Thoreau also used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the...
The Sphere, 2017. — 561 p. A collection of Gnostic-Christian poetic and prose texts by the English poet and performer David Tibet. All texts are in reverse chronological order - from 2013 to 1983. Singing Omega ϫⲱ̂ ⲉⲱ̂ ⲙ̄ⲡ︤ⲣ︥ⲧⲣⲉⲱ̂ ϫⲱ̂ ⲉⲣⲟⲕ This volume brings together the major part of the words that I have written, or which have been written through me, for my dream channel...
Autobiography of Tobias Wolf. His difficult childhood and his relationships with those who surrounded him all the time. A sincere story of a liittle boy step by step becoming an adult facing different issues and problems.
New York: Nan A. Talese, 1993. — 1078 p. — ISBN10: 0385051298; ISBN13: 978-0385051293. A massive, comprehensive anthology of poetry from the politically turbulent Russia of this century. This collection introduces Americans to a number of astonishing poets virtually unknown outside of Russia, as well as presenting the work of some of the most prominent Russian poets of the past...
Penguin Books, 1996. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-61532-4. Translated from Indonesian by Max Lane, 1991. Toer Pramoedya Ananta. Anak semua bangsa. — Jakarta: Hasta Mitra Publishing House, 1980. “We fought back, Child, as well and as honorably as possible.” These were the words that ended Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s novel This Earth of Mankind, the first in a quartet of which Child of...
New York: Penguin Books, 1990. — 368 p. Pramudya Ananta Tour. Human world (In English) "This Earth of Mankind" is the first book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet called "Buru Quartet", first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980. The story is set at the end of the Dutch colonial rule and was written while Pramoedya was imprisoned on the political island prison of Buru in...
Transl. by Jennifer Croft. — New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high...
Transl. by Jennifer Croft. — New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high...
Transl. by Jennifer Croft. — New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0525534199; ISBN13: 978-0525534198 A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high...
Barbour Publishing, Inc., 2019. A Desperate Mother Searches for Her Child. Widowed in Memphis during 1932, Cecile Dowd is struggling to provide for her three-year-old daughter. Unwittingly trusting a neighbor puts little Millie Mae into the clutches of Georgia Tann, corrupt Memphis Tennessee Children’s Home Society director suspected of the disappearance of hundreds of...
Doubleday, 2016. — ISBN10: 0385536712; ISBN13: 978-0385536714. From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune,...
Louisiana State University Press, 2004. — 603 p. Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print worldwide in...
This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist-for whom diary notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in ‘Trout and Salmon’-who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen…a project that will change his life, and the course of...
3rd edition. — ST Book Arts, 2014. — ASIN B003K15MO0. An Underground Bestseller with 1,200 5-Star Reviews Semifinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards The Dirty Parts of the Bible is a humorous adventure across America during the Great Depression--a rollicking tale of love and liquor, preachers and prostitutes, trains and treasure, sure to appeal to fans of O Brother...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. - 487 c. Translation from Russian: Robert Daglish Russian original title: Impatience Scan 600 dpi The novel is dedicated to the People's Will. The author tried to analyze the emergence of such personalities as the terrorist Zhelyabov and his comrades. The gifted Soviet writer Yuri Trifonov, a State Prize winner, is well known for two novels...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. - 487 c. Translation from Russian: Robert Daglish Russian original title: Impatience Scan 600 dpi The novel is dedicated to the People's Will. The author tried to analyze the emergence of such personalities as the terrorist Zhelyabov and his comrades. The gifted Soviet writer Yuri Trifonov, a State Prize winner, is well known for two novels...
Big Stone Gap - 4 Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In Home to Big Stone Gap, she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope. Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan...
Big Stone Gap - 4 Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In Home to Big Stone Gap, she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope. Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan...
Big Stone Gap - 4 Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In Home to Big Stone Gap, she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope. Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan...
Orion, 2009. 339 p. The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family-including Judd's mother, brothers, and sister-have been together in years. Conspicuously absent: Judd's wife, Jen, whose fourteen-month affair with Judd's radio-shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public. Simultaneously mourning the death of his father and the...
Bantam — 104 p. Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I, awakens in a hospital bed after being caught in the blast of an exploding artillery shell. He gradually...
India: Imperial Press,.2010.—54 p. KORA is a powerful collection of creative writing which Tsundue produced over a decade, thus striking a perfect balance between the Writer and the Activist. We hope that his readers will not only enjoy the immediacy of his writing, through which Tsundue conveys the agonizing reality of a displaced people, but will also be inspired to reflect...
Archipelago, 2014. — 103 p. — ISBN10: 1935744968, 13 978-1935744962. — Translator Whyte Christopher. Written during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed, these poems are suffused with Tsvetaeva's irony and humor, which undoubtedly accounted for her success in not only reaching the end of the plague year alive, but making it the most productive of...
Bilingual edition by R. Kemball. — Ardis: Ann Arbor, 1980. — 211 p. Original title: Tsvetaeva Marina. Swan camp. A bilingual edition, including the definitive version of the Russian text, established by the editor, with introduction, notes, commentaries, and translation for the first time into English. Facsimile reproductions of Tsvetaeva’s poetry are from the manuscript in the...
2006. 267 p. CITADEL PRESS Kensington Publishing Corp. www.kensingtonbooks.com AUTHOR’S NOTE: My real name is Tucker Max. Unless a full name is used, all other names are pseudonyms. All the events depicted in the stories are completely true. Only certain dates, characteristics, and places are changed to protect me from criminal prosecution or civil liability. I hope you enjoy...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1988. — 396 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Anatole Bilenko. "В степу безкраїм за Уралом". A Biographical Novel of Taras Shevchenko.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1988. — 396 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Anatole Bilenko. "В степу безкраїм за Уралом". A Biographical Novel of Taras Shevchenko.
Hippocrene Books, 1997. — ISBN10: 0781805171; ISBN13: 978-0781805179. A selection of Ukrainian poetry in both their original language and translated into English. Also included are a number of quotations and proverbs from famous Ukrainian writers. This book of charming and beautiful poems is a must for anyone interested in or an immigrant from the Ukraine. Anyone interested in...
Kyiv: ADEF-Ukraine, 2012. — 47 p. / К.: АДЕФ-Україна, 2012. — 47 p. Переклад Стефана Комарницького. A selection of Pavlo Tychyna's poems in Ukrainian and in Stephen Komarnyckyj's impressionistic English translations, which capture the power and beauty of the original. The book also includes a foreword and an interview with the translator.
Kyiv: ADEF-Ukraine, 2012. — 47 p. / К.: АДЕФ-Україна, 2012. — 47 p. Переклад Стефана Комарницького. A selection of Pavlo Tychyna's poems in Ukrainian and in Stephen Komarnyckyj's impressionistic English translations, which capture the power and beauty of the original. The book also includes a foreword and an interview with the translator.
Penguin Classics, 2002. — 1216 p. The world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition...for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal) Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a...
Penguin Classics, 2014. — 784 p. From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan’s great martial epic The fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan’s Iliad — a moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between the Heike and Genji clans. No work has had a greater impact on later Japanese literature, theater, music, film, and...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1986. — 318 p. До книги відомого українського письменника увійшли оповідання, повісті та казки, в яких яскраво виявився його самобутній талант.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1986. — 318 p. До книги відомого українського письменника увійшли оповідання, повісті та казки, в яких яскраво виявився його самобутній талант.
HarperCollins, 2011. — ASIN B004IWR3A6. The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, that People magazine called “a transporting, enlightening book” tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Afghanistan Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of...
Hendricks House — Farrar Straus, New York, 1949. Selected with a Foreword by Martha Foley Abraham Rothberg. Delaware: The Offending Eye. Ella Middleton Tybout Pennsylvania: The Doctor's Son. John O'Hara New Jersey: Christ in Concrete. Pietro Di Donato Georgia: The People Vs. Abe Lathan, Colored. Erskine Caldwell Connecticut: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. James Thurber...
New York: Columbia University Press,.2003.—296 p.—ISBN-0–231–12862–2 This is a collection of four hundred haiku written by twenty Japanese women poets over a period of three and one-half centuries. As is obvious by now, using the term haiku to denote all serious poems written in the seventeen-syllable form since the sixteenth century. Such poems were called hokku before the...
1993. A play script. Alfred Uhry'd Driving Miss Daisy is an entertaining, funny play. Basically this story is about two elderly people from very different walks of life and how over time they develop an understanding, respect and eventually a friendship. The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Hoke is hired by Miss Daisy's son to...
1993. A play script. Alfred Uhry'd Driving Miss Daisy is an entertaining, funny play. Basically this story is about two elderly people from very different walks of life and how over time they develop an understanding, respect and eventually a friendship. The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Hoke is hired by Miss Daisy's son to...
1993. A play script. Alfred Uhry'd Driving Miss Daisy is an entertaining, funny play. Basically this story is about two elderly people from very different walks of life and how over time they develop an understanding, respect and eventually a friendship. The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Hoke is hired by Miss Daisy's son to...
Philadelphia: The Commemorative Committee to Honor Lesia Ukrainka, 1988. — 319 p. Lesia Ukrainka in translations: English, German, Spanish, French, Croatian, Portuguese, Italian. in the Wilderness. Die Blaue Rose. Dueño de piedra. Trois moments. Posestrima Vila. Cassandra. O canto da floresta. Eu vi como curvanam - se teus ombros. Era a noite a surgir feiticeira. Fiat nox!...
Philadelphia: The Commemorative Committee to Honor Lesia Ukrainka, 1988. — 319 p. Lesia Ukrainka in translations: English, German, Spanish, French, Croatian, Portuguese, Italian. in the Wilderness. Die Blaue Rose. Dueño de piedra. Trois moments. Posestrima Vila. Cassandra. O canto da floresta. Eu vi como curvanam - se teus ombros. Era a noite a surgir feiticeira. Fiat nox!...
Barrington Stoke, 2003. 77 p. ISBN: 9781842991145 (ISBN10: 1842991140) A dyslexia-friendly story from specialist publisher Barrington Stoke. Mrs. Weird is a stunt woman. Mr. Weird is a scientist with a habit of blowing up houses. Then there are the children and their Black Cat, Ginger. The Weirds have moved in next door to the neatest, tidiest family ever. Looks like things may...
Mariner Books, 2014. — 592 p. The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger...
540 p. Uncle John’s 24th flagship edition is glittering with more than 500 all-new pages of absorbing material that prove once again why Uncle John makes the best-selling bathroom-reading series in the world. The information miners at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have unearthed a priceless collection of surprising, amazing, headscratching, and hilarious articles. Divided by...
Middlesex UK: Penguin Books,.1971.—110 p. Giuseppe Ungaretti (8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as Ermetismo ("Hermeticism"), he was one of the most prominent contributors to...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies, Black Out, and Die For You comes a novel of corrosive secrets, tenuous connections, and the all-encompassing strength of a mother's faith. Despite their mostly happy marriage, when their son Ricky's girlfriend vanishes, Maggie and Jones find themselves at odds – Maggie is positive Ricky had nothing to do with...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. - 524 p. Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction: "Possibly the best novel I've read in the last decade."—David HalberstamSacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade...
Soho Press, 2014. — 130 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61695-381-2. Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyay — the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West — has crafted a spare, understated work examining a taboo subject: a scorned wife’s obsession with her husband’s illegitimate son. When Didi discovers that her husband, the Masterji, has...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003. — 214 p. — ISBN: 9780544200333. Writing of Samrat Upadhyay’s debut story collection, critics raved: like a Buddhist Chekhov . speak[s] to common truths . startlingly good (San Francisco Chronicle) and subtle and spiritually complex (New York Times). Upadhyay’s first novel showcases his finest writing and his signature themes. The Guru of Love is...
Expanded edition. — Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. — 816 p. — (Best American) — ISBN13: 978-0395843673. With an introduction by John Updike. Contains 56 different short stories of the 20th century, including Fitzgerald's Crazy Sunday , Anderson's The Other Woman , Saul Bellow's A Silver Dish , Saroyan's Resurrection of a Life , and others.
New York: A Tom Donerty Associates Book, 2015. Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood — and solar system — very different from our own, from the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Severin Unck’s father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an...
California: University of California Press,.—490 p. There are poets whose work can be explained, and there are inexplicable poets, like Cesar Vallejo. But being unable to explain does not mean being unable to understand, or that his poems are incomprehensible, totally hermetic. It means that, contrary to our reading of explicable poets, even after we have studied everything...
New York: Grave Press, 1974. — 77 p. This book of poems was written to commemorate the Spanish civil war by a Peruvian poet who is increasingiy becoming recognized as one of the few great poets to have emerged from Latin America in our century, and one of the great poetic voices of our time. Spain, Take This Cup from Me is published in a bilingual edition with the Spanish...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. — 370 p. The Translation judges for the National Book Awards — Richard Miller, Alastair Reid, Eliot Weinberger — cited Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia's translation of Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry as follows: "This, the first National Book Award to be given to a translation of modern poetry, is a...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1984. — 215 p. Translated by Oles Kovalenko. До книги українського письменника-реаліста (1879 — 1932) ввійшли оповідання в основному дореволюційного періоду, в яких зображено безправне, злиденне життя селян-бідняків, побут сільської школи.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1984. — 215 p. Translated by Oles Kovalenko. До книги українського письменника-реаліста (1879 — 1932) ввійшли оповідання в основному дореволюційного періоду, в яких зображено безправне, злиденне життя селян-бідняків, побут сільської школи.
Host and Guest is an epic poem by the Georgian poet, writer and philosopher Vazha-Pshavela. The poem was first published in 1893 in Tbilisi, and it is considered to be the "masterpiece of the Georgian literature". It is compulsory reading in Georgian schools. A film based on the poem was made in 1967 by Tengiz Abuladze.
Chicago: Chicago University Press,.2009.—250 p.—ISBN: 0-226-14188-8 Garcilaso de la Vega (c. 1501 – 14 October 1536) was a Spanish soldier and poet. Although not the first or the only one to do so, he was the most influential poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques, and themes to Spain. He was well known in poetic circles during his lifetime, and...
Serpent’s Tail, 2013. — eISBN 978 1 84765 969 9. The world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses cocktails, the kitchen mice dance to the sound of sunbeams, and the air is three parts jazz. Colin is a wealthy young aristocrat, a slim, innocent creature who loves easily. The instant he sees Chloe, bass drums thump inside his shirt,...
Translated by Peter Fallon. Oxford University Press, 2006. - 150 p. Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) was born near Mantua in northern Italy in 70 bce. He was educated at the larger town of Cremona and finally at Milan. He moved to Rome around 52 bce, but spent most of his time thereafter in the (then) congenial surroundings of the Bay of Naples. He wrote the Eclogues in the...
Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself. Craig's suicidal episode gets him...
Dover Thrift Editions. Witty and caustic, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. In the story of the trials and travails of the youthful Candide, his mentor Dr. Pangloss, and a host of other characters, Voltaire mercilessly satirizes and exposes romance, science, philosophy, religion, and government.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1983. — 124 p. У соціально-побутовій повісті видатної української письменниці (1833 — 1907) змальовано тяжке підневільне життя селян, викрито жорстоку поміщицьку експлуатацію і сваволю. З приїздом панночки-інститутки життя покоївки Устини стає нестерпним: адже кріпак — жива річ свого поміщика. Устининого чоловіка за непокірність віддають у солдати, сама...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1983. — 124 p. У соціально-побутовій повісті видатної української письменниці (1833 — 1907) змальовано тяжке підневільне життя селян, викрито жорстоку поміщицьку експлуатацію і сваволю. З приїздом панночки-інститутки життя покоївки Устини стає нестерпним: адже кріпак — жива річ свого поміщика. Устининого чоловіка за непокірність віддають у солдати, сама...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2019. Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born...
Doncaster: Bayda books, 1981. — 181 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. This book is an attempt at disproving those literary critics who maintain that Ostap Vyshnia is impossible to translate into any non-Slavic language.
Doncaster: Bayda books, 1981. — 181 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. This book is an attempt at disproving those literary critics who maintain that Ostap Vyshnia is impossible to translate into any non-Slavic language.
768 p., 1072 p.; Vintage; 1983 Alice Walker's masterpiece, a powerful novel of courage in the face of oppression Celie has grown up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family. As a teenager she begins writing letters directly to God in an attempt to transcend a life...
2006. To a penniless twenty-year-old like Jamie Long, surrogate motherhood seemed both an act of altruism and a financial opportunity. But once pregnant and under contract to Amanda Hartmann, the head of a famous evangelical family, Jamie realizes that she's getting more than she bargained for. Whisked away to the vast, isolated family ranch, she's closely supervised and...
192 p. He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive. Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom can't seem to stop telling jokes — or the tall tales that have made him, in his son's eyes, an extraordinary man. Big Fish...
155 p. He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive. Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom can't seem to stop telling jokes — or the tall tales that have made him, in his son's eyes, an extraordinary man. Big Fish...
Penguin, 2011 — 592 p. — ISBN: 9780141942896 The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this...
142 p. The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Bridges of Madison County once again brings characters and situations with his special blend of lyricism and magic. This is a bittersweet story about two good people who discover that true love, when it comes, is rarely fair, or right - or without pain.
The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman, living in 1960s Madison County, Iowa, who engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington who is visiting Madison County in order to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area....
New York, Warner Books, 1995. Pages: 50. Language: English. The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman, living in 1960s Madison County, Iowa, who engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington who is visiting Madison County in order to...
Warner Books, 1992. — 52 p. The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman, living in 1960s Madison County, Iowa, who engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer Bellingham, Washington who is visiting Madison County in order to create a photographic essay on the...
Scribner 2009 — 166 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4165-8628-9 Lily Casey Smith, this novel's feisty Texas protagonist, is a frontier teacher, a rancher, a rodeo rider, a poker player, and bootlegger. In Half Broke Horses, she survives droughts, tornados, floods, poverty, and whatever else fate can throw against her. Based on author Jeannette Walls's grandmother, Lily is a plausible...
The Glass Castle details the story of Jeannette Walls and her family. Constantly short on cash and food, the family moves around the country frequently and tries to re-settle. Though the family is dysfunctional, the memoir communicates itself without condemning either of the Walls parents. Humor frequently imbues the work with a light-spirited tone. For the first half of the...
The Glass Castle details the story of Jeannette Walls and her family. Constantly short on cash and food, the family moves around the country frequently and tries to re-settle. Though the family is dysfunctional, the memoir communicates itself without condemning either of the Walls parents. Humor frequently imbues the work with a light-spirited tone. For the first half of the...
The Silver Star, Jeannette Walls has written a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world — a triumph of imagination and storytelling. It is 1970 in a small town in California. Bean Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, a woman who found something wrong with every...
2012. — 38 p. Cover by Patrick A. Walston. Edited by Michael E. Walston. It's been days since the plague hit America. Most of the population has turned into mindless creatures that hunger for human flesh and blood. Danny Hefner and a handful of others will try to live through this hellish nightmare, but they'll wonder if it's really worth it. Danny had watched and read plenty...
Those who know little to nothing about Chinese culture will receive an eye-opening experience of how China was and how China is now through Annie Wang’s novel. Wang takes readers on a journey with four cosmopolitan women learning to live life in the new China. Niuniu, the book’s narrator, is a Chinese American woman, who spent seven years living in the States obtaining her...
Those who know little to nothing about Chinese culture will receive an eye-opening experience of how China was and how China is now through Annie Wang’s novel. Wang takes readers on a journey with four cosmopolitan women learning to live life in the new China. Niuniu, the book’s narrator, is a Chinese American woman, who spent seven years living in the States obtaining her...
Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1979 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Robert Penn Warren's tale of ambition and power set in the Depression–era South is widely considered the finest novel ever written about American politics. This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men...
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. Its owners – mother, son and daughter – are...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. — 173 p. The Chinese scholar William Hung, who wrote the definitive book in English on Du Fu’s life and poetry, gave it the unequivocal title Tu Fu: China’s greatest poet. Professor Stephen Owen of Harvard, the leading American authority on Chinese poetry of the Tang period, enthusiastically seconds Hung’s estimation of Du Fu. And the...
London: 1938. Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the...
London: Doubleday, 2008. — 308 p. The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist. The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history, held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn...
Sold on Amazon, 2016. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 1523940271. — Editor Bridges Vanessa My life had a plan. Until he invaded it and stole it all away. My captor took me and I became a pawn His strategy changed and he sent me away to WAR, because money is everything in this world. In my WAR, though, I found peace. I couldn't help but find love where I least expected it, with a man who...
Wesleyan University Press, 2015. — 250 p. — ISBN: 978-0819565297. Brion Gysin (1916–1986) was a visual artist, historian, novelist, and an experimental poet credited with the discovery of the ‘cut-up’ technique -- a collage of texts, not pictures -- which his longtime collaborator William S. Burroughs put to more extensive use. He is also considered one of the early innovators...
California: University of California Press,.2009.—ISBN: 978-0-520-25034-5 A Bilingual Anthology. Relations with Cuba have preoccupied the North American imagination far more than one might expect, given the island’s small size and minimal power. North American understanding of Cuba has, at the same time, been obscured by longings for the exotic, as well as mythologies of both...
Alex Wellen is a writer, inventor, and Emmy Award-winning television producer for CNN who lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and son. He is a New York Times contributor and has written for numerous national publications and appeared on a wide range of syndicated television and radio programs. On September 18, 2006, through an act of God, Wellen won the much-revered New...
Glue tells the stories of four Scottish boys over four decades, through the use of different perspectives and different voices. It addresses sex, drugs, violence, and other social issues in Scotland, mapping the furious energies of working-class masculinity in the late 20th century, using a compulsive mixture of Lothians dialect, libertarian socialist theory, and an...
Vintage International, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 9780804173216; ISBN13: 978-0804173216. When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and overweight Lena Sorenson, thrilled by Lucy's heroism and...
The first thing to point out is that the book is very different from the (excellent) film. This is an amazing book; essentially a collection of vignettes about Edinburgh street life among the heroin users strung together by a common cast and a narrative about Renton escaping. Making heavy use of the local patois, the book can be difficult to read but it is well worth preserving...
Wendelin Van Draanen’s highly acclaimed he-said, she-said teen romance is going to be a major motion picture. Written and directed by Rob Reiner, the film features a stellar cast, including Madeline Carroll and Callan McAuliffe as Juli and Bryce, and Aidan Quinn, Rebecca De Mornay, Anthony Edwards, Penelope Ann Miller, and John Mahoney. This movie tie-in edition will feature...
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side is a 2005 book written by Pete Wentz the bassist and lyricist of the Illinois pop punk band, Fall Out Boy. The book was illustrated by Joe Tesauro and published by Clandestine Industries. The story of the book is influenced by the recurring nightmares Wentz suffered as a child. It is named after the song "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" by...
Publisher: Speak, 2008. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0142410714. Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 2 and up For Matt and his sisters, life with their cruel, vicious mother is a day-to-day struggle for survival. But then Matt witnesses Murdoch coming to a child?s rescue in a convenience store, and for the first time, he feels a glimmer of hope. When, amazingly, Murdoch begins dating...
Allen & Unwin, 1979, 2017. John Spada publicly runs an enormous multi-national corporation, privately he heads Proteus, a clandestine resistance movement. He aims to free prisoners of conscience wherever they may be. As the story unfolds, Spada himself becomes an outlaw and holds the world hostage.
Lake Union Publishing, 2016. — 412 p. — ISBN10: 1503938131; ISBN13: 978-1503938137. Sometimes the only way through darkness is to return to where it began. Marianne Stokes fled England at seventeen, spiraling into the manic depression that would become her shadow. She left behind secrets, memories, and tragedy: one teen dead, and her first love, Gabriel, badly injured. Three...
Lake Union Publishing, 2016. — 412 p. — ISBN10: 1503938131; ISBN13: 978-1503938137. Sometimes the only way through darkness is to return to where it began. Marianne Stokes fled England at seventeen, spiraling into the manic depression that would become her shadow. She left behind secrets, memories, and tragedy: one teen dead, and her first love, Gabriel, badly injured. Three...
Berkley, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0451488385; ISBN13: 978-0451488381. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street series comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia....
Berkley, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0451488385; ISBN13: 978-0451488381. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street series comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia....
Berkley, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0451488385; ISBN13: 978-0451488381. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street series comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia....
Penguin Classics, 1993. — 288 p. — (Twentieth-Century Classics). — ISBN10: 0140185828; ISBN13: 978-0140185829. These six novels and stories probe beneath the confused surface to expose the true nature of things. This book includes "A Woman's Hand", "The Full Belly", "The Night, the Prowler", "Five-Twenty", "Sicilian Vespers" and "The Cockatoos".
Introduction by J. M. Coetzee. Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he...
Introduction by J. M. Coetzee. Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he...
Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to...
Needfire Poetry, 2010. — 88 p. — ISBN: 139781926912028. Vicious Romantic is a collection of poems from one of the hardest of the hardcore horror authors. Using traditional Japanese and Korean formal poetic structures, this collection takes the very best elements of Wrath James White’s prose and condenses it into a medium that is both disturbing and thought-provoking. A wife...
Doubleday, 2016. — 306 p. — ISBN10: 0385542364; ISBN13: 978-0385542364.From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an...
Doubleday, 2016. — 306 p. — (New York Times Bestseller). — ISBN10: 0385542364; ISBN13: 978-0385542364. From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but...
London: Severn House, 1982. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0-7278-0786-2 The year is 1944. As the tide turns against the Nazis, the Red Army begins its relentless advance west. Heading over the border, Punishment Battalion 333 is at the forefront once more. Comprised of criminals, pimps, murderers, thieves and perverts, the dregs of the Gulags, they kill, burn, rape and ravage across the...
A sparkling coming-of-age novel that has sold over 300,000 copies in Holland, in which the inhabitants of a sleepy rural town are awakened by the arrival of a kinetic young visionary, Joe Speedboat. After a farming accident plunges him into a coma for six months, Frankie Hermans wakes up to discover that he’s paralyzed and mute. Bound to a wheelchair, Frankie struggles to...
From internationally best-selling author Tommy Wieringa, comes a rich and engrossing novel about a man on an odyssey in search of answers about his dysfunctional artistic family and the legacy they left behind. When Ludwig Unger returned to his hometown after a decade, he arrived with a plastic bag filled with his mother’s ashes and little else. He was there to make amends with...
Border town on the steppe. A small group of emaciated and feral refugees appears out of nowhere, spreading fear and panic in the town. When police commissioner Pontus Beg orders their arrest, evidence of a murder is found in their luggage. As he begins to unravel the history of their hellish journey, it becomes increasingly intertwined with the search for his own origins that...
Pocket Books, 2010 — ISBN: 1-84739-038-2 / 978-1-84739-038-7 They promised Meredith nine years of safety, but only gave her three. Her father was supposed to be locked up until Meredith turned eighteen. She thought she had time to grow up, get out, and start a new life. But Meredith is only fifteen, and today her father is coming home from prison. Today her time has run out.
New York City: Scholastic Inc, 1990. — 119 p. A play in 3 acts: Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
Publisher: THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS, Language: English, First Edition: June 2006, ISBN: 0-312-35229-8, EAN 978-0-312-35229-5, 176 p. Bec is adrift. It's the summer before her junior year in college. She's sleeping with a married professor, losing interest in her classes, and equivocating about her career. She takes a job caring for Kate, a thirty-six-year-old woman who has been...
It Books, 2011. — 240 p. ISBN10: 0062091182 ISBN13: 978-0062091185 In the intimate follow up to her New York Times bestselling memoir Sliding Into Home, Kendra Wilkinson reveals the naked truth about her life after Playboy — the secrets behind regaining her trademark sexy body, the trials of her life as a new mother, the tricks of sustaining her long-distance romance with Hank,...
It Books, 2011. — 240 p. ISBN10: 0062091182 ISBN13: 978-0062091185 In the intimate follow up to her New York Times bestselling memoir Sliding Into Home, Kendra Wilkinson reveals the naked truth about her life after Playboy — the secrets behind regaining her trademark sexy body, the trials of her life as a new mother, the tricks of sustaining her long-distance romance with Hank,...
Look out New York City! Ms. Rayanne “Annie” McCauley from little old Mesa View, Texas has set her sights on being a high fashion model. Despite her humble beginnings in the Mesa View Mobile Home Park, hot tempered Annie thinks she can make it all the way to the cover of Women’s Wear Daily (as long as she follows her own rules).
ISBN: 1-59017-199-3. John Williams is best known for his novels, Nothing But the Night, Stoner, Butcher's Crossing, and Augustus, for which he won the National Book Award in 1973. He also published two volumes of verse and edited a classic anthology of English Renaissance poetry. In a rare interview given late in life, John Williams says of Stoner: I think he's a real hero. A...
Garden City — New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. — 371 p. ’’Ruggles of Red Gap’’ is a popular work of fiction written by Harry Leon Wilson. Wilson was a novelist and dramatist of considerable popularity in the early twentieth century - this title provides readers with the opportunity to read the work that Wilson is most well known for. ’’Ruggles of Red Gap’’ is the...
Ecco, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0062913468; ISBN13: 978-0062913463.• A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability. Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable...
Ecco, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0062913468; ISBN13: 978-0062913463.• A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability. Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2015. — 2136 p. — (The Poldark Saga #2). — ISBN: 1492622109, ISBN13: 9781492622109. In the enchanting second novel in Winston Graham’s beloved Poldark series, Demelza Carne, an impoverished miner’s daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground brawl, now happily finds herself his wife. But the events of these turbulent years test their marriage and their...
Grove Press, 1997. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-0802135162. Language: English. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes...
Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French...
A debut novel from the bestselling author of Queen Bees and Wannabes! Charlie Healy just wants a drama-free year, but it doesn't seem like she's going to get it. After surviving a middle school packed with mean girls, Charlie is ready to leave all that behind in high school. But then, on her very first day, she runs into her former best friend, Will, who moved away years ago....
The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize ‘Only the villages are asleep, the eternal reservoir of all kinds of soldiery, the inexhaustible source of physical strength’ The villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life at the beginning of the twentieth century◦– much as they have always done. They are isolated and...
To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a...
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. – 224 p. Language: English. Stop. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. No, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce,...
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2012. – 216 p. Language: English. Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti. Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a...
East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood. A Victorian bestseller, it is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centreing on infidelity and double identities. There have been numerous stage and film adaptations. The much-"quoted" line "Gone! And never called me mother!" (variant: "Dead! Dead! And never called me mother!") does not appear...
San Francisco, New York: Paul Elder and Company, 1908. — 40 p. Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955) was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography. Wood's patents and theoretical work shed much light on the nature and physics of ultra-violet...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. – 205 p. Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation - both material and psychological - motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007. – 286 p. Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree...
New York: Alibi, 2017. — 297 p. — (Hush Money Mystery 1). — ISBN13: 9780425284568. The mayor is smart, funny, and loved by all. Except for the person who leaves him in a pool of his own blood... Madison is booming with dreamers and drifters, visionaries and entrepreneurs. Among them is Sydney Richardson, the daughter of a cop who died on these streets and now the proud,...
Call The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (2002) An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one extraordinary woman At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while...
555 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, 1992. 1952 Novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1951. The novel was awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Caine Mutiny grew out of Wouk's experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II. The novel focuses on Willie Keith, a rich New Yorker assigned to the USS Caine, who...
Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY, 1978. - 1770 p. War and Remembrance is a historical romance. The subject is World War II, the viewpoint American. A prologue, The Winds of War, published in 1971, set the historical frame for this work by picturing the events leading up to Pearl Harbor. This is a novel of America at war, from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. It is the main...
Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY, 1971. - 1322 p. In this massive, best-selling novel-over one year on national best-seller lists-Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk re-creates two of the most dramatic years of the twentieth century, taking the entire planet for his stage. From Washington, D.C., to the capitals of Europe to Pearl Harbor, The Winds of War pulses with the...
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the...
Translated with an introduction by Toby Wilkinson. — Penguin, 2016. — 384 p. — (Penguin Classics). In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into the life of the Egyptian mind. For this remarkable new collection, Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has freshly...
Collinson Fair; Silk Pagoda, 2005. — 1410 p. Translation from Chinese. Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation, Monkey, is well known in English-speaking countries. The novel is an...
Winner of the kirkus prize a man booker prize finalist a national book award finalist a little Life follows four college classmates — broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition — as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held...
New York: Doubleday, 2015. — 835 p. — ISBN: 978-0-385-53925-8 — ISBN: 978-0-385-53926-5 When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to...
Doubleday, 2013. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0385536771, ISBN13: 9780385536776. In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub "The Dreamers," who turn out to be...
Doubleday, 2013. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0385536771, ISBN13: 9780385536776 In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu’ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub “The Dreamers,” who turn out to be...
Createspace, 2011. In Memoirs of a Eurasian and Shanghai Girl, Vivian succeeds in creating an inimitable Shanghai and the Far East world that the reader can be transported to. Both novels are about a strong heroine with roots in Shanghai’s former French Concession who overcomes extraordinary odds in pursuit of a dream. Memoirs of a Eurasian, a chapter of which was a winner of...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1989. — 148 p. У романі "Вершники" (1935) відтворено боротьбу українського народу під час громадянської війни. Композиційно роман складається з восьми новел, які не пов'язані єдиним сюжетом, але поєднані головною авторською настановою: показати через внутрішній світ героїв історичну необхідність перетворення земної світобудови. У кожній новелі...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1989. — 148 p. У романі "Вершники" (1935) відтворено боротьбу українського народу під час громадянської війни. Композиційно роман складається з восьми новел, які не пов'язані єдиним сюжетом, але поєднані головною авторською настановою: показати через внутрішній світ героїв історичну необхідність перетворення земної світобудови. У кожній новелі...
The Flamethrowers meets Let the Great World Spin in this debut novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle's 1999 WTO protests. On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor-a boyish, scrappy world traveler who's run away from home-sets out to sell marijuana to the 50,000 anti-globalization protestors gathered in the streets. It quickly becomes clear that the throng...
A biographical novel by Elizabeth Yates that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1951. It is about a young African prince, who when people come and attack his tribe, is captured and taken to America as a slave. He masters a trade, frees himself by his own efforts and dies a respected citizen. Amos Fortune - (ca. 1710 – 1801) born a prince...
Thais of Athens (Russian: Thais of Athens) is a historical novel by Ivan Efremov written in 1972. It tells the story of the famous hetaera Thaïs, who was one of Alexander the Great's contemporaries and companions on his conquest of the oikoumene or the known world . The book combines the life of the historical and a fictional Tais. It follows such actual events as the burning...
London: Faber & Faber, 2016. — 96 p. — ISBN 978–0–571–33402–5. Translation and Translator’s Foreword: Stephen Mulrine. Foreword to this edition: Charlotte Hobson. Venichka Erofeev (Venya), cultured alcoholic, self-mocking intellectual, regales us with an account of his ‘heroic’ odyssey from Moscow to provincial Petushki. Stories of his rich, turbulent inner life abound as he...
Garden City, NY: Anchor books, 1967 — 214 p. Translated by Tina Tupikina-Glaessner, Geoffrey Button, Igor Mezhakoff-Koriakin. Introduction by. Rosh Ireland. A poem about a power station? Where else but in Soviet Russia, where the building of hydroelectric dams was a cause for great pride, coming out of the long Tsarist night and the privations of the war. Yvgeny Yevtushenko, a...
Publication details not specified. — 29 p. Lee Hae-jo. Mountains, rivers, grass, trees (In English) As the sun slowly sets with a preoccupied air behind Tunggu Ridge to the west of Seoul, it looks back at everyone, as if bidding them, "Have a good night. I'll be back tomorrow", and at that moment the clear, bright moon merrily rises from the slopes of Mount Nak-san to the east....
Publication details not specified. — 33 p. Lee Moon Yeol. Garuda (In English) Kojuk opened his eyes, feeling as if a powerful beam of light had suddenly swept over him. It seemed only a short while since he had heard the nearby church bell ringing for dawn prayers, yet now it was morning. The sun was shining directly onto the white paper covering the eastward - facing lattice...
Harvill Press, 1993. — 143 p. Lee Moon Yeol. Poet (In English) Perhaps we ought to begin this investigation into the deviations of his life by evoking the problem of human memory. In his later years, summing up the whole course of his existence in a long lyric, he wrote the following lines: As my hair grew longer, my fortunes travelled a rough road: The family line in ruins,...
Publication details not specified. — 28 p. Lee Moon Yeol. Winter of this year (In English) Yi Mun-yol (born May 18, 1948) is a South Korean writer. I think the time has finally come when I can try to explain what happened that winter, all those years ago. I’m well past thirty now, and I’ve got a family I have to provide for; so every morning I go out to work, wearing a suit and...
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2013. — 18 p. Lee San. Remains of a child (In English) About Yi Sang. Child’s Bone: Feelers. The Beginning of Defeat. Oppose the Beggar. Whip a Galloping Horse. Clear Statement. Text. Failure.
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2013. — 30 p. Lee San. Dying words (In English) Lee Sang (1910-1937) - Korean writer. Published since 1934 (surrealist poems). In 1936 he published the story "Wings". In the psychological stories "Chronicle of Life", "Remains of a Child", "Paradise Lost" he conveyed the inner state of an intellectual who, in the conditions of...
Publication details not specified. — 6 p. The writer generally known as Yi Sang, or Lee Sang, was born Kim Hae-gyeong in Seoul in 1910 and was trained as an architect. During his short literary career, he showed an interest first in poetry, turning out some highly idiosyncratic and experimental pieces, and then short fiction and anecdotal essays. In the fall of 1936 he...
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2014. — 13 p. Lee San. Dark room on the map (In English) “The Darkroom of the Map” (1931), Yi Sang’s first Korean short story, is often considered to be his most difficult work. As the text opens, we are led into the labyrinthine mind of an insomniac named “Ri Sang”, but the prose is extremely experimental, even by Yi Sang’s...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. — 548 p. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting,...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. — 951 KB. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting,...
The Girl Who Made Time Stop (1961) Added Inducement (1957) Hopsoil (1961) Flying Pan (1956) Emily and the Bards Sublime (1956) The Dandelion Girl (1961) The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats (1959) Goddess in Granite (1957) Promised Planet (1955) Romance in a Twenty-First Century Used-Car Lot (1960) The Courts of Jamshyd (1957) Production Problem (1959) Little Red Schoolhouse (1956)...
Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare. Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well — until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she...
Boston: Mariner Books, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0544324471; ISBN13: 978-0544324473. From one of Korea’s literary stars, a novel about two orphans from the streets of Seoul: one becomes the head of a powerful motorcycle gang, and the other follows him at all costs In South Korea, underground motorcycle gangs attract society’s castoffs. They form groups of hundreds and speed...
Japan: LN Published by Syosetsu. — 67 p. Yuki Fujimira. A dim symbol, an empty illusion (In English) Saki Mitsumura. Masatoshi Sakizaki. City. A Digression. Memories Traced by a Corpse. The Answer. A New Development. Defeat. Graduation.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. – 95 p. Language: English. El Palacio de la Medianoche (1994). Translation: Lucia Graves. In the heart of Calcutta lurks a dark mystery. Set in Calcutta in the 1930s, The Midnight Palace begins on a dark night when an English lieutenant fights to save newborn twins Ben and Sheere from an unthinkable threat. Despite monsoon-force rains...
Publisher: Phoenix, 2011. – 63 p. Language: English. El Príncipe de la Niebla (1993). Translation: Lucia Graves. A mysterious house harbors an unimaginable secret. It’s wartime, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they’ve recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things...
Penguin Books, 2005. – 323 p. Original title: La sombra del viento (2001). Translated by Lucia Graves. Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find...
Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2012. — 522 p. Translated by Larysa Zaleska-Onyshkevych. The Anthology includes the following plays: 1.Lesia Ukrainka, In the Wilderness (1897-1909) 2.Mykola Kulish, The People's Malachi (1928) 3.Mykola Kulish, Sonata Pathétique (1930) 4.Volodymyr Vynnychenko, The Prophet (1929) 5.Ivan Kocherha, Masters of Time (1930)...
Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2012. — 522 p. Translated by Larysa Zaleska-Onyshkevych. The Anthology includes the following plays: 1.Lesia Ukrainka, In the Wilderness (1897-1909) 2.Mykola Kulish, The People's Malachi (1928) 3.Mykola Kulish, Sonata Pathétique (1930) 4.Volodymyr Vynnychenko, The Prophet (1929) 5.Ivan Kocherha, Masters of Time (1930)...
A young girl tells the story of her family's tragic demise using a deck of cards of the eponymous Mexican game in this spellbinding debut novel that marks the arrival of a powerhouse new talent. With her older sister Estrella in the ICU and her father in jail, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo has been taken into the custody of the state. Alone in her room, the young girl retreats...
New York: Harper Voyager, 1983. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0380633132; ISBN13: 978-0380633135. Translated from Russian by Mirra Ginsburg. The long-suppressed Russian masterpiece that goes beyond 'Brave New World' and '1984'. Part science fiction, part parable, part debate as to the role of reason in human life. A bitter indictment against regimentation, conformity and the...
Jill MacSweeney just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she’s been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends — everyone who wants to support her. And when her mom decides to adopt a baby, it feels like she’s somehow trying to replace a lost family member with a new one. Mandy Kalinowski understands what it’s like to grow up...
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1984. — 534 p. Це друга частина дилогії відомого українського письменника (1923 — 1977) про українське село Вавілон. Герої твору проходять крізь тяжкі випробування війни. Найскладніші порухи людської душі, героїзм, зрадництво, високе і низьке в своїх персонажах досліджує письменник, малюючи яскравий образ народу, що бореться за своє щастя — і перемагає.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1984. — 534 p. Це друга частина дилогії відомого українського письменника (1923 — 1977) про українське село Вавілон. Герої твору проходять крізь тяжкі випробування війни. Найскладніші порухи людської душі, героїзм, зрадництво, високе і низьке в своїх персонажах досліджує письменник, малюючи яскравий образ народу, що бореться за своє щастя — і перемагає.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1982. — 438 p. У творі відомого українського письменника (1923 — 1977), лауреата Державної премії УРСР імені Т. Г. Шевченка відображено гостру класову боротьбу в подільському селі в роки становлення Радянської влади та періоду колективізації, формування нової людини.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1982. — 438 p. У творі відомого українського письменника (1923 — 1977), лауреата Державної премії УРСР імені Т. Г. Шевченка відображено гостру класову боротьбу в подільському селі в роки становлення Радянської влади та періоду колективізації, формування нової людини.
Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1982. — 160 p. OCR. Robert Zend (1929-1985) is unquestionably Canada's most musical poet. Translator John Robert Colombo: "Zend's poems display a ready wit and frequent flights of fancy. In Beyond Labels the poet shows more formal ingenuity and invention [than in From Zero to One], especially with his "Ditto poems" and "Drop poems," which are...
Mission City (British Columbia, Canada): Sono Nis Press, 1973. — 208 p. OCR. Robert Zend (1929-1985), a Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer, and multi-media artist, was born in Budapest where he worked as a film man and as a freelance journalist and translator. He took his B.A. from the Peter Pazmany Science University in 1953. He left in 1956 to come to Toronto. "From Zero...
Algonquin Books, 2014. — 260 p. — eISBN 978-1-61620-394-8. A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, its unexpected arrival gives Fikry the chance...
Delphi Classic. 2012. — 12119 p. Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
Content: "Nana" and the short stories "The Miller's Daughter," "Captain Burle," and "The Death of Olivier Bacaille" Nana Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. The Miller's Daughter A poignant tale in which Zola highlights the futility of war and the destruction it...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 320 p. Émile Zola was born in Paris in 1840, the son of a Venetian engineer and his French wife. He grew up in Aix-en-Provence where he made friends with Paul Cézanne. After an undistinguished school career and a brief period of dire poverty in Paris, Zola joined the newly founded publishing firm of Hachette which he left in 1866 to live by his...
California: University of California Press,. 2009.—131 p.—ISBN: 978-0-520-25972-0 A bilingual edition Raúl Zurita Canessa (born 1950) is a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000.
The Book Thief is a novel by Australian author Markus Zusak. Narrated by Death, the book is set in Nazi Germany, a place and time when the narrator notes he was extremely busy. It describes a young girl's relationship with her foster parents, the other residents of their neighborhood, and a young Jewish man who hides in her home during the escalation of World War II. First...
Black Swan, 2007. — ISBN: 0-552-77389-1. Story of a young girl growing up in Nazi Germany narrated by Death. Told from a perspective of an fascinated observer, the girl's interaction with family and friends against the background of war and the Holocaust is told in a straightforward manner that captures the amazing capacity of humans to survive and support one another - or not.
The Book Thief is a novel by Australian author Markus Zusak. Narrated by Death, the book is set in Nazi Germany, a place and time when the narrator notes he was extremely busy. It describes a young girl's relationship with her foster parents, the other residents of their neighborhood, and a young Jewish man who hides in her home during the escalation of World War II. First...
The World of Yesterday (German title Die Welt von Gestern) is the autobiography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. He started writing it in 1934 when, anticipating Anschluss and Nazi persecution, he uprooted himself from Austria to England and later to Brazil. He posted the manuscript, typed by his wife, to the publisher a day before his wife's and his suicide in February, 1942....
К.: Дніпро, 1985. - 223 p. У "Лісовій пісні" втілилося народне сприйняття навколишнього світу, давнє міфологічне мислення українців. Гостро постає проблема відносин людини і природи, які дуже часто не є гармонійними. Людина звикла ставитися до природи, як до засобу, що робить її життя зручнішим. Використовуючи природні дари, людина не помічає своїх шкідливих дій. Мавка є...
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