Author: Anne MichaelsISBN-10: 0593470842ISBN-13: 9780593470848Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2025Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.66d

First Published in 1894, "The Yellow Fairy Book" is the sixth in a series of collections of fairy tales from around the world edited by Andrew Lang, the Scottish novelist, poet and literary critic, with translations and retellings by several authors, including his wife,...

1937, Europe and America. Based on a powerful true story, this extraordinary novel about wartime courage and extraordinary friendship, tells how two women changed the fate of the Second World War and the course of history. When an impossibly shy young woman named Judy...

Written in a French style that long defied successful translation--Cocteau was always a poet no matter what we was writing--the book came into its own for English-language readers in 1955 when this translation was completed by Rosamund Lehmann. It is a masterpiece of the...

Mann's bestselling work of fiction now appears in a trade paperback format with a striking new jacket. Sales of the classic have totaled over 800,000 copies and average 42,000 copies a year.Author: Thomas MannISBN-10: 0679722068ISBN-13: 9780679722069Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/1989Pages: 402Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.02h x...

The debut of a major new talent, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE tells the stories of several generations of African-American women, bringing their spirit and their sorrow to life with a power, sensitivity, and immediacy. In 1749 in Sierra Leone, a woman of fierce dignity is captured...

A thinly-veiled autobiographical novel, Recovery follows Dr. Alan Severance through his emotional journey of Freudian group analysis where he confesses his humiliations, defeats, and delusions in an attempt to purge himself and achieve normality. Author: John BerrymanISBN-10: 1517901316ISBN-13: 9781517901318Publisher: University of Minnesota PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger, who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades later. Part Gogol, part Chekhov, and all...

From one of our most acclaimed writers comes this dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose life is forever changed by the betrayal of her mother and by the man she loves. Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized--and sometimes outraged--millions of readers. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A Penguin Classic First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression...

In the turn 2099, the world has become starkly divided between the progress-obsessed Metropolis, and the isolated, exploited outside. In the Metropolis, the Users have become entirely dependent on their ever-expanding grid. Sustained through Poplar Corp.'s updates, the technologically enhanced Users work in unison...

Marcus lives his life as if no future existed. Drugs and casual sex take up a lot of his time, until they lead the twenty three year old to nights spent on unfamiliar couches, and eventually to an improbable encounter with Franz, a fifty-something...

Author: Ambar CordovaISBN-13: 9798990490369Publisher: Cordova ChroniclesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2025Pages: 422Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

The River People by Liz Kellebrew is a haunting and lyrical exploration of 19th-century westward expansion into the Pacific Northwest. Through the intertwined journeys of Marilla, John, and Walter-each navigating rivers that serve as both roads and unforgiving forces-the novel weaves together fiction, historical...

A bleak and humorous literary novel about a scientist with synesthesia who invents an artificial fragrance to reproduce the silence of the smell of his dead mother. When Denise, his coworker, unwittingly inhales the fragrance, she must fight to stop a flood of hallucinatory...

Sister. Pawn. Liar. Traitor.Her words sent two queens to the scaffold.Her secrets shaped a kingdom.But her true story was hidden.Until now. Philippa Gregory brings the Boleyn traitor out of the shadows in a groundbreaking tale of love, betrayal -- and survival.Author: Philippa GregoryISBN-10: 0063439689ISBN-13:...

The sixth installment in Jasper Fforde's New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England--from the author of Early Riser Dazzlingly funny and imaginative, Jasper Fforde's books have won him the affection of...

Author: Yvonne Battle-FeltonISBN-10: 142052111XISBN-13: 9781420521115Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2025Format: Library BindingLarge Print

From the author of the classics Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory, a morally complex tale about a man at the mercy of deadly forces while being held in a German prison camp during World War II. Featuring an introduction by the...

Author: Marie ZhuikovISBN-10: 1960329707ISBN-13: 9781960329707Publisher: Cornerstone PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45dReview Citation(s): Booklist 01/01/2025 pg. 28

A moving, witty, often hilarious novel following a woman who becomes an internet sensation in the most unexpected way, catapulting into a world of money and fame just as she's beginning to finally reckon with her complicated past, from the author of The Wangs...

In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman's passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her...

Life is full of joy and fear as we learn its toughest lessons. We travel bumpy roads, inherit responsibilities, reap rewards, and incur debts-the razor blades we all slide over while learning.These stories focus on the lessons we learned when we were young. Simple...

Teenage Wyland and his older brother Lee must navigate the world of guns, girls, basketball and family honor on the rez. Will Wyland be a bully to eager Derrin Kinyonie, or let him play? Will he step out of his brother's shadow and learn...

Author: Stan PinkneeyISBN-10: 1961853086ISBN-13: 9781961853089Publisher: Stan PinkneeyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2025Pages: 210Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

Author: Jon SparksISBN-10: 1739280784ISBN-13: 9781739280789Publisher: Jon SparksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2025Pages: 374Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.83d

In this darkly humorous detective story, plagued by death on his conscience, Happy Doll has committed himself to a simple, spiritual life; that is, until a tragic and brutal murder forces his hand and sets him back on the bloody path of retribution and...

These poems are a collection of my work, sharing different pieces of my journey to motivate and inspire others.Happiness to me, Is a smile on someone's face.Whether it is a stranger, Or a friendly face. Author: Domenica CalcaraISBN-10: 1779625537ISBN-13: 9781779625533Publisher: Tellwell TalentLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2024Pages:...

A hybrid of short works exploring the 1859 Carrington solar flare A flood of illumination, a cosmic cataclysm frozen in time--the Carrington Event of 1859 was the most disruptive solar flare in recorded history, an electromagnetic storm that wiped out telegraph systems across the...

In lyrical, unconstrained prose, debut author Tom Ross tells a story of intergenerational change and conflict in a Black American family in the pre-Civil Rights era.Lorraine "Rain" Franklin--whose family made their way north as part of the Great Migration and have settled in the...

Author: Ross JefferyISBN-13: 9798991596923Publisher: Truborn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2025Pages: 442Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.98d

From the cult-favorite feminist author of The Princess of 72nd Street, a classic novel about a captive woman who must use unorthodox methods to reclaim her fractured mind The dimensions of this house have already shaped your response. Did you think you could hide...

Author: Rebecca SerleISBN-10: 1420520229ISBN-13: 9781420520224Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/2025Pages: 370Format: PaperbackLarge Print

One night. Two sides of a story. In multi-perspective storytelling filled with humanity and empathy, Exposure forces readers to reckon with conflicting truths that are not easily reduced to right or wrong. In 2004, Juliette Marker, a white college freshman, and Noah King, a...

An intrepid poet whose idealism exceeds his sanity joins a quixotic band of local bar flies to rescue the town's generous, kind and--only secondarily to hear him tell it--beautiful heiress, Ariel. What noble man would settle for anything less than to rescue a damsel...

Author: Ruth ReichlISBN-10: 0812986377ISBN-13: 9780812986372Publisher: Random House TradeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2025Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.59d

MOST ANTICIPATED: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, & MORE - There's a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer...

St Petersburg, 1917French Huguenot Anastasia believes working in one of Sinai's mirror factories will allow her to trap the imaginary Arctic Fox which lives in her womb.Meanwhile, Jack escapes from London and travels to Sinai to avoid being conscripted to fight in the trenches....

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTIONWINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL auē (verb) to cry, howl, groan, wail, bawl. (interjection) expression of astonishment or distress. Taukiri was born into...

Sorcha is over the hook-ups and gay haunts of her twenties. At thirty-one what she wants, more than anything, is to have a baby. Then she meets Chris-- with her buttoned-up plaid, 90s heartthrob hair, and grand romantic gestures-- and things get serious. Fast....

For fans of American Housewife and the work of Lily King, a provocative, razor-sharp, and riotously entertaining story collection exploring the dark side of family and femininity.CONTAINS "COMORBIDITIES," WINNER OF THE BBC SHORT STORY PRIZEIn my life, I had always been a good woman;...

The Border Between Us is a poignant coming-of-age novel from one of the most exciting voices in fiction.Ram?n L?pez was born along the US-Mexico border but is determined to get out and embrace the American dream--and he's not sure whether his complicated family is...

Arindam Chatterjee is a middle-class Delhi boy with an aptitude for science and maths but the yearning to be the drummer of a rock band. Both of which necessitate his admission to the premier engineering college of India, the IIT, where life revolves as...

As with his earlier works, Mohamed El-Bisatie's novel is set in the Egyptian countryside, about which he writes with such understanding. Episodic in form, it deals with a family--Zaghloul the layabout father, Sakeena the long-suffering wife, and two young boys. The central theme of...

When Alexis Bishop is called home by her dying father, she is completely unprepared for the ties that bind her to her childhood home in the Oregon High Desert.Arriving there, she steps into her father's shoes, caring for his law firm, his 3,000 acre...

Emily Lime and her equally palindromic dog, Otto, live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (zip code 11211), in a warm community of friends and fellow artists. Her life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Marcus, a dog-walker and fellow Scrabble nut, whose father...

Carmen Daniels is young, independent and one year shy of her bachelor's. She has her whole life ahead of her. Then one day she meets Todd. Too good to be true, it's not long before he proposes and moves in. By the time the...

"She's beautiful," writes Irish-American art historian Patricia Dolan in the first of the journal entries that form The Music Lesson. "I look at my face in the mirror and it seems far away, less real than hers." The woman she describes is the subject...

"This guy can write " --Ray Bradbury Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people-and monsters and trees and jocular octopi-who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes...

Author: A. Noel BiddyISBN-13: 9798331043032Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/08/2025Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d