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An "enchanting" (Caroline Kepnes, author of You) "fairy-tale-inflected thriller" (The New Yorker) about two sisters who encounter a captivating yet possibly dangerous underworld cult that challenges their perception of reality. A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 Rose has come a long way. Raised--and...

Author: Frank NorrisISBN-10: 0140187693ISBN-13: 9780140187694Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1994Pages: 496Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 7.74h x 5.08w x 0.99dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.8Point Value: 20Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 76245 / McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

For fans of Conversations with Friends and Vladimir comes a magnetic, fresh take on marriage and loyalty: when two married professors tiptoe toward infidelity, their transgressions are brought to light in a graduate student's searing thesis project. Simone is the star of Edwards University's...

From Laila Lalami--the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a "maestra of literary fiction" (NPR)--comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman's fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance. Sara has just landed...

Four individuals try to conceive an extraordinary family in urban Manila and rediscover that secrets can also be joyous. Jaime drops by a restaurant to cool off with a glass of beer. Jun waits on him during that random visit. Something happens between them...

"A writer of seemingly limitless range." -- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours. This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a gay African American poet. The tale unfolds in three non-chronological parts, starting in the twenty-first century...

The adventure of ECO WOMAN continues with Maeve earning her bona fides as a member of the Lights by vanquishing her evil brother's plans to enslave and corrupt the Grounds in an underwater prison.Author: Fanny BarryISBN-13: 9798991362511Publisher: Blue Heron Book WorksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2024Pages: 230Format:...

Sabine Haegan has spent a lifetime desperate to escape her violent past. But when her life in California falls apart, she returns to New Mexico, the state she abandoned more than a decade prior. Searching for salvation in the desert, she meets Howling Woman,...

In this imaginative cozy mystery, the search for a missing maid leads Miss Caroline Bingley from Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice into murder and mayhem in the gritty underbelly of Regency London.Two years after her brother Charles Bingley weds Miss Jane Bennett, Miss...

A spiky, edgy collection of five wickedly funny stories spotlighting clear-eyed and "difficult" women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japan--a feminist, anti-capitalist modern classic published outside Asia and in English for the first time.The Dilemmas of Working Women...

"Albion explores the complexities of family, trauma, nature, human nature, landscape and escape in language that is as provocative as it is tender."--Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace"A superb deftly woven novel . . . Anna Hope...

A page-turning epic of loss and redemption in the vein of Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers and Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, about a group of four women who formed a deep friendship in the turbulent years leading up to and after Georgia's independence from...

Books will always be a refuge.Madrid, 1934. The winds of change are blowing in the Spain of the Second Republic when B?rbara, a young German woman who has managed to flee Berlin after the victory of the Nazi party in the elections, opens a...

'This is a novel about everything and nothing, sour and melancholy, with elements of sheer comedy and almost unbearable beauty... The older Deborah reflects that "I'm surprised any of us lived to tell the tale", and if this subtle book has a message, it...

A spare, luminous novel centred around the unforgettable voices of schoolgirls in Uganda who survive capture by the Lord's Resistance Army. In northern Uganda in the 1990s, girls as young as eleven were abducted from schools and homes by the Lord's Resistance Army and...

Reproduction of the original: Manx Fairy Tales by Sophia MorrisonAuthor: Sophia MorrisonISBN-10: 3752420146ISBN-13: 9783752420142Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2020Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.23d

Marriage counselor Eli Fox has always been led by his commander-a persona inside his mind who speaks to him through his waking thoughts. Eli trusts his commander implicitly, for he is, and always has been, his protector and master strategist. At the historic Stoneport...

Betrayal, Revenge, and Redemption: An Unforgettable Epic!Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dant?s' life is shattered on the day of his engagement. Unjustly condemned to the grim dungeon of the Ch?teau d'If, he endures fourteen years of suffering and despair. Yet, in...

An unimaginable crime and the man who must defend it-a probing psychological thriller from the author of A Thousand Cuts.A chance phone call throws the biggest muder case in southern England into the hands of provincial attorney Leo Curtice. Twelve-year- old Daniel Blake stands...

'A twist to rival Gone Girl left me gasping' KATY BRENT--------------- Meet Emma. Emma is sick. She can't work because of a neurological condition, so is stuck in her family's tiny council house. Emma is sick of being told to 'get over it'. Her...

In this classic novel, James Fenimore Cooper offers a vivid depiction of life on the American frontier. The story follows the adventures of a bee hunter, Natty Bumppo, as he navigates the challenges of the oak openings.This work has been selected by scholars as...

In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the town more quickly 'for...

Anthony Trollope was a prolific Victorian writer. Trollope's best-loved works were known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which center on the imaginary county of Basetshire. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts. First published in serial form in the...

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life."--from the Nobel Prize citation SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE - A "formally daring, emotionally devastating,...

A chance finding of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A visit to Hemingway home in Chicago.Determination to weave odd travel experiences into a sensible series of events.The author's passion for coffee, Lord Byron, and Ernest Hemingway borders on obsession, which eventually leads her to undertake the...

A "sweeping" (Entertainment Weekly) novel of America's forgotten leading lady, the central figure of a movement that defined a nation--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post "Soul-stirring . . . brings to life the epic and inspiring...

A bona fide "instant classic" (Doug Stanhope) novel that tells the story of a road comic crashing and burning by acclaimed comedian Sam Tallent Billy Ray Schafer stepped off the plane in Amarillo, Texas, with twenty-six hundred dollars tucked down the leg of his...

Love, ambition, and wealth take center stage in this collection of classic stories from the Jazz Age. Often described as the "Great American Novel," F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is the quintessential story of love, ambition, and wealth in the Roaring Twenties. In...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.Author: Thomas MortonISBN-10: 3385575230ISBN-13: 9783385575233Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2024Pages: 130Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

When college senior Alan Agnalini has an unexpected (and somewhat disastrous) sexual encounter with his close friend Brooke, he dismisses the idea that a pregnancy might follow. Five years later he spots Brooke from a distance on a Manhattan street, but now he becomes...

The paperback release of 2024's astonishing literary scifi coming-of-age novel. In January 2314, Rowena Savalas - a curator of the vast archive of the twenty-first century's primitive internet - stumbles upon a story posted in the summer of 2024. She's quickly drawn into the...

A young lawyer wakes up in the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what exactly happened--and how much she's willing to put up with to make her way to the...

In I Met Someone--what Wagner has called a "tenderly mutilated companion piece" to his screenplay for Maps to the Stars (the film directed by David Cronenberg for which Julianne Moore won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress)--Oscar-winning Dusty Wilding learns the unspeakable...

Sweeping, Humorous, and Moving Tales from One of Contemporary China's Greatest Writers The bestselling and award-winning author of novels satirizing contemporary China, Liu Zhenyun is also renowned for his short stories. Remembering 1942 showcases six of his best, featuring a diverse cast of ordinary...

In this "vital novel that arrives at a perilous time" (Elliot Ackerman, New York Times bestselling author), a disillusioned American veteran volunteers for the war in Ukraine to reconnect with a woman from his past. Thirty-three-year-old Luke "Pax" Paxton has been out of the...

The 'UNMAKING' of 'Ben-Hur'! A Hollywood film crew away on location in Mussolini's Italy-Caught between Fascism and a rising tide of anti-fascist fury! No shunned movie idol ever had more at stake than Francis X. Bushman in 1924. Once dubbed the "handsomest man in...

In this classic novel, James Fenimore Cooper offers a vivid depiction of life on the American frontier. The story follows the adventures of a bee hunter, Natty Bumppo, as he navigates the challenges of the oak openings.This work has been selected by scholars as...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Blackfeet Indian Stories By George Bird GrinnellAuthor: George Bird GrinnellISBN-10: 1987402499ISBN-13: 9781987402490Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2018Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d

This is the manuscript of Xavier Bernard, an average, mundane and altogether unexceptional author who has attempted to claw back his lackluster life story by writing it himself. Free to invent the facts and improve on truth, he will stop at nothing to get...

Hot on the heels of the international bestselling success of Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, comes an erotic novel inspired by the fantasies of one of adult film's most famous starlets, featuring her uncensored self. Savanna Samson is the...

A riveting story in show-stopping prose, the latest chapter of this internationally bestselling series is the Nordic noir superstar's darkest tale yet. In the middle of a dark, rain-slicked night, a young man is struck and killed by a car. The driver, drunk, abandons...

About the BookA COMPELLINGLY IMAGINED, TIGHT-PACED STORY OF SPIRALLING RUMOURS AND MASS HYSTERIA.In the foothills of the Western Ghats, the village of Vaiga is enduring the worst storm it has seen in decades: ceaseless rain, fallen trees, flooded river, severe power cuts ... But...

A Faulknerian, poetic spell of intrigue, bravado, melancholy and humor set in a long-forgotten corner of southern Illinois. A farming community of Amish and Anabaptists in-breeding for 160 years told in the first-person narrative of Justus Roe, who recollects from his aging years to...

Leira and her new Best friends Addy and Skye are thrilled when Leira's Mom, Mrs. MacGregor invites them to Arizona to visit her sister for winter school vacation. Skye has never flown on an airplane and Addy has never stayed at a hotel. However,...

In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten magic--of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life--holds the power to transform a young woman's relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time and space.Monica Tsai spends most...

A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang's debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang's Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas,...

Tahj is technically the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet men in her city ain't even checking for her. Not that it matters because Tahj's true love is NFL player, Fletcher Lewis.Problem is, they're best friends; furthermore, a tragic event makes it...

From the author of Singing Into the Rain and To Roam at Last comes two stories about a musician. In a prose style poetic yet accessible, Gonzalo Adolfo takes you into the heart of the creative artist and the implication of the connectivity of...