Tarzan of the Apes is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine in October 1912. So popular was the character that...

The Task, and Other Poems Paperback - July 10, 2015 by William Cowper After the publication of his "Table Talk" and other poems in March, 1782, William Cowper, in his quiet retirement at Olney, under Mrs. Unwin's care, found a new friend in Lady...

A multigenerational tale of love, loss, exile, and rebirth, shortlisted for the 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. As children sleeping on the rooftop of their ancestral family home in Raqqa on warm summer nights, Joumane and her sisters imagine the sky is so...

One of the most enduringly popular novelists of the Victorian era, English writer ANTHONY TROLLOPE (1815-1882) created entertainingly rambling fictional explorations of towering social issues, from class and money to politics and gender roles. Trollope has been a huge influence on modern storytelling, from...

Honora de Balzac is the narrator of this novel about Louis Lambert, a child prodigy. Balzac and Lambert are portrayed as students in Paris. They are both social outcasts who develop a love of philosophy. After a psychic dream, Lambert writes a metaphysical treatise...

Kendal Richoux's life began during the reign of Egypt's only female pharaoh. After accepting the opportunity to drink the elixir of the sun, Kendal becomes immortal and the Genesis Clan's slayer. History has taught her the dangers of getting too close to anyone who...

"The land that held the monastery was quiet and forbidding -- ". . . As our Glendearg did not abound in mortal visitants, superstition had peopled its recesses with beings belonging to another world. The savage and capricious Brown Man of the Moors, a...

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 - 6 December 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote...

In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country.Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was...

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one...

"This again," said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, "is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera-the cholera germ." The pale-faced man peered down the microscope. He was evidently not accustomed to that kind of thing, and held a limp...

Sinclair Lewis' 1915 novel retains much of the style and personality that will come to be seen in his later, more popular writings, such as Babbitt, Main Street, and Arrowsmith.Author: Sinclair LewisISBN-10: 1496035712ISBN-13: 9781496035714Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2014Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.02h...

National Readers' Choice Award FinalistA man shrouded in grief...David Hartford, the Earl of Castledon, is tormented by the death of his wife. Though everyone expects him to remarry and beget an heir, he is a man living in shadows, unwilling to break out of...

After fifty years of guilt over his brother's brutal murder in Civil Rights-era Mississippi, Warren Williams decides to renew his fight to bring the men responsible to justice. His efforts put him face-to-face with one of the murderers, Earl Olsen, in a remote Ontario...

Author: Ed Howle, Janet HowleISBN-10: 1456818597ISBN-13: 9781456818593Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2011Pages: 334Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2011Kirkus Best Books 12/01/2011 pg. 2253

Author: Skip ShockleyISBN-10: 1441535632ISBN-13: 9781441535634Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2009Pages: 330Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells and published in 1885. The story is set in Boston during the late 19th century and follows the rise of Silas Lapham, a self-made businessman who has made his fortune in...

With his gut-wrenching brand of suspense, Ethan Black has earned praise from readers and critics alike. Now New York City police detective Conrad Voort returns in his most compelling, complex, and seductive case yet. After a ten-year separation, Conrad Voort meets his childhood pal...

This vintage volume contains D. H. Lawrence's seminal 1913 novel, "Sons and Lovers". It tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist, whose complex relationships with a doting mother, a violent father, and a young female devotee, constitute the main...

The Clarity of Light is the story of an alluring French-American artist and the erotic game she plays to distract herself from her disintegrating family and doomed marital engagement. Set in southern Provence in the 1990s, it traces the journey of Nicole Coche-Dury, who...

The Gambler is a riveting portrait of a desperate young man in the grip of gambling addiction, a compulsion that author Dostoyevsky knew about intimately. In this succinct but powerful novel, the Russian master examines the irresistible impulses in human nature that take us...

The Gambler is a riveting portrait of a desperate young man in the grip of gambling addiction, a compulsion that author Dostoyevsky knew about intimately. In this succinct but powerful novel, the Russian master examines the irresistible impulses in human nature that take us...

"He was alone in the wilderness, a wilderness that seemed deep and forever, but was surrounded by a world filled with people."From the founder of Riverfeet Press comes the introspective journey of a young man searching for meaning to his life by escaping civilization...

Second book in the Moonlight Ridge Series follows the adventures of Lily Claire Nash and her cousin, Willie T. Nock, two precocious children in the woods of 1950s Alabama. Ghosts, hauntings, scary tales told 'round the evening fire, witches, and famous legends weave a...

Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner - LGBTStarred Review - Library JournalGabriel Travers knows he's dying; he just can't prove it. Despite his doctor's proclamations to the contrary and rumors of a promising new HIV drug cocktail, all it takes is one glance into...

Teenaged Christine Wainwright's parents regard her and her musical ambitions as inconveniences. Christine's earnest, vain elder brother David is the star of the family: an up-and-coming novelist who has married into the richest family in State City, Iowa. The middle child, Melissa, is struggling...

15 of the best short stories from author and playwright J.S. Kierland. REVIEWS "J.S. Kierland is that rare writer, one who can deal with both urban and rural themes in masterful fashion. This gift allows him to write about a wide range of disparate...

A novel based on the lives of the brothers Mann has allowed the author to portray both the powerful story of their personal drama and the tragedy of a horrific era. Two of Germany's literary lions, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, are the central characters...

Hailed by Booklist as "two talented authors who vividly bring to life the beauty of New Mexico and its people," Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl return in A Growing Season to Esperanza, New Mexico, the setting of their first book, Sunlight and Shadow. Esperanza...

The enduring fame of Joel Harris as a skillful storyteller had its beginning with the publication of the first of his enchanting Uncle Remus stories. These and other local color tales were written to sound as if they were being told to a group...

The world has not yet forgotten the intensity of the feeling which existed when old Mr. Scarborough declared that his well-known eldest son was not legitimate. Mr. Scarborough himself had not been well known in early life. He had been the only son of...

The road trip of a lifetime teaches one woman that love isn't always a piece of cake in this charming novel. Laurie Davis has always followed her passion. After escaping family drama to start a new life in New York City, she's up for...

In the central Yucatan a group of Maya Indian workers revolt against the corrupt oligarchy of government, business, the official union, and the press. Two young men--a traditional Maya leader and a Mexican-American lawyer--are drawn into ever deeper commitment to the struggle. When they...

Named one of Granta's Best of Young British NovelistsAnais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car. She is headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember what's happened, but across town a policewoman lies in a...

Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this miraculous novel his dream has come true--until he discovers the recipe for cellophane. In a life...

A sharp comedy of manners, and a fiendishly funny treat for Jane Austen and Whit Stillman fans alike. Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely self-absorbed: Meet Lady Susan Vernon, both the heart and the thorn of Love & Friendship. Recently widowed with a daughter...

Anna Stockton was a bright, imaginative child exulting in a rare freedom in the mountains of North Carolina who grew into a young woman possessed of romantic yearnings and a great love of books. Hungering to make a new kind of life for herself,...

It is the spring of 1767, and the vengeful Erasmus Kemp has had the mutinous sailors of his father's ship brought back to London to stand trial on piracy charges. Much to Kemp's dismay, the Irish fiddler Sullivan has escaped, and retrieving him proves...

"Sophisticated and erudite. . . . Hughes-Hallett is a natural heir to A.S. Byatt, delivering a densely patterned novel that shimmers with human interest as it probes our cultural story."--Wall Street JournalThe Costa Award-winning author of The Pike makes her literary fiction debut with...

The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein-a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of a dog's efforts to hold together his family in the face of a divisive custody battle. Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher...

"Strange, considering it all now after a night's sleep, that I'd had no premonition of what awaited. That seems to be the nature of life, however. Things that ought to come with warnings rarely do." The Year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has,...

Martin Amis's first novel, The Rachel Papers, tells the story of Charles Highway and his relationship with his girlfriend in the year before going to university. Charles Highway, a bright, egotistical Oxford student and soon-to-be Great Novelist, spends the eve of his twentieth birthday...

For generations, the lives of the respected Hunter and McLauren families have been woven into the fabric of the rural Alabama community. Six-year-old Annabelle, the youngest member of this extended family, is the most vulnerable. Although she is surrounded by loving family members, all...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LAPD Detective Ren?e Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter. Ren?e Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a...

"A glorious debut...it will rouse your deepest well of empathy." --Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone "This novel will live alongside classics of young womanhood." --Susan Straight, author of bestsellers Mecca and In the Country of Women In this unforgettable debut...

This volume contains a facsimile reprint of "The Magic Skin," by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850). Born Honore Balzac, he was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His work, much of which is a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled "La Com?die...

About the BookAN INTIMATE AND REMARKABLE STORY OF ONE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE OF WAR.It is December 1941. Japan has just bombed Pearl Harbor. After a series of victories in Hong Kong, Malaya and Singapore, the Japanese are closing in on India. And the British colony...

This collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev delves into the lives of various characters in 19th-century Russia, highlighting their inner struggles, moral dilemmas, and the rapidly changing societal landscape. With his trademark realism and psychological depth, Turgenev portrays the complexities of human nature...

The Carbonels is a historical novel that follows the lives of Captain Edmund Carbonel and his wife, Mary, as they settle into life at Greenhow Farm. The novel, set in early 19th-century England, explores their efforts to improve the local rural community, particularly through...

A sparrow's nest is broken but her egg is hatching! She hurries to choose a new home for her baby. What will she do when she finds the best nest?About the Authors: KENDALL & TAMARA SCHMITKE had three beautiful daughters when they fulfilled their...