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3921) Electric arches
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewings narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances; blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objects: hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook as...
3922) The prettiest star
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories...
3923) Limbo
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Afghan War veteran Manuela Paris returns to her hometown near Rome, where she struggles against the flashbacks and pain resulting from a bloody attack that left her seriously injured.
3924) Accidents of providence
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
During the mid-seventeenth-century persecution of unwed mothers in the aftermath of Charles I's execution, Rachel Lockyer is arrested and tried for murder when a dead child is found in the woods after her affair with Leveller William Walwyn
Author
Language
English
Description
"A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade--told by the inheritor of their stories. In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege--but...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Co-Winner of the 2006 Etkind Prize, Best Book by a Western Scholar on Russian Literature/Culture, European University at St. Petersburg" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002" Joseph Frank is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. Previous volumes of Dostoevsky have received the National Book Critics...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When country lad Will Somers lands himself the plum position of jester to the mercurial King Henry VIII, he has no idea that he's just been handed a front-row seat to history. With a seat near the throne and an ear to the floor, Somers witnesses firsthand the dizzying power struggles and sly scheming that marked the reign of the fiery Tudor king. Somers watches the rise and fall of some of the most enigmatic women in history, including the tragic...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Encompassing fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die moves across cultures and through time to present an eclectic collection of titles, each described with the special enthusiasm readers summon when recommending a book to a friend.
Mustich provides brief (usually one page) introductions to works of fiction, poetry, science and science...
3930) Spring
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You don't know what air is, and yet you breathe. You don't know what sleep is, yet you sleep. You don't know what night is, yet you lie in it. You don't know what a heart is, yet your own heart beats steadily in your chest, day and night, day and night, day and night. So begins Spring, the recommencement of Knausgaard's fantastic and spellbinding literary project of assembling a personal encyclopedia of the world addressed directly to his newly born...
3931) Voyager: travel writings
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays. Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. In this compelling anthology, he writes that since childhood he has "longed for escape, for rejuvenation, for wealth untold, for erotic and narcotic and sybaritic fresh starts, for high romance, mystery and intrigue." The longing...
3932) Life goes on
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Follows Hans Selderson, a German Jew and decorated World War I veteran living in Germany and working as a textile merchant, and his family as they encounter troubles in the aftermath of the war. Based on the author's life.
3934) A seahorse year
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In Stacey D'Erasmo's acclaimed second novel, a quintessentially modern family is ultimately transformed by the emerging breakdown of their teenaged son, Christopher. When he disappears from his San Francisco home, his extended family comes together in a frantic search. But Christopher is in much more trouble than they know, and their attempts to support him and to save him will challenge their assumptions about themselves and one another. Exquisitely...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, "very complex." Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well as conversations with Mitford's two surviving sisters, acquaintances,...
3936) The worst kind of want
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In her rambling Victorian house, surrounded by heirloom gardens, fifty-two-year-old Kate Harding faces her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. As she begins to read a collection of letters recently retrieved from the attic of her grandparents' house, Kate discovers that what to a child seemed a serene and blissful marriage was in fact founded on a tragic event. As Kate's eyes clear to the truth of the past, a new tragedy unfolds,...
3938) Vietnamese legends
Author
Publisher
C.E.Tuttle Co
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
This collection of Vietnamese mythology will be of great interest to cultural scholars as well as people of Vietnamese descent. The history of every country is reflected in its myths and legends and this absorbing collection of thirty-two stories vary from the sweep and grandeur of past battles, to the wit of parables. While a number of Chinese fables have absorbed into the folk-lore of Vietnam, The story of Tam and Cam' is the Vietnamese version...
3939) Whiskey & ribbons
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Evi--a classically-trained ballerina--was nine months pregnant when her husband Eamon was killed in the line of duty on a steamy morning in July. Now, it is winter, and Eamon's adopted brother Dalton has moved in to help her raise six-month-old Noah"--Amazon.com.
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