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Naxos Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories LibE
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Naxos The Red and the Black
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Blackstone Publishing O Pioneers
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Blackstone Publishing O Pioneers
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Mira Books The Lost Orphan
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HarperCollins The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant LibE
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Blackstone Publishing The Eye of Istar
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HarperCollins Catherine House
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Random House USA Inc The Prince and the Pauper
Book SynopsisMark Twain’s satiric novel about two boys who trade places in Tudor England—written “for young people of all ages”—was his first foray into historical fiction. Set in 1547, The Prince and the Pauper brings together Tom Canty, an impoverished urchin who lives with his abusive father in London’s filthiest streets, and pampered Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII. Noticing their uncanny resemblance, the two boys trade clothes on a whim. While Tom lives in the lap of luxury and finds he has a knack for rendering wise judgments, the ragged Prince Edward roams the city and discovers firsthand the misery of his poorest subjects’ lives. But when the king dies and Edward tries to claim his throne, he finds that changing places will be difficult to undo. In this rollicking tale, Twain’s scathing indictment of injustice comes richly clothed in his trademark humor and wit.
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Random House USA Inc Paris Stories
Book SynopsisParis Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. Perhaps no other European city has so captured the imagination of the artistically and romantically minded. Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores, and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eyewitness account of the horrors and glories of the French Revolution. Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola offer fascinating portraits of the growing metropolis’s teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle its glittering literary circles; and Huysmans describes a memorable evening at the Folies Bergère. Colette recounts the sensual adventures of a young girl in the decadent Paris of the early twentieth century, while F. Scott Fitzgerald revels in its urban glamour. Jean Rhys’s lost heroines wander from café to café, James Baldwin celebrates the city’s sexual freedoms, and Raym
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Random House USA Inc Giovannis Room
Book SynopsisSet among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction (The Atlantic). • Presented here in stunning hardcover and with an Introduction by Colm Tóibín, New York Times bestselling author of The Master.David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni’s curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella’s return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy.Caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality, David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night—“the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.” With sharp, probing insight, Giovanni's Room tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
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Random House USA Inc Wedding Stories Everymans Library Pocket Classics
Book SynopsisA bouquet of great wedding stories--by turns funny, passionate, bittersweet, and romantic--by famous writers from across the past two centuries. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Lorrie Moore, and from Stephen Crane to Edwidge Danticat. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS.The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, O. Henry's The Marry Month of May, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Bridal Party, Joy Williams's The Wedding, and Lorrie Moore's Thank You For Having Me--encompass comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, and scenes both heartwarming and heartbreaking. There are glamorous weddings in Paris and New York, and more eccentric ones in the Wild West and on a remote island beach. There are nervous brides, forgetful grooms, meddling guests, interrupted nuptials, second thoughts, and second chances. Above all, there are all kinds of people--young and old, rich and poor, divorced and widowed
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Random House USA Inc Rome Stories
Book SynopsisFrom Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS. During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation, and the spiritual core of a world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, it has long served as a realm of fantasy, aspiration, and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same moment, its beauty both transfigures and betrays those in thrall to it. Rome Stories explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, Renaissance sculptors, Enlightenment poets and philosophers, American, British, and French novelists, and the writers of modern Italy.
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Random House USA Inc Selected Stories Everymans Library Pocket
Book SynopsisA beautifully jacketed hardcover selection of 53 darkly witty, whimsical, and macabre short stories by an acknowledged master of the form.Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contrived plots and surprise endings, his stories gleefully skewer the pompous hypocrisies of upper class Edwardian society. But they go beyond mere satire, raising dark humor to extremes of entertaining outrageousness that have rarely since been matched. Saki's elegantly mischievous young heroes sow chaos in their wake without breaking a sweat, and are occasionally joined by werewolves, tigers, eavesdropping house pets, and casually murderous children. This selection includes such famous stories as Tobermory, The Open Window, Sredni Vashtar, Mrs. Packletide's Tiger, The Schartz-Metterklume Method, and many more.
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Random House USA Inc Venice Stories
Book SynopsisA gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers.The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's haunting Don't Look Now, Anthony Trollope's wartime romance The Last Austrian Who Left Venice, Vernon Lee's spine-chilling A Wicked Voice, and a scene from The Wings of the Dove, Henry James's tale of passion and betrayal in a Gothic palazzo on the Grand Canal. The famed Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova weighs in with escapades from his notorious Memoirs, alongside enthralling selections by Baron Corvo, Marcel Proust, Camillo Boito, and Jeanette Winterson. In its multifaceted portrait of La Serenissima, Venice Stories showcases a lineup of literary classics worthy of the magnificent city they celebrate.
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Random House USA Inc Collected Stories Everymans Library Contemporary
Book SynopsisA beautiful hardcover edition of the collected short stories of one of the best short story writers who ever lived (Newsweek)—with an introduction by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.Widely known for her extraordinary novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of twentieth-century writers equally through her short fiction. This collection includes seventy-nine magnificent stories written over the course of four decades, including such beloved classics as “Mysterious Kôr,” “The Demon Lover,” “Summer Night,” “Ivy Gripped the Steps,” and “The Happy Autumn Fields.” Whether placing her reader in a remote Irish castle or a seaside Italian villa or bomb-scarred London during the Blitz, Bowen was famous for scene setting of almost hallucinatory vividness, but
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Random House USA Inc The Best of Tagore
Book SynopsisA generous one-volume selection of the best and most important works—poems, songs, stories, essays, novellas, and novels—by the prolific Bard of Bengal, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.Rabindranath Tagore published his first volume of poetry as a teenager and went on to become a towering figure of Bengali and world literature, celebrated for his innovations in poetry, prose, drama, and music.Tagore was remarkably productive over his long life; his complete works fill many volumes and include sixty collections of verse and more than two thousand songs, two of which have become the national anthems of India and of Bangladesh. His themes were as varied as his forms, including love, politics, humor, appreciation for the beauty of nature, and a profound sympathy for the perspectives of women, children, and the poor. The Best of Tagore offers a representative overview of his work, including his best-known novel, The Hom
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Random House USA Inc The House on Mango Street
Book Synopsis A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK NATIONAL BESTSELLER? A 40th anniversary hardcover edition of Sandra Cisneros?s beloved coming-of-age novel about a young girl growing up in Chicago, with a new introduction by John Phillip Santos?Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world?from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.?Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.??The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. ?In English my name means hope,? she says. ?In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting.Told in a series of vignettes?sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous?Cisneros?s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis?s Main Street or Toni Morrison?s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one?s story and of being proud of where you''re from.Everyman?s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author?s life and times.
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Random House USA Inc Mrs. Osmond
Book SynopsisThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady—in this masterful novel of betrayal, corruption, and moral ambiguity. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charming, penniless, and—as Isabel finds out too late—cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond. Here Banville imagines Isabel’s second chapter telling the story of a woman reawakened by grief and the knowledge that she has been grievously wronged, and determined to resume her quest for freedom and independence.
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Cambridge University Press Nostromo
Book SynopsisThe newest addition to the widely-acclaimed Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, this edition offers scholars for the first time an authoritative text of Nostromo, free from the interference of typists, compositors and editors, and features a thorough introduction and informative textual essay.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.
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Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin The Hope Chest
Book SynopsisA graceful, moving, emotionally impactful read. Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in The RainSaugatuck, MI, springs to life in this nostalgic, gentle story of lifelong love along with the emotional support and care that families and friends can provide. Library JournalThe discovery of one woman's heirloom hope chest unveils precious memories and helps three people who have each lost a part of themselves find joy once again.Ever since she was diagnosed with ALS, fiercely independent Mattie doesn't feel like herself. She can't navigate her beloved home, she can't go for a boat ride, and she can barely even feed herself. Her devoted husband, Don, doesn't want to imagine life without his wife of nearly fifty years, but Mattie isn't likely to make it past their anniversary. But when Rose, Mattie's new caretaker, and her young daughter, Jeri, enter the couple's life, happiness and the possibilit
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St Martin's Press The Wife Upstairs
Book SynopsisInstant New York Times and USA Today BestsellerCompulsively readable...a gothic thriller laced with arsenic. EWOne of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN Newsweek Vulture PopSugar Parade BuzzFeed E!Online TimeOut Woman''s Day Goodreads She Reads Good Housekeeping CrimeReads Frolic Hello! Mystery and Suspense January 2021 Indie Next Pick and #1 LibraryReads Pick A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda.Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estatesa gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice i
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St. Martin's Griffin The Wife Upstairs
Book SynopsisInstant New York Times and USA Today BestsellerCompulsively readable...a gothic thriller laced with arsenic. EWOne of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN Newsweek Vulture PopSugar Parade BuzzFeed E!Online TimeOut Woman''s Day Goodreads She Reads Good Housekeeping CrimeReads Frolic Hello! Mystery and Suspense January 2021 Indie Next Pick and #1 LibraryReads Pick A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda.Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estatesa gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if
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St Martin's Press The Heiress
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER A January Indie Next Pick and LibraryReads PickThe reigning queen of the Gothic thriller. Entertainment WeeklyTHERE''S NOTHING AS GOOD AS THE RICH GONE BAD.When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains.But in the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the moneyand even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead, he rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past.Ten years later, his uncle's death pulls Cam and Jules back into the family fold at A
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St Martin's Press The Heiress
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St. Martin's Publishing Group The Death of Jane Lawrence
Book Synopsis***AN INSTANT BESTSELLER!***Best Books of 2021 NPRALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 PickLonglisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horrorThe Death of Jane Lawrence.A jewel box of a Gothic novel. New York Times Book ReviewDelicious.... By the time the book reached that point of no return, I was so invested that I would have followed Jane into the very depths of hell. NPR.orgIntense and amazing! It's like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak. BookRiotPractical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful wo
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St. Martin's Griffin Firefly Lane
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series!In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the coolest girl in the world moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it allbeauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer''s end they''ve become TullyandKate. Inseparable.So begins Kristin Hannah''s magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the
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St. Martin's Griffin Madam
Book SynopsisThe simmering menace and mystery kept me absolutely gripped...a smoldering novel that I could not put down. Jennifer Saint, author of AriadneRebecca meets The Secret History: gloriously dark, gloriously Gothic. Sara Collins, bestselling author of The Confessions of Fannie LangtonNamed a Best Book of 2021 by Goodreads Entertainment Weekly Parade PopSugar Brit+Co Romper Frolic Crime Reads SheKnows.com Women.comDiscover the secrets of Caldonbrae Hall in this riveting, modern gothic debut set at an all girls'' boarding school perched on a craggy Scottish peninsula.For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs, Caldonbrae Hall has sat untouched, a beacon of excellence in an old ancestral castle. A boarding school for girls, it promises that the young women lucky e
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St Martin's Press Leech
Book Synopsis[Leech] is The Thing meets The Alienist . . . beautifully written and so strangely humane . . . I will follow this writer anywhere going forward. Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone GirlA surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes''s Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.The RUSA Best Horror Novel of 2023!Finalist for the British Fantasy Newcomer Award!An October Great Reads Indie Next Pick!A Wall Street Journal Best Book!A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms! Tamsyn MuirMEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASEIn an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies.
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Tordotcom Leech
Book Synopsis[Leech] is The Thing meets The Alienist . . . beautifully written and so strangely humane . . . I will follow this writer anywhere going forward. Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone GirlA surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes''s Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.The RUSA Best Horror Novel of 2023!Finalist for the British Fantasy Newcomer Award!An October Great Reads Indie Next Pick!A Wall Street Journal Best Book!A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms! Tamsyn MuirMEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASEIn an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies.
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Tor Nightfire Little Eve
Book SynopsisWinner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick!From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twistA great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth.The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want the honor, but young Eve is willing to do anything for the distinction.A reckoning beyond Eve's imagination begins when Chief Inspector Black arrives to investigate a brutal murder and their sacred ceremony goes terribly wrong.And soon all the secrets of Altnaharra will be uncovered.
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St Martin's Press Little Eve
Book SynopsisWinner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick!From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twistA great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth.The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want the honor, but young Eve is willing to do anything for the distinction.A reckoning beyond Eve's imagination begins when Chief Inspector Black arrives to investigate a brutal murder and their sacred ceremony goes terribly wrong.And soon all the secrets of Altnaharra will be uncovered.
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Tor Nightfire What Moves the Dead
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Tor Nightfire What Feasts at Night
Book SynopsisAn Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie BestsellerA Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2024A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award NomineeEnter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale from bestselling and award-winning author T. Kingfisher, set in the world of What Moves the Dead.*A very special hardcover edition, featuring a foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia. In theory, one can find relaxation in even the coldest and dampest of Gallacian autumns, but when Easton arrives, th
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St Martin's Press The Villa
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Hawkins weaves an engrossing tale about betrayal, sisterhood, and the power of telling your own story. Captivating! PeopleHawkins is the reigning queen of suspense. Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling authorThe bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs returns with a brilliant new gothic suspense set at an Italian villa with a dark history.As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend.Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites up-and-coming musician, Pierce Sheldon to join him, as well as Pierce's gir
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Flatiron Books Daisy Darker
Book Synopsis*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Alice Feeney is great with TWISTS and TURNS. Harlan CobenThe NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of Rock Paper Scissors returns with a locked-room mystery when a family reunion leads to murder in a delightfully twisty and atmospheric thriller, as seen on the TODAY show.A dysfunctional family meets Agatha Christie''s And Then There Were None with a truly gasp-inducing twist. This is the book you''ve been looking for. Catherine Ryan Howard, bestselling author of 56 DaysDaisy Darker was born with a broken heart. Now after years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in her crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. When the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.But at the stroke of midnight, as a storm
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Flatiron Books Daisy Darker
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St Martin's Press The Wife Upstairs
Book SynopsisInstant New York Times and USA Today BestsellerCompulsively readable...a gothic thriller laced with arsenic. EWOne of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN Newsweek Vulture PopSugar Parade BuzzFeed E!Online TimeOut Woman''s Day Goodreads She Reads Good Housekeeping CrimeReads Frolic Hello! Mystery and Suspense January 2021 Indie Next Pick and #1 LibraryReads Pick A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, Rachel Hawkins''s The Wife Upstairs combines Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda.Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estatesa gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where
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MacMillan Audio Daisy Darker
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St Martin's Press Flyaway
Book SynopsisA 2021 World Fantasy Award Finalist!A 2020 Crawford Award FinalistAn Indie Next Pick!Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPRTransformation, enchantment, and the emotional truths of family history teem in Kathleen Jennings' stunning debut, Flyaway.Kathleen Jennings'' prose dazzles, and her magic feels real enough that you might even prick your finger on it.Kelly LinkAn unforgettable tale, as beautiful as it is thorny. The New York Times Book ReviewIn a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished brothersa note that makes her question memories of their disappearance and her father's departure.A beguiling story that proves that gothic delights and uncanny family horror can liveand even thriveunder a burning sun, Flyaway introduces readers to Bettina Scott, whose search for the truth throws her into tale
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MacMillan Audio The Villa
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St Martin's Press The Hollow Kind
Book SynopsisThe Hollow Kind seeps into your subconscious and waits for you in your nightmares. S. A. Cosby, bestselling author of Razorblade Tears Andy Davidson's epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil. When Nellie Gardner learns that she has inherited a turpentine estate from her long-lost grandfather, she throws everything she can think of in her pickup and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow. August Redfern's estate is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie sees it as the perfect refugea safe place to hide from her violent husband and the chance for a fresh start. But Max sees what his mother can't: Redfern Hill is no haven. Something lurks beneath the soil, ancient and hungry, with the power to corrupt hearts and destroy souls. And Nellie's return is about to wake it up. From the author of The Boatman
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WW Norton & Co Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Book SynopsisMachado de Assis’s iconic novel, now considered a progenitor of twentieth-century South American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly modern work.Trade Review"The most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel I read this year was originally published in 1881. Jull Costa and Patterson offer a peerless translation of this comic masterpiece, narrated from beyond the grave by a feckless, pretentious, impossibly winning aristocrat. The Brazilian novelist Machado was besotted with the license afforded by fiction and the social critique permitted only by comedy. Read this witty, wildly inventive work and how conservative, how painfully corseted so much modern fiction will suddenly seem." -- Parul Sehgal, 'Times Critics' Top Books of 2020' - The New York Times"One of the wittiest, most playful, and therefore most alive and ageless books ever written." -- Dave Eggers"The book’s invigorating style, as much as its backdrop of racial and social injustice, makes it ideal reading for this morbid, insurgent summer... Sprinkled with epigrams, dreams, gags and asides, the story teases, dances and delights... [Machado']s worldly, bruised voice reaches out to touch readers today with its rueful comedy and wry sensuality." -- The Economist"A great ironist, a tragic comedian... In [De Assis] books, in their most comic moments, he underlines the suffering by making us laugh." -- Philip Roth"The greatest writer ever produced in Latin America." -- Susan Sontag
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WW Norton & Co Dom Casmurro
Book SynopsisA masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeurTrade Review"It is one of the unexpected services of Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson’s new translation of DOM CASMURRO that they have helped me solve the mystery of my first impression. As I was reading their translation, I pulled out the first one I had read, one of the many that came before. I saw that the difficulty of translating Machado is not that his language is so precise and clear: That would seem to make the task easy. The challenge for the translator is that the writer uses precise and clear phrases (“Good morning!”) in a way that turns their precision and clarity against them and suggests something else. Rather than letting these lines stand, slyly winking and furtively smiling, the earlier translator had tried to nudge the reader too firmly toward that something else . . . More than perhaps any book I know, “Dom Casmurro” has to be read more than once. It teaches us to read in much the same way that Vermeer teaches us to see — by looking, and then looking again." -- Benjamin Moser - The New York Times Book Review
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WW Norton & Co Aladdin
Book SynopsisA dynamic French-Syrian translator, lauded for her lively poetic voice, tackles the enchanted world of Aladdin in this sparkling new translation.Trade Review"It’s not every day you come across a new translation of The Arabian Nights, but the French Syrian writer, Yasmine Seale, has rendered afresh the 18th-century version of Aladdin by Antoine Galland, and has done a cracking job…" -- Family favourites: children’s books for Christmas reviewed - The Spectator"Elegant... Seale is careful to frame her translation with an account of Shahrazad herself, which not only gives it a sense of urgency, but also reminds us that the narrative voice is a female one—a fact that other adaptations and translations often miss. This world is one in which a woman can use the gift of story-telling to navigate the power of men. And this framing breathes new life into the female cast of Aladdin’s story." -- Hetta Howes - Times Literary Supplement"This new translation of the classic tale is, like the lamp at its center, darker, grubbier, and more twisted than its Disneyfied iteration, emphasizing its transgressive qualities.... Seale’s text has a fluidity and an elegance that give even this diet of “dreams, smoke, and visions” a satisfying heft." -- The New Yorker"... a charming rendition of Aladdin…" -- The National"In her new translation of Aladdin, Seale provides a scintillating lens through which to view ‘the tale that has never stopped travelling’: the story of a boy and his magical lamp. Paired with a riveting introduction by Paulo Lemos Horta, Seale’s work acknowledges the tangled history of Aladdin, from its initial appearance in French literature in 1709 to its controversial Disney adaptation in 1992..." -- Madeline Day - The Paris Review
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WW Norton & Co Aristophanes Four Plays
Book SynopsisA “zany [and] inventive” (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies.
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Mariner Books The Stranger Diaries
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Mariner Books Classics The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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