Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Random House USA Inc Missing Presumed
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Random House USA Inc American Spy
Book Synopsis“American Spy updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality.”—Entertainment Weekly“There has never been anything like it.”—Marlon James, GQ“So much fun . . . Like the best of John le Carré, it’s extremely tough to put down.”—NPRNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • BuzzFeed • Vulture • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping • The New York Public LibraryWhat if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s bril
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Random House USA Inc The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Book SynopsisTwenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis JohnsonNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times • Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air • Chicago Tribune • Newsday • New York • AV Club • Publishers Weekly“Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century.”—New York“A posthumous masterpiece.”—Entertainment WeeklyNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The Boston Globe
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Random House USA Inc Watch Me Disappear
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MW - Rutgers University Press Hope Leslie Or Early Times in the Massachusetts
Book SynopsisHope Leslie (1827), set in the seventeenth-century New England, is a novel that forced readers to confront the consequences of the Puritans’ subjugation and displacement of the indigenous Indian population at a time when contemporaries were demanding still more land from the Cherokees, the Chickasaws, and the Choctaws.Trade ReviewThis handsome reprint... makes available after many decades the New Englander's tale of seventeenth-century Puritans and their relations with the indigenous Indian population. * Nineteenth-Century Literature *Develop[s] the connections between patriarchal authority within the Puritan state and its policy of dispossessing and exterminating Indians. The different heritage it envisions explicitly links white women and Indians and elaborates a communal concept of liberty at odds with the individualistic concept which predominated in American culture. * Legacy *A splendidly conceived edition of Sedgwick's historical romance. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Notes to Introduction Selected Bibliography A Note on the TextHope Leslie Author's Notes Explanatory Notes
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Ohio State University Press Mechanical Cluster Osu Journal Award Poetry
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Tyndale House Publishers Christmas in My Heart A Treasury of Timeless
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Vacationland
Book SynopsisOn a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge—only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. Vacationland is a moving portrait of a place—timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience—and of the woman bound to it by legacy and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice.Trade Review"Vacationland showcases the incredible talent of Sarah Stonich. Without flinching, Stonich leads the reader through the seemingly harsh and overwhelming landscape of northernmost Minnesota and reveals the heart of the characters who occupy this space. Vacationland, in her capable hands, becomes a destination that you will want to visit again and again." —Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang"Within Vactionland, Stonich collects the lonesome souls of a beguiling, timeworn place and gives us profound glimpses into their hopes and sorrows. By turns funny, haunting, and heartbreaking, she finds the universal in the specific, the deeply human in the parochial and peculiar." —Peter Bognanni, author of The House of Tomorrow"In prose that is incisive and elegant, Stonich beautifully inhabits the hearts and minds of a richly diverse set of characters." —Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls"Each chapter renders a story complete, and the stories together weave a deeply mined narrative of place and people, elegiac yet life-affirming." —Kirkus Reviews"Stonich displays formidable narrative skill. While the novel presents brief vignettes in the lives of several characters, each interconnected story is given its own true, clear voice. Vacationland is compelling, witty, and nuanced, an incredibly enjoyable glimpse inside the worlds of seemingly disparate individuals. For fans of Richard Russo and Margaret Atwood, this is a brilliantly engaging novel, focusing on the power of memory, new discoveries, and shared experiences. A triumph." —Booklist, starred review "A brilliant collection of linked stories centered around Naledi, a fictive northern Minnesota fishing resort. Naledi inherits in Stonich (“These Granite Islands”) a chronicler with storytelling gifts reminiscent of our most holy mother of the frozen north, Alice Munro. She has a similar flair for ferrying readers back in time for several pages, deepening our regard for a character, then softly dropping us back into the present without a moment’s confusion or jostling. Stonich is also funny as hell, not the easiest thing to pull off in serious literary fiction. " —Star TribuneTable of ContentsContentsSeparationReparationDestinationAssimilationModerationNavigationCalculationEcholocationOmissionOrientationDisembarkationHesitationApproximationOcclusionTintinnabulation
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University of Minnesota Press The Land of Dreams Minnesota Trilogy
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University of Minnesota Press The Ravens Minnesota Trilogy
Book SynopsisVidar Sundstøl is the author of seven novels, including the internationally best-selling Minnesota Trilogy, whose first two volumes, The Land of Dreams and Only the Dead, are published by the University of Minnesota Press. Tiina Nunnally has translated more than sixty works of fiction from the Nordic languages, including Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, which won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. She has translated all three volumes of the Minnesota Trilogy.Trade Review"The last in Sundstøl’s Minnesota Trilogy is the most like a traditional mystery while continuing the mystical images and stunning descriptions that make for a superb reading experience."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Vidar Sundstøl’s outstanding final entry in his acclaimed trilogy concludes the series on a satisfying note, with a succinct plot and well-developed characters. Fans of mysteries with a Minnesota setting will enjoy reading this chilling psychological thriller. Nunnally’s translation is excellent and accessible to an American audience."—Library Journal"Black shadows out of ancient Viking lore hover over this stunning concluding volume."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"Intriguing, poetic, and unusual."—Scandinavian Crime Fiction"Sundstøl captures the beauty and moods of the lake, forests, hills and the four seasons, interweaving them with Norse mythology and modern mysticism."—Cook County News-Herald"The Ravens is an intriguing finale to an unusual trilogy. "—Euro Crime"Sundstøl has a talent for drawing the reader into the characters."—Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley"Sundstøl has broken new ground in the mystery genre. "—Duluth Budgeteer
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University of Minnesota Press One Good Story That One
Book SynopsisOne Good Story, That One is a collection steeped in native oral tradition and shot through with Thomas King’s special brand of wit and comic imagination. These highly acclaimed stories conjure up Native and Judeo-Christian myths, present-day pop culture, and literature while mixing in just the right amount of perception and experience..Trade Review"There’s a sly, tart intelligence at work in many of these stories. . . . The writing is taut, sharp-edged, and very funny." —Globe and Mail"These stories clearly display King’s trademark wit and intelligence, his facility with characterization, and his mastery of narrative art." —The Ottawa CitizenTable of ContentsContentsOne Good Story, That OneTotemMagpiesTrap LinesHow Corporal Colin Sterling Saved Blossom, Alberta, and Most of the Rest of the World as WellThe One about Coyote Going WestA Seat in the GardenJoe the Painter and the Deer Island MassacreA Coyote Columbus StoryBorders
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Mayor of the Universe A Novel
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a book about what it means to be human, as well as a perfect metaphor for the writing life—for what is the task of any writer but to create other realities for readers to revel in and explore? Lorna Landvik’s story is quirky and imaginative, and Fletcher’s move through these mysteries of time and space is a trip well worth taking." —Judith Guest, author of The Tarnished Eye and Ordinary People"Smart and sweet, poignant and boisterous, devious and delightful—in short, everything we have come to expect from Lorna Landvik is fully realized in Mayor of the Universe. I might just have to read this one again." —Pete Hautman, author of Godless"What a great gift Lorna Landvik offers readers in Mayor of the Universe. This wry and wonderfully lyrical look at the human condition is such a beautiful invitation to us to see the goodness to be found in simply enjoying life. I don't think any reader can help but come away encouraged and even a little in awe of the wisdom Landvik offers. Believe me, it's absolutely impossible not to be won over by this winsome tale." —William Kent Krueger, author of Ordinary Grace
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Bent Twig A Novel
Book SynopsisUnlike other young women of her generation, who were “bred up from childhood to sit behind tea-tables and say the right things to tea-drinkers,” Sylvia Marshall—the “twig” of this novel—was reared to think for herself and to trust her own instincts and experience.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells
Book SynopsisFull texts of thirteen of Howells’s short stories, each preceded by a thorough critical analysis.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells
Book SynopsisFull texts of thirteen of Howells’s short stories, each preceded by a thorough critical analysis.
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Northern Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt
Book SynopsisThe first African American fiction writer to earn a national reputation, Charles W. Chesnutt remains best known for his depictions of Southern life before and after the Civil War.Trade Review“Recently, literary scholars have rediscovered Chesnutt’s graceful, ironic, and taut prose...and his works are assigned in many American literature courses. He teaches well: College students enjoy learning about Reconstruction, a fascinating and under-known period in American history, and reading Chesnutt’s subtle prose and still-pertinent treatments of American race relations.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press Testaments Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile
Book SynopsisPolish émigrés have written poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction. But it is Danuta Mostwin’s fiction, until now unavailable in English translation, that bridges the divide between Poland and America, exile and emigration.MostwinTrade Review“Danuta Mostwin's collected works are at last coming out in Poland. That this event coincides with the publication of the present book signifies a belated turning point in this outstanding writer's voyage between the old and the new worlds, and in time zones in which she continues to expand.” * From the introduction by Joanna Rostropowicz Clark *“Working quietly from her Baltimore home for the last forty years, Mostwin has produced works of universal significance...” Testaments is “handsomely produced, gracefully translated, and enhanced by perceptive scholarly commentary.” * The Polish Review *“Mostwin, an acclaimed sociologist, writer, and political emigrée herself, specializes in the study of Polish immigrant families in the United States. Her fiction captures the psychological changes experienced by Polish immigrants, traces circumstances that shaped their lives, and offers philosophical reflections on their existence.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Man Who Created Paradise
Book SynopsisThe Man Who Created Paradise, a fable inspired by a true story, tells how young Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America—the strip-mined spoil banks of southeastern Ohio—and saw in it his escape from the drudgery of his factory job.Trade Review“If you’re feeling despairing, this book is the tonic. This slim volume should be read aloud at kitchen tables and over the radio until it becomes a national legend—a legend we might then try to live up to.”“This big-hearted parable about a land and people restored is sure to lift the spirits of anyone who cares about the blooming earth.”“This book is a work of social, ecological, and moral imagination—a reminder that we do not live in the only or the best possible world.”“This, then, is a book of two visions: one of disease, one of health. Or to put it another way, Gene Logsdon has had the generosity and the courage to allow a vision of Hell to call forth in himself its natural opposite.”“The Man Who Created Paradise is an art object of a book, a perfect birthday gift, a fable to read over and over because it identifies the rural psyche gone awry and made right again. Much like Wes Jackson's Altars of Unhewn Stone, it cries out for greater circulation…”“Utopian dreaming? Maybe, but Logsdon shows that the technology exists to make Spero's vision a reality.”“A metal grinder at a foundry possessing the pre-requisites for an agrarian mind becomes an artist on an exploited landscape and brings it back to become a working farm. Well, there is hope.”
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Beaufort Books The Eighteenth Green Volume 4
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOnce again, Webb Hubbell has triumphed, embroiling Jack and his cast of characters in an almost impossible situation. But nothing's impossible for Jack Patterson-we know that-not even when national security is pitted against criminal justice. In The Eighteenth Green, forget golf. We've got espionage, murder, downloaded state secrets, prison, Navy SEALS, missile designs, suicide, and much more. It takes the crafty mind-of whom? an anti-trust lawyer, of course (which Jack is)-to deal with these things, while he still eats well, drinks well, travels on private jets between D.C. and Little Rock, finds love and sex, and remains loyal to friends and family. -- Anne Harding Woodworth, Author of "The Last Gun" and "The Eyes Have It""The Eighteenth Green is Hubbell's best to date. I loved them all, but I couldn't put this one down. Surprises and mystery around an issue we should all care about." -- Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States and co-author of "The President Is Missing""Webb Hubbell scores with his latest fictional legal thriller, The Eighteenth Green. D.C. attorney Jack Patterson is once again pulled away from his antitrust work into a high-stakes, political mystery that begins with a shocking murder on a golf course and then roller-coasts its way through the Pentagon, Israel, Pawley's Island, South Carolina, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Patterson doggedly investigates allegations that the daughter of his close friend and mentor is a spy for Israel, and bumps up against egos, special interests and political ambitions along the way. Expect not only dangerous, near-death run-ins for Patterson, but also close calls for his nearest and dearest associates. Hubbell masterfully weaves his familiar characters into this new plot, introduces new foils and love interests, and uses his characteristically conversational style to illuminate a complex, intriguing tale that harkens the reader back to the days of Oliver North and the Iran-Contra Affair. Mining his own career history in D.C., Hubbell gifts the reader with a window into Washington press briefings, "off-the-record" exchanges with reporters, political banter and high-level lobbying. Jack Patterson navigates his way to a satisfying finish in The Eighteenth Green, with plenty of room for future adventure and action." -- David Rudolf, criminal defense and civil rights attorney. Featured in the Netflix series, "The Staircase.""I need Webb Hubbell to write more rapidly. Too much time elapses between Jack Patterson thrillers. Webb is such a skilled writer, and he knows his way around so many "rooms"-uptown and downtown, political and domestic-that his stories are buttressed with the facts and detail that support belief. I'm no golfer, butThe Eighteenth Greenis no sand-trap. It's another smart, sophisticated, Patterson mind-puzzle by Webb Hubbell that I couldn't put down." -- Peter Coyote, actor, authorI know of no other author of legal thrillers who outshines Webb Hubbell in knowledge of the law or the skills that bring a great novel to life.The Eighteenth Green is his best yet. At the last stop on a field of battle where the loser buys the winner a drink lies a man whose battles in a far deadlier game are over. At first, Jack Patterson knows the dead man only as the reason his golf game is canceled, but that will change. Anchoring the sizzling plot that follows is one of the most engaging protagonists in fiction today. By the middle of Webb Hubbell's first legal thriller, I was a fan of this lawyer who breaks the mold of the ditto hero: a genial gentleman who can turn as tough as he needs to be, whose deadliest weapon is his mind, and who will put his life on the line for his ideals. By The Eighteenth Green of this latest Jack Patterson thriller, I wished he could step from the world Webb Hubbell renders so real into our own, which could use more men like him. -- Steven Spruill, author of "Rulers of Darkness" and "Ice Men: A Novel of the Korean War"TheEighteenth Greenis an exciting read! Jack Patterson, the leadcharacter in Webb Hubbell's book series, becomes more and more like a family member in each book! A family member that has bigadventures in a dangerous world! A family member you hope willbe at the next family gathering! -- Harry Thomason, Producer/Director: "Designing Women," "Evening Shade," "The Last Ride""I loved this book! I read it aloud to my wife and she adored it as well! Webb Hubbell has done it again, bringing Jack Patterson and the gang back, now spiced up with some new recruits, and taking on the big - in this casereally big- bad guys. A fast pace, an intricate and surprising plot, a truly shocking development, a couple of surprising if delightful turns and Hubbell's intricate knowledge of the Washington games make The Eighteenth Green a hoot!" -- Mike Farrell, best known as BJ Hunnicutt of M*A*S*H, is the author of 'Just Call Me Mike; A Journey to Actor and Activist' and 'Of Mule and Man.'In this fourth book of Webb Hubbell's Jack Patterson series of thrillers,The Eighteenth Greencarries on his tradition of smart, suspenseful writing.The characters are by now familiar, but the there is nothing routine about the plot. The daughter of Jack Patterson's old friend has been arrested and charged with espionage. The facts appear damning, and, as always, the federal prosecutors hold all the cards. This is not your run-of-the-mill thriller. Hubbell's own experience in the law and in the workings of the federal government create an air of painful experience that brings credibility and nuance to his descriptions of the behind the scenes machinations, leaks, and lies that inevitably creep in to corrupt an all-powerful federal system and the lobbyists and politicians who feed at the trough. The picture one takes away of what goes in in Washington is chilling because it seems so very real.That chill keeps the book rolling right to the very end. It adds depth and substance to the story, and leaves the reader with some very serious questions to consider about the nature of government. The writing style of most thrillers can try the patience of a thoughtful reader. Not so with Hubbell. The characters speak with authenticity, the writing is clean and crisp, and the reader's intelligence is respected, while the plot leaps and bounds with an energy and suspense that makes it difficult to turn out the light. Pick it up, and be prepared to neglect everything else until the end. I highly recommendThe Eighteenth Green,and I look forward eagerly to the next installment of Jack Patterson's adventures. -- J.F. Riordan, author of "North of the Tension Line", "The Audacity of Goats", and "Robert's Rules"
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Beaufort Books Raising the Baton
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Beaufort Books The East End
Book SynopsisTrade Review" The East End is a powerful, authentic thriller... It's a great read and an important warning." Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States and co-author of The President Is Missing" The East End is another in a series of amazing works by Webb Hubbell Don't start this book unless you have some free time, because you aren't going to want put it down!" J. O. Booker M.D., Former Medical Advisor to the Arkansas Department of Health"Webb Hubbell's The East End is brilliant and captivating. Hubbell's understanding, use, and ability to explain the vagaries of the legal system is remarkable." Philip J. Hirschkop, civil rights attorney" The East End is a very well written thriller that keeps the reader on edge. As well as social commentary on health care issues of our day. A great read. I couldn't put it down. Kudos to Webb Hubbell." The Reverend Luis Leon, Rector of St. John's Church" The East End was a page turner with a fascinating courtroom segment that clearly reflects Hubbell's legal background and expertise. This novel was particularly enjoyable for me with its backdrop of public health issues impacting low income residents." Tom Milne, Former Executive Director National Association of County and City Health Departments"Smart, fast-paced, and insightful, The East End delivers a heart-pounding tale with depth and nuance." J. F. Riordan, author of "The North of the Tension Line" Series and Reflections on a Life in Exile
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Watkins Media Limited The Buried Life Recoletta Book 1
Book SynopsisThe gaslight and shadows of the underground city of Recoletta hide secrets and lies. When Inspector Liesl Malone investigates the murder of a renowned historian, she finds herself stonewalled by the all-powerful Directorate of Preservation – Recoletta’s top-secret historical research facility. When a second high-profile murder threatens the very fabric of city society, Malone and her rookie partner Rafe Sundar must tread carefully, lest they fall victim to not only the criminals they seek, but the government which purports to protect them. Knowledge is power, and power must be preserved at all costs…File Under: Science Fantasy [ Thriller Society in Ruins Fully Booked New and Weird ]Trade Review“The Buried Life artfully sets a who-dunit murder mystery in a dystopian underground city filled with dark politics and foul secrets. It’s a gripping read from start to finish, with two clever female leads and a delightfully colorful cast. More, please!”– Beth Cato, author of The Clockwork Dagger“The Buried Life is a dark, imaginative steampunk gem – tailor-made for mystery fans and history nerds alike, with plenty of cops-and-robbers to keep you on your toes. This is a very fine contribution to the genre.”– Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker and Maplecroft“With Regency-era sensibilities and Agatha Christie’s flair for the subtle conundrum, Patel’s debut novel introduces readers to a subterranean city of the future, centuries after what is dubbed ‘The Catastrophe’, and beautifully manages the delicate balance between entertainment and social commentary. The subtly fantastical story is resplendent with surprisingly deep villains, political corruption, and a gripping whodunit feel.”– Starred Review, Publishers Weekly“The Buried Life excels on many levels, quite apart from its presentation of strong female characters: it’s a cracking whodunnit with sufficient twists and turns to make Agatha Christie proud, a vivid portrayal of a vibrant multicultural society, and an intriguing love story.”– The Guardian“Fans of steampunk alternate histories will enjoy this book, and I suspect that readers of the lighter end of the dystopian genre will too. It’s quick, filled with enjoyable characters, and contains enough socio-political reflectiveness to give you something to chew on. It’s a great debut effort, and, even better, the first in a series.”– Barnes and Noble“Vaguely steampunk-ish but not quite classifiable, The Buried Life is recommended for readers comfortable straddling the border of fantasy and sci-fi; dedicated fantasists and hard sci-fi fans may want to go down another hole.”– Books, Brains, and Beer“The worldbuilding in The Buried Life is absolutely fantastic and Patel weaves together a universe that’s as grand as it is provocative. Patel is etching out traces of our own civilization from a future perspective, a cultural excavator carving out the recesses, digging up fossils that reveal both the geography of a collapsed United States as well as the intellectual debris of censorship. The Buried Life had me digging deeper, gawking at the literary stakes involved.”– Peter Tieryas, author of United States of Japan“This was a really interesting book. To me it was like the love child of a Steampunk and a Dystopian. Seriously. The setting was fascinating — an underground city, a group of rulers that are more dictators than anything, societal rules, and, of course, murder and mayhem. This book took off running. It was fast paced with a hell of a lot of action — which, coupled with the setting, was right up my alley. And on top of the murders and guns and all that, there were also some interesting characters. The main characters here were all quite fascinating — nuanced, layered, realistic. The world and the characters were fascinating, the plot was fast-paced and action-packed. It was a great read.”– In Case of Survival“Patel’s voice is her own. I was impressed. Patel’s debut novel is definitely worth reading.”– Bookish“This was a very well written novel. Attention to the logic of not only writing but writing a detective novel was superb. Behind this detecting logic there lurks an obvious perpetrator but you always seem to know that that would be too easy. The fun is in determining the who, and seeing if subsequent events play out in your favor. I like a novel that challenges you AND gives you enough information to figure it out. I loved this novel and look forward to Ms. Patel’s next.”– Koeur’s Book Reviews“The Buried Life is one of those books where you get much more than you had bargained for. Carrie Patel introduces the reader to a very interesting world, which besides several explanations only raises many more questions. The whole setting of the book is cleverly build by mixing up several of the established genres, Carrie Patel has created a very unique and intriguing blend. The Buried Life is a high recommendation, you don’t come by these types of books very often, great reading stuff.”– The Book Plank“Carrie Patel has conceived of a dark steampunk-esque yet futuristic world filled with anachronisms that, despite that, work well together. It’s as if this world has been cobbled together from past cultures and times, which is not as unusual as it may sound, to make for an underground claustrophobic world that you can almost feel pressing down on your head and soul. And there’s a library to die for – what bookaholic could resist? I know I couldn’t and I hope you won’t either. This is Book #1 in a new series and I’m really looking forward to Book #2!”– Popcorn Reads“I really enjoyed the novel, Patel’s descriptions are strong and evoke Recoletta quite clearly. The narrative builds up to a clear climax…I can’t wait to return to Recoletta. If you enjoy your SFF a bit off the beaten path or genre mashups in general, then I highly recommend giving Carrie Patel’s The Buried Life a shot.”– A Fantastical Librarian“While the story begins as a routine mystery, it quickly develops into something else entirely, and the tone drops more and more often into a darker mood…I think the worldbuilding was my favourite aspect of the book. The story sets up a promising storyline and an interesting world, and I’ll be curious to see how the things develop in the city of Recoletta.”– Bookaneer“One of the best mystery novels I have ever read.”– Avid Fantasy Reviews“This is one of the fastest paced books I’ve read in a long time. Patel wastes no time with excessive description or extraneous scenes, but still manages to convey a full sense of the world and its underlying implications. The stakes are always clear, transitioning effortlessly from scene to scene, and I found the story impossible to put down. Fans of fast-paced narratives should definitely give this one a look. The ending is perfectly set up, but only in retrospect: I didn’t see it coming, and the world is left completely upturned. In short, The Buried Life is a fantastic start to Carrie Patel’s new series, and this one is going straight onto my ‘Buy Sequel Immediately Upon Release’ list.”– Fantasy Book Critic“This was a lovely debut and it made for a nice easy read. I’d definitely recommend it as something a little different; a mixture of crime and steampunk, something new from Angry Robot and well worth a read!”– Uncorked Thoughts“While the murder mystery is tied up nicely, providing a pleasant sense of closure to that part of the book, there are larger events that take over towards the end and set up the stage nicely for the follow-up… I for one will be eagerly waiting to download it to my Kindle on the day of release!”– Ravenous Reader“If you love Steampunk, or Urban Fantasy, grab this book. If you love Post-Apocalyptic Rebuilt Civilizations, grab this book. If you love Empowered Female Protagonists, grab this book. And if you love a well-written, enticing story with a great reader’s hook, well of course, grab this book! I loved it! It’s a re-reader and I can’t wait for more from author Carrie Patel.”– Mallory Heart Reviews“Her writing exudes an engaging confidence that makes The Buried Life hard to put down. Patel also shows a gift for pithy dialogue, and her two female leads are both resilient although in different ways”.– SciFi Now“This worldbuilding reminds me of a taste of China Mieville’s New Crobuzon, a dose of the scheming Universities in Paul McAuley’s Confluence novels, and an air and aura of mystery and thriller in the bargain. A gaslight quasi Victorian underground city, though, in the end, is something new under the sun, and having two female protagonists as our leads and views into the city even more so. Patel gets high marks for trying to bring something new, and wandering the boundary of science fiction and fantasy to do it.”– Skiffy and Fanty“The Buried Life is a bracing and accessible read, full of nicely honed turns of phrase and entertaining banter.”– Christopher East“A very interesting novel that’s very promising indeed, and certainly should put Carrie Patel on that list of authors who readers will be looking forward to seeing what she can come up with next.”– The Fictional Hangout“I loved The Buried Life. I enjoyed learning about Patel’s world and the culture of this underground city. I honestly could not figure out the “whodunnit” and had no idea who was the murderer until the characters figured it out at the end. For me that’s a huge plus.”– Book Girl’s BookNook“A tightly-written, fast-paced and very good novel that will scratch both your mystery itch and your post-apocalyptic dystopia itch.”– Dreaming About Other Worlds
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John Wiley & Sons The World Begins Here An Anthology of Oregon
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John Wiley & Sons A Richer Harvest The Literature of Work in the
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Persea Books Inc In the Between 21st Century Short Stories
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Ohio University Press Broken Lives and Other Stories
Book SynopsisIn her startling collection of short stories, Broken Lives and Other Stories, Anthonia C. Kalu creates a series of memorable characters who struggle to hold displaced but dynamic communities together in a country that is at war with itself.BrokenTrade Review“Storytelling at its best, full of subtlety and a nuanced exploration of the core issues of the Biafran tragedy.”
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Wooden Shepherdess New York Review Books
Book SynopsisThe Wooden Shepherdess is the sequel to The Fox in the Attic, and the second volume of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, 'The Human Predicament.' It opens with Hughes's hero Augustine in prohibition era America, where he is a bemused onlooker and an increasingly fascinated participant in a country intoxicated with sex, violence, and booze. In brilliant cinematic style, the book then moves to Germany, where the Nazi Party is gradually gaining in power; to the slums, mining towns, parliamentary back rooms, and great houses of a Britain teetering on the verge of class war; and to the wilds of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The novel ends with a terrifying account of the Night of the Long Knives, as Hitler ruthlessly secures his hold upon Germany.This new edition of the The Wooden Shepherdess concludes with the twelve chapters that Hughes completed of the planned third volume of 'The Human Predicament,' here published for the first time in Americ
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Eustace and Hilda New York Review Books Classics
Book SynopsisThe three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy: the two siblings could hardly be more different, but they are also deeply devoted. And yet as Eustace and Hilda grow up and seek to go their separate ways in a world of power and position, money and love, their relationship is marked by increasing pain.L. P. Hartley's much-loved novel, the magnum opus of one of twentieth-century England's best writers, is a complex and spellbinding work: a comedy of upper-class manners; a study in the subtlest nuances of feeling; a poignant reckoning with the ironies of character and fate. Above all, it is about two people who cannot live together or apart, about the ties that bind—and break.
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Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XLVI Best of the Small
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Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XLVII
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Autumn Hill Books Mother Tongue
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Titletown Publishing, LLC Sleep When Youre Dead
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Green Writers Press Where We Live
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Green Writers Press Frost Heaves
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Random House USA Inc Horse
Book SynopsisWhen Teagan’s father abruptly abandons his family and his farm, Teagan finds herself wading through the wreckage of what was once an idyllic life, searching for something—or someone—to hold on to. What she finds is Ian, short for Obsidian: the magnificent but dangerously headstrong horse her father left behind. But even as she grows close to Ian, patiently training him, trying to overcome her fear of him, Teagan is learning that life and love are fragile. With an unflinching eye and remarkable restraint, Talley English tells a piercing story about how families hold together and fall apart; about loss and grief; about friendship; about the blunt cruelty of chance; and, finally, about forgiveness.
£14.41
Penguin Random House LLC Double Switch 2 Johnny Adcock
Book SynopsisRelief pitcher/private investigator Johnny Adcock doesn't have an office; he has the bullpen. That's where he meets Tiff Tate, the femme-fatale stylist responsible for half the looks in Major League Baseball, from Brian Wilson's beard to Big Papi's gold ropes. Tiff has a problem. Her new client, the rookie phenom Yonel Ruiz, has been threatened by a cartel of smugglers. Adcock is her last best hope. As he embarks on this potentially deadly mission, Adcock tangoes with a mysterious, sexy assassin known only as La Loba. And he still has the playoffs to worry about.
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Random House USA Inc The Sinner 3 Rizzoli Isles
Book SynopsisNot even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns-one dead, one critically injured-victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical examiner Maura Isles’s autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: Twenty-year-old Sister Camille gave birth before she was murdered. Then another body is found, mutilated beyond recognition. Together, Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli uncover an ancient horror that connects these terrible slaughters. As long-buried secrets come to light, Maura Isles finds herself drawn inexorably toward the heart of an investigation that strikes close to home-and toward a dawning revelation about the killer’s identity too shattering to consider.
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) Eleanor
Book SynopsisWhen a terrible accident claims the life of Eleanor’s twin, her family is left in tatters, and her reality begins to unravel, dropping her in and out of unfamiliar worlds. When she returns to her own time and place, hours and days have flown by without her. One fateful day, Eleanor leaps from a cliff...and vanishes. In a strange in-between place, she meets a mysterious stranger who understands the weight of her family history: Eleanor’s twin wasn’t the only tragic loss. And unless Eleanor can master her strange new abilities, she may not be the last.
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Random House USA Inc The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Book SynopsisThis generous collection of fifty-two stories, selected from across her prolific career by the author, includes a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.A widely admired master of the short story, Mavis Gallant was a Canadian-born writer who lived in France and died in 2014 at the age of ninety-one. Her more than one hundred stories, most published in The New Yorker over five decades beginning in 1951, have influenced generations of writers and earned her comparisons to Anton Chekhov, Henry James, and George Eliot. She has been hailed by Michael Ondaatje as “one of the great story writers of our time.”With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in boldly unconventional directions. The settings in The Collected Stories range from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Italian Riviera to the Côte d’Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was for most of her expatriate life. The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her expansive view of humanity, provide a rare and deep reading pleasure. With breathtaking control and compression, Gallant delivers a whole life, a whole world, in each story.
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Random House USA Inc The Sea the Sea A Severed Head
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Random House USA Inc Shaken and Stirred
Book SynopsisShaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries. In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppances at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies; while John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and Robert Coover set their characters afloat on surreal, soul-revealing adventures. Here, too, are well-lubricated tales by Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dawn Powell, Clarice Lispector, Joy Williams, Penelope Lively, and many more. The settings include hotels and restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a café in Paris, a bar in Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn parties, and the occasional jail cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, bartenders and chorus girls, youths taking their first sips and experienced tipplers waking with hangovers. Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, the vividly drawn characters in these sparkling pages will leave you shaken and stirred.
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Random House USA Inc The Dukes Children
Book SynopsisNewly restored from the original manuscript and more than a quarter longer than existing editions: one of the finest novels from one of the greatest English novelists is finally available in the form he intended. Trollope wrote The Duke’s Children, his final Palliser novel, as a four-volume work but was required by his publisher to reduce it to three, necessitating the loss of nearly sixty-five thousand words. A team of researchers led by Steven Amarnick has worked with the manuscript at Yale’s Beinecke Library to restore the novel to its original form. The result is richer and more complex, with a subtly different ending, a clearly superior book to the one that has always been published. Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, has lost both his vivacious wife, Lady Glencora, and his position as prime minister of Great Britain. The bereft duke is left to try to manage his three grown children, whose rebellions take the various forms of gambling debts, university pranks, and unsuitable romantic attachments. But though he fails to understand his offspring, Palliser truly cares for them, and he navigates the clash of generations with a growing awareness of the necessity of compromises, both political and personal. Insightful, entertaining, and compassionate—and now restored to its full glory—The Duke’s Children is a fitting conclusion to the epic Palliser series, one of the most remarkable achievements of British fiction.
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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 The Lover Wartime Notebooks Practicalities
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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 All Quiet on the Western Front
Book SynopsisA hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time—featuring an Introduction by historian Norman Stone. Now a Netflix Film.When twenty-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under the first brutal bombardment in the trenches. Through the ensuing years of horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another. Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel not only portrays in vivid detail the combatants' physical and mental trauma, but dramatizes as well the tragic detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home. Remarque's stated intention—&
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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 Singers Gun
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