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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
viii, 247 p. : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An unabridged republication of a collection of interrelated stories in which George Willard, a young newspaper reporter, comments on the hopes, dreams, and fears of the residents of the small town of Winesburg, Ohio.
3) Seedfolks
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled, inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and, in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
This "jewel at the heart of English comic literature" chronicles the daily fortunes and misfortunes of a middle-age, middle-class clerk (William Trevor, The Mail on Sunday).
Since its original publication in 1892, The Diary of a Nobody has become a much-loved classic. It is a fictional man's dissection of the everyday drama of his life as an office worker in a London firm. With dry wit, the authors step into the character of Charles Pooter as...
Author
Series
Psmith series volume 3
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The bon vivant takes charge of a New York magazine-and gets in a tangle with the mob-in this comic novel by the creator of Jeeves and Wooster.
When Cambridge student Mike Jackson journeys to New York on a cricketing tour, his good friend Psmith comes along for a laugh. An inveterate dandy and irrepressible wit, Psmith finds New York lacking in entertainment-until he stumbles into the magazine business. Befriending the editor of Cozy Moments, Psmith...
6) Happiness
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech.
7) Aviary
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At the deteriorating Pheasant Run, the occupants keep their secrets and sadnesses locked tight behind closed apartment doors. Kind Leo Umberti, formerly an insurance agent, now quietly spends his days painting abstract landscapes and mourning a long-ago loss. Down the hall, retired professor Rydell Clovis tries desperately to stay fit enough to restart a career in academia. Cassie McMackin, on the same floor, has seemingly lost everything - her husband...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1955]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 450 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, encompassing almost all of his production in verse, from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Flowers of Evil It is a major work of modern poetry. His pieces break with agreed style, in use until then and rejuvenate the structure of the verse by regular use of crossings, rejects and counter-rejects. This renovates the rigid form of the sonnet. He uses suggestive images by...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
An artistic couple, their adopted son, and a once-celebrated AIDS activist connect in unexpected ways in their bohemian Manhattan East Village apartment over the course of decades marked by the Tompkins Square Riots, addiction, the hipster generation, and the glass-ceiling wealth of the 2020s.
10) Dubliners
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The sisters -- An encounter -- Araby -- Eveline -- After the race -- Two gallants -- The boarding house -- A little cloud -- Counterparts -- Clay --A Painful Case -- Ivy Day in the Committee Room -- A Mother -- Grace -- and perhaps the most welL-known of all the stories (and the longest): The Dead.
11) The committed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The astonishing sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend,...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
While they are discussing the possible illnesses they may have, Jerome, Harris, and George all realize they suffer from the same thing-working too much. Upon the realization, the three best friends decide that they must go on a vacation. After rejecting the ideas of a sea trip or country stay, because Jerome doesn't like the sea, and Harris finds the country to be dull, the men decide on a boat trip. With their bags packed and with the company of...
16) The Dishwasher
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD NOMINATED FOR CANADA READS A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 As heard on CBC's The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright
...
It's October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due on his first freelance gig and ensnared
17) Green Sun
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the unsung legends of crime fiction" (Chicago Tribune), Kent Anderson, returns after two decades with this dazzling novel about justice, character and fate, set against the backdrop of an American city at war with itself.
Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with...
Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summer in London stops for no-one. Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers, the hen parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried fags. It's June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city's parks, beer gardens and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie. She's 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she's wondering if having...
Author
Series
Paws in the City volume 2
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Self-proclaimed hot mess Scout Myers is determined to prove she's finally got her act together. Raised by grandparents who saw her as her wayward mother's wayward daughter, Scout's used to being written off. So when the opportunity for a promotion arises at Paws in the City, the talent agency where she works, Scout is desperate to rise to the occasion. With shared custody of her little sister also on the line, Scout can't afford a single mistake ......
Author
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meredith's engagement to Wesley ended in disaster - one that shattered her completely. Years have passed since then, and now she's about to marry Aaron, a former Ivy League football player and baby-saving doctor. As they celebrate their engagement at a new TriBeCa hotspot, Meredith is stunned to find the restaurant owner is none other than Wesley. As she spends more time with Wesley and is pulled under his spell, she discovers what kind of man her...
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