An old and deeply damaged white hermit in the woods volunteers to help two troubled inner-city black youths. The cat-and-mouse game with authorities that ensues leads everyone involved into lif...
'If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?' is the theme of this book. So we laugh at America and the Americans. Here is a tossed salad of unique American humor, slang and expressions, a...
First published in 1925, Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy" is widely considered to be one of the best American novels of the twentieth-century. It is the classic tragedy that follows the ...
Despite the many years which have passed since Sweet first published his Anglo-Saxon Reader, it remains a particularly appealing and useful anthology for the student of Old English. It contains ext...
Is knowing one's deathday a blessing or a curse? Is that knowledge worth the potential costs? Does it help us live our lives more fully or shift our focus from living to dying?An inner co...
??On the opening night of his restaurant, bad boy Tye Gates discovers a diary moments after being unfaithful to his fiancé'. Trying to identify its owner, h...
We all know the stories of how Diana came to be with Charles Kensington, and Cabot was introduced to Tony DeLuca, but you don't yet know how the rest of the Stephanopoulos grandchildren came to...
Eight years ago, Erin Donahue had it all-her own city apartment, a career in photography, and a man who'd do anything for her. But things change. Now, living in the small...
Mallory McShane is a hero in some eyes, but she doesn't feel like one. Living in an old family farmhouse, hiding from tornadoes, she's biding her time.A promise still unmet.But tho...
On a sunny August afternoon in 1852, on the northern coast of Lake Erie, two dozen bodies from the ill-fated Atlantic Paddle Steamer shipwreck washed ashore and were rapidly retrieved from their wa...
For fans of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette or Camille Pagan's I'm Fine and Neither Are You, comes the perfect laugh-out-loud dramedy AND THEN T...
A serial killer. A mob boss. A vengeance-fueled battle to the death.????? "Totally riveting, a real page turner that had me up all night! Fast paced and full of action, I'm complet...
Forugh Farrokhzad was born in Tehran in 1935 and died in a car crash at the age of 32. During her short, tumultuous life she was married and divorced; had a son, who was taken away from her; had lo...
Ever since the death of her husband, Ursula Ottway has lived alone in Back Rigg Cottage, high up on the fells overlooking the beautiful Crow Water reservoir. She has always been popular in the loca...