W. Todd Kaneko's The Dead Wrestler Elegies is some kind of miracle. There's nothing else like it. The book succeeds as guilty pleasure and love affair, tribute and indict...więcej »
A simple knock on the door started it all. Two hours into another seemingly-mundane Monday morning, David Centrelli, an executive at a pharmaceutical company, gets held at gunpoint....więcej »
A Nick Hoffman / Academic Mystery, Book 3 - Mayhem at the State University of Michigan: Is it murder...or another faculty meeting?Filled with caustic humo...więcej »
One of the world's most famous writers, Leo Tolstoy, is probably best known for his epic romantic works "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace". In addition to being the author of some of the greate...więcej »
Ivan Ilyich, a high court judge, becomes seriously ill and faces a long and gruelling battle with death. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is more than a story about death, however. It leads the reader t...więcej »
????All she wants is her freedom. All he wants is her...????Rayne Wellbrook shouldn't be living in a luxurious London manor. She shouldn't be the step-niece to...więcej »
The Decorating Club shares the story of what happens when a group of women come together to help each other redesign their homes. In the process, they support each other through some of the...więcej »
A twisted serial killer. A deadly game of cat and mouse. Can DI Ruth Hunter catch a crazed psychopath who seems intent on destroying her life?DI Ruth Hunter ...więcej »
First published in 1841, “The Deerslayer” was the last of James Fenimore Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales” to be written. Chronologically set first the novel introdu...więcej »
This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1901. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work a...więcej »
No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war -- perhaps because we never before had any that thought for themselves! 'They pasted Moscow again last night.' Taylor nodded his hea...więcej »
Pippa Montgomery never thought her life would go like this. When she found out her late husband was a bigamist and had been murdered, she thought nothing could ever be the same. When she met his...więcej »
The Degradation of Gold:
A body in a bookshop, a priceless collection of rare books, an elaborate island estate, campus intrigues and old secrets:
all elements in a tale of complicated characters ...więcej »
Fresh out of art school with a pile of debt and a broken heart, Della moves into her parents' basement in suburban Nebraska and lands a "temporar...więcej »
The Delicate Fire illustrates a fundamental change in Naomi Mitchison's work. The early stories are set in ancient Greece, like many before them. But here Mitchison effectively says farewell to t...więcej »
When he falls, he falls hard and deep. She literally drives away from every relationship she's ever had. Can Ward somehow get Dot to stay this Christma...więcej »
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United State...więcej »