Bank teller Claire Bennett's life changes when she wins the lottery, and buys an ancient fixer-upper on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura.After moving to the island's sleepy inland vill...więcej »
Alec feels that everything-his past, the rudiments of civil society, the country itself-have slipped away and now he needs to make some sense of things, and finally do something. Alec Carton, a ...więcej »
Collected here are an assortment of Thoreau writings displaying his view of nature, life and living. From Walking and Walden to Civil Disobedience, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and mo...więcej »
First published in 1939, "Coming Up for Air" is a novel by George Orwell that tells the story of 45-year-old insurance salesman George Bowling who, foreseeing the horrors of World War II, endeavour...więcej »
Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. ...więcej »
When Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) lost the presidency in 1980, it would have been reasonable to think his public life was coming to an end. The moderate, evangelical, blue-jeans-wearing peanut farmer mad...więcej »
On the strength of a National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato and a widely acclaimed short-story cycle, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (b. 1946) cemented his reput...więcej »
In his most recent novel, author John Sager provides his readers with a fictional account of how individuals and families deal with the Coronavirus pandemic. Each chapter is a separate story, o...więcej »
Coyote weather is the feral, hungry season in California, when everything is drought-stricken and ready to catch fire. It's 1967 and the American culture is violently re...więcej »
A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder i...więcej »
What is the result of a romance between an angel and a demon? In Samiras case, her being born. And if things werent complicated enough, she has an angel and a demon as guardians that were appoin...więcej »
Making a pact with the underworld isn't a problem ... ... but change the deal and hell breaks loose. Dahlia's world was turned upside down as a child and...więcej »
Haunted by the memory of terrified children in the back of a speeding truck, Major vows to find them and sets a trap. His enemy plans a deadly ambush.When Major's o...więcej »
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in the middle of the 13th century and what is principally known of him comes from his own writings. One of the world’s great literary masterpiec...więcej »
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in the middle of the 13th century and what is principally known of him comes from his own writings. One of the world’s great literary masterpiec...więcej »
Dark Windows, has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is nev...więcej »