Rediscover this ';lyrical look at how a community heals, how families recover, and how individuals grow' (The Washington Post) with the complete Beartown trilogy in one unputdownable ebook from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman.
An ad man is enlisted to stop a terrorist plot in a contemporary spin on the Bible story of Jonah that “will keep you riveted” (Delaware Today Magazine).
From "e;the Thoreau of the American West,"e; a novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness between an aging forester and a young woman (Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove).
New York Times Editors' Choice Vanity Fair's 20 Favorite Books of 2023 Debutiful Best Book of the Year Crimereads Best Debut of August ';Hertz has managed to tell a story of queer healing with all the narrative force of a thriller and the searing fury of an indictment.
A novel set during the reign of Genghis Khan and his Mongol Empire from the acclaimed author of Ghost on the Steppe, “a master storyteller” (Houston Chronicle).
Finalist for the 2015 Giller PrizeAmong The National Post's Top 5 Books of 2015Among The Toronto Star's Top 5 Fiction Books of 2015Among Largehearted Boy's Favourite Novels of 2015One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015Among The Edmonton Journal's Top 5 Books of 2015A 49th Shelf Book of the Year, 2015Among NOW Toronto's Top 10 Books of 2015Martin John’s mam says that she is glad he is done with it.
Most people believe Jimmy Antonelli is bad to the bone New York detective and an old friend of the family Bill Smith is one of the few people who has ever been willing to give Jimmy a second chance.
Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion.
This collection of new essay examines how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature.
Cette chronique romanesque donne à revivre le séjour que Vincent van Gogh effectua à l’asile Saint-Paul-de-Mausole de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence de mai 1889 à mai 1890.
American Musicals in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical.
INSTANT BESTSELLER The next installment in the nationally bestselling The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder series finds antique hunter Freya Lockwood and Aunt Carole one again embarking on a journey to recover priceless antiquesthis time on a Red Sea cruise.
This book explores the narratives of girlhood in contemporary YA vampire fiction, bringing into the spotlight the genre's radical, ambivalent, and contradictory visions of young femininity.
A young woman journeys deep into the untamed jungle, wrestling with love and loss, trauma and healing, faith and redemption, in this sweeping debut from "e;the gutsiest woman adventurer of our day"e; (Book Magazine)Marika Vecera, an accomplished war reporter, has dedicated her life to helping the world's oppressed and forgotten.
The first book-length study of romance novels to focus on issues of sexuality rather than gender, Historical Romance Fiction moves the ongoing debate about the value and appeal of heterosexual romance onto new ground, testing the claims of cutting-edge critical theorists on everything from popular classics by Georgette Heyer, to recent 'bodice rippers,' to historical fiction by John Fowles and A.
One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change.
Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions "e;a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera.
"e;Brooklyn Noir came first in 2004, and now, 15 years later, Houston Noir--14 stories of intrigue, betrayal and death set from Tanglewood to Third Ward penned by current or former Houston authors--goes on sale.
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From the star of Peacock's Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a ';funny, tender, and beautiful' (Gary Janetti, New York Times bestselling author) novel following a gay TV writer with cerebral palsy as he fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world.
