Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
The Art of Racing in the Rain
A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope–a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it
Read MoreThe Rules of Magic
“The prequel to Alice Hoffman’s PRACTICAL MAGIC, following the lives of Franny and Jet Owens (and their brother Vincent Owens) long before Sally and Gillian wound up on their doorstep”–
Read MoreWe Were the Lucky Ones
“Reading Georgia Hunter’s We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. . . . A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment.” –Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews…
Read MoreNutshell TP
Ian McEwan is a literary superstar, and this is McEwan at his very best. Nutshell is the most amazing novel from the greatest of writers–gloriously entertaining, wonderfully imagined–a mesmerizing thriller to delight all readers. “Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space–were it not that I have…
Read MoreThe Count of Monte Cristo
Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss
Read MoreDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Penguin English Library Edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ‘All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil’ Published as a ‘shilling shocker’, Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark psychological fantasy gave birth to…
Read MoreDracula
The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker ‘Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window’ A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise…
Read MoreDubliners
Naturalistic and moving, the fifteen stories which make up Dubliners each mark a moment of epiphany for the characters, as they experience illumination in the churches, markets, bedrooms and pubs in Dublin. A stirring beautiful depiction of Irish middle-class life in the early twentieth century, this is an eye-opening, powerful introduction to James Joyce’s writing.
Read MoreGrapes of Wrath
STEINBECK/GRAPES OF WRATH (BC)
Read MoreLittle Bee
Sarah Summers is enjoying a holiday on a Nigerian beach when a young girl named Little Bee crashes irrevocably into her life. All it takes is a brief and horrifying moment of crisis — a terrifying scene that no reader will forget. Afterwards, Sarah and Little Bee might expect never to see each other again.…
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