Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
Bittersweet
“Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty,…
Read MoreUnder Major Domo Minor
A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts…
Read MoreThe Sisters Brothers
Watership Down
A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for almost forty years, Richard Adams{u2019}s Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England{u2019}s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival follows a band of very special rabbits on their flight from the…
Read MoreATTACHMENTS
Gossiping and sharing their personal secrets on e-mail in spite of their company’s online monitoring practices, Beth and Jennifer unwittingly amuse Internet security officer Lincoln, who unexpectedly falls for Beth while reading their correspondences. Reprint.
Read MoreThe Dinner
Meeting at a restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the shared challenge of their teenage sons’ violent act that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love.
Read MoreNostalgia
“From one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner Moyez Vassanji, comes a taut, ingenuous and dynamic novel about a future where eternal life is possible, and identities can be chosen. In the indeterminate future in an unnamed western city, physical impediments to immortality have been overcome. As society approaches the prospect of…
Read MoreThe Stand
A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.
Read MoreSTORY OF A NEW NAME
In this follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, Lila is imprisoned by marriage, while Elena continues her journey of self-discovery, until their friendship, which is at the center of their emotional lives, forces them both to mature into women. Original.
Read MoreThe Trophy Child
There’s nothing quite like a mother’s love . . . but how much is too much before maternal ambition for a perfect child jeopardizes the delicate balance of family life and threatens its very existence? Paula Daly is acclaimed for her distinctive voice, masterful plotting and terrifying depictions of ordinary people whose everyday lives are…
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