Goodbye, Columbus (and 5 Short Stories)
Description: Roth's classic "Goodbye Columbus" is accompanied by five short stories that range from the iconoclastic to the the astonishingly tender, illuminating the subterranean conflicts between...
View ArticleFirst impressions
Description: From the master of romance, Nora Roberts, comes a story about love and the magic of the holiday season. Escaping the rat race and the lure of gold-digging women, wealthy businessman Vance...
View ArticleBride Quartet #04: Happy Ever After
Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts cordially invites you to meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac ? the founders of Vows, one of Connecticut's premier...
View ArticleBride Quartet #3: Savor the Moment
Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts cordially invites you to meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac ? the founders of Vows, one of Connecticut's premier...
View ArticleThe O'Hurley Saga Book 1: The Last Honest Woman
Description: As the widow of an infamous race car champion, Abby O'Hurley shunned publicity. But how could she keep charming, disarming, and ruthlessly cynical biographer Dylan Crosby from uncovering...
View ArticleNorthanger Abbey
Description: Synopsis: 1/3. Catherine Morland, a naïve country girl, is taken to Bath by Mr and Mrs Allen - rich landowners and friends of her clergyman father. But her arrival in Bath in such...
View ArticleMoneyball : the art of winning an unfair game
Описание:Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager, is leading a revolution. Reinventing his team on a budget, he needs to outsmart the richer teams. He signs undervalued players whom the scouts...
View ArticleTheodosia and the Eyes of Horus
Description: Being able to detect black magic isn’t all tea and crumpets — and for Theodosia Throckmorton, it can be a decidedly tricky business! When Sticky Will drags Theo to a magic show featuring...
View ArticleTheodosia and the Staff of Osiris
Description: Theodosia Throckmorton is in a fix. Allowed to attend a reception given by one of the directors of her parents' museum, she stumbles across Mr. Tetley of the British Museum--in most...
View ArticleThe Portrait of a Lady
Description: The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1880. Isabel Archer, a young woman of intelligence, imagination and beauty,...
View ArticlePortrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
Description: Crime fiction writer Cornwell adds yet another volume to the Jack the Ripper literature. She argues that the serial killer had to be the painter Walter Richard Sickert (d. 1942) and that...
View ArticleThe Children of Men
Description: The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and...
View ArticleFarm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Description: Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to...
View ArticlePaper Towns
Description: Green melds elements from his Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines— the impossibly sophisticated but unattainable girl, and a life-altering road trip—for another...
View ArticleOscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders
Description: London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of...
View ArticleBed of Roses: The Bride Quartet, Book 2
Description: Since she was a little girl, Emma Grant has always loved romance. So it’s really no surprise that she has found her calling as a wedding florist. She gets to play with flowers every day...
View ArticleVision in White: The Bride Quartet, Book 1
Description: The women at Vows--a wedding planning company in Connecticut--make it their business to create memorable events for couples sealing their bonds. And though the bonds among Parker, Emma,...
View ArticleJeeves: A Gentleman’s Personal Gentleman
Description: This book tells the story of Reginald Jeeves, a valet to several forgettable members of Britain’s gentry. While Parkinson’s account of Mr Jeeves’ life is entertaining, it falls just short...
View ArticleRender unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church
Description: An investigation of epic finanical intrigue, Render unto Rome exposes the secrecy and deceit that run counter to the values of the Catholic Church. The Sunday collection in every Catholic...
View ArticleNotes from a Small Island
Description: After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States...
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