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Charles Dickens Novel As The Reflection Of The Social Change In British Victorian Period
Charles Dickens was a famous writer when he was alive and he is now one of the best-known and most widely read of English writers. Dickens wrote from comedy to social criticism and from history to journalism. The history of Dickens’s life that made him wrote many novels about social life and criticized of Victorian. His poor head for finances in his childhood be an inspiration for him to wrote about the lower classes and the criticized for government who did not care with people. Dickens wrote about religion and fiction. Dickens spent much time to traveling and campaigning against many of the social evils of his time. He was very concern with the problems of the society change in that time.
Charles Dickens wrote thirteen novels between Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, published in the year of his death, 1870. In Oliver Twist (1837-8) and Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9), he wrote of the social problem of young boy named Oliver. Oliver had bad treatment in an institution for the poor and working for criminals. Here, Dickens wanted education for all children, and shown his readers the kind of problems children had in the cities, where poor people had no chance to share in the success of the nation. He often tells the stories of victims, and made his reader aware of the problem of Victorian society.
Moreover, Dickens tried to write novels, which criticized society in a more general way. David Copperfield (1849-50) was his most positive novel about growing up. The hero, David, became the kind of success, which Victorian admired- he is rich, he marries, and a general sense of happy ending is given. This novel was based in part of his childhood and his success. However, when he came to write another partly autobiographical story, Great Expectations (1860-1), there is a sense that the ending will not be so happy: there is a feeling of disappointment, that hopes will not be met, and that the earlier ideals have been false. Then in Hard Times (1854), Dickens shows the worst sides of the new industrial society of the Mindlands of England and most clearly shows how the poor lived.. Industry is contrasted with the freedom of the individual and the whole novel presents a very pessimistic picture of the nation. In addition, in A Christmas Carol, it shows the traditional picture of Victorian family values, and helped to create the image of Christmas as the most important family festival.
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Michal: A Novel, (The Wives of King David) $14.99 “>>>Historical Fiction>>> >>As the daughter of King Saul, Michal lives a life of privilege–but one that is haunted by her father’s unpredictable moods and by competition from her beautiful older sister. When Michal falls for young David, the harpist who plays to calm her father, she has no idea what romance, adventures, and heartache await her. As readers enter the colorful and unpredictable worlds of King Saul and King David, they will be swept up in this exciting and romantic story. Against the backdrop of opulent palace life, raging war, and desert escapes, Jill Eileen Smith takes her readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride as Michal deals with love, loss, and personal transformation as one of the wives of David. A sweeping tale of passion and drama, readers will love this amazing story.>> >> >> >>>Product Details>>Page Count: 384>>>Dimensions: 8.5” (L) x 5.5” (W) x 0.9” (D)>Release: 03/2009>>” |
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The Stones: A Novel of the Life of King David $10.99 “With comprehensive detail and flowing prose, Eleanor Gustafson crafts the retelling of King David’s life-from his teenaged anointing to his death-as seen through the eyes of Asaph, a Levite historian. Fictional in scope, yet with amazing Scriptural accuracy, he Stones provides a revealing, behind-the-scenes glimpse into biblical history with all the twists, turns, thrills, and romance of the world’s great drama. You will be there as: ” A young teen collects stones to take on a giant” A prideful rebel takes count of his fighting men” A fallible leader succumbs to lust, temptation, and deceit” A poet and musician grows closer to God through prayer and worship” A man after God’s heart discovers the unfailing love and forgiveness of his Creator The Stones is an epic adventure of man’s innate need to worship God and rely on Him for strength-and how badly it can go when he fails to do so.” |
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David Copperfield $3.29 David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel. He said of it: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield." It is a Bildungsroman, a tale which follows the development into maturity of its narrator, David Copperfield. The Russian greats Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky both greatly admired the novel, as did Kafka, Joyce and James. Freud called it his favourite novel. |
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Babylon Nights: A David Spandau Novel $13.99 Fifteen years ago, Anna Mayhew won an Oscar for Best Actress. Rich, famous, and beautiful, she had the world at her feet. Nearly forty years old, Anna is being offered these days only bland supporting roles, the kind she got her acting started with. So she spends much of her time thinking up clever and dangerous methods of self-destruction. But she may not have to kill herself after all. Anna discovers she has a stalker Vincent, a crazed fan whose idea of love involves a straight razor and lots of blood. What better way to propel the name Anna Mayhew into film immortality? Enter David Spandau, ex-stuntman and private investigator, who has been hired by Anna’s sister Pam to protect the star. But Anna doesn’t want help until she meets Spandau and decides she needs his intimate protection all the way to the Cannes Film Festival, where she’s slated to be a judge. Spandau finds himself falling for Anna, as well. But there’s the not so small problem of trying to keep a woman alive who’d prefer to be dead. To complicate matters, Vincent has followed Anna to Cannes intent on a bloody consummation of their relationship and he is being tracked by Special, an opera-loving L.A. pimp trying to recover the mob-owned money Vincent stole from him. So a deadly cat-and-mouse game that begins in the meat market of Hollywood culminates at the Roman orgy that is Cannes. Author Depp proves again to have the deadliest and most perceptive eye trained on the entertainment business today. With an enthralling, hair-raising final act, Babylon Nights is a twisted and sharply funny thrill ride that will delight Spandau fans and newcomers alike. |
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Ghost: A Novel $9.89 A stunning new novel about an ordinary man’s encounter with the extraordinary, from the author of Einstein’s Dreams .David Kurzweil, a quiet man with modest ambitions, was taking a break at his new job, when he saw something out of the corner of his eye. Something no science could explain. Suddenly David’s life is changed, and he soon finds himself in the middle of a wild public controversy over the existence of the supernatural. As David searches for an explanation, we embark on a provocative exploration of the delicate divide between the physical and the spiritual, between science and religion as only Alan Lightman could provide. Combining a beautiful narrative with provocative ideas, Ghost investigates timeless questions that continue to challenge the truth as we know it. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Dissolve: A Novel $12.79 David Sands is a painter who has just moved into a spacious new loft — he’s readying his oils and brushes to begin a new work when he spies a beautiful woman in the window of the facing building. She is dancing sensuously moving to a rhythm David can not hear. David watches her and is instantly mesmerized. Days later after torturing him with her erotic moves she comes to him and they make passionate love. In the morning however she has disappeared. This mysterious woman has touched something deep within David’s soul and he vows to find her again. But what he finds shocks him. Nona this elusive lady in the building facing his died years ago at the hand of her abusive husband. Or did she? Is David on the brink of madness? He is dying to discover the truth and what he finds just might kill him. |
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Abigail: A Novel $6.29 The author of the bestselling Michal fills in the blanks to unveil the dramatic story of Abigail and David in rich detail. Abigail’s hopes and dreams for the future are wrapped up in her handsome dark-eyed betrothed Nabal. But when the long-awaited wedding day arrives her drunken groom behaves shamefully. Nevertheless Abigail tries to honor and respect her husband despite his abuse of her. Meanwhile Abigail’s family has joined David’s wandering tribe as he and his people keep traveling to avoid the dangerous Saul. When Nabal suddenly dies Abigail is free to move on with her life and thanks to her brother her new life includes a new husband–David. The dangers of tribal life on the run are serious but there are other dangers in young Abigail’s mind. How can David lead his people effectively when he goes against God? And how can Abigail share David’s love with the other wives he insists on marrying? Jill Eileen Smith bestselling author of Michal draws on Scripture historical research and her imagination as she fills in the blanks to unveil the story of Abigail and David in rich detail and drama. The result is a riveting page-turner that will keep readers looking forward to the next book in this trilogy. |
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Michal: A Novel $9.29 Against the backdrop of opulent palace life raging war and desert escapes Michal deals with love loss and personal transformation as one of the wives of David. As the daughter of King Saul Michal lives a life of privilege–but one that is haunted by her father’s unpredictable moods and by competition from her beautiful older sister. When Michal falls for young David the harpist who plays to calm her father she has no idea what romance adventures and heartache await her. As readers enter the colorful and unpredictable worlds of King Saul and King David they will be swept up in this exciting and romantic story. Against the backdrop of opulent palace life raging war and desert escapes Jill Eileen Smith takes her readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride as Michal deals with love loss and personal transformation as one of the wives of David. A sweeping tale of passion and drama readers will love this amazing story. |
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Woodsburner: A Novel $10.59 Set against the backdrop of a devastating forest fire that Henry David Thoreau accidentally set in 1844 John Pipkin’s novel brilliantly illuminates the mind of the young philosopher at a formative moment in his life and in the life of the young nation. The Thoreau of Woodsburner is a lost soul resigned to a career designing pencils for his father’s factory while dreaming of better things. On the day of the fire his path crosses those of three very different people each of whom also harbors a secret dream. Oddmund Hus a shy Norwegian farmhand pines for the wife of his brutal employer. Eliot Calvert a prosperous bookseller is also a hilariously inept aspiring playwright. Caleb Dowdy preaches fire and brimstone to his followers through an opium haze. Each of their lives like Thoreau’s will be changed forever by the fire. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Passiontide: A Novel $7.79 David an Anglican parish priest has no way of knowing that his place in the world is about to be shaken irrevocably. He will be flung headlong into a journey of discovery that leads him to Canada’s rugged West Coast a journey of loss and deliverance long overdue. There in the midst of a spirited pioneer people David veers into the tangled realms of love and passion and stares even into the jaws of death. This unpredictable pilgrimage of the soul makes no guarantees and offers no safe haven. He will never be the same again. |
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Bleedout: A Novel $9.39 "Watch your back most carefully when someone you trust steps behind you." Even after Hugh Freyl lost his sight he was invincible. But late one night, in the library of the elite law firm that bears his name, he was beaten to death. The obvious suspect is David Marion, a convicted killer from the inner city. Hugh, the scion of the richest and most influential family in Springfield, Illinois, had orchestrated David’s release from prison and outraged his family and friends by making the young man his protégé. Now, in the eyes of Hugh’s circle, David’s criminal past fits him perfectly for the murderer’s role. It makes no sense for David to have killed his teacher, liberator and friend. Yet, if he did not, who did? With no one to stand up for him, and armed only with the criminal skills he honed in prison and the savage fury of a cornered man, David must fight alone. But is he battling to prove his innocence or to hide his guilt? In Springfield nothing is what it seems, and the more David struggles to clear himself, the closer he gets to the snake pit of ambition and greed poisoning the social and political fabric of the city. Was Hugh all he appeared to be? Who was he protecting and why? Could this most upright of men have involved his firm in shady financial dealings? To find the answers, David must confront his violent past and the uncertainty of his future. Unraveling with startling reversals and visceral detail and as mesmerizing as the work of Scott Turow, Bleedout is a tense, psychological tour de force. It is charged with insights into betrayal and jealousy so stark that they call into question the values and presumptions by which we judge others guilty and ourselves innocent. |
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Bathsheba: A Novel $9.89 Bestselling author brings to life the Bible’s most famous story of passion betrayal and redemption. Bathsheba is a woman who longs for love. With her devout husband away fighting the king’s wars for many months at a time discontent and loneliness dog her steps–and make it frighteningly easy to succumb to King David’s charm and attention. Though she immediately regrets her involvement with the powerful king the pieces are set in motion that will destroy everything she holds dear. Can she find forgiveness at the feet of the Almighty? Or has her sin separated her from God–and David–forever? With a historian’s sharp eye for detail and a novelist’s creative spirit Jill Eileen Smith brings to life the passionate and emotional story of David’s most famous–and infamous–wife. Smith uses her gentle hand to draw out the humanity in her characters allowing readers to see themselves in the three-dimensional lives and minds of people who are often viewed in starkly moralistic terms. You will never read the story of David and Bathsheba in the same way again. |
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Vamped: A Novel $5.49 Martin Kowalski is an eighty-year-old man stuck in a twenty-year-old body. He works the graveyard shift. He has a poster of Bela Lugosi on his wall and a box of uneaten Count Chocula in his pantry. He drinks stem-cell-derived blood from cleverly packaged and marketed juice boxes. He is, in short, a vampire. But since his wildly successful scheme to turn as many mortals as possible into vampires — "vamp" them rather than kill them — resulted in a new immortal majority, Marty finds little of interest to fill his countless days. From the deeply imaginative mind of David Sosnowski — who gave us the critically acclaimed junkie-angel classic Rapture — bursts this neo-vampire novel studded with pint-size vampires known as "screamers" (children who were vamped and are none too happy about it); priest vampires who helped convert their flock into lifetime members of the Church; stripper vampires who lap-danced their way into customers’ veins; and one very small, very outspoken human girl. When Marty decides to end his endless life of soul-crushing ennui — call it vampire affluenza — a three-foot blond obstacle is thrown in his path: Isuzu Trooper Cassidy, a refugee from a human hunting preserve. At first he thinks "midnight snack," but before the sun comes up, Isuzu is the one snacking on his prized cereal collection as she charms him into staying undead long enough to raise her in a world rife with danger and almost entirely populated by vampires yearning for the taste of real human blood. The critics applauded David Sosnowski when Rapture was published, saying he "staked out a patch of turf somewhere between Franz Kafka and Douglas Adams." Now with Vamped, Sosnowski takes on a time-honored genre and breathes new life into it by turning Martin Kowalski’s vampire world upside down and telling his story with rich, masterful, and frequently hilarious prose. |
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The Normals: A Novel $7.09 Download the reading guide for this book here In this critically acclaimed comic masterpiece, David Gilbert tells the story of Billy Schine, a young man who innocently enrolls in a 14-day human drug testing study and finds his normal world turned upside-down. Like a One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for the postmodern age, The Normals is a tour de force from a writer of astonishing intelligence and imagination. "Much of [The Normals] antic humor derives from Gilbert’s unerring grasp of America’s varied forms of self-medication. But what makes this first novel memorable is its exploration of the contradictory desire both to escape the world and to be plunged back into it."-New Yorker "Wild and woollya trenchant study of human suggestibility, tricked out with a wry subplot about the media hoopla surrounding a brain-tumor victim whose latest MRI bears a striking resemblance to the Shroud of Turin."-Seattle Times "T.C. Boyle meets Alice Sebold with a bit of Paul TherouxGilbert uses sharp humor to tackle serious issues such as the search for self, love, and medical ethos. This is a novel that resonates long after you turn the last page."-Rocky Mountain News "[A] must buy[an] intelligent and funny dissection of our ADD-addled culture."-Maxim (four stars) "A writer of loopy elegance[Gilbert] is able to refract our world back to us in ways that words on the page can best convey."-Boston Globe Also available: HC 1-58234-456-6 ISBN 13: 978-158234-456- $24.95 |
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Temptation: A Novel $9.99 I always wanted to be rich. I know that probably sounds crass but it’s the truth. A true confession. Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years he’s tasted nothing but failure. Then out of nowehere bigtime luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television. Before you can say "overnight success " he’s the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit series. Suddenly a player in Tinsel Town he finds that he’s reinventing himself at a great speed especially when it comes to walking out on his wife and daughter for a young producer who worships only at the altar of ambition. But David’s upward mobility takes a decidedly starnge turn when a billionaire film buff named Philip Fleck barges into his life proposing a very curious collaboration. David takes the bait and suddenly finds himself inadvertently entering into a Faustian pact and an express ride to the lower depths of the Hollywood jungle. |
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Number9Dream: A Novel $6.59 Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten , with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister’s death and his mother’s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father’s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name. From the Hardcover edition. |
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Denver: A Novel $14.99 By the 1920s, Denver had outgrown its frontier-town beginnings. But for some, life was still as perilous as the surrounding terrain. The insidious influence of the Ku Klux Klan was reaching its peak, and those who stood in its path feared for their safety. Denver is the saga of a family caught in this tempestuous time. To newspaperman Tom Hastings, his writing matters more than anything. As the book opens, President Harding has just died, and Hastings finds himself drawn toward the biggest story of his career. But his wife resents his allegiance to the newspaper and his Jewish stepfather is a target for the supremacist Kleagles—two good reasons not to persist in his pursuit of the story: that and the KKK has penetrated the highest levels of government in the state. Some eighty characters surround Tom Hastings: there’s his half-sister, the quiet, passionate Jewess Anna Kohl; David Waldo, a socialist and friend to Jack London; Willie Brown, a rising political star torn between his desire for elective office and the love of his life; and Marvel Millette, a Nellie Bly–like reporter in whom Tom Hastings finally meets his match. John Dunning creates flesh-and-blood figures, not only of these fictional characters but of historical personages as well. There is John Galen Locke, the Grand Dragon of the KKK, and Fred Bonfils, a founder of a newspaper dynasty built on tabloid sensationalism; President Calvin Coolidge, too, makes a gruff appearance. Denver is a panoramic novel as vibrant as the city for which it is named, as tumultuous as the era in which it is set. John Dunning never lets the reader lose sight of the men and women who live their lives on the pages of this saga. While crosses burst into angry flames and menacing droves of white-robed Klansmen gather against the torch-lit skies, passions, fears, joys, and hates are played out in Denver in the 1920s. |
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Now You See It: A Novel $11.09 David and Jessica have almost everything they could want: he is an accomplished journalist she teaches at an elite private school and they travel in a circle of alluring friends. Theirs is an enviable life — until one night when David returns from a business trip. Jessica’s wallet and keys are in their usual place but she is gone. As months pass without her David’s certainty "that she is going to walk in that door tonight" slowly diminishes. At the heart of this unnerving story is David’s search for his wife — which takes him far from his Manhattan neighborhood and deep inside himself. At once heartbreaking and wry Now You See It is a remarkable debut novel about the impossibility of fully knowing someone — and what happens to the past when we have a second chance at the future. Now You See It presages a thrilling career for a fresh and gifted author. |
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Consolation: A Novel $12.19 "There is a vast part of this city with mouths buried in it . . . . Mouths capable of speaking to us. But we stop them up with concrete and build over them and whatever it is they wanted to say gets whispered down empty alleys and turns into wind. . . ." These are among the last words of Professor David Hollis before he throws himself off a ferry into the frigid waters of Lake Ontario. A renowned professor of "forensic geology " David leaves in his wake both a historical mystery and an academic scandal. He postulated that on the site where a sports arena is about to be built lie the ruins of a Victorian boat containing an extraordinary treasure: a strongbox full of hundreds of never-seen photographs of early Toronto a priceless record of a lost city. His colleagues however are convinced that he faked his research materials. Determined to vindicate him his widow Marianne sets up camp in a hotel overlooking the construction site watching and waiting for the boat to be unearthed. The only person to share her vigil is John Lewis fiancé to her daughter Bridget. An orphan who had come to love David as his own father John finds himself caught in a struggle between mother and daughter-all the while keeping a dark secret from both women. Interwoven into the contemporary story is another narrative set in 1850s: the tale of Jem Hallam a young apothecary struggling to make a living in the harsh new city so he can bring his wife and daughters from England. Crushed by ruthless competitors he develops an unlikely friendship with two other down-on-their-luck Torontonians: Samuel Ennis a brilliant but dissolute Irishman and Claudia Rowe a destitute widow. Together they establish a photography business and set out to create images of a fledgling city where wooden sidewalks are put together with penny nails where Indians spear salmon at the river mouth and the occasional bear ambles down King Street where department stores display international wares and fine mansions sit cheek-by-jowl with shantytowns. Consolation moves back and forth between David Hollis’s legacy and Jem Hallam’s struggle to survive ultimately revealing a mysterious connection between the two narratives. Exquisitely crafted and masterfully written Michael Redhill’s superlative book reveals how history is often transformed into a species of fantasy and how time alters the contours of even the things we hold most certain. As complex and layered as the city whose story it tells Consolation evokes the mysteries of love and memory and what suffering the absence of the beloved truly means. From the Hardcover edition. |
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The Tourists: A Novel $10.29 Meet the tourists former classmates at Yale who seven years later must confront the people they’ve become while forging lives in Manhattan. David a hedge fund wunderkind who forfeited idealism for wealth hopes that a more fulfilling life lies ahead in the suburbs. His wife the beautiful Samona to whom David returns home nightly with nothing left for her wonders whether her marriage is stripping away her best years. Ethan a successful furniture designer with a magnetic sexuality seeks something darker and more uncertain than the power lunches needy family and unsatisfying relationships that comprise his life. Rounding out the group is the story’s unnamed narrator a freelance reporter struggling to stay afloat — financially professionally and emotionally — who shares complicated histories with each of them. When Ethan and Samona have a chance encounter at a gallery opening they meet each other’s needs. As our narrator traverses the city and gradually reconstructs the events that underlie the present circumstances his own mysterious role comes into ever sharper focus. Only later after David commissions Ethan to design some conference rooms at his firm and a secret triangle is formed does our narrator begin to tie all the pieces together. With The Tourists Jeff Hobbs delivers a striking and stylish debut about the dark and sometimes destructive aspects of physical attraction and love marital disillusionment and the inevitable disappointments life can bring. |
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Bitterroot: A Novel $7.79 Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force. Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia Burke’s novel features Billy Bob Holland former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based lawyer who has come to Big Sky Country for some fishing and ends up helping out an old friend in trouble. And big trouble it is not just for his friend but for Billy Bob himself — in the form of Wyatt Dixon a recent prison parolee sworn to kill Billy Bob as revenge for both his imprisonment and his sister’s death both of which he blames on the former Texas lawman. As the mysteries multiply and the body count mounts the reader is drawn deeper into the tortured mind of Billy Bob Holland a complex hero tormented by the mistakes of his past and driven to make things — all things — right. But beneath the guise of justice for the weak and downtrodden lies a tendency for violence that at times becomes more terrifying than the danger he is trying to eradicate. As USA Today noted in discussing the parallels between Billy Bob Holland and Burke’s other popular series hero David Robicheaux "Robicheaux and Holland are two of a kind white-hat heroes whose essential goodness doesn’t keep them from fighting back. The two series describe different landscapes but one theme remains constant: the inner conflict when upright men are provoked into violence in defense of hearth home women and children. There are plenty of parallels. Billy Bob is an ex-Texas Ranger; Dave is an ex-New Orleans cop. Dave battles alcoholism and the ghosts of Vietnam; Billy Bob actually sees ghosts including the Ranger he accidentally gunned down….But most of all both protagonists hold a vision of a pure and simple life." In Bitterroot with its rugged and vivid setting its intricate plot and a set of remarkable unforgettable characters and crafted with the lyrical prose and the elegiac tone that have inspired many critics to compare him to William Faulkner James Lee Burke has written a thriller destined to surpass the success of his previous novels. |
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A boy called hopeless: A David Melton novel $35.99 This book is in Used condition |
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Herself: A Novel $13.29 Who says forty isnt fabulous? Tessa Craig thinks shes finally got it all-or most of it anyway: a glamorous job as a political speechwriter a glamorous Manhattan duplex and a glamorous boyfriend Congressman David Weyburn whose populist views integrity charisma-and looks-have made him his partys rising star. But when scandal strikes her seemingly happy love life and her successful career collapse like a house of cards. Tessas subsequent search for self-discovery and renewed fulfillment takes her on a magical journey leading her into unimagined directions. She makes new friends unexpectedly adopts a new family discovers unanticipated love . . . and most importantly . . . makes that uphill climb over the rainbow to find the ultimate pot of gold: HERSELF. |
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The Devil You Know: A Novel $8.59 When Max Geist plans a rugged canoe trip on the rivers of Northern Minnesota, fifteen-year-old David fears that dealing with his father–an opinionated, stubborn, novice outdoorsman–will be the roughest part of their journey. Little does he know that once he enters the unforgiving wilderness his life, and that of his family, will be irrevocably changed. At the start of their trip, David’s father and younger sister, Janie, briefly cross paths with a group of men who, unbeknownst to the Geist family, are on the lam. Fearing the family may have learned too much about them, the outlaws decide to track down the unknown man and his daughter and, if need be, silence them. When they find the family’s campsite, David is away; he returns to find his father in a life-or-death struggle with one man and his sister being savagely attacked by another. David, extraordinarily strong for his age, saves Max and Janie’s lives and, in the process, kills a man. But the second man escapes, and David knows he has a partner . . . and that it is only a matter of time before they come back to finish the job they started. The outlaws become the only predators to fear in the wild as the Geist family is hunted down like animals–and uninjured David is the family’s only hope for survival. As they tread through the snow-covered rocky terrain in search of safety, what began as a family bonding trip becomes a test of David’s mental and physical limits, a journey into manhood and the responsibilities that come with it. The Devil You Know combines the breathtaking intensity of a first-rate literary thriller with the complexity and poignancy of a classic coming-of-age novel. This is a spellbinding suspense novel with heart and soul, a story that will keep you riveted until the very last page. From the Hardcover edition. |
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The ProtG: A Novel $6.29 Having survived his rise to Chairman of Everest Capital, the world’s largest private equity firm, and the ferocious attempts on his life that ensued, Christian Gillette finally seems safely perched atop the financial industry. He’s just accepted Everest’s largest private investment, he’s poised to takeover his ex-rival’s sinking firm, and he’s just embarked on his firm’s most exciting venture to date, buying the NFL’s newest team — the Las Vegas Twenty-Ones. Plus, one of his young employees — an ambitious deal maker named David Wright — has caught his eye. Wright reminds Gillette of himself just a few years back, and he’s drawn to the thought of teaching the wunderkind everything the ups and downs of the industry. But everything comes to a screeching halt when a shadowy man calls him to a meeting, requesting a favor and offering in return new information about Gillette’s father and his still mysterious death. Christian Gillette can’t stand to be controlled, but he also can’t afford to lose a chance at finally learning something substantive about his father’s death. And as he becames more entangled with the strange deal, and the frantic pace of business continues without his full attention, he feels his grip on Everest weakening — and soon realizes his life is once more in desperate jeopardy. When all signs begin to point to David Wright, Gillette realizes that his toughest decision as Chairman lies directly ahead… From the Hardcover edition. |
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Salty Like Blood: A Novel $5.89 David Conners, M.D., is on the fast track to creating a perfect life when his seven-year-old daughter disappears. David’s all-consuming quest to find her — dead or alive — threatens to destroy everything he has left: his medical practice, his marriage, his integrity, and even his soul. If Rachel is dead: Can a parent forgive someone who has done the unthinkable? Can David forgive himself? If she’s alive: Can David find her in time to save her? |
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American Subversive: A Novel $15.29 In David Goodwillie’s "powerful thriller" ( Chicago Sun-Times), the lives of a young radical and a failed journalist intertwine after a bombing. |
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The Omega Theory: A Novel $16.89 David Swift and Monique Reynolds desperately try to stop a group of religious zealots from re-creating the Big Bang. |
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The Upright Piano Player: A Novel $11.99 An adroit first novel of exceptional grace and emotional power by a legendary British ad executive. "David Abbott"s The Upright Piano Player is a wise and moving debut, an accomplished novel of quiet depths and resonant shadows." -John Burnham Schwartz, author of The Commoner and Reservation Road Henry Cage seems to have it all: a successful career, money, a beautiful home, and a reputation for being a just and principled man. But public virtues can conceal private failings, and as Henry faces retirement, his well-ordered life begins to unravel. His ex-wife is ill, his relationship with his son is strained to the point of estrangement, and on the eve of the new millennium he is the victim of a random violent act which soon escalates into a prolonged harassment. As his ex-wife’s illness becomes grave, it is apparent that there is little time to redress the mistakes of the past. But the man stalking Henry remains at large. Who is doing this? And why? David Abbott brilliantly pulls this thread of tension ever tighter until the surprising and emotionally impactful conclusion. The Upright Piano Player is a wise and acutely observed novel about the myriad ways in which life tests us-no matter how carefully we have constructed our own little fortresses. From the Hardcover edition. |
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Glover’s Mistake: A Novel $9.99 "Terrific. It’s the kind of book Jane Austen would’ve written had she been male and hipper-and had Internet access." – Chicago Tribune With his debut novel Utterly Monkey Nick Laird won acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for his deft humor and sharp-eyed powers of observation. In this new novel disaffected thirty-something college teacher David introduces his former teacher American artist Ruth Marks to his friend and flatmate James Glover unwittingly setting in place a love triangle loaded with tension guilt and heartbreak. Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension Nick Laird’s insightful and drolly satirical novel explores the nature of contemporary romance among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness."Terrific. It’s the kind of book Jane Austen would’ve written had she been male and hipper-and had Internet access." – Chicago Tribune With his debut novel Utterly Monkey Nick Laird won acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for his deft humor and sharp-eyed powers of observation. In this new novel disaffected thirty-something college teacher David introduces his former teacher American artist Ruth Marks to his friend and flatmate James Glover unwittingly setting in place a love triangle loaded with tension guilt and heartbreak. Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension Nick Laird’s insightful and drolly satirical novel explores the nature of contemporary romance among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness. |
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Reluctant Journey Of David Connors $12.99 “Family man David Connors is standing on the brink of suicide. One week before Christmas, he is burdened by a fractured marriage and a life disconnected from God and family. Yet in his darkest moment, David makes a surprising find: an old carpetbag buried under a snowy ledge.Soon, what seems like coincidence draws him close to understanding and healing. And as David reaches his journey’s conclusion, he gains freedom from a devastating childhood event and discovers the miraculous power of forgiveness.This book is an extraordinary novel that features intriguing fantasy, lively dialogue, and a story of emotional power and unexpected humor. Fiction fans will be delighted by David’s journey of hope and restoration.” |
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Long Division: A Novel $9.99 A winsome novel-as-memoir about what happens to a young teacher left by her boyfriend to her own devices Annie Harper is a twenty-four-year-old elementary school teacher when her soldier-boyfriend David is sent overseas. Determined to record her desolate and devoted hours she begins a memoir that she imagines will be a tender homage to "all the women at home." Instead Annie misses David but finds herself. Told through Annie’s memoir-in- progress Long Division vividly renders the inner life of a quirky young woman stuck between what she really feels and what she thinks she should. Readers of Curtis Sittenfeld and Marisa de los Santos-as well as the many real-life women left awaiting a soldier’s return-will be captivated by Jane Berentson’s quirky and wonderfully refreshing debut novel.A winsome novel-as-memoir about what happens to a young teacher left by her boyfriend to her own devices Annie Harper is a twenty-four-year-old elementary school teacher when her soldier-boyfriend David is sent overseas. Determined to record her desolate and devoted hours she begins a memoir that she imagines will be a tender homage to "all the women at home." Instead Annie misses David but finds herself. Told through Annie’s memoir-in- progress Long Division vividly renders the inner life of a quirky young woman stuck between what she really feels and what she thinks she should. Readers of Curtis Sittenfeld and Marisa de los Santos-as well as the many real-life women left awaiting a soldier’s return-will be captivated by Jane Berentson’s quirky and wonderfully refreshing debut novel. |
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The Successor: A Novel $6.29 Make-or-break decisions involving millions of dollars are all in a day’s work for Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, New York’s most renowned private equity firm. He’s taken on the toughest, most powerful, and often most dangerous adversaries and prevailed-all the while honing his skill for being cool under fire, literally. But now Gillette will be put to the ultimate test. He’s offered the chance to seal a deal unlike any other, one that goes beyond boardrooms, balance sheets, and even Everest itself-one that will leave its mark on history. Gillette is no stranger to Jesse Wood, the first African American president of the United States, having been Wood’s chosen running mate in his historic bid for the White House. Though still slightly upset over being dropped from the ticket at the eleventh hour, Gillette’s not about to ignore the chief executive’s summons to a top-secret meeting at Camp David. There, Wood drops a bombshell: The president of Cuba is dead. Cuba’s communist regime has kept the dictator’s demise hush while it races to fill the power vacuum. And the United States is poised to support a cabal of Cuban professionals plotting a coup. The President wants Gillette to meet with the conspirators and size up the chances for a successful capitalist revolution. But by no means can his mission be traced back to the White House. If anything goes wrong, Gillette is on his own. And if certain people have their way, something will go wrong. For the conspiracy to liberate Cuba isn’t the only one afoot. Enemies in high places, who will go to any lengths to wreak revenge on Gillette and to unseat President Wood, have set in motion a campaign of deception, sabotage, and murder whose shockwaves will resonate from the streets of Havana to the Oval Office. But for Gillette, who has just named his alluring and ambitious protégé, Allison Wallace, as his successor at Everest, the greatest peril may lie much closer to home. The Successor is blue-chip Stephen Frey, marshaling his flawless instincts for edgy, provocative, breathtaking suspense with a master’s touch. From the Hardcover edition. |
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The Understudy: A Novel $9.89 Recently divorced actor Stephen C. McQueen (no relation, unfortunately) seems to have a knack for bad luck. But a failed marriage, a stalled career, a judgmental ex-wife, a distant daughter, a horrid little studio apartment in the far reaches of the London suburbs-all these pathetic elements seem to pale in the chiseled face of his newest tormentor: the Twelfth Sexiest Man in the World, Josh Harper. Josh is the star of Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know, a biographical play about Lord Byron-and Stephen is his understudy. Not only is Josh fantastically, infuriatingly good-looking, internationally renowned, and remarkably talented, he’s also frustratingly healthy. No matter how many all-night booze-and-coke benders Josh goes on, he always shows up at the stage door for his call like clockwork. Stephen doubts he’ll ever get his chance to slip on the puffy shirt and tight breeches of Byron and tread the boards in the role that would certainly be the break he’s always waited for. And just when Stephen’s sure he couldn’t resent Josh more, he meets Josh’s witty, restless American wife, Nora . . . and discovers he likes her a little too much. Another man might curse his luck at finding that his potential dream woman is a rival’s wife, but at this point, Stephen would expect nothing else. Caught between his stirring feelings for Nora, the demands of an insistent and secretive Josh, and his lifelong desire for a real career in show business, Stephen must make a terrible decision: Will it be the girl or the fame? A hapless, bumbling bloke in love, an arrogant megastar with a potpourri of addictions, a sexy married woman out of her element in the fast lane-David Nicholls brings them all together in this knockout romantic comedy. |
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The Book Of Lost Things: A Novel $5.49 New York Times bestselling author John Connolly’s unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book… The Book of Lost Things. An imaginative tribute to the journey we must all make through the loss of innocence into adulthood, John Connolly’s latest novel is a book for every adult who can recall the moment when childhood began to fade, and for every adult about to face that moment. The Book of Lost Things is a story of hope for all who have lost, and for all who have yet to lose. It is an exhilarating tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives. |
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L.I.E.: A Novel $8.59 At once mordantly funny and achingly sad, L.I.E. is a soul map for modern suburbia." –Sheri Holman, author of The Dress Lodger Long Island, New York, 1987: Harlan Kessler–raised in Medford, a product of blue-collar Suffolk County, of housing developments and concrete strip malls–graduates from high school. He hangs out, he parties, he plays guitar for the Dayglow Crazies (the local rock-and-roll phenomenon), and he struggles diligently to lose his virginity. He doesn’t think about the future much. The Long Island Expressway (L.I.E.) cleaves the landscape, permitting passage west, to the tonier climes of Nassau County and New York City, but to Harlan, this seems like an impossible journey, something beyond his Long Island birthright. And what’s worse, evidence is accumulating that Harlan may not exist at all, that he may merely be a character in someone else’s story, a fleeting thought in the mind of God. L.I.E. follows Harlan, his family, and his friends through two years of love, sex, death, betrayal, salvation, and enlightenment. In ten intimately interwoven stories, in prose that swings fluidly from gritty realism to heightened metafiction, David Hollander maps an American landscape that is at once vividly familiar and highly exotic, creating an unforgettable portrait of the passage to adult-hood and the search for identity, certain to resonate with legions of readers. By turns dark, funny, raw, and elegant, L.I.E. is the striking debut of a singular voice. The last wisps of afternoon streak and evaporate into blue-gray dusk, submersing Long Island in twilight. Harlan and Rik Giannati sit on the curb outside Rik’s house, precisely 211 yards northeast of Harlan’s house, the distance punctuated by no fewer than fourteen subtly distinct houses of three ilks: the square, steeple-roofed Granada; the split-level LaSalle; the two-story, three-bedroom Monte Carlo. This last model was the choice of Kessler and Giannati alike some ten years ago when they, too, were assimilated in the mass exodus from Queens to Suffolk County that had gripped the hearts and genitals of so many. The streetlamps began to glow along Rustic Avenue, a cold blue flicker spaced at even intervals, like isolated members of the same species, each shivering in its cage of frosted glass. –From L.I.E. |
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Other Daughter : A Novel $12.99 “David Carson’s ordered family life is thrown into devastating chaos when Brianna, a young teen, appears on the Carson’s doorstep, claiming to be David’s daughter. The revelation of David’s apparent betrayal staggers his wife, Susanne, and adds strain to an already fragile marriage. Will this shocking discovery drive the family apart, or will it draw them closer to God? Guaranteed fiction!” |
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Married to a Stranger: A Novel $7.99 Patricia MacDonald, whose finely honed suspense novels have won her a worldwide audience of readers, delivers a stunning new novel inspired by the headline-making murder case of Laci Peterson — the chilling story of a young wife and mother-to-be who must confront the possibility that her husband is trying to kill her. Twenty-six-year-old Emma Hollis has it all — a fortune she inherited from her father, a job she loves as a counselor at an adolescent crisis center, good friends, and a boyfriend who is crazy about her. Emma met sexy freelance journalist David Webster at a dinner party. Romantic, free-spirited, and a perfect lover, David sweeps Emma off her feet. Now a baby is on the way. Emma expects David to say goodbye, but David enjoys surprises. At their beautiful, impromptu wedding at a historic inn, Emma and David promise to love and cherish each other for the rest of their lives. The only shadow over Emma’s happiness is cast by her stepfather, who is furious that David failed to sign a prenuptial agreement. As the newlyweds set off for their honeymoon at an idyllic cabin in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Emma has no idea that her life is about to turn into a wife’s worst nightmare. With keen psychological insight and a storytelling style that thrills and surprises, Patricia MacDonald explores the dark, violent impulses that compel people to betray the one person they supposedly love most. Gripping and emotionally powerful, Married to a Stranger evidences Patricia MacDonald writing at the height of her celebrated powers. |
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Married To A Stranger: A Novel $3.59 Patricia MacDonald, whose finely honed suspense novels have won her a worldwide audience of readers, delivers a stunning new novel inspired by the headline-making murder case of Laci Peterson — the chilling story of a young wife and mother-to-be who must confront the possibility that her husband is trying to kill her. Twenty-six-year-old Emma Hollis has it all — a fortune she inherited from her father, a job she loves as a counselor at an adolescent crisis center, good friends, and a boyfriend who is crazy about her. Emma met sexy freelance journalist David Webster at a dinner party. Romantic, free-spirited, and a perfect lover, David sweeps Emma off her feet. Now a baby is on the way. Emma expects David to say goodbye, but David enjoys surprises. At their beautiful, impromptu wedding at a historic inn, Emma and David promise to love and cherish each other for the rest of their lives. The only shadow over Emma’s happiness is cast by her stepfather, who is furious that David failed to sign a prenuptial agreement. As the newlyweds set off for their honeymoon at an idyllic cabin in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Emma has no idea that her life is about to turn into a wife’s worst nightmare. With keen psychological insight and a storytelling style that thrills and surprises, Patricia MacDonald explores the dark, violent impulses that compel people to betray the one person they supposedly love most. Gripping and emotionally powerful, Married to a Stranger evidences Patricia MacDonald writing at the height of her celebrated powers. |
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David Copperfield (Mobi Classics) $1.19 David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to publish on any account) is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1850. Like all except five of his works, it originally appeared in serial form (published in monthly installments). Many elements within the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of all of his novels. It is also Dickens' "favorite child." Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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CI: Dark Target: An Army Counterintelligence Novel $8.99 In this second riveting novel Army Counterintelligence Special Agent David DeLuca and his CI Team–an army within the Army–are up against a rogue enemy who has commandeered a deadly new technology. Original. |
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CI: Mission Liberty: An Army Counterintelligence Novel $8.99 This third thrilling espionage novel in the exciting CI series finds special agent David DeLuca up against those responsible for mass suffering in the war-torn African country of Niger. |
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David: The Warrior King $16.99 “David comes to life in this powerful> historical novel on the biblical figure, King David.> His life story contains intrigue, passion, deceit,> faith, love, fear, massive wars, hopes and dreams,> bravery, sins, and repentance all the elements of a> best seller.> Readers will understand that there once was a physical> world surrounding the people of the Bible, that> the text is more than just words. It’s a history of these> great people, who lived in a completely different> world yet suffered the same modern-day troubles.> Through the events of the main character, readers> will learn Bible lessons and come to know the face> of God. They will learn that David’s power was> rooted in unrestrained repentance, making him a man after God’s own heart.” |
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Love Is The Drug: A Novel $6.29 Wonderfully empathic, smartly comic, and wickedly insightful, this captivating debut novel maps the progress of an unforgettable young woman endeavoring to mend a broken heart and find salvation. "Hello, my name is Tyler Tracer and I am falling apart. I am twenty-four years old, and I have no ability whatsoever to choose an occupation or a hair color." Meet Tyler, the singularly irresistible and straight-talking heroine of Sarahbeth Purcell’s touching first novel. An incurable romantic, Tyler’s chief obsessions include music, list-making — and David, the man who broke her heart. Despite an exhaustively detailed list of reasons for why she should just forget about David once and for all — including (but by no means limited to) chronic illness, terminal self-absorption, and geographical inaccessibility — Tyler remains hopelessly hooked on him. Hence the wild ride she embarks upon in the wake of her father’s death, a ride that takes her from her hometown in Tennessee to sunny Los Angeles, all in hopes of saving David from his ominous take on life. This hilarious and dark cross-country expedition finds our young heroine negotiating the universally perilous terrain of sex, love, and relationships with uncommon verve, wit, and more than a little recklessness. Along the way, Tyler discovers, among other things, the uniquely redemptive powers of roadkill, the fact that enduring love tends to blossom in the most unexpected and unlikeliest places, and, above all, that nothing can stop her from making her own rules and mapping out her own life. Not even herself. A joyous triumph of a debut to which readers will respond with a sense of instant recognition, Sarahbeth Purcell’s Love Is the Drug spins a story of bold living and loving that crackles with energy and innovation. |
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The Coffee Trader: A Novel $9.89 The Edgar Award-winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659 a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city’s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at success a daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called "coffee." To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam’s ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas. With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel. From the Hardcover edition. |
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A Morning Like This: A Novel $1.99 David and Abby Treasure seem to have everything together: a perfect marriage, a perfect son, and a perfect life. But one simple phone call turns their world upside down. Years before, David had an affair outside of his marriage, and though he never knew it, the affair produced a daughter. Now his former lover calls with heartbreaking news: His daughter is dying of leukemia. Her only home for survival is a bone marrow transplant – from David or his son. Can David and Abby set aside the betrayal and anger to save a little girl’s life? If they can make it through, they may find that their love for each other and their faith in God can be redeemed . . . and grow stronger than ever before. |
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This One Is Mine: A Novel $11.99 Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David her rock-and-roll manager husband and her darling toddler Dot. She has the perfect life–except that she’s deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy a roguish small-time bass player Violet comes alive and soon she’s risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the picture are David’s hilariously high-strung sister Sally on the prowl for a successful husband and Jeremy the ESPN sportscaster savant who falls into her trap. For all their recklessness Violet and Sally will discover that David and Jeremy have a few surprises of their own. THIS ONE IS MINE is a compassionate and wickedly funny satire about our need for more–and the often disastrous choices we make in the name of happiness. |
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Fortunate Lives: A Novel $11.99 The Howells family are revisited in the summer of 1991. David 18 is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman Netta Breckenridge enters the family’s lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells. |
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American Cream: A Novel $8.89 When Catherine Tudish’s story collection Tenney’s Landing was published in 2005, Margot Livesey said Tudish "casts an irresistible spell" and David Huddle said, "Tenney’s Landing conjures up a place and a people with that magical vividness we found in Porter, Welty, Cheever, and Updike." Here, in her first novel, Tudish has fashioned a masterful and intimate portrait of a woman returning, midlife, to the small farming community where she grew up. After Nathan Rownd is injured in a tractor accident, his daughter, Virginia, leaves her suburban life and returns to Tenney’s Landing with her teenage son to work the family farm. She struggles with the long periods of separation from her husband and begrudgingly relearns the insistent, exhausting cadence of farm chores. But when Nathan decides to sell the farm, Virginia realizes how deep her connection to the land is and begins to question who she is and where she belongs. Catherine Tudish’s writing is a tribute to small-town America. In simple, elegant prose she captures the rhythms of everyday life and the moments of truth and transformation that are found there. American Cream is a tender and wise novel by a writer of unusual sensitivity and grace. |
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Look At Me: A Novel $9.89 At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied. With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with the image. There’s a deceptively plain teenaged girl embarking on a dangerous secret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic stranger who changes names and accents as he prepares an apocalyptic blow against American society. As these narratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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The Marks Of Cain: A Novel $12.99 A thrilling and startling novel from the author of the international bestseller The Genesis Secret When David Martinez a young lawyer receives an ancient map from his dying grandfather the mysteries of his past begin to open up before him. The map leads David into the heart of the dangerous Basque mountains where a genetic curse lies buried and a frightening secret about the Western world’s past is hidden. Meanwhile London journalist Simon Quinn may have found his big break. A wealthy elderly woman has been murdered in the most horrific fashion and another homicide soon follows. Both victims came from villages in the Basque region both were interred at a top-secret Nazi camp both have been silenced for what they know about the experiments conducted on the Basques the Jews and a dwindling mystical tribe of pre-Caucasian locals called Cagots. From the North Sea islands to the Arizona desert from the graveyards of the Basque countryside to the heart of colonial Africa Martinez’s and Quinn’s quests intersect to reveal the shocking roots of racial persecution human violence and war. The Genesis Secret -already in its fourth hardcover printing and appearing on several bestseller lists-immediately established Tom Knox as a searing brilliant new voice in commercial fiction. The Marks of Cain dares to raise the bar even higher and promises to be an even greater success.A thrilling and startling novel from the author of the international bestseller The Genesis Secret When David Martinez a young lawyer receives an ancient map from his dying grandfather the mysteries of his past begin to open up before him. The map leads David into the heart of the dangerous Basque mountains where a genetic curse lies buried and a frightening secret about the Western world’s past is hidden. Meanwhile London journalist Simon Quinn may have found his big break. A wealthy elderly woman has been murdered in the most horrific fashion and another homicide soon follows. Both victims came from villages in the Basque region both were interred at a top-secret Nazi camp both have been silenced for what they know about the experiments conducted on the Basques the Jews and a dwindling mystical tribe of pre-Caucasian locals called Cagots. From the North Sea islands to the Arizona desert from the graveyards of the Basque countryside to the heart of colonial Africa Martinez’s and Quinn’s quests intersect to reveal the shocking roots of racial persecution human violence and war. The Genesis Secret -already in its fourth hardcover printing and appearing on several bestseller lists-immediately established Tom Knox as a searing brilliant new voice in commercial fiction. The Marks of Cain dares to raise the bar even higher and promises to be an even greater success. |
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Preston Falls: A Novel $9.89 A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Jernigan introduced David Gates as a novelist of the highest order. "Full of dark truths and biting humor " wrote Frederick Exley "a brilliant novel [that] will be read for a long time." After that blackly comic handbook of self-destruction–whose antihero shoulders up to such crucial American figures as Bellow’s Herzog Updike’s Harry Angstrom Heller’s Bob Slocum Percy’s Binx Bolling and Irving’s Garp–Gates’s new novel investigates the essential truths of a marriage à la mode. Doug and Jean Willis fit the newly classic recognizable and seemingly normal variety: struggling against a riptide of the daily commute the mortgages the latchkey child-rearing and the country house as well as the hopes and desires from which all of this grew. In accordance with their long-standing agreement Doug embarks from their Westchester home on a leave of absence from the PR job that had ineluctably become his life while Jean contends with both her own job and their two children. Over a two-month period he’ll spruce up the family’s alternative universe up north in rural Preston Falls; she’ll deal with her end of the bargain and her worries about the survival of the family. But then domesticity hits the brick wall of private longings and nightmarish twists of fate. A surprising comic horrifying and always engrossing novel charged with the responsibilities of middle age and with the abiding power of love however disappointed–told with great artistry pitch-perfect understanding and fierce compassion. "A novel that’s the funniest sharpest most strangely exciting book about men and women in a long time." –Tom Prince Maxim From the Hardcover edition. |
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Unwelcome Light: a novel $8.59 David Lehner a private school teacher has written in Unwelcome Light a powerful riveting disturbing prep school novel to join the company of such novels as John Knowles’s A Separate Peace Tobias Wolff’s Old School and Alice Hoffman’s The River King. In each of these novels including Lehner’s the closed society of a boarding school is like a city-state where curses can fester. It is appropriate that the unnamed protagonist and narrator of Unwelcome Light is a teacher of classics at an American private boarding school for this novel is a modern enactment of tragic themes as old as Sophocles. Because of family secrets to which he is not privy the narrator comes close enough to committing incest (unknowingly and even innocently) to be judged guilty and to be punished for the sin cursed to live out his days in anguish. The understated parallel to the Oedipus story is enhanced by the mystery of the narrator’s parentage a nest of secrets that a âchorusâÂ? of colleagues know but won’t reveal until it’s too late. Although the ironies that shape both stories are similar the parallels between Unwelcome Light and Greek tragedy are not strict or obvious. The novel is packed with dark themes but it is also driven by modern plot twists and populated by complex secondary characters with psychological problems and secrets of their own. These problems include adultery mental illness theft alcoholism and various forms of deviant sexuality. In spite of its dark themes Unwelcome Light is a page-turning plot-driven novel intelligent and written with craft and skill. |
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Doctor Who: Ghosts of India: (Abridged Book) $10.35 New – This is an abridged reading of a BBC Books novel featuring the Doctor and Donna (as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit BBC One TV series). India in 1947 is a country in the grip of chaos – a country torn apart by internal strife. When the Doctor and Donna arrive in Calcutta, they are instantly swept up in violent events. Barely escaping with their lives, they discover that the city is rife with tales of ‘half-made men’, who roam the streets at night and steal people away |
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Doctor Who: Ghosts of India: (Abridged Book) $16.56 New – This is an abridged reading of a BBC Books novel featuring the Doctor and Donna (as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit BBC One TV series). India in 1947 is a country in the grip of chaos – a country torn apart by internal strife. When the Doctor and Donna arrive in Calcutta, they are instantly swept up in violent events. Barely escaping with their lives, they discover that the city is rife with tales of ‘half-made men’, who roam the streets at night and steal people away |
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Doctor Who: Shining Darkness: (Abridged Book) $8.6 New – This is an abridged reading of a BBC Books novel featuring the Doctor and Donna (as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit BBC One TV series). For Donna Noble, the Andromeda galaxy is a long, long way from home. But even two-and-a-half-million light years from Earth, danger lurks around every corner…A visit to an art gallery turns into a race across space to uncover the secret behind a shadowy organization. From the desert world of Karris to the interplanetary scrapyard of |
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Doctor Who: Shining Darkness: (Abridged Book) $13.12 New – This is an abridged reading of a BBC Books novel featuring the Doctor and Donna (as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit BBC One TV series). For Donna Noble, the Andromeda galaxy is a long, long way from home. But even two-and-a-half-million light years from Earth, danger lurks around every corner…A visit to an art gallery turns into a race across space to uncover the secret behind a shadowy organization. From the desert world of Karris to the interplanetary scrapyard of |
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Hochschullehrer (Providence, Rhode Island) $19.99 Kapitel: Roderick Chisholm, Otto Neugebauer, Anderson Hunter Dupree, Ron Nelson, Aaron Siskind, Catherine Clinton, Alexander Dorner, Jaegwon Kim, George Grafton Wilson, Gerald Guralnik, David Pingree, Herbert Federer, Joachim Wach, Robert Coover, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., Stephen Lichtenbaum, Paula Vogel, Kurt Raaflaub, Richard Kenyon, Michael Rosen, Gerald J. Toomer, Ernest Sosa, Kenneth Miller, Abraham Sachs, Wendell Fleming, Heinrich Bülthoff, James Anderson, Peter M. Garber, Michael Putnam. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University in 1955, then served in the United States Navy. He received an M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago in 1965. Coover has served as a teacher or writer in residence at many universities. Coover’s first novel was The Origin of the Brunists, in which the sole survivor of a mine disaster starts a religious cult. His second book, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., deals with the role of the creator. The eponymous Waugh, a shy, lonely accountant, creates a baseball game in which rolls of the dice determine every play, and dreams up players to attach those results to. Coover’s best-known work, The Public Burning, deals with the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in terms that have been called magic realism. Half of the book is devoted to the mythic hero Uncle Sam of tall tales, dealing with the equally fantastic Phantom, who represents international Communism. The alternate chapters portray the efforts of Richard Nixon to find what is really going on amidst the welter of |
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101 Portraits of Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures $9.99 If Jesus didn’t come along until the New Testament, what is He doing in the Old Testament? In his forthcoming book, 101 Portraits of Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures, author Bob Beasley, a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary, seeks to answer that question in many more than 101 ways. In fact, even though the Old Testament, or “the Hebrew Scriptures,” was written 2,000 to 500 years prior to Jesus’ earthly ministry, some say the Lord may be found on its every page. Just as a great novel or movie will provide early warnings of things to come later on, the Old Testament is full of foreshadowing, specific prophesies, mighty works, and pre-incarnate appearances of the Savior. He is prefigured by men like Adam, Noah, Joseph, Moses, and David. Jesus is foreshadowed by furniture, rocks, food, a snake, doorways, trees, colors, and animals in many ways. He appears as smoke and fire and as the mysterious Angel of the Lord, all of this hundreds of years before born to Mary in Bethlehem. On the road to Emmaus following His resurrection, Jesus spoke with some of His followers. Luke tells us, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the [Hebrew] Scriptures concerning himself (Luke 24:27). In a compact and readable 101 chapters surveying Genesis to Malachi, Beasley merely scratches the surface of the wonderful truths of Jesus in the Old Testament, sure to deepen anyone’s understanding of and love for the entire Bible. This is a book for everyone, new Christians as well as old, and also for those seeking answers as to whether of not the Bible is trustworthy. The impact of the foreshadowing of Jesus is truly powerful. 101 Portraits will open the Scriptures for you as never before. |
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101 Portraits of Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures $14.95 If Jesus didn’t come along until the New Testament, what is He doing in the Old Testament? In his forthcoming book, 101 Portraits of Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures, author Bob Beasley, a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary, seeks to answer that question in many more than 101 ways. In fact, even though the Old Testament, or “the Hebrew Scriptures,” was written 2,000 to 500 years prior to Jesus’ earthly ministry, some say the Lord may be found on its every page. Just as a great novel or movie will provide early warnings of things to come later on, the Old Testament is full of foreshadowing, specific prophesies, mighty works, and pre-incarnate appearances of the Savior. He is prefigured by men like Adam, Noah, Joseph, Moses, and David. Jesus is foreshadowed by furniture, rocks, food, a snake, doorways, trees, colors, and animals in many ways. He appears as smoke and fire and as the mysterious Angel of the Lord, all of this hundreds of years before born to Mary in Bethlehem. On the road to Emmaus following His resurrection, Jesus spoke with some of His followers. Luke tells us, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the [Hebrew] Scriptures concerning himself (Luke 24:27). In a compact and readable 101 chapters surveying Genesis to Malachi, Beasley merely scratches the surface of the wonderful truths of Jesus in the Old Testament, sure to deepen anyone’s understanding of and love for the entire Bible. This is a book for everyone, new Christians as well as old, and also for those seeking answers as to whether of not the Bible is trustworthy. The impact of the foreshadowing of Jesus is truly powerful. 101 Portraits will open the Scriptures for you as never before. |
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1634: The Baltic War By David Weber and Eric Flint $7.99 The Baltic War which began in the novel 1633 is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville¿the West Virginia town hurled back into the seventeenth century by a mysterious cosmic accident¿are caught in the middle of it. Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden and Emperor of the United States of Europe, prepares a counter-attack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark¿former enemies which have allied in the League of Ostend to destroy the threat to their power that the Americans represent¿which are besieging the German city of Luebeck. Elsewhere in war-torn Europe, several American plans are approaching fruition. Admiral Simpson of Grantville frantically races against time to finish the USE Navy¿s ironclad ships¿desperately needed to break the Ostender blockade of the Baltic ports. A commando unit sent by Mike Stearns to England prepares the rescue the Americans being held in the Tower of London. In Amsterdam, Rebecca Stearns continues three-way negotiations with the Prince of Orange and the Spanish Cardinal-Infante who has conquered most of the Netherlands. And, in Copenhagen, the captured young USE naval officer Eddie Cantrell tries to persuade the King of Denmark to break with the Ostender alliance, all while pursuing a romantic involvement with one of the Danish princesses. |
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1812 $107.1 1812 is splendidly researched and finely written–a fiery tale of our country’s youth, of mighty passions, a half-for-gotten war, and incomparable men and women. David Nevin’s readers are blessed -Ralph Peters, author of Red Army A rich, robust historical novel of the kind we don’t get often enough. Famous men and women spring vividly to life–action abounds– 1812 is a great read – John Jakes The war of 1812 would either make America a global power sweeping all the way to the Pacific–or break it into small pieces bound to mighty England. It was a second revolution of sorts to prove to the British that America had to be taken seriously. The principal actors in this drama were James and Dolley Madison, and Andrew and Rachel Jackson. Their courage and determination would shape America’s destiny. It was a perilous and pivotal time for the young and not-entirely-United States, but it has been the most unremembered time in American history. Until now. The faded old etchings of battle on land and sea, of statesmen, heroes, villains (and their ladyloves), are now, in David Nevin’s 1812, brought to vivid life and color, tumultuous intensity, and you-are there immediacy. -Gary Jennings, New York Times bestselling author of Aztec Whatever we have gained by technology we have lost by ease. These people who lived in 1812 faced danger, adventure, and–no income tax! Read on. -Rita Mae Brown, author of Dolley |
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1840s Novels (Study Guide): 1840 Novels, 1841 Novels, 1842 Novels, 1843 Novels, 1844 Novels, 1845 Novels, 1846 Novels, 1847 Novels, 1848 Novels $48.07 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1840 Novels, 1841 Novels, 1842 Novels, 1843 Novels, 1844 Novels, 1845 Novels, 1846 Novels, 1847 Novels, 1848 Novels, 1849 Novels, a Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, La Reine Margot, Jane Eyre, Typee, David Copperfield, the Count of Monte Cristo, Vanity Fair, the Luck of Barry Lyndon, Cousin Bette, Dombey and Son, the Three Musketeers, Martin Chuzzlewit, the Betrothed, the Old Curiosity Shop, Jack Sheppard, Shirley, Twenty Years After, the Chimes, Dead Souls, Old St. Paul’s, Ursule Mirouët, Windsor Castle, a Hero of Our Time, the Cricket on the Hearth, le Juif Errant, Loss and Gain, Guy Fawkes, the Nemesis of Faith, le Cousin Pons, Un Début Dans La Vie, Mémoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées, Mary Barton, Zanoni, the Tower of London, the Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, Dubrovsky, Barnaby Rudge, Auriol, the Amber Witch, the Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Poor Folk, the Lady of the Camellias, the Miser’s Daughter, Modeste Mignon, St. James’s, Brigitta, La Rabouilleuse, Catherine, La Petite Fadette, the Mysteries of Paris, Sybil, the Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, the Deerslayer, Redburn, the Double: a Petersburg Poem, La Fausse Maîtresse, Tancred, Honorine, the Journal of Julius Rodman, Coningsby, Netochka Nezvanova, Consuelo, Agnes Grey, the Battle of Life, the Macdermots of Ballycloran, Mardi, the Last of the Barons, Omoo, Sab, le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, the Children of the New Forest, Alton Locke, Georges, the Two Baronesses, a Moreninha, the Crater, Nélida, La Dame de Monsoreau, Poor Jack, Flower Fables, the Two Dianas, O Moço Loiro. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: La Cousine Bette (English: Cousin Betty or Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th century Paris, it tells the |
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1891: A Novel about Stanford University $11.98 Used – In the summer of 1891, Orrin Leslie Elliott brings his wife and young son to Senator Stanford’s Palo Alto Farm in Northern California to work for David Starr Jordan, president of the new university being established there. The Elliotts find their new surroundings to be bleak and isolated: college buildings that look like a factory, little or no housing, and a murky water supply. Nearby Mayfield is peopled with cowboys serviced by numerous saloons and prostitutes. With faculty still to be |
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1891: A Novel about Stanford University $7.29 Used – In the summer of 1891, Orrin Leslie Elliott brings his wife and young son to Senator Stanford’s Palo Alto Farm in Northern California to work for David Starr Jordan, president of the new university being established there. The Elliotts find their new surroundings to be bleak and isolated: college buildings that look like a factory, little or no housing, and a murky water supply. Nearby Mayfield is peopled with cowboys serviced by numerous saloons and prostitutes. With faculty still to be |
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1920s Novel Introduction 1920s Novel Introduction: Les Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oiles Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oil!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for the Archbishop L!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for… $16.97 New – Chapters: Les Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oil!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for the Archbishop, the Eternal Lover, Hajabarala, Miranda, Antic Hay, Mario and the Magician, David Golder, Macunaima, Barrister Parvateesam, Cheri, the Curse of Capistrano, Nevada, a House Is Built, Forlorn River, Les Enfants Terribles, John Macnab, Aaron’s Rod, the Escaped Cock, Laughing Boy, Crome Yellow, Pather Panchali, the Great Pacific War, Scarlet Sister Mary, the Fox, a Dark Night’s |
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1920s Novel Introduction 1920s Novel Introduction: Les Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oiles Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oil!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for the Archbishop L!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for… $14.18 Used – Chapters: Les Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oil!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for the Archbishop, the Eternal Lover, Hajabarala, Miranda, Antic Hay, Mario and the Magician, David Golder, Macunaima, Barrister Parvateesam, Cheri, the Curse of Capistrano, Nevada, a House Is Built, Forlorn River, Les Enfants Terribles, John Macnab, Aaron’s Rod, the Escaped Cock, Laughing Boy, Crome Yellow, Pather Panchali, the Great Pacific War, Scarlet Sister Mary, the Fox, a Dark Night’s |
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1920s Novel Introduction 1920s Novel Introduction: Les Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oiles Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oil!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for the Archbishop L!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for… $15.45 Used – Chapters: Les Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oil!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for the Archbishop, the Eternal Lover, Hajabarala, Miranda, Antic Hay, Mario and the Magician, David Golder, Macunaima, Barrister Parvateesam, Cheri, the Curse of Capistrano, Nevada, a House Is Built, Forlorn River, Les Enfants Terribles, John Macnab, Aaron’s Rod, the Escaped Cock, Laughing Boy, Crome Yellow, Pather Panchali, the Great Pacific War, Scarlet Sister Mary, the Fox, a Dark Night’s |
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1920s Novel Introduction 1920s Novel Introduction: Les Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oiles Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oil!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for the Archbishop L!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for… $16.13 New – Chapters: Les Champs Magnetiques, Porgy, the Courts of the Morning, Oil!, Wild Geese, Death Comes for the Archbishop, the Eternal Lover, Hajabarala, Miranda, Antic Hay, Mario and the Magician, David Golder, Macunaima, Barrister Parvateesam, Cheri, the Curse of Capistrano, Nevada, a House Is Built, Forlorn River, Les Enfants Terribles, John Macnab, Aaron’s Rod, the Escaped Cock, Laughing Boy, Crome Yellow, Pather Panchali, the Great Pacific War, Scarlet Sister Mary, the Fox, a Dark Night’s |
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1965 Novels $19.99 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dune. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. It won the Hugo Award in 1966, and also the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Dune is frequently cited as the world’s best-selling science fiction novel. Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary fiefdoms are controlled by noble houses that owe an allegiance to the Imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides (the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides and the scion of House Atreides) as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the “spice” melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe. The story explores the complex and multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the forces of the Empire confront each other for control of Arrakis and its “spice”. Herbert wrote five sequels to the novel Dune: Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune. The first novel also inspired a 1984 film adaptation by David Lynch, a 2000 Sci Fi Channel miniseries and its 2003 sequel, computer games, a board game, a song, and a series of prequels, interquels, and sequels that were co-written by Kevin J. Anderson and the author’s son, Brian Herbert, starting in 1999. Florence, Oregon, with sand dunes that served as an inspiration for the Dune sagaAfter his novel The Dragon in the Sea was published in 1957, Herbert took an airplane to Florence, Oregon, at the north edge of the Oregon Dunes where the United States Department of Agriculture was experimenting using poverty grasses to stabilize the damaging sand dunes, that could “swallow whole |
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1983 Television Films (Study Guide) $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Day After, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, Special Bulletin, the Winds of War, Starflight: the Plane That Couldn’t Land, Baby Sister, Murder in Coweta County, High School U.s.a., Who Will Love My Children?, Tiger Town, Thursday’s Child, Murder Me, Murder You, Mary Poppins, Goodbye, the Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings, for Us the Living: the Medgar Evers Story, Making of a Male Model, the Woman Who Willed a Miracle, Princess Daisy, a Pattern of Roses, Bill: on His Own, Legs, Deadly Lessons, Who Killed Baby Azaria?, Right of Way, to the Lighthouse, Kenny Rogers as the Gambler: the Adventure Continues. Excerpt: A Pattern of Roses A Pattern of Roses is a 1972 children’s novel by K. M. Peyton that was made into a television film in 1983. The film was the first significant on screen role for Helena Bonham Carter , the cast also included Philip Jackson and Suzanna Hamilton . Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Baby Sister Baby Sister is a 1983 television film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern . The film, which stars Phoebe Cates , Ted Wass and Pamela Bellwood , centers on a 19-year-old girl who starts an affair with her older sister’s boyfriend. Plot Annie Burroughs is a wild 19-year-old teenager who has just dropped out of college. Fearing to face her father, she packs her stuff and moves in with her older sister Marsha, who runs her own gallery in Los Angeles. Marsha is in a relationship with David Mitchell, a 31-year-old doctor who dreams of having his own private practice. Although they are very happy together, David isn’t glad Marsha is spending so much time on work. Meanwhile, Annie immediately settles in the big city, landing a job as a receptionist at David’s clinic. Although at first it is innocent and playful, |
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1999 Television Films (Study Guide) $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pirates of Silicon Valley, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Annie, Babylon 5: a Call to Arms, All the King’s Men, Cleopatra, Don’t Look Under the Bed, Atomic Train, Sabrina, Down Under, the Bear, Selma, Lord, Selma, Lansky, Au Pair, Can of Worms, Smart House, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, a Cooler Climate, Down Will Come Baby, Having Our Say: the Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, Strange Justice, Madeline: Lost in Paris, the Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, Johnny Tsunami, Vendetta, Horse Sense, Excellent Cadavers, First Daughter, Witness Protection, a Christmas Carol, Ultimate Deception, Great Expectations, Joan of Arc, Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, Jackie’s Back, It Came From the Sky, Double Platinum, Genius, Switching Goals, New York: a Documentary Film, the Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, Road Rage, the Devil’s Arithmetic, Nancherrow, a Secret Life, Anya’s Bell, the Soul Collector, the Jack Bull, Rko 281, Black and White, Black and Blue, the Night of the Headless Horseman, Lethal Vows, Roswell: the Aliens Attack, the Hip Hop Years, Escape From Mars, Lost for Words, A.t.f., Chameleon Ii: Death Match, Rocky Marciano, Deep in My Heart, Winter Angel. Excerpt: A.T.F. A.T.F. is a television movie produced for ABC in 1999 in which ATF agents work to infiltrate an armed militia , a group akin to the Branch Davidian group who held off ATF agents and were later set siege to by the FBI in Waco, Texas in 1993. See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol is a 1999 television film adaptation of Charles Dickens famous novel A Christmas Carol . It was directed by David Hugh Jones and stars Patrick Stewart as Ebenezer Scrooge and Richard E. Grant as Bob Cratchit . The |
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19th-Century Novels (Book Guide): 1800s Novels, 1850s Novels, 1860s Novels, 1870s Novels, 1890s Novels, 19th Century Novel Stubs $37.75 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 283. Chapters: 1800s novels, 1850s novels, 1860s novels, 1870s novels, 1890s novels, 19th century novel stubs, Anti-Tom novels, Victorian novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Vanity Fair, Great E |
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19th-Century Novels (Book Guide): 1800s Novels, 1850s Novels, 1860s Novels, 1870s Novels, 1890s Novels, 19th Century Novel Stubs $32.74 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 283. Chapters: 1800s novels, 1850s novels, 1860s novels, 1870s novels, 1890s novels, 19th century novel stubs, Anti-Tom novels, Victorian novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Vanity Fair, Great Ex |
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19th-Century Novels (Book Guide): 1800s Novels, 1850s Novels, 1860s Novels, 1870s Novels, 1890s Novels, 19th Century Novel Stubs $28.5 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 283. Chapters: 1800s novels, 1850s novels, 1860s novels, 1870s novels, 1890s novels, 19th century novel stubs, Anti-Tom novels, Victorian novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Vanity Fair, Great E |
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19th-Century Novels (Book Guide): 1800s Novels, 1850s Novels, 1860s Novels, 1870s Novels, 1890s Novels, 19th Century Novel Stubs $37.75 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 283. Chapters: 1800s novels, 1850s novels, 1860s novels, 1870s novels, 1890s novels, 19th century novel stubs, Anti-Tom novels, Victorian novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Vanity Fair, Great E |
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19th-Century Novels (Book Guide): 1800s Novels, 1850s Novels, 1860s Novels, 1870s Novels, 1890s Novels, 19th Century Novel Stubs $43.54 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 283. Chapters: 1800s novels, 1850s novels, 1860s novels, 1870s novels, 1890s novels, 19th century novel stubs, Anti-Tom novels, Victorian novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Vanity Fair, Great Ex |
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19th-Century Novels (Book Guide): 1800s Novels, 1850s Novels, 1860s Novels, 1870s Novels, 1890s Novels, 19th Century Novel Stubs $28.27 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 283. Chapters: 1800s novels, 1850s novels, 1860s novels, 1870s novels, 1890s novels, 19th century novel stubs, Anti-Tom novels, Victorian novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Vanity Fair, Great E |
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19th-Century Novels (Book Guide): 1800s Novels, 1850s Novels, 1860s Novels, 1870s Novels, 1890s Novels, 19th Century Novel Stubs $38.99 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 283. Chapters: 1800s novels, 1850s novels, 1860s novels, 1870s novels, 1890s novels, 19th century novel stubs, Anti-Tom novels, Victorian novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Vanity Fair, Great E |
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19th-Century Novels (Book Guide): 1800s Novels, 1850s Novels, 1860s Novels, 1870s Novels, 1890s Novels, 19th Century Novel Stubs $29.98 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 283. Chapters: 1800s novels, 1850s novels, 1860s novels, 1870s novels, 1890s novels, 19th century novel stubs, Anti-Tom novels, Victorian novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Vanity Fair, Great E |
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2004 Controversies $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 generated substantial controversy and criticism after its release shortly before the U.S. presidential election, 2004. The film by Michael Moore accused the Bush administration of using the September 11, 2001 attacks to raise support for the War in Iraq. The title of the film refers to Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 and the September 11 attacks of 2001. The Fahrenheit 451 reference is emphasized by the film’s tagline “The temperature where freedom burns” (compare with Fahrenheit 451’s tagline, “The temperature at which books burn”). Moore has stated that the title came from the subject of an e-mail he received from a fan shortly after September 11. Bradbury was upset by what he considered the appropriation of his title. He reportedly asked for an apology from Moore and wanted the film renamed. The conservative political action group Move America Forward mounted a letter-writing campaign pressuring theater chains not to screen the film, which it compared to “an al-Qaeda training video.” “We’ve been causing them an enormous amount of aggravation”, said group member and talk radio host Melanie Morgan. Citizens United, a conservative group run by David Bossie, filed a complaint before the Federal Election Commission charging that ads for the film constitute political advertising and thus may not be aired 60 days before an election or 30 days before a party convention. On August 5, the FEC unanimously dismissed the complaint finding no evidence that the movie’s ads had broken the law. A further complaint filed in 2005 was also rejected. Shailagh Murray described Fahrenheit 9/11 in The Wall Street Journal as a “harshly satirical and controversial portrait of the Bush presidency.” Stephen Dalton of The Time… More: |
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25th Hour $39.4 Used – 25th Hour is a 2002 Spike Lee film based on David Benioff’s novel The 25th Hour. The cast includes Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin. Norton plays Montgomery “Monty” Brogan, a convicted drug dealer who has one last day of freedom before beginning a seven-year prison sentence. |
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25th Hour $32.53 Used – 25th Hour is a 2002 Spike Lee film based on David Benioff’s novel The 25th Hour. The cast includes Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin. Norton plays Montgomery “Monty” Brogan, a convicted drug dealer who has one last day of freedom before beginning a seven-year prison sentence. |
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25th Hour $54 New – 25th Hour is a 2002 Spike Lee film based on David Benioff’s novel The 25th Hour. The cast includes Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin. Norton plays Montgomery “Monty” Brogan, a convicted drug dealer who has one last day of freedom before beginning a seven-year prison sentence. |
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25th Hour $54 Used – 25th Hour is a 2002 Spike Lee film based on David Benioff’s novel The 25th Hour. The cast includes Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin. Norton plays Montgomery “Monty” Brogan, a convicted drug dealer who has one last day of freedom before beginning a seven-year prison sentence. |
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25th Hour $54 Used – 25th Hour is a 2002 Spike Lee film based on David Benioff’s novel The 25th Hour. The cast includes Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin. Norton plays Montgomery “Monty” Brogan, a convicted drug dealer who has one last day of freedom before beginning a seven-year prison sentence. |
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25th Hour DVD $8.49 Spike Lee’s bracing adaptation of David Benioff’s novel is a vibrant, vital motion picture. Edward Norton plays Monty Brogan, a harmless drug dealer who has 24 hours of freedom before serving a sev… |
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30 Days of Night Blu-ray (Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled) $14.99 Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled – Based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT works overtime to pump fresh life into the vampire genre. Director David Slade (HARD … |
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30 Days of Night DVD (Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled) $8.49 Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled – Based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT works overtime to pump fresh life into the vampire genre. Director David Slade (HARD … |
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36 Yalta Boulevard: A Novel $22.95 “[Steinhauer’s] people are real, the crimes genuine, and he is telling larger truths about that era, making it unusually accessible.”—David Halberstam, LA Times on 36 Yalta Boulevard Olen Steinhauer’s first two novels, The Bridge of Sighs and The Confession, launched an acclaimed literary crime series set in post–World War II Eastern Europe. Now he takes his dynamic cast of characters into the shadowy political climate of the 1960s.State Security Officer Brano Sev’s job is to do what his superiors ask, no matter what. Even if that means leaving his post to work the assembly line in a factory, fitting electrical wires into gauges. So when he gets a directive from his old bosses—the intimidating men above him at the Ministry of State Security, collectively known for the address of their headquarters on Yalta Boulevard, a windowless building consisting of blind offices and dark cells—he follows orders. This time he is to resume his job in State Security and travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector. But when a villager turns up dead shortly after he arrives, Brano is framed for the murder. Again trusting his superiors, he assumes this is part of their plan and allows it to run its course, a decision that leads him into exile in Vienna, where he finally begins to ask questions.The answers in 36 Yalta Boulevard, Olen Steinhauer’s tour-de-force political thriller, teach Comrade Brano Sev that loyalty to the cause might be the biggest crime of all. |
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54 $5 New – Set during the height of the Cold War–with the world divided into East and West–this novel features Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly in a cinematic romp that is by turns edgy social satire and modern comic send up. |
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54 $3.72 Set during the height of the Cold War–with the world divided into East and West–this novel features Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly in a cinematic romp that is by turns edgy social satire and modern comic send up. |
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54 $0.99 New – Set during the height of the Cold War–with the world divided into East and West–this novel features Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly in a cinematic romp that is by turns edgy social satire and modern comic send up. |
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A Bad Day on Planet Earth $6.99 A Bad Day on Planet Earth, is a science fiction novel about a group of college students who make a trip to Mammoth Cave during their spring break. Their decision to travel there instead of to Florida or some other exotic location actually results in saving their lives. While they are below ground within the cave system, the world is attacked by aliens, later called Onibs by the survivors. They are from the planet Patheon which orbits a companion star of the massive star, Sirius. The survivors discover that there is a secret laboratory located in an unused section of the cave. The scientists working there have developed a ray gun. This enables the people there to be able to survive the terrible dilemma facing the rest of the Earth. Later the survivors manage to capture Onib spaceships which they use to destroy domed cities that were built in North America. Fearing total annihilation by the Onibs, David Sears the hero along with many others take captured spaceships across the void of space in an attempt to destroy their home planet. Following the delivery of cobalt bombs on Patheon, the crew of the Earth ship become hopelessly lost in space for 18-years. They don’t age because of traveling over 100-times the speed of light. At a later date they join forces with a group of survivors called Anterians. The two forces travel some 140 light-years across the galaxy to attack the last remaining Patheon planet. The plot offers a tantalizing climax to the story. It allows the readers to live vicariously within the scenes with the different characters within the novel. As in his novel, “Until the End of Time,” the writer offers a different concept of travel across the sea of stars. |
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A Beckoning Hellfire: A Novel of The Civil War $4.93 During the bloody American Civil War, the stark reality of death leads one young man on a course of revenge that takes him from his quiet farm in northern Alabama to the horrific battlefields of Virginia and Pennsylvania. On Christmas Eve 1862, David Summers hears the dreaded news: his father has perished at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Reeling with grief and thoughts of vengeance, David enlists and sets off for Richmond to join the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. But once in the cavalry, David’s life changes drastically, and his dream of glamorous chivalry becomes nothing but a cold, cruel existence of pain and suffering. He is hurled into one battle after another, and his desire for revenge wanes when he experiences first-hand the catastrophes of war. A haunting look at the human side of one of America’s most tragic conflicts, A Beckoning Hellfire speaks to the delusion of war’s idealism. |
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A Belated Guest (Bret Harte) $0.99 Short reminiscence of an encounter with Bret Harte. According to Wikipedia: “William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic… In 1858, he began to work at the Ohio State Journal where he wrote poetry, short stories, and also translated pieces from French, Spanish, and German. He avidly studied German and other languages and was greatly interested in Heinrich Heine. In 1860, he visited Boston and met with American writers James Thomas Fields, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Said to be rewarded for a biography of Abraham Lincoln used during the election of 1860, he gained a consulship in Venice. On Christmas Eve 1862, he married Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris. Upon returning to the U.S., he wrote for various magazines, including Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s Magazine. From 1866, he became an assistant editor for the Atlantic Monthly and was made editor in 1871, remaining in the position until 1881. In 1869, he first met Mark Twain, which sparked a longtime friendship. Even more important for the development of his literary style–his advocacy of Realism–was his relationship with the journalist Jonathan Baxter Harrison, who in the 1870s wrote a series of articles for the Atlantic Monthly on the lives of ordinary Americans. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1872, but his literary reputation took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which described the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an Americanentrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). He was particularly outraged by the trials resulting from the Haymarket Riot.” |
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A Boy Called Hopeless: A David Melton Novel $5.63 Used – Fifteen-year-old Mary Jane describes her family’s reactions when they discover that her younger brother is brain injured and their decision to participate in a program of rehabilitation together. |
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A Boy Called Hopeless: A David Melton Novel $10.94 Used – Fifteen-year-old Mary Jane describes her family’s reactions when they discover that her younger brother is brain injured and their decision to participate in a program of rehabilitation together. |
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A Boy Called Hopeless: A David Melton Novel $178.23 Fifteen-year-old Mary Jane describes her family’s reactions when they discover that her younger brother is brain injured and their decision to participate in a program of rehabilitation together. |
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A Boy Called Hopeless: A David Melton Novel $10.49 Used – Fifteen-year-old Mary Jane describes her family’s reactions when they discover that her younger brother is brain injured and their decision to participate in a program of rehabilitation together. |
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A Boy Called Hopeless: A David Melton Novel $7.84 Used – Fifteen-year-old Mary Jane describes her family’s reactions when they discover that her younger brother is brain injured and their decision to participate in a program of rehabilitation together. |
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A Brief History of Howard $6.95 A darkly humorous and thrilling tale of good vs evil. One reader, an English Literature major, initially said that my villain is the most evil character she’s ever read in any literature, even surpassing Iago. Unlike the Biblical David, my protagonist, Howard Stein is completely unprepared for the onslaught of evil. Yet, he emerges victorious in this thought provoking, unique novel. |
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A Country of Our Own: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea By David Poyer $26.99 <P><B>We first met Lt. Ker Custis Claiborne,</B> formerly of the United States Navy, in <I>Fire on the Waters.</I> Claiborne is no admirer of slavery. But he’s a Virginian, joining the fledgling Confederate States Navy in 1861. After fighting along the Potomac with the Army of Virginia, Ker and his mentor, Captain Parker Trezevant, burn, sink, and destroy across the Caribbean to undermine the Union and force a truce favorable to the Confederacy.<P>But when their first cruiser proves too slow and small, Ker joins Commander James Bullock in London to buy or build a ship of war that can sweep Yankee commerce from the seas. A daring coup puts Ker in command of the most dangerous raider ever to range from Brazil to Boston, but the bloodiest battle is yet to come — a confrontation between the ex-opium clipper C.S.S. <I>Maryland</I> and the Union cruiser that has trailed her across a quarter of the world.<P><I>A Country of Our Own</I> is historical sea fiction at its best — authentic, engrossing, and masterfully paced — from the master sea-yarner <I>The New York Times Book Review</I> says “knows what he is writing about when it comes to anything on, above, or below the water.” |
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A Cultural History of the American Novel, 1890-1940: Henry James to William Faulkner $44 This account of America reconstructs literary history as a cultural drama out of which novels and the events emerge as kindred forms of cultural expression. |
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A Dangerous Catspaw $20.21 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III. Wtncott Esden had still another visitor that day—a long-haired, long-handed, nervous man, with a face that looked all nose. He had an impediment in his speech, and was inclined to be confidentially tearful. He answered to the name of J. P., and seemed contented with that mutilated form of address. ‘You won’t think I’m bothering you, will you?’ said J. P. ‘But if you forget that bill, you’ll break me. I can’t meet it, any more than I can fly.’ ‘ My dear fellow,’ responded Esden, ‘ there’s no earthly need for you to worry. You may regard the thing as being settled. You will never hear another word about it.’ The visitor, protesting that a great weight was taken from his mind, withdrew, and left Esden to himself. ‘ I must really do something about that mat ter,’ he confessed, ‘ and I must do it at once, though where the deuce the money is to come from is more than I can guess. I can’t ruin J. P. That’s out of the question. I’ll see Sheldon. I’ll go and see him now.’ He walked briskly into the Strand, and, hailing a hansom, drove to the offices of a money- lending solicitor of his acquaintance in Cork Street. Mr. Sheldon, despite his Christian- sounding name, was eminently Jewish in aspect and accent. ‘Want money?’ he said, when Esden had unfolded his story. ‘ So do I. So does everybody. You’re likely to want it, and to go on wanting it. There’s more of your paper in the market than I’d give a farthing in the pound for.’ ‘ I can’t let the other fellow in for the bill,’ said Esden. ‘Very well, then,’ responded the solicitor. ‘Don’t.’ Esden had never worked at a jury as he worked at this obdurate Hebrew. He coaxed, cajoled, and nattered. He said a hundred good things, and the solicitor, who had a sense of fun, laughed until his sides ached. … |
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A Day with Mr. Jules $9.99 When Alice, an elderly woman, smells the coffee her husband Jules has just made, she gets up. This ritual repeats itself every day, until one morning she finds him lifeless on the sofa in the living room — the coffee hasn’t quite finished filtering through. While Jules slowly turns into a statue that seems to be carved out of marble, Alice reminisces about earlier days and tells him things she hasn’t dared or been able to express before. When subsequently she has to come to terms with the sorrow and loss she is faced with, David, the autistic young son of a woman who lives in the same apartment building, becomes part of this process in an unexpected way. This deeply moving Belgian novel has been translated into many languages. The German edition alone has sold over 120,000 copies. |
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A Death in Summer: A Novel $15 One of The Chicago Tribune’s Best Reads of 2011.One of Dublin’s most powerful men meets a violent end—and an acknowledged master of crime fiction delivers his most gripping novel yet.On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell—known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick—is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? For help with the investigation, Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin’s elite.Jewell’s coolly elegant French wife, Françoise, seems less than shocked by her husband’s death. But Dannie, Jewell’s high-strung sister, is devastated, and Quirke is surprised to learn that in her grief she has turned to an unexpected friend: David Sinclair, Quirke’s ambitious assistant in the pathology lab at the Hospital of the Holy Family. Further, Sinclair has been seeing Quirke’s fractious daughter Phoebe, and an unlikely romance is blossoming between the two. As a record heat wave envelops the city and the secret deals underpinning Diamond Dick’s empire begin to be revealed, Quirke and Hackett find themselves caught up in a dark web of intrigue and violence that threatens to end in disaster.Tightly plotted and gorgeously written, A Death in Summer proves to the brilliant but sometimes reckless Quirke that in a city where old money and the right bloodlines rule, he is by no means safe from mortal danger. |
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A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author’s Text $52.26 New – Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee’s A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature. However, the novel had been so heavily edited by publisher and editor David McDowell that it little resembled the manuscript that James Agee had completed at the time of his death. The inaugural title of the University of Tennessee Press’s scholarly edition of The Works of James Agee, this restored text of A Death in the Family is, in many ways, a new novel. Thi |
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A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author’s Text $37.57 New – Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee’s A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature. However, the novel had been so heavily edited by publisher and editor David McDowell that it little resembled the manuscript that James Agee had completed at the time of his death. The inaugural title of the University of Tennessee Press’s scholarly edition of The Works of James Agee, this restored text of A Death in the Family is, in many ways, a new novel. Thi |
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A Devil Inside $8 Mrs. Slater has waited fourteen long years to tell her son, Gene, the truth. And when he wakes up on his twenty-first birthday, she greets him with the customary banners and good wishes, and then gets to the point. “Your father was murdered. He was stabbed in the back and his feet were lopped off and thrown into a drainage ditch.” Thus begins a comic and twisted journey of obsession and revenge. Gene would rather focus his attentions on Caitlin, a passionate literature major, than avenge the death of his 400-pound father who was killed in the Poconos Mountains while walking cross-country to lose weight. Caitlin barely notices the naïve young man and is, herself, obsessed with her Russian Lit professor, a tormented genius who thinks he’s living in a Dostoyevsky novel. Suddenly, a mysterious woman named Lily stumbles into the family-owned laundromat, and is instantly struck by the pain etched into Mrs. Slater’s face. Lily, in turn, is living with an absurdly dull appliance repairman who has taken to writing children’s stories to jazz up his boring life, which gets progressively and horrifyingly thrilling the further he gets pulled into the unraveling events. Set in New York’s Lower East Side, this frantic dark comedy, satirizes elements of nineteenth-century Russian novels, complete with seizures, hallucinations, a flooding city, nightmares, train wrecks and suicide, all wrapped around a murder mystery with a Rube Goldberg-like plot. |
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A Distant Flame $7.14 A powerful work that surely will become a classic of Civil War fiction. A superb book. – Robert K. Krick, author of Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain This strikingly fine novel leaves an indelible impression on the reader long after he puts it down. In some ways it reminds me of the wonderful Raintree County. As Stephen Crane once said about Civil War historical writing, ‘I want to be there.’ In A Distant Flame, Mr. Williams takes us there, and it’s a landscape that captures the heart. – Robert J. Mrazek, author of Unholy Fire A Distant Flame takes a sultry summer day in 1914 and weaves it into a page-turning tale of Civil War Georgia. This is not ‘moonlight and magnolias, ‘ but Philip Lee Williams’s bittersweet story of life, love, and loss in a small Southern town will touch your heart and move you to tears. – David Evans, author of Sherman’s Horsemen The dramatic wartime events of A Distant Flame are written in the heart of Charlie Merrill—sharpshooter, lover, pilgrim, and friend of General Cleburne. This intense and memorable story of battlefield and hearth tells us that it is high time to assess and treasure the work of Philip Lee Williams. – Marly Youmans, author of The Wolf Pit, winner of the Michael Shaara Award A Distant Flame is the best story yet written about the Atlanta campaign and life on the home front in Civil War Georgia. It is also much more. It blends scrupulously researched history with powerful narrative to produce a compelling, multidimensional story of one man’s life as shaped by the Civil War over a span of fifty years. It is a story of war, love, and community in a small north Georgia town, brilliantly told, fullof insights into the complex impact of the Civil War on everyday Southerners. – Thomas G. Dyer, author of Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta |
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A Distant Flame $12.63 “A powerful work that surely will become a classic of Civil War fiction. A superb book.”- Robert K. Krick, author of Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain”This strikingly fine novel leaves an indelible impression on the reader long after he puts it down. In some ways it reminds me of the wonderful Raintree County. As Stephen Crane once said about Civil War historical writing, ‘I want to be there.’ In A Distant Flame, Mr. Williams takes us there, and it’s a landscape that captures the heart.”- Robert J. Mrazek, author of Unholy Fire”A Distant Flame takes a sultry summer day in 1914 and weaves it into a page-turning tale of Civil War Georgia. This is not ‘moonlight and magnolias,’ but Philip Lee Williams’s bittersweet story of life, love, and loss in a small Southern town will touch your heart and move you to tears.”- David Evans, author of Sherman’s Horsemen”The dramatic wartime events of A Distant Flame are written in the heart of Charlie Merrill—sharpshooter, lover, pilgrim, and friend of General Cleburne. This intense and memorable story of battlefield and hearth tells us that it is high time to assess and treasure the work of Philip Lee Williams.”- Marly Youmans, author of The Wolf Pit, winner of the Michael Shaara Award”A Distant Flame is the best story yet written about the Atlanta campaign and life on the home front in Civil War Georgia. It is also much more. It blends scrupulously researched history with powerful narrative to produce a compelling, multidimensional story of one man’s life as shaped by the Civil War over a span of fifty years. It is a story of war, love, and community in a small north Georgia town, brilliantly told, full of insights into the complex impact of the Civil War on everyday Southerners.”20- Thomas G. Dyer, author of Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta |
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A Distant Summer $18.29 The year is 1946. The citizens of a small Colorado town, Towner’s Grove, readjusting to the restored peace and serenity following the end of World War II, are shocked by the murder of a mysterious visitor. Two young men become unofficially involved in the investigation of the murder, with results that have a lasting impact on their lives. Lifelong friends, the two are led to surprising information about themselves and about each other-discoveries as mysterious and unexpected as the murder they set out to solve.For thirty-two years David Ewbank was a professor of English Literature at Kent State University. Now retired, he still resides in Kent, Ohio. He is currently at work on a new novel.Publisher’s Web site: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/ADistantSummer.html |
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A Dreamer’s Paradise $7.61 This intriguing allegorical novel by a young Kenyan author deals with the misuse of power |
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A Drink of Deadly Wine $14.95 A priest receives a poison pen letter threatening to expose a sin long past. He turns for help to David Middleton-Brown, who must face his own hidden desires and dark dreams before he can uncover the truth at St. Anne’s in this superb novel of suspense. |
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A French Country Murder (Louis Morgon Series #1) $6.99 Artists and Writers Celebrate Peter Steiner’s A French Country Murder”This is a fantastic novel, at once a gripping political thriller, a complex mystery tale, and a wise and penetrating look at ambition, duty, and lost ambitions. Peter Steiner superbly evokes France, Washington, and international relations. It’s rewarding on every level.”- David Brooks, author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There”Best known for his subtle cartoons in The New Yorker, Peter Steiner has now done an unexpected, but expert, back-flip into the world of international intrigue with this, his first novel. A French Country Murder takes Louis Morgon, late of the CIA, deep into the French countryside in this melancholy thriller in which the compound humiliations of a powerful man lead to murder. Let me be the first to offer a well-deserved champagne toast to this book and its author, who seems to have mastered within its pages a whole new world. Salud!” – Jack Ziegler, cartoonist for The New Yorker”Peter Steiner’s rattling, sophisticated international thriller of lies, spies, cover-ups, malignant powers, betrayal, love, and detection comes wrapped in a headily exquisite mise-en-scene—the tastiest crepe that’s ever astonished you in the French countryside. I could stop till I’d sopped up that last drop of sauce!”- Diana McLellan, author of The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood”I really enjoyed reading Peter Steiner’s book. I loved the feeling of the French countryside’s peace and quiet that permeated the story. Even the murder itself seemed a quiet event, a welcome change from the pyrotechnics of other murder mysteries. The characters are engaging and reader-friendly and the story unfolds at a perfect pace, the emotions and inner thoughts of the protagonist worked in seamlessly, adding depth to the events.”- Mick Stevens, cartoonist for The |
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A Gentleman in Charleston and the Manner of His Death $8.31 Once deemed the most powerful man in the South, Charleston newspaper editor Frank Dawson met his violent death on March 12, 1889, at the hands of his neighbor, a disreputable doctor who was attempting to seduce the Dawson family governess. Drawn from events surrounding this infamous episode, the third novel from the Lillian Smith Award-winning William P. Baldwin pulls back the veil of a genteel society in a fabled southern city and exposes a dark visage of anger and secret pain that no amount of imposed manners could restrain, and only love might eventually heal. With a southern storyteller’s passion for intricate emotional and physical details, Baldwin, through the fictional guise of Capt. David Lawton, chronicles editor Dawson’s fated end. Having survived three years of bloody Civil War combat and the decade of violent Reconstruction that followed, the liberal-minded Lawton is now an embattled newspaperman whose national importance is on the wane. Still, he remains a celebrated member of Charleston’s elite, while in private life moving amid a pantheon of proud and beautiful women–Sarah, his brilliant wife; Abbie, his sensual sister-in-law; Mary, the all-knowing prostitute; and Helene, the discontented Swiss governess–each contributing to an unfolding drama of history-haunted turmoil. Though Lawton loathes the South’s cult of personal violence, by the customs of his era and place he is duty-bound to protect his household. Unable to act otherwise, Lawton meets his rival in a brutal physical contest, and in the aftermath, Sarah, Abbie, Mary, and Helene must make peace with their own turbulent pasts. War, earthquake, political guile, adultery, illegitimacy, lust, and murder–all thedevices of gothic romance–play a role in this tale closely based on the lives of Charlestonians who lived these events over a century ago. |
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A Golden Circle $19.9 New – Co-author of Inherit the Wind, Auntie Mame, and numerous theater masterpieces, Jerome Lawrence explores in his first novel the story of three fascinating women: the great actress Madame Rachel, Julia Cole, and Kati Singer. Amalgams of living personalities he has known well, Lawrence’s characters move in and out of history, as acting legend Madame Rachel recounts the tale of her love in a world of theater history that includes Sigmund Romberg, Rudolph Friml, David Belasco, Marc Connelly, Do |
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A Golden Circle $16.82 New – Co-author of Inherit the Wind, Auntie Mame, and numerous theater masterpieces, Jerome Lawrence explores in his first novel the story of three fascinating women: the great actress Madame Rachel, Julia Cole, and Kati Singer. Amalgams of living personalities he has known well, Lawrence’s characters move in and out of history, as acting legend Madame Rachel recounts the tale of her love in a world of theater history that includes Sigmund Romberg, Rudolph Friml, David Belasco, Marc Connelly, Do |
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A Good Doctor’s Son $7.45 New – A novel of adolescence and family life, written by the prize-winning author of “Therapy”. It describes the varied traumas that befall the Nachman family after Dr. Nachman moves them into the working-class Pennsylvania town where he is hired to practice medicine. Mrs. Nachman, lonely and alienated from her gentile neighbors, falls into a deep depression and spends her days locked in her room. David Nachman tries to pass himself off as a Christian in order to make friends at school, while hi |
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A Good Doctor’s Son $9.2 New – A novel of adolescence and family life, written by the prize-winning author of “Therapy”. It describes the varied traumas that befall the Nachman family after Dr. Nachman moves them into the working-class Pennsylvania town where he is hired to practice medicine. Mrs. Nachman, lonely and alienated from her gentile neighbors, falls into a deep depression and spends her days locked in her room. David Nachman tries to pass himself off as a Christian in order to make friends at school, while hi |
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A Harlot’s Progress $2.88 Used – A Harlot’s Progress reinvents William Hogarth’s famous print of 1732, which tells the story of a prostitute, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate, and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. David Dabydeen’s novel endows Hogarth’s characters with alternative lives, redeeming them from their cliched status as predators or victims. The protagonist–in Hogarth, a black slave boy, in Dabydeen, London’s oldest black inhabitant–tells his story to the Abolitionists in return for |
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A Harlot’s Progress $8.59 New – A Harlot’s Progress reinvents William Hogarth’s famous print of 1732, which tells the story of a prostitute, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate, and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. David Dabydeen’s novel endows Hogarth’s characters with alternative lives, redeeming them from their cliched status as predators or victims. The protagonist–in Hogarth, a black slave boy, in Dabydeen, London’s oldest black inhabitant–tells his story to the Abolitionists in return for |
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A Harlot’s Progress $4.97 New – A Harlot’s Progress reinvents William Hogarth’s famous print of 1732, which tells the story of a prostitute, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate, and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. David Dabydeen’s novel endows Hogarth’s characters with alternative lives, redeeming them from their cliched status as predators or victims. The protagonist–in Hogarth, a black slave boy, in Dabydeen, London’s oldest black inhabitant–tells his story to the Abolitionists in return for |
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A Harlot’s Progress $0.87 Used – A Harlot’s Progress reinvents William Hogarth’s famous print of 1732, which tells the story of a prostitute, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate, and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. David Dabydeen’s novel endows Hogarth’s characters with alternative lives, redeeming them from their cliched status as predators or victims. The protagonist–in Hogarth, a black slave boy, in Dabydeen, London’s oldest black inhabitant–tells his story to the Abolitionists in return for |
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A Hymn Before Battle $10.2 With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans?for a price.Humanity now has three worlds to defend.As Earth’’s armies rush into battle and special operations units scout alien worlds, the humans begin to learn a valuable lesson: You can protect yourself from your enemies, but may the Lord save you from your allies. John Ringo’’s first novel has bad guys from the wrong side of Hell, ”good guys” you wouldn”t buy a used car from, heroism, cowardice, military stupidity and genius, millennia-old plots, Leopard tank versus plasma cannon, and a kick-butt suit of powered armor. It’’s a marvelous book, and the galactic neighborhood will never be the same once the monkey-boys and girls from Earth get done with it. –David Weber, author of the New York Times bestselling Honor Harrington series. |
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A Hymn Before Battle $48.96 With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans?for a price.Humanity now has three worlds to defend.As Earth’’s armies rush into battle and special operations units scout alien worlds, the humans begin to learn a valuable lesson: You can protect yourself from your enemies, but may the Lord save you from your allies. John Ringo’’s first novel has bad guys from the wrong side of Hell, ”good guys” you wouldn”t buy a used car from, heroism, cowardice, military stupidity and genius, millennia-old plots, Leopard tank versus plasma cannon, and a kick-butt suit of powered armor. It’’s a marvelous book, and the galactic neighborhood will never be the same once the monkey-boys and girls from Earth get done with it. –David Weber, author of the New York Times bestselling Honor Harrington series. |
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A Hymn Before Battle (Human-Posleen War Series #1) $0.99 With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans—for a price.Humanity now has three worlds to defend.As Earth’s armies rush into battle and special operations units scout alien worlds, the humans begin to learn a valuable lesson: You can protect yourself from your enemies, but may the Lord save you from your allies.”John Ringo’s first novel has bad guys from the wrong side of Hell, ‘good guys’ you wouldn’t buy a used car from, heroism, cowardice, military stupidity and genius, millennia-old plots, Leopard tank versus plasma cannon, and a kick-butt suit of powered armor. It’s a marvelous book, and the galactic neighborhood will never be the same once the monkey-boys and girls from Earth get done with it.” —David Weber, author of the New York Times bestselling Honor Harrington series. |
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A Hymn Before Battle (Human-Posleen War Series #1) $29.99 With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans—for a price.Humanity now has three worlds to defend.As Earth’s armies rush into battle and special operations units scout alien worlds, the humans begin to learn a valuable lesson: You can protect yourself from your enemies, but may the Lord save you from your allies.”John Ringo’s first novel has bad guys from the wrong side of Hell, ‘good guys’ you wouldn’t buy a used car from, heroism, cowardice, military stupidity and genius, millennia-old plots, Leopard tank versus plasma cannon, and a kick-butt suit of powered armor. It’s a marvelous book, and the galactic neighborhood will never be the same once the monkey-boys and girls from Earth get done with it.” —David Weber, author of the New York Times bestselling Honor Harrington series. |
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A Hymn Before Battle (Human-Posleen War Series #1) $24.99 With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans—for a price.Humanity now has three worlds to defend.As Earth’s armies rush into battle and special operations units scout alien worlds, the humans begin to learn a valuable lesson: You can protect yourself from your enemies, but may the Lord save you from your allies.”John Ringo’s first novel has bad guys from the wrong side of Hell, ‘good guys’ you wouldn’t buy a used car from, heroism, cowardice, military stupidity and genius, millennia-old plots, Leopard tank versus plasma cannon, and a kick-butt suit of powered armor. It’s a marvelous book, and the galactic neighborhood will never be the same once the monkey-boys and girls from Earth get done with it.” —David Weber, author of the New York Times bestselling Honor Harrington series. |
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A Hymn Before Battle (Human-Posleen War Series #1) $7.99 With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans—for a price.Humanity now has three worlds to defend.As Earth’s armies rush into battle and special operations units scout alien worlds, the humans begin to learn a valuable lesson: You can protect yourself from your enemies, but may the Lord save you from your allies.”John Ringo’s first novel has bad guys from the wrong side of Hell, ‘good guys’ you wouldn’t buy a used car from, heroism, cowardice, military stupidity and genius, millennia-old plots, Leopard tank versus plasma cannon, and a kick-butt suit of powered armor. It’s a marvelous book, and the galactic neighborhood will never be the same once the monkey-boys and girls from Earth get done with it.” —David Weber, author of the New York Times bestselling Honor Harrington series. |
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A Journey Beyond Code Blue $11.4 When Mya Jacobson falls into a coma after an accident, she experiences a world that changes her perspective on life¿ and death. Upon waking, she wonders if what occurred was only a dream. Along with the new challenges she faces, odd things begin to happen, leaving Mya with some difficult choices to make. Code blue will never mean what it once meant to Mya, and perhaps to any reader who enjoys this story of hope and eternity.Jill Jones was raised as a military dependent and had the privilege of living in places such as Europe and the Middle East. After spending a career in dental hygiene and enjoying her role as a home school mom, she decided to follow her dream and channel her creativity into writing a novel. Her story is inspired by her belief that the choices we make not only affect our lives, but our eternity as well. She attends Manna Church in Fayetteville, and resides in North Carolina with her husband, David, and their two children, Rachael and Ryan. |
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A Kind of Acquaintance: A Kavanagh and Salt Mystery $27.95 An atmospheric crime novel from a prize-winning author – DI Frank Kavanagh, along with his lover and colleague DC Jane Salt, is undertaking a routine inquiry into the murder of Sarah Clement, a once successful novelist. But the case is complicated when the owner of a bed-and-breakfast close to the canal where Sarahs body was discovered is also found dead, in mysterious and gruesome circumstances . . . |
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A Man After God’s Own Heart: A Study of David $3.32 Used – DAVID, the boy who killed Goliath, King of Israel, Psalm writer… but there is more to David than that. He was an adulterer, a King who plotted the death of a faithful soldier so that he could satisfy his own lusts with his subject’s wife. Like us all, he had times of doubt and fear, but God used him mightily to provide a lesson to Israel then and to us today. Study David’s dramatic life – with more twists and turns than any adventure novel. |
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A Man After God’s Own Heart: A Study of David $7.51 Used – DAVID, the boy who killed Goliath, King of Israel, Psalm writer… but there is more to David than that. He was an adulterer, a King who plotted the death of a faithful soldier so that he could satisfy his own lusts with his subject’s wife. Like us all, he had times of doubt and fear, but God used him mightily to provide a lesson to Israel then and to us today. Study David’s dramatic life – with more twists and turns than any adventure novel. |
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A Man After God’s Own Heart: A Study of David $6.45 New – DAVID, the boy who killed Goliath, King of Israel, Psalm writer… but there is more to David than that. He was an adulterer, a King who plotted the death of a faithful soldier so that he could satisfy his own lusts with his subject’s wife. Like us all, he had times of doubt and fear, but God used him mightily to provide a lesson to Israel then and to us today. Study David’s dramatic life – with more twists and turns than any adventure novel. |
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A Man After God’s Own Heart: A Study of David $6.45 Used – DAVID, the boy who killed Goliath, King of Israel, Psalm writer… but there is more to David than that. He was an adulterer, a King who plotted the death of a faithful soldier so that he could satisfy his own lusts with his subject’s wife. Like us all, he had times of doubt and fear, but God used him mightily to provide a lesson to Israel then and to us today. Study David’s dramatic life – with more twists and turns than any adventure novel. |
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A Man After God’s Own Heart: A Study of David $3.32 New – DAVID, the boy who killed Goliath, King of Israel, Psalm writer… but there is more to David than that. He was an adulterer, a King who plotted the death of a faithful soldier so that he could satisfy his own lusts with his subject’s wife. Like us all, he had times of doubt and fear, but God used him mightily to provide a lesson to Israel then and to us today. Study David’s dramatic life – with more twists and turns than any adventure novel. |
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A Man After God’s Own Heart: A Study of David $4.89 Used – DAVID, the boy who killed Goliath, King of Israel, Psalm writer… but there is more to David than that. He was an adulterer, a King who plotted the death of a faithful soldier so that he could satisfy his own lusts with his subject’s wife. Like us all, he had times of doubt and fear, but God used him mightily to provide a lesson to Israel then and to us today. Study David’s dramatic life – with more twists and turns than any adventure novel. |
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A Man of Parts: A Novel $16 David Lodge,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated |
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A Mystery for Thoreau $5 New – Set in the famously literary town of Concord, Massachusetts, this posthumously published novel is rich with intrigue and witty detail as it pulls readers into a Gothic mystery featuring such residents as Henry David Throreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louisa May Alcott. |
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A Mystery for Thoreau $0.99 New – Set in the famously literary town of Concord, Massachusetts, this posthumously published novel is rich with intrigue and witty detail as it pulls readers into a Gothic mystery featuring such residents as Henry David Throreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louisa May Alcott. |
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A Mystery for Thoreau $1.21 Set in the famously literary town of Concord, Massachusetts, this posthumously published novel is rich with intrigue and witty detail as it pulls readers into a Gothic mystery featuring such residents as Henry David Throreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louisa May Alcott. |
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A Mystery for Thoreau $6.99 Sixteen-year-old Oliver Puckle, news gatherer for the Concord Freeman in the summer of 1846, has his work cut out for him when word arrives of a gruesome murder at Walden Pond. It seems the only citizen who is not a suspect is the poetphilosopher Henry David Thoreau, who spent the night locked in the local jail for refusing to pay his poll tax. As Oliver leads the charge to unravel the mystery, he has much to learn from his colorful neighbors – among them Ralph Waldo Emerson and a feisty teenage Louisa May Alcott – but unexpectedly it is the recluse Thoreau himself who provides particular help to the investigation.This posthumously published novel, set in the famously literary town of Concord, Massachusetts, is rich with intrigue and witty detail and features a foreword by the author’s son. |
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A Passionate Death $27.5 David Hawthorne is a naive young man who was raised by an evil Catholic preacher and betrayed by a treacherous woman. After being released from a mental hospital for killing his girlfriend, Rachel, he meets another woman, sleeps with her, and kills her. Enjoying the murder, he starts a killing spree. Unaware of his nefarious nature, Melanie, David’s long-time lawyer friend begins a romantic relationship with him. Along with David, Detective Harold Thompson suspects George Wycliffe as the serial killer after he confesses to one of the murders. As the cat and mouse game between them ensues, Thompson learns that he has much in common with David, including an obsession with Melanie. As David struggles to keep his two lives separate and tries to put his past behind him, an old friend of Rachel’s shows up and reveals David’s dark secrets and the true identity of his father. Is David a victim of circumstance or is he a cold-blooded serial killer? Pursue him and watch this treacherous maze of murder, lies, love and suspense intensify. Author Bio: ABOUT THE AUTHOR-Deepak Gupta lives in Connecticut and has been writing for over fifteen years. He has been a huge fan of the suspense/serial killer genre since childhood. A Passionate Death is his debut novel. |
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A Portrait of Marguerite: A Novel $13.99 Kate Lloyd,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Cook, David C. |
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A Primer of the Novel $27.44 In this revised edition, David Madden, Charles Bane and Sean Flory have produced an updated work that is intended for a general readership including writers, teachers, and students who are just being introduced to the genre. |
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A Primer of the Novel: For Readers and Writers $30.75 Used – In this revised edition, David Madden, Charles Bane and Sean Flory have produced an updated work that is intended for a general readership including writers, teachers, and students who are just being introduced to the genre. |
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A Primer of the Novel: For Readers and Writers $42.05 Used – In this revised edition, David Madden, Charles Bane and Sean Flory have produced an updated work that is intended for a general readership including writers, teachers, and students who are just being introduced to the genre. |
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A Promise Fulfilled $17.96 Can True Love Survive Insurmountable Odds?At 17, life for Lindsay Taylor is looking up. She’s just won a contract with the prestigious Westwood Modeling Agency. Top designers want her wearing their latest fashions, but there’s jealousy at the agency over her good fortune. Love blossoms between Lindsay and handsome Navy pilot, David Lundstrom. He promises to spend the rest of his life with her, just as soon as he returns from a tour of duty in Vietnam.David’s mother is irate and vows the marriage will NEVER take place. And when Lindsay finds herself pregnant, she’s disowned by her mother. Alone, and unable to model, she faces a lonely and uncertain future. When David is shot down over Vietnam, a bizarre series of events begins to unfold.Lindsay’s faith in David and their love never dims. But will her single-minded courage and determination be enough to re-unite them, despite the odds?A powerful novel of love, hope and following your dreams, A Promise Fulfilled is about the strength to endure life’s challenges with faith and hope in the future. |
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A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction $0.99 Short essay. According to Wikipedia: “William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic… In 1858, he began to work at the Ohio State Journal where he wrote poetry, short stories, and also translated pieces from French, Spanish, and German. He avidly studied German and other languages and was greatly interested in Heinrich Heine. In 1860, he visited Boston and met with American writers James Thomas Fields, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Said to be rewarded for a biography of Abraham Lincoln used during the election of 1860, he gained a consulship in Venice. On Christmas Eve 1862, he married Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris. Upon returning to the U.S., he wrote for various magazines, including Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s Magazine. From 1866, he became an assistant editor for the Atlantic Monthly and was made editor in 1871, remaining in the position until 1881. In 1869, he first met Mark Twain, which sparked a longtime friendship. Even more important for the development of his literary style–his advocacy of Realism–was his relationship with the journalist Jonathan Baxter Harrison, who in the 1870s wrote a series of articles for the Atlantic Monthly on the lives of ordinary Americans. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1872, but his literary reputation took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which described the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His socialviews were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). He was particularly outraged by the trials resulting from the Haymarket Riot.” |