Contemporary

A Japanese Financier Seeks Revenge On The United States For The Death Of His Parents During World War Ii, Devising A Scheme Which Threatens To Plunge The Wo...

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous nove...

Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love betwee...

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence—which is loosely based on the not...

The eight stories in this erotic and heartbreaking collection are barometers of difference. They measure the distance between an American expatriate and t...

Rhys Bowen.Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense MysteryWomen Sleuths

Who does not wish that they could overcome evil, tribulation, sorrow, and pain, and transform them all for the praise and glory of God? Who does not want t...

“The first ten years of my life I was not black.” Thus begins this startlingly eloquent and beautiful tale based on the true story of Kwasi Boachi, a 19th-...

Apple is back for another story filled with plenty of drama, boys, gossip — and, of course, angst. Things in Apple's life are slowly getting back to norma...

The brilliant, explosive new book from the master of the modern espionage thriller and Sunday Times bestseller James Swallow.___________________\Gutted by t...

Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B. Cook Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firm...

Jenny Humphrey arrived at elite Waverly Academy with dreams of turning herself into the sophisticated, awe-inspiring Jenny she's always wanted to be. And ...

In this novel of obsessive passion the author tells stories of Old Goriot and the ungrateful daughters he adores; young Rastignac, a country lad determined ...

Sink or swim? Paige's engagement to designer Dylan Marceau shocks the fashion world. Although Paige appears to be happy, Erin wonders if it's true love or...

Winner Of The 2002 Man Booker Prize For Fiction Pi Patel Is An Unusual Boy. The Son Of A Zookeeper, He Has An Encyclopedic Knowledge Of Animal Behavior, A F...

WINNER OF CBC CANADA READSHere’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election--but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way...

Winner of the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Hugh Maclennan Price for FictionFinalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Write...

Narnia...the World Of Wicked Dragons And Magic Spells, Where The Very Best Is Brought Out Of Even The Worst People, Where Anything Can Happen (and Most Oft...

A New Quest Begins. A Dragonkeeper Of Paladin, Kale Is Summoned From The Hall To The Bogs By The Wizard Fenworth To Serve As His Apprentice And Tend His New...

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky delights with a compelling story of chance, fate, and perfect timing, first published in 1998. Russ Ett...

She surrendered the reins. Now he’s raising the stakes. When attorney Ginger Paulson slips head-over-high-heels down a flight of stairs, she has no one to...

The new edition of this bestseller in hardcover features never-before-published, all-new inside info on the money, personalities and politics of pro-tennis:...

When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with...

The Autobiography of Henry VIII is the magnificent historical novel that established Margaret George's career. Evocatively written in the first person as H...

As the inscription on his tombstone reveals, Wilkie Collins wanted to be remembered as the “author of The Woman in White,” for it was this novel that ...

The gentlemen of medieval and Renaissance Europe had three all-consuming passions: warfare, courtly love, and hunting with a hawk or hound--and the philosop...

From newlyweds Katie and Dan living in the shadow of the shunning, to Rachel and Philip embracing parenthood even as he acclimates to Amish life as an outsi...

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury This selection of Carroll's works include...

This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but...

The Glass Lake Kit Mcmahon Lives In The Small Irish Town Of Lough Glass, Where Everyone Knows Everyone And Where Change Comes Slowly. Then One Day, Kit's Mo...

Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades, PRESUMED INNOCENT brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing c...

José Rizal ; Translated By Ma. Soledad Lacson-locsin ; Edited By Raul L. Locsin. Novel.Categories: Literature & FictionContemporary

It is Vienna at the beginning of the last century, and Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst - and disciple of Freud. Psychoanalysis is only just devel...

A New Novel By The Author Of Everything Is Illuminated Introduces Oskar Schell, The Nine-year-old Son Of A Man Killed In The World Trade Center Bombing Who ...

This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history—that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, t...

It's Chrismastime and Blair and Serena are best friends again and up to their old tricks—partying hard and breaking hearts from Park Avenue to the Caribb...

Sarah, A Career-driven Young Mother, Suffers A Traumatic Brain Injury In A Car Accident That Leaves Her Unable To Perceive Left-side Information. The Disabi...

With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a...

august 1997 I'm On A First-name Basis With The Odor Of Death, Remarks Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist For The Province Of Quebec. Tempe Thought...

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A collection of X-rated and decidedly politically incorrect jokes - a guide to the funny, the fearless and the filthy.Categories: Literature & FictionCo...

Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary c...

This Is The Tale Of Family, Memory, Love, And Living Told By 14-year-old Susie Salmon, Who Is Already In Heaven. Through The Voice Of A Precocious Teenage G...

Value priced! Award-winning author Francine Rivers opens a world full of vibrant characters with a powerful story of hope. In this stunning novel, Francine...

With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular...

Investigating an Israeli who was born in Nazareth and has assembled twelve followers while performing miracles and attracting crowds, a skeptical Jonathan W...

Three key players, two of whom are fighting to save their loved ones from death by becoming part of a Nazi plot to kill Roosevelt and Churchill, are thrown ...

Eighteen-year-old Jim Craig becomes determined to prove himself to be a man by taking revenge on a powerful wild horse, which killed his fatherCategories: L...