Contemporary

Éric Vuillard.Categories: Literature & FictionGenre Fiction

A child is found standing on the street with an empty bucket in her hand and no memory of her name, her family or her past. Elsewhere, a girl grows up surro...

In 1992 Vernor Vinge amazed the science fiction world with this epic novel of star-spanning adventure. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and has since ...

Kazuo Ishiguro.Categories: Literature & FictionLiterary

The Lives Of Fifty-four-year-old Concierge Rene Michel And Extremely Bright, Suicidal Twelve-year-old Paloma Josse Are Transformed By The Arrival Of A New T...

Christy Miller is now an independent nineteen-year-old college student living in Switzerland, where she's been attending an international university. After ...

[edited By Carvel Collins].Categories: Literature & Fiction Short Stories & AnthologiesShort Stories

Jake and Carolyn Donovan stand accused of massacring 16 people and touching off one of the country's worst environmental catastrophes. Although innocent, th...

A quiet English bachelor falls headlong in love with and impulsively marries a stunningly beautiful young German woman and only slowly discovers the nature ...

alexandra Haywood Loves Whistledown, The Family's Magnificent Shelby County, Kentucky Horse Farm. When Alex Fires Handsome Joe Welch, The Farm Manager, Spa...

A Domestic Flight Makes An Unusual Stopover In The Land Of The Langoliers; A Writer Confronts The Reality Of His Success In Secret Window, Secret Garden; ...

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 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...

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

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 ...

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...

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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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...

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...

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was firs...

Apeirogon [German]Categories: Literature & FictionContemporary