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Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Her mother has just passed away, her brother is newly married, and now that the Great War is over, she has been asked to give up managing the estate she helped to run when the men all joined the army. It is suggested to her that she become a governess. But first, she will act as caretaker to Mrs. Fog, an old family friend who is convalescing at a seaside resort. Constance is soon swept up in the social whirl...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
129 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...
Author
Publisher
Wordsworth Edns
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
New ed.
Physical Desc
[528] pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When her father has a crisis of conscious, Margaret Hale's life is turned upside down. Because her parents decide to move away from southern London, Margaret must leave behind the tranquil, rural life she's always known to settle in an industrial town called Milton. Though she does her best to assimilate, Margaret cannot help but feel trapped and hopeless in Milton, as she witnesses the brutal effects industrialization has on the environment and the...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations (maps) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about dead bodies found in the snow, a mother seeking revenge, and old folk tales that may very well be true. New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo brilliantly explores a world of mortals and spirits, humans and beasts, and their dazzling intersection"--
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xi, 205 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho’s daily column of the same name, Maktub, meaning “it is written,” invites seekers on a journey of faith, self-reflection, and transformation. As Paulo Coelho explains, “Maktub is not a book of advice—but an exchange of experiences.”
Each story offers an illuminated path to see...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet, changing the course of one another's lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to teach English and grieve the death of her brother, Michael,...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. As the mother--a novelist--attempts to understand her daughter, she finds herself revisiting her own uneasy, unresolved relationship with her mother. Weaving between childhoods past and present, laced with temptation and betrayal, Nonfiction: A novel is an unflinching account of a mother, daughter, wife, and author reckoning with the world around her. But can...
9) Martyr!
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
10) Argylle
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition, New edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the upcoming action blockbuster Argylle (February 2024), featuring a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill , Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame. A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garca Mrquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generation in the making.In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of...
12) Radiant heat
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman's hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived...until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it.... Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the damp tiles of her bathroom, her entire body swaddled in a wet woolen blanket. The flames crackled around her, the bitter char of eucalyptus settling in the back of her throat. The wildfire devastated...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Frist edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
14) Thirst: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America's feminist Gothic. It is the twilight of Europe's bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Two 1990s Ugandan teens are kidnapped and forced into the Lord's Resistance Army where they dream of surviving their captivity and their intent to remain good people.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lacey Bond has grown up in her parents' hippie New Hampshire daycare, idolizing her blasphemous, ultra-fashionable sister, Éclair, chasing baby squirrels, and contemplating trees. Then the Satanic Panic hits - the moral hysteria that shook the United States by its shoulders in the 80s and 90s. It's the summer of 1990 when Lacey's parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations from dozens...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wordsworth
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Complete and unabridged.
Physical Desc
596 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Bakis, author of Lives of the Monster Dogs, creates an atmosphere of gut-churning dread from the first chapter, when two strange women warn of trouble on Arkel’s island while the Forts wait for their boat. Trouble happens quickly, and there are scenes so anxiety-producing that you might want to put the book down and check to see that your windows and doors are secure.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...