 | Brotherhood of the Rose: A Novel
Publication Date: May 1984They were orphans, Chris and Saul - raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought them candy. He treated them like sons. He trained them to be assassins. Now he is trying desperately to have them killed. Spanning the globe, here is an astonishing novel of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders planned and coolly executed, of revenge bitterly, urgently desired. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Neurotica
Release Date: August 26, 2003If he always has the headache, why should you suffer?In the bestselling tradition of Bridget Jones's Diary comes this outrageous, hilarious look at love, marriage, and sex, introducing Anna Shapiro, who believes that surely there must be more to married life....Tabloid reporter Anna Shapiro can pinpoint the day, three years ago, that she and her husband, Dan, last had great sex. Anna would be grateful if something as ordinary as a mere headache was her husband's excuse; Dan's hypochondriac terrors include brain tumors, tropical diseases, and spontaneous combustio...
|  | Un final de pelicula (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012La estrella americana Paige Carson se fue a Londres para probar suerte en Shakespeare, y demostrar que se merece mas que actuaciones tontas y trozos de Hollywood que no pueden ver mas alla de sus propios reflejos. Pero la actuacion en el escenario no es exactamente lo que ella esperaba. Ni tampoco para su representante, Ed Hawkshead, un pomposo documentalista que parece estar lejos del encantador e impactante cabello y de sus fantasias. / American starlet Paige Carson is off to London to try her hand at Shakespeare, and prove that she deserves more than bimbo rol...
|  | Each Day a Small Victory
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Max has made a name for himself as a rabid psychopath who has used random acts of violence to instigate a campaign of terror. He feels his blood-thirsty reputation is undeserved and wants to set the record straight. A quirky tale filled with black humor, this is the story of an ermine and his struggles with injustice. ...
|  | The Samsons: Two Novels The Pretenders and Mass (Modern Library)
Release Date: August 29, 2000| Series: Modern Library With these two passionate, vividly realistic novels, The Pretenders and Mass, F. Sionil José concludes his epochal Rosales Saga. The five volumes span much of the turbulent modern history of the Philippines, a beautiful and embattled nation once occupied by the Spanish, overrun by the Japanese, and dominated by the United States. The portraits painted in The Samsons, and in the previously published Modern Library paperback editions of Dusk and Don Vicente (containing Tree and My Brother, My Executioner), are vivid renderings of one f...
|  | Hotel Du Lac
Release Date: January 12, 1985Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed...This book is the winner of the Booker Prize in 1984. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | En la boca del dragon / The Hammer of Eden (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Continuum (Black Lace)
Release Date: April 22, 2010| Series: Black Lace Like Alice in some decadent Wonderland, Joanna Darrell takes a break from her boring office job, meets new people, and is introduced to the giving and receiving of enjoyable punishment. Here is a parallel world of perversity and unusual pleasure. ...
|  | Chasing Angels
Publication Date: November 1, 2000Kathy Kelly, born in the heart of Glasgow's tough East End Barras Market, is part of a family riven by favoritism and jealousies, by slights, real and imagined. She grows up with a sharp wit and a quick temper, engaging in verbal warfare with those who cross her, her father, her grandmother, the local parish priest - Kathy Kelly takes no prisoners. When she reaches a crisis in her life, Kathy moves to the Western Highlands to start all over again. But family ties drag her back to Glasgow, where she is forced to look at things afresh, at past event...
|  | The Da Da De Da Da Code
Publication Date: March 19, 2010All Jonny Hooker has to do to claim a big prize is to solve the Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code. Jonny knows that beat: it is scattered throughout popular music and it has something to do with the Devil's Chord, as well as the great blues musician Robert Johnson; Elvis Presley—who is of course still alive—and with the Secret Parliament of Five, who dictate world affairs. When he solves the Code, Jonny will discover why all the most famous rock musicians die at 27, the truth about raising an ancient god, and all about the destruction of t...
|  | The Dancers Dancing
Publication Date: December 31, 2010The girls are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and from the local people they are boarding with. They respond to the untamed landscape of river, hill and sea, finding in it unnerving echoes of their own submerged - and now emerging - wildnesses. In this richly complex novel, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, one of Ireland's most exciting and original writers, uses the experiences and emotions of girls on the cusp of womanhood to explore dangerous territories of sex, politics, class, and Irishness. ""A coming...
|  | Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel
Release Date: April 14, 2009“An excellent comic novel that interweaves the romance, humor, and pathos of three complicated families.”—Publishers Weekly Three suburban moms who have long been friends decide to show up unannounced at the homes of their thirty-something layabout sons. Their goal: to swoop in and set things right. The result: a hilarious mix that will resonate with mothers who can’t turn a blind eye and their adult sons who can’t quite get it together. ...
|  | Te Kaihau/the Windeater
Publication Date: February 1987This is a collection of experimental short stories from the New Zealand author of The Bone People. The stories are full of Hulme's sense of the beauty of New Zealand, along with her awareness of human alienation from the environment. From the environmental point of view, the story that most stood out for me was: One Whale Singing - a pregnant woman in a boat, a pregnant whale in the water. The woman argues with her pompous partner about whether humans are really superior to other creatures. She feels that our ability to make artifacts, rather than indicating su...
|  | Possession: A Romance
Release Date: October 17, 1990Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". ...
|  | That Eye, The Sky : A Novel
Release Date: April 30, 2002In this modern Australian classic, award-winning author Tim Winton tells the story of young Ort Flack and his struggle to come to grips with the forces pulling his family apart. An extraordinary snapshot of boyhood, That Eye, the Sky is also a powerful exploration of the nature of hope and faith. Ort doesn't have a bad life. He mucks around with his best pal, Fat Cherry; he wonders what his sister Tegwyn's so mad about and why his grandma's disappeared inside herself; he looks up at the sky and thinks it's like a big blue eye looking right back at him. But when Da...
|  | The Way We Were: A Novel
Release Date: April 14, 2009Marcia Willett captured the hearts of Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve Binchy fans across the nation with her previous heartwarming stories of family devotion and abiding compassion. Now, in her newest novel, The Way We Were, Willett introduces a deeply moving and utterly real tale that is sure to win over a whole new set of readers. Tiggy arrives at the remote house on Bodmin Moor in the middle of a snowstorm. All alone, having losther partner in a tragic accident, Tiggy is welcomed into her best friend Julia’s warm and chaotic family. With the Tiggy begins...
|  | A Married Man
Release Date: April 22, 2003Widowed four years ago, London antiques dealer Lucy Fellowes was plunged into single motherhood with two growing boys. Since then, she’s had little time—or inclination—to think straight, much less fall in love again. Now, she’s been offered an incredible dream house in the country. Of course, accepting means having to cope with her domineering mother-in-law, her husband’s wacky family, and all their assorted scandals. But suddenly, none of it matters. Because she’s met HIM. His name is Charles; he’s a famous televis...
|  | Sons for the Return Home (Talanoa)
Publication Date: February 1, 1996| Series: Talanoa A Samoan boy who immigrates to New Zealand with his family has difficulty adjusting to his new life in an alien land. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Death of Ruth
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|  | Wedding Season: A Novel
Release Date: March 16, 2010“Katie Fforde’s unique spin on romantic comedy is a blend of the sweet, the sad, and the sexy.” —Patricia Gaffney Sarah is a wedding planner hiding a rather inconvenient truth—she doesn’t believe in love. But as the confetti flutters away on the June breeze of yet another successful wedding season she finds herself agreeing to organize two more events, on the same day, and only two months away. And while her celebrity bride is all sweetness and light, the other bride, Sarah’s own sister, quickly starts driving her c...
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