 | Abyssinian Chronicles
Release Date: May 30, 2000Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda.The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early 1960s, he is raised ...
 |  | Midnight at the Dragon Cafe: A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards))
Release Date: April 12, 2005| Series: Alex Awards (Awards) The life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divided loyalties in a small Ontario town in the 1950s.Judy Fong Bates's fresh and engaging first novel is the story of Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese girl growing up the only daughter of an unhappy and isolated immigrant family in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Through Su-Jen's eyes we see the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Caf, the local diner her family runs. Her half-brother Lee-Kung smolders under the responsibilities he must carry as the dutiful Ch...
|  | 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...
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|  | 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...
|  | 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....
|  | At Freddie's
Publication Date: September 15, 1999"Freddie's" is the familiar name of the Temple Stage School, which supplies London's West End theaters with child actors for everything from Shakespeare to musicals to the Christmas pantomime. Its proprietress, Freddie Wentworth, is a formidable woman of unknown age and murky background who brings anyone she encounters under her spell -- so common an occurrence that it is known as "being Freddied." At her school, we meet dour Pierce, a teacher hopelessly smitten with enchanting Hannah; Jonathan, a child actor of great promise, and his slick rival Mattie; a...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Spares
Release Date: February 2, 1998They were raised for one chilling purpose....A loner, an ex-cop, Jack Randall is the dangerous veteran of a savage war. All he's held dear has long been destroyed. For the last five years, he's been hiding out on a Spares Farm, guarding those who've been prisoners from birth. Now he's on the run with seven of the Farm's inmates (well, six and a half), and the people who own them will do anything to get them back. What's worse, Jack is on a head-on collision course with a cold-blooded killer with one purpose: to cancel Jack once and for all. Jack has a tough deci...
|  | Lucky
Publication Date: August 1985Sultry Lucky Santangelo takes her game of love and power to all corners of the globe as she fights for her father's honor. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Death of Ruth
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|  | 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...
|  | En la boca del dragon / The Hammer of Eden (Spanish Edition)
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|  | 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...
|  | 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....
|  | 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...
|  | The Dragon Can't Dance
Publication Date: March 1998Lovelace's classic novel of Carnival.Carnival takes on social and political importance in this recognized classic. The people of the shantytown Calvary Hill, usually invisible to the rest of society, join the throng and flaunt their neighborhood personas in masquerade during Carnival. Aldrick, the dashing "king of the Hill," becomes a glorious, dancing dragon; his lovely Sylvia, a princess; Fisheye, rebel idealist, a fierce steel band contestant; and Philo, Calypso songwriter, a star. Then a business sponsors Fisheye's band, Philo gets a hit song, and Sylvia leave...
|  | 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....
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