 | A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Release Date: October 7, 1989This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!From the Trade Paperback edition. ...
 |  | Turning for Home
Publication Date: May 19, 2003A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her one remaining racehorce, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married – who is still her dearest friend.Onto this scene comes Maeve Delaney. Sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, streetwise and outrageous, Maeve bursts into the old house like a firecracker.As open warfare settles into a wary true between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorce,...
|  | The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories (African Writers Series)
Publication Date: October 1993| Series: African Writers Series A series of stories about the oppressive regime in Ethiopia which places innocent people in the dock. Here Tuma puts the regime itself on trial, and includes other stories where life turns out to be equally full of vengeance and betrayal - in bars, brothels, guerilla hideouts and village huts. ...
|  | Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Writers
Publication Date: December 1989Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Wri, by DeSlavo, Louise et al., eds.. 2d ptg. 8vo. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | In the Red
Publication Date: June 1991Runner-up for the P.G.Wodehouse Humour Prize, this is a novel about the ultimate bank manager disaster. Mark Andrew James decides to murder his bank manager and then extends it to bank managers throughout the country. ...
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|  | 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...
|  | Kingdom's End: And Other Stories (India)
Release Date: March 6, 1990| Series: India A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, TRANSLATED FROM THE URDU, BY A WRITER CONSIDERED THE SUBCONTINENT'S GREATEST SHORT STORY WRITER. THIS EXCELLENT TRANSLATION HAS BEEN VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS 'MEMORABLE' (SALMAN RUSHDIE), 'AN ESTATE OF MANY MANSIONS' (FARRUKH DHONDY), 'IMPRESSIVE' (ANITA DESAI). ALL THE TRANSLATORS UNVARYINGLY CALL MANTO THE SUBCONTINENT'S FINEST MODERN SHORT STORY WRITER. FOR CONTENTS SEE OVER>>>> CONTENTS: TOBA TEK SINGH; THE DOG OF TITWAL; THE LAST SALUTE; THE RETURN; DOING GOD'S WORK; IT HAPPENED IN 1919; THE PRICE OF FREEDOM; THE WO...
|  | Matter of Time
Publication Date: May 1, 2001The New York Times Book Review called Shashi Deshpande's U.S. debut, "austere, philosophical, and rich; a work that . . . grows in moral force and pathos." Deshpande's critical acclaim in India—including three top literary prizes—prefigured the wide recognition abroad of this pivotal novel, now available in paperback.One morning, with no warning, Gopal, respected professor, devoted husband, and caring father, walks out on his family for reasons even he cannot articulate. His wife, Sumi, returns with their three daughters to the shelter of the Big Hous...
|  | The Ghost Writer
Publication Date: July 5, 2004A tantalizing tale of suspense and family secrets that weaves Victorian ghost stories into the present – where they start to come trueTimid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother’s drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. And as he discovers more of Viola’s chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery – or will they bri...
|  | Another World
Publication Date: March 1999The new novel by the author of the acclaimed Regeneration trilogy. Suppose time can slow down. Suppose it's not an ever rolling stream, but something altogether more viscous and unpredictable, like blood. Suppose it coagulates around terrible events, clots them over, stops the flow . . . During the hazy Newcastle summer, Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. A proud and resilient man, he has long outlived his peers but not the memories of his youth. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors that surrounded his brother's death in the painful days befor...
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|  | Original Bliss
Release Date: January 25, 2000"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book ReviewA brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and...
|  | Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells
Publication Date: July 1, 2005Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmeshed in the world of her fictional characters in this inspiring and poetic novel about hope and the ravages of recent Jamaican economic and social upheavals. When poverty, emigration, and political turmoil in the fictional world oblige Flamingo's characters to disperse, the one-eyed protagonist Alva solicits Flamingo's help to bring them back together. The innovative novel is organized as a writers' notebook and sprinkled with recipes, herbal remedies, dream interpretations, and various other interjections e...
|  | Downriver (or, The Vessels of Wrath): A Narrative in Twelve Tales
Release Date: May 25, 1993| Series: Or, the Vessels of Wrath : a Narrative in Twelve Tales Hired to film a documentary on what's left of old-time life along the now-trendy Thames, a filmmaker finds his most interesting subject in Edith Cadiz, a nurse, performance artist, and whore who comes to life from a vintage photograph. 10,000 first printing. ...
|  | Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man: A Novel
Release Date: July 1, 2008 Amelia Lockwood doesn't mean to sound greedy. She's got a fabulous career in television, a posh apartment, and four fiercely loyal and wickedly funny friends. The only thing she's missing is a husband. So she swallows her pride, signs up for dating boot camp, and enlists the help of a professional—an acidic New Yorker with a black belt in "tongue fu"—who'll help Amelia apply proven business-marketing principles to finding her dream man. Amelia's first assignment is to track down all the lovers she's ever lost—from the guy who dumped her during ...
| | The Unbelonging
Publication Date: August 1993This is a moving story of self-discovery and survival. It tells of an 11 year old girl, who finds herself in a land of strangers with hers the only black face in a sea of white, after being summoned to Britain by the father she has never known. ...
|  | 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 ...
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