 | The Polyglots (Prion Lost Treasures)
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| Series: Prion Lost Treasures The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre characters—depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs, hypochondriacs, and sex maniacs—Gerhardie paints a brilliantly absurd world where the comic and the tragic are profoundly and irrevoca...
 |  | The Book of Revelation
Release Date: February 8, 2000"He felt them begin to touch him. Sometimes their hands were tender, sometimes they were only curious, but there was no part of him, no curve or hollow, that they did not, in the end, explore."On a bright spring day in Amsterdam, a young man steps out of his studio to buy a pack of cigarettes. A dancer and choreographer, he would seem to have made the life of his choice: an international reputation; an exquisite French girlfriend, from whom he's been inseparable for seven years; careful plans for an interesting future, with no regrets lingering in his ...
|  | Circles of Deceit (Virago Modern Classics)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Series: Virago Modern Classics Circles of Deceit is narrated by a painter who specializes as a copyist. Major figures on the canvas are Clio, his child-bride; Helen, his first wife; and his mother Maisie. They confound lies and the truth in a subtle weave, while the silent agony of the painter's son is a poignant reflection on the busy web of deception. And as the copyist transcribes his modern versions of Old Masters, so the past keeps breaking through the surface of the present, until fact and fiction, like art and life, meet in a remarkable conclus...
|  | Ake: Years of Childhood
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|  | My Fault
Publication Date: September 1, 2005A nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse stumbles onward into adolescense, laying bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes men. At turns hilarious and harrowing. ...
|  | Under My Skin: A Hannah Wolfe Mystery (Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels)
Release Date: July 6, 2004| Series: Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, Silver Dagger Award-winning author Sarah Dunant won critical acclaim for her Hannah Wolfe crime novels.In Under My Skin, private investigator Hannah Wolfe's cushy new assignment takes her to the sumptuous Castle Dean health spa. While being plucked, crimped, steamed, and oiled, Hannah is ideally placed to probe some reported cases of sabotage -- fish in the Jacuzzi and steel nails in the massage heads. But spa owner Olivia Marchant has other problems besides sa...
|  | Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree
Publication Date: August 1999This early collection of eight short stories and a novella isvintage Wendt. Stories convey the unease of traditional island community caughtup in the rapid changes of the modern world. Wendt writes with enviabledirectness and with deep feeling: comedy and tragedy are often hard todistinguish as his characters struggle to come to terms with their changingworld....
|  | Emma Watson: The Watsons Completed
Publication Date: September 1996In a novel that is based on The Watsons, an unfinished Jane Austen novel, Emma Watson, who tends her father's household along with her sister Elizabeth, finds herself caught up in an adventure as two men compete for her attention. ...
|  | Savages: Savages
Publication Date: May 1, 1990A novel, whose English language rights were sold for 2,500,000, which deals with 5 women, transformed from wives of the powerful rich executives to widows in the jungle, coming face to face with the savage inside themselves. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Fabulous Nobodies
Release Date: August 1, 2006 Before Bridget Jones, Carrie Bradshaw, and the Shopaholic, it was a world of Fabulous Nobodies Now, back in print after fifteen years, it’s your chance to experience this hysterically wild cult-status novel for the first time. Get ready to meet: Reality Nirvana Tuttle A self-described "doorwhore" at one of Manhattan’s hottest clubs. She never gets up before 2 P.M. and has vivid, two-way conversations with every dress in her closet. Hugo "A Go-Go" Falk Gossip columnist and documenter of all things fabulous in the fashion scene. This man is the ke...
|  | TRIPLE FEATURE: A Novel
Publication Date: April 8, 1997Three women in the male-dominated, glamour town of Hollywood--supermodel-turned-actress Roxana, studio head Eleanor, and scriptwriter Megan--pool their resources to pull off the movie-making coup they have all been dreaming of. 30,000 first printing. ...
|  | Crampton Hodnet (Plume)
Release Date: June 1, 1986| Series: Plume This is a wonderfully accomplished farce beginning with the joke of using her own name in the title (Barbara Mary Crampton Pym). From that point she sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing- in recognizingly "Pym" fashion- on the unsuitable romantic entanglements of a curate and a pretty young girl, both of whom live in the same rooming house, and a starry-eyed university professor and his female student. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | White Man of God (African Writers Series)
Publication Date: December 1980| ISBN-10: 0435902318 | ISBN-13: 978-0435902315This novel of wisdom and charm tells the story of Tansa, a boy growing up in a Cameroonian village which has been split down the middle by the arrival of a missionary - the "white man of God". ...
|  | Heartstones (Harper Short Novel Series)
Publication Date: May 1987| Series: Harper Short Novel Series Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, of course, but not so sad as her younger sister Spinny. Spinny is afraid their father, Luke, will be heartbroken, but Elvira knows better -- after all, Luke has her to take her mother's place. But then Luke brings home a pretty young woman and introduces her as his fiancee, and Elvira decides that she will stop at nothing to stop her father's marriage . . . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre
Publication Date: October 2001Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle’s life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town’s school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be poorer without her. ...
|  | Sister Murdock's House of Correction
Publication Date: June 23, 2000Trapped inside Athelstan Hall with seven other young women who have displeased their husbands, Sarah Easton discovers the hard way that a lady's education is not complete until she learns to accept subjugation willingly.She is swept along from one degrading encounter to the next, becoming gradually aware that things are not quite what they seem... ...
|  | Gabriel's Gift: A Novel
Release Date: September 24, 2002Gabriel's father, a washed-up rock musician, has been chucked out of the house by Gabriel's mother, who works nights and sleeps days. Lonely Gabriel finds solace in a mysterious connection to his deceased twin, Archie, and in his gift for producing real objects simply by drawing them. Then a chance visit with rock star Lester Jones, his father's former band mate, provides Gabriel with a tool that might help mend his family. All he has to do is figure out how to use it.Hanif Kureishi portrays Gabriel's naive hope and artistic aspirations with the same insight...
|  | Marshmallows for Breakfast
Release Date: January 27, 2009Dorothy Koomson captivated readers with her international bestseller My Best Friend’s Girl. Now she dazzles us once again with a tale of love, friendship, and families—the choices that shatter them, the hope that saves them, and the little moments that happen in between. Kendra Tamale is looking for a fresh start and a simple life when she rents a room from Kyle Gadsborough. But against her better judgment Kendra soon finds herself drawn into her new landlord’s household: a young father in way over his head, a beautiful mother out the door, and...
|  | Final Destination #3: End of The Line
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|  | The WISE WOMAN
Publication Date: November 1, 1993After fleeing the abbey where she was raised, Alys is taken inby a wise woman, who teaches her the ways of country healing--aneducation that comes in handy when Alys moves into the home of thearistocratic Sir Hugh. 35,000 first printing. ...
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