When four teens enter Glenwood High, none of them expected that the secrets they kept would soon bind them together. Jane is falling in love with her angel. Max is falling in love with his human. Wes's animal desires are growing. Emily's 'hearing' is getting stronger... Each hides a talent, a love, and a lie. In a world falling apart, these teens band together to fight back. Views: 69
Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-selling A Tale of Love and Darkness. Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets. At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades. Views: 69
Tonsell-by-the-Stream, a sleepy little village outside of London, is suddenly swallowed down into the earth through the hellish machinations of an ancient, ominous force. At the behest of an extraordinary supernatural agent—and in exchange for the life of his best friend—down-and-out and amoral occultist John Constantine must venture deep into underground shadows to investigate this cataclysmic occurrence. But unbeknownst to Constantine, something beyond his worst nightmares awaits below—the deadly and phantasmagorical realm of the Sunless . . . a terrifying world where the Gloomlord rules over all with a sadistic and merciless hand, and Tonsell-by-the-Stream was only his first target on the surface world . . . Views: 69
In the tradition of Jonathan Safran Foer and Jonathan Lethem, Jeffrey Moore effortlessly juggles different voices and narrative styles to get at the very heart of what it means to remember and to forget.Noel Burun is a hypermnesiac synaesthete: his memory is unrelentingly exact, and he sees spoken words as vibrant explosions of colour, a sensation that often leaves him befuddled and bewildered. Adding to his frustration is his mother's slow descent into the quicksand of Alzheimer's. A man who remembers too much and a woman who remembers too little—both struggle to make sense of their worlds in a house bloated with memories. Views: 69
Published in The New York Times (June 6, 2009). Child's contribution to the Times' Summer Thrills fiction series starts with a girl who catches Jack Reacher's eye at a Greenwich Village bar in the wee hours. She's no older than nineteen, Russian, and Reacher's instincts tell him she's about to be kidnapped. Longtime fans balance a trust in Reacher's take on most situations with the knowledge that, sooner or later, Child will upend expectations. When he does it is the surprise. Views: 69
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and is considered in French Studies departments in the US as a contemporary classic.The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. On its... Views: 69
When Holly returns to the B-Bar-B ranch after her father's stroke, she learns some hard truths. Her father has been funding her carefree jet-set lifestyle for years with the ranch's profits, leaving the B-Bar-B on the brink of bankruptcy. Now she's desperate to make amends by rescuing the failing ranch and making sure her father has a home to return to when he leaves rehab.Cody, who helps his brothers run the nearby Rocking F, agrees reluctantly when his grandfather volunteers him to give Holly a hand. When he gets to the B-Bar-B, he's shocked at the condition of the place. Even worse, Holly doesn't know a steer from a milk cow and doesn't have a clue how to put things right.As Cody works closely with Holly, his opinion of her changes. Holly shows she understands her failings and is committed to making the B-Bar-B profitable again for her father. As they work together, the once reluctant cowboy realizes he wants a different kind of partnership with Holly. But can... Views: 69
Abandoned by her young mother, unsure of her father's identity, and raised by her prominent aunt and uncle near Boston, thirty-year-old Fiona Range has developed a high threshold for emotional pain. Her recklessness, generosity, and poor judgment have landed her in more scrapes than her affluent family-or small-town community-can tolerate. Beautiful, volatile and smart-tongued (or trashy, erratic, and wild, depending on whom you ask), Fiona hits rock bottom after she ends a party with a strange man in her bed. Alienated from relatives and friends but determined to change, Fiona turns to the men in her life-among them, cruel and unstable Patrick Grady, who denies she is his daughter. The arrival home of her gentle cousin Elizabeth with fiance in tow sparks a storm where past mistakes and current passions collide. Views: 69
Judicar Parmour Pelevin rules the ancient kingdom of Procellarium on an environmentally decimated desert moon of a blue world. His stubborn insistence on establishing order, in the name of upholding ancient tradition, sets his own family’s swords against him. But is tradition strong enough to contain the chaos that erupts all around him and throughout his kingdom? Views: 69
Enjoy New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker's Caleb stories as an e-book collection! Blessed Child The young orphaned boy was abandoned and raised in an Ethiopian monastery. He has never seen outside its walls—at least, not the way most people see. Now he must flee those walls or die. A Man Called Blessed One man holds the key to locating the Ark of the Covenant—but he's hidden deep in the desert and no one has seen him since he was a boy. Views: 69
Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, one series of which featured the adventures of detective Martin Hewitt. Morrison's best known work of fiction is probably his novel "A Child of the Jago" (1896, included here), but fans of detective fiction will recognize him from his mystery short stories, some of which were featured in the Rivals of Sherlock Holmes series. Included are:THE NARRATIVE OF MR. JAMES RIGBYTHE CASE OF JANISSARYTHE CASE OF THE "MIRROR OF PORTUGAL"THE AFFAIR OF THE "AVALANCHE BICYCLE AND TYRE CO., LIMITED"THE CASE OF MR. LOFTUS DEACONOLD CATER'S MONEYTHE LENTON CROFT ROBBERIESTHE LOSS OF SAMMY CROCKETTTHE CASE OF MR. FOGGATTTHE CASE OF THE DIXON TORPEDOTHE QUINTON JEWEL AFFAIRTHE STANWAY CAMEO MYSTERYTHE AFFAIR OF THE TORTOISETHE IVY COTTAGE MYSTERYTHE NICOBAR BULLION... Views: 69
Hate skews reality even more than love.In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, and make his own: growing up and growing old; betrayal and loyalty; imagination and repression; marriage and fatherhood.The collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole Kureishi's life savings - a man who provoked both admiration and disgust, obsession and revulsion, love and hate. Views: 69
