Dostoevsky’s last work, about a family torn apart by greed and jealousy. Three, possibly four, brothers gamble, steal, commit patricide and talk to the devil. It’s like daytime T.V. mated with a tract on existential philosophy, but in...
Manners and customs
- Auteur:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSommaire:
- Auteur:Quinn, JuliaSommaire:
Once upon a time, a historical romance author created a family, but not just any family. Eight brothers and sisters, assorted in-laws, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews (not to mention an overweight corgi) plus an irrepressible...
- Auteur:Martin, KatSommaire:
Knowing that she alone can protect her sister from the Baron Harwood, their lecherous stepfather, Victoria Temple Whiting snatches the family's heirloom necklace-believed to hold the power to bring great happiness or terrible tragedy-to...
- Auteur:Ellis, DeborahSommaire:
The Breadwinner. The first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.....
- Auteur:Schellman, KatharineSommaire:
London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of...
- Auteur:Chekhov, Anton PavlovichSommaire:
Presents five of the author's most acclaimed short stories.
- Auteur:McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
The newest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned home from the Middle East, only...
- Auteur:Zola, ÉmileSommaire:
Immerse yourself in the world of Florent Quenu, a man wrongly accused of plotting to overthrow the French government and exiled from his beloved Paris. As he makes his way back home, Quenu envelopes us a richly detailed commentary on...
- Auteur:Thomas, SherrySommaire:
As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork--or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted...
- Auteur:Goldberg, Leonard S.Sommaire:
"Suspenseful and entertaining, with many twists and turns ... This is one of the best Sherlock Holmes series since Laurie R. King's Mary Russell books."--Historical Novel SocietyUSA Today bestselling author Leonard...
- Auteur:Booth, MichaelSommaire:
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he...
- Auteur:Wharton, EdithSommaire:
Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton examines the American elite culture on the East Coast. Newland Archer is a lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most prominent families. He is arraigned to be married to May Welland. Newland is...
- Auteur:Bandi, Smith, DeborahSommaire:
In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the...
- Auteur:Walsh, JaneSommaire:
Miss Grace Linfield has resigned herself to life as a lady's companion as the only path to respectable security. At least it allows her to visit the beautiful seaside town of Inverley with her charge, Lady Edith. Passions flare...
- Auteur:Hardy, ThomasSommaire:
What do sexual violation, murderous farm implements, and Stonehenge all have in common? Thomas Hardy’s classic heartbreaker. On the one hand, this might be the most depressing novel you’ll ever read. On the other hand, women have come a...
- Auteur:Mansfield, KatherineSommaire:
A collection of ten extraordinary tales about the privileged worlds the author encountered in New Zealand, England and on The Continent.
- Auteur:Goodman, JoSommaire:
In 1787, desperate to leave England, Jessa Winter marries a wounded American, Noah McClellan. She expects to become a widow and escape to his homeland. But she hasn't counted on Noah's will to survive--nor his desire to make her his...
- Auteur:Smith, Alexander McCallSommaire:
Precious Ramotswe uses her formidable detection talents to track down her tiny white van--sold by her estimable husband Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni and stolen from its new owner--while simultaneously helping to explain the dreadful losing...
- Auteur:Thomas, AudreySommaire:
Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her...
- Auteur:Cho, Grace M.Sommaire:
Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a...