It's late 1944. Hitler's rockets are raining down on London with vicious regularity and it's the coldest winter in living memory. In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is barely scraping by with a herd of...
FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor
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Author:Evans, LissaSummary: - Author:Hofmann, JenniferSummary:
On the day the Berlin Wall falls, Stasi officer Bernd Zeiger's betrayal of his onetime friend has come back to haunt Zeiger. Was Lara the naïf she presented herself to be, or did she know more about him than she admitted? As the...
- Author:Amis, KingsleySummary:
This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university. The story leads the listener through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend...
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Author:DeWoskin, RachelSummary:Samantha Baxter has a full, sane life--creative job, lovely family, and all the trappings of middle-age happiness. But when she gets a diagnosis that terrifies her, a lifetime of polite pleasing and putting others first ignites in her a...
