The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in Colliers Magazine on May 27th, 1922. The story follows Benjamin's life from his birth in 1860. However he is no ordinary child, as he...
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Author:Fitzgerald, ScottSummary: -
Author:Medina, PabloSummary:Piedra Negra is an isolated village that is home to many soldiers who were injured in the revolution and now pass their time drinking firewater so intense that they all hallucinate and most never recover. The firewater distiller's...
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Author:Ratzlaff, LloydSummary:The Crow Who Tampered With Time blossoms with essays that find radiance and coherence in a world (both natural and human) which formal religious dogma has forgotten. A visionary humility, and an original, engaging voice make these...
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Author:Jordan, SophieSummary:New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan kicks off her amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying...
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Author:Gordimer, NadineSummary:Mehring, a rich industrialist, has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. Gordimer offers a fascinating study of the forces and relationships that seethed in...
- Author:Chesnutt, Charles W.Summary:
Contents: The goophered grapevine.--Po' Sandy.--Mars Jeem's nightmare.--The conjurer's revenge.--Sis' Becky's pickaninny.--The gray wolf's ha'nt.--Hot-Foot Hannibal. Note these stories were written...
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Author:Austen, JaneSummary:The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen’s shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice...
- Author:O'Connor, FlannerySummary:
Winner of the National Book Award. The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O’Connor’s monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not...
- Author:Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
Whitehead lays out the city of New York from the perspective of an inhabitant in 13 parts.
- Author:Naipaul, ShivaSummary:
Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Fireflies and The Chip-Chip Gatherers. The Chip-Chip Gatherers, his second novel, won the Whitbread Literary Award in 1973 and is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. It...
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Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rand an Old Year Out and a New Year In, is the second of these stories, whose predecessor was the...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
The Ellison sisters were proper young Victorian ladies. In the foggy streets outside their peaceful home, five women were found horribly murdered. And Police Inspector Pitt found himself wondering if the Ellisons were in fact too good...
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Author:Ridley, EricaSummary:Enjoy the witty, emotional second book in U.S.A. Today bestselling author Erica Ridley’s new Dukes of War regency romance series! Captain Xavier Grey’s body is back amongst the beau monde, but his mind cannot break free from the horrors...
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Author:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSummary: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...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
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...
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Author:Martin, KatSummary: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...
- Author:Welty, EudoraSummary:
A collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of classic American southern literature. Combining stories set in the rural south, Eudora Welty’s own special province, and stories with a European locale, which give...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary: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.....
- Author:Schellman, KatharineSummary:
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...
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Author:Chekhov, Anton PavlovichSummary:Presents five of the author's most acclaimed short stories.
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