All young Eyvind ever wanted was to become a great Viking warrior-a Wolfskin-and perform honorable deeds out in the name of his War fathergod, Thor. He can think of no future more glorious. And the chance to make it happen is his when...
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Author:Marillier, JulietSummary: -
Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels-Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973-that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors...
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Author:Kowalski, WilliamSummary:This ebook bundle offers three gritty urban tales by William Kowalski. In The Barrio Kings, Rosario Gomez struggles to stay out of the gang life that killed his brother while finishing his high school diploma and preparing for the birth...
- Author:Chacour, ÉricSummary:
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo. In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek's entire life is written in advance. He'll...
- Author:Chacour, ÉricSummary:
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo. As a boy in 1960s Cairo, Tarek knows that his entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his...
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Author:Edgerton, ClydeSummary:Mattie Rigsbee is a strong-minded senior citizen. When delinquent Wesley Benfield drops into her life, he is an even less likely companion than her stray dog.
- Author:Hunter, TravisSummary:
Jermaine Banks is a pot dealer in his Philadelphia neighborhood. He's also father to a three-year-old boy and a committed partner to his pregnant girlfriend. As he approaches his 30th birthday and suffers the loss of a close friend to...
- Author:Burke, James LeeSummary:
A young Kentucky miner grows up in the Appalachian Mountains, where he's torn between his family and the lure of the city.
- Author:Flynn, RobertSummary:
Chance Carter doesn't like his Grandmother Rista. When he learns her health is failing, the only thing compelling him to leave Florida for Texas is his status as the sole heir to her million-dollar ranch. Yet when he pays her a visit,...
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Author:Winter, Michael, Moore, LisaSummary:The A List edition of Michael Winter’s brilliant fictional memoir, This All Happened depicts one man’s descent from love to fury over a calendar year. Featuring an introduction by Lisa Moore.In this journal-a-clef, we are exposed to the...
- Author:Li, MirokSummary:
As the son of a Korean family of substance the author of this autobiographical sketch grew up, in the early years of the century, among unsettling influences from east and west. Europe, known as "West of the Ocean," supplied...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Lesley Choyce’s novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian, intend to take the beach resort town by storm. It’s the fateful...
- Author:Moore, TomSummary:
"Felix, you are a dreamer. I used to be, too, but there's no payoff in it.' Felix Ryan, from Curlew, Conception Bay, has been in love with the enigmatic Ellen Monteau ever since the day he met her in school at Smallwood...
- Author:Shteyngart, GarySummary:
In a novel about being an outsider in America and what it means to be an American, Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, pursues his dreams of success, wealth, and a girlfriend, as his quest takes him deep into uncharted...
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Author:StendhalSummary:The epic novel of the passsion between Madame de Renal and Julien Sorel. It is considered to be among the greatest literature of France.
- Author:Lahiri, JhumpaSummary:
The namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in...
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Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to happiness includes work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall, where the brutal Wackfor Squeers ill-treats...
- Author:YosheSummary:
Growing up in one of the most notorious neighborhoods in Brooklyn isn't easy, but for a long time it seemed as if Prince Poet Washington might defy those odds. His willingness to protect his family by any means necessary may seem...
- Author:Kang, YounghillSummary:
Autobiographical novel of a scholar’s son’s coming of age in small village during the Japanese occupation, though that is felt with some distance. Kang focuses on classical education in that era, traditions for holidays and ceremonies,...
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Author:Tartt, DonnaSummary:A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, survives an explosion that kills his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in as an orphan, he becomes entranced by the one thing that reminds him of his mother: a painting that...
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