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Author: Eckhard A Gerdes

A-way with it! Simply put, that s what this is all about. The authors in this volume of

Author: Eckhard A Gerdes

A-way with it! Simply put, that s what this is all about. The authors in this volume of

Author: D. H. Lawrence

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Author: D. H. Lawrence

Lawrence called Aaron's Rod 'the last of my serious English novels - the end of The Rainbow, Women in Love line.' Written in the years following the First World War, Aaron's Rod questions many of the accepted social and ...

Author: Franz Kafka

Collecting all the texts from Franz Kafka's literary remains that originated in the period up until Autumn 1917, plus the material that passed into the published Diaries. These short story drafts, dreams, dialogues and o ...

Author: Samuel S. Abinitio

Where is the line between sanity and mental chaos? Andrew Barrabbas hears voices. Are they figments of his imagination, or the voices angels? Or are they his personal demons? And the mystic visions he has, are they messa ...

Author: Emile Zola

Serge Mouret, the younger son of Francois Mouret (see La Conquete de Plassans), was ordained to the priesthood and appointed Cure of Les Artaud, a squalid village in Provence, to whose degenerate inhabitants he ministere ...

Author: Charlotte M Yonge

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Author: Juliet Nicolson

"England, 1936. """

A beloved king is dead, and by year's end, the charismatic new monarch will give up his throne for love. The world is on the brink of war. And in the tumultuous intervening months, three outsiders w ...

Author: Juliet Nicolson

England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the coronation, it is a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affec ...

Author: Sabin Willett

"A small-town bad boy, forged into a man in the fires of Afghanistan, returns home, still burning with a romantic obsession nothing can quench."

As the fog lifts one morning, a lone soldier is walking home. Who is he? ...

Author: Patrick deWitt

A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and ...

Author: June Kurzon

Two girls from different social and economic backgrounds meet one day in first grade. Sarah Stewart feels very ordinary beside Amanda Wharton. Amanda is the new kid at school, and she looks like a porcelain doll. Ther ...

Author: Louis Begley

Proud, traditional and impeccably organized, Albert Schmidt is a button-down lawyer of the old school. But now, after years of careful management, his life is slowly unraveling. As he gropes for resolutions to his proble ...

Author: Simona Sparaco

About Time (Bastardi senza amore) is a mystery romance for our age, in which Time plays a high-stakes game with the soul of a rich, handsome and ruthless banker. Svevo Romano is every woman's dream turned nightmare. Irre ...

Author: Tanis Rideout

""Tell me the story of Everest," she said, a fervent smile sweeping across her face, creasing the corners of her eyes. "Tell me about this mountain that's stealing you away from me."
"In 1924 George Mallory departs o ...

Author: Betool Khedairi

Dalal is a young woman living in a crowded Baghdad apartment with the childless aunt and uncle who raised her. In the same building, Umm Mazin, a fortune-teller, offers her customers cures for their physical and romantic ...

Author: John Eppel

'When George J. George mistook his white Ford Escort for the moon, he knew his time was up.' When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bulawayo, 'his pension payout, after forty years ...

Author: Olaf Olafsson

Author: Patrick Flanery

A bold and exciting literary novel set in South Africa that contemplates the elusive line between truth and self-perception.
Ambitious and assured, "Absolution "propels the reader to the final page in a drive to dis ...