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Author: Bernadette Sukley

An abused woman flees with her two children from New York, unintentionally arriving amidst the devastation of post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. She rebuilds her life and a restaurant, and finds love. But to stay, she m ...

Author: Professor Robert Walser

This new collection of more than seventy stories by the iconic modern writer Robert Walser, includes stories that have appeared in "Harper's Magazine," "n+1" online, "Vice," and elsewhere. Also included is the complete " ...

Author: Stacey D'Erasmo

D'Erasmo's second novel--the follow-up to her acclaimed "Tea"--tells a story about love at the very edge, about the things people do out of love, the unexpected risks of intimacy, and how families shatter and re-form und ...

Author: Dominick Dunne

"Mesmerizing."-- "The New York Times."

Glamour, wealth, success, power--the Bradleys are as close to an aristocracy as America has never had. And one day soon, if patriarch Gerald Bradley has his way, his charismatic y ...

Author: Thomas Kinkade & Katherine Spencer

For the first time ever, Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer bring characters from the Cape Light and Angel Island series together for a special holiday celebration. Experience the spirit of Christmas that only the writ ...

Author: Thomas Kinkade & Katherine Spencer

Christmas evokes heartfelt songs of joy and devotion. Yet so often we hold back and fail to express our feelings of love and joy to the ones we hold dear. This year, the residents of Cape Light and Angel Island will lear ...

Author: Clay Noia

In A Season of War 14-year-old Jacky captivates as he weaves a story of arson, unrequited love, and friendship during World War Two and the events that marked the rites of passage for an America now gone.

Author: Clay Noia

In "A Season of War, " 14-year-old Jacky captivates as he weaves a story of arson, unrequited love, and friendship during World War II and the events that marked the rites of passage for an America now gone.

Author: Joshua Halberstam

Lust Tradition Love Faith Self Family

Elisha walks through Brooklyn with side curls tucked behind his ears and an oversized black hat on his head. He is a Chassidic Orthodox Jew and the son of a revered rabbi in whose ...

Author: Richard Marsh

"We cannot help wincing, cannot help feeling that the author has committed an error of taste, cannot help hoping with all the vigour at our command that his example will not be followed. [...] We are compelled by convic ...

Author: Scott Crowley

Lying sleepless upon his lavish deathbed in a stale room of old-money opulence, American literary icon Sheldon Harrison battles lung cancer to its dehumanizing end. At his sprawling Martha's Vineyard estate, family and f ...

Author: Scott Crowley

Lying sleepless upon his lavish deathbed in a stale room of old-money opulence, American literary icon Sheldon Harrison battles lung cancer to its dehumanizing end. At his sprawling Martha's Vineyard estate, family and f ...

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Sentimental Education has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels. Weaving a poignant love story into his account of the 1848 revolution, Flaubert shows a society in the grip of ste ...

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Frederic Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worl ...

Author: Bill Hayes

Through the eyes and ears of a very young Shawn O'Connor, the story of his grandmother, Emily Romain, and her ten children unfolds through the early decades of the twentieth century to the mid-1960's. Shawn tells how Emi ...

Author: Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Stern published several novels, sermons and his memoirs. He is best-known for his novel Tristram Shandy. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, firs ...

Author: Laurence Sterne

CALAIS When I had fished my dinner, and drank the King of France's health, to satisfy my mind that I bore him no spleen, but, on the contrary, high honor for the humanity of his temper, -- I rose up an inch taller for th ...

Author: Laurence Sterne

Episodic, funny, and surprisingly modern, "A Sentimental Journey" is a classic eighteenth-century novel. The quintessential novel of sentiment, "A Sentimental Journey" masquerades as the fragmentary travel journal of Par ...

Author: Ann Ward Radcliffe

Author: Rebecca Burke