By John Cheever

ISBN-10: 0307760715

ISBN-13: 9780307760715

Beautiful and brutally strong, Falconer tells the tale of a guy named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his fight to stay a guy in a universe bent on beating him again into formative years. simply John Cheever may possibly bring those grand subject matters with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer the sort of positive paintings of the ethical imagination.

By Sidney Sheldon

ISBN-10: 0060559349

ISBN-13: 9780060559342

All world wide, individuals are being pronounced useless or missing.

In Berlin, a girl vanishes from the town streets. In Paris, a guy plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small airplane crashes into the mountains. In long island, a physique washes ashore alongside the East River. first and foremost those appear to be random incidents, however the police quickly notice that each one 4 of the sufferers are attached to Kingsley foreign team (KIG), the most important imagine tank within the world.

Kelly Harris and Diane Stevens younger widows of 2 of the sufferers stumble upon one another in ny, the place they've been requested to fulfill with Tanner Kingsley, the top of KIG. He assures them that he's utilizing all to be had assets to determine who's in the back of the mysterious deaths in their husbands. yet he can be too overdue. an individual is cause on murdering either ladies, and so they endure a harrowing sequence of close to escapes. who's attempting to kill them and why?

Forced jointly for defense, suspicious of one another and everybody round them, and looking for solutions for themselves, the 2 widows embark on a terrifying video game of cat and mouse opposed to the unknown forces out to smash them.

Taut with suspense and shiny characterization, filled with stunning twists, and with an unnervingly life like premise which can modify all of our lives, the long-awaited Are You petrified of the Dark? is Sidney Sheldon on the most sensible of his game.

By Patrick Somerville

ISBN-10: 0316203076

ISBN-13: 9780316203074

A compelling tale of younger love and outdated secrets

Ben Hanson's aimless lifestyles has bottomed out after a chain of undesirable judgements, yet an unforeseen provide from his father attracts him domestic to Wisconsin. There, he unearths his relatives fractured, nonetheless reeling from his cousin's mysterious dying a decade earlier.

Lauren Sheehan deserted her occupation in drugs after a chain of violent occasions overseas. Now she's again within the most secure position she understands -- an identical small Wisconsin city the place she and Ben grew up -- hiding from an international that has in basic terms introduced her heartache.

As Lauren carefully expands her horizons and Ben attempts to resolve his family's darkish secrets and techniques, their paths intersect. might each one be precisely what the opposite needs?

A compelling family members drama and a shocking love tale, This brilliant River is the paintings of a normal storyteller, one whose darkish humor and piercing intelligence supply consistent, lasting delights.

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By Henning Mankell

ISBN-10: 1595581928

ISBN-13: 9781595581921

Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who's saddled by way of his underwhelming publication revenues, an exasperated female friend, a difficult mom, and a quickly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin’s investments, and his editor, who says he needs to write a criminal offense novel to outlive, starts off to pitch and advertise the nonexistent booklet regardless of Humlin’s emphatic refusals. Then, whilst he travels to Gothenburg to provide a analyzing, he unearths himself thrust into a completely varied global, the place names shift, tales overlap, and histories are either deeply mystery and in profound want of retelling.

Leyla from Iran, Tanya from Russia, and Tea-Bag, who's from Africa yet claims to be from Kurdistan (because Kurds may perhaps obtain preferential remedy as refugees)—these are the shadow ladies who develop into Humlin’s not going students in impromptu writing workshops. even though he had imagined their tales as fodder for his personal e-book, quickly their intertwining lives require him to play a far diversified role.

Offering either brilliant humor and heartbreaking moments, The Shadow Girls is a triumph that might please longtime lovers of Mankell in addition to readers new to his work.

By James Magnuson

ISBN-10: 0393240886

ISBN-13: 9780393240887

"A gloriously farfetched story, yet alarmingly genuine to somebody who understands the bizarre international of MFA courses. in addition to which, it's a shit-load of fun." —Peter Carey, two-time winner of the Booker Prize

In this impressive mixture of literary satire and crime caper, Frankie Abandonato, a small-time con guy at the run, reveals safe haven by way of posing as V. S. Mohle—a famously reclusive writer—and instructing in a prestigious writing application someplace in Texas. Streetwise and semiliterate, Frankie unearths that being handled as a genius consents with him.

The application has been funded via Rex Schoeninger, the world’s richest novelist, who's demise. Buzzards are circling, angling for the is still of Rex’s fortune, and Frankie quick realizes that he has been offered with the potential for a life-time. Complicating concerns is the truth that Rex is haunted by way of a twenty-five-year feud with the shadowy Mohle. What rankles Rex is that, whereas he has written fifty bestsellers and not gotten an oz of literary recognize, Mohle wrote one slim novel, disappeared into the woods, and turn into an icon. made up our minds to come back to phrases together with his previous, Rex has prepared to convey his rival to Texas, merely to discover himself dealing with off opposed to an imposter.

Famous Writers i've got recognized isn't just an unforgettable literary romp but additionally a shockingly soft tackle men—one a rip-off artist frantic to be believed, the opposite an previous lion wanting to be remembered.

By Eggericx Vincent

ISBN-10: 2864326299

ISBN-13: 9782864326298

Un voyage dans le temps et dans l’espace tissant l’expérience concrète – celle de l’apprentissage du tir à l’arc japonais – avec l’introspection individuelle et l’histoire collective. Un récit de voyage qui est aussi une histoire d’amour et une méditation ponctuée par des éclats de rire; un voyage à contresens sur l’île los angeles plus propice aux contresens: le Japon.

By Ann C. Colley

ISBN-10: 1409406334

ISBN-13: 9781409406334

In her compelling publication, Ann C. Colley examines the shift clear of the cult of the chic that characterised the early a part of the 19th century to the fewer reverential standpoint from which the Victorians looked mountain landscapes. And what a multifaceted standpoint it used to be, as extraordinary numbers of the Victorian heart sessions took themselves off on hiking vacations so regular that the editors of Punch mockingly said that the path to the summit of Mont Blanc was once to be carpeted. partially One, Colley mines diaries and letters to interrogate how daily travelers and climbers either replied to and undercut rules in regards to the chic, exhibiting how technological advances just like the telescope reworked mountains into theatrical areas the place travelers extremely joyful to the sight of suffering climbers; virtually necessarily, those far away performances have been ultimately reenacted at exhibitions and at the London degree. Colley's exam of the Alpine membership information, periodicals, and different basic assets deals a extra complex and inclusive photograph of girl hiking as she records the robust presence of girls on winning expeditions within the latter half the century. partly , Colley turns to John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson, whose writings concerning the Alps replicate their emotions approximately their Romantic historical past and make clear their rules approximately belief, metaphor, and literary variety. Colley concludes via providing insights into the ways that expeditions to the Himalayas affected people's experience of the chic, arguing that those participants have been encouraged as a lot through the consideration of Empire as via aesthetic sensibility. Her formidable booklet is an astute exploration of nationalism, in addition to theories of gender, spectacle, and the technicalities of glacial circulation that have been intruding on what ahead of had appeared inviolable.

By John G. Stevens, Virginia E. Stevens (auth.), John G. Stevens, Virginia E. Stevens (eds.)

ISBN-10: 1468460722

ISBN-13: 9781468460728

ISBN-10: 1468460749

ISBN-13: 9781468460742