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Author
Publisher
L.C. Page
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Description
Controversial upon publication in 1946, Memoirs of Hecate County remained banned for more than a decade before being reissued.
A favorite among his own books, Edmund Wilson's erotic and devestating portrait of the upper middle class still holds up today as a corrosive indictment of the adultery and intellectual posturing that lie at the heart of suburban America.
10) Blood and Roses
Author
Series
Publisher
Sylvia Day
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A Shadow Stalkers novella from the #1 New York Times When insurance investigator Anastasia Miller sets out to retrieve the rose-hued pink diamonds stolen in a recent heist, she finds herself working alongside former flame, Deputy US Marshal Jake Monroe—the man she loved enough to leave behind. Blood and RosesGuns and Roses
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This is a collection of "six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles’s novel Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
The facts of how Dr. Watson met Sherlock Holmes and the details of some of their most fascinating cases unfold dramatically in these stories that are full of suspense, excitement, and mystery. This famous sleuth follows the trails that lead to dangerous criminals bent on causing harm to innocent citizens.
17) Bluebeard's Egg
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
With the publication of the best-selling The Handmaid's Tale in 1986, Margaret Atwood's place in North American letters was reconfirmed. Poet, short story writer, and novelist, she was acclaimed "one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century."*
With Bluebeard's Egg, her second short story collection, Atwood covers a dramatic range of storytelling, her scope encompassing the...
Author
Publisher
Suteki Creative
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Today is the perfect day to die. Bernard is the type of man that accomplishes all that he sets out to-and easily. He's intelligent, hardworking, and completely unfamiliar with failure. His only complaint-the singular source of the inner anger bubbling within him-is that no one else in the world recognizes that. It's time to force them to. Bernard's had enough. Enough of the complete absence of respect in his life, of being looked down upon, of being...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary and cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful and graceful."-Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of Parasite
In this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South...