Book DescriptionThe theory of evolution connects us to the natural world, explaining how and why we are a part of nature. The idea of progress, on the other hand, projects...
Похожие книги
True Evil: A Novel
Грег Айлс
Book DescriptionReturn to Good and Evil Flannery OConnors Response to Nihilism is a superb guide to the works of Flannery OConnor and like OConnors stories themselves, it ...
Returning to the site of a garden party where he made lasting friendships with several eccentric characters, Michael hopes to escape his troubled marriage and brings along...
Book DescriptionThe fourth edition of publishing?s only adventure annual offers another exhilarating collection of the year?s most gripping and entertaining adventure stor...
Book DescriptionIn today's world, with its often fluid national borders, many outstanding literary works have given voice to the life experience of immigrants, whose very ...
Book DescriptionThis lively translation of the daring escapades of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand is suitable reading for young teenagers through adults, and introduces new ...
Book Description We dog companions are lucky people, aren't we? Not only do we get all this love & loyalty, fun & games, we get to see and do things dog-less people can't ...
Book DescriptionA simple jeep accident and the end to a military career, enough to send a man into a permanent funk. A San Diego beach town proves to be a poor place to li...
Book DescriptionIntimacy. What is it? Contrary to what the tabloids might have us believe, achieving true intimacy with another person is a multifaceted endeavor. Intimacy...
Book DescriptionThese stories offer a clear-eyed reckoning with life's contradictions, losses, and consolations: a professor's wife loses her connection to her husband but...
Book DescriptionMark Helprin's fiction is at once so effortlessly imaginative and deeply imagined as to regularly elicit from critics comparisons to Joyce, Kafka, Poe, Man...
When Cameron was fifteen, she and Sonia were best friends—so close it seemed nothing would ever come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant...
When Lonnie Collins Motion?Locomotion?was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now he's eleven, and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is sh...
A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and romantic salvation. Andrew, after many years, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's fune...
“In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might ac...
Allow yourself to be drawn into a fantasy world like no other where a beautiful princess is seduced into a love triangle with a handsome prince and her winsome maid where ...
"While a single short story may have a difficult time raising enough noise on its own to be heard over the din of civilization, short stories in bulk can have the effect o...
"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006...
Two Canadian sisters inherit beachfront property in Mexico and take off on an adventure to claim their inheritance. They travel opulently by cruise ship to Ensenada and su...
AbbaFab, the hugely popular Abba tribute band, are in trouble. Gemma Redden, aka Agnetha, has just broken her ankle and finding a new singer to fill her white platform boo...