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Lady Augusta Gregory (15 March 1852 22 May 1932), was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings...

A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the...

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 11 January 1928) was an English writer and poet who is most well known for his contributions to the naturalism movement. Hardys work also had traces of the Romantic and Enlightenment periods which had preceded him, even though his protagonists are often depicted as tragic...

In a world of rapidly changing values and traditions, an Indian woman enters into an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows and moves to distant Canada Thirty-year-old Nina is an English teacher living alone in Jangpura, India. With diminishing prospects, she agrees to an arranged union....

Longtemps, "l'eau de vie" fut l'un des trésor de la Normandie, jalousement défendu par les bouilleurs de cru, ses producteurs. Aujourd'hui, le "Calva" s'exporte. Il est industrialisé. Durant le XXe siècle, un climat de "Far West" animait souvent les contrées du sud, en particulier...

Two prisoners form a bond in this “powerful” novel that reveals the darker side of Hawaii (Time Out Chicago). Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough looking, a hard case. His cellmate is Cal—the mute tattoo artist of the prison who murdered his own...

This book is based on a true story of a young boy in the mid 1950's who loses his father at eight years old and his mother re-marries another man, he couldn't figure out why people would stare at them in public and make snide remarks until one day at school one of the kids in his class starts shouting:...

Luke Cevennes, M.D. He liked the way it sounded even now, after more than a decade and a half of wearing the mantle. Jeremy Kell, PhD. That rolled over Luke’s tongue with more flavor than any name in his world. The sexy Jamaican immigrant literally swept him off his feet nearly two decades before...

History of Iraq book also contain the following, Iraq art and culture, Iraq economy, Iraq conflict, Iraq ethnic groupsIraq, a republic since the 1958 coup d'etat that ended the reign of King Faisal II, became a sovereign, independent state in 1932. Although the modern state, the Republic of Iraq,...

Kengua is visibly a male journalist with a secret dual sexual condition. Laraba is his clueless female colleague and most probable suitor, who refuses to be evaded by him. They both have impressive careers and this is the story they both live in their race for a culled national prestige. The...

Cet ouvrage nous enseigne bien des choses sur les usages de nos arrières grands-parents berrichons, qui vivaient dans un monde résolument différent de celui de notre modernité.

Elizabeth Spencer presents a vital, moving story set in the deep South--the Delta and Mississippi hill country. Amos Dudley was a farm boy in the Delta country at the turn of the century until he started working for his brother Ephraim in the store by the railroad. It was an ordinary enough environment...

In this tale everything is like everything, just as everybody likens everyone else, in a mythical sense. Everything makes up everyone and everyone is made of everything, in one blur oddity of an ironic distinctively same clarity of nature. It tells of the huge promise a blessed land points to, it...

With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level. The daring fragmented...