Bernard: 3655 books

"An Unsocial Socialist," Shaw's last written novel was published in 1887, having been written in 1883. The tale begins with a humorous description of student antics at a girl's school then changes focus to a seemingly uncouth labourer who, it soon develops, is really a wealthy gentleman...

On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacán, Mexico. He died the next day. In The Great Prince Died, Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized account of Trotsky’s assassination as witnessed...

Had a problem writing an emotional scene in a novel I was working on. I tried writing fifty or sixty descriptions of emotions as an excercise.Some turned out to be quite entertaining and have built themselves into this book.Some may make you smile, some could make you sad, some you will relater to...

Translated from the French by Hester Velmans Years ago, a group left Europe to start a colony in Iceland. But as the years wore on, communication between the colony and the people back home stopped. Had the people of New Thule have gone native-or, worse yet, gone pagan? A cardinal ordered an evangelical...

It’s game on for love in the third novel of USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Bernard’s sexy, baseball-themed series. Kilby Catfish left-fielder Trevor Stark is a ballpark legend. With his good looks, hitting records, and played-for-the-fans arrogance, Trevor makes women lose their...

Jennifer Bernard, the USA Today bestselling author of the Bachelor Firemen series, scores another homerun with a brand-new series about sexy, single baseball players. Playing for the Kilby Catfish is hotshot pitcher Caleb Hart's last chance to salvage his career after a major league meltdown....

In this sizzling novella in the fan favorite Love Between the Bases series, love is about to throw a serious curveball… For Hall-of-Famer Crush Taylor, retirement is for sissies. Even owning the Kilby Catfish baseball team has lost its edge. In fact, the only thing that fires him up these...

A rich collection of short stories by one of Ireland's contemporary literary masters. This long-awaited new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to face with real life and real death. A Catholic...

Franciaország kedvenc botrányhősei, Michel Houellebecq író és Bernard-Henri Lévy filozófus 2008. januártól júliusig leveleztek egymással. Huszonnyolc levelet váltottak, amelyekben megtárgyalták, hogyan próbálják elviselni és feldolgozni a rájuk zúduló médiaössztüzet, és hogyan...

excerpt: She would have experienced the same intense, awful pleasure of feeling her insides falling away, and felt as well the desire to scream—a reaction she may either have repressed or indulged; but whether she leapt a little that day or simply held tight to her place and quietly resisted, no-one would ever know.

Appearances to the Contrary… is comprised of five stories, some short, some longish. They are told in an irreverent and whimsical and sardonic tone. I didn't plan on that, as normally I am as serious as the day is long. But writing is, I have come to find, anything but normal. When you are creating...

The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank...

The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow more likely. “The Detective Story Club”, launched...

Read the controversial play that caused an international sensation when it was first performed. George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession takes a frank and matter-of-fact look at the world's oldest profession and makes an explicit link between the second-class citizenship that has been foisted upon women for thousands of years and the persistence of prostitution as an occupation.