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Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand | Conversation Starters It is Christmas and the Quinns are gathering once more for the holidays. This time however, their father Kelley is seriously ill. Bart survives Afghanistan but has PTSD and is depressed. Hi mother Mitzi tries to cheer him up but she...

A leading German scholar reveals his astonishing discovery about Nabokov’s influential novel We know the girl and her story, just as we know the title. But the author was Heinz von Eschwege, whose tale of Lolita appeared in 1916 under the pen name Heinz von Lichberg, forty years before Nabokov’s...

Can we live better? 7 classic utopias is a collection of the most famous classical works on the topic of an ideal society.For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality?Many thinkers and...

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: by Fredrik Backman | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: Elsa is a special needs child who is unable to make friends at school and because of her parents’ divorce, she is even further affected. However, she does get along great with...

“Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn’t take anything. . . . I knew she’d be back,” the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel’s opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmerized bookseller...

El cuento es quizá uno de los géneros literarios con mayor aceptación por el público en general por la brevedad y contundencia en las historias. No es fortuito que grandes plumas lo hayan cultivado. Cuento sobre cuento lleva al lector a un recorrido en torno a este género, con cuentos de gran manufactura y calidad literaria que lo remitirán a lo esencial de la prosa breve.

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur | Conversation Starters In “The Sun and Her Flowers”, readers are reintroduced to the author’s familiar style of poetry in a second collection created to demonstrate hardship and love. Told in beautiful fragments that suggest loss and recovery, the...

This early work by William Morris was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. William Morris was born in London, England in 1834. Arguably best known as a textile designer, he founded a design partnership which deeply influenced the decoration...

First published in 1981, this book offers a study of British and American popular fiction in the 1970s, a decade in which the quest for the superseller came to dominate the lives of publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. Illustrated by examples of the lurid incidents that catapult so many books...

This book shows that education constitutes the central metaphor of John Milton's political as well as his poetic writing. Demonstrating how Milton's theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and teacher, this book analyzes for the first time the relationship between Milton's own...

Table Talk is a portable dinner party and a book to read alone while laughing out loud. Table Talk is a salon attended by your smartest friends and by all of the wittiest people they know. Table Talk is a collection of brief but critically acclaimed, half serious/half tongue-in-cheek pieces that borrow...

Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is a literary sensation, thanks to its strong female hero, well-fleshed (both literally and literarily) characters and unabashed attitude toward sex. The world Hamilton has created is powerfully compelling and stunningly complex—and it gets...

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan | Conversation Starters Manhattan Beach is the most recent work of art from author Jennifer Egan. Leaving behind her normal style of writing, Jennifer effectively depicts the World War II era from the points of view of a very strong young lady, her father, and...

A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré | Conversation Starters In “A Legacy of Spies”, readers are reintroduced to familiar characters and exposed to a new cast, all involved in the mystery and espionage of the Cold War. Peter Guillam, a man who has connections to British Secret Service man...