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by Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

The story of a deadly curse that afflicted an Irish family for a hundred years. "I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you." So curses Morty Donovan when Copper John Brodrick...
by Anita Shreve
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture...

Don't Look Now

and Other Stories

by Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

"Daphne du Maurier is in a class by herself." --New York Times A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely schoolmaster is impelled to investigate a mysterious American couple. A young woman loses her cool when she confronts her father's...

The Birds

and Other Stories

by Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

"Anyone starting this book under the impression that he may sleepily relax is in for a shock...continually provokes both pity and terror." --The Observer (UK) A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling...

Georgia Bottoms

A Novel

by Mark Childress
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011

Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means...

Burial Rites

A Novel

by Hannah Kent
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

*Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence* A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who,...
by Liza Klaussmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two...
by Daniel Woodrell
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012

Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him--she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises...
by Edith Hamilton, Aphrodite Trust, Apollo Trust
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012

The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the...

Consider the Lobster

And Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering...
by Deon Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007

A headspinning thriller from crime writer Deon Meyer: the story of an ex-cop who has seven days to solve a seemingly unsolvable crime--the answer to which lies in his own dark past. "Exciting....A terrific ride on almost every level." --Chicago Tribune When Johannes Jacobus Smit, an antiques...
by Kevin Powers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012

Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle...
by Daniel Mason
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018

A Washington Post Best Book of 2018 A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2018 An NPR Great Read of 2018 National Bestseller **"**The Winter Soldier brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement... A spectacular success." --Anthony...
by Don Mann
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013

Thomas Crocker and SEAL Team Six are back for another adrenaline packed adventure from former SEAL commando Don Mann. When a cargo ship is captured by pirates off the east coast of Africa, SEAL Team Six is called into action. What looks at first like a simple search and rescue turns much more...
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