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One day searching through old, battered storage boxes sorting through paper file folders thinking he would shred them, Felix Fist discovers a large, tan envelope darkened by the dust of passing years. Surprised by what he finds in that envelope prompts him to search through an apple box of old notebooks taking him back over fifty years to when his search for the truths about the world and himself began. Reading through entries for several years, Felix...
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With prose that is vibrant and witty, The Queen of the Tambourine traces the emotional breakdown-and eventual restoration-of Eliza Peabody, a smart and wildly imaginative woman who has become unbearably isolated in her prosperous London neighborhood. The letters Eliza writes to her neighbor, a woman whom she hardly knows, reveal her self-propelled descent into madness. Eliza must reach the depths of her downward spiral before she can once again find...
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In pre-revolutionary Paris, a young woman falls for a handsome young priest. To be near him, she dresses as a man, enters his seminary, and is invited to become a fully ordained Catholic priest-a career forbidden to women then as now. Sylvain Maréchal's epistolary novella offers a biting rebuke to religious institutions and a hypocritical society, its views on love, marriage, class, and virtue remain relevant today. The book ends in La Nouvelle France,...
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"Explore a captivating tale of cosmic intrigue and enigmatic power as an otherworldly being, holding abilities surpassing gods, navigates the vastness of the universe. Witness civilizations on the brink of destruction, cosmic convergences of unprecedented magnitude, and the quest of a relentless young scientist, all intertwined in a timeless narrative. Delve into the mysteries of existence, balance, and cosmic revelations in this enthralling story."...
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Au hasard d'un arrêt d'autobus, Anna retrouve Christopher, « l'être de son cœur qu'elle croyait perdu. » Ils reprennent les choses là o ils les avaient laissées, sauf que cette fois, c'est un voyage de vie aux ramifications socio-politico-religieuses qui
va être tout le contraire d'un long fleuve tranquille pour le couple recomposé qui a décidé de lier son destin. Bien qu'inspiré d'événements réels, Le déchirement : l'office funèbre...
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This the comic novel, told in epistolary fashion as a sequence of exchanged letters, presents pornographer "Guy LaDouche" retreating to the wilderness with the hope of solitude and concentration to write his next book under a looming deadline. Instead of peace, he finds harassment and distraction from his publisher, his old girlfriend and an angry father convinced that LaDouche's last novel, featuring a genuine nymphomaniac, was based on the man's...
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Artifacts lost in time, supernatural alliances, and a desperate choice that changed the world. The adventure that began with The Monarch Papers continues with Ackerly Green's Secret Society.
When Deirdre Green places the stewardship of Ackerly Green Publishing in author C.J. Bernstein's hands, he expects his days to be filled with copy edits, contracts, and cover designs.
But when a box of collectible pins is discovered in a long-forgotten storage...
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Having finished his first year of college, Felix Fist sets off to complete his year of wandering: Leaving a dreary room in a derelict building on Anaheim in Long Beach on the border of the ghetto, Felix hitches rides to Oregon, works for the first and only time helping harvest grain, then takes to the road again traveling back to his place of origins where he encounters friends he thought he knew.His trip back through purple mountains, painted desert,...
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Marian's daughter Lottie is heartbroken when her fiancé becomes enmeshed in an American religious cult. They race off to Virginia to rescue him, carrying with them Marian's profligate nephew Wally, who has become entangled with an adventuress. Wally falls victim to another seductress – a violin – and Marian's daughter learns she must compete with a whole cult full of willing maidens and her fiancé's crippling sense of honour. And Marian discovers...
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When her husband Theo dies, Marian Halcombe Camlet's heart breaks. Her plan is to wear black and dwindle away into her grave. But then her brother reveals her late husband's deathbed request: Theo wants his beloved wife to be happy. To marry again! Suddenly everyone in her family has a likely prospect to offer, and men are lining up. Fed up with the demands of Victorian society, Marian takes the decision into her own hands by returning to her first...
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A desperate father hides a little slip of solid gold in the back of an artist's canvas.It is a token, the clue to a vast international conspiracy to assassinate a world leader and change the course of the 19th century. A train crash puts it into the hands of Marian Halcombe Camlet and Walter Hartright.They unravel its secrets in a breakneck chase that takes them across Europe, through kidnappings, catacombs and nunneries, a major project to domesticate...
12) Jungle
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To think, Adam used to love camping.
The black Dust fell for over a week. Adam Blake, a seasoned survival expert, was trapped in his first floor flat in a small suburb of southeast London--no food, no cell service, and no communication with the outside world. Then the dust stopped falling,
As the residents of Buckingham Avenue were left bewildered, there was no sign of help, no emergency services, no police. Just Adam and his confused neighbours....
13) The Sylph
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When a woman finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage, she receives guidance from an anonymous guardian in this eighteenth-century epistolary novel.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, first published The Sylph anonymously in 1778. With its autobiographical elements and frank depiction of infidelity, corruption, and alcoholism, it was a blistering exposé of aristocratic depravity.
Welsh beauty Julia Grenville knows little of the...
14) 600 Letters Home
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Immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 18-year-old Georgia farm boy Roy Harrison joins the Navy, leaving behind his family and 17-year-old girlfriend, Evelyn. For almost four years - except for one brief trip home in the summer of 1944 - letters are their only means of communication. For the first seven months, the correspondence is exciting and informative. Roy tells Evelyn about boot camp, being assigned to a ship, traveling...
15) The Oyo Empire
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The Oyo Empire is a high-interest novella of magic realism. The fairytale of this mythical Oyo Empire is told by the mononymous gimlet-eyed Ijapa, the endomorph, the folk hero and the fabled protagonist of antiquity of Yoruba folktales. Versed in folk etymology and folk memory, he lets us know that he belongs to the midgets, the small gimlet-eyed fairies with magic carpets and supernatural/magic powers who founded the mythical Oyo Empire about 25,...
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