Category: Fiction

By Louis Auchincloss

ISBN-10: 1412813263

ISBN-13: 9781412813266

The Embezzler, first written in 1966, makes use of conflicting narrative voices and viewpoints to light up the fabled dimensions of yankee fiscal historical past because it used to be then understood. encouraged through the documented proof of the Wall road fraud case that led the us executive to take regulate of the yankee inventory industry, Auchincloss then describes the case and its major avid gamers with credibility and talent, reinventing the proof of this old occasion with ability. Given the monetary main issue of 2008, and related fraudulent schemes which were uncovered on account that, this is often needs to reading.

The Embezzler tells the existence tale of man leading, who used to be born into wealth, loved his early life, and at last ended up in criminal after he attempted to safe loans opposed to funds he didn't have and his embezzlements have been published. regardless of the purposes for his sluggish lapse into crime and his eventual shame, man best continues to be certainly one of Louis Auchincloss's most tasty characters. Guy's gravest flaw seems to not be greed yet quite a prolonged tendency to misinterpret human personality. the tale itself is advised from 3 varied viewpoints and narrators. Auchincloss's multi-narrator process permits the reader to have a brilliant experience of what transpired. this is often vintage Auchincloss, on a topic that illumines present events.

By William Shakespeare

ISBN-10: 0812969308

ISBN-13: 9780812969306

Eminent Shakespearean students Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen supply a clean new version of Richard II, chronologically the 1st of the 8 performs in Shakespeare’s heritage Cycle, which marks the start of a good schism in the the Aristocracy of britain that may depart the country riven through bloody clash for the following hundred years. This quantity additionally contains greater than 100 pages of unique gains, including:
 
• an unique creation to Richard II
• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and research with important evidence in regards to the work
• observation on prior and present productions in line with interviews with prime administrators, actors, and designers
• photos of key RSC productions
• an summary of Shakespeare’s theatrical occupation and chronology of his plays
 
Ideal for college kids, theater pros, and normal readers, those sleek and obtainable versions from the Royal Shakespeare corporation set a brand new typical in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.

By Gabriel García Márquez

ISBN-10: 0060883286

ISBN-13: 9780060883287

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the tale of the increase and fall, delivery and dying of the legendary city of Macondo during the background of the Buendía kinfolk. creative, fun, magnetic, unhappy, and alive with unforgettable women and men -- brimming with fact, compassion, and a lyrical magic that moves the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece within the paintings of fiction.

By Margaret Atwood

ISBN-10: 0307797961

ISBN-13: 9780307797964

Cat's Eye is the tale of Elaine Risley, a debatable painter who returns to Toronto, the town of her early life, for a retrospective of her paintings. Engulfed via vibrant pictures of the prior, she reminisces a couple of trio of ladies who initiated her into the fierce politics of formative years and its mystery international of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine needs to come to phrases together with her personal identification as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but particularly she needs to search liberate from her haunting stories. aggravating, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a wide ranging novel of a girl grappling with the tangled knot of her existence.

By Rawi Hage

ISBN-10: 0393337871

ISBN-13: 9780393337877

"Funny and sharp . . . playful and erotic."—New York instances booklet Review
In Montreal's stressed immigrant group, our unnamed narrator resides in depression. pressured to go to a therapist after a suicide test, he brings us again to his formative years in a war-torn nation, ahead into his present existence within the smoky émigré cafés the place everybody has a story, and out into the frozen night streets of Montreal, the place he imagines himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged, yet willfully blind, electorate who encompass him. Cockroach is a carnivalesque, philosophical novel that weaves darkish humor with an accusatory, satirical voice, spawning from the subsurface to problem humanity and its downfall.

By Joanne Harris

ISBN-10: 0140282033

ISBN-13: 9780140282030

In tiny Lansquenet, the place not anything a lot has replaced in 100 years, attractive newcomer Vianne Rocher and her beautiful chocolate store arrive and immediately start to play havoc with Lenten vows. every one field of luscious bonbons comes with a unfastened reward: Vianne's uncanny belief of its buyer's deepest discontents and a shrewdpermanent, worrying therapy for them. Is she a witch? quickly the parish no longer cares, because it abandons itself to temptation, happiness, and a dramatic face-off among Easter solemnity and the pagan gaiety of a chocolate pageant. Chocolat's each web page deals a description of chocolate to soften within the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and enthusiasts of ardour in all places. It's a needs to for somebody who craves an escapist learn, and is a bewitching present for any vacation.

By Cormac McCarthy

ISBN-10: 0307387895

ISBN-13: 9780307387899

Nationwide Bestseller
nationwide e-book Critic's Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times impressive booklet
the most effective Books of the 12 months The Boston Globe, The Christian technological know-how display screen, The Denver submit, The Kansas urban celebrity, l. a. instances, big apple, humans, Rocky Mountain information, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post
The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to develop into Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
A father and his son stroll by myself via burned the USA. not anything strikes within the ravaged panorama keep the ash at the wind. it truly is chilly sufficient to crack stones, and whilst the snow falls it truly is grey. The sky is darkish. Their vacation spot is the coast, even supposing they don't understand what, if whatever, awaits them there. they've got not anything; only a pistol to safeguard themselves opposed to the lawless bands that stalk the line, the garments they're donning, a cart of scavenged food--and one another.
The Road is the profoundly relocating tale of a trip. It boldly imagines a destiny during which no desire is still, yet within which the daddy and his son, "each the other's global entire," are sustained by means of love. striking within the totality of its imaginative and prescient, it's an unflinching meditation at the worst and the simplest that we're able to: final destructiveness, determined tenacity, and the tenderness that retains humans alive within the face of overall devastation.

By Dan Carrison

ISBN-10: 0984568204

ISBN-13: 9780984568208

The vendors of departed pets need to know: that their pets are chuffed, that their very own grief is basic, that they're going to be reunited with their pets in the future, and that it's alright to love back. invoice at Rainbow Bridge-- written for all who've ever been blessed through the unconditional love of a pet-- fulfills those needs.

This middle warming, poignant and profound tale happens at Rainbow Bridge--where departed pets play and romp, as they look forward to their proprietors, on the threshold of the afterlife. towards domestic, a grief-stricken guy attempts to deal with the lack of his loved English Bulldog, Bill.

The pleasant characters at Rainbow Bridge contain invoice the Bulldog, Annie the Tabby cat, and Willow the feminine Pug. The human characters are not any much less exciting: David, Bill's heart-broken proprietor; Greg Baxter, a psychologist energetic in Animal Rescue, and Elizabeth Browning, the guiding mild in the back of a remedy staff for the proprietors of departed pets.

Bill at Rainbow Bridge is a latest relatives vintage, written for all who love animals, and illustrated by way of the well known artist Peg DuVal. This center warming tale will fill you with hope--and will make you "cry for happy." It additionally makes the fitting present for the pet-lover on your existence.

By Carsten Jensen

ISBN-10: 0099512963

ISBN-13: 9780099512967

This can be an epic drama of event, braveness, ruthlessness and fervour through one in every of Scandinavia's such a lot acclaimed storytellers. In 1848, a motley workforce of Danish sailors units sail from the small island city of Marstal to struggle the Germans. now not them all go back - and people who do seriously is not a similar. between them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who in a timely fashion escapes back into the anonymity of the excessive seas. once he's the right age, his son Albert units off looking for his lacking father on a voyage that may take him to the furthest reaches of the globe and into the clutches of the main nefarious corporation. Bearing a mysterious shrunken head, and laid low with premonitions of bloodshed, he returns to a city more and more run via girls - between them a widow rationale on releasing all males from the tyranny of the ocean. From the barren rocks of Newfoundland to the plush plantations of Samoa, from the roughest bars in Tasmania, to the frozen coasts of northern Russia, "We, The Drowned" spans 4 generations, global wars and 100 years. Carsten Jensen conjures a smart, funny, exciting tale of fathers and sons, of the ladies they love and go away in the back of, and of the sea's murderous promise. this can be a novel destined to take its position one of the maximum seafaring literature.

By Sophia James

ISBN-10: 1426832737

ISBN-13: 9781426832734

Ordered to marry, Laird Lachlan Kerr idea a betrothal to homely, timid woman Grace Stanton used to be not often well worth the difficulty of protest. but, regardless of every little thing, he discovered there has been anything approximately her that was...brave. All his lifestyles he have been surrounded through betrayal, and this girl, who believed there has been nonetheless goodness in him, used to be specific indeed.

Grace knew that the protection of her domestic trusted her betrothal--signed, sealed and introduced! Lachlan's energy and unforeseen care of her have been dangerously attractive. She may perhaps fall for this guy with secrets and techniques in his eyes....