Hand of Isis

Against the rising power of Rome, Egypt is the last and strongest bastion of the Eastern Hellenistic kingdoms.,,Charmian is handmaiden… Continue Reading Posted in: 83 B.C.? 30 B.C, Antonius, Bibliography, Fantasy Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Marcus

Taking Lottie Home

When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Runaway Women, Widows

Gale Force (Weather Warden, Book 7)

Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is on vacation when her Djinn lover, David, asks Joanne to marry him. She's thrilled to… Continue Reading Posted in: Earthquakes, Florida, Jinn, Literature & Fiction, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy

Sullivan’s Island

Set in the steamy, stormy landscape of South Carolina, Sullivan's Island marks the debut of an exquisitely talented writer--and tells… Continue Reading Posted in: Domestic Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Social Life And Customs, Women

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

In this poignant and sparkling debut, a lovable widower embarks on a life-changing adventure Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple… Continue Reading Posted in: England, Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Black Widow: Forever Red

Enter the world of the Avengers’ iconic master spy…Natasha Romanoff is one of the world’s most lethal assassins. Trained from… Continue Reading Posted in: Comics & Graphic Novels, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thriller

Amongst Women

Physical description; 184 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Republicanism ; Fiction. Guerrillas Ireland ; Fiction. Irish literature 20th century. Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction In English 1945 Texts, Irish Authors, Irish Fiction In English 20th Century, Literature & Fiction

The Immortalists

If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's… Continue Reading Posted in: Coming Of Age, Coming of Age Fiction, Literary, Literary Fiction, Literature & Fiction

Grand Meaulnes

À la fin du XIXe siècle, par un froid dimanche de novembre, un garçon de quinze ans, François Seurel, qui… Continue Reading Posted in: Conduct Of Life, Grand Meaulnes (Alain Fournier), Literature & Fiction, Love Stories

Sting

#1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sandra Brown jolts the reader from the first page of this… Continue Reading Posted in: Assassination Thrillers (Kindle Store), Literature & Fiction, Organized Crime Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense

The Vintner’s Luck

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here."A week after midsummer, when the festival fires were cold, and… Continue Reading Posted in: Literary Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Magic Realism (Literature), Napoleonic Wars (1800 1815), Social Life And Customs

Desiree

The stunning, massively bestselling story of Napoleon's first fiancé, First published in 1953, this riveting true-life tale comes to life… Continue Reading Posted in: Biographical Historical Fiction, Children's Books, Contemporary Romance, Literature & Fiction, Romance

Trust Exercise

Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by… Continue Reading Posted in: Coming of Age Fiction (Kindle Store), Contemporary Literary Fiction, Literary, Literature & Fiction

La Cucina

La Cucina combines the sensuous pleasures of love and food, simmering in the heat of a Sicilian kitchen. Rose Fiore… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Romance Fiction, Literature & Fiction

The Incarnations

Who are you? You must be wondering. I am your soulmate, your old friend, and I have come back to… Continue Reading Posted in: Family Saga, Literary, Literature & Fiction

Siege and Storm

Alternative cover edition of ISBN13: 9780805094602.Darkness never dies.Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the… Continue Reading Posted in: Fairy Tales, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Folk Tales & Myths, Literature & Fiction

Good Wives

Features Meg who was engaged and the other three March girls, Beth, Jo and Amy, who were at the threshold… Continue Reading Posted in: History, Juvenile Fiction, Literature & Fiction, United States

Quarantine

In the late 21st Century on Earth, Bioengineering and information systems have changed the face of humanity - you can… Continue Reading Posted in: Australian, Hard Science Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Private Investigators, Science Fiction

Brothers in Arms

In the wake of unexpected planetary peace and the disappearance of the Dendarii payroll, mercenary captain Miles Naismith attempts to… Continue Reading Posted in: Interplanetary Voyages, Literature & Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Prisoners Of War, United States

Otherness

Sorry we couldn’t find a book description. Please use the goodreads and/or amazon links on the book page to read… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Anthologies, Short Stories, United States

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic American Literature, Literature & Fiction, Old Testament Criticism & Interpretation, Short Stories Anthologies

Kiln People

In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is… Continue Reading Posted in: Cyberpunk Science Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Private Investigators, Science Fiction

Calamity

When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David’s fate has been tied to their villainy ever since… Continue Reading Posted in: Action & Adventure, Dystopian, Literature & Fiction

The Black Arrow

From the beloved author of Treasure Island,,Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical Novels, Literature & Fiction, Roses. Wars, Wars Of The Roses: Great Britain: History

Pilgrim’s Inn

After WW II, Lucilla Eliot's soldier son George and his beautiful wife Nadine lived with their five children. They acquired… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Travel Writing, Travelogues & Travel Essays

Chimes at Midnight: An October Daye Novel

Things are starting to look up for October "Toby" Daye. She's training her squire, doing her job, and has finally… Continue Reading Posted in: Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Paranormal & Urban, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy

Dreams of Gods and Monsters

Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken… Continue Reading Posted in: Fairy Tales & Folklore, Literature & Fiction, Romance, Teen & Young Adult Girls & Women Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Monster Fiction

Warlight

A novel that tells a story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small… Continue Reading Posted in: Literary, Literature & Fiction, War Fiction

Enders

Someone is after Starters like Callie and Michael—teens with chips in their brains. They want to experiment on anyone left… Continue Reading Posted in: Action & Adventure, Dystopian, Literature & Fiction

The Prison House

Jimmy has reached a crossroads in life. After many months of drifting and drinking his way around Europe he finds… Continue Reading Posted in: Greece, Literature & Fiction, Literature & Fiction in French, Suspense Fiction

Five Children and It

Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes... it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby… Continue Reading Posted in: England, English Fiction, Fairy Tales, Literature & Fiction

The Sea of Tranquility

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels… Continue Reading Posted in: Coming of Age Fiction, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Romance, Women's Literary Fiction

The One We Fell in Love With

Phoebe is caught between a rock and a hard place. Settle down and get married, or return to the French… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Literature & Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal Relations)

All That Man Is

A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realismNine men. Each of them at a… Continue Reading Posted in: Czech Republic Prague, Literary, Literary Fiction, Literature & Fiction

Magic Bleeds

Kate Daniels works for the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, officially as a liaison with the mercenary guild.… Continue Reading Posted in: Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Fiction, Werewolves

Everything Here Is Beautiful

Two Chinese-American sisters—Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister’s protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are… Continue Reading Posted in: Asian American Literature, Literary, Literature & Fiction, Mothers & Children, Psychological Literary Fiction

A Patch of Blue

A blind young woman momentarily escapes the sordid world of her prostitute mother when a young Black befriends her in… Continue Reading Posted in: Blind Women, Children Of Prostitutes, English Fiction, Literature & Fiction

Kill Creek

At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, is the Finch House. For years… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Supernatural

The Word Exchange

In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted “death of print” has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are things of the… Continue Reading Posted in: Dystopian, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction

Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

"Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools, '" observed Nathanael West the year before… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic American Literature, Literary, Literary Fiction, Literature & Fiction

Clifford and the Grouchy Neighbors

The new neighbors don't seem to be pleased about anything Clifford, the big red dog does. Continue Reading Posted in: Dogs, Humor, Literature & Fiction

Betsy’s Wedding

When Betsy Ray arrives in New York after a tour of Europe, her old flame Joe Willard is waiting at… Continue Reading Posted in: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

Driven

Rylee Thomas is used to being in control. But she’s about to meet the one man that just might make… Continue Reading Posted in: Erotica, Literature & Fiction

The Awakening: And Other Stories

Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Coming of Age Fiction, Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Married Women

Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect

A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense

Blood of Tyrants

Sorry we couldn’t find a book description. Please use the goodreads and/or amazon links on the book page to read… Continue Reading Posted in: Adventure, Historical Fantasy (Kindle Store), Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Adventure

Golden Hill

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746.One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Literature & Fiction

At All Costs

What Price Victory?The War with the Republic of Haven has resumed...disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Space Warfare, Women Soldiers

Mirror Dance

The dwarfish, fetally-damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. Having recently escaped an assassination plot… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Inheritance And Succession, Literature & Fiction, Military Science Fiction

Final Duty

They murdered his boss, stalked his family and invaded his home. Now they want his life.,,When jack Hunt is lured… Continue Reading Posted in: Cardiologists, Corrupt Practices, Literature & Fiction, Suspense Fiction

The Red Badge of Courage

Henry Fleming has joined the Union army because of his romantic ideas of military life, but soon finds himself in… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult

The Changeling

One man’s thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after seemingly committing an unforgiveable… Continue Reading Posted in: Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Paranormal & Urban, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy (Books), Supernatural Thrillers (Books)

Your Wicked Ways

Helene, the Countess Godwin, knows there is nothing more unbearably tedious than a virtuous woman. After all, she's been one… Continue Reading Posted in: England London, Historical Regency Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Married Women

The Fulfillment

Sorry we couldn’t find a book description. Please use the goodreads and/or amazon links on the book page to read… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Erotic Westerns, Historical Erotica, Literature & Fiction

The Alexandria Quartet

Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Friendship, Literature & Fiction

Rogue Lawyer

On the right side of the law. Sort of., ,Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of… Continue Reading Posted in: Criminal Defense Lawyers, Legal Stories, Literature & Fiction, Political Thrillers, Teenagers With Mental Disabilities

Everyone Brave is Forgiven

A spellbinding novel about three unforgettable individuals thrown together by war, love, and their search for belonging in the ever-changing… Continue Reading Posted in: Literary, Literary Fiction, Literature & Fiction, London (England)

The Only Story

‘Most of us have only one story to tell. I don’t mean that only one thing happens to us in… Continue Reading Posted in: British & Irish Literary Fiction, Interpersonal Relations, Literary, Literature & Fiction, Psychological Fiction

The Child of an Ancient People

It is 1872. Lislei is a young French woman escaping from the bloody turmoil of the Paris commune; Kader is… Continue Reading Posted in: Aboriginal Tasmanians, Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Social Conditions

The Love Interest

A thrilling YA debut about teen spies disguised as "love interests"--whoever gets the girl lives; but the one she rejects,… Continue Reading Posted in: Lgbt, LGBT Romance for Teens & Young Adults eBooks, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Dystopian, Teen & Young Adult LGBT Fiction

The Forgotten Room

New York Times bestselling authors Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig present a masterful collaboration—a rich, multigenerational novel of… Continue Reading Posted in: Family Saga, Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

On the Fence

For sixteen-year-old Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, being raised by a single dad and three older brothers has its perks. She… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Literature & Fiction, Romance

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Ecology, Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Political Fiction

Mother Night

A companion novel to "Slaughterhouse 5", covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Literature & Fiction

Staked

Iron Druid Atticus O'Sullivan, hero of Kevin Hearne's epic New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series, has a point to… Continue Reading Posted in: Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Paranormal & Urban

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Sorry we couldn’t find a book description. Please use the goodreads and/or amazon links on the book page to read… Continue Reading Posted in: Education & Reference, Literature & Fiction

Practical Demon Keeping

In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature.… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Literature & Fiction

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets...Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt's island estate when she finds an… Continue Reading Posted in: Asian American Literature, Domestic Life, Historical Chinese Fiction, Literary, Literature & Fiction

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

Once you let a book into your life, the most unexpected things can happen...Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Women, Literary, Literature & Fiction

Prudence

From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a new novel in the world of the Parasol Protectorate starring… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Paranormal & Urban, Science Fiction

The Music Shop

It is 1988. On a dead-end street in a run-down suburb there is a music shop that stands small and… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary British & Irish Literature, Literary, Literature & Fiction, Romance Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction

The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories

From the author of National Book Award longlist selection and New York Times bestseller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena come these dazzling, poignant and… Continue Reading Posted in: Censorship, Literary, Literature & Fiction

Summer

A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires.Edith… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Man Woman Relationships

Green Mansions

A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela.… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Classic Literary Fiction, Forest Ecology, Indians Of South America, Literature & Fiction

Missing You

It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Thrillers & Suspense

The Nix

A hilarious and deeply touching debut novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how… Continue Reading Posted in: Family Life, Literary, Literature & Fiction

The Song of the Lark

Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Juvenile Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Musical Fiction

Today Will Be Different

Eleanor stie ca e o catastrofa. Dar azi, ea va lua lucrurile pas cu pas. Va face dus si isi… Continue Reading Posted in: American Humorous Fiction, Contemporary Women, Humorous Literary Fiction, Literary, Literature & Fiction

Echoes of Honor

For eight bloody years, the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its allies have taken the war to the vastly more… Continue Reading Posted in: Harrington, Honor (Fictitious Character), Literature & Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Women Air Pilots

Once Upon a River

On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars… Continue Reading Posted in: Gothic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary, Literature & Fiction

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

Simon Lewis has been a human and a vampire, and now he is becoming a Shadowhunter. But the events of… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

This Is How It Always Is

This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them.This is how a family lives… Continue Reading Posted in: Family Life Fiction, LGBT Family Life Fiction, Literary, Literature & Fiction, Parents Of Transgender Children

Kaaterskill Falls

With her unforgettable short fiction, Allegra Goodman became an award winner and a national bestseller. Her collections, Total Immersion and… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction

The Old Red Brick: A Remembrance

Fading Southern traditions, snarling family relationships, and startling sexual bewilderments told in a soft costal accent—and a ferocious sense of… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, LGBT Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction

The Great Greene Heist

Saving the school -- one con at a time.Jackson Greene has reformed. No, really he has. He became famous for… Continue Reading Posted in: Children's African-American Story Books, Children's Friendship Books, Friendship, Literature & Fiction, Social & Family Issues

Russka

Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, poltics, and culture, Edward Rutherfurd, author of the phenomenally successful SARUM: THE NOVEL… Continue Reading Posted in: Action & Adventure Fiction (Books), Contemporary, Historical British & Irish Literature, Literature & Fiction

Lost Roses

The runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. This sweeping new novel, set a generation earlier and… Continue Reading Posted in: Literary, Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction, Women's Historical Fiction, World War I Historical Fiction

Murder Games

The life Dr. Dylan Reinhart saves may be his ownDr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally--he's a… Continue Reading Posted in: Crime, Literature & Fiction, Serial Killers

The Golden Road (Bantam Classic)

When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up… Continue Reading Posted in: Friendship, Literature & Fiction, Publishers And Publishing

Cetaganda

The latest installment in the adventures of Miles Vorkosigan. Miles and Cousin Ivan travel to Cetaganda to play the part… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Interplanetary Voyages, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera Science Fiction

Reading in the Dark

A haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna;… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Irish Authors, Literature & Fiction

All Our Wrong Todays

You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Men

To Kill a Kingdom

Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her… Continue Reading Posted in: Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

Autumn

Autumn is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical explores… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Women Fiction, Literary, Literature & Fiction, Metaphysical & Visionary, Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction

Knulp: Three Tales from the Life of Knulp

Published in Germany in 1915, Knulp is a novel written by Hermann Hesse which takes the form of three tales.… Continue Reading Posted in: Authors, Fiction In German 1901 Texts [Including Translations], German, Literature & Fiction, Manners And Customs

The Round House

The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler… Continue Reading Posted in: Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Indian Women Crimes Against, Literature & Fiction, North Dakota

History of Wolves

Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands… Continue Reading Posted in: Literary, Literature & Fiction, Minnesota

The Incendiaries

Sorry we couldn’t find a book description. Please use the goodreads and/or amazon links on the book page to read… Continue Reading Posted in: Coming Of Age, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Literary, Literary Fiction (Books), Literature & Fiction

Jinx High

Very Good to Like New condition. Perfect spine. Bright clean cover has slight creasing and edge wear. Text is perfect.… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Oklahoma Tulsa, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Witches

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Passing (Identity), Up From Slavery