Set in central Angola during the final stages of the country's thirty-year civil war.
Hawaii is a paradise, especially for real estate salesmen. But Ron Crockett, recently arrived from the mainland.
Thousands have paid big bucks to learn winning poker strategies.
With The North End Poems, his always vivid new collection, Michael Knox has further honed his lucid.
Catherine, a seventeen year old girl, travels with her family to Bath and makes many new acquaintance, including two young men who pursue her.
Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.
Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 masterpiece following the ranting, slightly unhinged memoir of an isolated, anonymous civil servant.
A remarkable writer and intellectual in her own right, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley first encountered the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only a teenager. After fathering three of her children, Shelley drowned during a storm.
From Sartre to Star Trek, Kafka to Mr. Wizard, Wagner to Puke Rock (don't ask)?
This book, full of lucid, penetrating insights into the nature of consciousness.
Escaping the sectarian carnage of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Now Mourn the Space Cadet is the second in a series set in Connor Beach.
A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century.
Declan Burke fled Ireland forty years ago and never looked back. Now settled in New York.
A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father.
Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).
Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse.
Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher.
Darwin consolidated a lifetime of work in On the Origin of Species, compiling his discoveries from the voyage of the Beagle, his experiments, research and correspondence.