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Soundings

by Anita Brookner

Published: 1998-10-01

Hardcover: 214 pages

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A compilation of essays written during the last twenty-five years covers such topics as nineteenth-century French painting, the literary works of Rousseau and Doris Lessing, and the Bible

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The South: A Novel

by Colm Toibin

Published: 2012-10-30

Kindle Edition: 242 pages

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In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish...

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The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

by Jonathan Tepper

Published: 2018-11-29

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital ...

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Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

by John Warner

Published: 2018-12-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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There seems to be widespread agreement that?when it comes to the writing skills of college students?we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can’t Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn’t caused by a lack of rigor, o...

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Writers ARE Readers: Flipping Reading Instruction into Writing Opportunities

by Lester L. Laminack, Reba M. Wadsworth

Published: 2015-08-24

Paperback: 176 pages

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In Writers Are Readers, the mutually supportive roles of reading and writing are made visible through the idea of "flipsides;" how a reader's insights can be turned around to provide insights into his own writing, and vice versa. Lester and Reba's trademark engaging style is woven througho...

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Funny Boy: A Novel

by Shyam Selvadurai

Published: 2015-07-14

Paperback: 320 pages

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An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict—one of the country’s most turbulent and deadly periods.Arjie is “funny.”The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with h...

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The Franchise Affair

by Josephine Tey

Published: 1998-08-18

Paperback: 304 pages

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Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Marion Sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, The Franchise. It appeared that she was in some serious trouble: Miss Sharpe and her...

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The Girl in the Picture (English and English Edition)

by Kerry Barrett

Published: 2018-09-04

Paperback: 384 pages

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Two women. One house. Centuries of secrets.East Sussex Coast, 1855Violet Hargreaves is the lonely daughter of a widowed industrialist, and an aspiring Pre-Raphaelite painter. One day, the naïve eighteen-year-old meets the mysterious and handsome Edwin on the beach. He promises her a world...

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Death in the English Countryside (Murder on Location Book 1)

by Sara Rosett

Published: 2014-09-11

Kindle Edition: 240 pages

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Tea and crumpets and murder...Location scout and Jane Austen aficionado, Kate Sharp, is thrilled when the company she works for lands the job of finding locations for a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but then her boss, Kevin, fails to return from a scouting trip to England. Af...

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It's Not Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance

by Tosha Silver

Published: 2019-02-05

Hardcover: 184 pages

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From the author of the acclaimed Outrageous Openness, a witty and spirited guide to radically releasing the burden of financial fearsIt's natural to crave prosperity. Some seek to manifest it in myriad ways--using anything from vision boards to writing a pretend check for a million dollars...