DescriptionFresh, original, and peopled with a rich cast of colorful characters, Castro's Curveball captures the passion of baseball and the vibrant flavor of Cuba in a grand-slam work of fiction. Whether you believe in fate, the stars, or divine intervention…
DescriptionSara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of Olivia's obsessive desire to possess the secret of creative genius. And, although she doesn't know it, Sara is also replaying the sixty-year-old tragedy of her grandmother, Gelsomina. Gelsomina was sent to America to break up an affair of hers that her family did not want to happen. Like Gelsomina, Sara also enters an unworkable love affair that is only resolved in the last novella. Filled with art, music, and scenes of travel, this book offers considerable aesthetic consolation.
DescriptionWork, said Psmith, with simple dignity. "I am now a member of the staff of this bank. Its interests are my interests. Psmith, the individual, ceases to exist, and there springs into being Psmith, the cog in the wheel of the New Asiatic Bank; Psmith, the l…
DescriptionJennifer Chiaverini's New York Times best-selling Elm Creek Quilt novels, with their irresistible blend of storytelling magic and quilting lore, have captured the hearts of countless fans. In this moving novel about morality, freedom, and the power…
DescriptionYoung Nicholas's father dies, leaving him penniless and responsible for his mother and sister. When his uncle, Ralph Nickleby, refuses to help him, he sets out to make a living, first as usher to the brutal schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, and later in the counting house of Ned and Charles Cheeryble. Meanwhile, however, he must protect his sister Kate, his beloved Madeline Bray, and his faithful friend Smike from his conniving uncle. In Nicholas Nickleby, Dickens attacked schools and schoolmasters, and his ruthless exposure of injustice in the system led to widespread reform.
DescriptionThe narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies…
