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1) The Outcry
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories (1920) is a collection of short stories by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. "The Schoolmistress" was written in 1897 and published in an issue of Moscow's daily newspaper, Russkiye Vedomosti. Even for Chekhov, whose work is characteristically bleak and noted for its unsparing realism, the title story of this collection is particularly hopeless. And yet, reading it alongside these other stories by a true icon of world...
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"The Millers are far from perfect. Estranged siblings Beck, Ashley and Jake find themselves under one roof for the first time in years, forced to confront old resentments and betrayals, when their mysterious, eccentric matriarch, Helen, passes away. But their lives are about to change when they find a secret inheritance hidden among her possessions--the Florentine Diamond, a 137-carat yellow gemstone that went missing from the Austrian Empire a century...
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The New York Times–bestselling author’s cult classic skewers America’s obsession with money, fame, guns, and sex—“A satirical gem” (John Berendt). Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy....
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This book brings together two of Lurie's novels, the comic "Rappaport", which focused on a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend, Friedlander, and "Rappaport's Revenge" where the characters, transplanted to London, were further chronicled. These are followed by several short stories: "Rappaport Lays an Egg", "The Death of Rappaport", "Dirty Friends", "Rappaport Dragged Over the Coals", "Rappaport Takes Lunch",...
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A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider...
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"First the white members of Raj Bhatt's posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America? Raj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged, he lives mostly happily in California, with a job at a university. Still, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times, especially...
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A riotously funny saga of institutional insanity, based on the author's association with the notorious psychiatrist R. D. Laing Despite massive literary success, Sidney Bell feels perpetually unsatisfied and suffers unexplained physical ailments. Desperate to straighten out his twisted life, anxiety-ridden Sid seeks help from experimental psychiatrist Dr. Willie Last, whose therapeutic methods involve hallucinatory drugs such as LSD and trading places...
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Sur l'Ile de la Réunion, un cyclone réveille des querelles de voisinage drles et attachantes.
L'histoire à la fois drle et attachante d'une querelle de voisinage qui se règle pendant un terrible cyclone sur l'île de La Réunion, ou comment le danger peut amener, au-delà des préjugés et des différends, à mieux considérer l'être humain vivant à nos ctés.
Au travers d'une querelle de voisinage, c'est l'ouverture et la tolérance qui sont...
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The sleepy hamlet of Inlet Cove in Westchester, New York, is about to have some excitement. After his attempted rubout and subsequent arrest, Tim Collins must reveal his secret. He's been, living a double life. His best friends know him as a good humored and successful businessman.
But, other acquaintances know him as a degenerate gambler. He's been able to keep the two worlds apart. But, after betting wrong on Superbowl LII, those two worlds collide....
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It is the spring of 1989 in New York City when Jill Dodge, a post-punk rocker from Texas, finally gets her big promotion at Mega Big Records. She is thrust into a race to find a gritty, urban rapper before the "Gangsta" trend passes their label by. As Jill and her mostly middle-class coworkers search for the next big rap star, they fluctuate between alliances and rivalries, tripping over the stereotypes of race, class, and musical genre. They work...
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Delia is a confident young woman who works as a housekeeper for a small family. Every morning, she gets up before everyone else and makes breakfast for each family member, then starts on her cleaning tasks. Despite her close relationship with the family she works for, Delia feels that she has more potential and does not like working a housemaid. She feels disrespected by some members in the family, and wants to try to find another job. After meeting...
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Plongée dans la vie d'une chaussette travailleuse
D'emblée, le lecteur se trouve plongé dans l'intimité d'une famille paysanne, dans un hameau d'Ardenne, non loin de la Semois. Une chaussette qui, durant des années, a accompagné les pas de celui qu'elle appelle « le Maître », conte les heurs, bonheurs et malheurs d'une ferme dans les années 1950 : un monde !
La chaussette relate avec précision et ce qu'il faut d'humour une vie laborieuse...
15) Ta Takata Ta
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Le Boléro. Un jour ou l'autre, tout musicien d'orchestre doit se coltiner cette rengaine universelle. Avec amour ou haine, fascination ou indigestion. En y mêlant aussi un peu de son existence ordinaire. De toute façon, tous les chemins mènent au Boléro. Et son inexorable crescendo nous entraîne vers la catastrophe finale. Forcément.
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Extrait : "Le village de Coursy est le premier qu'on rencontre en sortant de la forêt d'Orléans quand on vient de Fay-aux-Loges. C'est un bourg d'une centaine de feux, habité par quelques laboureurs et un plus grand nombre de bûcherons, marchands de bois et autres gens de forêt. Le premier dimanche d'octobre 1848, c'était la fête patronale du pays. La secousse révolutionnaire ne s'était pas trop fait sentir dans le pays..."
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Four stories exploring a world both comic and tragic and a Korea rarely seen: a Kpop girl group on the brink of stardom and death, a North Korean soldier who wants the bravery of his legendary ancestor, true love after the catastrophe of a tsunami, and the life of a train track suicide cleaner who loses his dream job when the bodies all suddenly disappear. The stories in Between Here and Oblivion are fun, quirky, and bites.
18) Dearest Dacha
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Norman MacLean is a living legend in the Gaelic world. Based in the Uists in the Outer Hebrides, with side trips to Glasgow, Hamburg and Amsterdam, this dotty adventure embraces frustrated sex, drugs, eight some reels and a memorable cast of oddball characters: three inept would-be criminals, a demented care-home resident, an ex-communicant of the Free Church of Scotland who moonlights as an enforcer, a pair of Russian weight-lifters who raise ostriches...
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Humorous short stories that have been written over several decades about small town life. Reflections on growing up on a farm and living in rural central Georgia. These stories share about the happenings as it occurred over several decades, starting as far back as the 1940's
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Extrait: "Aspasie donnait un bal. Pour dire la vraie vérité, Aspasie s'appelait Marguerite. Mais il serait convenable avant tout de prendre un juste milieu entre les bourgeois féroces qui veulent que chaque lorette soit la fille d'un portier, et le gandin naïf qui les croit issues des Montmorency par les femmes. Donc il faut vous dire la provenance de Marguerite qui se nommait Aspasie. Aspasie était la fille d'un petit employé qui avait fait...
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