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Dark Ways
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 4.99The psychological depth imparted to characters is astounding! Prescott has managed to lay bare before the readers, the thoughts of a soldier; one who fought for his land but cannot realize the significance of doing so. The narrative captures the attention from the outset. more...
Indiana
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 4.99Ravenous for love and company, the protagonist Indiana is transformed into a woman whose tender emotions harden into hatred. Amalgamating the private life of her characters to the attitudes of society, Sand has created a powerful and influencing work. The work advocates that the individuals should abide by the laws of the society, but should have scruples... more...
Now and on Earth
eReads 1942; US$ 9.99America's low-key high priest of human vice and violently wounded psyches, Jim Thompson emerged from the darkness with this, his first novel. NOW AND ON EARTH is proof that Thompson has always been the bleak and compassionate teller of tawdry terror that critics and fans have come to treasure. Amid the fresh landscape and smooth illusions of wartime... more...
South of Heaven
eReads 1967; US$ 9.99Thompson's classic novel describes the underworld of desperate men that inhabited the part of Texas known as "South of Heaven" in the 1920's. Laying a gas pipeline with a motley work crew of hoboes, alcoholics, jail-birds, and petty criminals, Tommy Burwell knows that he isn't doing himself any favors. But he cannot extricate... more...
Family Storms
Pocket Books 2011; US$ 7.99In the eye of the storm . . . Living on the streets with her destitute mother, selling knickknacks and trinkets just to survive, Sasha Porter dreams of someday having a normal life, with a real house and family. But she never dreamed a devastating tragedy would bring her those very things: on a stormy night by a rainspattered highway, a speeding... more...
The Bay of Noon
Picador 2003; US$ 16.99Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and so changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda,... more...
Turtle Diary
New York Review Books 2013; US$ 14.95Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban?s surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary . William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. Neaera is a successful writer of children?s... more...
The Winters
Swamp Yankee Publishing 2012; US$ 5.97On the coast of Rhode Island in 1978, the Winter family lives in a decaying farmhouse within view of the Atlantic Ocean. When family patriarch Jim Winter inexplicably commits suicide one January morning, his wife, Helen, teenage daughter, Joyce, and fisherman son, Dale, are left to pick up the pieces. Like the man whose life insurance is worth more... more...
Das Glück, der Wahn und ich
Droste Verlag 2012; US$ 9.77HauptbeschreibungPeter Kluth aus Krefeld, genannt Pete, hat alles, was man sich wünschen kann: eine Familie, ein Haus am See und einen Beruf, der ihn ausfüllt. Doch mehr und mehr bahnt sich eine psychische Krankheit an, die alles gefährdet, was ihm wichtig ist: Sie treibt ihn in einen den Verstand raubenden Glücksrausch, der seine Beziehungen zu Familie... more...
@Expectations
Tom Doherty Associates 2001; US$ 8.99@expectations is a fabulous work of women's fiction by a writer who has made a career of delving deep into women's hearts and finding the truth of their feelings and their lives. Reed's fiction has always examined the female and familial conditions with a sharp eye, a truthful insight, and a unique style that leaves her readers breathless and wanting... more...









