(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)John Lee
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a modern epic novel that tells the coming of age story of a street vendor in Istanbul and the love of his life.
Arriving in Istanbul as a boy, Mevlut Karataş is enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He becomes a street vendor, like his father, hoping to strike it rich, but luck never seems...
Arriving in Istanbul as a boy, Mevlut Karataş is enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He becomes a street vendor, like his father, hoping to strike it rich, but luck never seems...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The miracle of loneliness is that sooner or later it makes you act otherwise."
Illuminated by extraordinary tenderness, Ervin Shane and The Sunshine Motel is a poignant tale about origins and endings told in the plain speak of a man tired of living a hand-to-mouth existence in the racist, post-WWII south.
In 1951, Ervin Shane boarded a Greyhound headed to wherever the winter sun was warmer. A thousand miles later, a layover in a West Texas bus station...
Author
Language
English
Description
Haunting and sly and revealing and moving into the realm of myth, Spaceman Spiritus is an unflinching expression of the vulnerabilities that make us human.
Spaceman Spiritus is a prisoner, found guilty of the enduring crime of solitude, sentenced to labor far underground somewhere in a distant galaxy. Peel is a rancher, a man tracing a lifetime of memories for those he loved and for the natural world around him. He's about to plummet back to Earth...
Author
Language
English
Description
In November 1941, Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometers away. Army Group Center was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective, the final drive on Moscow had all the ingredients of a dramatic final battle in the east, which, according to previous accounts, only failed at the gates of Moscow. David...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
He's a gambler, womanizer, opportunist, and inebriate . . . and the kingdom's only chance.
Greymond, the Scattered Kingdom has been without a king for hundreds of years, a place ruled by squabbling barons and dukes. Occasionally, rumors arise: a king of the old blood has returned to claim his throne. These days, such claims are met with groans and eye-rolls. Pretenders abound . . . and are generally ignored.
But scheming powers are plotting, machinations...
6) Sky Blue Sky
Author
Language
English
Description
Thomas Edward Muir is no drifter. He flies cargo in the islands; he rides motorcycles in the desert. Muir sails and he dives and... Yeah, he's that guy.
But life is about to kick him in the teeth. He's gonna meet a monster. Pure evil. He's gonna witness the darkest side of human suffering. And it's gonna rock his world. And he's gonna struggle with that...'cause he's that guy.
From the balmy, indigo waters of the Caribbean Sea to the searing heat...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When wealthy Colonel Delamere dies after a botched burglary it's up to Eric Ward to manage his estate-and catch the killers.
But the Colonel's will contains perplexing instructions for the disposal of an ancient Egyptian statuette, first discovered by Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. The artefact was supposed to be handed to the Foreign Office-but it was stolen by the burglars.
The allegedly cursed statuette could change the course...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Don't miss the final book in the bestselling Eric Ward series. It's a cracker!
A dangerous killer with a penchant for the Zodiac symbols is abducting, torturing, and murdering women. Eric Ward and Sharon Owen are in court defending the man accused of these crimes, and due to a technicality, the suspect walks free. But is he really guilty?
Meanwhile, DCI Charlie Spate is tracking the alleged Zodiac Killer but loses his trail. Eric receives an urgent...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Time is relative; time travel, not so much."
A pause-resisting novel in the tradition of Ray Bradbury, Paulo Coelho, Gabriel García Márquez, and the street-smarts of Roddy Doyle, Supermassive Superstar is a rock 'n roll allegory fueled by an emotive mystery that culminates as a deeply humane testament to the importance of listening to our hearts.
The year is 1978; the setting is London.
Twenty-four-year-old Beecher Stowe is set to enjoy his hard-earned...
Author
Language
English
Description
A classic novel of family, isolation and a blighted Ireland from the award—winning author of “The Sea” depicts the end of innocence for a boy and his country.
Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a dilapidated family manor filled with memories and despair. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a traveling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. Soon he discovers that famine...
11) Kepler: A Novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The award—winning author of “The Sea” re-creates the life of the Renaissance mathematical genius Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe.
Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in southern Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The novel Kepler by John Banville brilliantly re-creates his life and his work, which laid the foundation of the universe...
12) Says Who?
Author
Language
English
Description
Revenge is grief upended, only with penance served can atonement begin.
From the tranquil moors of southern England; to the Caribbean's steamy shores; to the sweeping African plain, the moral compass is set to spin off its axis. For Thomas Edward Muir, evil is not illusory, it is the debasement of young lives; it is the slaying of the innocent; it is the eradication of family. "Surrender..," he is told, "...is the way of the world."
The sequel to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The classic novel by "Irish master" award—winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the universe.
Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland,...
Author
Language
English
Description
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire
By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China's Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narrators
This recording includes the following stories:
- "The Lightening-Rod Man" by Herman Melville
- "One of the Missing" by Ambrose Bierce
- "The Leopard Man's Story" by Jack London
- "Tennessee's Partner" by Bret Harte
- "The New Catacomb" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin
-
...