- 44
-
Lord of the Nutcracker Men (Readers Circle)
Amazon.com — Lord of the Nutcracker Men World War One has just broken out, and London is being bombed by Germany. It is World War One Europe, and the "Great War" has just broken out. Mr. Briggs has just been shipped to France, and Johnny is being sent to the ...More…
-
One Eye Laughing, The Other Eye Weeping: The Diary of ...
Amazon.com — one eye laughing the other weeping Thise book is about a girl named JULIE WEISS.The setting of thise book is in VIENNA,AUSTRIA and NEW YORK.This book was published in 1938.Thise book is about a girl named JULIE WEISS who lives in VIENNA,AUSTRIA,Julie ...More…
-
Cloud of Sparrows
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Following in the substantial footsteps of filmmaker Akiro Kurosawa and Shogun author James Clavell is Takashi Matsuoka, whose action-packed debut novel, Cloud of Sparrows, unfolds as the age of the samurai warrior starts to wane. The ...More…
-
A Thread of Grace: A Novel
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Mary Doria Russell's extraordinary and complex historical novel, A Thread of Grace, is the kind of book that you will find yourself haunted by long after finishing the last page. It opens with a group of Jewish refugees being ...More…
-
Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness (Modern ...
Amazon.com — In turn horrifying, moving and informative I have worked in the field of mental health for several years, and collect fiction that deals with the subject. This collection is among the best I have found. It includes the well known Yellow Wallpaper, and ...More…
-
Blood of Victory: A Novel
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review I.A. Serebin, an émigré writer who heads the International Russian Union and edits its literary magazine, is no stranger to war: "Two gangsters, one neighborhood, they fight," he comments at a dinner party on a yacht in the ...More…
-
Swear to Howdy
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Russell Cooper is lucky. When he and his family move to Lost River, a toothy-grinned boy named Joey Banks takes him under his wing. Joey makes everything into an adventure--cavorting in his favorite swimming hole, target practice with ...More…
-
Song of the Exile (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Amazon.com — One of the saddest books I've ever read This book was unlike anything else I've ever read. It was incredibly tragic and haunting. It made me feel for those women like Sunny, the ones who became nobody, because their minds couldn't get out of ...More…
-
Leaving Eden (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Amazon.com — wise, compassionate and evocative "Eden" celebrates hope What does it mean to make wise choices in life? How is it possible for a sensitive teen-ager to comprehend the significance of a mother's love when its source is no longer present? How ...More…
-
Pope Joan: A Novel
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review One of the most controversial women of history is brought to brilliant life in Donn Woolfolk Cross's tale of Pope Joan, a girl whose origins should have kept her in squalid domesticity. Instead, through her intelligence, ...More…
-
Time and Chance: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review The Sunne in Splendour confirmed Sharon Kay Penman's place in the upper echelons of historical fiction, combining a breathtaking panoply of the past with an acute psychological observation of her characters. Time and Chance is the ...More…
-
The River Where Blood Is Born (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Stitched together like a quilt or a piece of Kente cloth, this novel recasts the black experience as myth, encompassing both the world of the spirits and the world of ordinary human endeavors. It opens with the story of how Ananse the ...More…