Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction” and lauded its illumination, “through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew.” In Farther Away, which gathers...

 by James Joyce  (Author) Paperback: 672 pages ISBN-13: 978-0141181264 Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book — the night. "A nocturnal state...That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream." The work, which would exhaust two decades of his life and the odd resources of some sixty languages,...

 by Alison Stewart  (Author) Hardcover: 352 pages ISBN-13: 978-1613740095 Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, defied the odds and, in the process, changed America. In the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of racist congressmen who held the school’s purse strings. These enormous challenges did not stop...

by Susan Cahill (Editor) Paperback: 480 pages ISBN-13: 978-0345434197 Welcome to the Ireland of its Writers Walk the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle. Contemplate the wild glens of Wicklow with John Millington Synge and Seamus Heaney. Wander the thrilling Cliffs of Moher with Wallace Stevens. Visit antic Limerick with Frank McCourt; mysterious Coole Park with Lady Gregory; breathtaking Sligo...

 With a popular comic strip, card line, and children\'s cartoon to her name, Lucy Brighton should be in a happy place. But the ache of a cold, lonely childhood lingers on. Even though she still lives in the New Jersey house where she grew up, Lucy has had little contact with her parents since they moved to Florida five years ago. Then Lucy receives a call that her parents have been killed in a car crash. While settling their affairs in Florida, Lucy begins to realize how little she...

Overview The Pimsleur® Method teaches speaking and understanding right from the start For almost 50 years, in over 50 languages, the Pimsleur® Method has been recognized by experts worldwide as one of the fastest and most effective ways to learn to speak another language. With Pimsleur you will learn Italian in the same way you learned your first language as a child, acquiring the vocabulary of the new language, along with the melody, rhythm, and intonation of Italian...

 Open Anne Hooper's unique guide to erotic sex games and learn how to reinvigorate your sex life. Anne uses her expert knowledge to ensure there's something to suit everyone, from costumes to fantasy role-play, using sex toys to making your own sex tapes. Creating illusions and stirring up the imagination, sex games are a great way to build trust and intimacy with your partner. AUTHOR BIO: Anne Hooper is a member of the British Association of Sexual and Marital Therapists...

 Sick of running into her cheery ex-husband and his new wife, Leslie Petruso accepts a job at the Virgin River branch of Haggerty Construction and takes the high road right out of town. Now she\'s got Paul Haggerty\'s business running like a well-oiled machine. In fact, things are so busy Paul jumps at the chance to hire an extra set of hands. Just like Leslie, Conner Danson has been burned by love. But if Leslie was disappointed by her relationship going bad, Conner was decimated...

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 As team leader of the popular personal security company Troubleshooters Inc., Alyssa Locke is no stranger to dealing with danger. Her next assignment, though, is supposed to be a breeze: teach self-defense techniques to an assemblywoman and her chief of staff after a political controversy generates a blizzard of hate mail—including death threats. But then, while in New York City, Alyssa and her squad of moonlighting Navy SEALs discover a dead body. And then another...

Louis XVI of France must try to save not only his throne, but also his very neck. His personal family wealth, the Royal Bourbon Treasure, becomes the centre of attention and the resource he must use to regain his throne. Pursued by a secret society he betrays, he fails to save his throne and his neck. In his attempt to flee the horrors of revolutionary Paris, Louis sends his family treasure over his northern border to Oval in the Austrian Netherlands (modern day Belgium). History records...

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by Virginia Woolf  (Author) Paperback: 124 pages ISBN-13: 978-1595691149 "Jacob's Room" is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1922. It centres, in a very ambivalent way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders. Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives...

by Charlotte Brontë (Author) Paperback: 624 pages ISBN-13: 978-0141441146 Charlotte Brontë's moving masterpiece – the novel that has been "teaching true strength of character for generations" (The Guardian) A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom. Having grown up an orphan in the home...

by Toni Morrison  (Author) Paperback: 256 pages ISBN-13: 978-0395924952 In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative...

by Margaret Walker  (Author) Paperback: 512 pages ISBN-13: 978-0395924952 Here is the classic--and true--story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South's prewar opulence and its brutality, to its wartime ruin and the subsequent promise of Reconstruction. It is a story that Margaret Walker heard as a child from her grandmother,...

 New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd, one of the most acclaimed authors of historical romance, makes a dazzling foray into contemporary fiction in this intriguing and sensuous novel about a hard-working young woman who mistakenly falls in love with Boston\'s wealthiest bachelor.  JUST THE WAY YOU ARE  When Hope Prescott\'s parents disappeared, her carefree teenage life vanished forever. She and her three siblings were separated and...

 Life comes in stages. Even the Sisterhood has been content to let their gold shields gather a little dust while they enjoy their friends and family. But when a string of anonymous emails arrives at Pinewood, suggesting shady dealings at a local assisted-living facility, Myra Rutledge and her best friend Annie de Silva are more than ready to out-hustle a master con-artist at his own game. They\'ll need to enlist some new and untested allies in order to pull off their brilliant...

by Albert Camus  (Author) Paperback: 185 pages ISBN-13: 978-2070360024 Albert Camus Was born in Algeria in 1913. During World War II, he joined the Resistance movement in Paris, then became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat during the Liberation. A novelist, playwright, and essayist, he is most famous for his novels The Stranger and The Plague. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. ...

by Ray S. Jackendoff (Author) Hardcover: 432 pages ISBN-13: 978-0262101196 Ray Jackendoff's Language, Consciousness, Culture represents a breakthrough in developing an integrated theory of human cognition. It will be of interest to a broad spectrum of cognitive scientists, including linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists. Jackendoff argues...