In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels-Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973-that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors...
Loneliness
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Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary: -
Author:Goobie, BethSummary:"Shadow Council chooses Sally to be their go-fer, and deliver messages of doom to selected targets. How will the other students respond? A tense, complex novel"
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Author:Dowding, PhilippaSummary:This special three-book bundle collects all the books in the Lost Gargoyle series! In The Gargoyle in My Yard, Katherine meets an ancient wandering gargoyle named Gargoth. He ends up being adopted by her family, but all is not well...
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Author:Kearney, GregSummary:In telling the intersecting stories of Edmund, Teresa, and Joel - all of whom leave trails of hopeful chaos in their wake - Greg Kearney has painted a blackly comic, yet surprisingly earnest, portrait of modern loneliness.
- Author:Dailey, JanetSummary:
Refuge Cove, Alaska, stays true to its name when a woman who has lost hope and a man in need of healing come to each other's rescue. She'd come to Alaska on the promise of marriage, only to find herself on the run from her...
- Author:Linden, DianneSummary:
13-year-old Nell Mackelwain has to share her mother, a Canadian peacekeeper, with the world, when she just wants her home in Edmonton, helping her deal with the bullies at school.
Nell's trying to be understanding about her...
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Author:HELLER, Zo͡Summary:When Sheba Hart joins St George’s as the new pottery teacher, lonely Barbara Covett senses that she has found a kindred spirit. But Barbara is not the only one drawn to Sheba. Before long Sheba is involved in an illicit...
- Author:Beckett, SamuelSummary:
Molloy is less a novel than a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy and his pursuer Moran. In the first section, while consumed with the search of his mother, Molloy lost everything. Moran takes over in the second half, describing...
- Author:Cardenas, Teresa, Unger, DavidSummary:
The narrator of Letters to My Mother is a young Afro-Cuban girl who, upon the death of her mother, must live with her aunt and cousins. Dependent on them and their good will, she finds their taunts about how dark her skin is and their...
- Author:Connolly, KevinSummary:
What are we thinking at any given moment? What happens to a thought as that moment, on its way to oblivion, collides with its successor? Rambunctious, witty, joyous, and bittersweet, drift is an investigation conducted by a truly...
- Author:Dubiel, CariSummary:
We are all lonely in different ways. In this short story collection of crime fiction, people who long for something are confronted with death. Some mysteries are solved and others aren't, but that's the way life is.
