Author/poet Jesper Humlin struggles under the pall of a frustrating life. Everything--from his personal relationships to his professional pursuits to his finances--seems to be failing miserably. Then Jesper happens across a group of...
Poets
- Author:Mankell, HenningSummary:
- Author:Daniel, John M.Summary:
At the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association, everything goes wrong. Julia Child’s cooking demonstration in the Random House aisle catches fire. A top New York editor catches a pie in the face. Invitations to the...
- Author:Acevedo, ElizabethSummary:
"Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice." -Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation "An incredibly potent debut." -Jason Reynolds, author of the National Book Award Finalist Ghost "Acevedo has amplified the voices of...
- Author:Lye, Harriet AlidaSummary:
Vintage Margaret Atwood meets Patricia Highsmith in this slyly seductive debut set on an eerily beautiful farm teeming with secrets. The drought has discontented the bees. Soil dries into sand; honeycomb stiffens into wax. But Cynthia...
- Author:West, NathanaelSummary:
- Author:Manley, RachelSummary:
Friends since attending university in Jamaica, Lethe and Daniel have long realized they would never be good for each other. But Lethe is Daniel's muse, and theirs is a connection that proves unbreakable as they spend the next thirty...
- Author:James, HenrySummary:
Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers.
- Author:Levy, DeborahSummary:
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a New York Times Notable Book, Swimming Home is a sexy psychological thriller from a highly acclaimed writer.Poet Joe and his war-correspondent wife Isabel arrive with their daughter...
- Author:Gaglia, LouSummary:
Poor Advice as a collection reveals Lou Gaglia’s humor, imagination, and range: A woman is obsessed with pumping gas at one particular pump in one particular gas station. A six year old and his father kill over two hundred flies at a...
- Author:Williams-Garcia, RitaSummary:
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their...
- Author:Carey, PeterSummary:
Chistopher Chubb, an arrogant poet in 1950's Australia, creates a fictitious poet. Only the phantom poet comes to life to taunt, haunt and otherwise destroy his maker, pursuing Chubb from Melbourne to a seedy, sweaty, bitter...
- Author:Debel, MarcelSummary:
La magie du passé, que d’histoires ! Les vieilles remises, les hangars, les petites granges possèdent beaucoup d’histoires. Elles font partie du patrimoine québécois. Si elles pouvaient parler, elles auraient de bien nombreuses et...
- Author:Hall, PhilSummary:
WINNER OF THE 75th GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE 25th TRILLIUM BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF AN ALCUIN AWARD FOR DESIGNSHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZEThese are poems of critical thought that have been...
- Author:Moser, NancySummary:
Moser spotlights Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her struggle for love against all odds. Long confined by baffling ailments, Elizabeth dispels her gloom through Bible meditation, prayer, and writing. But as she and a kind...
- Author:Williams, NiallSummary:
Ruthie Swain, the bedridden daughter of a dead poet, tries to find her father through stories -- and through generations of family history in County Clare.
- Author:McDonald, CraigSummary:
When Senator Prescott Bush demands the mummified head of Pancho Villa for Yale's Skull & Bones Society's trophy case, a pulp writer named Lassiter winds up holding the bag.
- Author:Quatro, JamieSummary:
Jamie Quatro’s remarkable first book of stories, I Want to Show You More, published to spectacular reviews, announced her arrival to American letters as “a writer of great originality” (New York Times Book Review). Now, with her debut...
- Author:Carson, LouiseSummary:
When the poet Eleanor Brandon dies, an apparent suicide, Peter Forrest, her former student, sometime lover and now a married professor, is asked to be her literary executor. He agrees, although he makes it clear that he is only...
- Author:Alexis, AndréSummary:
Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip through Southwestern Ontario by his parents' friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to ¬unearth the story of the mysterious...
- Author:Whittle, TinaSummary:
The dog days of summer have arrived, and Tai Randolph is feeling the heat. Running her uncle’s gun shop is more demanding than she ever imagined. Her best friend Rico is competing for a national slam poetry title. And Atlanta is overrun...