In plainspoken prose, these stories paint an unforgettable portrait of small-town American life in the era before the First World War. Centered around George Willard and his neighbors, we watch children grow, adults struggle with lost...
American fiction
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Author:Anderson, SherwoodSummary: -
Author:Jackson, ShirleySummary:Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation, which they ensure through an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic. But one day, a stranger...
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Author:Klune, T. J.Summary:Tre anni fa, la madre di Bear McKenna se ne è andata per una destinazione sconosciuta con il suo nuovo ragazzo, lasciando Bear a crescere il fratellino Tyson di sette anni, detto anche Kid. In qualche modo ce l’hanno fatto, ma visto che...
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The classic American saga of a family of small farmers and share-croppers driven from their home by the Depression and heading westward with their families to California, their worldly goods piled on top of their old car.
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Bernie's passion for Humphrey Bogart movies leads him to a beautiful damsel in distress, a dangerous international conspiracy, and more than a few incriminating bodies.
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Author:Ashling, Mickie B.Summary:Horizons Series: Book 2 What should have been a brief interlude turns into something deeper when Lil Lampert meets Grier Dilorio at the Taste of Chicago. Lil is in town visiting good friends Jody Williams and Clark Stevens, and he didn’...
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Author:Davis, Mike LeeSummary:Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.
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In 1926 the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and found Station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) in order to rescue their failing restaurant. A comic yet poignant novel from one of America's most well-loved humorists...
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Author:Bennett, Kelsey L.Summary:Scholars have for many years now relied upon the largely unexamined assumption that the nineteenth-century Bildungsroman in the Goethean tradition is somehow an intrinsically secular genre exclusive to Europe, incompatible with the...
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This installment exhibits a fresh batch of immensely talented writers, all of whom exemplify the level of accomplishment that has kept this acclaimed series running strong since 1985. Comprising 20 stories, this rich and varied...
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The 19th publication of this annual anthology exhibits a collection of short fiction from award-winning Southern writers and rising stars.
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Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.Nuclear brinksmanship, psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead...
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Author:Klune, T. J.Summary:Il y a trois ans, la mère de Bear McKenna a mis les voiles avec son dernier petit ami en date, laissant à Bear la tâche d’élever son petit frère de six ans Tyson, surnommé le Moustique. Depuis, les deux frères ont appris à se...
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:A Love Means... Story Len Parker is laid off during the recession in the early eighties and decides to go back to college at home in rural Michigan, where he reconnects with his best friend from high school, Ruby. He's overjoyed when...
- Author:WILDER, Laura IngallsSummary:
CLASSIC FICTION. The sun-kissed prairie stretches out around the Ingalls family, smiling its welcome after their long, hard journey across America. But looks can be deceiving as they soon find that they must share the land with wild...
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Author:Ashling, Mickie B.Summary:Un libro della serie Orizzonti Quello che sarebbe dovuto essere un breve interludio diventa qualcosa di più profondo quando Lil Lampert incontra Grier Dilorio alla Degustazione di Chicago. Lil è in città a far visita ai suoi buoni amici...
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Author:Long, MelindaSummary:Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.
- Author:Stratton-Porter, GeneSummary:
Freckles, a plucky orphan who has lost one hand, finds work with the kindly owner of a vast lumber camp and discovers the plot of a former employee to cut and steal some of the trees.
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Author:Abbott, EdwinSummary:A square inhabiting a two-dimensional realm comes into contact with a mysterious sphere that opens his mind to the existence of higher dimensions and threatens to upend the rigid social order of his homeland. At once an earnest inquiry...
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