When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different...
Manners and customs
- Author:Narayan, ShobaSummary:
- Author:MacNab, BruceSummary:
Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book Award. Shortlisted, Canadian Regional Design AwardsIn May of 1896, a young magician from New York City joined the cast of the Marco Magic Company and embarked on a summer-long tour of eastern Canada...
- Author:Lepore, JillSummary:
How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that...
- Author:Wodehouse, P. G.Summary:
These early stories are fine vintage Wodehouse: the rivalry between the ugly policeman and Alf, the Romeo milkman; the plight of a "man with two left feet" who fell in love with a dance hostess; and the first appearance of Jeeves.
- Author:Gardam, JaneSummary:
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, a book where...
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
Joyce Carol Oates chronicles her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State.
- Author:Sparks, NicholasSummary:
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her...
- Author:Sudbury, RowenaSummary:
Sequel to The King's Tale In thirteenth century Cornwall, a fierce king must have a strong partner, and that is what King Christopher of Lysnowydh has in his handfasted mate. Or had, before rival King Warin kidnapped and tortured Dafydd...
- Author:Joyce, JamesSummary:
Features selected readings from the works of James Joyce, whose works came to define the modernist movement in literature.
- Author:Cochet, CharlieSummary:
Sequel to The Auspicious Troubles of Chance The Auspicious Troubles of Love: Book Two Eight years after leaving the deserts of Africa and the French Foreign Legion behind, Jonathan Wolfe has settled into life at Hawthorne Manor in the...
- Author:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSummary:
Prince Myshkin, the last of his royal bloodline, suffers from epilepsy and a trusting nature. His saintlike purity of soul makes him suspect in the eyes of sinful St. Petersburg, but he finds a friend in passionate Rogozhin, and through...
- Author:Wharton, EdithSummary:
Lily Bart enjoys an equitable standing within the New York City elite. Although she desires a comfortable life and has received generous proposals from wealthy suitors, Lily remains single with hope for an honest and loving marriage....
- Author:WELLS, H. G.Summary:
Mr Polly is a middle-aged man, tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as a gentleman's out fitter in a small town. Facing bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his...
- Author:L'AMOUR, LouisSummary:
The story of the rock-hard men who ripped fortunes out of the rock-hard mines in the old West.
- Author:Buck, Pearl S.Summary:
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of China, farmer Wang Lung glories in the soil he works. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers--but they will soon meet their downfall.
- Author:RAPHAEL, FredericSummary:
Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of...
- Author:Galsworthy, JohnSummary:
The three novels that make up this trilogy have long been recognized as masterpieces of 20th-century literature, and Galsworthy as one of its leading exponents. But don't let that be the reason you put off listening to this...
- Author:Messud, ClaireSummary:
Friends at Brown University, Marina, Danielle, and Julius are still looking to make their marks as they approach their 30s. Marina lives with her celebrated parents on the Upper West Side while trying to complete her book. TV producer...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world. Murakami is a cult figure throughout...
- Author:Stehelin, Paul H.Summary:
This is the true story of the Stehelins, a prestigious family from Normandy, France, who came to Nova Scotia in the early twentieth century to carve out a new life in the wilderness. The family's achievements were legendary--they built...