Fiction-Literary Books

Wretched, reckless and haunted by the past, the men and women in Anne Baldo's Morse Code for Romantics try to restart their sputtering hearts, seeking to turn their pain into pearls through connection, understanding and hope.Author: Anne BaldoISBN-10: 0889844569ISBN-13: 9780889844568Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2022Pages:...

Rural West Cork, Ireland. Two Kids, Joseph and Paul, and their struggling, poet father, Fraser, are battling grief and poverty. When a letter arrives with a summons to Dublin and the promise of publication, it offers a chink of light - the hope of...

The love that dare not speak its name . . . Sweden, 1949. A boy of 15, cutting across a garden, chances upon a woman of 51. What ensues is cataclysmic, life-altering. All the more because it cannot be spoken of. Can it never...

Ruyra was in the vanguard of the Catalan modernist generation as they constructed a new literary model after 1860 when the Catalan language became the vehicle of cultural nationalism. He has been called the 'prince of Catalan prose'.Author: Julie FlanaganISBN-10: 0856686050ISBN-13: 9780856686054Publisher: Liverpool University...

Together, the five stories and novella in this collection follow the lives of first- and second-generation Indian Americans living in contemporary California. The characters share a similar sensibility: a sense that immigration is a distant memory, yet an experience that continues to shape the...

In the tradition of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Brian O'Hare's Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday night football fields of Western Pennsylvania to a battalion of Marines...

Hadiya Hussein's poignant 2017 novel plunges readers into a haunting and powerful story of resilience. Set at the end of Saddam Hussein's brutal reign, the novel follows Narjis, a young Iraqi woman, on her quest to discover what has become of the man she...

Author: Kettly MarsISBN-10: 0813948339ISBN-13: 9780813948331Publisher: University of Virginia PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2022Pages: 150Format: Paperback

A man recently released from prison returns to the dating scene and struggles to find the right time to reveal his long-past murder conviction. A grieving mother considers her own role in her son's death. A boy enables the destructive addiction of the person...

A courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as civil war devastates Sri Lanka in this searing novel. Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri...

Alison Mills Newman's singular, genre-bending novel has long been out of print and impossible to find. A "fluently funky mix of standard and nonstandard English," as the poet and scholar Harryette Mullen once put it, Francisco is the first-person account of a young actress...

Michael Sullivan is a talented lyricist and a decent guitarist, but since he was kicked out of his band (and his apartment), he's not sure he'll ever get a record deal. Living with his loser uncle in a beat-up trailer and working a dead-end...

This original NCL collection brings together Leacock's comic masterpieces, the many varieties of his remarkable humour. In one story a young man is seized by fear as he attempts to open his first bank account. In another, Lord Ronald, the beloved of Gertrude the...

Cracked doesn't always mean broken.Grieving her mother's death, Mari Lennox travels to Kyoto, Japan to take photographs of Yanagi Inn for a client. As she explores the inn and its grounds, her camera captures striking images, uncovering layers of mystery shrouding the old resort--including...

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First published in 1788, this is the classic of naive love that inspired the film "The Blue Lagoon."Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's only novel is a classic of naive love. First published in 1788 to wide acclaim, it subsequently appeared in hundreds of editions throughout...

Zack is a planet-hopping pro--but a return to Earth results in some unexpected puppy trouble in the tenth Galaxy Zack chapter book adventure. Zack is headed back to Earth for the first time since moving to Nebulon. He can't wait to see his best...

Zack is a planet-hopping pro--but a return to Earth results in some unexpected puppy trouble in the tenth Galaxy Zack chapter book adventure. Zack is headed back to Earth for the first time since moving to Nebulon. He can't wait to see his best...

A young man coming of age in the 1950s learns all about life, loss, and second chances in this heartwarming love story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv This beautiful novel tells the story of young Arthur...

This is a generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and history and family.-- Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and Let The Great World Spin From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant story...