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Civil to Strangers (Virago Modern Classics) by Barbara Pym

Civil to Strangers (Virago Modern Classics) by Barbara Pym

By Barbara Pym

Whilst Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a large amount of unpublished fabric. This quantity comprises an early novel, CIVIL TO STRANGERS, 3 novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's merely written touch upon her writing profession. In CIVIL TO STRANGERS the lives of a tender couple, Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed author husband Adam, are thrown into upheaval whilst a mysterious Hungarian arrives of their village.

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Nanjing Requiem: A Novel by Ha Jin

Nanjing Requiem: A Novel by Ha Jin

By Ha Jin

The award-winning writer of Waiting and War Trash returns to his fatherland in a searing new novel that unfurls in the course of one of many darkest moments of the 20th century: the Rape of Nanjing.
 
In 1937, with the japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin—an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College—decides to stay on the college, confident that her American citizenship might help her shield the welfare of the chinese language women and men who paintings there. She is painfully unsuitable. within the aftermath of the invasion, the varsity turns into a refugee camp for greater than 10000 homeless girls and youngsters, and Vautrin needs to fight, every day, to intercede on behalf of the hapless sufferers. even if order and civility are finally restored, Vautrin is still deeply embattled, and he or she is haunted by means of the lives she couldn't save.

With terribly evocative precision, Ha Jin re-creates the fear, the harrowing deprivations, and the risk of unforeseen violence that outlined lifestyles in Nanjing through the profession. In Minnie Vautrin he has given us an indelible portrait of a lady whose convictions and bravado end up, finally, to be no fit for the maelstrom of history.
 
At as soon as epic and intimate, Nanjing Requiem is historic fiction at its so much resonant.

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On The Edge: Bougainvillea/Shelter Island/Capsized by Heather Graham, Sharon Sala, Carla Neggers

On The Edge: Bougainvillea/Shelter Island/Capsized by Heather Graham, Sharon Sala, Carla Neggers

By Heather Graham, Sharon Sala, Carla Neggers

At the side is a set of 3 unique shops via MIRA's most powerful romantic suspense writers. All 3 modern stories characteristic the powerful lady protagonists for which those writers are so renowned.

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The Fortune of War (Aubrey/Maturin, Book 6) by Patrick O'Brian

The Fortune of War (Aubrey/Maturin, Book 6) by Patrick O'Brian

By Patrick O'Brian

"A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing booklet, which towers over its present opponents within the style like a three-decker over a ship's longboat."—Times Literary Supplement
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives within the Dutch East Indies to discover himself appointed to the command of the quickest and best-armed frigate within the army. He and his pal Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. however the struggle of 1812 breaks out whereas they're en path. Bloody activities precipitate them either into new and unforeseen scenes the place Stephen's earlier actions as a undercover agent go back on him with a vengeance.

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The Locusts Have No King by Dawn Powell

The Locusts Have No King by Dawn Powell

By Dawn Powell

Nobody HAS SATIRIZED long island society fairly like sunrise Powell, and during this vintage novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit at the literary international, and "identifies each kind of publishing kind with the persistence of a pathologist elimination organs for inspection." Frederick Olliver, an vague historian and author, is having an affair with the restively married, attractive, and highly winning playwright, Lyle Gaynor. Powell units a see-saw in movement while Olliver is swept up via the bland publishing magnate, Tyson Bricker, and his new publication makes its method onto to the bestseller lists simply as Lyle's Broadway profession is coming apart.

"For many years sunrise Powell used to be regularly simply at the verge of ceasing to be a cult and turning into a massive religion." -- Gore Vidal

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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (VALIS, Book 3) by Philip K. Dick

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (VALIS, Book 3) by Philip K. Dick

By Philip K. Dick

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the ultimate novel within the trilogy that still contains Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, realized, and extremely relocating research of the paradoxes of trust. it's the tale of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by means of the suicides of his son and mistress--and pushed by means of them right into a extraordinary quest for the id of Christ.

The ultimate publication in Philip okay. Dicks VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer brings the authors look for the identification and nature of God to an in depth. the radical follows Bishop Timothy Archer as he travels to Israel, ostensibly to envision old scrolls bearing the phrases of Christ. yet, extra importantly, this leads him to ascertain the choices he made in the course of his existence and the way they might have contributed to the suicide of his mistress and son.

This quiet, introspective e-book is one in every of Dick's so much philosophical and literary, delving into the mysteries of faith and the mysteries of religion itself. As considered one of Dick's ultimate works, it additionally offers specified perception into the brain of a genius, whose paintings used to be nonetheless within the means of maturing on the time of his death.

First released 1982

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ebook ISDN-13 : 9780547601335

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Lost Souls (Star Trek: Destiny, Book 3) by David Mack

Lost Souls (Star Trek: Destiny, Book 3) by David Mack

By David Mack

The warriors of Armageddon are at the march, laying waste to worlds of their passage. An audacious plan might cease them without end, however it incorporates hazards that one starship captain is unwilling to take. For Captain Jean-Luc Picard, protecting the long run hasn't ever been so vital, or so own -- and the inaccurate selection will expense him every thing for which he has struggled and suffered.

For Captain William Riker, that selection has already been made. Haunted via the stories of these he used to be pressured to go away in the back of, he needs to jeopardize all that he has left in a determined bid to save lots of the Federation.

For Captain Ezri Dax, whose impetuous formative years is balanced by way of the knowledge of many lifetimes, the alternative is an easy one: there's no going again -- purely ahead to no matter what destiny awaits them.

yet if you, millennia in the past, had no choice...this is the hour in their ultimate, inescapable future.

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Sin Hellcat by Lawrence Block, Donald E. Westlake

Sin Hellcat by Lawrence Block, Donald E. Westlake

By Lawrence Block, Donald E. Westlake

Uninterested in his excellent suburban existence, a sour '60s advert guy reconnects along with his university sweetheart, a prostitute who enlists him in a brilliant act of overseas smuggling [Summary] Harvey Christopher is a winning guy. After twelve years on Madison street, he owns a suburban palace whole with electrical oven, electrical icebox, and an electrical wife—all of them hugely useful yet thoroughly unresponsive to his wishes. a broom with a college-flame-turned-successful-streetwalker sends him down reminiscence lane—a highway that leads instantly to her bed room. She offers him a tumble at the condominium, after which deals a proposition: a little bit felony mischief that might take him faraway from suburbia, and much from his wife—because each ad-man merits a holiday. This publication good points an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, together with infrequent photographs and never-before-seen files from his own assortment, and a brand new afterword written by means of the author.

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A Man Called Trent by Louis L'Amour

A Man Called Trent by Louis L'Amour

By Louis L'Amour

Gathered listed below are of L'Amour's vintage novellas, either that includes enigmatic gunfighter Lance Kilkenny. "The Rider of misplaced Creek" used to be first released in as a novella, then, approximately thirty years later, multiplied by means of L'Amour to novel size. This publication offers, for the 1st time ever, the unique model, as L'Amour first wrote it. "A guy referred to as Trent" was once additionally written before everything as a novella, basically to be accelerated a long time later.

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