Fiction - General

Set in 1877, in New Mexico Territory, former Union sniper Jonah Berryman is presently working as a bounty hunter who is known for bringing his man in alive, but Jonah is here on personal business and is hunting someone on his own time. He...

This story of a native Indian poet living and writing in the West discusses class privilege and poverty, language and literacy, and the contradictions that make up the confusing patterns of her life.Author: Suniti NamjoshiISBN-10: 1875559973ISBN-13: 9781875559978Publisher: Spinifex PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2000Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize:...

In this delightfully illustrated book, we meet Neko a Japanese cat. Neko travels the world using various modes of transport, visiting major cities like London, Paris and New York.This book is educational and informative, with wonderful colour drawings of the cities and sights that...

We both waited for a few quiet moments for him to tell us his name, neither of us expecting what we heard. "Mine is Edwin Lavin," he said, in quiet Cornish tones. "You've probably heard of me. I'm the son of the game-keeper, but...

Margaret Oliphant Wilson was born on April 4th, 1828 to Francis W. Wilson, a clerk, and Margaret Oliphant, at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian.Her youth was spent in establishing a writing style and by 1849 she had her first novel published: Passages in the...

The River Junction Writers debut their first collection of previously-published and never-before-seen short stories and novel excerpts in Short Tall Tales. From the jungle coasts of Vietnam to the villages of New England, explore the worlds of military pilots and race car drivers, of...

Doctor Dolittle's Return is lighter and more comic than other Dolittle books. Tommy Stubbins waits for Doctor Dolittle's return from the Moon. When the Doctor returns he is anxious to write of what he has experienced. This proves more difficult than expected. The poignancy...

More than fifty years ago on Okinawa, Old Man Richards found a little girl on a cliff from where her mother had jumped to her death. He loved her. He left her. Now, nearing the end of his life, can he find that love...

What if your life is not yours to live? The Phoenix takes you down a long, winding dark path of terror and anguish as Dawnie makes her way through the darkest of times in the hope of finding light and salvation. An unyielding spirit,...

James Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist from the early 19th century. Hogg was a poor shepherd as a boy. His employer lent him books and through hard work he became self-educated. Published in 1924 this work is considered a Gothic novel, a...

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Author: Alexandre DumasISBN-10: 158963733XISBN-13: 9781589637337Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.08w x 0.84d

For Terrell Matheus, the decision to lie about his brother's death is an immediate reaction to the panic he feels at having shot him. What he has not considered when placing the blame on a truck full of white boys are the ramifications--the near...

Author: V. Joyce WinserISBN-10: 1553060962ISBN-13: 9781553060963Publisher: Essence Publishing (Canada)Language: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2000Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.62h x 5.64w x 0.33d

This is a new edition of "Madeleine F rat," originally published in 1888 by Vizetelly & Co., of London, England. Part of Adeptio's Unforgettable Classic Series, this is not a facsimile reprint. Obvious typographical errors have been carefully corrected and the entire text has...

Marcus Giannou, press secretary for a Minnesota senator, joins his mother on a hasty trip to Kremasti, the village of her birth, to deal with a family crisis-the betrothal of her niece to an agent of the military junta that controls Greece with brutality...

Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Ph.D., LL.D., pronounced 9 October 1858 - 12 March 1935), also known as Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of...

Middlemarch is a novel by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans). It was first published in 1871 to 1872. It is set in the 1830s in Middlemarch, a fictional provincial town in England, based on Coventry. Widely seen as Eliot's greatest work,...

Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993. Ethan Frome is set in the fictional...

John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was...