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1) The crossing
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Maud enters Tim's life as no one else could: by falling straight past him, seemingly to her death, then standing up and walking away. From that moment on, Tim is desperate to love her, rescue her, reach her. Yet there is nothing to suggest Maud has any need of him. She is already complete. A woman with a talent for survival, she works long hours and loves to sail-preferably on her own.
When Maud finds her unfulfilling marriage tested by unspeakable...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Summoned to an inquiry in Belfast, asking him to give testimony about his participation in a disastrous event during the Troubles, ailing ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic Stephen Rose, just beginning to build a fragile bond with the adult daughter he barely knows, must finally face the consequences of his actions.
3) Pure
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Engineer Jean-Baptiste Baratte is tasked with emptying an overflowing cemetery in Paris in 1785, work he considers noble until he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery parallels his own fate and the demise of social order.
4) Oxygen
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1997. In England, Alec Valentine is returning home to care for his ailing mother, Alice, a task that only reinforces his deep sense of inadequacy. In San Francisco, his older brother Larry prepares to come home as well, knowing it will be hard to conceal that his acting career is sliding toward sleaze and his marriage is faltering. In Paris, on the other hand, the Hungarian exile László Lázár, whose play Alec is translating,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his peace of mind - he cannot talk about the war or face the memory of what happened in a village on the gruelling retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, he sets out instead...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
A disillusioned photojournalist finds solace close to home. Clem Glass was a successful photojournalist, firm in the belief that photographs could capture truth and beauty-until he went to Africa and witnessed the aftermath of a genocidal massacre. Clem returns to London with his faith in human nature shattered and his life derailed. Nothing-work, love, sex-can rouse his interest and no other outlook can restore his faith. The one person Clem is able...
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"This book promises to lay to rest, once and for all, the early 20th-century truism that Victorians' primary relationship to sexuality turned on repression." Mary L. Poovey, Johns Hopkins University An introduction to Victorian sexualities and a survey of current critical methods, these essays will energize reflection on the complexity of human sexuality and on the many different arrays of meaning that it has generated. Contributors are James Eli...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, poets and novelists-and readers-are fascinated by paths not taken. In an elegant and provocative rumination, Andrew H. Miller lingers with other selves, listening to what they have to say about our stories and our lives"--
13) Cube
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Six strangers awaken from their daily lives to find themselves trapped in a surreal prison - a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambers armed with lethal booby traps. None of these people knows why or how they were imprisoned, but it soon emerges that each of them has a skill that could contribute to their escape. There are unanswered questions on every side, but one thing is crystal clear: unless they learn to co-operate to work out...
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