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The Metamorphosis: And Other Short Stories
by Franz Kafka
Gregor Samsa, a seemingly typical man, wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. Frustrated and depressed about his physical alteration - and his family's rejection - Samsa's plight is filled with underlying meaning. This important literary work,... Read More
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Plantation: A Lowcountry Tale (Lowcountry...
by Dorothea Benton Frank
When Caroline Wimbley Levine learns that her mother, Miss Lavinia, has supposedly gone mad, she leaves the big city bustle of Manhattan and returns to Tall Pines Plantation. Caroline originally left Tall Pines to escape her feisty, eccentric mother and her drunken brother, Trip, but when... Read More
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The Story of Forgetting
by Stefan Merrill Block
In Stefan Merrill Blocka (TM)s extraordinary debut, three narratives intertwine to create a story that is by turns funny, smart, introspective, and revelatory.
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Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New...
by Kurt Vonnegut
To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace, imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor.
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Guernica
by Dave Boling
An extraordinary epic of love, family, and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War.
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Indignation
by Philip Roth
It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. Marcus Messner of Newark, New Jersey is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative Winesburg College in Ohio. Why is he here? Because his father, a hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad – mad with... Read More
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Atlas Shrugged : New Edition
by Ayn Rand
Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon.
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The Seduction of Water
by Carol Goodman
Iris Greenfelder is a perennial Ph.D. candidate, stuck in a rut in her career and her love life. When she decides to write a book based on a story her mother used to tell, however, her life expands in ways she had never dreamed, involving a mystery buried deep in her family history.
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Summer in Tuscany
by Elizabeth Adler
Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a meddlesome mother. So when her mother receives a letter of a mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, Gemma welcomes the change, and the three leave for Italy. She hopes that a change of scenery will solve... Read More
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My Year of Meats
by Ruth Ozeki
Jane, a struggling filmmaker in New York, is given her big break, a chance to travel through the United States to produce a Japanese television program sponsored by American meat exporters. Meanwhile, Akiko, a painfully thin Japanese woman struggling with bulimia, is being pressured by her... Read More
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