National Book Award-winner Ha Jin's arresting debut novel , In the Pond, is a darkly funny portrait of an amateur calligrapher who wields his delicate artist's brush as a weapon against the powerful party bureaucrats who rule his provincial Chinese town.Shao Bin is a downtrodden worker at the Harvest Fertilizer Plant by day and an aspiring artist ...more
An elegant and smart novel by the author of Dogeaters which captures the pain of leaving one country behind and the struggle to adapt to a new one, The Gangster of Love tells the story of the Rivera family from the Philippines, who have come to the United States to make a new life.
Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his advanture to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transpo...more
From true life tales of murder and mayhem to inspiring accounts of triumph over adversity and Pineys fighting to protect their way of life, Voices in the Pinesbrings the storytelling legacy of the Pine Barrens into the 21st Century. In the spirit of John McPhee s The Pine Barrens, author Karen F. Riley a South Jersey transplant by way of Brooklyn, ...more
The Secret Sharer is a popular early 20th century novel written by author Joseph Conrad. The story taking place at sea, is told from the perpsective of a young sea captain. Not knowing his crew ahead of time except for the previous night, he struggles to see if he can life up to the authorty role that is a must among captains. The Secret Sharer is ...more
An explorer in seventeenth-century Japan, ambitious Englishman Blackthorne encounters the powerful and power-hungry Lord Toranaga and Catholic convert Lady Mariko. Reissue.
Gripping new fiction by the author of "The Weight of Water". Kathryn Lyons' life turns to chaos when her pilot husband is killed in a plane crash. As she struggles with her grief, Kathryn faces shocking revelations about the secrets a man can keep and the actions a woman is willing to take.
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