Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, Allison Pearson’s smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as “The national anthem for working mothers.” Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and keep in step with the Teletubbies. But when she finds herself awa...more
The sequel to "Forrest Gump". The Bubba Gump Shrimp Company has gone bust and Forrest is broke, sweeping floors in a strip joint, to support his son. The chance to play championship football comes his way once again, and Forrest is back in the money. However, his adventures have only just begun.
The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother.
A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, and More's Utopia to t...more
'Dilbert' is the most quoted, photocopied, and faxed comic strip of the nineties, with more than 30 million readers in nine countries and many more throughout cyberspace. But in case you've been living in a mayonnaise container for the past five years, Dilbert is a luckless, cubicle-dwelling engineer. His canine companion, Dogbert, plans to ...more
"Dilbert"--the world's fastest growing comic strip, read by 60 million fans in 32 countries--deals with the frustrations of everyday corporate life, as the title character struggles to maintain his identity and happiness in a world where attacks can come from everyone from his boss down to his dog.
The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, gathers every May to clean up the graveyard and talk. Everyone of them has stories to tell, and it is Albert Copeland who writes it all down in the notebooks he started years ago. The notebooks know all the best-kept secrets--of love, loss adl earning to let go...."Has all the marks of a new American c...more
Willa Cather explores the destiny of a boy whose yearnings impel him from Nebraska to a frontier bloodier and more distant than the one settled by his ancestors, from a farm to the trenches of World War I.
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