Sent to prison on a false accusation in 1815, Edmond Dantes escapes many years later and finds a treasure which he uses to exact his revenge. Presented in comic book format.
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in...more
In a work that is part biography and part medical history, the author recalls how his work treating leprosy in India forced him to confront his own notion of pain. National ad/promo. Tour.
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short s...more
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, desp...more
John Steinbeck lived and worked with a group of migrant workers in California, from whom he drew the material for his great Dust Bowl saga of a wandering Okie family, the Joads. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel awakened the American reading public to the plight of migrant workers and made Steinbeck famous worldwide. One of the most popular novels ...more
Evertell: The Rise of Legends continues with Volume Two: The House Fading, Morris’ second book about the vast world of Evertell. It introduces Sabin Fading, a Fist Monk with a unique gift that could be considered a curse. The House Fading takes you deeper into Evertell and the macro-plot of the Rise of Legends quartet. Discover how dedicated the ...more
The Rise of Legends, Volume 1 tells the story of one person’s quest for vengeance. That person is a Juggernaut named Ryu Sol. The Juggernauts, at one time, were the strongest race on Evertell. When Ryu was six years old, he watched as legions of the planet’s most brutal clan of assassins, the COSA, slaughtered his people. That day he swore ...more