Fiction : Literary

Mr. Wrenn is employed as a sales-entry clerk for the Souvenir and art novelty company. His Job demands eight or more hours each day, but he commits the rest of...

This classic Dostoyevsky novel is about a fraught young man (Raskolnikov) who plans the perfect crime, to rob and kill a cheating pawnbroker. His reasoning f......

Olenin, a young Russian aristocrat finds himself as a Russian army officer, serving at a remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. Here among the Tatars, the C......

TYPHOON is the story of Captain Macwhirr, A dull but reliable seaman and his crew. While at sea, Macwhirrs first mate tells him to change course because of t......

In "The American Claimant" as a lead character it features a mad scientist with many crazy ideas of invention. This book deals with English aristocracy and A......

Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor of growing fame, is determined to find his ideal in womanhood, a quest that has led to many fruitless encounters. For just as it......

"Under the Greenwood Tree" is a tale of youthful love, community position, and the change from old traditions to new ones. A must have for Thomas Hardy fans.......

"Shirley" is about two heroines, Caroline, the main protagonist ,and Shirley, a especially lovely, thoughtful, brave, and a great friend to Caroline. The sto......

The hand of the clock fastened up on the white wall of the conference room, just over the framed card bearing the words "Stand up for Jesus," and between two...

Into the Light: The Photo League Years is a collection of black-and-white photographs by Sonia Handelman Meyer. This collection is based on the catalogue f......

"No better than a pack of heathens." That's what their grandmother called Charma Deane, Bess and Minnie, three cousins growing up in rural Orla, Arkansas. To......

The Debauched Hospodar is the tale of Prince Vibescu, Romanian decadent, who travels 'round with Culculine and Alexine, indulging in many adventures, each mo......

The mountain always looked dark, but the older I got that year, the darker it got. I tried to listen for the music of life that Lacy said is always...

Confused about her troubled marriage, Kendra Taylor needs time to sort out her feelings. Retreating to an abandoned cabin left to her husband, Isaac, by the ......

""Ain't it appalling,"" demanded Sabrina, the Show Girl, ""ain't it appalling the way the show game has gone to the morgue this season? ""I never seen nothin......

Fifteen-year-old Andy Lockwood is special. Others notice the way he blurts out anything that comes into his mind, how he cannot foresee consequences, that he......

Meet Kiran Sharma: lover of music, dance, and all things sensual; son of immigrants, social outcast, spiritual seeker. A boy who doesn't quite understand his......

The girls of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club are at a crossroads. One of their founding members is dead, they’ve made a few unf......

". . . a smart, sprightly, sex-drenched, and neatly plotted novel . . ." ---Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio and the Chicago Tribune "Spark is at...

After Andrea Wolkowicz abandons corporate life to help care for her sister, she quickly wears out the want ads in their rust-belt hometown. Time to be her ow......