Our ebooks (442 Listed volumes)
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Jesse Browner
Everything Happens Today
Everything Happens Today is funny, moving, generous and exhilarating. It will enchant young adults who see themselves in the story as well as adult readers who will be captured by the deeply sympathetic characters and the acute feel for the way we live now. Most readers will want it never to be over. -
Laurence Cossé
An Accident in August
From the author of A Novel Bookstore comes further proof of a prodigious and remarkable literary imagination at work. -
Beryl Bainbridge
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
Subversive, sinister and marvelously vivid, Beryl Bainbridge’s great last novel evokes a nation on the brink of self-destruction with artful brilliance. -
Alexander Maksik
You Deserve Nothing
Set in Paris, at an international high school catering to the sons and daughters of wealthy, influential families, You Deserve Nothing is a gripping story of power, idealism, and morality. -
André Carl van der Merwe
Moffie
from Moffie I have been thrown into hell; herded into the Defence Force, into the abattoir of its border war like an animal to slaughter, with no say over my own destiny. Forced to kill people I don’t know, for a cause I don’t believe in. -
Jonathan Yardley
Second Reading. Notable and Neglected Books Revisited
Collected from a popular Washington Post column of the same name, Second Readings is an incisive and entertaining look at the career and times of an esteemed critic and the venerable books that shaped him. -
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Concerto to the Memory of an Angel
Winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt for the Novella From Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, acclaimed author of The Most Beautiful Book in the World and The Woman with the Bouquet, comes another collection of richly imagined narratives that consolidate his position as a master of the novella. -
Henry Sutton
Get Me Out of Here
In the spirit of Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho, Henry Sutton’s new novel brilliantly depicts the culture of irresponsible entitlement that led to the current economic malaise.