-Generations ago, eating was much less complicated. We tended to shop more often at markets that provided fresh, locally produced foods. Families ate together, and most meals were cooked and eaten at
The story is loosely inspired by the life of Olivier de Sanderval, who, intent on becoming an explorer for most of his life, finally set sale for Africa in 1879 after turning 40. As Monenembo tells it
"Free spirit Skyla Plinka has found the love and stability she always wanted in her reliable husband Thomas. Settling into her new family and roles as wife and mother, life in rural Wisconsin is satis
When his superiors dismiss a reported assassination plot on newly elected President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Rook, the head of security, risks his career in order to investigate the situation and trac
A few months after doctors tell him he has only a year to live, a precocious fifteen-year-old from a small town in Virginia has an intense reaction to The catcher in the rye. Deriving inspiration from
Stalina Folskaya leaves behind her painful past as she flees St. Petersburg, Russia, where she was trained as a chemist, and tries to begin a new life in Hartford, Connecticut, where she takes a job a
Do-a Luz must abandon her aristocratic life in nineteenth-century Madrid and begin anew in rural Andalusia. But what she cannot leave behind is her history: her illegitimate birth that defines who she
I see I am soaring too high, so I shall descend and speak more plainly. So writes nineteenth-century Spanish author Juan Valera in "Cordovan Woman," one of a literary sextet found in the translation o
After she wakes up in a storage locker, bound and gagged, Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels soon comes to realize that she has been abducted by her arch nemesis, a twisted serial killer known only as "Mr. K."
The author describes the political and economic conditions in Argentina during the time he was the head of the country's central bank, the circumstances behind his resignation, and the effects of the
For twenty-nine-year-old Lola Watson, life is finally looking up: she has fabulous friends, is working her dream job at a popular magazine, and has just inherited a beautiful house from her late aunt.
In 1986, the universe suddenly bifurcated. Thirty-five years later, Felix spends his days lunching at Coconut Cafae and dreaming of a successful writing career. Everything changes when his Aunt Henrie
It is June. Diana Stoving's new Porsche has just broken down on the Garden State Parkway, and Diana, twenty-one, freshly graduated from Sarah Lawrence, sits in a dealer's showroom, waiting for repairs
When the remnants of a ruthless outlaw gang invade the peaceful desert setting Montana Dawn shares with her gentleman husband, little does the girl suspect that her long-dormant spirit for a life far
For decades, Donald Harington has delighted readers with ribald, colorful adventures from Stay More, Arkansas, an imaginary Ozark enclave where shrewd and sexy hill folk mingle with reclusive milliona
This work brilliantly fuses travel narrative with history and cultural studies—yet reads like a novel. It’s also a love story that is in no way fictional. A fan letter to the author from a woman named
Ekaterina has just arrived in an unnamed city at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela with a pasteboard suitcase, a kerchief that covers her lack of hair, and little more than a rudimentary
A long overdue retelling of New Grub Street—George Gissing’s classic satire of the Victorian literary marketplace—Grub chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a group of young novelists living in
