Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is
A Love Triangle of Unspeakable Horror...Stefan Tormented after losing Elena, he' s determined to end the feud with his brother, Damon--whatever the cost. Damon Mocking Stefan and Elena, he laughs in
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE“Buzzy and enthralling …A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery…Fun as hell to read.” —Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression."—Vanity Fair“A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.” —Esquire"Exhilarating.” —New York TimesEven through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune
Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They
A woman trying to outrun her past is drawn to a coastal village in Maineand to a string of unsolved murdersin this novel of romance and psychological suspense from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.';Suspenseful, sexy, and soulful.'J. R. Ward, bestselling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood seriesAfter an unspeakable tragedy in Boston, Ava Collette flees to a remote village in Maine, where she rents an old house named Brodie's Watch.In that isolated seaside mansion, Ava finally feels at peace .. . until she glimpses the long-dead sea captain who still resides there.Rumor has it that Captain Jeremiah Brodie has haunted the house for more than a century.One night, Ava confronts the apparition, who feels all too real, and who welcomes her into his worldand into his arms. Even as Ava questions her own sanity, she eagerly looks forward to the captain's ghostly visits. But she soon learns that the house she loves comes with a terrible secret, a secret that those in the vill
Looking at a wide range of adaptations, spin-offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in popular culture of the 1990s, Burt (English, U. of Massachusetts-Amherst) reads the reception of the replays
Unspeakable Violence addresses the epistemic and physical violence inflicted on racialized and gendered subjects in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twenti
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and lega
Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People is a riveting book that exposes the potential in each of us for acting unspeakably. John Conroy sits down with torturers from several nations and comes to understand
Family Guy meets Election in this hilarious young adult debut! Twelve-year-old Oliver Watson’s got the IQ of a grilled cheese sandwich. Or so everyone in Omaha thinks. In reality, Oliver’s a mad evil
