Best Novels

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At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.

As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life–sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition–its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.

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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

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The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and novels. Discusses an exceptionally wide-range of authors and novels, from established figures to significant emerging writers Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Kathy Acker and many more Explores the range of themes and styles offered in the wealth of contemporary American fiction since 1980, in both mainstream and experimental writings Reflects the liveliness and diversity of American fiction in the last thirty years Written in a style that makes it ideal for students and scholars, while also accessible for general readers … More >>

The American Novel Now: Reading Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980

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Todd Kontje offers the first survey in English of novels by German women from 1771 to 1871. He introduces readers to the lives and works of fourteen women writers of the period–including Sophie von LaRoche, Sophie Mereau, Fanny Lewald, and Eugenie Marlitt–and argues that their novels played an important role in shaping attitudes toward class, gender, and the nation in the century preceding Germany’s first unification. Women, the Novel, and the German Nation explores ways in which novels about traditionally feminine domestic concerns also comment on patriarchal politics in the German fatherland…. More >>

Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland

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In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. Novel Beginnings departs from the traditional, narrow focus on the development of the realistic novel to emphasize the many kinds of experimentation that marked the genre in the eighteenth century before its conventions were firmly established in the nineteenth. Treating well-known works like Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy in conjunction with less familiar texts such as Sarah Fielding’s The Cry (a kind of hybrid novel and play) and Jane Barker’s A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (a novel of adventure replete with sentimental verse and numerous subnarratives), the book evokes the excitement of a multifaceted and unpredictable process of growth and change.
Investigating fiction throughout the 1700s, Spacks delineates the individuality of specific texts while suggesting connections among novels. … More >>

Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

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Peaches and Cream: A Historical Fiction Novel is a story about family–set in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. It begins with the author’s visit to her beloved grandfather’s home in 1974. She uncovers a mysterious dresser drawer, like Pandora’s box–full of precious photographs, lithographs, certificates, and nineteen heart-wrenching letters from a Civil War soldier, who was a great, great uncle. The author felt as if the contents of the dresser drawer were magical, as her grandfather recounted his life to her. She felt as if her heritage, her soul, her very being lived and breathed inside the bureau drawer. She brings the mystifying characters to life in Peaches and Cream: A Historical Fiction Novel. The novel spans centuries as puzzling enigmas are solved and mysteries unraveled. Several murders, love, fire, war, temptation, deceit, lost friends, and ubiquitous human bones are discovered serendipitously along the tra… More >>

Peaches and Cream: A Historical Fiction Novel

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Here, in an attractive gift box, are unabridged editions of the five most popular science-fiction novels of H. G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds, a grippingly realistic tale of hostile invaders from Mars…. More >>

Five Great Science Fiction Novels

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A Clash of Cultures When Cayatu, a beautiful, young Chumash woman begs protection from the Franciscan priests at Mission Santa Barbara she s forced to live a captive life, with only the love of a Chumash man and the friendship of a Mexican woman to sustain her. While the Spanish priests and soldiers fight among themselves for power, land and the souls of the Chumash, Cayatu fights to preserve her old way of life. Against a backdrop of romance and intrigue in Santa Barbara s early mission days, Dream Helper tells of the clash between the Christianizing zeal of the Spaniards and the idyllic, spirit-driven world of the fiercely proud Chumash Indians…. More >>

Dream Helper, A Novel of Early California, Winner of the 2008 IBPA Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction in the West Pacific Region

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In this, the third book in the popular Marshall Plan series, noted author and agent Evan Marshall focuses readers on making a good novel better and taking the next step of sending their work to editors and agents–all with an insider’s knowledge. He teaches them how to: * Improve dialogue, tension and pace * Edit for clarity, consicion and correctness * Approach agents and editors the right way * Evaluate their relationships with editors and publishers * Successfully promote their novel * Outline steps for a dream career path In all, readers will find 90 no-nonsense tips for writing professional-quality fiction, plus detailed advice on submitting their work, selecting–and working with–a publisher, and promoting their finished novel…. More >>

The Marshall Plan For Getting Your Novel Published: 90 strategies and techniques for selling your fiction

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The first full-color volume in the Graphic Classics® series features an all-new comics adaptation of H.G. Wells’ ”The War of the Worlds” by Rich Rainey and Micah Farritor. Also E.M. Forster’s dark vision of the future ”The Machine Stops”, illustrated by Ellen Lindner. Plus stories by Jules Verne, Stanley Weinbaum, Lord Dunsany and Arthur Conan Doyle, with art by Brad Teare, George Sellas, Roger Langridge, Johnny Ryan and Hunt Emerson…. More >>

Science Fiction Classics: Graphic Classics Volume Seventeen