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Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea Richard Bausch The critics have been effusive in their praise for Richard Bausch's Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea.His hardover sales have also never been higher. Taking its title from W… OL14858310W
Gangster Gangster Lorenzo Carcaterra Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra's new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a bru… OL1748420W
The Light in the Forest The Light in the Forest Conrad Richter A white boy, captured by Native Americans, grows to his teens as an Indian, is then forced by treaty to return to his white family. Needless to say, he has a tremendously difficult time adjusting. Em… OL1960079W
The way of all flesh The way of all flesh Samuel Butler I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the mi… OL22372W
Faserland Faserland Christian Kracht Ein junger Mann irrt durch die alte Bundesrepublik. Wir schreiben das Jahr 1995, und die Mauer ist gefallen, das interessiert den jungen Mann aber nicht. Von Nord nach Süd lässt er sich treiben, von … OL3123543W
The green years The green years A. J. Cronin This is a precursor of Shannon's Way , detailing the struggles of the orphaned Robert Shannon to obtain education with the ultimate aim of becoming a medical researcher. A little long for a rather… OL4189804W
Selections Selections Henry Fielding A poor but virtuous 18th century English country lad struggles to remain faithful to his true love, an innocent servant girl, amid the comically scandalous and debauched behaviour of all around him. OL45611W
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers Die Leiden des jungen Werthers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Edición de Manuel José González. OL52556W
The turmoil, a novel The turmoil, a novel Booth Tarkington Booth Tarkington grew up in Indianapolis, and attended Princeton University. He set much of his fiction in Indiana. Tarkington was one of the more popular novelists of his time, and in 1921 bookselle… OL54861W
Cartuja de Parma, La Cartuja de Parma, La Stendhal Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterl… OL733285W
Portnoy's Complaint Portnoy's Complaint Philip A. Roth Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth centur… OL74676W
Sons and Lovers Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence <p><i>Sons and Lovers</i>, a story of working-class England, is <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/d-h-lawrence"><abbr>D. H.</abbr> Lawrence’s</a> third novel. It went through various drafts,… OL81295W
L'Éducation sentimentale L'Éducation sentimentale Gustave Flaubert Le 15 septembre 1840, vers six heures du matin, la Ville-de-Montereau , pres de partir, fumait a gros tourbillons devant le quai Saint-Bernard. Des gens arrivaient hors d'haleine ; des barriques, des… OL893802W