Author : Stendhal
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category :
ISBN : 1425051448
"The Red and the Black" is a reflective novel about the rise of poor, intellectually gifted people to High Society. Set in 19th century France it portrays the era after the exile of Napoleon to St. Helena. the influential, sharp epigrams in striking prose, leave reader almost as intrigued by the author's talent as the surprising twists that occur in the arduous love life.
Author : Robert Fikes
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : African American college graduates
ISBN :
Author : Linda Kage
Publisher : Linda Kage
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Camille had only been heading to her grandma’s house because Gran couldn’t figure out her cable again, but along the way, she stumbled across the city’s notorious graffiti artist. And now that she knows who the face behind the spray-paint can is, she can’t seem to listen to her friends’ sage advice and follow the safe path, leaving well enough alone. She’s determined to coax Black Crimson into agreeing to an exclusive interview so she can become the famous newspaper journalist she’s always wanted to be. But in this contemporary twist to the Little Red Riding Hood fable, our red-headed heroine learns just how dangerous talking to strangers can be...to her heart.
Author : J. P. Gallagher
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1586174096
It has all the hallmarks of a best-selling fictional thriller:
Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847678939
Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.
Author : Alex Marshall
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316340685
The sequel to Alex Marshall's A Crown for Cold Silver, an outstanding, game-changing epic adventure featuring an unforgettable warrior. After five hundred years, the Sunken Kingdom has returned, and brought with it a monstrous secret that threatens to destroy every country on the Star. As an inhuman army gathers on its shores, poised to invade the Immaculate Isles, the members of the Cobalt Company face an ugly choice: abandon their dreams of glory and vengeance to combat a menace from another realm, or pursue their ambitions and hope the Star is still there when the smoke clears. Five villains. One legendary general. A battle for survival.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2020-08-20
Category :
ISBN :
Waking up chained in a dark cellar, Ariane must struggle to survive and escape the strange fortress she finds herself in. All those around her play by rules she does not understand, and there is also this strange thirst that water cannot sate...
Author : Michelle Tea
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1558619461
This metaliterary end-of-the-world novel is “scary, funny and genre-bending . . . wonderfully strange . . . yet completely universal and true” (Jill Soloway, creator of Transparent). Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs and alcohol, disastrous romance, and nineties San Francisco, Michelle heads south to LA But soon it’s officially announced that the world will end in one year, and life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird. While living in an abandoned bookstore, dating Matt Dillon, and keeping an eye on the encroaching apocalypse, Michelle begins a new novel, a meta-textual exploration to complement her vows to embrace maturity and responsibility. But as she tries to make queer love and art without succumbing to self-destructive impulses, the boundaries between storytelling and everyday living begin to blur, and Michelle wonders how much she’ll have to compromise her artistic process if she’s going to properly ride out doomsday.
Author : K. J. Parker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Civil war
ISBN : 9781596062412
As enemies become stalwart allies, heartbreak lurks within victory and a forgotten moment of youth threatens everything, Parker sends the brief (but never terse) story flying to a wrenching and all too realistic conclusion."Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
Author : Pamela Thomas-Graham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0671016709
After Nikki Chase--a smart, ambitious, attractive black economics professor--stumbles over her friend Ella's body during a blackout, she finds herself plunged into the investigation and uncovering some of Harvard's most deeply buried secrets.
