Perhaps no other novel in this century has had a greater impact upon the way we think and talk about our world than George Orwell's classic, 1984. "Big Brother," "doublespeak," and "the thought...
Barefoot, thirty-something Amber shows up at the door of a Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer, insinuating herself into their family. Dazzled by her seeming exoticism, the...
This grand-scale heroic comedy tells the story of the exuberant young Augie, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression. While his neighborhood friends...
"My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the...
Hammond Cross is determined to be the city's next district attorney. Prosecuting the sensational murder of real estate magnate Lute Pettijohn could be his ticket into office. Yet while Hammond...
Shortlisted for the CBC Award 1999. Louie has finished her old life, and stepped into a world of sinners. For her, things are not going to be the same again. This darkly funny, disturbing novel...
A mesmerizing, wonderfully bizarre debut novel featuring one of the most winning oddball characters around: Burt Hecker, medieval enthusiast, mead-addict and widower, who sets off a modern-day...
A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their...
