On a cold day in February, a stranger arrives in the village of Iping. He wears gloves and dark glasses, even inside, and his face is covered in bandages. Soon crimes occur that cannot be explained, and the townspeople realize the unthinkable truth: the strange man is invisible–and he is slowly going mad. The Invisible […]
It is becoming extremely important for business executives to know how to conduct themselves in a business environment. This book covers every aspect of business etiquette: It explains the importance of the first impression, it tells you on what you should wear and when, it explains how you should introduce yourself and others, it helps […]
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friends mother. Owen doesnt believe in accidents; he believes he is Gods instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.
In the wake of World War I, a community of expatriate American writers established itself in the salons and cafes of 1920s Paris. They congregated at Gertrude Steins select soirees, drank too much, married none too wisely, and wrote volumes–about the war, about the Jazz Age, and often about each other. F. Scott Fitzgerald and […]
The master of medical suspense takes you to prestigious Boston Heart Institute, where some patients are dying to get well…. After a troubled past, Dr. Brian Holbrook has been given a second chance to prove himself. At state-of-the-art Boston Heart Institute, hes been chosen to join the medical team testing a new miracle drug. The […]
One of Chinua Achebes many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as […]
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Coopers Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Cingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody […]
Cannery Row takes place on a small street lined with sardine fisheries in Monterey known as Cannery Row. It revolves around the people living there during the Great Depression: Lee Chong, the local grocer; Doc, a marine biologist based on Steinbecks friend Ed Ricketts; and Mack, the leader of a group of bums. It is […]