![]() The Black Tower by Louis Bayard Vidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and... Read more on amazon | Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer In an 18th century of wit, womanizing and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of... Read more on amazon |
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a... Read more on amazon | Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine... Read more on amazon |
![]() Oliver Button Is a Sissy by Tomie Depaola A little boy must come to terms with being teased and ostracized because he’d rather read books, paint pictures, and tap-dance than participate in sports. “There is a good balance... Read more on amazon | My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell As a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, Joseph Mitchell interviewed fan dancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who also happened to be... Read more on amazon |
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project-whose previous play, Gross Indecency, was hailed as a work of... Read more on amazon | Fanny Hill by John Cleland Fanny Hill, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral and without... Read more on amazon |
Blu's Hanging by Lois-Ann Yamanaka On the Hawaiian island of Molokai, life goes on for the three young Ogata children after the death of their mother and subsequent emotional withdrawal of their grief and... Read more on amazon | Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors–a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a... Read more on amazon |
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