Either Side of Winter - formato ePub

'Intricately, intimately written, with some wonderful prose and delicate dialogue.' Guardian 'A loving and nuanced portrait of a family's myriad functions.' The New Yorker 'Utterly absorbing.' Financial...

Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, and all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged and...

ONE OF THIS WEEK'S BEST NOVELS OF 2022The perfect novel for fans of The Last Dance, Hoop Dreams and Winning Time'Exquisite. . . Warm, humane, and tragic.' JONATHAN LETHEM At his high school basketball...

Fresh out of college and uncertain how to proceed with life, the narrator of Ben Markovits' PlayingDays finds himself drifting towards a career that once obsessed his father - professional basketball....

'Elegant and absorbing.' Guardian 'A book to be savoured.' Observer 'Intimate, funny . . . Masterfully done.' Daily Mail 'Sophisticated and engrossing.' Literary Review Paul is a mid-ranking...

Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked, and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has dedicated the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme...

When his former colleague Peter Sullivan dies, the narrator of Childish Loves inherits his life's work - a number of fragmentary manuscripts about the life of Lord Byron. Fascinated by his prose - and...

Nineteen-year -old Annabella Milbanke, visiting London for the swirl of parties and engagements of the season, is introduced to Byron at a waltz. He has just published Childe Harold, and is surrounded...

Three years after Lord Byron dismissed him from his service, Dr John Polidori has fallen on hard times. And then a young woman mistakes the doctor for the poet. As the pair fall in love, Polidori knows...

In Fall we see the tentative beginnings of an unlikely romance - between schoolteacher Amy and drifting former graduate, Charles. In Winter we hear how her colleague Howard learns, seventeen years too...

Paul Essinger, joueur de tennis professionnel, est qualifié pour l’US Open. Comme pour chaque tournoi, sa famille se réunit à New York afin de l’encourager. Ses parents, son frère, ses sœurs et ses neveux...

A frighteningly prescient novel of today’s America—one man’s story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan.“You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going...

In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits’s Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the author’s season playing minor league professional...

Award-winning adult author Benjamin Markovits delivers a poignant coming-of-age middle grade story that will give comfort to anyone feeling like a small fish in a Texas-size sea. Perfect for fans of Kevin...

The year is 1904 and there's a storm brewing on the horizon... Nothing ever disturbs the quaint idyll of the village Rajapur. That is, until one day, a young widow is discovered bludgeoned to death, flies...

On a rock on the road to a hill temple are carved the names 'Aravindan' and 'Poorani'. Barely out of her teens, Poorani is plunged into crisis with the sudden passing of her father. As she brings her...

Delilah -- I love my family. I really do. But having three older brothers and an overprotective father doesn't make it easy to have a life. They've run off every guy I've ever tried to date. It's time...

Noah Hollister could've had a cushiony job at Hollister Steel and a mansion overlooking Birmingham, but he lives like a hermit in the city's Southside. He doesn't own a television or a phone. Instead...

Three books with the romance author Ashira Datya. all three books from the Magik Saga: Resisting Evil, Evil Resists, and A Pack's Destruction all in a convenient collection.

Out of Wild SherwoodBeware the Vengeance of Outlaws and Faeries. ~ . ~ . ~ .Dangerous Gold ~ Strong Temptation for Two Young ThievesTwo young outlaws decide to steal the Nottingham mayor's gold as revenge...

What's more dangerous?Hunting the human trafficker or saving the governor's daughter? I am the collector for the family, and the governor owes me.But when his daughter crashes the auction, I'm intrigued.I...

In the dead of the night, as you awake from a peaceful sleep, you see a shadow in the periphery of your vision. Oh no! Is it coming closer?!Oh, thank goodness! It was just another shadow on the wall.Inside...

They have nothing in common but a difficult past… and a taste for unusual pleasures... Once a ThiefThe good girl: A successful district attorney with a reputation to uphold, Katherine can't afford to...

Aliens on Earth… An expanding colony on Mars… A great starship lost in the Void… Politics and pleasure… New technologies and old concerns.By turns comic, tragic, uplifting and disturbing, this debut collection...

A psychiatric facility. An upscale hotel. A casino. A place for wellness. A retreat. No matter the decade, the towering edifice perched on the top of a mountain inspires both awe and fear. Holding the...

   "Echoes of Us" is a raw and deeply moving collection of poetry that delves into the quiet yet powerful moments of love, loss, hope, and self-discovery. Each poem in this book explores the delicate...

A dragon egg to obtain and a Quest to win.A portal to master and a love to retrieve.A lineage to discover and a high kingship to secure. Arlan has returned to Dál Gaedhle, taking Rhiannon's heart with...

"DO THIS FOR US! THE ONE'S WHO FAILED TO STOP HIM!" A story that shapes reality... "I can't save everyone." ... or destroys it. "I AM THE BEACON OF LIGHT WHO WILL DEFEAT YOU ONCE AND FOR ALL!" Reality...

Thessaly's life is laid out before her, a sparkling path toward the goals any young woman of Albion should aspire to. Her own magic is strong, she's a gifted duellist  mastering the enchantments of illusion...

The day Paul's daughter is born, a smiling stranger with pointed ears visits the hospital to make him an offer he can't refuse. It's a dangerous world out there. Especially for children. But he can give...

Dilys Lloyd's life has long been a whirlwind of emotions and unanswered questions. But once your husband leaves you and then your daughter runs off to Australia with your best friend's husband, things...

Over 48,000 words of gripping, enthralling fiction from best-selling writer Connor Whiteley in one amazing collection. Featuring two novellas and 5 short stories from some of his most popular series,...

Remembered Earth Universe CISLUNAR SERIES The Remembered Earth Universe covers the science and technology of the next hundred years, as mankind moves into cislunar space (defined as that space in and...

AudenOpening my own design firm in Lilac Harbor was hard, but things are finally starting to break my way.Then, I meet my new neighbor and the bane of my existence.Wade Collins.He's a grumpy jerk.He's...

A Cheating Husband. A Dead Best Friend. A Job Gone Wrong. PhD student Anna Brown travels to prison to study three women sharing their chilling, gripping, tense experiences of arson. From its shocking...

A Black Deeper Than Death started as a controversial stand-alone dark fantasy mystery and soon became book one of an eleven-book series with nine short stories weaved through it that redefined the genre. This...

He's a prince. She's a bodyguard for the royal family. He's off-limits, but for one night they're breaking all the rules. As an arctic fox-shifter and royal bodyguard, Kira Seaton lives to protect her...

Chasing Avani to BarcelonaAvani, a sweet, loving, Caring of a woman, had built a successful business in Barcelona, escaping the familiar fog of London. But a piece of her heart still belonged there, with...

On a beautiful Spring morning, Mr. H saw more than sunshine and meadow larks on his walk to town...  He discovered Peter Kelton's body strapped to the water mill's wheel. And in the tiny town of Dunsworth,...

Between the suffocating heat, the alcoholic father he's still stuck living with, the draft, a mediocre paycheck as a service station attendant, and helping his friends Jamie and Wes take care of their...

Facing an eviction, a job offer and a murder means Cassie Clinton's life is about to change... When my friend Louise gushes about the new Serenity Suites retirement community she's setting up, I'm more...

Lying on a lounger outside a flyblown café near Naples, Mike reflects on the last few months. He'd set off for the wedding of the charismatic Al, whose closed community is in the Calder Valley. Three...

Every ending is a new beginning.Cooper Braaten is closing in on answers and vengeance. With a single minded determination to destroy the Council and finish what was started by his SEALs after the attack...

I was raw iron they put into the furnace, and made shapeless and malleable.  Then they poured me into a mould of their own making and by the time they chipped that mould away, I was something horrifying....