Category: General Fiction/Classics

The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee
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Overview: Janice Y. K. Lee’s New York Times bestselling debut, The Piano Teacher, was called “immensely satisfying” by People, “intensely readable” by O, The Oprah Magazine, and “a rare and exquisite story” by Elizabeth Gilbert. Now, in her long-awaited new novel, Lee explores with devastating poignancy the emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in the same small expat community in Hong Kong.

Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she believes could save her foundering marriage. Meanwhile, Margaret, once a happily married mother of three, questions her maternal identity in the wake of a shattering loss. As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all. Atmospheric, moving, and utterly compelling, The Expatriates confirms Lee as an exceptional talent and one of our keenest observers of women’s inner lives.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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3 books by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Requirements: Epub reader, 1.20 Mb
Overview: Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of several highly acclaimed novels including the award-winning Pay It Forward (which was made into a feature film starring Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt), Love in the Present Tense (a Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller), Chasing Windmills, When I Found You, Second Hand Heart and Don’t Let Me Go.
Genre: General Fiction, Literature

Funerals for Horses
This first novel from Catherine Ryan Hyde was greeted by universal acclaim from critics around the country.In this restrained but compelling narrative, Hyde movingly conveys the toll of years of emotional damage. — Publishers WeeklyA rich blend of metaphors and genuine characters that will touch the hearts of readers. Highly recommended. — Library Journal (Starred review)A true work of art … Enchanting. — The San Francisco ChronicleHaunting. — The Washington Post Book WorldBrilliantly wrought, finely plotted … Everyone scene is sketched with beautiful brevity … Every vista takes your breath away. — Small Press (Featured review)Well worth reading. — New TimesBlunt, poetic (and) well-drawn. — San Luis Obispo Telegram-TribuneWhat if you were descend into madness again? In this gritty, compelling tale of a woman’s search for her lost childhood, Ella Ginsberg slips into and out of insanity, and manages to cling by a slender thread to the flattened earth of her existence. Funerals For Horses is a masterful novel of mental illness, lost innocence, and the potential for salvation in all of us.

When You Were Older
I was doing my best to get out the door. And then the phone rang.
I almost let it go.
New York, September 11th 2001
Russell Ammiano is rushing to work when he gets a phone call that saves his life. As the city he loves is hit by unimaginable tragedy, Russell must turn his back and hurry home to Kansas.
Kansas, September 14th 2001
Ben Ammiano is mentally disabled, and a creature of habit. Any change to his routine sends him into a spin. But now his estranged brother has reappeared, and Ben’s simple, ordered world has turned upside down.
In a story as heartbreaking as it is uplifting, two brothers must bury their pasts and learn from each other, if they are to survive.

Ask Him Why
Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is safe but also deeply worried. How can it be that her courageous big brother has been dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Aubrey can’t believe that his hero doesn’t have very good reasons.
Yet as the horrifying details of the incident emerge, Joseph disappears. In their attempts to find him, Ruth and Aubrey discover he has a past far darker than either of them could imagine. But even as they learn more about their brother, important questions remain unanswered—why did he betray his unit, his country, and now his family? Joseph’s refusal to speak ignites a fire in young Aubrey that results in a disastrous, and public, act of rebellion.
The impact of Joseph’s fateful decision one night in Baghdad will echo for years to come, with his siblings caught between their love for him and the media’s engulfing frenzy of judgment. Will their family ever make their way back to each other and find a way to forgive?

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2 Books (Penguin Classics Editions) by Christine de Pizan
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Overview: Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France’s first professional woman of letters and the author of The Book of the City of Ladies.
Genre: History/Philosophy/Criticism

The Treasure of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics Revised Edition)
Christine de Pizan, Sarah Lawson (Translator, Introduction, Notes)
Advice and guidance for women of all ages, from Europe’s first professional woman writer
Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.

The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics Edition)
Christine de Pizan, Rosalind Brown-Grant (Translation, Introduction, Notes)
A fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture, written by France’s first professional woman of letters
The pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer’s tirade against women, Christine de Pizan has a dreamlike vision where three virtues—Reason, Rectitude and Justice—appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan’s spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. The Book of the City of Ladies provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints.

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Angel (NHB Modern Plays) by Henry Naylor
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Overview: Syria, 2014. In the town of Kobane, there’s a siege as fierce as Stalingrad. ISIS, having steam-rollered through Iraq, are expecting to take the town easily. But the citizens have found a heroine: a crackshot sniper with 100 kills to her name. And she appears indestructible. She’s the legendary Angel of Kobane.

Inspired by an extraordinary true story, Angel is part of Henry Naylor’s Arabian Nightmares trilogy. It was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016, where it won a Fringe First award.

‘simple but devastating… beautifully-structured… poses tough questions about our own complicity in the chaos’ – Scotsman

‘riveting; war reportage in verbal form: a tale of witness from on the ground in Syria… I would see it again, in an instant’ – The Times
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Play

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Poems About Love and Space Stuff and some other subjects by Storey Campbell
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Overview: Poems About Love and Space Stuff: and some other subjects is the first publication by nonbinary poet and writer Storey Campbell. Written between the years of 2015 and 2018, the poems featured were handpicked by the author to make this collection. A long-time sufferer of depression, anxiety, and PTSD, the works explore Storey’s struggles with these conditions and working to find love in people, places, and hobbies even and despite working through them. Additionally, being transgender, Storey writes on their identity in an ever-changing world and finds that poetry is simply the only way to describe it. They hope for many future publications to come.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Poetry

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